Truth Vs Hype

Over the course of the past five months some of the worlds best known investors have filed for fraud against a Gurgaon-based real estate firm IREO, accusing its promoter of siphoning off around Rs 10,000 crore. The cases have been in front of Indian investigating agencies for months but so far there has been no action because, the investors allege, the company has political links. We take a close look at the case of IREO on the Truth vs Hype.

On the show, we investigate those responsible for spreading the fake news of child abductions that has led to a spate of mob killings across India.

On the show we explore how political parties claim to be against deadly fake news, but end up amplifying online falsehoods.

This week, we examine whether new rules expanding maternity benefits for women may cause job losses.

The instances of media blackout in Tamil Nadu have been rising. It is a state where simply reporting news that does not suit the establishment can get you taken off air, as experienced by some news channels. At the heart of the government's power in controlling the media is the Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation Ltd's reach. Tamil Nadu's embattled media fraternity is finally coming together, planning a meeting next month to highlight the crisis. But given the climate of fear, it remains unclear how many representatives of TV channels will speak out at this event.

Did the RSS have a hand in the killing of Mahatma Gandhi? This question, that has haunted Indian public life for decades, has resurfaced after a court in Maharashtra this week framed charges against Rahul Gandhi for his claim that the RSS was responsible for the murder. We sift through the evidence on the RSS link to Mahatma Gandhi's murder: truth or hype?

The government says that India's new bankruptcy laws will put an end to the 'Mallyas' - billionaire fugitives wanted for loan fraud or default - of corporate India. We examine the truth vs hype of these claims.

The BJP claims Hindutva workers are under attack in coastal Karnataka. We travel to Mangaluru to uncover a more complex reality of violent turf wars between the Sangh Parivar and hardline Muslim groups.

As the Reddy mining barons stage a comeback, NDTV travels to Ballari to investigate what it means for the Karnataka elections.

In a week when ATM's ran dry, we are joined by the SBI chairman and former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha to decode the sudden cash shortage.

On Ambedkar Jayanti, the usual political expressions of reassurances to Dalit anxieties may not quite be matched by ground reality. Dalit groups say there has been a backlash to the protests, by upper castes, and by the police - wrongful arrests, harassment, crackdowns. TVH traversed three districts in Western Uttar Pradesh, which had been touched by violence, to find ghost villages, and questionable FIRs.

Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party will join forces for the 2019 elections, Akhilesh Yadav told NDTV in Lucknow. "Based on our conversation, both our parties will together fight elections in 2019", the 44-year-old president of the Samajwadi Party, or SP, said. Speculation has been rife whether the two former arch rivals - who came together for last month's bypolls to produce a shock defeat for the ruling BJP - will be able to sustain their formidable alliance until the Lok Sabha elections.

After West Bengal, sectarian violence, triggered by religious yatras have erupted across the state. At least five districts have witnessed major incidents of communal clashes. Is this upsurge of violence just spontaneous , or is there a pattern emerging of the hand of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar in stoking the flames?

The man who started the Indian arm of Cambridge Analytica reveals the deceptive agenda of the tainted data firm.

We examine whether the BJP's shock bypoll defeat in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur, the home turf of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath' signals a shift in the political narrative ahead of 2019.

This week, the government released data to the parliament on deaths of construction workers. But an NDTV investigation finds that they may have dramatically underestimated the numbers.

With news of a fresh bank scandal everyday a set pattern comes to light - delayed actions by investigating agencies, the promoter getting away, while the bank -and the public - are left holding the can. The latest: a jewellry company based in Delhi accused of embezzling Rs 389 crores from the Oriental Bank of Commerce. Tonight on Truth vs Hype we discuss, how even after defaults of thousands of crores, the accused are mostly at large or out on bail and the recovery amounts to almost nothing in comparison.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's annual budget promised farmers at least 50 per cent more price for some of their produce. But is the promise genuine or simply on paper? We examine the facts on Truth vs Hype.

In 2014, in the aftermath of the Nirbhaya case the government banned the cruel practice of the two-finger test in which doctors and nurses would examine a rape survivor's vagina for elasticity, using the findings to comment on their past sexual experience. But a Truth vs Hype investigation has found the pervasive use of the two-finger tests by medical examiners even in states which have adapted the new laws.

On Truth vs Hype, we try to examine what factors led to the unprecedented decision of four sitting Supreme Court judges to go public against the Chief Justice of India.