Hindutva outfits have welcomed the National Medical Commission (NMC) decision to scrap the MBBS course at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Medical College (SMVDIME) in Jammu and Kashmir with drumbeats, music…
Form suicide squads & ISIS-like outfits, Yati Narsinghanand urges Hindus amid sword distribution in Delhi, Ghaziabad
Yati Narsinghanand Giri, the controversial head priest of the Dasna Devi temple in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, has released a video urging Hindus to form suicide squads and leave organizations like…
BJP adds communal spin to idol vandalism in West Bengal’s Santipur
Images depicting unfinished idols of Hindu deities Kali and Saraswati lying desecrated are viral on social media with the claim that the vanadlism in Santipur, West Bengal, was a “direct…
Cow vigilantes from Bajrang Dal assault ‘mentally challenged’ homeless man in Rajasthan on suspicion of eating beef
Trigger Warning: Disturbing Details Self-proclaimed cow vigilantes on January 1 brutally assaulted a middle-aged man in Kishanpura village in Aklera tehsil of Jhalawar district in Rajasthan, accusing him of killing…
Political misinformation in 2025: Who shared the most? Who were targeted? How did it shape narratives?
An informed citizenry is the bedrock of a strong democracy. Likewise, a misinformed citizen — someone who confidently holds false notions and easily falls for propaganda — is prone to…
Punjab video falsely viral as Hindu man assaulted in Bangladesh
In the month or so after the assassination of student leader Sharif Osman Hadi in Bangladesh, at least four Hindu men, namely Dipu Chandra Das, Amrit Mondal, Bajendra Biswas and…
Who is Rishabh Thakur, accused in the attack on Muslim youths at Bareilly birthday party?
When 22-year-old nursing student Shivangi threw a birthday party at a cafe in Bareilly’s Rajendra Nagar on December 27 for her college friends, little did she know that all hell…
Year in review: Deepfakes and AI supercharged disinformation & propaganda in 2025 like never before
It’s AI’s world, and we’re just living in it. The bugle had been sounded long back. Its arrival announced all over. However, it was only in 2025 that fact-checking outlets,…
A Christmas stained with hate: From Kerala to Assam, Hindutva hooligans ruin celebrations
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished the country ‘hope, warmth and commitment to kindness’ on Christmas and posed a video of himself taking part in a church service on December…
Bangladeshi Hindus seeking help? AI video made by Indian user falsely viral
A video is going viral on social media apparently showing a young man vlogging from Bangladesh with shops behind him on fire. In the video, he says, “This is Bangladesh….