Hindustan Times headline: “Coal Scam: CBI books former coal secretary, K.M. Birla”
Mail Today headline: “CBI registers 14th FIR in coal allocation scam”
On the morning after the central bureau of investigation (CBI) named industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla in the coal allocation scam, the news is the page one, lead story, in The Times of India, The Economic Times, The Indian Express, The Financial Express, The Hindu, Deccan Herald, The Pioneer, Business Standard….
But not the Hindustan Times or Mail Today.
HT which belongs to the Birla family (chairman Shobhana Bhartia is daughter of K.K. Birla, whose brother B.K. Birla‘s son was Kumar Mangalam’s father, Aditya Birla) consigns the news to a single column story on page 10 in its Delhi edition.
Mail Today has it on page 25. The tabloid belongs to the India Today group, which is part-owned by Kumar Mangalam Birla, who bought a 26 per cent stake in his personal capacity, in India Today‘s holding company, Living Media in May 2012.
Mint, the business berliner which is owned by HT Media, has it on page one with a single-column story leading into page 3.
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Zee News, Jindals and the silence of the media
IJR 
Recently India has refused to sign a UN resolution seeking a ban on child marriage. Predictably The Hindu has censored the news. But, nobody, not even Sans Seri,f is complaining. It seems, media critics have double standards. They wink at the omissions and commissions of The Hindu, but cry hoarse at other media houses like TOI, HT.