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O, The Hindu Newspaper! Is Thy Name Error in reporting?

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SATYAMEVA JAYATHE! The Hindu had erred in reporting one important News item about Modi's inauguration of the ferry project to connect Saurashtra and South Gujarat by sea.  The date of inauguration was wrongly stated as Monday, the 23rd October 2017 as under: In the same paper on last page - i.e. page no.20, a full page advertisement was published as under: Here in the advertisement, the date is clearly mentioned as 22nd October 2017 (Sunday) and not Monday the 23rd October 2017 as reported by the Hindu in the news item. For a newspaper of the HIndu standard, it cannot be brushed aside as a minor error and that too, it is an event attended by the PM.  The reader might not have forgotten the wrong reporting of an incident of Bridge Collapse at  Elphinstone, Railway Foot-Over-Bridge at Charni Road wherein the Hindu reporter had wrongly reported a video as if the man had molested a girl, while actually he was helping her to safety. The new