After SCO defence ministers’ meet, false claims of India being left out and Russia signing joint statement go viral
After defence ministers representing their countries at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) were unable to adopt a joint statement at the end of their talks on June 26, several rumours...
Identifying an impostor: ‘Verified’ X account not of Iranian journalist whose show was interrupted by Israeli attacks
On June 16, amid the exchange of fire between Israel and Iran, Iranian state TV journalist Sahar Emami’s live broadcast had to be cut short. Israel had attacked the studio of...
An image of an apparent report by UP Tak (a Lucknow-based media outlet from India Today’s ‘Tak’ cluster) is viral in which it is claimed that a Dalit woman is…
Cyclone Biparjoy hit the coastal areas of Saurashtra and the Gulf of Kutch in Gujarat around 7 pm on Thursday, June 15, in the form of a very severe cyclonic…
Even before cyclone Biparjoy (literally, ‘disaster’) made landfall in Gujarat, news anchor Sweta Tripathi had taken Indian television news by storm on Wednesday night. Republic Bharat, the channel where she…
An image of a minor girl is being shared on social media with the claim that she was abducted, raped and killed in a village in the Shravasti district of…
Nearly 300 people were killed and over 800 injured in a horrific train accident in Odisha’s Balasore district on Friday, June 2. According to information available at the moment, a…
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested on Tuesday, May 9, in the Al-Qadir Trust case from the Islamabad High Court premises. The 70-year-old cricketer-turned-politician was in the biometric…
YouTuber Manish Kashyap from Bihar was arrested last month at the Jagdishpur police station of Bettiah in the West Champaran district after he had surrendered there. He is accused of…
Trigger Warning: Descriptions of violence A disturbing video in which men in uniforms can be seen dumping blindfolded people into a pit and then shooting them is circulating viral on…
Trigger Warning: Descriptions of Violence Social media is rife with claims about migrants from Bihar being attacked in Tamil Nadu. In one such instance, a video of a man lying…