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Media reported ‘thousands of trees felled ahead of PM Modi’s Odisha visit to make helipad’, turns out, it was a lie

OpIndia Staff - 15 January, 2019

The East Coast Railways Spokesperson has said that no trees were felled to make a temporary helipad for Prime Minister Modi in Odisha, only some shrubs and saplings were removed

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Gulf News claims ‘Rahul Gandhi has shed his Pappu image’ based on fake news pulled down by Business Standard

K Bhattacharjee - 14 January, 2019

Swati Chaturvedi, an abusive troll who masquerades as a journalist who is known to spread fake news, in an article for Gulf News claimed that Rahul Gandhi had finally shed his 'Pappu' image

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Business Standard withdraws article after OpIndia fact-check, when will others show the same ethics?

Nupur J Sharma - 14 January, 2019

Business Standard withdraws its story after OpIndia fact-check, however, we are far from this becoming the ethical norm in the media space

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Justice AK Sikri declines honorary judicial position: Here is how lies were spread about his appointment

OpIndia Staff - 13 January, 2019

A K Sikri was nominated for Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal in November 2018, much before any knew that he would representing CJI Gogoi in CBI Director selection committee

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How Business Standard misused Google Trends data to show Rahul ahead of Modi

Abhishek Banerjee - 13 January, 2019

Only with a careful list of filters, I was finally able to get Rahul Gandhi to move ahead of Narendra Modi in Google Trends

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Fact Check: Is UP government distributing free condoms in Kumbh Mela?

OpIndia Staff - 12 January, 2019

The claims of condoms being distributed by the UP government were found to be false.

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Congress party peddles lies in their press conference on Alok Verma

OpIndia Staff - 11 January, 2019

Congress party repeated the same lies that have been rebutted several times already

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Leftist propaganda websites spread baseless claims about the transfer of ousted CBI Director Alok Verma

Raju Das - 11 January, 2019

Alok Verma had already submitted his response to CVC report on him, hence the select committee need not hear him

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Politicians spread fake news about the 10% reservation bill, further outlandish calculations

OpIndia Staff - 10 January, 2019

Politicians spread misinformation about the economically weaker section reservation bill.

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Amartya Sen lies about the 10% reservation bill, obfuscates on farm loan waivers and fear mongers about ‘intolerance’

OpIndia Staff - 10 January, 2019

Amartya Sen's interview to Times of India had several lies and loopholes that, interestingly, the interviewer never seemed to counter.

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