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    Archit Mehta

    Was Nehru a ‘citizen of London’? Video viral with misleading claim

    21st September 202221st September 2022
    The UK’s longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, passed away last week. In the backdrop of this, a clip of Jawaharlal Nehru at a public event is being shared on social...
    Was Nehru a ‘citizen of London’? Video viral with misleading claim
    Archit Mehta

    Fact-check: Did Brahmins play a role in key events of Dr Ambedkar’s life?

    11th August 2022
    In April 2021, user TrueIndology made a series of claims regarding Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar’s childhood, education, and how he gained the surname on the microblogging platform Koo, India’s alternative...
    Fact-check: Did Brahmins play a role in key events of Dr Ambedkar’s life?

    Did Teesta Setalvad’s great-grandfather give ‘clean chit’ to Gen Dyer for Jallianwala massacre?

    Kalim Ahmed & Abhishek Kumar28th June 202228th June 2022

    A day after the Supreme Court upheld the findings of a special investigation team (SIT) that cleared Prime Minister Narendra Modi of alleged complicity in the 2002 Gujarat riots, the…

    Fact-check: Did JRD Tata write “Nehru stabbed me in the back” after nationalisation of Tata Airlines?

    Archit Mehta21st October 2021

    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…

    Did Savarkar write mercy petitions on Gandhi’s advice as claimed by Rajnath Singh?

    Pooja Chaudhuri13th October 202114th October 2021

    Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday claimed that Hindu Mahasabha leader Vinayak Damodar Savarkar filed mercy petitions before the British government following Mahatma Gandhi’s advice. Singh was speaking at the…

    Does Neeraj Chopra have Maratha lineage? – Alt News Investigation

    Archit Mehta28th August 202130th August 2021

    On August 7, Neeraj Chopra’s javelin throw of 87.58m bagged him a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics. At the age of 23, Chopra is the youngest-ever Indian gold medalist…

    No, these are not photos of first Indian health minister Amrit Kaur

    Kalim Ahmed21st June 202124th June 2021

    Two infographics (one in English and the other in Hindi) are viral on social media with photographs of women claimed to be Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, the first health minister of…

    No, this photo doesn’t show last rites of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru

    Anuradha Prasad27th March 2021

    A picture of a public funeral where a huge crowd has gathered resurfaces on social media every few years. It circulates with the claim that the image depicts the last…

    Fact-check: Is this Banke Chamar, leader from Jaunpur in the 1857 revolution?

    Kinjal6th March 20216th March 2021

    A photograph has been shared on social media with the claim that the man is 1857 freedom fighter Banke Chamar. Twitter user Vinod Sharma wrote, “He is Banke Chamar. The…

    Can PM Modi’s gesture at Sardar Patel’s birth anniversary event be equated with Nazi salute?

    Archit Mehta4th November 2020

    Karnataka Congress leader Jairam Ramesh tweeted a photograph of prime minister Narendra Modi and wrote, “The Sardar would have been shocked at such a salute. It is an insult to…

    ‘Muslim’ regiment that never existed in Indian army blamed for refusing to fight in 1965 war

    Kinjal10th October 202010th October 2020

    Social media has been brimming with claims that the Muslim regiment of the Indian Army had refused to fight in India’s 1965 war with Pakistan. Several users have been using…

    Not Tipu Sultan. Not Tippu Tip either. Who is the person in the viral image?

    Arjun Sidharth14th November 201826th July 2021

    For the past few years, history enthusiasts and admirers as well as critics of Tipu Sultan, the last Sultan of the kingdom of Mysore, have circulated a picture on social…

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