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The spike that never came: How media made unfounded claims of 2020 festive season sparking a renewed Covid-19 surge

Jinit Jain - 25 June, 2021

Media published a host of articles predicting that the festive season in 2020 would spark a COVID-19 surge. But it never happened.

News Reports

PM Modi kills the manufactured stories about his rift with Yogi Adityanath with just three words

OpIndia Staff - 13 June, 2021

In a rare gesture, PM Modi publicly praised Yogi Adityanath for a scheme amid the manufactured reports about rift between the two

Media

Wife Pramila Dixit launches Rohit Sardana Foundation to support independent journalism: Here is how you can support the campaign

OpIndia Staff - 11 June, 2021

Pramila Dixit announced the decision to launch the Rohit Sardana Foundation in honour of the deceased journalist.

Tech

Reddit, Guardian, NYTimes, Amazon and half the Internet websites went down in major outage

OpIndia Staff - 8 June, 2021

Many international media websites were down for about half an hour due in a major outage.

News Reports

SMaRT, a collaboration of nationalistic media outlets to challenge the monopoly of left-liberal media, launches its website

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2021

SMaRT aims to support its members through various initiatives that can help the nationalistic media to challenge the mainstream media

Opinions

Fake fundraisers & funeral pyres : How do India’s Covid vultures sleep at night?

Abhishek Banerjee - 30 May, 2021

During the second wave, did these columnists charge a “surge fee” to foreign newspapers? Or was it that so many people offered to write columns that their wages got depressed?

News Reports

Delhi High Court refuses to entertain PIL seeking to stop ‘media trial’ of wrestler Sushil Kumar in murder case

OpIndia Staff - 28 May, 2021

The Delhi High Court said that a PIL can't be filed on behalf of wrester Sushil Kumar as he himself can approach the court

Media

New York Times ‘COVID reporter’ wants the world to stop talking about the ‘lab leak theory’ because of its ‘racist roots’, retracts

OpIndia Staff - 27 May, 2021

New York Times 'COVID-19 reporter' took to Twitter to say that the world should not talk about the 'lab leak theory' as far as COVID is concerned because it has racist roots.

News Reports