On December 14 2017, Prime Minister Narendra Modi officially commissioned INS Kalvari. The first of the Scorpene class of submarines, INS Kalvari was inducted with much fanfare after extensive sea…
Media bias in Gujarat elections: An analysis of hashtags used by TV Channels
Indian media has gone on an overdrive from the time that the Election Commission announced the dates of the Gujarat elections. It is not unexpected with Gujarat being Prime Minister…
“Muslims fed bomb to cow”, fake news peddler ShankhNaad puts out yet another misleading video
‘Muslims fed bomb to cow which blew inside her mouth’, screamed ShankhNaad on its twitter page. The communal rabble rousing website posted a video shot in Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh,…
Paresh Mesta death: Rumour-mongering of brutality sparks tension, Karnataka Police issues stern warning
‘Head cut open’, ‘castrated’ and ‘boiling oil poured on face’ are some of the provocative messages that are doing the rounds on social media to describe 21 year old Paresh…
Maharashtra CM’s wife Amruta Fadnavis trolled for promoting a charity event linked to Christmas
“Launched Be Santa-campaign, as Ambassador for @927BIGFM – to collect gifts from people -for poor children, to bring smiles to their faces during this Christmas. Drop ur gifts at nearest…
Did PM Modi travel on the first ever seaplane in India? No
On Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s website www.narendramodi.in, the headline for one of the stories on December 12 gleamed ‘PM Modi becomes first passenger of India’s first ever seaplane!‘. The article…
ShankhNaad – An Alt News exposé of the communal rabble rouser and leading peddler of fake news
Social media is replete with misinformation, rumours and fake news that is often disseminated with the motive of causing division among communities. This exercise is being conducted in an organised…
Times Now reports 2013 story as 2017 ‘exclusive’
At 2:36 pm on December 11, 2017, Times Now broke an ‘exclusive’ story of former Finance Minister P Chidambaram meeting Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Saleem Zaeef. According to the photograph…
A man was hacked to death. What did news channels discuss on prime time?
On December 7, a horrific video emerged from Rajasthan. In the gruesome clip that shook the collective conscience of the nation, a middle aged man is seen hacked and burned…
Dainik Jagran and Amar Ujala portrayed J&K civilian as slain terrorist
It has been observed that mainstream media at times has succumbed to disseminating false information either unwittingly or otherwise. Recently in November, there was a report of television actress Sulagna…