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No, Danish Kaneria is not among Pakistani players offering Namaz in this photo

Niddhi Rathi & Jignesh Patel30th December 2019

BJP Mahila Morcha national in-charge of social media, Priti Gandhi, tweeted a photograph of the former Pakistani cricket team offering namaz. She wrote, “Picture of Pakistan cricket team during Inzamam-ul-Haq’s…

Video from Sri Lanka shared as Muslims beaten in a detention centre in Assam

Pooja Chaudhuri30th December 2019

A video of policemen rounding up people and thrashing them with batons inside what looks like premises of a prison is viral on social media. The accompanying claim suggests that…

CAA Protests: Old video from Pakistan shared as cow slaughtered on Indian flag in Hyderabad

Nitika Amin30th December 2019

A video is circulating on WhatsApp showing a group of men slaughtering a cow on the Indian national flag. Several individuals have sent verification requests of the video on the…

CAA Protests: Video from Pakistan shared as UP police beating women

Niddhi Rathi30th December 201930th December 2019

A video which shows policemen thrashing women is circulating in the context of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). Among the group…

No, anti-CAA protesters did not chant ‘Pakistan zindabad’ in Lucknow rally

Pratik Sinha, Priyanka Jha & Pooja Chaudhuri29th December 201929th December 2019

On December 28, BJP social media head Amit Malviya tweeted a video and claimed that it shows anti-CAA protesters in Lucknow raising ‘Pakistan zindabad’ slogans. Malviya wrote, “Since this is a…

Old video of railway station vandalised in Bangladesh shared as Kolkata

Pooja Chaudhuri28th December 201928th December 2019

A video of people vandalising a railway station has been shared on social media with the claim that the miscreants are Bangladeshi refugees and the incident took place in Kolkata….

Video of leopard attacking dog in Nashik, Maharashtra shared as Gujarat

Archit28th December 2019

A CCTV footage of a leopard attacking a dog is floating online with the claim that the incident took place in Amreli, Gujarat. On October 14, Jia News Mumbai’s YouTube…

Pak users share video of bull festival as cows unleashed on Indian policemen

Archit27th December 2019

On December 25, a viral video which shows cows chasing Indian policemen was tweeted by Pakistani political commentator Zaid Hamid. He wrote, “Innovative counter attack… When Indian police raided a…

Freight train traversing the famous ‘Tehachapi Loop’ in US viral as China-Germany train route

Arjun Sidharth27th December 2019

“This train from China to Germany travels through kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and Poland. Distance travelled 10214 kms. Started on the 13th of June last year. Goods transporting train. Plying from…

Meme shared as pro-Modi cartoon on CAA and NRC published by European newspaper

Arjun Sidharth26th December 201926th December 2019

An image has been circulated widely with the claim that it was published in a newspaper in Europe. The cartoon shows the Marvel superhero Spiderman stopping a bus about to…

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Amit Malviya says earth rotates clockwise, makes false claim about Rahul Gandhi’s Narmada Ghat aarti

After social media outrage, ‘Rashid Khan’ justifying Shraddha murder turns out to be Vikas Kumar