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Indian Express publishes Fake Report linking Sadhvi Pragya to Gauri Lankesh Murder, SIT rubbishes report

OpIndia Staff - 9 May, 2019

SIT denies Indian Express claiming that it had found links between Sadhbi Pragy and Gauri Lankesh murder case

Fact-Check

People arrange chairs at PM’s meeting venue, Economic Times journalist claims that an ‘agitated crowd threw chairs’

OpIndia Staff - 9 May, 2019

Madhuparna Das, a journalist with Economic Times, shared a video on Twitter where she claimed people were throwing chairs at the venue of the Prime Minister's address in Purulia, West Bengal after getting agitated

Media

The Wire and its ‘star journalist’ peddles another absurd lie about RSS and it’s not the first time

OpIndia Staff - 8 May, 2019

On Wednesday, The Wire published an article by Swati Chaturvedi that is riddled with exaggerations and staggering lies.

Law

Rafale deal: Modi govt files fresh affidavit in SC, says clean chit given by Court is correct, media quoted documents selectively

OpIndia Staff - 4 May, 2019

In the affidavit, the Centre said, Monitoring of progress of the Rafale deal by the PMO cannot be construed as interference or parallel negotiations.

Fact-Check

Journalist invents new arithmetic to defend Rahul, asks others to get calculators while needing one herself

OpIndia Staff - 4 May, 2019

Author Sujata Anandan, in her desperation to defend the lies of Rahul Gandhi on the NYAY yojana, made a fool of herself

Opinions

Ram Guha claims Modi govt has done a surgical strike on science and scholarship, data says otherwise

singhrakeshk - 2 May, 2019

Ram Guha wrote an article titled “Surgical strike against science and scholarship”, with his target being PM Modi, and he is patently wrong, as usual

Opinions

Here is why India needs to start fact-checking its election ‘experts’

Abhishek Banerjee - 30 April, 2019

This is about a larger problem of a certain caravan of ‘election astrologers’: journalists posing as ‘experts’, speaking with little regard for the truth and getting away with it

Fact-Check

‘Journalists’ fail to understand the difference between ‘MLA’ and ‘MP’, twist PM Modi’s statement to spread lies

OpIndia Staff - 30 April, 2019

PM Modi during his election rally speech in Serampore, West Bengal had dropped a bombshell, warning Mamata Banerjee that 40 MLAs belonging to Trinamool Congress (TMC) were in touch with him.

Media

Fake news channel NDTV hires fake news peddler Dhruv Rathee, to bust fake news this election

Sanghamitra - 27 April, 2019

Perhaps the union of Dhruv Rathee and NDTV is destiny after all, like a river eventually merging with the sea, individual fake news peddlers probably have to merge one day with the ocean of lies and fake news that is NDTV.

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