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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

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Who is held responsible
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This anchor most often points at Individuals 121 claims →

Flagged claims

Judged inaccurate or misleading in the checked sample

Episodes analysed

15 broadcasts

All claims & verdicts

268 claims · filtered from 376
Claims from this anchor, newest first.
ClaimTopicVerdictConf.
Sachin Pilot has inherited his father Rajesh Pilot's courage and will prove to be a good leader for Rajasthan. Pilot leadership praise opposition attack not checked
The Gehlot-Pilot feud has resurfaced because the Congress wants to hand command of Rajasthan to Sachin Pilot, a decision Ashok Gehlot will clearly not like. Rajasthan Congress leadership opposition attack not checked
An election petition typically takes five to six years to be decided, by which time the elected member's term is already over. election petition delays governance economy not checked
After Meenakshi Natarajan's Rajya Sabha nomination was rejected, the Supreme Court refused to stay the election process, and the returning officer declared all three BJP candidates — Tarun Chugh, Rajneesh Agrawal and Mahesh Kewat — elected unopposed from Madhya Pradesh. Rajya Sabha unopposed election governance economy not checked
Shatrughan Sinha and Babul Supriyo kept knocking on the BJP's door by praising Modi, and only began expressing sympathy for Mamata after the door did not open — their stance reflects neither loyalty nor morality, only the BJP's 'no entry' board. turncoat opportunism opposition attack not checked
Whatever rebel TMC faction forms will support the NDA, Bhupendra Yadav will decide who is allowed into it, and entry is barred for leaders who left the BJP such as Kirti Azad, Shatrughan Sinha and Babul Supriyo. rebel faction formation governance economy not checked
The TMC lost the election, 64 of its 80 MLAs have deserted the party, 19 Lok Sabha MPs have rebelled, and everyone holds Abhishek Banerjee responsible for this ruin. TMC electoral collapse opposition attack not checked
The trigger for Kalyan Banerjee's anger was that Abhishek Banerjee changed his lawyer without informing him — Kalyan was told by a midnight phone call from Abhishek's office that the High Court case would now be argued by someone else, and the case was given to Kalyan's junior lawyer. lawyer change dispute opposition attack not checked
It is clear that the allegations against the TMC of intimidation, extortion, tolabaji, cut-money and corruption were not baseless, and the evidence is now emerging one by one. TMC corruption evidence opposition attack not checked
Acting on a public tip that TMC members had hidden weapons, the STF raided a pond in Basirhat and recovered an arms cache of 16 guns and around 25,000 live cartridges packed in polythene underwater. Basirhat arms cache crime not checked
Cash worth Rs 1.77 crore was recovered from a locked room of Harnet School in North 24 Parganas — allegedly the illegal money of TMC leader and Kanchrapara municipality chairman Kamal Adhikari — police needed three counting machines, and the school's cashier and assistant accountant were arrested. school cash recovery opposition attack not checked
Police today paraded TMC leader Jahangir Khan through the streets of Falta; he faces charges of extortion, illegal land grabbing and intimidation, and was arrested from the Nepal border. TMC leader extortion arrest crime not checked
In Durgapur today, a crowd threw rotten eggs and tomatoes at TMC leader Sukumar Dutta, who has been arrested by police in a corruption and extortion case, as he was being taken to court. TMC leader corruption arrest crime not checked
A crowd surrounded Abhishek Banerjee at Kolkata airport today, jostled him and shouted 'thief, thief' slogans, and police had to form a cordon to get him safely to his car. airport public backlash opposition attack not checked
The High Court ruled that the CID has the right to investigate the fake MLA-signatures case, ordered Abhishek Banerjee to appear at the CID office by 6 PM, while directing police to take no coercive action against him for two weeks and to give at least 24 hours' notice for further questioning. fake MLA signatures case governance economy not checked
TMC Rajya Sabha member Prakash Chik Baraik resigned today, becoming the third TMC Rajya Sabha MP to resign after Sukhendu Sekhar Roy and Sushmita Dev, and then went straight to BJP MP Nishikant Dubey's house. TMC Rajya Sabha resignations opposition attack not checked
Senior TMC MP Saugata Roy said he too is unhappy, that even speaking to Mamata Banerjee has become difficult, and that Mamata should now take the Congress party's help. TMC senior dissent opposition attack not checked
TMC Lok Sabha MP Kalyan Banerjee warned Mamata Banerjee today that she must choose between him and Abhishek Banerjee, and that he will quit the TMC if the nephew remains in the party. TMC leadership ultimatum opposition attack not checked
Narendra Modi has become the country's longest-serving elected Prime Minister. Modi tenure record governance economy not checked
Ahead of the Amarnath Yatra beginning July 3, Home Minister Amit Shah held a high-level security meeting in Delhi with the J&K Lieutenant Governor, Army chief and NSA, and for the first time police have launched a QR-code-based identity app to digitally verify workers and vendors on the yatra route. Amarnath Yatra security communal religion not checked
IIT Kanpur has launched a four-year cyber security course with admission through a hackathon — two years of theory followed by two years working with a national security agency — and has hired the student who hacked CBSE's on-screen marking portal at its cyber security innovation centre. cyber security course science tech not checked
The NEET re-exam is the biggest test of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's political career, and if he fails this time he is unlikely to get another chance. minister accountability education not checked
The NTA announced that in the NEET re-exam on June 21 students will get 15 minutes extra (195 minutes total, ending at 5:15 pm) plus two extra rough-work pages at the front of the booklet; the original NEET exam held on May 3 was cancelled on May 12 due to a paper leak. NEET re-exam education not checked
Dozens of criminals have been arrested in Bengal over the past month, and all of them were linked to the Trinamool Congress. Bengal crime arrests crime not checked
A hate speech case was filed against Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata today over her election campaign remarks, in addition to an earlier FIR against her in Siliguri. Mamata hate speech case opposition attack not checked