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Meloni wishes Modi happy birthday, highlights Italy-India ties

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sent birthday greetings to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 76th birthday.

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What this story says

  • Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wished Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a happy 76th birthday.
  • Meloni addressed Modi as 'friend' on the social media platform X.
  • She wished Modi health, energy, and success, and stated that Italy and India continue to strengthen their deep bond of friendship.
  • Other world leaders, including Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu, also extended birthday wishes to PM Modi.

Who covered it

Left 23%(6)Centre 19%(5)Right 58%(15)

Percentages are shares of the 26 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 74 of the 100 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

42/100

Craft

57/100

Hype

20/100

100 sources · methodology

Missing from the left

Only 6 of the 26 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

A reader who follows the left would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sent birthday greetings to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 76th birthday. Meloni posted on the social media platform X, addressing Modi as 'friend'. She wished him health, energy, and success. Meloni also stated that Italy and India continue to strengthen their deep bond of friendship and build a future of cooperation and prosperity.

Other world leaders also extended birthday wishes to Prime Minister Modi. Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Modi's contribution to strengthening the India-Russia partnership. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Modi's leadership has transformed India into a world power and that the friendship between Israel and India has never been stronger.

Coverage comparison

What the coverage left out

None of the left-rated reports covered this story. The centre-rated reports and the right-rated reports did not mention specific details about birthday wishes from Indian political leaders such as Rahul Gandhi or Tamil Nadu CM Vijay, which were included in the Hindustan Times full report.

Coverage settled. We checked this 21 times and stopped on 22 Sept 2026, 23:15. The figures above are what it finished at.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

6 rated outlets

  • The left-rated outlets reported on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 76th birthday. The Hindu and Outlook India noted the launch of a month-long 'Seva Sankalp Abhiyan' initiative. This campaign aims to promote national development and includes bike yatras connecting Varanasi and Vadnagar.
  • Le Monde highlighted that the birthday celebrations were not universally welcomed, mentioning that some Gen Z individuals expressed indignation. The Siasat Daily reported Bollywood actor Salman Khan's birthday wish, where he referred to the Prime Minister as 'Narendra Bhai'.

Centre

5 rated outlets

  • The two centre-rated reports focused on Meloni's birthday message to Prime Minister Modi. Hindustan Times and The Statesman both highlighted Meloni's statement that 'Italy and India continue to strengthen their deep bond of friendship'. Both reports noted Meloni wished Modi health, energy, and success.

Right

15 rated outlets

  • The six right-rated reports all led with Meloni's birthday greeting to Prime Minister Modi. India TV News, Latestly, Tribune India, aninews.in, Times of India, and Moneycontrol all featured Meloni calling Modi 'friend' and wishing him health, energy, and success. Several of these reports also mentioned the strengthening relationship between India and Italy.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Meloni wishes Modi happy birthday, highlights Italy-India ties?
Of the 26 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 23% are rated left, 19% are rated centre, 58% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 100. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Meloni wishes Modi happy birthday, highlights Italy-India ties left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 26 rated outlets on this story, 23% are rated left, 19% are rated centre, 58% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Meloni wishes Modi happy birthday, highlights Italy-India ties biased?
Meloni wishes Modi happy birthday, highlights Italy-India ties is one event reported by 100 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Meloni wishes Modi happy birthday, highlights Italy-India ties?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Meloni wishes Modi happy birthday, highlights Italy-India ties?
100 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What did Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni say in her birthday message to PM Modi?
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wished Prime Minister Narendra Modi a happy 76th birthday. She addressed him as 'friend' on X, wished him health, energy, and success, and stated that Italy and India continue to strengthen their deep bond of friendship and build a future of cooperation and prosperity.
Did other world leaders wish PM Modi a happy birthday?
Yes, other world leaders also extended birthday wishes to Prime Minister Modi. These included Russian President Vladimir Putin, who praised Modi's contribution to the India-Russia partnership, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who noted Modi's role in transforming India into a world power.

Read it at the source

122 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

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6

Centre

7

Right

22
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Not rated

87
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