“No rape of the girl in Kathua, postmortem report only talks of injuries” screamed the front page of the Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran on April 20. The article claims that…
“Prof HC Verma. He gets 1 crore as royalty/year for his book ‘Concepts of Physics’ and he gives it to PM’s Relief Fund and to charity. He pays fees of poor students with…
“What’s the State of Law & Order in Mr Siddaramaiah’s Karnataka?” asks the headline of the article by The True Picture, the website that was enthusiastically shared by Union ministers…
The fake news of demise of former Chief Election Commissioner of India, TN Seshan has been circulating on social media for many days now. The fake news was debunked by…
A collage of two photographs is currently viral on social media. The photographs were taken during the violence that followed the recent Bharat Bandh called by Dalit organizations to protest…
It started with a debate organized by Republic TV to discuss the arrest of Mahesh Hegde, founder of the serial fake news peddling website Postcard news. All was going well…
Peddling communally sensitive rumours and fake news cannot be without consequences. Karnataka police has arrested Postcard News founder Mahesh Vikram Hegde under sections 153A, 295A and 120B of IPC. BJP…
“Karnataka will vote on 12May 2018, counting will be on 18May2018”. The journalists waiting at the press conference were in for a rude shock when at 11.08 am the BJP…
“Good news coming from Jharkhand…for BJP. BJP wins both Rajya Sabha seats in Jharkhand”, Aaj Tak made this announcement in its ‘Special Report’ on Rajya Sabha elections. The news turned…
The “Breaking News” industry has done it again. Delhi High Court’s judgement on the ‘office of profit’ case involving the AAP MLAs was expected today. In their rush to be…
