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    Politics

    Media misreport that Aatish Taseer moved Supreme Court to challenge OCI cancellation

    Pooja Chaudhuri22nd November 201922nd November 2019

    The home ministry had recently revoked the Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card status held by Aatish Taseer, the journalist who had penned a TIME magazine cover story on prime minister Narendra…

    Politics

    No, Tirupati Balaji has not declared donation of Rs 100 crore for constructing Ram Mandir

    Jignesh Patel19th November 2019

    A claim that Tirumala Tirupati Balaji will donate Rs 1 billion(100 crore) for constructing Ram temple in Ayodhya is circulating on social media. One Chanda Roy also posted the message…

    Politics

    Fact-check: Eid Milad celebrated in Kashmir’s Hazratbal with the same fervor as past years?

    Pooja Chaudhuri & Jignesh Patel13th November 2019

    On November 9-10, Eid Milad-un-Nabi was celebrated in Kashmir’s Hazratbal shrine to observe the birth of Prophet Muhammed. According to a report in The Hindu by Kashmiri journalist Peerzada Ashiq, “All entry…

    Politics

    PIB rubbishes reports of PM Modi and Russian President attending Jallikattu in 2020

    Jignesh Patel1st November 2019

    On October 29, Hindustan Times published a report titled, “Russian president Putin may witness Tamil Nadu’s bull-taming sport Jallikattu in January”, which cited a top official from Tamil Nadu’s Madurai district….

    Politics

    Man murdered for bursting crackers? Click-bait reports given communal colour on social media

    Pooja Chaudhuri30th October 201931st October 2019

    On Diwali night, October 25, a youth was hacked to death in Odisha’s Sundarpada, Bhubaneshwar. Subsequent media reports declared “bursting of crackers” as the motive behind the murder. Barring a…

    Politics

    No, Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal does not have six children; misinformation by NDTV

    Arjun Sidharth25th October 201926th October 2019

    Recently, the Assam government announced that with effect from January 1, 2021, persons with more than two children will not be eligible for government jobs. Reporting on the development, an anchor…

    Politics

    IANS, NDTV use old photo to claim BJP’s Pankaja Munde wept after electoral loss; delete later

    Jignesh Patel24th October 201924th October 2019

    News agency IANS tweeted a photo of Pankaja Munde, the BJP candidate from Maharastra’s Parli assembly seat, who was defeated in the recently-concluded assembly elections. The news agency’s tweet read,…

    Politics

    Old misreport shared as BJP killed its own worker in West Bengal

    Kinjal15th October 201923rd October 2019

    On October 8, a family of three – Bandhu Prakash Pal, his pregnant wife and an 8-year-old child – was murdered in West Bengal’s Murshidabad. The BJP claimed that Pal…

    Media analysis

    Media claims ‘Pakistani conspiracy’ behind trending #GoBackModi. What’s the truth?

    Pratik Sinha & Pooja Chaudhuri12th October 201925th October 2019

    In an October 11 ‘exclusive’ story, broadcast at around 3:30 PM, Times Now claimed that Pakistani social media accounts were behind trending the hashtag #GoBackModi ahead of the Prime Minister’s…

    Politics

    Union Min Jitendra Singh, ANI, PTI falsely claim 14-year-old girl wrote a book on Article 370

    Pooja Chaudhuri12th October 2019

    Union Minister Jitendra Singh launched a book ‘In the Times of Article 370’ on October 9. “In a rare ceremony of its kind, released a book on #Article370 written by Ayanna Kohli,…

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