{"id":141278,"date":"2022-12-29T15:21:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T09:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=141278"},"modified":"2022-12-29T15:21:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T09:51:12","slug":"old-photo-shared-as-traffic-jam-near-atal-tunnel-after-christmas-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-photo-shared-as-traffic-jam-near-atal-tunnel-after-christmas-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Old photo shared as traffic jam near Atal tunnel after Christmas 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the days following Christmas, various media outlets, including Times Of India <\/a>and Hindustan Times<\/a>, reported a massive rush of tourists in Himachal Pradesh. As per reports, 19,000 vehicles passed the Atal tunnel on the Leh-Manali Highway. Some news portals used a photograph of traffic congestion in their reports, with hundreds of cars lined up in a queue.<\/p>\n

Dainik Bhaskar <\/a>on December 26 published a report in which this image was used with the caption: ‘On the way to Atal Tunnel… 5-km-long jam’.<\/p>\n

\"\"Gujarati newspaper Divya Bhaskar<\/a> used the photo on Page 2 of its December 27 print edition with a caption that suggested this was a current photo.<\/p>\n

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Tv9 Bharatvarsh <\/a>also tweeted and published an article using the same image.<\/p>\n

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The image was also tweeted by Amit Karn<\/a>, who is a film journalist at Dainik Bhaskar.<\/p>\n

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The image is viral on both Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> with netizens claiming that the rush of tourists has peaked after Christmas in Manali.<\/p>\n

Fact Check<\/h4>\n

By conducting an reverse image search on Google, Alt News found a travel page on Facebook called Travel Menu<\/a>. This image was posted on the page in July 2022. In the post, a photographer named Yash Handa<\/a> was credited for the photo. By surfing through his Instagram profile, Alt news came across the original photograph <\/a>that he had clicked and posted in January 2022. The tagged location in the concerned post was Manali.<\/p>\n

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Therefore, it can be concluded that the image that has been circulating on the internet claiming to be of a massive traffic jam near the Atal Tunnel after Christmas 2022 is actually an old photo. The original image was posted in January 2022.<\/p>\n

Vansh Shah is an intern with Alt News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the days following Christmas, various media outlets, including Times Of India and Hindustan Times, reported a massive rush of tourists in Himachal Pradesh. As per reports, 19,000 vehicles passed the Atal tunnel on the Leh-Manali Highway. Some news portals used a photograph of traffic congestion in their reports, with hundreds of cars lined up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":141376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739,742],"coauthors":[720],"class_list":["post-141278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-analysis","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-photos","an_content_type-fact-check","an_content_type-media-analysis"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/12\/bhaskar-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141278"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141377,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141278\/revisions\/141377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141278"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=141278"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=141278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}