AAP alleged Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann was held for about three hours at Delhi airport on return from the SIAL Paris food exhibition, with several outlets reporting a Rs 50,000 challan. Customs officials told Times Now the checks were routine, risk-based screening, that Mann was not targeted and that nothing was found.
Why it matters: The row raises questions about Centre-state relations and how a sitting chief minister is treated, and it involves a Punjab government push to promote state products abroad.
Based on 7 articles read in full. Scores describe each article's framing, not the outlet and not whether it is accurate.
Large outlets read: 6 of 15 (Hindustan Times, India Today, Aaj Tak, Republic, Times Now, Dainik Bhaskar).
Outlets split on how much weight they give AAP's claims against the Customs denial, which only one outlet carries; Dainik Bhaskar and Republic relay AAP's version with little counter.
Why: Relays AAP's claims of Centre obstructing Punjab CM, mentions farmers' protest and withheld funds; no official response. Touches federalism and farmer rights, leaning left; one-sided sourcing.
Why: Centre-state friction story mostly relaying AAP allegations, with a rival Akali claim and notes on missing details; touches federalism and state power lightly, so ideology stays near centre.
Why: Reports a party-political spat over a chief minister's foreign trip and an alleged airport delay; no religion, social justice or economic-policy angle. Both AAP and BJP claims are relayed without the outlet's own verdict.
Why: Reports a political spat over an airport detention with both AAP and Akali Dal claims given equal space; no clear ideological dimension and no own-voice slant toward either side.
Why: Centre-vs-state row over an airport check; no religion, social justice or economic policy angle. Both AAP's allegation and Customs' denial are given, with Customs getting the last word.
Why: Centre-versus-state dispute over an airport customs incident, reported through AAP and Akali Dal claims. No religion, social justice or economic-policy angle, so no ideological score; stance is balanced toward the Union government.
Why: Mostly relays AAP's allegations of a vendetta against Mann; no clear ideological dimension is touched. Stance leans critical of the Centre because only AAP is quoted and the other side is absent.
Critical, Neutral or Supportive, scored separately. It refers to the Union government unless the story is about a state. On the spectrum strip, each dot is an article: its position is the ideology score and its colour is the stance.
If an article would score differently with the parties' roles reversed, that signal is partisanship. It goes into the stance tag, not the ideology score.
High, Medium or Low, based on how much of the article was read, how many clear signals it has, and whether they agree.
Stories with fewer than five articles are marked. A blindspot is a contested story where we found coverage from only one side.
Articles that touch none of the three dimensions, such as a car launch or a match report, carry no ideology score.
This prototype is refreshed by hand (last on 17 Oct, 03:00 IST). At launch:
| Wires and the top 20 outlets | checked every 5 minutes |
| All other outlets | checked every 15 minutes |
| New story | goes up at 3 articles from 2 or more outlets, marked Limited coverage |
| Live stories | new articles added every 15 minutes; summary rewritten at most hourly |
| Home page order | every 15 minutes |
New facts go into a dated update log at the top of the story. New articles carry an “Added” tag. If a note or list changes, the earlier version stays viewable.
A story is Live while coverage arrives, Winding down after about 2 days without new coverage, and Archived after about 7. Nothing is deleted: links never change, archived scores are frozen, and stories stay on their issue pages and in search.
NDTV, India Today, Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Hindu, Indian Express, News18, ABP, Times Now and Mint block the reader used for this prototype, so their articles are missing. Each story shows how many of India’s 15 largest outlets we read. The launch pipeline will read outlets’ public feeds, TV transcripts and Hindi articles.
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No detail that could identify a child or a survivor of sexual violence (Juvenile Justice Act, POCSO, BNS section 72). Court cases are reported as what was said and alleged. No analysis of a poll in the 48 hours before voting there (Representation of the People Act, section 126). Press Council and NBDSA norms on communal incidents.