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Viral video of DRDO chief fake: No mention of cow urine or dung in original interview

Oishani Bhattacharya4th May 2026

A 44-second video clip purportedly featuring Samir V Kamat, head of the Defence Research and Development Organisation, is being widely circulated on social media, with claims that he is describing…

SC finds no cognizable offence in Anurag Thakur’s ‘Desh ke gaddaro ko’ slogan; calls hate speech a blow to constitutional values

Anindya Hazra3rd May 20263rd May 2026

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a clean chit given to BJP leaders Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma by the Delhi high court in connection with alleged hate speech during…

BJP Delhi, RW influencers circulate Pinterest images as ‘Kejriwal home interiors’

Prantik Ali29th April 2026

A video is viral on social media, purporting to show the interiors of Arvind Kejriwal’s luxurious residence in New Delhi’s Lodhi Estate. In the clip, the photos are contrasted with…

Trinamool MP Sayani Ghosh’s campaign speeches from Assam, Bengal viral with misleading claims

Pawan Kumar29th April 2026

Ahead of the second and final phase of polling in West Bengal, a collage of two videos of Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Sayani Ghosh has gone viral. In the first…

BJP leader Agnimitra Paul shares AI video claiming TMC’s Bratya Basu caught on camera taking bribe

Shinjinee Majumder29th April 202629th April 2026

A day before the second phase of West Bengal elections, BJP leader and the party’s Asansol South candidate Agnimitra Paul shared a video purportedly showing Trinamool Congress leader and incumbent…

From rally to rampage: How provocation and communal targeting plunged Jangipur into violence on Ram Navami

Anindya Hazra & Shinjinee Majumder28th April 202630th April 2026

By the time the dust settled after the Ram Navami fervour on March 27, Fultala in Raghunathganj police station area in Murshidabad’s Jangipur bore the marks of a targeted rampage….

Telangana Police goes after TeluguScribe, invokes UAPA to seek X data

Oishani Bhattacharya27th April 2026

Telangana police have sought information from X regarding an account called ‘TeluguScribe’ under Section 94 of the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), which empowers a court or a police officer…

BJP shares clipped video to falsely claim TMC’s Byron Biswas conceded defeat

Ankita Mahalanobish26th April 2026

A couple of days after the first phase of polling in West Bengal, a video showing Trinamool Congress’s Sagardighi candidate, Byron Biswas, went viral, in which he appeared to be…

No bikes, no booze, no outsiders: Poll panel’s unprecedented orders stump Bengal

Oishani Bhattacharya25th April 202625th April 2026

When the Election Commission of India deployed 2.4 lakh Central Armed Police Forces across West Bengal — three times the number sent during the 2021 assembly elections — it sent…

Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma’s speech at Varanasi varsity shared out of context, falsely linked to RSS

Anindya Hazra24th April 2026

A video circulating on social media claims that Delhi high court judge Swarana Kanta Sharma rose rapidly in her career due to frequent visits to events linked to the Rashtriya…

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Bihar education minister Mithilesh Tiwari did not speak against girls’ education

The Hindu clipping on Indira Gandhi urging people not to buy gold in 1967 is fake