'Attention authorised arms license holders!!!' screams an ad  on page 7 of Hindustan Time's Delhi edition today. The ad, by the public sector Field Gun Factory, announced that the waiting period for the .32 mark III revolver has been  reduced to 30 days. It went a step further, urging people with an arms license to book early.  In a city where aggression and power go hand in hand, should a leading newspaper entertain such ads? 

Rs 100 crore defamation notices are now par for the course. After Justice Sawant's suit against Arnab Goswami, and Times Now's legal notice for the same damages to The Hoot, we now have Shekhar Gupta and other authors of the Indian Express page one story on April 4 asking Vinod Mehta and Open magazine for  Rs  100 crore in damages for defaming them. In an interview to Open magazine Mehta had described the Express story as "a mistake of Himalayan proportions" and asserted repeatedly that it was a planted story.

Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs Shri R.P.N. Singh’s reply in the Rajya Sabha to a written question on May 15: “Shareholding of R .. more>>