| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
At a Jaipur paramedical exam centre, the college operator took ₹5 lakh per student from 45 students to guarantee passing, organized mass cheating under a tent with projectors, blackboards and teachers; four people were arrested and the exam was cancelled.
exam cheating racket
|
education |
misleading |
85.0% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
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% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
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% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
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% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
At his Bareilly event for the cow-as-national-mother campaign, only four people in a crowd of hundreds raised their hands as supporters, after which Swami Abhimukteshwaranand angrily abandoned the programme midway.
cow campaign flop
|
communal religion |
unverifiable |
60.0% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
Akhilesh Yadav will try to make the Ram Mandir theft an issue in the UP election, but Yogi Adityanath took immediate action, formed an SIT, had an FIR registered, and did not try to shield or frame anyone.
theft politicization
|
opposition attack |
not checked |
— |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
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% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
The anchor opines that the new trustees should have banking, finance and administrative capability, that a professional CEO should run the temple administration on the Tirupati model, and that an independent chief vigilance officer should be appointed.
temple administration reform
|
communal religion |
not checked |
— |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
In the first round on July 6, Champat Rai and Anil Mishra will be removed from the Ram Mandir trust and, with one seat already vacant due to a death, three new trustees will be appointed.
trustee removal
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communal religion |
not checked |
— |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
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% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
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% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
Today Faizabad police, with court permission, interrogated Avinash Shukla in jail for about two hours; ₹8 lakh had been recovered from his house on June 5.
jail interrogation
|
communal religion |
misleading |
68.0% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
Champat Rai has unilateral control over the temple trust because most trust members are very elderly or live far away, leaving Champat Rai and Anil Mishra to run all trust affairs and change rules at will.
trust governance failure
|
communal religion |
misleading |
60.0% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
For about one and a half years the RSS and VHP repeatedly asked Champat Rai to build a proper system and appoint experts, but he remained adamant and refused.
ignored reform demands
|
communal religion |
unverifiable |
60.0% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
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% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
The cash theft began during the Kumbh Mela, averaged ₹5-6 lakh per day, and by the time the matter surfaced on June 4 an estimated more than ₹4 crore had been stolen.
theft scale estimate
|
communal religion |
unverifiable |
60.0% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
The reportedly missing diamond jewellery, gold and silver donations were found safe in Champat Rai's room, where he had kept them with full written accounts.
jewellery found safe
|
communal religion |
inaccurate |
90.0% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
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% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
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% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
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% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
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% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
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% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
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% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
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% |
| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-30 |
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% |