evidence: Deputy leader of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Asle Toje who is on a visit to India, dismissed media reports claiming he said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the "biggest contender" for the Nobel Peace Prize. 'Misquoting' Toje, Times Now has put out fake news on Modi as the ‘biggest contender for Nobel peace prize on Thursday. Toje called out the report as 'fake'. [...] Times Now editor Rahul Shivshankar also tweeted the false quote about Modi being the "biggest contender" for the award on Thursday. But he later issued a clarificatipn on Twitter saying : "Deputy Leader of the Nobel Prize Committee Asle Toje has praised PM's global peacemaking efforts but has made it clear that he hasn't endorsed him as a contender for the Nobel Peace Prize. Clarification comes after it was widely reported that he had done so."