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She lauded a post by Sultan Mohammed Zakaria, which contained misleading videos of Indian dams to claim that India released water from the Dumbur Dam causing floods in Bangladesh. Interestingly, this very post, which Farhana Sultana called a “spot-on analysis” was debunked by DW News.

The analogy presented by Sunita Vishwanath via The Wire is not only deeply flawed but also misleading. Mahabharata speaks about the Pandavas, who were the embodiment of Dharma and who fought against the Kauravas, representing Adharma. The great War of Mahabharata was guided by Bhagwan Krishna in order to bring about justice and truth.

Several media outlets reported on the Modi-Biden conversation, with most presenting the news as it was, clearly indicating that Joe Biden was the one who called PM Narendra Modi. However, the Indian Express insinuated that it was Modi who initiated the call to the US President.

Apart from trying to blame India for the Bangladesh floods, the CNN article also whitewashed the ongoing religious persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh as it tried to ‘intellectualise’ it as targeted political violence meted out on Hindus for backing Sheikh Hasina.

Unsurprisingly, highlighting the names and pictures of the Ajmer case convicts is more problematic to Saba Naqvi and Yogendra Yadav than the perpetrators being Ajmer Dargah ‘Khadims’ and a Congress leader.

Zafar Sobhan was unable to explain how the 'minority' Muslim population in India surged from 9.84% in 1947 to 14.09% in 2011 despite supposed 'lack of safety' while the Hindu population in Bangladesh has been on a serious decline.

Saket Gokhale was muted by Barkha Dutt on her show because of his continuous attack on media and on her over the reporting of RG Kar Hospital's rape and murder case

Ironically, Muslims who overtly assert their religiosity in anything and everything do not want the criminals and terrorists carrying out religiously motivated attacks on non-Muslims to be associated with Islam. However, these very people prioritise Islam over the country as was recently said by an Islamist maulana on national television.

Former Ekattor Television head of news Shakil Ahmed, and his wife Farzana Rupa who was the principal correspondent of the news channel, were arrested from Dhaka Airport

On 19th August, propaganda portal The Wire watered down the incident and called the attack on Hindu student merely as an 'injury'. Despite being confirmed by the police later that day that the Hindu student succumbed to injuries, The Wire did not edit the report.