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When the Media lies, it takes away the people’s right to know. The only way to reclaim that right is to catch them in the act.

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AltNews founder misleads people about PM Modi’s 2014 poll promise of ‘sending guilty MPs and MLAs to jail within a year’

OpIndia Staff - 11 May, 2019

Pratik Sinha, the founder of AltNews insinuated that the Modi government had not fulfilled its 2014 poll promise of fast-tracking criminal cases against MPs and MLAs

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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

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Did India Today modify 1988 report on Rajiv Gandhi using INS Virat as ‘personal taxi’ after PM Modi raised the issue?

OpIndia Staff - 9 May, 2019

India Today updated the 1988 archive article on Rajiv Gandhi and family using INS Virat for a family holiday

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Times of India publishes old photograph as image of cyclone Fani hit Bhubaneshwar Airport

OpIndia Staff - 5 May, 2019

The image of Cyclone Hudhud hit Visakhapatnam airport used as photo of Cyclone Fani hit Bhubaneshwar airport by Times of India

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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

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India Today interview: Rahul Gandhi says he wants to destroy Modi’s image, interviewer repeats a lie about Modi

Nupur J Sharma - 3 May, 2019

With Rahul Gandhi's admission that he wanted to "rip PM Modi's incorruptible image", the strategy behind his Rafale lies are clear.

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‘Journalist’ lies to draw false equivalence between convicted Indian Mujahideen terrorist Yasin Bhatkal and Sadhvi Pragya

Shashank Bharadwaj - 30 April, 2019

Rana Ayyub attempted to equate convicted Islamic terrorist Yasin Bhatkal and Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, who is incidentally still an accused and was given a clean chit by NIA in a case and was a victim of severe brutality

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‘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.

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