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PROLOGUE. 5

Chapter 1: News Scoops. 8

Chapter 2: Stories & copies. 18

Chapter 3: Work assignment 25

Chapter 4: Night watch. 31

Chapter 5: Crime dossier. 36

Chapter 6: Mr R Mohan Raj IPS. 45

Chapter 7: Headless body. 52

Chapter 8: Destroyers of civilizations. 57

Chapter 9: Self immolation. 65

Chapter 10: News hunt 73

Chapter 11: Computerisation. 82

Chapter 12: Fake Bond. 91

Chapter: 13: Pistol 97

Chapter 14: The ghost story. 104

Chapter 15: The Brains Club. 107

Chapter 16: Shoot the ghost 123

Chapter 17: Auction deception. 130

Chapter 18: Drunken Pilot 146

Chapter 19: Public Service Commission. 155

Chapter 20: Scorpion sting news. 164

Chapter 21: Scorpion news impact 169

Chapter 22: An inspired attack. 179

Chapter 23: Crime News. 184

Chapter 24: Reporter dismissed. 187

 

 

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Chapter 25: Humour in uniform.. 190

Chapter 26: Airport blast 201

Chapter 27: Herbal Petrol 207

Chapter 28: Muster roll fraud. 224

Chapter 29: Curtains for a journo. 235

EPILOGUE. 249

About the author. 260

 

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About the author

 

Thomas Kannamala, aka K.M.Thomas has started his journalistic career with Malayala Manorama and joined the Indian Express in 1979 as Reporter. He specialised in crime reporting and investigative reports. He left the Indian Express in 1997 to join the India Today as Special Correspondent. Later, he started his own news weekly tabloid, Harrington Post in 2002, and was its editor and Publisher till June 2016. He had been contributing news and articles to various publications and news agencies including Bombay Midday, IANS, and Southern Features. He assisted the Tamil Nadu police to edit a book on 100 years of Crime Branch CID.

Thomas was the president of Madras Press Club for three terms. He was a guest teacher of journalism course in several colleges in Chennai, and held workshops in Madras Press Club, and for the media students of St. Antony’s College, Meghalaya.

Email: kmthomas1950@gmail.com

Website : https://hpnews.page4.me/94.html

  

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