Satyameter Evidence-linked accuracy tracking for Indian TV news

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Rajat Sharma

India TV Aaj Ki Baat Hindi
81.2% 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 81.3%

95% confidence interval 70–89%

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.
. 64 checked of 291 checkable · 350 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.
 64/291

Verdict mix

108 of 376 extracted claims checked

108 of 376 extracted claims checked.

Coverage profile

Share of extracted claims by topic — click to drill in
communal religion 29% governance economy 24% crime 16% international 11% opposition attack 9% pakistan security 4% education 4% infrastructure transport 1% entertainment sports 1% science tech 1% environment 0% other 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 121 claims →
Individuals 121 System & institutions 27 Government 4 Opposition 80 A minority community 5 Foreign actor 37 Media 1

Flagged claims

Judged inaccurate or misleading in the checked sample

Episodes analysed

15 broadcasts

All claims & verdicts

81 claims · filtered from 376
Claims from this anchor, newest first.
ClaimTopicVerdictConf.
Most of the people deployed in counting the offerings were appointed on Anil Mishra's recommendation, and Anil Mishra is also accused of amassing assets disproportionate to his income. counting staff appointments crime accurate 85.0%
Police requested Champat Rai to immediately file an FIR but he refused, and even after the matter leaked on June 6, he stated on June 7 that no notable irregularity had occurred. FIR refusal crime accurate 70.0%
Champat Rai received evidence of theft from temple offerings on June 4, and on June 5 he personally went to the homes of people seen on CCTV putting bundles of currency notes into their pockets. theft cover-up crime accurate 80.0%
Champat Rai promoted Tinnu Yadav from driving trust vehicles to being his personal driver, then to temple sevadar, entrusting him with supervising the counting of offerings, and Tinnu Yadav also held the keys to the donation boxes. donation box access crime accurate 88.0%
When the government announced the Ram Mandir Trust members on February 5, 2020, Champat Rai's name was not on the list, but at the trust's first meeting 14 days later on February 19 he was made General Secretary. trust appointment communal religion accurate 90.0%
Police have recorded Champat Rai's statement, are preparing to question Anil Mishra and Gopal Rao, and the eight arrested accused in the case have been sent to jail until July 13. donation theft probe crime accurate 80.0%
Shortly before the broadcast, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke by phone with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who briefed him on the Middle East peace process, and Modi stressed freedom of navigation in international waters. Modi-Pezeshkian call international accurate 95.0%
Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner have reached Doha for Iran-US peace deal talks, but Iran's delegation will only discuss recovering its $6.4 billion held in Qatar and refuses to talk to the US envoys; under the agreed framework both countries must finalize a deal within 60 days. Iran-US Doha talks international accurate 82.0%
In Bengal, police served a notice at Humayun Kabir's home requiring him to appear at two different police stations within two days over inflammatory speeches he gave on June 8 at Shaktipur and June 26 at Rejinagar, and three organizers of the event have been arrested. inflammatory speech case communal religion accurate 95.0%
Uddhav Thackeray's close aide Sachin Ahir defected today to Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena, which has decided to make him deputy chairman of the Maharashtra Legislative Council, and he filed his nomination the same day. Shiv Sena defection governance economy accurate 97.0%
Samajwadi Party chief whip Kamal Akhtar resigned today following a public feud with Moradabad MP Ruchi Veera; Akhilesh Yadav had summoned both to Lucknow on June 25 where they clashed in front of him. SP internal feud governance economy accurate 92.0%
A delegation of UP Congress leaders reached Ayodhya today but the administration denied them permission to go to the temple, citing the likelihood of a disturbance. Congress Ayodhya visit blocked opposition attack accurate 85.0%
The temple complex has a 15-foot-high, 4-kilometre-long wall, three-layer security, and 1,600 CCTV cameras including automatic number plate recognition and face recognition cameras. temple security infrastructure communal religion accurate 85.0%
The administration transferred Ayodhya radio operations officer Arjun Dev to Gorakhpur; he had been posted in Ayodhya for 17 years, was responsible for monitoring all 1,600 CCTV cameras in the temple campus, and was a close friend of accused Tinnu Yadav. CCTV officer transfer communal religion accurate 75.0%
Mint Corporation of India staff stayed about one and a half months at the temple for valuation of gold and silver, but Champat Rai had them removed, saying their cost was too high and they were not needed. Mint valuers removed communal religion accurate 60.0%
The SIT collected evidence over five days, confronted Subhash Srivastava and Tinnu Yadav, and interrogated about 70 people. SIT investigation communal religion accurate 72.0%
Champat Rai initially did not want to hand the culprits over to police and argued they should be forgiven and moved to other work since the money had been recovered. shielding of culprits communal religion accurate 78.0%
About ₹80 lakh, including 1,100 US dollars, was recovered from the counters' homes, more was found in their bank accounts, and a total of about ₹1 crore has been recovered so far. stolen cash recovery communal religion accurate 85.0%
The theft was exposed when a cleaning worker found bundles of currency notes in the bathroom attached to the counting room, after which Champat Rai reviewed the CCTV footage and saw people pocketing notes. theft discovery communal religion accurate 82.0%
The thieves were tipped off about a planned surprise frisking, hid the stolen money in bags in the bathroom before leaving, and the frisking found nothing on anyone. tipped-off frisking communal religion accurate 82.0%
Trustee Anil Mishra was responsible for the counting; the counters were his relatives and close to Tinnu Yadav, and the supervisor Subhash Srivastava was also Anil Mishra's man. nepotism in counting staff communal religion accurate 80.0%
Ayodhya police were not allowed near the counting room, and the CCTV footage of the counting room was not made available to the police control room even though footage of the rest of the complex was. police excluded from counting communal religion accurate 72.0%
When security guards frisked counting supervisor Subhash Srivastava on the first day, he protested saying RSS volunteers cannot be doubted, after which Champat Rai changed the rule so daily frisking was replaced by occasional random frisking. frisking rule dilution communal religion accurate 60.0%
In the donation counting room, 22 people worked per shift, nobody was frisked, and people came wearing shirts and pants with double pockets. counting room security lapse communal religion accurate 82.0%
With the Middle East war easing and crude around $60 a barrel, state oil companies today cut the commercial LPG cylinder price by about ₹183 (Delhi 19-kg cylinder now ₹2,930) and aviation fuel by ₹5 per litre for domestic airlines, while private company Nayara Energy cut petrol by ₹5 and diesel by ₹3 per litre. fuel price cuts governance economy accurate 92.0%