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Did Bombay Stock Exchange billboard read ‘Dont Vote For Modi’? Satirical image goes viral

Arjun Sidharth21st April 2019

A photograph of the Bombay Stock Exchange has been circulated widely on multiple social media and messaging platforms, which shows the electronic billboard of the exchange displaying the text ‘DONT…

Navjot Singh Sidhu chants ‘Allah-o Akhbar’? Clipped video viral

Pooja Chaudhuri21st April 2019

A video of Congress MP Navjot Singh Sidhu chanting “Allah-o Akhbar” to a crowd of people which is repeating then slogan after him is viral on social media. Among those…

Fact-check: Did Ravish Kumar’s reportage on Pragya Thakur exhibit religious bias?

Pooja Chaudhuri20th April 201921st April 2019

Two separate broadcasts by senior journalist Ravish Kumar have been juxtaposed together and circulated on social media. The two videos played in quick succession attempt to portray the journalist as…

Amit Malviya targets Yogendra Yadav via edited video clip after TV debate face-off

Alt News Desk20th April 2019

BJP IT cell head, Amit Malviya was recently involved in a face off on a debate on India Today with Yogendra Yadav, the National President of Swaraj India party, where…

False claim: Congress leaders photographed with the same elderly woman in multiple pictures

Pooja Chaudhuri19th April 2019

A set of images circulating on social media attempts to show Congress leaders embracing the same elderly woman in all the three photographs “ये अम्मा कांग्रेस की रजिस्टर्ड दुखियारी है।…

Incident of 2016 passed off as harassment of pastor by Hindu Yuva Vahini workers in UP

Arjun Sidharth19th April 2019

“This is India… In Uttar Pradesh a Christian pastor is being given a donkey ride after shaving his head in half. This inhuman act was done by the activists of…

BJP rally in Kolkata? No, this is a digitally generated crowd

Jignesh Patel19th April 2019

“This is not sand in front of the two bald heads. it is human crowd at the BJP Kolkata rally. Yesterday was an unusual day in Kolkata. Modi ji was…

Video of alleged EVM malfunction during 2017 UP civic polls viral as that of Lok Sabha elections

Pooja Chaudhuri19th April 2019

A video widely shared on social media shows a man voting for the BSP but the EVM machine registers a vote for the BJP. It is being claimed that the…

No, Google CEO Sundar Pichai did not vote in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls

Jignesh Patel19th April 201919th April 2019

With the conclusion of the second phase of elections on Thursday, a photo of Google CEO Sundar Pichai is doing the rounds on social media. Majority of the users are…

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Kangana Ranaut was not shown the middle finger at a performance; viral video is from an event in Pakistan

‘Jihadis’ pelting stone at paramilitary convoy in Kashmir after India-Pak ceasefire? Old video, false claim