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Printers protest against Narendra Modi as chief guest, pull out from conference

-PTI A printers' conference, which will begin in New Delhi later this week, has got into a controversy with several participants pulling out to protest participation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the Chief Guest. Scheduled to be held on March 2 in Delhi, the conference "Romancing Print 2013" is the third edition of an annual, professional conference of the printing industry. This year it has been organised by AIFMP (All...

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Protests sour Modi date with printers -Radhika Ramaseshan

-The Telegraph Narendra Modi will be “Romancing Print” on March 2 but some printers, unwilling to be wooed by the Gujarat chief minister, have dropped out of a conference where he will be chief guest. “The print and publishing industry cannot play Goebbels to Modi,” Indu Chandrasekhar, the founder of Tulika Books, wrote to the organisers of the conference in Delhi being held to exchange ideas on digital printing, motivating the self,...

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CRPF adopts mascot used by Maoists to rally tribals -Rakhi Chakrabarty

-The Times of India The CRPF have adopted a tribal mascot — Gond freedom fighter Gundadhur — to connect with the people in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region. So far, Gundadhur, who led the1910 Bhumkal rebellion against the British, was a mascot of the Maoists to rally tribals in their war against the Indian state. Annual Bhumkal Divas celebrations on February 10 have often been bloodied by Maoist violence. While Maoists organized programmes...

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'Hurt' Nitish pans 'biased' Katju over media gag report

-The Times of India PATNA: Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday lashed out at the Press Council of India (PCI) chairman Markandey Katju and called the PCI's report on alleged press censorship in Bihar as 'biased'. The CM was replying to the debate on the motion on governor's address in the state assembly. "I want to tell him that he has dialled a wrong number," he said at the conclusion of his...

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Work in Progress-SL Rao

-The Telegraph The world lauds us as the largest democracy. Yet, how much of a democracy are we and where must we improve? Elections and their consequences: We have regular elections. They are supervised with increasing effectiveness as far as booth capturing, bogus voters and violence are concerned. The influence of money has not waned; if anything, it has increased. It is not as it used to be, for paying voters only....

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