Rajya Sabha member and former environment minister Prakash Javadekar tweeted a video of a train carrying coal and claimed that a 4-km-long rack train with four engines is running on…
Media misreports Afghan women’s volleyball player beheaded by Taliban
The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan is a blow to women’s rights in the country. Many women have taken to the streets to protest against the hard-line regime. Afghan women leaders…
Fact-check: Did JRD Tata write “Nehru stabbed me in the back” after nationalisation of Tata Airlines?
Tata Sons made the winning bid of Rs 18,000 crore for Air India, the airline founded by JRD Tata in 1932. Back then it was known as Tata Air Services. In…
Teacher trashes student for ‘loitering’, Sudarshan News injects false communal spin
Sudarshan News tweeted a video on October 16 that shows a teacher beating a pupil in class. The channel claimed that a Christian teacher in Tamil Nadu brutally beat up…
Is this an ISKCON monk killed in Bangladesh? No, 2016 photo from West Bengal
On October 15, ISKCON Noakhali tweeted that its devotees were violently attacked and a temple was vandalised in Bangladesh’s Noakhali. It also claimed that a devotee was killed in the…
Fact-check: Has Indian passport strengthened under PM Modi as claimed by Amit Shah?
On October 14, Home Minister Amit Shah addressed BJP members at a Karyakarta Sammelan in Goa. One of the claims Shah made during the address was that the strength of…
Old video of man hacked to death in Bangladesh viral as recent communal violence
[Disclaimer: Viral video depicts extreme violence. Only screenshots are used as identifiers.] Disturbing reports of communal violence in Bangladesh continue to unfold a series of targeted attacks against the minority…
Photos of Quran recital viral as Muslim parents marry their children
Two juxtaposed photographs are viral on social media with the following claim – “Father married his own daughter so mother got furious and married her own son.” The pictures show…
Durga Puja pandal displaying namaz timings is from Bangladesh, not West Bengal
A photograph of a Durga Puja pandal is widespread on social media. The image shows that a board has been placed outside the pandal that displays the timings of Islamic…
Fact-check: Did UP govt organise fruits for cops to break Navratri fast?
Recently, Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha UP’s Social Media Head Richa Rajput shared a photo claiming that the Yogi Adityanath government made special arrangements and procured fruit for police personnel observing…