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Anjana Om Kashyap

Aaj Tak Black and White Hindi
93.3% claim accuracy
How accuracy is measuredAccuracy = accurate ÷ (accurate + inaccurate + misleading), over verdicts with confidence ≥ 0.7. Unverifiable claims are excluded from the denominator.
0 100 93.3%

95% confidence interval 86–97%

Why we rank by the confidence boundWe rank by the lower bound of this interval, not raw accuracy. A small sample yields a wide interval and a low bound — so anchors earn their rank by being checked more, not by looking good on a handful of claims.
. 89 checked of 700 checkable · 789 extracted.

Scrutiny
What scrutiny meansN checked of M checkable — the share of this anchor's checkable claims that have actually been fact-checked. High accuracy over low scrutiny is a provisional reading, not a verdict on the anchor.
 89/700

Verdict mix

125 of 789 extracted claims checked

125 of 789 extracted claims checked.

Coverage profile

Share of extracted claims by topic — click to drill in
crime 28% communal religion 17% international 15% governance economy 13% healthcare 8% pakistan security 5% environment 4% infrastructure transport 3% other 3% science tech 2% opposition attack 1% agriculture rural 0% education 0% entertainment sports 0%

Who is held responsible
How framing is measuredThe framing target of each claim — the party the anchor assigns responsibility to. Blaming the people involved frames differently from blaming the system that enabled the issue. Counted, not judged. Click a bar to read those claims.

Framing of blame across all extracted claims · click a bar to read them
This anchor most often points at Individuals 258 claims →
Individuals 258 System & institutions 145 Government 34 Opposition 18 A minority community 3 Foreign actor 48 Media 8

Flagged claims

Judged inaccurate or misleading in the checked sample

Episodes analysed

54 broadcasts

All claims & verdicts

789 claims
Claims from this anchor, newest first.
ClaimTopicVerdictConf.
The bus's storage boxes were packed with cartons of cigarettes being smuggled from Haridwar to Indore to evade GST, and these fuelled the deadly fire. cigarette smuggling crime not checked —
A sleeper bus from Haridwar to Indore caught fire on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway after hitting a truck, burning eight people alive; the anchor argues dishonesty, not mere accident, killed them. sleeper bus fire infrastructure transport not checked —
Champat Rai has already been questioned by police, and a notice has now been issued to Anil Mishra summoning him for questioning. trust officials questioned crime not checked —
Anil Mishra was a witness in all the land deals in which the temple trust bought land at inflated prices, and per the SIT his assets grew rapidly in recent years. land deal irregularities crime not checked —
Anil Mishra recruited 125 people — the most of any trust official — into temple jobs, roughly double the combined hires recommended by Champat Rai and Gopal Rao, and he blocked SBI's move to replace the offering-counting staff. nepotistic temple hiring crime not checked —
According to sources, police and the SIT suspect trust member Anil Mishra the most; two of the eight arrested accused are his relatives, and all eight allegedly named him. Anil Mishra suspicion crime not checked —
Champat Rai knew of the theft from May 26, and on June 5 ₹5 lakh cash was recovered from Avinash Shukla's premises — raising the question whether the trust tried to pass off a large theft as a minor one. trust cover-up question crime not checked —
The channel's own team found, at the Kaushalpuri yoga centre where accused Avinash Shukla lived, a locked chest labelled 'Ram Rajya Kosh' bearing a Paytm QR code that resolves to a 'Ram Rajya Kosh' donation account. parallel donation racket crime not checked —
The anchor asserts that with today's recoveries the theft of Ram Mandir offerings stands proven with evidence, calling it a day no Ram devotee will forget. theft proven claim crime not checked —
Accused Ram Shankar Yadav alias Tinnu Yadav was Champat Rai's driver and was given a Ram Mandir job by Champat Rai; ₹1 lakh cash was recovered from his hostel near Ganga Hospital in Ayodhya. Champat Rai patronage crime not checked —
The alleged modus operandi was that extra ₹500 notes were slipped into counted bundles of 100 notes, since vouchers only recorded the number of bundles, and the accused later stole those extra notes. theft modus operandi crime not checked —
From the fourth accused Lavkush Mishra, also a relative of Anil Mishra and brother-in-law of Anukalp Mishra, police recovered about ₹14,25,000 including 2,850 notes of ₹500. stolen cash recovery crime not checked —
From Anukalp Mishra, a relative of temple trust member Anil Mishra who was present in the counting room, police recovered ₹16,82,040 in cash including 2,853 notes of ₹500. stolen cash recovery crime not checked —
From accused Avinash Shukla, who logged the offerings register, police recovered the largest haul: cash, 10,121 US dollars, 169.54 grams of silver-like metal, an 8.14-gram chain, and a 3.44-gram gold ring. stolen cash recovery crime not checked —
For the first time, police have officially disclosed how much stolen money was recovered from each of the arrested accused in the Ram Mandir offerings theft case. Ram Mandir theft crime not checked —
Viewing every woman with suspicion after such incidents, or spreading claims on social media that girls will kill their husbands or fiancés, is entirely wrong. suspicion of all women other not checked —
News came from Noida today that a husband tried to kill his wife on their honeymoon by pushing her into a ravine; the couple married on April 30 and the murder attempt happened on May 4. Noida honeymoon murder attempt crime not checked —
Judging or questioning a girl on the basis of a book she reads will promote anti-women sentiment in society. judging women by books other not checked —
A viral video claims a girl was reading the novel 'How to Kill Men and Get Away With It' by Katy Brent while travelling in the metro and was filmed by a boy; the channel does not verify this video. metro novel viral video other not checked —
Dr. Muskan Soni, dentist and treasurer of the All India Dental Students and Surgeons Association, was suspended for 5 years with immediate effect today because she used objectionable words about Ketan Agrawal on Instagram, saying he deserved to die if he lied about his hair wig. dentist suspended over post crime not checked —
A new video of Siya Goyal has surfaced and is going viral, in which she is seen using abusive language while talking to someone on the phone. Siya viral video crime not checked —
If Ketan's parents had taken his suspicion seriously and investigated, his life could have been saved and the murder would not have happened. parental negligence crime not checked —
The two families were considering a second marriage — Ketan's sister to Siya's brother Sahil — to be discussed after Ketan and Siya's wedding. families' marriage plans crime not checked —
According to police, Ketan repeatedly asked his family whether full background information about Siya had been gathered before fixing the marriage, complaining that her phone was always busy and that she kept mentioning Chetan Chaudhary, making him suspect she was in a relationship with someone else. Ketan's suspicions of Siya crime not checked —
The viral video of crowds at Lohagad fort being shared as new is misinformation; the crowd video is actually from 2023. old video misinformation crime not checked —