Police in Bengaluru arrested a cab driver who allegedly killed his wife and six of her relatives, and police sources say he allegedly confessed. The body of a seven-year-old child was recovered near Nandi Hills, and the search for the other bodies continued.
Why it matters: A suspected killing of seven members of one family in a major Indian city has drawn national attention and raises questions about how such cases are investigated.
A child is involved in this story. Under the Juvenile Justice Act, Nazariya does not publish any detail that could identify a child, and leaves out unverified claims about the child.
Based on 8 articles read in full. Scores describe each article's framing, not the outlet and not whether it is accurate.
Large outlets read: 3 of 15 (Times Now, Dainik Bhaskar, Jagran). Most of India’s largest outlets, including NDTV, India Today, Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Hindu and Indian Express, block our reader in this prototype, so their coverage is missing here. The launch pipeline reads their public feeds.
Outlets broadly agree on the facts as given by police sources, but differ on how long the killings took and on the exact dump sites.
No real disagreement between sides in this coverage.
Why: A crime report on a domestic murder case with no policy, religion, social justice or state-role angle. Neutral factual reporting from police sources.
Why: A crime report on a family murder case with no policy, religion, social justice or statism angle; it relies on police sources and reports facts without ideological framing.
Why: A crime report on a domestic-dispute murder case with no religion, identity, social justice or economic policy angle. It relies on police sources and carries no stance toward any government.
Why: A crime report on a family murder case with no policy, religion, caste or state-role angle. It relays police accounts and relatives' claims without framing the government.
Why: A crime report on a domestic murder case with no religion, caste, security-law or economic-policy angle, so it is not ideological and has no government stance.
Why: A crime report on a domestic dispute turned mass murder, with no policy, religion, social justice or statism angle. Police-based and neutral in tone.
Why: A crime report on a domestic murder case with no religion, caste, security-law, welfare or market angle, so it is not ideological. No government angle either.
Why: Plain crime report of a domestic murder case with no policy, religion, social-justice or statism angle; the passing 'love jihad' mention is a family's allegation in a separate case.
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. Sport results skip winding down and are archived after about 2 days, unless police or a court are involved. 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.