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Fact-checking media reports about surge in UP’s Gross State Domestic Product

Archit10th March 202111th March 2021

On February 26, Uttar-Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath tweeted in Hindi, “Despite the global economic recession due to the pandemic, Uttar Pradesh has become the second-largest state in India in…

Morphed images show Sourav Ganguly posing in front of banners of different parties

Anuradha Prasad10th March 2021

Recently, a few posters of BCCI president and former Indian cricketer Sourav Ganguly were shared on Facebook and Twitter. Each poster correlates to a different political party’s colours and symbols….

Bhagat’s Singh sister passed away in 2014, not recently as claimed on social media

Anuradha Prasad10th March 2021

On March 6, Twitter user @__Paali__ shared a photo of an elderly woman and claimed she is Parkash Kaur, the sister of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh. The user stated that…

AIUDF’s Badruddin Ajmal didn’t say India will become Islamic nation, 2019 speech clipped

Archit10th March 202110th March 2021

A 36-second clip of All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) founder Badruddin Ajmal is widely shared on social media. In the video, Ajmal can be heard saying in Assamese, “For…

BJP members share old photos of Left Front rally as PM Modi’s Kolkata address ahead of polls

Mohammed Zubair7th March 20217th March 2021

Ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections, Prime Minister Modi addressed his first rally at the Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata. Soon after pictures of the rally showing a massive…

Old video falsely shared as hostel girls forced to strip by Mumbai cops

Priyanka Jha6th March 20216th March 2021

A video of a semi-naked woman embroiled in a heated argument with a group of people in the lobby of a building is circulating on social media. “Uddhav Thackeray is…

BJP candidate’s promise of ‘good beef’ is from 2017, unrelated to 2021 Kerala polls

Kinjal6th March 2021

Kerala assembly elections are scheduled to be held from April 6, 2021. Congress leader Salman Nizami tweeted a Hindustan Times article on March 4 which said that the BJP’s candidate…

Congress falsely claims AAP lost election deposit in one seat in Delhi MCD elections

Archit5th March 20216th March 2021

Municipal corporation by-elections recently took place in Delhi where the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won four out of the five seats and the remainder was lost to the Congress. The…

BJP claims encroachment over Hindu shrine in Andhra, collector and police deny

Archit & Pooja Chaudhuri4th March 20214th March 2021

BJP national secretary and co-incharge of Andhra Pradesh Sunil Deodhar claimed that an illegal Christian cross was erected on a hilltop in Edlapadu, Andhra Pradesh where footprints of Hindu deity…

BJP MP Sushil Modi falsely claims first five Indian education ministers were Muslims

Priyanka Jha4th March 2021

On March 3, BJP MP and former deputy chief minister of Bihar Sushil Kumar Modi posted several tweets targeting Rahul Gandhi and the Congress. One of these addressed Gandhi himself….

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Uttam Nagar before Eid: As fear lingers and hate spreads online, a neighbourhood holds its breath

Himanta defends ‘shooting’ video point blank; says it will be re-uploaded with ‘Bangladeshi’ tag