The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
CNN – my favorite news channel for years – has become the hotbed for fake news and falsehoods. Its ideological predispositions makes it create villains and post unsubstantiated stories, opinions which are clearly and obviously biased – actually more of “hitjobs” than opinion or reporting.
CNN published how despite Elon Musk’s claim of donating ventilators, no such ventilators had reached the hospitals.
Three weeks after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he had obtained more than 1,000 ventilators to help California hospitals treating patients infected with the coronavirus, the governor’s office says none of the promised ventilators have been received by hospitals https://t.co/u3NNpxbvsN
And, then he shared the correspondence that clearly showed how the ventilators were not just received, but also in use. IN fact many teams in hospitals shared their pictures with these ventilators.
Yes, Trump has been brutal on many media houses, CNN in particular. But the way they go around peddling Hinduphobic and anti-India stories which are pure delusional falsehoods – not even spin on opinion – one has very little sympathy left with CNN anymore.
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