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Acid attack on bull by unidentified miscreants given a communal colour by VHP activist

Pooja Chaudhuri30th October 201810th November 2018

A Twitter user Girish Bharadwaja, who describes himself as a member of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and is followed by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal’s Office, tweeted on October 28, “Acid…

Kerala cop falsely claimed to be CPM worker inciting violence at Sabarimala

Arjun Sidharth26th October 2018

“Meet this active CPM cadre Vallabh Das from Trivandrum. He’s not even recruited in Kerala Police, still this goon was in Police uniform trying to attack innocent #Ayyappa devotees at…

Fact-check: Did an official Pakistani Defence account retweet Rahul Gandhi’s tweet?

Pooja Chaudhuri26th October 201822nd March 2019

With the caption “retweet indicates someone is fighting for Pakistan in India”, Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Giriraj Singh, on October 25, tweeted a screenshot of…

BJP makes factual errors while ‘fact-checking’ Rahul Gandhi’s tweet on Global Hunger Index

Pooja Chaudhuri25th October 201822nd March 2019

The Bharatiya Janata Party posted a fact-checking video on October 25, claiming that Rahul Gandhi “peddled fake news on India’s ranking in the Global Hunger Index.” Rahul Gandhi peddles fakes…

Did Nehru government scrap currency notes featuring Subhas Chandra Bose?

Arjun Sidharth25th October 201815th March 2019

An image of a currency note featuring Subhas Chandra Bose has appeared on social media, along with the claim that the currency note was demonetised by the Jawaharlal Nehru led…

Smriti’s Irani’s “blood-soaked sanitary napkin” remark – did the minister fall for social media hoax?

Pooja Chaudhuri24th October 2018

In the wake of the Sabarimala row, Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani stirred up a controversy with her remark on menstruating women entering temples. “I am nobody to speak on…

The truth of the letter ‘written’ by Nehru calling Subhas Chandra Bose a ‘war criminal’

Arjun Sidharth23rd October 201822nd January 2022

Had India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru written a letter to then Prime Minister of Britain Clement Attlee in 1945, referring to Subhas Chandra Bose as a “war criminal”? Had…

Rajeev Chandrasekhar shares mischievously edited clip of Ashok Gehlot, deletes later

Arjun Sidharth23rd October 201815th March 2019

Anothr genius frm @RahulGandhi ‘s team Ashok Gehlot @INCIndia Raj CM wannabe – “Govt is bldng a dam 4 power generatn. Once power is extracted, water is relsd to farms….

Delhi MLA Manjinder Sirsa shares affectionate photo of Nehru with his niece to malign him

Pooja Chaudhuri22nd October 2018

Delhi MLA Manjinder S Sirsa from NDA-affiliated Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) tweeted a photograph of a lady holding former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in an embrace from behind and kiss him…

Fake news about Amritsar train driver’s suicide circulates on social media

Jignesh Patel22nd October 201822nd March 2019

A photo and video of a man who seems to have committed suicide by hanging himself from a bridge is viral on social media with a caption, “Amritsar Accident k…

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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