Politics

Muslim family murdered by Bajrang Dal in UP? Video from Pakistan viral with false claim

Pawan Kumar25th July 2025

Trigger Warning: Disturbing Details, Mention of Dead Bodies  The story uses only screenshots and not the actual video in question in view of the extremely graphic nature of the footage. …

Dhaka tragedy: AI images circulated by media as actual footage of jet crash into Uttara school

Ankita Mahalanobish24th July 2025

While reporting on the aviation disaster in Dhaka in which a military jet crashed into a school building killing at least 31 people, some media outlets used photos of an…

Screenshots from scripted video shared with claims that 72-year-old man married 21-year old woman

Pawan Kumar23rd July 2025

A set of photographs of an elderly man and a young woman dressed in wedding attire and wearing garlands is viral on social media. Those sharing these images claimed that…

ECI and Patna admin’s rebuttal of Ajit Anjum’s SIR ‘exposé’ has several loopholes

Abhishek Kumar22nd July 202523rd July 2025

With the Election Commission’s special intensive revision (SIR) of voter list underway in poll-bound Bihar, several reports have emerged highlighting irregularities and flaws in the said exercise. Employees at multiple…

Viral images of Ajay Devgn and Shahid Afridi are from 2024 legends’ cricket tournament

Ankita Mahalanobish22nd July 2025

Even as a veterans’ cricket match scheduled on Sunday between India and Pakistan in the World Championship of Legends (WCL) was cancelled, images of actor Ajay Devgn engaged in a…

Alt News finds Punjab police’s X account shared & deleted contentious post alluding to George Floyd’s killing; police deny

Oishani Bhattacharya19th July 202520th July 2025

The Punjab Police has drawn flak on social media over a controversial post allegedly shared on its X account (@PunjabPoliceInd) that draws parallels with a horrific incident of custodial death…

After Cong leader Pappu Yadav stopped from entering Rahul Gandhi, Tejashwi’s car in Bihar, old video of him crying viral

Prantik Ali17th July 2025

A video of Lok Sabha member Rajesh Ranjan, also known as Pappu Yadav, breaking into tears is being widely shared on social media. In the video, a crying Yadav, sitting…

Man seen with Rahul Gandhi in viral selfie is not the judge who granted him bail but a lawyer

Oishani Bhattacharya16th July 2025

On July 15, 2025, a special magistrate court for members of Parliament (MPs) and Legislative Assemblies (MLAs) in Lucknow granted bail to Congress leader and MP Rahul Gandhi in a…

Glass shards on Kanwar Yatra route: Delhi Police rubbishes sabotage, communal conspiracy claims

Oishani Bhattacharya16th July 2025

Glass shards strewn on a stretch of road in Dilshad Garden area in Delhi’s Shahdara district through which Kanwariyas were to travel on foot — footage of this took the…

‘Overstepping threshold of freedom of speech’: Cartoonist under fire over edited toon gets interim relief

Oishani Bhattacharya16th July 2025

On July 15, the Supreme Court granted Indore-based cartoonist Hemant Malviya interim relief from arrest. The top court’s direction comes a day after it reproached the cartoonist over an “inflammatory”…