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Bihar Police refutes Sudarshan News report on ‘Bangladeshi extremists’ disguised as monks in Gopalganj

Abhishek Kumar16th December 202516th December 2025

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…

Mahua Moitra caught smoking in Parliament? She was not even in Delhi on Dec 11

Ankita Mahalanobish15th December 202515th December 2025

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…

Odisha violence: Villagers attacked by tribals in Malkangiri not ‘illegal Bangladeshi settlers’

Ankita Mahalanobish & Indradeep Bhattacharyya12th December 2025

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…

Three arrested for assault on Muslim chicken patty seller during Gita recital event in Kolkata

Shinjinee Majumder11th December 202511th December 2025

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…

SIR gives BJP fresh excuse to demonize Muslims and create polarization; Bengal, Delhi units lead the way

Ankita Mahalanobish10th December 202511th December 2025

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,…

Babri Masjid vs. Gita recital: Months ahead of polls, Bengal politics takes headlong communal plunge

Shinjinee Majumder & Prantik Ali10th December 2025

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…

Old video of aviation minister K R Naidu dancing falsely viral amid Indigo crisis

Ankita Mahalanobish10th December 2025

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…

Hindi is not India’s national language; Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose amplifies oft-repeated falsehood

Oishani Bhattacharya9th December 2025

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…

Zee, ABP, News 18, India TV face NBDSA flak for ‘Love Jihad’ spin to NCERT text book lesson

Oishani Bhattacharya8th December 20258th December 2025

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…

Asaduddin Owaisi performing aarti of Hanuman? Viral video is AI-generated

Prantik Ali6th December 20256th December 2025

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…

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