The Supreme Court declined a plea by accused dairy businessman Machindra Shantaram Lanke to shift the Tirupati laddu ghee adulteration trial out of Andhra Pradesh. His counsel cited remarks by the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister, but the bench said no case was made out at this stage and the petitioners could return if a fairness issue arose.
Why it matters: The case concerns the Tirupati temple's laddu prasad, which matters to millions of devotees, and tests how courts treat fair-trial claims when politicians comment on a pending case.
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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: 1 of 15 (The Hindu). 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.
All three outlets report the ruling in a neutral court-reporting style and differ mainly in which details they add.
No real disagreement between sides in this coverage.
Why: Court-process report on a trial transfer plea; touches religion only as background, balanced with SC rebuke of Naidu and lab findings. No clear ideological lean in framing.
Why: Court-reporting of a transfer plea refusal in a fraud case; no ideological framing, balanced attribution of the accused's claims and the bench's response, no pro- or anti-government slant.
Why: Court report of a transfer plea being dismissed; it touches no ideological dimension and carries no framing for or against the government.
Why: Court-order report on a trial transfer plea; neutral procedural tone with both sides' context, no ideological framing on religion, social justice or statism.
Why: Plain report of a Supreme Court order on a trial transfer plea. It touches no ideological dimension, and both the defence and political sides are reported without framing.
Why: Court report on a trial-transfer plea over the Tirupati laddu case. It touches no ideological dimension and is balanced between petitioners, bench and parties.
Why: Plain court report on a trial-transfer plea being dismissed; both sides' positions are relayed and the piece takes no ideological framing or stance on the government.
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.