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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…

UAE’s ‘new policy’ for Golden Visas leaves Indian media red-faced: How it all started

Ankita Mahalanobish22nd July 202522nd July 2025

In the first week of July, several media outlets misreported that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was introducing a new nomination-based Golden Visa. According to these reports, Indians could enjoy…

Alt News finds Punjab police’s X account shared & deleted contentious post alluding to George Floyd’s killing; police deny

Oishani Bhattacharya19th July 202520th July 2025

The Punjab Police has drawn flak on social media over a controversial post allegedly shared on its X account (@PunjabPoliceInd) that draws parallels with a horrific incident of custodial death…

Claim that India has invented a ‘self-sustaining’ generator that runs for 700 years without power/ fuel is fabricated

Prantik Ali18th July 2025

On social media as well as messaging platform WhatsApp, many shared a video of a ‘self-sustaining’ magnetic power generator with claims that it can run for 700 years without any…

After Cong leader Pappu Yadav stopped from entering Rahul Gandhi, Tejashwi’s car in Bihar, old video of him crying viral

Prantik Ali17th July 2025

A video of Lok Sabha member Rajesh Ranjan, also known as Pappu Yadav, breaking into tears is being widely shared on social media. In the video, a crying Yadav, sitting…

Man seen with Rahul Gandhi in viral selfie is not the judge who granted him bail but a lawyer

Oishani Bhattacharya16th July 2025

On July 15, 2025, a special magistrate court for members of Parliament (MPs) and Legislative Assemblies (MLAs) in Lucknow granted bail to Congress leader and MP Rahul Gandhi in a…

‘Overstepping threshold of freedom of speech’: Cartoonist under fire over edited toon gets interim relief

Oishani Bhattacharya16th July 2025

On July 15, the Supreme Court granted Indore-based cartoonist Hemant Malviya interim relief from arrest. The top court’s direction comes a day after it reproached the cartoonist over an “inflammatory”…

‘Involved with a Muslim man?’ Radhika Yadav’s killing by father sparks flurry of misleading communal claims

Shinjinee Majumder15th July 2025

On July 10, 2025, 25-year-old Radhika Yadav was allegedly shot dead by her father, Deepak Yadav, in her own home in Gurugram. Yadav shot at her three times with his…

Violence in the name of cows: The ‘animal welfare’ groups that beat up truck drivers in India

Pooja Chaudhuri, Shinjinee Majumder & Abhishek Kumar15th July 202515th July 2025

This story was originally published on Bellingcat and has been republished by Alt News as part of an editorial collaboration between the two organisations. They describe themselves as “cow protectors”…

Viral video of Jaishankar ‘admitting’ that India lost 3 Rafales in clash with Pakistan is digitally manipulated

Prantik Ali15th July 202515th July 2025

A video of India’s Union minister of external affairs (EAM) S Jaishankar admitting that India lost three Rafale fighter jets during the India-Pakistan conflict in May 2025 is viral on…