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BSF not to offer sweets to Pakistani Rangers on Diwali - Hindustan TimesBSF not to offer sweets to Pakistani Rangers on Diwali
BSF not to offer sweets to Pakistani Rangers on Diwali - Hindustan TimesBSF not to offer sweets to Pakistani Rangers on Diwali
BSF intercepts Pakistan boat at Sir Creek, suspected people on board fled
22 ITBP border posts opened to fortify security along China | Zee News22 ITBP border posts opened to fortify security along China
The article ought to explain from the outset what the initials ITBP stand for: Indo-Tibetan Border Police. That's very poor journalism.
They are known as ITBP here, called with the same name. Some people might even not know ITBP stands for Indo Tibetan Border Police. As an example SWAT is more popular to 'Small Weapons And Tactics'.The article ought to explain from the outset what the initials ITBP stand for: Indo-Tibetan Border Police. That's very poor journalism.
That's no excuse. If a journalist or other writer is going to use initials for the name of an organisation in an article or other item, he should name the organisation in full in his first reference to it and follow the full written reference by the initials of the organisation in brackets.They are known as ITBP here, called with the same name. Some people might even not know ITBP stands for Indo Tibetan Border Police. As example SWAT is more popular to 'Small Weapons And Tactics'.
Find the full name of SWAT in the article from WaPo below. Poor Journalism too?That's no excuse. If a journalist or other writer is going to use initials for the name of an organisation in an article or other item, he should name the organisation in full in his first reference to it and follow the full written reference by the initials of the organisation in brackets.
For example:
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the oldest air force in the world. Born out of much bureaucratic factional fighting in Whitehall in the last years of the First World War, the RAF was launched into life on All-Fools' Day 1918, that is 1st April 1918. The RAF was the product of the merger of the British Army's Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Navy's Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). As such, the RAF, as Britain's newest branch of the armed forces, had elements of both the Army and the Navy in it.
Again, poor journalism, which is to be expected from The Washington Post and many other U.S. newspapers. English-language journalism has declined markedly since the 1970s, it's not just the English-language press in India or elsewhere on the subcontinent.Find the full name of SWAT in the article from WaPo below. Poor Journalism too?
A drug informant lied, SWAT pounced, a man died - The Washington Post
Well then Sir, I can say you are expecting a standard for which you shall be routinely disappointed from Indian media.Again, poor journalism, which is to be expected from The Washington Post and many other U.S. newspapers. English-language journalism has declined markedly since the 1970s, it's not just the English-language press in India or elsewhere on the subcontinent.
The initials can remain in the headline provided that the abbreviation is explained in the first reference in the article to the organisation or institution. Thus:
A drug informant lied, SWAT pounced, a man died
Rewrite of the article's first sentence:
Last July, we examined at the case of Jason Wescott, a Florida man shot and killed by a police Special-Weapons-and-Tactics (SWAT) team during a drug raid over an alleged sale of $200 worth of pot to a police informant.
Which is a great shame, ladder, because many Indians (and Pakistanis, let's be fair) have spoken and written English exceedingly well and produced many excellent writers in the language, including authors and journalists. I'm very sorry to read that the plague of overly sloppy journalism is afflicting the English-language press in India. I include the countries of the Indian subcontinent as English-speaking countries as English is an official language in all these countries and is spoken and written as a second language throughout the subcontinent. Indeed, there is an identifiably subcontinental dialect of the language.Well then Sir, I can say you are expecting a standard for which you shall be routinely disappointed by Indian media.
I would love to provide link with news but this forum doesn't allow me to post link or URL.@patrika, please provide the link to the news article.
Before Kathua attack, Pak objected to Indian cameras on the border | The Indian ExpressBefore Kathua attack, Pak objected to Indian cameras on the border
Pakistan raised objections to a number of surveillance cameras put up by India along the International Border (IB) in the past 10 months, since the NDA government came to power.
Sources said that during the DIG-level meeting between Border Security Force (BSF) and Pakistan Rangers held on March 18, the latter objected to a "range of high resolution surveillance cameras" put up by India along the IB, especially in Jammu sector.
Before Kathua attack, Pak objected to Indian cameras on the border | The Indian Expressthe Pakistan Rangers also objected to the use of UAVs by India. BSF mans the 192-km-long IB in Jammu.
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