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    News Nation misidentifies shop as samadhi in Malanggad, accuses Muslims of trespass

    7th April 20218th April 2021
    On March 28, several news outlets including News Nation reported that Muslim men entered a Hindu place of worship and interrupted aarti in Maharasthra’s Malanggad. At 4:13 minutes into a...
    News Nation misidentifies shop as samadhi in Malanggad, accuses Muslims of trespass
    Priyanka Jha

    Bijapur Maoist attack: Dainik Bhaskar publishes images of film set as Naxal camp

    7th April 2021
    On April 3, 22 security personnel were killed in an encounter with Maoists in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur. Hindi newspaper Dainik Bhaskar published an article on April 5 with the headline, “Video...
    Bijapur Maoist attack: Dainik Bhaskar publishes images of film set as Naxal camp

    Video of Yogi Adityanath using abusive word is NOT edited

    Pooja Chaudhuri5th April 20215th April 2021

    On April 5, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s bite to ANI on COVID vaccination led to a Twitter storm after many pointed out that he used abusive language on…

    NDTV targeted over reporting on the record statement of US Defense Secretary

    Pooja Chaudhuri22nd March 202123rd March 2021

    The United States Secretary of Defence General (Retd.) Lloyd J. Austin met Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his three-day visit to India. This was the first outreach by the US…

    Led by ANI, news outlets publish 7-yo report on Saudi marriage laws as recent

    Archit22nd March 202122nd March 2021

    On March 19, news agency Asian News International (ANI) published a report headlined, “Saudi Arabia prohibits men from marrying women from Pakistan, 3 other nations: Report”. Nineteen hours later, the…

    Canada thanked PM Modi for COVID vaccines? Misleading news run by Indian media

    Priyanka Jha20th March 2021

    On March 11, ANI reported that a billboard was put up in Greater Toronto, Canada to thank Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for providing COVID-19 vaccines to the country. Billboards…

    Fact-checking India Today’s erroneous fact-check on Gajendra Chauhan’s tweet

    Pooja Chaudhuri18th March 2021

    In a recent fact-check, India Today claimed that a tweet attributed to Gajendra Chauhan, actor and former chairman of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), is fake. The…

    Indian media misreports Pak singer faces 3 years in jail for MeToo allegation against Ali Zafar

    Pooja Chaudhuri16th March 2021

    Multiple media outlets in India have reported that Pakistani singer Meesha Shafi faces up to three years in prison for “levelling false accusations of sexual harassment” against actor-singer Ali Zafar….

    India Today falsely claims Indian COVID-19 vaccine prices are the lowest in the world

    Pooja Chaudhuri11th March 2021

    India Today news director Rahul Kanwal tweeted an infographic created by his channel which claimed that India has the lowest vaccine price in the world. The chart lists prices of…

    Hindu man allegedly murders family and kills himself in Pakistan, Indian media communalises incident

    Pooja Chaudhuri & Mohammed Zubair8th March 2021

    An incident from Pakistan that made headlines in Indian media was the death of five members of a Hindu family. Times Now claimed that the family’s murder was another instance…

    Mehtab wasn’t the kidnapper, Agra girl’s disappearance with friends communalised

    Priyanka Jha8th March 20219th March 2021

    On March 2, the Uttar Pradesh Police issued a press release stating that the woman abducted from Agra on February 23 was recovered safely from New Delhi’s Tilak Nagar. “The…

    SC judges can’t choose between Covishield and Covaxin, NDTV updates misreport

    Kinjal3rd March 2021

    The second phase of the Covid-19 vaccination in India began on March 1, 2021. The same day, NDTV tweeted that it would be administered to the Supreme Court judges. It…

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