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Power of Ummah or Ecosystem? Amethi Police runs away after warning Rana Ayyub for provocative tweet

OpIndia Staff - 9 November, 2019

Rana Ayyub, who often laments over 'intolerance and loss of secular values' on social media did not delete her hate-mongering tweet. Later, a group of 'secular-liberals' began slamming the Amethi Police for asking Ayyub to delete her tweet.

Social Media Fact-Check

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi caught spreading fake news that Dalits were beaten up in Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri

OpIndia Staff - 7 November, 2019

Mainpuri Police's official Twitter account called out the fake news spread by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for making it a casteism issue.

Media Fact-Check

BBC and Jansatta spread fake news, paint Congress linked outfit supporting stubble burning as RSS linked

OpIndia Staff - 5 November, 2019

BBC and Jansatta lie and spread fake news by saying farmers’ organisation that supported Congress is linked with RSS

News Reports

Fact check: Viral WhatsApp message claiming terrorists are injecting people with AIDS virus is fake

OpIndia Staff - 3 November, 2019

UP police deny WhatsApp message claiming that terrorists are spreading AIDS

News Reports

Andhra Pradesh: Jagan Mohan govt issues controversial order, gives bureaucrats the power to sue media

OpIndia Staff - 31 October, 2019

The order (GO RT No 2430) was issued on Wednesday. The state cabinet had taken the decision on October 16.

News Reports

Reserve Bank of India clarifies that it has not sold any gold or trading in it, refutes the ET report categorically

OpIndia Staff - 27 October, 2019

Tweaking its headline a bit, the ET had falsely reported that RBI has begun to sell some of its gold again despite their own reports suggested that RBI had bought more gold rather than selling from its reserves.

Media

A day after anchor brazens it out, NDTV apologises for her blatant lie against Assam CM in an attempt to discredit his policy

OpIndia Staff - 26 October, 2019

NDTV has issued an unconditional apology for the blatant lie by their anchor Sonal Mehrotra Kapoor about Assam Chief Minister Sarbanand Sonowal

Media

US President Donald Trump cancels subscriptions of ‘fake news’ Washington Post and New York Times

OpIndia Staff - 25 October, 2019

President Trump often refers to two controversial publications - New York Times and Washington Post as "failing Times" and the "Amazon Post" respectively.

Media Fact-Check

NDTV anchor lies blatantly in a bid to discredit Assam’s two-child policy for govt jobs, says CM Sonowal has 6 kids himself

OpIndia Staff - 25 October, 2019

NDTV Anchor Sonal Mehrotra Kapoor decided to spread fake news while reporting the decision taken by Assam CM Sarbanand Sonowal that people with more than 2 children will not get government jobs in the state

News Reports