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Anti-Drug Activist Parvinder Singh Jhota's Murder Probe To Be Handed Over To CBI

8 reports from 7 outlets over 27 hours.

1. AL ABP Live · 20 Oct
   Anti-Drug Activist Parvinder Singh Jhota's Murder Probe To Be Handed Over To CBI
2. DH Deccan Herald · 20 Oct
   Parvinder Singh Jhota murder probe to be handed over to CBI: Bhagwant Mann

   Words only this outlet used: Bhagwant.

3. DH Deccan Herald · 20 Oct
   Parvinder Singh Jhota murder probe will be handed over to CBI: Bhagwant Mann

   Words only this outlet used: Bhagwant.

4. TI Times of India · 21 Oct
   Mann hands over Jhota murder probe to CBI

   Words only this outlet used: hands.

5. IT India Today · 21 Oct
   CBI takes over Punjab's anti-drug activist Parwinder Jhotta's murder probe

   Words only this outlet used: Parwinder Jhotta's.

6. OI Outlook India · 21 Oct
   CBI Registers FIR, Takes Over Probe Into Punjab Anti-Drug Activist Jhota’s Murder

   Words only this outlet used: Registers FIR.

7. Sc Scroll · 21 Oct
   Punjab: CBI takes over probe into killing of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota

   Words only this outlet used: killing.

8. TH The Hindu News · 21 Oct
   Parvinder Singh Jhota: Who was the anti-drug activist, why was he killed

   Words only this outlet used: killed.

Questions

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2. Who reported it first, and how long did the others take? Does “first seen by Huduku” mean they broke the story?

3. How many different owners carried it? Do any outlets share an owner, or nearly the same words?

4. Which outlets you know did not carry it? What might explain that?

5. What is the original source (a judgment, notice, speech or set of figures)? Find it. Does any headline say more than the source does?

6. If you shared one of these headlines, which would it be, and why?

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