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Scuffle video from Bengal shared as attack on BJP poll campaigners in Morbi, Gujarat

Kinjal22nd November 2022

The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to it and assaulting the occupants is viral on social media. It has been linked to…

Image of NATO-G7 emergency meeting shared with a misleading claim about Modi not being invited

Kalim Ahmed21st November 2022

Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile attack in Przewodow, a village in eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine. The explosion…

Did Modi halt Ukraine war for evacuating Indians? BJP leaders’ claim was refuted by MEA

Mahaprajna Nayak & Abhishek Kumar15th November 202216th November 2022

Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop the war between Russia and Ukraine for some hours so that Indian students caught in…

‘Golden Dragon’ video from China viral on social media as Diwali celebrations in Kerala

Mahaprajna Nayak9th November 20229th November 2022

A video of a glittering fleet of boats cruising in a serpentine motion supposedly on a river in Kerala has been doing the rounds on social media with the hashtag…

Ex-I&B minister, other BJP leaders share clipped video of Ashok Gehlot with misleading claim

Abhishek Kumar7th November 2022

A short clip of chief minister Ashok Gehlot speaking to the media from his car is viral on social media. Responding to a question about various leaders giving statements, he…

Video of ED raid in Kolkata falsely shared again, this time as crackdown on Surat businessman

Shinjinee Majumder5th November 20229th November 2022

A video apparently showing visuals of a raid by the Enforcement Directorate at the house of a Surat-based cloth merchant named Sekhar Agarwal has been shared widely on Twitter. It…

Defying bail terms, Yati Narsinghanand continues to deliver hate speech. When will law catch up with him?

Kalim Ahmed4th November 202217th November 2022

On April 3, 2022, just about two months after Yati Narsinghanand got bail in the Haridwar Dharam Sansad hate speech case on the condition that he would not deliver provocative…

Housing scheme poster tweeted by Amit Shah features Saroo Brierley, man who traced back his family after 25 yrs

Mahaprajna Nayak2nd November 2022

The Prime Minister is set to inaugurate 3024 newly-built houses for the economically weaker section (EWS) in Delhi to rehabilitate people living in slums as part of a slum rehabilitation…

Child deaths in Indonesia: No evidence so far of Indian syrups causing fatal kidney diseases

Kalim Ahmed2nd November 2022

In the first week of October, the World Health Organization (WHO) made a medical product alert about substandard (contaminated) pediatric medicines identified in The Gambia, a small west African country….

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