Media Fact-Check

The commentator, through the article in The New York Times, tries to make personal jibes at the Indian Prime Minister Modi without offering any data to substantiate the tall claims that are being made.

The article printed in a newspaper reports the elevation of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra with a rather unusual headline, “Rajiv Gandhi's daughter joins family firm”.

Nidhi Razdan conducted an entire debate on misinformation regarding a statement by Piyush Goyal on jobs creation in the railways

The media reports about the movie 'No fathers in Kashmir' meeting a roadblock with CBFC seems to be patently false

The Print published an alarming report saying that India doesn’t have polio vaccine for the next round of immunization, which turned out to be fake

Media reports say Rahul Gandhi may contest from 3 seats in Lok Sabha elections, but the law limits the number of seats on can contest in an election to two

A journalist with Navbharat Times, Damodar Vyas tweeted to Tajinder Bagga wondering how the Railway Ministry was serving food marked for 20th January on 19th January itself

On January 19th 2018, several media houses reported how the central government debt had increased massively under the Modi government

The Hindu article gets its facts wrong and makes a blunder in analysing them

Fake news: In the article titled, "How India Votes: The news media is helping BJP win elections – and the public does not mind", Scroll has used 'research' to make spectacular claims about PM Modi and BJP win, that is not evidenced at all by the research they have cited