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Video of Bihar nurse injecting empty syringe without COVID vaccine shared as UP

Kinjal6th July 2021

A video of a nurse administering an empty syringe and passing it off as COVID-19 vaccine has been shared as an incident from Uttar Pradesh. नर्स ने इंजेक्शन में दवाई…

Elderly man chained to hospital bed is not late Stan Swamy

Pooja Chaudhuri5th July 20215th July 2021

A photograph has been shared on social media as activist Stan Swamy’s last days in the hospital. The 84-year-old Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist breathed his last on July…

Photo from India and UAE shared as 2021 Yoga Day celebration in Saudi Arabia

Kinjal26th June 2021

The seventh International Yoga Day was celebrated on June 21 across the globe. BJP member Abhishek Roy shared two photographs claiming they show people practising Yoga in Saudi Arabia. (Archive…

False news that Dr Fauci has been sacked as chief medical adviser to US President viral

Archit24th June 2021

Several Facebook and Twitter users have shared a video of a press conference in the US and claimed Dr Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious diseases expert and chief medical adviser…

Video from Delhi falsely linked to Ghaziabad incident where elderly Muslim man was beaten

Anuradha Prasad17th June 202117th June 2021

A video that shows a mob thrashing a group of people has been shared on social media. Dozens of people can be seen forcefully dragging out a few men from…

OpIndia twists woman’s allegation of eve-teasing at Tikri border as ‘rape’, woman issues legal notice

Pooja Chaudhuri14th June 202114th June 2021

OpIndia wrote a story on June 6 claiming that a woman was allegedly raped at the Tikri border during the farmers’ protest. The right-wing propaganda outlet claimed that a nurse…

UP CM presents study incorrectly attributed to Harvard to PM Modi, Amit Shah, JP Nadda

Archit12th June 2021

There have been reports of a growing political tussle between the central government and the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh which goes to poll next year. Speculations of a…

Did PM Modi table new vaccine plan prior to Supreme Court criticism?

Archit11th June 202111th June 2021

Since January, the COVID-19 vaccination drive in India has been taking place in three phases. The third phase began on May 1 for adults aged between 18 to 44. PM…

Videos of health workers ‘pretending’ to inject COVID vaccine are NOT from India

Kinjal5th June 20215th June 2021

As countries vaccinate their population against the novel coronavirus, several videos showing healthcare workers administrating empty syringes have surfaced on the Indian social media ecosystem. Facebook user Shashi Dhar Mehta…

Sudarshan News cherry-picks name of Muslim accused for tampering with COVID test in UP’s Basti

Kalim Ahmed4th June 20214th June 2021

Sudarshan News tweeted a video of a man handing a tube from an RT-PCR COVID test kit to another who fills it with an unused swab. The channel claimed that…