![]() Roznama Sahafat blamed political parties for not being able to stop the hanging despite numerous appeals. While the sentence restarted the debate on the death penalty with differing opinions not finding consensus, Urdu newspapers were hailed for the restraint in their reportage of the incident. Yakub Memon, the accused in the 1993 terror blasts in Mumbai, was hanged in the Nagpur Central jail on the morning of July 30 after the Supreme Court gave the ruling at 5 am. Yakub ke liye puri raat jaga aadha mulk (Kunal Patil/HT file photo) Competition was tough, but Hindustan Times packed a ‘pun’ch so as to speak. The rout though had Indian newspapers at their creative best. NDTV bore the brunt of wrong data being provided on D Day, but CNN IBN took the cake for being the most accurate of them all. ![]() The political battle between the Nitish-Lalu led Grand Alliance and BJP coalition saw most exit polls get it terribly wrong, with political experts expressing shock, confusion and disbelief. Nitish-Lalu dynamo stuns BJP (Arun Sharma/ HT Photo)īihar elections remained one of the major highlights of 2015. But the Indian Express headline hit the bullseye with just four words. Sure, an image is worth a thousand words. While the book launch still took place despite protests from right-wing groups in Maharashtra, that ink-smeared face turned into a poster image for media platforms. It further fuelled what has become the intolerance debate in the country. Remember Sudheendra Kulkarni’s ink-blackened face? It appeared on every news channel and took over the timelines of most social media activists because of former Pakistan minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s book launch in Mumbai. From Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s umpteen foreign visits to Salman Khan’s acquittal in the 2002 hit-and-run case, here are some of the choicest headlines that really made heads turn and showed the power of this fourth pillar of democracy: The Indian media in particular thus was targetted for being biased or sensationalist or irresponsible, but there were moments that did redeem it. From the unexpected results of the Bihar elections that proved most predictions going wrong to the intolerance debate that took over much of the public discourse, a lot has happened to dominate the media’s attention. The year 2015, like most other years, had its fair share of controversies.
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