Satyameter Evidence-linked accuracy tracking for Indian TV news

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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

664 claims · filtered from 789
Claims from this anchor, newest first.
ClaimTopicVerdictConf.
It is questionable whether India has become self-reliant (aatmanirbhar) in the food that comes to our plate (implying it has not). food self-reliance agriculture rural not checked —
India is today talking about (making) a lot of progress in defence. defence progress governance economy not checked —
The Ram Mandir Trust refused to give its accounts to the Prime Minister's Office. Ram Mandir Trust accounts communal religion not checked —
Merely holding a passport will no longer make you an Indian citizen; a passport will not be considered proof of citizenship. passport citizenship proof governance economy not checked —
People with a terrorist mindset infiltrated the Muharram procession in Ujjain (framed as a question the show will answer, implying it happened). Muharram procession Ujjain communal religion not checked —
India's pulse imports rose from about 25 lakh tonnes in 2020-21 (demand 277 lakh tonnes vs production 254 lakh tonnes) to 73 lakh tonnes by 2024-25, with import spending nearly quadrupling from ₹11,937 crore to ₹46,428 crore, even though India is the world's largest producer of pulses. pulse import surge agriculture rural not checked —
India imports 56% of the edible oil it consumes. edible oil imports agriculture rural not checked —
The forensic report Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann used to deny involvement in an objectionable viral video is now alleged to be fake and fixed: Punjab Police officers allegedly struck a secret paid deal at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Gurugram to procure it from unlicensed cyber labs, and Haryana Police have arrested two men, Ankit and Arun, who are on 8-day police remand. fake forensic report governance economy not checked —
Only three countries in the world — the US, New Zealand and Australia — legally treat a passport as equivalent to proof of citizenship; even top-ranked Singapore does not, so India is not unique in this regard. global passport norms international not checked —
India ranks 80th on the Henley Passport Index with visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to only 56 countries, a fall of six places from its 74th rank before the Modi government. passport ranking decline governance economy not checked —
As of 2023 only 9.26 crore Indians — about 6.5% of the population — held a passport, 93% of the population has none, and only 35% of passport holders (with around 6 crore never travelling abroad) have actually used theirs. passport ownership rates governance economy not checked —
Last year 1.39 crore passports were issued in India and about 1.5 crore people received passport services. passport issuance numbers governance economy not checked —
Section 20 of the Passports Act 1967 allows the central government to issue Indian passports even to non-citizens in special circumstances, which is why a passport cannot be conclusive proof of citizenship. Passports Act provisions governance economy not checked —
On 24 June, Indian Passport Day, the Ministry of External Affairs stated that a passport is a travel document and cannot be treated as proof of citizenship in any form. passport citizenship status governance economy not checked —
The Ram Mandir was built not with trust or government money but with donations from ordinary Hindu devotees. temple funding source communal religion not checked —
The SIT investigation has found major security lapses at Ram Mandir: employees were not frisked after duty, dress codes were not enforced, CCTV monitoring was not properly reviewed, and some employees blocked cameras while thefts took place behind them. temple security lapses communal religion not checked —
According to information received by the channel, SBI outsourced donation-counting at Ram Mandir to a Varanasi security agency, which — at the urging of temple trust insiders — hired relatives and acquaintances of trust-linked employees; this group hid offerings and stashed them in a bathroom about 50 metres from the counting hall, from where trust-linked people carried the money out without being checked. Ram Mandir donation theft communal religion not checked —
After the theft allegations, daily donations at the Ram Mandir have fallen from ₹8-12 lakh earlier to around ₹82,000-95,000 per day, even though the number of devotees visiting has not decreased. Ram Mandir donations drop communal religion not checked —
The Mathura Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi temple receives offerings of about ₹1 crore per month and roughly ₹8 lakh per day. Mathura temple donations communal religion not checked —
Sant Dinesh Sharma alias Dinesh Falahari Maharaj, president of the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi Sangharsh Nyas, has written a letter in his own blood to CM Yogi Adityanath alleging theft of thousands of crores worth of jewellery and donations from the Mathura temple treasury, that CCTV cameras are switched off when donation boxes are opened, and demanding a CBI inquiry. Mathura temple theft communal religion not checked —
Every day 30-40 crore Indians take some medicine; average annual spending on medicines and treatment is ₹12,400 in cities and ₹10,500 in villages; and the share of people falling ill every 15 days has risen from 7.5% earlier to over 13% today. health spending burden healthcare not checked —
Cipla, whose drugs failed quality tests, donated ₹39.2 crore through electoral bonds — ₹37 crore of it to the BJP and about ₹2.2 crore to Congress — and holds a 5% share of India's medicine market; another failing company donated ₹31.5 crore in electoral bonds, all to the BJP. pharma electoral bonds governance economy not checked —
Medicines failing quality tests month by month in 2026: 218 in January, around 217 in February, 190 in March, 121 in April, and 157 in May. monthly failure trend healthcare not checked —
India has the world's third-largest pharmaceutical industry after the US and China, with 3,000 companies, a current size of ₹5,67,000 crore, and exports to 200 countries. pharma industry size governance economy not checked —
More than 60 companies in India manufacture 400 crore (4 billion) paracetamol tablets every day. paracetamol production scale healthcare not checked —