An audio tape of Maharashtra BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule supposedly asking party officials to take journalists to dhabas and treat them well in order to avoid negative publicity ahead of elections has gone viral, prompting accusations that the BJP was attempting to control the media, news agency PTI reported. According to the recording, Bawankule says, "small-time video journalists running news …
The death toll in the Punjab spurious liquor tragedy rose to 86 on Saturday even as Chief Minister Amarinder Singh suspended seven excise officials and six policemen, officials said. The Punjab Police on Saturday arrested 17 more people in a massive crackdown spanning more than 100 raids in the three affected districts of Amritsar Rural, Gurdaspur and Tarn Taran, along …
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