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Blast from around 25 years ago!Journalism as it was then. I was blessed with extremely young first job reporters who risked everything to get the stories. Numerous critical exposés about any and every government in power. No repercussions.

Blast from around 25 years ago!Journalism as it was then. I was...

Blast from around 25 years ago!Journalism as it was then. I was blessed with extremely young first job reporters who risked everything to get the...

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4 years

Parents please do show this to your kids

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First time I’ve heard this from a politician after John Kennedy.

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" I would request the media to keep highlighting our shortcomings and bring it to our notice so that we can immediately address any concerns during the lockdown." : CM @ArvindKejriwal .

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Selfish citizens- At Sunder Nursery this morning, a visitor shamelessly helps herself to branch that's taken two years to nurture. A new sapling would have cost Rs. 50. The Sunder nursery management would like to make this go viral. Do you know this woman?

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Best coverage of Atal Bihari Vajpyeeji’s funeral is on Doordarshan. Actually covering it instead of all the natty chatter on all the other channels. You can actually hear the pandits’ mantras and the drum march.

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Just saw Hotel Mumbai with Anupam Kher & Dev Patel. Makes blood boil all over again that UPA did nothing. Just “dialogue”! Proof of Pak handlers on recordings, 12 places attacked/bombed, 257 killed 700 injured, that doesn’t call for all out strike back?

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@soniandtv Person with a stamp will only experience stigma from other people if he/she steps out amongst other people. Home Quarantine means he/she shouldn’t be out there in the first place. So stay home. No stigma. Irresponsible behaviour has called for this.

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@rose_k01 @dhume Rana Ayub repeatedly says she has offered her tapes to every single website and they have refused. In her interview with me for @newslaundry it is on video record I offered to publish her tapes and she refused.

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Arun Shourie, Fali Nariman, Prannoy Roy, HK Dua, Nihal Singh. This picture will be remembered when history counts us

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UP journalist interrogated by police for story on low quality PPEs #Coronavirus #Press Freedom #Uttar Pradesh government #PPEs

UP journalist interrogated by police for story on low quality PPEs

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“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

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3 years

Please pass the message to all Delhi contacts. The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi has created oxygen Control Room for Delhi for refilling of oxygen cylinders. Any one can contact on 01141400400. Number is operational around the clock. #Verified at 1415 hours on 8th May 2021

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How can I not RT this? Doesn’t know the difference between a promo/trailer & an interview! 🙄

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Fraud @newslaundry Owner @madhutrehan accepting the fraud edited Video @vivekagnihotri

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I do stand by my anger towards TJ’s behaviour towards doctors and nurses which I will not forgive. Tolerance must be a two way street. Live by the laws of the country.

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👍🏽यह हुई बात! Women in a college in Kerela turned up wearing this after they were banned from wearing jeans! 👍🏽

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Guess who's given the best speech nailing Pakistan? Never agreed with him before this -

Dr. Shashi Tharoor humiliating and nailing Pakistan with this...

If congress had more parliamentarians like him , opposition picture would have been totally different.

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2 years

Speaking to a BJP person I said when you go after people like Vir Das, ban films/books your strategy can’t be effective because you’re giving a narrative to the western press that proves exactly what they are accusing you of.Strategy should be to create your own strong narrative

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@alluarjun India Today cover!!? Remember Ananda?

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PM Vajpayee interacted with journalists regularly. Harinder Bhaweja and me.

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@rihanna @CNN Journalists note how a story should not be reported. Superficial, ignorant, arm chair commentary. Not giving both sides. No clarity on issues. No facts. The most this tweety bird canary can say - we are trying to get a response from the police. Pathetic.

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@zoyarasul From Apr4 2020 I want to explain-my anger with Taghlib Jamaat’s acts towards doctors & nurses got better of me. My remark about virgins-mistakenly thought funny being in same context as karma.But it is loaded.I apologise to my Muslim friends & their kids who face taunts.

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Video debate Crosstalk in ‘90s. Subject: Defamation & Freedom of Press. Anupam Kher had filed a defamation case against Rusi Karanjia Blitz. L to R Kapil Sibal, Aroon Purie, Arun Jaitley, Karanjia, Jagmohan, Arun Shourie, Anupam Kher moderated by Madhu Trehan seated on right.

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@aana_2210 I want to keep, preserve and nurture all the emotions of anger, frustration, despair, to always remember the true meaning of life.

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Just watched Nirbhaya’s mother speaking on Hyderabad police encounter on India Today. It shakes you up all over again. It’s easy to be technically and constitutionally correct until it happens to you.

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#ModiFightsCorruption Dho dala! Mystery how it was kept a secret! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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4 years

Can anyone control this? Fly by nighters are selling fake testing kits, untested ventilators, shoddy protection gear.

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2 years

Our filmmakers could have & should show the multiple British atrocities against us.There are numerous films extolling virtues of Winston Churchill. Why has no Indian filmmaker shown the evil of Winston Churchill. Tit for tat? A film about British atrocities in Ireland.

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A great friendship. My father with Dilip Kumar. Pioneers in India’s path breaking post Independence cinema. Dilip Kumar’s elegance and restraint will never go away. May he rest in peace.

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@BlessedUmmati Because 60% cases are linked to Tablighi Jamaat? And you don’t like that fact? Wishing us death is fine. We believe in karma. You can have your virgins. By the way, please don’t make it communal.

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Syed Akbaruddin starts with a speech about himself: my first time...please be kind. Hey! At this point I would welcome a 56 inch chest. Keeps repeating: cut me some slack, I’m new to this game. My husband disagrees. He likes his “technique”.

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6 years

Who can brilliantly dissect intellectual pretentious blah blah AND be funny at the same time? “When facts are not facts”! My favourite @mrsfunnybones !

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May Einstein and Tagore’s spirits never come back to haunt me for confessing that their exchange reminded me of a very recent interview with infamous Urban Naxal list-maker —Vivek Agnihotri.’ My bit this week …

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#ModiFightsCorruption Modi spoke to the nation to explain the strategy. 👏🏽 Shows respect for the people. He shud start press conferences

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Watch!

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Jab Modi meets Indian journalists

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@singersrinivas @AdityaRajKaul My big regret.Mani Ratnam came to see me in the Newstrack office. He wanted me involved in his film.I refused.I didn’t get it.I was too caught up in the heady journalism we were doing. I should have been humble & grateful. I didn’t see journalism mixing with what I saw as fiction

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@KanchanGupta Stealing from a public park is illegal. Getting out from a car in Khan Market in clouds of perfume though offensive to you, is not illegal. Cops on Khan Market road are pretty strict. They don’t allow parking outside the parking lot. What’s the connection anyway?

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@rihanna @CNN The lead is - the internet is cut! THAT’S the story!??!? Foolish beyond words!

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Congratulations India! Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik reply to critics on sponsoring hockey, "Investment in sports is an investment in youth. Investment in youth is an investment in the future."

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Madhu Trehan Interviews Karan Thapar on his book, Devil’s Advocate | Newslaundry via @newslaundry

Madhu Trehan Interviews Karan Thapar on his book, Devil’s Advocate

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I want to explain-my anger with Taghlib Jamaat’s acts towards doctors & nurses got better of remark about virgins-mistakenly thought funny being in same context as karma.But it is loaded.I apologise to my Muslim friends & their children who face taunts.1/2

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6 years

When you pay for news, you are served. When political parties and business pays their product is served

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When the advertiser pays the advertiser is served, when the news consumer pays the consumer is served. #PayToKeepNewsFree subscribe to independent media

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Here’s the difference

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JFK's letter to child--"You must not worry about Santa Claus. I talked with him yesterday and he is fine."--1961:

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I want to give a shout out to all the wives, husbands and children of health workers, police and all those on essential services. Social isolation without your partner & worry about their exposure. Courage. No sulking. Be brave. Claps were for you too.

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TV Newsance 143: History of TV News #

TV Newsance 143: History of TV News

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On TimesNow right now. Navika is fighting caronavirus with pranayama breathing with Baba Ram Devji. Okay I do pranayama every day but why is this programme the best comedy show?

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Law School alumnae with NGOs funded flight for labour to fly home to Jharkhand. Working nonstop burning midnight oil on documents & taxis to airport. Sets an example. Private plane owners? Where are you? Here's how they did it #NLSIU

NLSIU alumni have raised money to fly 180 migrants back home tomorrow: Here's how they did it

In a novel initiative, former students of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU) have raised over Rs 12 lakh in less than half a day to

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I've been asked to confirm that I had skin cancer & was cured by Guruji. Absolute lies. Never had cancer & do not follow any gurus. Do not get recruited on this basis. I am an Arya Samaji Hindu & following gurus does not fit.

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Was in Udaipur. Cleanest city I've seen in India. No litter, garbage. Even around street food sellers not a scrap of litter. Delhi?

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Disciplined caronavirus battle in Kerala

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@minicnair True art reduced to mall culture which is invading us. Look at what they did to Jallianwala bagh.

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Stories from the Partition, Emergency haunt us. What did you do at that time? There will be COVID19 stories. We will be asked by our grandchildren- What did you do? No need to publicise. Let’s just do it so we can face ourselves.

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Went to bathroom at restaurant. Washed hands, opened door with elbow, raised toilet seat with foot, flushed with tissue then opened bathroom door to leave with my elbow, when I returned to my table I realised I forgot to pull up my pants!

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I believe the only news programme worth watching is @palkisu on WION. She is patriotic in her angle of stories without screaming, without shouting Urban Navals, tukde tukde etc. Her story today on China tonight is a fine example. Watch!

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I can’t fathom what kind if journalism this is. Giving a list on national television of names of the officers who led the encounter on Don Atiq’s son. Now easy targets for the mafia.

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@KanchanGupta When the government run censor board banned our video I went to the Appellate Court in Mumbai. Late Justice Lentin passed an order- “Not only should this not be banned it should be required viewing for every citizen of India.” Are there judges like that today?

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Why granting statehood to Delhi is the right thing to do

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Helplessness is an emotion I abhor and resist in myself. But how does one escape it when you look at this image and the shallow reason for his death? The despair in his face is mine for my country.

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A 26 year old Dalit man Shakthivel was lynched to death in Villupuram,Tamil Nadu. His fault was he got down to pee around the fields of a UC Hindu while passing by. We cease to be humans anymore, we should hang our heads in Shame. #Casteism #Communalism

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Thank you @firstpost ! What a gesture!

The Vivek Agnihotri interview on Newslaundry: 7 of the finest moments from a fabulously unhinged...

We watched all 61 minutes and 38 seconds (some of it with palms on face) of Abhinandan Sekhri’s interrogation and Vivek Agnihotri’s often baffling answers, and came up with seven moments that are...

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All editors of India Today over the years

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Now he’s complaining about Islamophobia. How does the leader of a country go to the UN with a random rant as a speech? He is insisting there is no such thing as radical Islam which they failed to explain to the western world. So = Islamophobia.

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How @d_s_thakur Dinesh Thakur turned whistleblower when his sick son was not responding to medicine made by the company he worked for. ‘Bottle Of Lies’ Exposes Black Sheeps Of Indian Pharma, Shows The Dark Side Of Pharmacy Of The World

Book Review: ‘Bottle Of Lies’ Exposes Black Sheeps Of Indian Pharma, Shows The Dark Side Of...

Centred around the Ranbaxy scandal, Katherine Eban’s ‘Bottle of Lies: The Ranbaxy and the Dark Side of Indian Pharma’ exposes institutional malpractices in some players of the Indian pharmaceutical...

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Cannot let violence eat us up: Voices at ‘Not In My Name’ against Amarnath Yatra attack via @IndianExpress

Cannot let violence eat us up: Voices at ‘Not In My Name’ against Amarnath Yatra attack

"Violence will only infuse more violence. No matter which side is involved, hatred cannot be propagated. It will lead to retribution, which will result in more alienation," said, Riyaz, a Kashmiri...

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Vinod, we went through interesting times together. You lived your life on your terms. Rest in peace.

Can You Take It Vinod Dua?

Madhu Trehan puts journalists on the hot seat.Vinod Dua - the 'first ever anchorperson in Indian history' - speaks to Madhu Trehan on how his refugee backgro...

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I can’t fathom Imran Khan’s points speech going on right now. He’s complaining about Pakistani corrupt elite and asking rich countries to do something about it. It seems he’s not reading from a teleprompter & doesn’t have any paper to read from. 1/2

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Love this woman who exemplifies today's Indian woman. More power to her! … @mrsfunnybones

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@kanikagahlaut @newslaundry @IndiaToday I also coined Newslaundry.

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Vijay Mallya’s angry tweet reminds us of the friendships between media and big businesses

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NL Interview: Barkha Dutt on covering migrant crisis, the media economy, and falling out with promoters #Coronavirus #NL Interview #Free Press #Migrant Crisis #Barkha Dutt

NL Interview: Barkha Dutt on covering migrant crisis, the media economy, and falling out with...

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Yes there are human beings who will be remembered for risking their lives to keep the idea of India alive. “A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale. And can remind us that the swallows still sing around the smokestacks.” Jane Yolen

Prime Time | While Hatred Spread Like Wildfire, Tales Of Humanity...

NDTV visits localities in northeast Delhi that were hit by violence during the last week. Locals tell us how their neighbours and friends, not of their relig...

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In interview on Newstrack Shashi Kapoor spoke about Jennifer when she passed "They just don't make that model any more. She was one of a kind". The same must be said about him.

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Why are we being so passive about pollution? Why are we not demanding solutions? Why is stubble burning continuing year after year? This was no surprise. Since AAP is in Delhi & Punjab I expected solutions this year. Why was nothing done?

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Times Now ‘exclusive’ is eight years late

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I don't care wat channel bias but @sonalndtv live reporting just now at Patiala House shows superb reporting. Presence of mind & relentless

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#Basirhat : Local Congress MLA claims government chose not to contain riots

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A scar that will last forever - somebody dies just before I’m organising a hospital bed.

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@soniandtv Why, Sonia? Educate me, please.

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This means 3 week lockdown will fail to meet purpose.Point of lockdown is to identify & treat all existing cases that surface & isolate. If people stayed home then we would have defeated it. This means all those who are staying home are doing it for nothing.Bhendi Bazaar March 26

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Really enjoying Arnab's @thenewshour tonight. Arnab tells Pak guests: I'm sure u'll agree Pakistan shud be expelled from Commonwealth etc.

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Altnews fact checks

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Irrfan (1967-2020): A powerhouse talent gone too soon via @scroll_in

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Doordarshan is doing a fine job

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Rahul Gandhi: "U banned Maggi-I kept quiet. U banned porn-I kept quiet. If U ban Chota Bheem- I will NOT keep quiet!" 😡😖

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@ANI My grandmother would have a few choice words in Punjabi for this occurrence! And it’s got nothing to do with communal hate or religion. Any religious groups congregating at this time are just as guilty.

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@Swamy39 Every father of journalists mentioned in story should tweet the same thing & stand up for their kids

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👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽To @ShekharGupta for showing great spirit of sportsmanship!

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Ok guys, that was a true ‘senior’ moment and all of you say thank-you to me I gave you such a laugh in grim times. Of all of the dozens of memes I’ve seen though, this is my top of the pops (no pun intended)...

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#BelieveHer but wait for an investigation before condemning him | Newslaundry via @newslaundry

#BelieveHer but wait for an investigation before condemning him

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Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam wud have been censored because it defames Thakur women! Imagine! A drunk Thakurani! Tut! Tut! #UdtaPunjab

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Watching Pakistani TV channels to check on their reactions. It’s all about biryani, food, shayari, 😂

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@RanaAyyub Kahan hai tapes? Kahan Ho Tum - No Entry | Anil Kapoor & Fardeen Khan | Udit Narayan & Ku...

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Watch Anil Kapoor & Fardeen Khan in 'Kahan Ho Tum' from the movie 'No Entry'! Stay updated with latest videos from Tips Music, Subscribe on below link- http:...

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@ananthkrishnan @palkisu slays China every day. Doesn’t spare Pakistan either. And does it intelligently not just screaming abuse. She never raises her voice.

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@TheRestlessQuil Come on Sandhya. Do you actually believe he would dare to do that and I wouldn’t have slapped him a couple of times? I never have ever ever taken any kind of creepy behaviour from any man. If I ever need to be saved I will call on the twitter army to do so.

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@TajinderBagga @newslaundry @vivekagnihotri 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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@GabbbarSingh “Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.”

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We speak with the Zee News journalist who resigned over the channel’s coverage of #JNURow

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@madhutrehan

8 years

Akhilesh Yadav says "black money is good. Black money economy is stronger than white". लय ! कर लो गल !

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