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Fact-check: Did Chhattisgarh CM ‘fake’ receiving second dose of COVID vaccine?

Pooja Chaudhuri28th May 202130th May 2021

BJP Delhi spokesperson Neetu Dabas tweeted a photograph of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel posing for the cameras while receiving the second dose of the COVID vaccine at Pt Jawaharlal…

Government wrongly claims no country is vaccinating children, clarifies later

Jignesh Patel27th May 202127th May 2021

The Central government has come under heavy criticism for the mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and shortage of life-saving vaccines despite India being one of the largest manufacturers. The government…

Video of Congress leader lashing out at PM Modi over COVID viral as Maneka Gandhi

Aqib Pathan & Anuradha Prasad25th May 202125th May 2021

A three-minute video of a woman criticising PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah is making the rounds on Facebook. The purported video, according to the claim, shows BJP MP…

BJP members falsely claim AAP provided COVID relief only to a Muslim doctor’s family

Archit25th May 202125th May 2021

On May 22, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted a video that shows him visiting the parents of late Dr Anas Mujahid who used to work at GTB Hospital and…

Video from UP falsely shared as 31 Rohingya ‘elected’ in West Bengal chanted ‘Pakistan Zindabad’

Anuradha Prasad25th May 2021

Several Twitter users have shared a video of a crowd raising slogans and claimed that a “thanks giving” rally was taken out by “some 31 Rohingyas” elected in the recent…

Video of pro-Palestine rally in Qatar viral as pro-Hamas rally held in Kerala’s Wayanad

Anuradha Prasad24th May 2021

A video of a pro-Palestine rally has been shared with the claim that the protest was held in Kerala, Wayanad, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s constituency. Twitter user @ByRakeshSimha claimed that…

Image morphed to falsely claim AP reporter donned Hamas headband

Abhishek Kumar24th May 2021

On May 18, an Israeli airstrike bombed the high-rise building housing Al Jazeera and The Associated Press’ offices in Gaza City. A screenshot of an article reporting the incident has…

The uncanny similarities between a 10-day old Twitter thread and the ‘toolkit’

Pratik Sinha22nd May 202122nd May 2021

On May 18, the top brass of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused the opposition Congress of conspiring a nefarious plan to gain political capital from the pandemic. The plan,…

Video of Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh’s meeting with Sri Lankan PM is from 2017

Archit22nd May 202110th August 2021

A video of Indian National Congress (INC) President Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meeting Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been shared suggesting that she sidelined…