{"id":129618,"date":"2022-09-22T13:43:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T08:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=129618"},"modified":"2022-09-22T13:43:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T08:13:42","slug":"media-outlets-share-old-video-as-first-look-of-cheetahs-in-kuno-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/media-outlets-share-old-video-as-first-look-of-cheetahs-in-kuno-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"News channels show old, unrelated video as clip of cheetah brought to India from Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"

On September 17, cheetahs brought from Namibia were released at the <\/span>Kuno National Park<\/span><\/a> in Madhya Pradesh. Since then, social media users and media outlets have been circulating a video of a cheetah describing it as one of the animals from Namibia that Prime Minister Narendra Modi released at the Kuno National Park.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Times Now news channel aired the visual in <\/span>one of its programmes<\/span><\/a>, claiming that this was the first footage of the cheetahs as they returned to India 70 years later. (<\/span>Archived link<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dywwMtT_G2o]<\/p>\n

Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav shared the video of the cheetah and wrote, “Everyone was waiting for its roar, but it turned out to be more like a cat.” (<\/span>Archived link<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2014 Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) September 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dainik Bhaskar also ran the video as footage of cheetahs brought from Namibia. (<\/span>Archived link<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Similarly, Congress leader and MLA <\/span>Virendra Choudhary<\/span><\/a>, News18 journalist <\/span>Priyanka Kandpal<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>The Economic Times<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>The Lallantop<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>The Quint<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>The Quint Hindi<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>News18<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Latestly<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Live Hindustan<\/span><\/a>, etc. also amplified this clip as the introduction of cheetahs to India.<\/span><\/p>\n