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.
Uttarakhand had a total of 952 madrasas, of which 250 were sealed by December last year; 452 madrasas have been registered, and only 52 offer education up to class 12. madrasa statistics education accurate 70.0%
From today the madrasa board has been completely abolished in Uttarakhand; no madrasa can run without registration with the new Minority Education Authority, government syllabus will apply, though religious education has not been banned and will run as separate evening classes. madrasa board abolition education accurate 85.0%
Trust insiders suspected the offering theft as early as January, after a chartered accountant's monthly audit flagged a sudden drop in offerings and mismatched vouchers; the trust wrote to general secretary Champat Rai suggesting corrective steps, but he took offence and no system was put in place from January to May. ignored audit warning crime accurate 60.0%
Champat Rai admitted to investigators that not filing a police complaint was his mistake and that he should have got an FIR registered. Champat Rai FIR lapse crime accurate 65.0%
According to police, there is solid evidence against six of the eight jailed accused; they were shown on paper as employees of Varanasi-based Sainik Security Services (19 names in total supplied to the State Bank), but in reality they were relatives or associates of Anil Mishra and Tinnu Yadav, with the security firm serving as a cover. fake security employees crime accurate 75.0%
Champat Rai suspects that Tinnu Yadav himself leaked the news of the donation-box theft to Samajwadi Party MLA Pawan Pandey and had him claim a theft of ₹7-8 crore. theft news leak crime accurate 70.0%
Police told the court today that ₹7,32,170 was recovered from Ramashankar Mishra, who was caught stealing on CCTV by Champat Rai and is now in jail; a silver coin and a bichhua (toe ring) from the offerings were also recovered. Ramashankar Mishra recovery crime accurate 85.0%
Police suspect Anukalp Mishra and Lavkush Mishra invested much of the stolen offering money in property and land, and today police raided their villages in Ayodhya's Milkipur area and questioned their families. stolen money laundering crime accurate 85.0%
Trust members had already recovered money (stated as 18,763) from Karunesh Pandey, which was handed over to police on the morning of June 26; he also stole coins, with bags of ₹10, ₹5 and ₹2 coins recovered from his home. Karunesh Pandey theft crime accurate 70.0%
Avinash Shukla, a resident of Pratapgarh, was selling water from a cart near the Ram Mandir until three months ago before being placed in the offering-counting work. Avinash Shukla background crime accurate 80.0%
When police caught Tinnu Yadav, only about ₹1 lakh was recovered from his hostel — a box containing 180 notes of ₹500 and bundles of ₹100 notes — the smallest recovery among the accused. Tinnu Yadav recovery crime accurate 75.0%
Eight accused have been arrested so far in the offering theft case; Champat Rai reached the homes of seven of them on June 6 and recovered the stolen money at that time. offering theft arrests crime accurate 60.0%
Police recovered ₹79,85,000 from the accused arrested in the Ram Mandir offering theft case. offering theft recovery crime accurate 90.0%
A fierce war of words took place between Tejashwi Yadav and Samrat Chaudhary over the issue of government bungalows and security for Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi. Lalu bungalow row opposition attack accurate 85.0%
In Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand, a major ruckus broke out over possession of four acres of land disputed between Robert Vadra's sister-in-law Saira Vadra and Nasreen Sanga, with Congress MLA Tilak Raj Behar sitting on a dharna and threatening self-immolation. Vadra land dispute opposition attack accurate 70.0%
Infighting has begun in the Punjab Congress ahead of elections: the party restructured its state unit but gave Chandigarh MP Manish Tewari no role, and he has publicly expressed his unhappiness. Punjab Congress infighting opposition attack accurate 92.0%
The rebel faction claims 65 of the party's 80 MLAs are with it, and the Election Commission has written to both TMC factions asking them to submit documents supporting their claims by 5:30 pm on July 6. TMC faction claims opposition attack accurate 85.0%
The battle for control of the Trinamool Congress has now reached the Election Commission, with a delegation of party leaders led by Bengal Leader of Opposition Ritabrata Banerjee meeting the Commission's full bench. TMC leadership dispute opposition attack accurate 90.0%
The accused counting staff got their jobs on Champat Rai's recommendation but were formally hired by the State Bank through Varanasi's Sainik Security Agency, whose owner Gaurav Singh says the bank had asked him for housekeeping staff, not donation counters. outsourced hiring irregularity communal religion accurate 75.0%
Champat Rai personally met the 10 new donation-counting hires on 2 March 2025, trustee Anil Mishra interviewed them on 4 March 2025, they were told to start work from 6 March 2025, and the new counting staff were not even given ID cards — only a duty sheet. lax hiring process communal religion accurate 70.0%
Today the Ayodhya Bar Association submitted a written complaint to police demanding that a case be registered against Champat Rai, Anil Mishra and Gopal Rao. case against trustees communal religion accurate 93.0%
The Ayodhya Development Authority has sent Lavkush Mishra's wife a notice over the house for construction violations, and bulldozer action may follow if a satisfactory reply is not received within 7 days. bulldozer notice communal religion accurate 90.0%
Theft accused Lavkush Mishra bought a plot in his wife Supriya Mishra's name in Ayodhya's Shahadatganj locality and was building a three-storey house on it, with the total cost of plot and construction said to exceed ₹1 crore. accused's disproportionate assets communal religion accurate 85.0%
Avinash Shukla is from Nariyawa Babupur village in Pratapgarh district; after he began counting donations at the Ram Mandir his lifestyle changed — his family, who earlier lived in an old mud house, recently built a new house in the village. accused's disproportionate assets communal religion accurate 75.0%
Today the Faizabad anti-corruption court handed accused Avinash Shukla to Ayodhya police on a 24-hour remand. accused remand communal religion accurate 92.0%