BJP's new ammunition

IN Media Watch Briefs | 23/02/2017

What to make of a gossipy site which runs items which make the ruling party bosses and the PM look good? And then then has Bollywood gossip as well? The 'about us' has no names at all. The gossip targets the Gandhis and Naveen Patnaik. The lead story on the CBI chief in the UPA's time has a lot of inside dope. "India will be told and read differently," the site claims. Who is behind this one? BJP and some Bollywood honcho? What a combo.

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