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Did Bilawal Bhutto claim Pak has ‘its people’ in Indian Parliament? Rijiju, others allude to doctored video

Pawan Kumar11th August 2025

A video of Pakistani politician Bilawal Bhutto Zardari claiming that they have their ‘people’ in the Indian Parliament juxtaposed with a clip of Assam Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi questioning the…

No, all Kukis did not come to Manipur under Congress rule in 1968 as refugees from Myanmar

Diti Pujara9th August 2025

Claims that Manipur’s Kuki tribe are refugees from Myanmar, welcomed to the state by the Congress government in 1968 and now have the upper hand, as they enjoy the Scheduled…

Nuns out on bail; ‘police excess’ & Bajrang Dal’s role in Chhattisgarh case under scanner

Oishani Bhattacharya4th August 20257th August 2025

An NIA court on August 2 granted bail to the two Catholic nuns from Kerala, Vandana Francis and Preethi Mary, and a tribal man named Sukhman Mandavi arrested in Chhattisgarh…

Viral screenshot of Trump’s post on Modi not responding to tariff concerns is doctored

Shinjinee Majumder2nd August 2025

Two days after US President Donald Trump announced 25% tariffs on Indian imports and an additional ‘penalty’, a screenshot of a post by him, allegedly shared on the platform TruthSocial,…

Bajrang Dal activist who ‘stopped’ Blinkit meat delivery says he was saving Sanatan Dharma

Ankita Mahalanobish & Diti Pujara2nd August 2025

On July 15, a delivery executive with Eternal’s (formerly Zomato) quick commerce arm, Blinkit, was stopped by workers of Vishva Hindu Parishad’s Bajrang Dal in Ghaziabad. The reason? He was…

Unrelated & AI-generated visuals linked to 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Russia’s Kamchatka

Ankita Mahalanobish2nd August 2025

On July 30, 2025, the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s far eastern region was struck by an earthquake of magnitude 8.8, prompting tsunami alerts in parts of Russia, Japan, and the…

Incident of cheating in PWD exam in Chhattisgarh given false communal narrative

Pawan Kumar29th July 2025

A video purportedly from Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur is being widely circulated with claims that a woman in a burqa was caught with devices used for cheating during the entrance exam for…

Video of wife ‘cheating’ on husband viral with communal claims that lover hid Muslim identity is actually scripted

Pawan Kumar29th July 202529th July 2025

A video in which a woman is allegedly caught cheating by her husband is viral on social media with communal claims. Social media users claim that a married Muslim man…

Viral photos show Assam couple from 2017, not Muslim man from UP marrying his daughter-in-law after son’s death

Pawan Kumar25th July 2025

Photographs of an old man with a younger woman are circulating on social media with communal claims that the man in the image, a Muslim named Mohammad Shakeel, married his…

Screenshots from scripted video shared with claims that 72-year-old man married 21-year old woman

Pawan Kumar23rd July 2025

A set of photographs of an elderly man and a young woman dressed in wedding attire and wearing garlands is viral on social media. Those sharing these images claimed that…

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When devotion takes a violent turn: 2025 Kanwar Yatra marred by cases of vandalism, assault as cops look on

Assam Tribune rejects column critical of BJP & Himanta, asks veteran journalist to ‘focus only on Meghalaya’