Indiaâs Big Media draws flak for ignoring Scania bribery scandal
The Swedish bus maker paid bribes to win contracts in seven Indian states, an investigation by Indiaâs Confluence Media, Swedenâs SVT and Germanyâs ZDF has revealed.
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paid bribes to win bus contracts in seven Indian states between 2013 and 2016,
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reported, quoting the investigation, that Scania delivered a luxury bus in November 2016 to a company with ties to union minister Nitin Gadkariâs sons. The ministerâs office Wednesday called the allegations âmalicious, fabricated and baselessâ.
A Scania spokesperson told
Reuters a 2017 investigation by the company, which is a part of the Volkswagen group, found âserious shortcomingsâ by employees, including senior management. âThis misconduct included alleged bribery, bribery through business partners and misrepresentation,â he said, adding that the company had since stopped
India Today took its consulting editor Rajdeep Sardesai
off the air for two weeks and docked one month s salary for misreporting about a farmer s death during the tractor rally. Sardesai is now set to start work again.
The news of Sardesai coming back to the channel did not go well with Twitter users who started calling him out. A hashtag, #ArunPoorieSackRajdeep, started trending, and several bluetick users, including leaders from the BJP, joined the trend, claiming that Sardesai is ânot a reporterâ but a âhabitual fake news peddlerâ.
Ratan Lal Kataria, minister of state for jal shakti and social justice and empowerment, tweeted saying Sardesai is ânot a reporter.â
Sachin Tendulkar, Other Indian Celebrities Draw Flak For Attacking Rihanna Over Her Support To Farmers Protest
India s protesting farmers found an unlikely ally in Rihanna after the Barbadian pop star asked why aren’t we talking about this Composite: File Photos Outlook Web Bureau 2021-02-04T17:31:19+05:30 Sachin Tendulkar, Other Indian Celebrities Draw Flak For Attacking Rihanna Over Her Support To Farmers Protest outlookindia.com 2021-02-04T18:29:08+05:30
Even the simplest of questions can wake up an entire nation. Seemingly, that s what has happened in India after Rihanna took to Twitter, asking why aren’t we talking about this . Barbadian pop star s tweet served as a rude alarm to the Indian celebrities, the high and mighty in the world s largest democracy who were accused of taking a deep slumber while farmers protest against new farm laws.
Kangana Ranaut talks about social media lynching, questions Diljit Dosanjh and Priyanka Chopra’s intentions
The farmers protest in India drew global attention after world-renowned figures including Rihanna, Lily Singh, Amanda Cerny Human Rights Watch and Greta Thunberg extended their support to the farmers. But Twitter deviated from the topic of farmers when Mia Khalifa joined the protest on social media. What in the human rights violations is going on?! They cut the internet around New Delhi?! Mia Khalifa tweeted. Soon after, many users reacted, some supported her opinion while some criticised. But what also caught everyone s attention is a war of words between two influential personalities on Twitter - JNU professor and scientist Anand Ranganathan and columnist at The Print professor Dilip Mandal.
From 2016 to 2020, Growing Use of âAnti-Nationalâ in Political Discourse on Indian Twitter
The most dramatic increase in the use of âanti-nationalâ happens in 2019 starting with the dilution of Article 370, and peaking thereafter during the CAA protests.
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Recent references to the farmers’ protests as âanti-nationalâ, including by major political actors, raises questions of how the term has been used. Much recent work has considered ways in which the notion of being anti-national has been attached to various forms of dissent, but also in general as part of an overall increase in polarisation in the Indian political environment.