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Man slapped on Indigo flight: Misleading to claim incident shows ‘plight of Muslims’ in India

Abhishek Kumar9th August 20259th August 2025

After the video of a man being slapped on an Indigo flight went viral recently, several social media users highlighted the incident as showing the plight of Muslims in India. …

Several irregularities in UP poll panel chief’s response to Rahul Gandhi’s voter list anomalies ‘exposé’

Abhishek Kumar8th August 202510th August 2025

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi held a press conference on August 7 in New Delhi in which he made serious allegations of voter list manipulations in at least one Karnataka constituency…

Illegal immigrants preparing for attack in Assam’s Goalpara? No, the video is from Kishoreganj, Bangladesh

Ankita Mahalanobish8th August 2025

A video showing men, women and young boys carrying lathis and spears marching somewhere is circulating on social media. It is accompanied by claims that illegal Bangladeshi immigrants have assembled…

‘Bangladeshi language’ row: Amit Malviya’s arguments uninformed, logically flawed & factually incorrect

Indradeep Bhattacharyya8th August 20258th August 2025

With the use of the phrase ‘Bangladeshi language’ by a Delhi Police officer creating a political storm, BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya has stepped in to school West Bengal…

Cow-vigilante violence reaches Bengal: BJP youth leader who led brutal attack in Durgapur still at large

Shinjinee Majumder5th August 20255th August 2025

Almost a week after a group of men assaulted, tied up and paraded several Muslim persons in West Bengal’s Durgapur district while accusing them of being Bangladeshi intruders smuggling cattle,…

Nuns out on bail; ‘police excess’ & Bajrang Dal’s role in Chhattisgarh case under scanner

Oishani Bhattacharya4th August 20257th August 2025

An NIA court on August 2 granted bail to the two Catholic nuns from Kerala, Vandana Francis and Preethi Mary, and a tribal man named Sukhman Mandavi arrested in Chhattisgarh…

Viral screenshot of Trump’s post on Modi not responding to tariff concerns is doctored

Shinjinee Majumder2nd August 2025

Two days after US President Donald Trump announced 25% tariffs on Indian imports and an additional ‘penalty’, a screenshot of a post by him, allegedly shared on the platform TruthSocial,…

Bajrang Dal activist who ‘stopped’ Blinkit meat delivery says he was saving Sanatan Dharma

Ankita Mahalanobish & Diti Pujara2nd August 2025

On July 15, a delivery executive with Eternal’s (formerly Zomato) quick commerce arm, Blinkit, was stopped by workers of Vishva Hindu Parishad’s Bajrang Dal in Ghaziabad. The reason? He was…

Unrelated & AI-generated visuals linked to 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Russia’s Kamchatka

Ankita Mahalanobish2nd August 2025

On July 30, 2025, the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s far eastern region was struck by an earthquake of magnitude 8.8, prompting tsunami alerts in parts of Russia, Japan, and the…

Man who shouted ‘Allah Hu Akbar’ & ‘Death to Trump’ on UK flight is a Hindu

Prantik Ali31st July 202531st July 2025

A video, around 24 seconds in length, is viral on social media, which shows a man onboard an airplane shouting ‘Allah Hu Akbar’, ‘Death to America’, and ‘Death to Trump.’…

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Fake ICC ‘media release’ announcing ban on Pakistan viral across social media platforms

NDA party leader moving around in car with forged diplomatic number plate arrested; news reports skip political link