Daily Archives: 9 February 2009

Tehelka promoters ‘vindicated’ by official papers

First Global, the brokerage promoted by Shankar Sharma and Devina Mehra which had a 14.50 per cent stake in the webzine turned magazine Tehelka, has scored a major victory with official documents reportedly showing that the firm had been harassed by market regulators on trumped-up charges, after the then BJP-led government had been shamed by…

Yes. No. Maybe. Don’t know. Can’t say.

Recession or no recession, the fascination of the media with opinion polls continues. And recession or no recession, the pollsters turn out results that the media likes to hear. It takes a brief clip from ‘Yes, Prime Minister‘ to realise how it is all done. As Stephen Colbert said on Larry King Live: “I’m not…