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Crocodile rescued in Ratnagiri viral as Mumbai

Arjun Sidharth31st July 2019

A 54 second video of a crocodile being rescued from a drain has gone viral on social media platforms with the claim that this crocodile was rescued from Dadar area…

Shooting stones on Jammu-Srinagar NH shared as landslide in Malshej Ghat, Maharashtra

Pooja Chaudhuri30th July 2019

A video is floating across social media platforms with the claim that a landslide occurred in Malshej Ghat, Maharashtra. It is noteworthy that the state is currently experiencing heavy rainfalls….

Old images shared as roads blocked in Gujarat due to heavy rainfall

Jignesh Patel30th July 201930th July 2019

“ભાવનગરથી અમદાવાદના તમામ રોડ બંધ થઈ ગયા છે. રાજધાની,તન્ના તથા S.T. ની તમામ બસો પરત ફરેલ છે.અને ફેદરા, લોલિયા,ધોલેરા,પીપળી, ધોળકાના રસ્તાઓ બંધ કરવામાં આવ્યા છે. મહેરબાની કરીને જે લોકો અમદાવાદ…

Pak army spokesperson tweets old, doctored video of former Indian Air Marshal

Jignesh Patel29th July 201930th July 2019

Spokesperson of the Pakistani Armed Forces Major General Asif Ghafoor tweeted a video of former Indian Air Marshal Denzil Keelor to suggest that the latter had admitted about India’s loss…

Shiva idol in Maharashtra vandalised by Muslims? Initial probe says damage by lightning strike

Pooja Chaudhuri29th July 201930th July 2019

A viral claim on social media suggests that a 400-year-old Shiva statue in Pratapgarh, Gondia district in Maharashtra was desecrated by members of the Muslim community. One of the firsts…

False rumours of child-kidnapping gangs viral on social media: A compilation

Pooja Chaudhuri27th July 2019

False rumours of child-kidnapping gangs on a prowl have emerged on social media leading to mob attacks across the country. A transgender person was beaten to death in West Bengal…

Old images, digital artworks shared as first photographs of Earth sent by Chandrayaan-2

Mohammed Zubair27th July 201927th July 2019

“First photograph of earth, sent by Chandrayan 2….. What an eye-catching visual it is,” says a message viral on social media with a set of photographs from space. First photograph of…

Video of 2017 Brazil prison riot shared as Rohingya Muslim kidnapping gangs on prowl

Pooja Chaudhuri26th July 2019

A video showing mutilated bodies laid out in a room is floating on WhatsApp with the claim that 500-2000 Rohingya Muslims divided into small groups are on a prowl in…

Video of father-son duo alleging kidnapping attempt used to fuel child-abduction rumours

Jignesh Patel26th July 201926th July 2019

A video of a man standing next to a child explaining a purported incident of an attempt to kidnap the boy is being shared on social media. The video is…

Rahul Gandhi shares old images as 2019 Assam floods

Niddhi Rathi26th July 2019

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi recently took to social media to appeal to his party workers to join the relief and rescue operations in flood-affected regions of the country. He posted…

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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