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Fact check: Was Sadhvi Pragya first arrested by BJP govt in a terror case and not Congress as claimed by The Wire?

K Bhattacharjee - 19 April, 2019

Leftist Propaganda outlet The Wire has published an article where it was claimed that Sadhvi Pragya was first arrested in a terror case by a BJP government and not Congress.

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Exclusive: Men in video shared by Rahul Gandhi claim that their statements were twisted, say they support PM Modi

Nupur J Sharma - 18 April, 2019

Rahul Gandhi, the Congress president tweeted an excerpt of The Wire video saying that the event of PM Modi washing the sanitation workers' feet was a 'made for media' event

Entertainment

Wife of Mahesh Bhatt, who lied about Junaid to pontificate to Indians how they should vote, holds a British passport

OpIndia Staff - 13 April, 2019

Soni Razdan and her daughter Alia Bhatt both hold British Passports and hence cannot vote in India

Newslaundry columnist demands that BJP be banned from 2019 elections based on a debunked lie

OpIndia Staff - 13 April, 2019

Jas Oberoi, a columnist with Newslaundry tweeted that Uttar Pradesh police was openly distributing food packets with NaMo and BJP written on them in Noida

Mahesh Bhatt’s wife peddles fake news about Junaid being lynched for being a Muslim, urges people to remember this when they vote

OpIndia Staff - 13 April, 2019

Has-been actress Soni Razdan, wife of Mahesh Bhatt and mother of actress Alia Bhatt took to Twitter today to fear-monger and lie about the Junaid lynching case to campaign against PM Modi.

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Times of India spreads fake news, says Meerut student Umam Khanam was “harassed” for “not wearing a BJP cap”

OpIndia Staff - 10 April, 2019

Times of India journalist Piyush Rai has resorted to false propaganda to target the BJP by reporting that the 22-year old Meerut Law College student, Umam Khanam, was suspended after she refused to wear a BJP cap.

Media

Dainik Jagran uses misleading picture to ‘fact-check’ Rahul Gandhi’s post-Pulwama dance video, creates confusion

OpIndia Staff - 5 April, 2019

Dainik Jagran's Vishvas News, which spread the misleading information, is part of Facebook's independent 'fact-checker' roster.

Fact-Check

Fact-checking jokes: Thank you TOI for telling us Chris Gayle aka Krishna Goyal has not joined BJP

K Bhattacharjee - 29 March, 2019

TOI did an entire fact-check on the joke.

Media

‘Journalist’ Abhisar Sharma caught handing out paper to interviewee, Twitterati speculate whether it was money

OpIndia Staff - 27 March, 2019

Self-proclaimed journalist Abhisar Sharma, who often comes up with bizarre conspiracy theories and indulges in false propaganda to discredit Narendra Modi government seems to...