Meet the man behind Katta News, which scooped the big Maharashtra stories

The handle broke the news that Ajit Pawar would split the NCP two days before the event.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· Nov 26, 2019 · 09:09 pm

How BJP leaders and media outlets gave Murshidabad triple murder a political and communal colour

Many claimed that Bandhu Prakash Pal was killed because he was an RSS worker. The police said the attack was a result of a financial dispute.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· Oct 16, 2019 · 09:44 pm

Fact check: Was a Pakistani conspiracy behind #GoBackModi trending as India Today, others claimed?

The hashtag trended when the Indian prime minister met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Chennai. The majority of the weets were in Tamil.

Pratik Sinha, AltNews.in

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Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· Oct 13, 2019 · 12:05 pm

Fact check: Did a 14-year-old girl write a book about Article 370 as Jitendra Singh, ANI claimed?

While the book by Ayona Kohli is titled “In the Times of Article 370’, it is actually a work of fiction.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· Oct 12, 2019 · 08:36 pm

Republic TV among media outlets that misrepresent IAF promo video as proof of Balakot strikes

Times Now, ABP News and Zee News also slipped up.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· Oct 04, 2019 · 09:38 pm

Fact check: Was a Mumbai traffic signal washed away in floods as video by Vivek Agnihotri claimed?

The incident actually took place in China.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· Sep 06, 2019 · 09:16 am

Kerala students wrongly reported to have raised Pakistani flag in stories by Times Now, others

Many people across the border shared the Times Now broadcast, including the spokesperson of the Pakistan Armed Forces, Major General Asif Ghafoor.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· Sep 01, 2019 · 05:47 pm

Pakistan minister shares edited clip that falsely claims to show official brutality in Kashmir

Syed Ali Haider Zaidi is his country’s federal minister for maritime affairs.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· Aug 19, 2019 · 09:51 pm

Fact check: Did BBC, Al Jazeera and Reuters fabricate reports about a large protest in Kashmir?

The videos broadcast by the agencies were clearly shot in Srinagar’s Soura area.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

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Pratik Sinha, AltNews.in

· Aug 14, 2019 · 07:26 am

That ‘Kashmiri woman’ happy at scrapping of 370 in the photo BJP MP Goel tweeted? It’s from 2014

In fact, the woman is probably a tourist posing in a traditional outfit.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· Aug 11, 2019 · 08:00 am

Fact check: Did Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra plagiarise her speech as Zee News claimed?

The channel said the address had ‘stolen words’ from a 2017 US article. But the author of that piece tweeted to say that the MP did not ‘plagiarise anything’.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· Jul 04, 2019 · 09:49 am

Not a fatwa: How media misrepresented a Muslim cleric’s statement about Trinamool MP Nusrat Jahan

Many sources, including Scroll.in, failed to check whether the Darul Uloom had actually issued a fatwa against the politician for her interfaith marriage.

Mohammed Zubair, Alt News

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Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· Jul 02, 2019 · 09:27 am