Politics

Incident of cheating in PWD exam in Chhattisgarh given false communal narrative

Pawan Kumar29th July 2025

A video purportedly from Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur is being widely circulated with claims that a woman in a burqa was caught with devices used for cheating during the entrance exam for…

Video of wife ‘cheating’ on husband viral with communal claims that lover hid Muslim identity is actually scripted

Pawan Kumar29th July 202529th July 2025

A video in which a woman is allegedly caught cheating by her husband is viral on social media with communal claims. Social media users claim that a married Muslim man…

Video of Chinese solar power plant viral as BJP govt’s feat in Gujarat

Oishani Bhattacharya29th July 2025

A 19-second clip showing a floating solar panel plant apparently from Gujarat is viral on social media. Several users on social media have praised the BJP government in Gujarat for…

‘Poor should remain poor’: Bengal BJP shares clipped video distorting context of Mamata’s 2024 Martyrs’ Day remarks

Prantik Ali25th July 2025

A couple of days after Trinamool Congress’s annual July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally in Kolkata, Bengal BJP’s official X handle shared a video claiming that West Bengal chief minister Mamata…

Assamese film shoot video falsely shared as gangrape-murder in Jharkhand

Abhishek Kumar25th July 2025

A video in which a woman is seen lying in the bushes with a crowd gathered around her is doing the rounds on social media. A group of policemen are…

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…