The aircraft will serve short to medium haul cities, with Bahrain as its inaugural destination
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British journalist and TV presenter Piers Morgan loves courting controversy, and this time he has infuriated the second largest country (by population) in the world - India!
Morgan took to Twitter earlier today to 'mock' India's two medals at the recently concluded Rio Olympics, calling the one bronze and one silver medal as 'losing medals'
Two young women won India its only two medals in Rio, Sakshi Malik in wrestling and Sindhu in badminton.
Firstly it was Shobhaa De, then a Pakistani journalist, followed by Ram Gopal Verma.
This is the tweet started it all:
Country with 1.2 billion people wildly celebrates 2 losing medals. How embarrassing is that? https://t.co/FYSBM7ErAfAnd Indian Twitterati did not take it lightly, trolling the US editor-at-large for Mail Online on Twitter:
- Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
@piersmorgan @tariqvaidya @WalesOnline
You guys are playing football since Jurassic age and yet didn't won a single world cup. Proud?
- KK2KK (@kartik_sawarkar) August 24, 2016
@piersmorgan your life summed up in one tweet https://t.co/rgBicxBR9X
- Himamshu Srivathsa (@assistant_ozil) August 24, 2016
@nikhilpuro @gillian43612620 How many times England won world cup.?? U introduced cricket sport to world n u guys r rich. @piersmorganSomeone even threw in a Lagaan reference! Aamir Khan would be proud:
- Avitesh (@Avitesh_gaur) August 24, 2016
@piersmorgan intellectuals ( a lot better than urs) to think abt. Bdw have you watched this movie?? @chetan_bhagat pic.twitter.com/w2lHfNBqFM
- ashwin (@engg89) August 24, 2016
Half the people trolling @piersmorgan don't even know who he is.The Shobhaa De bashing also continued:
- Rahul Gangwani (@Itemboi) August 24, 2016
Meanwhile on Facebook,
"Shobhaa De is now friends with Piers Morgan"
- The Indian Idiot (@charansh) August 24, 2016
People getting furious with Piers Morgan.It's no surprise that, at the time of filing this report, Piers Morgan was trending in Indian Twittersphere:
Hilarious.
Guys, this is what he does.
He's a professional troll.
He's KRK with a British accent.
- Sorabh Pant (@hankypanty) August 24, 2016
Piers Morgan, @piersmorgan is now trending in India https://t.co/6KlseR1xJgWhile many lashed out the journalist, there were some who seconded Morgan:
- Trendsmap India (@TrendsmapIndia) August 24, 2016
That's only the 3rd best death threat I've had today. On a positive note, you're Welsh so you get a bus parade! https://t.co/OqIpHts30t
- Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
On a different (seditious, antinationalist) note, @piersmorgan is right, of course. (But how dare he??) https://t.co/7XxPYCOswj
- Prasanto K Roy (@prasanto) August 24, 2016
Looks like Indian twitter has met its match in @piersmorgan.
- Sruthijith (@sruthijith) August 24, 2016
Troll him all you want but @piersmorgan is right. The excessive celebration doesn't quite match the result.
- Karan Talwar (@BollywoodGandu) August 24, 2016
I know how to spell your name.However, known for his razor sharp wit, Morgan was not one to go down easil - he took on ALL of Indian Twitterati:
It was a little joke because you didn't know how to spell mine.... https://t.co/s7sKUecDyW
- Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
At least you'll never have to worry about being one of my interviewees, Suhel.
I only interview famous people. https://t.co/yPGf3TLtNr
- Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
Time to prescribe yourself some humour pills, Dr. https://t.co/wtVtLdR4ot
- Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
How did you get a blue tick with 286 followers? No wonder you celebrate silver & bronze medals. https://t.co/yeNMtQ1Af0
- Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
1,200,000,000 people and not a single Gold medal at the Olympics?
Come on India, this is shameful.
Put the bunting away & get training.
- Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
It's time. I cracked Hollywood years ago. https://t.co/KnhPzAoYvJ
- Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
India's the fastest growing economy on the planet. Stop whining & get training. https://t.co/AZDcb0XOWD
- Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
Looks like Indian twitter has met its match in @piersmorgan.
- Sruthijith (@sruthijith) August 24, 2016
Indian Twitter definitely wins Gold at trolling. If only their athletes were as skilled. https://t.co/MRO110udG4Morgan even dragged revered cricket hero, Sachin Tendulkar in to his argument - face-saving?:
- Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
If India can produce a batsman as brilliant as @sachin_rt then it can produce Gold medal winning Olympians. Needs investment & focus.All we can say is, Morgan once again gets his 15 minutes of fame online.
- Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
They do now. ???? https://t.co/3bzL7rTrut
- Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
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