seedhi Posted December 14, 2013 Posted December 14, 2013 ... is being held at Rashtrapati Bhavan?!!! This is truly disgusting and pathetic .. next Ambanis perhaps can rent it for their childrens' marriage too.
bulbul Posted December 14, 2013 Posted December 14, 2013 Common man,,,why you are forgetting their contribution to Indian politics :winky:
Number Posted December 14, 2013 Posted December 14, 2013 Makes sense as they are congress(current ruling party's) mouthpiece.
Malcolm Merlyn Posted December 14, 2013 Posted December 14, 2013 Someone should file a PIL on this.Its Rashtrapati Bhavan not Congress ki Jaagir.
CG Posted December 14, 2013 Posted December 14, 2013 :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical: Khullam Khula
Raghav_12 Posted December 14, 2013 Posted December 14, 2013 When I saw that happening I couldn't believe it and got confused. This is disgrace.
surajmal Posted December 14, 2013 Posted December 14, 2013 How do people think undietv has lasted all these years without making any profit?
Sachin=GOD Posted December 14, 2013 Posted December 14, 2013 Someone should file a PIL on this.Its Rashtrapati Bhavan not Congress ki Jaagir. This.
Clarke Posted December 15, 2013 Posted December 15, 2013 I hate the idea of that monstrosity altogether. Its annual electricity bill alone is around 7 crores!
Zanjeer Posted December 15, 2013 Posted December 15, 2013 ratings wise Times Now>>>NDTV. Arnab goswami >>> Ndtv..:giggle:
Ghost Buster Posted December 15, 2013 Posted December 15, 2013 Someone should file a PIL on this.Its Rashtrapati Bhavan not Congress ki Jaagir. You forgot, our president is a excongress minister :giggle:
Raghav_12 Posted December 15, 2013 Posted December 15, 2013 Arnab goswami >>> Ndtv..:giggle: Arnab Goswami when angry [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAQq2mENhR4]"What did you say?" - YouTube[/ame]
gs Posted December 16, 2013 Posted December 16, 2013 Someone should file a PIL on this.Its Rashtrapati Bhavan not Congress ki Jaagir. Heck why just Rashtrapati Bhavan, entire India has been its jaagir
Sachin=GOD Posted January 4, 2014 Posted January 4, 2014 PARTY AT THE PRESIDENT’S HOUSE The good news is that Newslaundry will turn two in February 2014. The bad news is, it’s looking increasingly unlikely that we will get to celebrate the event in the hallowed precincts of the Rashtrapati Bhavan as we had dreamt we would. A dream which was inspired by NDTV. For those not in the know, NDTV celebrated its 25th anniversary in December by commemorating 25 “living legends†– which included Shahrukh Khan, Ratan Tata and Mukesh Ambani – at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Watching the ceremony on TV, we at Newslaundry decided that this was exactly how we wanted to celebrate our 2nd anniversary. The crucial question was how does one go about booking an event at Rashtrapati Bhavan. This isn’t exactly a hotel, where you call up Reservations and make a booking. Maybe you needed to be on back-slapping terms with the management to get a reservation? But no, Sonia Singh, Editorial Director – NDTV, informed all of us on Twitter that in the eyes of the President’s men and women, all media houses are equal when it comes to being allowed to host events at his home. If TOI and Hindu and NDTV can, so can Newslaundry – right? Well, that’s what we thought. With Sonia Singh’s tweets as our beacon of hope, we got working immediately. The very next day – Monday, December 16, 2013 – we drafted a letter of request seeking permission from the honourable President to allow us to use the auditorium of the Rashtrapati Bhavan to organise a similar event in which Newslaundry would “honour India’s outstanding journalists†as part of the 2nd anniversary celebrations. The letter was emailed to the Secretary to the President (email address: secy.president@rb.nic.in) that very day. Keen to ensure that there was no lack of effort on our part (read to impress the bosses), a colleague and I decided to physically submit a copy of the letter at Rashtrapati Bhavan as well. After a few phone calls, we were told to deliver the request letter to the Central Registry office of the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The guards at Gate 17 of the Rashtrapati Bhavan (the entrance to the Central Registry office) insisted that only one of us could go in. I volunteered and submitted the letter to one of the nicest ever sarkari babus I have come across. He assured me that we’d get a response in a “few daysâ€. Content that it was a job well done and convinced that we were one step closer to realising our dream, we started waiting for a response from the President’s office. Christmas has come and gone, but we have not yet received a response. Till publishing this article on January 3, 2013, our email still hadn’t been acknowledged. But it’s a new year, and I refused to give up without a fight. So began a saga of unending phone calls that ranged over three days and at least 15 different conversations. The first call I made was to the office of the Secretary of the President (since we had addressed our request to her), who directed me to the office of the Private Secretary of the President. The office of the Private Secretary of the President instructed me to get in touch with the office of the Deputy Military Secretary to the President where I was told– after much persuasion and pestering – that they were entitled to act only on the instruction of the Private Secretary. The office of the Private Secretary when contacted again stuck to its initial position – “Call the Deputy Military Secretary to the Presidentâ€. So I essentially ended the day where I began – with a bucketful of nothing. The next day, I called the EPABX number of the Rashtrapati Bhavan where the lady at the other end was kind enough to guide me to the office of the Ceremonies Section. The Ceremonies Section told me they were the last leg of the process and would only get involved if the Honourable President approved the event. They added that I should contact the Central Registry Office and ask for a status report on my request. The Central Registry Office told me to be patient and explained to me that there is a “process to thingsâ€. We had also filed an RTI so that we could get a rough estimate of the financials involved in hosting an event at Rashtrapti Bhavan. NDTV’s awards ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan auditorium was a fairly unique affair in terms of scale and size. The few other “non-governmental†functions that the Rashtrapati Bhavan has hosted were much more low-key. One was the release of a commemorative postal stamp on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of The Times of India. The other was an event to mark the inauguration of the The Hindu Centre for Policy Research. The RTI (PRSEC/R/2013/60424) was filed with the President’s Secretariat on December 20, 2013. It usually takes a couple of weeks if not a month to get a response from the RTI department. The status report which we received for the RTI was very enlightening, though. It stated that our RTI application had been forwarded to CPIO (Central Public Information Officers) and informed us in dark red print that: “You are advised to contact the above mentioned officer for further detailsâ€. Which we would have done, if only the fields for the contact number and email id of both the CPIO and the nodal officer weren’t blank. We’ve now filed another RTI seeking an explanation for the missing contact details. I personally think my managing editor, Abhinandan Sekhri’s insinuation (given below) is plain gibberish and simply reeks of “the grapes are sour†syndrome. After all, as Sonia Singh has said, only organisations of a “certain calibre and credibility†are given the privilege of hosting anniversary celebrations at Rashtrapati Bhavan. NDTV, it seems, passed muster with the President. Maybe if the stars and Pranab-da shine down on us, Newslaundry will too. http://www.newslaundry.com/2014/01/party-at-the-presidents-house/
King Tendulkar Posted January 4, 2014 Posted January 4, 2014 Even worse they did greatest 25 living indians. They had srk on their, I mean wtf:hysterical:
DomainK Posted January 4, 2014 Posted January 4, 2014 Anyone remembers NDTV's election results coverage on DD? They used to show movies and the results in between?
bulbul Posted January 4, 2014 Posted January 4, 2014 ^ I remember , this is during times when counting happened whole night :two_thumbs_up:
hhunaeh Posted January 4, 2014 Posted January 4, 2014 They don't run a professional website. Some time back i remember leaving a comment on one of their articles. After some time they made changes to the article, i don't remember what exactly, but instead of putting up a fresh article they made changes to the old one with all the old comments still showing which now looked completely out of place as a result of all the changes they had made. I found that extremely unprofessional for a national news website. At the very least they should have acknowledged changes made to the old article with comments, with a note at the end
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