Dubious ranking

IN Media Watch Briefs | 22/05/2014

In a slot called Rediff Labs, rediff.com compares the ethics and education of Prime Minister -designate Narendra Modi with other political candidates who fought the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat. While it pegs Arvind Kejriwal ethics as 'controversial'; both BJP's Modi and Congress' Ajai Rai get an 'excellent'. Rai is a known history sheeter with a criminal record while Modi's ethics evaluation could have been marked controversial given the 2002 riots. The other candidates from BSP and SP were given a ' passable'.

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Amazon resisting voluntary censorship

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Let the games begin

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.