Who is Rishabh Thakur, accused in the attack on Muslim youths at Bareilly birthday party?
When 22-year-old nursing student Shivangi threw a birthday party at a cafe in Bareilly’s Rajendra Nagar on December 27 for her college friends, little did she know that all hell...
Year in review: Deepfakes and AI supercharged disinformation & propaganda in 2025 like never before
It’s AI’s world, and we’re just living in it. The bugle had been sounded long back. Its arrival announced all over. However, it was only in 2025 that fact-checking outlets,...
A video is circulating on social media showing a man who appears to be a Hindu monk with a tilak on his forehead and a scarf bearing Mahakal’s name. He…
After a video went viral showing BJP MP Anurag Thakur complaining to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla about an MP from the Trinamool Congress smoking e-cigarettes inside the Parliament, several…
A day after violence erupted in the Malkangiri district of Odisha between local tribal communities and Bengali settlers, Right-wing social media influencers alleged that an unidentified tribal mob had set…
Kolkata Police on Thursday arrested three persons in connection with the alleged assault on Muslim vendors selling chicken puffs in the Maidan area on December 7, where a large crowd…
The ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has given the BJP a fresh excuse to intensify its politics of hate. Under the garb of sensitising people about SIR,…
With barely a few months to go for assembly elections, West Bengal’s political discourse has taken a headlong communal plunge. On Saturday, December 6, the 32nd anniversary of the Babri…
Amid the recent operational meltdown of IndiGo airlines, a video surfaced on social media featuring Union civil aviation minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu dancing on stage. The video was compared to…
Addressing a large crowd at a Gita recitation event on December 7 at Kolkata’s Brigade parade ground, West Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose made the claim that Hindi was…
Acting on a complaint filed by activists Indrajeet Ghorpade and Utkarsh Mishra, the News Broadcasters & Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) has ordered five television news channels to take down broadcasts…
A video is viral on social media showing AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi performing an aarti in front of an idol of Hanuman. X user Shefali Vaidya shared…