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‘Body in fridge’ tableau in Munger Shivratri rally: Islamophobia & hate trounced devotion & piety?

Shinjinee Majumder & Ankita Mahalanobish13th March 202521st March 2025

In BJP-ruled India, Hindu religious festivals have often metamorphosed from occasions for devotion and celebrations to rallying points for Hindutva fanatics to intimidate, provoke, and attack minority communities. Even by…

News outlets receive ‘threat mails’, some delete stories on concerns over Ambanis’ Vantara project

Shinjinee Majumder & Pratik Sinha12th March 202513th March 2025

Days after reporting on a South African wildlife organization raising concerns about the functioning of the Reliance-owned Vantara Animal and Rehabilitation Centre in Jamnagar, Gujarat, at least three major media…

Bangladesh video of assault on suspected robbers viral with false Hindu-Muslim narrative

Kinjal10th March 2025

The story uses only screenshots and not the actual video in view of its graphic nature. A 1 minute 31 second video, in which two people are hung upside down…

Atrocities against a Hindu family in Bangladesh? No. Video viral with false claims

Abira Das8th March 2025

Note: The report uses only screenshots because the story is sensitive in nature. A 20-second clip showing a group of men barging into a room with a semi-naked woman and…

Viral videos of burqa-clad women marrying uncles shared to ridicule Muslims are actually scripted

Oishani Bhattacharya6th March 2025

Two videos featuring Muslim ‘couples’ are being shared widely on social media. The women in these clips claim that they are married to their paternal uncles. Internet users are circulating…

Bengal woman’s murder by relatives peddled with false ‘Love Jihad’ narrative

Abhishek Kumar5th March 20255th March 2025

The story uses only screenshots and not the actual video in view of its graphic nature. A video is going viral on social media in which a blue travel bag…

Couple caught in a ‘vulgar’ act during Maha Kumbh Mela? No, viral video is from 2022 in Ayodhya

Prantik Ali4th March 20254th March 2025

Note: This story only uses screenshots to protect the individuals’ identities. A 20-second long video of a couple sharing an intimate moment while taking a dip in a water body…

‘Harasser’ slapped by burqa-clad woman in viral video from Kanpur not a Hindu

Ankita Mahalanobish4th March 2025

A video of a burqa-clad woman repeatedly slapping a man in public is going viral on social media with the claim that the man seen in the video is a…

Viral video showing biker harassing elderly, physically challenged Muslim man is scripted

Oishani Bhattacharya3rd March 2025

A 14-second clip showing a man riding a motorcycle harassing an elderly, physically challenged Muslim man in a tricycle has gone viral. In the clip, the biker can be seen…

Politics

Indian media picked up Apple user’s satiric tweet, ‘reported’ team behind newly launched UI had been fired

Did Trump ban production of Tesla in US after fallout with Musk? No, viral video is AI-generated