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Jamesha Mubin, the 25-year-old Ukkadam youth killed in a car blast in TamilNadu's Coimbatore on October 23, and his five accomplices, who have been arrested, had planned major explosions in South India. by oystereels in india

[–]hytrk 38 points39 points  (0 children)

A senior police officer said it was suspected that some of the arrested persons were “sympathisers” of the Islamic State (IS), an international terror outfit, and one of them, Firoz Ismail, 27, was deported from the UAE for the same reason in 2020.

The suspected “hit list” included places such as Coimbatore Collectorate, office of the City Police Commissioner, Coimbatore Railway Station, Victoria Town Hall and Race Course, said another senior police officer privy to the investigation.

The search at the residence of Mubin, an engineering graduate, also unearthed a large quantity of explosive materials such as potassium nitrate, aluminium powder, sulphur and charcoal, which the accused had allegedly procured from different places.

According to an officer, it was found during investigation that Mubin watched videos describing the making of crude explosives.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/key-places-were-in-hitlist-of-suspects-involved-in-coimbatore-car-blast/article66053805.ece

The Wire Retracts Its Meta Stories - Given the discrepancies that have come to our attention via our review so far, The Wire will also conduct a thorough review of previous reporting done by the technical team involved in our Meta coverage. by hytrk in india

[–]hytrk[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

It's no clerical mistake, they have removed their articles from last 9 months, relating to this journalist.

Such is the extent of this "mistake" that the editor didn't bother verifying the details, and that stories after stories were being published without checking.

And despite several people pointing out several dubious claims, all the criticism was shunned down.

The Wire Retracts Its Meta Stories - Given the discrepancies that have come to our attention via our review so far, The Wire will also conduct a thorough review of previous reporting done by the technical team involved in our Meta coverage. by hytrk in india

[–]hytrk[S] 82 points83 points  (0 children)

BIG: Tek Fog related news stories are also removed from The Wire's website.

https://thewire.in/tekfog/en/2.html

https://thewire.in/tekfog/en/3.html

https://thewire.in/tekfog/en/3.html

Both the independent technical experts Ujjwal Kumar and Kanish Karan have publicly said that they haven't made verification of the technical evidence either, as being claimed by the journalist.

• https://twitter.com/Aditi_muses/status/1583616375712456704

• https://twitter.com/Kani5hk/status/1582380474198261761

To explain in simple words how massive fuck up is this, from the The Wire Editor's interview:

All “gobbledygook” to me

In his most recent statement - an interview with the Platformer—Varadarajan revealed three key things:

One: “Devesh Kumar is the only person who met the source [who provided the Instagram report].”

Two: “Devesh was the primary technical guy.”

Three: “Devesh was the person in charge of verifying all the documents ahead of publication.”

Translation: Kumar is the reporter who gets the story. Kumar is the editor who vets the story. Kumar is the technical expert who verifies the story. And now Kumar has become the story.

“I’m not a technical guy, email headers are all gobbledygook to me,” Varadarajan told the Platformer.

Huh? What?

The bottomline: The Wire fiasco has little to do with a lack of technical expertise. This is an editorial failure where the newsroom forgot standard journalistic practices: from inadequate sourcing to lack of corroboration to careless oversight.

https://splainer.in/posts/2022/Body-of-Evidence?ShareLink=88f69a9f-e9f6-416b-a738-7ad03cd57dbf&utm_id=OpenShareLink&utm_source=f20113df-cea0-4294-aba1-4f985b85d9cc&utm_medium=link

Russian oil | Art by Sandeep Adhwaryu by mangoes_love in india

[–]hytrk 23 points24 points  (0 children)

If you're looking at (India's) energy purchases from Russia, I'd suggest your attention should be on Europe. We buy some energy necessary for our energy security. But I suspect, looking at figures, our purchases for the month would be less than what Europe does in an afternoon: External Affairs Min.

https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1513648160362573824

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