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Nehru’s portrait morphed into picture of Modi-Scholz meet in Germany

Shinjinee Majumder7th May 2022

An image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is going viral. The image shows the two leaders seated in front of a picture of Pandit Jawaharlal…

No, Rahul Gandhi is NOT with Chinese Ambassador to Nepal in this video

Abhishek Kumar & Mohammed Zubair7th May 20227th May 2022

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi travelled to Nepal recently. As per a May 2 article by a Nepali news portal, he was attending his friend Sumnima Udas’ wedding. Udas is a…

Old image from MP viral as 25 “non-Muslim” Allahabad Uni students arrested for making bombs

Aritraa Dey7th May 2022

A post with two images clubbed together is viral on social media. While the first photograph is of a group of people in police custody, the second is a file…

Muslims demand separate state in Assam? No, old video from UP

Kalim Ahmed5th May 2022

A 2:12 minute-long video montage where the police can be seen violently attacking civilians is viral on social media with the claim that Muslims in Assam took out a rally…

Minority leader beaten in Bangladesh over political rivalry, incident falsely communalised

Kalim Ahmed & Nilofar Absar4th May 20224th May 2022

A photo of a man tied to a tree and covered in blood is widely being shared as a photo of Jitendra Kanti Guha, who is a local Hindu leader…

Jilted boyfriend kills woman, incident given false communal shade online

Kalim Ahmed4th May 20226th May 2022

A 30-second long video clip where a youth can be seen stabbing a young woman is widely being shared with the claim that in West Bengal’s Murshidabad, a Muslim boy…

Photo of people offering namaz outside Bandra Railway Station is from 2012

Shinjinee Majumder2nd May 2022

An image that shows people offering namaz outside the Bandra Railway Station in Mumbai has gone viral amid the ongoing Hanuman Chalisa row and on the occasion of Ramadan. The…

Hindu shops razed but ‘Zakir’ left untouched? Times Now Navbharat’s communal reportage

Kinjal2nd May 2022

Communal clashes broke out during a Hanuman Jayanti procession on April 16 in New Delhi’s Jahangirpuri area. Following the violence, on April 20, North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) bulldozed several…

Old video from West Bengal falsely linked to ongoing mosque loudspeakers controversy

Abhishek Kumar29th April 20224th May 2022

Earlier this month, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray issued a warning to the Maharashtra government to remove loudspeakers installed in mosques by May 3 or else the party…

News18 falsely claims temple razed in Alwar as “revenge” for Jahangirpuri demolition drive

Abhishek Kumar28th April 2022

Delhi’s Jahangirpuri witnessed communal violence during a recently held procession marking Hanuman Jayanti. In the aftermath of the violence, the municipal corporation of North Delhi carried out a demolition drive…

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Rahul Gandhi’s ‘1 crore vote surge in Maharashtra’ claim not supported by EC data

News outlets, BJP leaders amplify morphed image of AAP MLA Gopal Italia with Delhi CM Rekha Gupta’s attacker