Politics

Waterlogged Kolkata street did turn red after Eid qurbani: Alt News ground report rebuts police cyber cell’s denial

Ankita Mahalanobish & Shinjinee Majumder23rd June 202524th June 2025

After Bakri Eid was celebrated in India on Saturday, June 7, a video went viral on Facebook claiming to show a blood-filled road in Kolkata following the Qurbani (sacrificial) ritual….

2009 photo of Israeli shell exploding over Gaza Strip viral with claims that it shows Iran’s strikes on Tel Aviv

Prantik Ali21st June 2025

As the conflict between Iran and Israel rages on, leaving a large number of casualties in its wake, an image of a missile exploding in the air has gone viral….

Churu: FIR slapped on local journalist who recorded DSP hitting lady constable on the back

Abhishek Kumar20th June 202521st June 2025

After the video of the Churu DSP slapping a woman constable on the back to catch her attention went viral, an FIR has now been lodged against journalist Akhter Mugal…

Media outlets link visuals of Chinese fire drill from 2015 to Iranian strikes on Israeli power station

Prantik Ali20th June 2025

Amid the ongoing Iran-Israel conflict, which began after Israel attacked Iranian nuclear sites on June 13, in which several civilians were killed, a video of a huge explosion in what…

Video of Georgian influencer dancing in rain viral as Iranian women ‘sending message’ to regime amid Israel conflict

Prantik Ali19th June 202524th June 2025

A video, around 12 seconds long, showing a woman dancing in the rain in a dress is viral on social media. Those sharing it have claimed the video is from…

Did ANI share & delete X post on Modi being ignored in G7 photo? No, viral screenshot is doctored

Oishani Bhattacharya19th June 202525th June 2025

Since the three-day Group of Seven (G7) Summit concluded in Canada on June 17, a purported screenshot of an X post by news agency ANI has been circulating on social…

News18, TOI, India Today among others misreport that Pak army chief Asim Munir was invited for US Army parade

Ankita Mahalanobish19th June 2025

Amid geopolitical tensions between India and Pakistan, several prominent Indian news outlets, including CNN News18, India Today, CNBC TV18, Times of India, Financial Express, Deccan Herald and Economic Times among…

Viral video of Israeli soldier pleading Iran for mercy is AI-generated

Prantik Ali19th June 2025

With tensions escalating in the Iran-Israel conflict, which has claimed many civilian lives since it began on June 13, a video of an Israeli soldier in tears, begging for mercy,…

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

Pawan Kumar18th June 202518th June 2025

A day after Apple introducing new user interface (UI) feature Liquid Glass at its worldwide developers conference in California, an X user by the name Jon Yongfook (@yongfook) shared a…

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

Pawan Kumar18th June 2025

Days after the public fallout between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump over the latter’s Big Beautiful Bill, a video of Trump announcing a ban on the production…