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School teacher kidnapped in Bihar’s Begusarai for ‘forced marriage’? No; viral video is from a film shooting

Abhishek Kumar17th June 2025

A video showing a group of men armed with guns dragging an individual from a school while students look on as bystanders is viral on social media. Those sharing this…

Operation Sindoor: Grief on the ground, glory on TV screens

Oishani Bhattacharya & Diti Pujara13th June 202521st June 2025

Trigger Warning: The story has details of deaths, including those of minors; reader’s discretion advised. “National media showed what they had to. Our endeavour is to give you our version…

Allegations that same person posed as porter on one occasion and DU student on another with Rahul Gandhi baseless

Prantik Ali29th May 202529th May 2025

In a veiled attack on Congress, several social media users implied that party leader Rahul Gandhi was giving the false impression of interacting with different sets of people. Comparing his…

After Maoist deaths, BJP Karnataka shares ‘cauliflower’ meme, a reference to the 1989 Bhagalpur riots

Ankita Mahalanobish24th May 202524th May 2025

On May 23, two days after security forces killed several Maoists in Chhattisgarh, the X handle of BJP Karnataka (@BJP4Karnataka) posted an animated image of Union home minister Amit Shah…

Viral video where Muslim woman claims she had ‘halala’ with her former father-in-law is scripted

Ankita Mahalanobish22nd May 2025

A video showing a burqa-clad woman sitting with an elderly man in a skullcap is viral across social media platforms. In the video, the elderly man refers to the girl…

Pahalgam and after: Tracking ‘retributive’ hate crimes against minorities across India

Shinjinee Majumder & Abhishek Kumar29th April 20253rd May 2025

At least 26 people were killed in the picturesque Baisaran valley near Pahalgam in Anantnag district on April 22 in the deadliest terror attack targetting tourists in Kashmir in recent…

To fellow Indians, with love: How little, nameless acts of kindness & mutual respect defeated hate this Eid

Shinjinee Majumder5th April 20255th April 2025

“Tum kala kamal likho, hum lal gulaab likhenge…” [Roughly translated as: You may say the rose is black, we shall keep saying it’s red, tinged in the colour of love.]…

Holi 2025: Consent goes for a toss again; violence against women, religious minorities takes front seat

Oishani Bhattacharya & Shinjinee Majumder28th March 20254th April 2025

On Holi this year, Congress-ruled Telangana became an easy target for the Opposition. Leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party went all guns blazing after the Hyderabad and Cyberabad police issued…

‘BeerBiceps’ Ranveer Allahbadia crying after backlash over controversial remarks? No, video is from 2021

Shinjinee Majumder12th February 2025

YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia, who runs the channel ‘BeerBiceps’, is facing backlash over controversial remarks made during an episode of stand-up comedian Samay Raina’s YouTube reality show ‘India’s Got Latent’. The…

Bull getting tortured: Distressing video from Punjab falsely viral as ISKCON Bangladesh

Prantik Ali9th December 20249th December 2024

The story uses only screenshots in view of the graphic nature of the video being fact-checked. A disturbing video showing four individuals brutally thrashing a bull is viral on social…