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Because not everything one reads, hears or sees is the truth. As India’s first digital Fact news checker, we know a thing about fact checking news

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Rahul Gandhi’s fanboy Saket Gokhale thinks bank transfers under DBT cannot happen on a bank holiday. Here is an explainer

OpIndia Staff -
The fund transfers under DBT do not take place using RTGS/NEFT systems, and it happens via a direct electronic fund transfer
Media

How Times of India and The Hindu turned ‘Haroon’, who posed as a priest, to a ‘Tantrik’ to secularise the crime

OpIndia Staff -
The Times of India, in its attempt to 'secularise' the crime, passed off the accused as a 'Tantrik', when it was, in fact, a man named Harun
Social Media Fact-Check

Here is the truth behind the image of an old farmer, who according to Congress trolls and actor, died at farmers protest recently

OpIndia Staff -
The 2018 image was used to claim that an elderly farmer has died during the Delhi farmer protests.
Media Fact-Check

Fact-Check: Is WhatsApp suspending support for older iPhones after Christmas

OpIndia Staff -
WhatsApp will continue to work on iOS 9 contrary to the reports some news agencies have published
News Reports

Rahul Gandhi peddles The Print’s lies about India-Russia relations, gets ‘fact-checked’ by the Russian Embassy in India

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi's attempt to mislead people on India-Russia annual summit caused another 'egg-on-the-face' moment for Congress.
Political Fact-Check

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee misleads people by claiming there is no ‘national holiday’ for Christmas. Here are the facts

OpIndia Staff -
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday questioned why is there no 'national' holiday for Christmas.
Social Media Fact-Check

Fact Check: Are the photographs of beautiful camel hair art in viral tweet really from Pakistan as claimed?

OpIndia Staff -
The first photograph of the Camel hair Art was captured at the Bikaner Camel Festival in Rajasthan, India and not in Pakistan.
Political Fact-Check

Fact Check: Arvind Kejriwal lies again, claims Delhi govt is carrying out highest number of COVID tests in the country

OpIndia Staff -
Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday tried to mislead the public by claiming that Delhi govt is carrying out highest number of Covid tests.
News Reports

The Print tries to brazen it out after quietly editing their report, gets called out again by IIT professor: Here is what happened

OpIndia Staff -
Prof. Agarwal accused the Print of misinterpreting the report by giving a spin to his original observation to imply that India had deliberately missed reporting cases.
Media Fact-Check

UP Govt refutes media reports that fake spices were made out of donkey dung in Hathras

OpIndia Staff -
Various media reports suggested that donkey dung was used mixed into the adulterated spices at a factory in Hathras, UP.
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