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CRPF in action in poll-bound Bengal? Old video from Bangladesh shared falsely

Pawan Kumar17th April 2026

A video purportedly from West Bengal is being widely shared on social media, showing security personnel dragging and assaulting young men. Several users have claimed that the footage captures action…

Trinamool MP Menaka Guruswamy did not represent R G Kar accused in court

Shinjinee Majumder13th April 202614th April 2026

A collage of two AI-generated images — one of BJP’s candidate for the Panihati seat in Bengal polls and the other of advocate and Trinamool Rajya Sabha member Menaka Guruswamy…

“Others affected too, but Muslims disproportionately targeted in Bengal SIR. This can’t be random”

Anindya Hazra13th April 202613th April 2026

Just before the assembly elections in West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducchery and other states in 2026, the Election Commission of India initiated a special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the…

Clash in Murshidabad? Old video from Varanasi given communal spin, falsely linked to Bengal polls

Prantik Ali10th April 2026

A video, around 21 seconds in length, is viral on social media, purporting to show a group of Hindu men thrash a Muslim man named Nazrul Islam in West Bengal’s…

Shashi Tharoor slammed Modi govt & praised Pak diplomacy? The video is AI-generated

Shinjinee Majumder10th April 2026

Following US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a suspension in attacks on Iran for two weeks, several pro-Pakistan accounts shared a video of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor saying that Pakistan…

From self-identification to state control: Trans voices raise alarm over new law

Oishani Bhattacharya8th April 20269th April 2026

The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, was passed in the Lok Sabha on March 24 and in the Rajya Sabha on March 25. Five days later, on…

Four more Bengal constituencies, same pattern: Muslims disproportionately marked ‘Under Adjudication’ in SIR

Ankit Jain7th April 2026

Days after Alt News broke through the Election Commission of India’s barriers to access Special Intensive Revision data — revealing that in Bhabanipur and Ballygunge a Muslim voter was 3.1…

Errors, erasure, angst: Inside Basirhat’s Boro Gobra where hundreds find themselves struck off electoral rolls

Anindya Hazra6th April 20266th April 2026

Boro Gobra does not look like a place where something as abstract as an electoral roll could rupture everyday life. It sits quietly in the Basirhat landscape: Ponds holding still…

Student complains of being forced to attend Modi event in 29° heat; Instagram vlog gets withheld in India

Ankita Mahalanobish5th April 2026

A short Instagram video by a college student from Greater Noida — sardonic, unremarkable in production and filmed in a crowd — was withheld in India on March 30, 2026….

Image showing PM Modi in elaborate photo-op in a tea estate is AI generated

Prantik Ali5th April 20265th April 2026

A photo is viral on social media, purporting to show Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacting with women workers at a tea garden amid elaborate filming arrangements, flanked on all sides…

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Video of security movement in Manipur shared as CRPF entering Bengal to ‘protect Hindus’

Pakistani panelist insulted ABP anchor Chitra Tripathi on live show? Congress leaders share doctored video