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Questioning the powerful

It is a matter of much amusement, that Arvind Kejriwal, is hauled over coals, when Anna Hazare charge sheets him for indiscretions of our MLAs while wilfully blind to gross criminality in SP, BSP, Congress.

I'm absolutely certain that a Luizinho Faleiro would have also been thrown off a cliff by our media if Soniaji were to publicly humiliate him.

So too our slippery customer, the master tactician, Vijay Sardessai would have been despatched on a 'vanvaas' if Prabhakar Timble his mentor were to blow a fuse on him.

But not our beloved Manohar Parrikarji: The gloriously independent and ferocious media of Goa has not asked him a single tinny winny question when his political mentor of so many years Prof Subash Velingkar has publicly berated him with much justification.

The media must tell us what we need to do for them to like us even half as much.

Oscar Rebelo, Panaji

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Hajj pilgrims get ID bracelets after deadly stampede

Published Sep 10, 2016, 12:00 AM IST
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Saudi Arabia has begun issuing hajj pilgrims with identification bracelets one year after a stampede killed around 2,300 people.The bracelets are a reassurance to some pilgrims, though their distribution has been far from systematic ahead of the formal start of the hajj on Saturday.Saudi Arabia announced an investigation into last year's stampede which happened during the hajj stoning ritual, but no findings have ever been published.Public statements and Saudi press reports…

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