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Viral memo ‘confirming’ radiation leak in Pakistan is fake

Indradeep Bhattacharyya13th May 202513th May 2025

Ever since director general of air operations (DGAO) Awadhesh Kumar Bharti revealed that the Indian Air Force had hit several military targets in Pakistan on the intervening night of May…

India-Pakistan Conflict: CNN denies it made viral infographic showing Indian side suffered more losses

Diti Pujara13th May 2025

A CNN infographic comparing the military losses suffered by India and Pakistan in the recent conflict between the two is being widely circulated. The graphic has specific numbers that indicate…

Video unrelated to Operation Sindoor shared with claims that Pakistani jets in Sialkot moving toward J&K

Oishani Bhattacharya12th May 2025

An 18-second-long clip taken at night of what appears to be fighter jets in the sky is viral on social media with claims that these visuals are from Pakistan’s Sialkot…

Video of paraglider stuck in Manali viral with claims that Indian Air Force pilot Shivangi Singh caught in Pakistan

Prantik Ali12th May 2025

A video showing a person hanging from electric wires amid pine trees has gone viral with claims that it shows Indian Air Force pilot Shivangi Singh stuck while flying a…

Viral video of ‘Pakistani aircraft shot down in Amritsar’ actually shows Hezbollah rockets targeting Israel

Shinjinee Majumder12th May 2025

Even as tensions eased slightly on May 12 after military strikes between India and Pakistan over the previous couple of days, unverified images and videos claiming to be related to…

In first MEA briefing on Op Sindoor, 2007 footage of Iraq explosion shown as visuals of 2019 Pulwama attack

Kinjal12th May 2025

India launched Operation Sindoor on the intervening night of May 6 and 7, targeting nine terror camps in Pakistan. The strikes come follow the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in…

Zee News, others showed 2016 image from Turkey as Pakistani pilot captured by India

Pawan Kumar12th May 2025

Amid the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, Zee News on May 9 showed an image of what it claimed was a Pakistani pilot captured by the Indian Army. (Archived…

Aaj Tak, NDTV, Times Now, News18 & others ran 4-yr-old video as aerial fight over Jaisalmer

Abhishek Kumar12th May 202512th May 2025

Amid escalating tensions between India And Pakistan, a video was aired by the Indian media on May 9 which showed an air defense system foiling aerial attacks in the night…

From tragedy to trolling: Himanshi Narwal, widow of naval officer killed in Pahalgam, faces social media trial

Oishani Bhattacharya12th May 2025

It took less than 10 days for social media users to do a full u-turn on Himanshi Narwal, the wife of late naval officer Lieutenant Vinay Narwal, who was killed…

Sikhs sloganeering against Indian army? No; viral video is unrelated to India-Pakistan conflict

Shinjinee Majumder12th May 2025

A video of a group of people chanting slogans, allegedly against the Indian army, is viral. In the video, the people, some of whom wear turbans and appear to be…