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Waqf Board did not stake claim on Maha Kumbh Mela ground; Yogi Adityanath’s claim false

Diti Pujara4th April 2025

The Rajya Sabha cleared the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025 in the early hours of April 4 after a 14-hour long debate, paving the way for it to become a law…

El Salvador prison video falsely shared to claim US treated Indian deportees better than those of Muslim countries

Prantik Ali3rd April 20253rd April 2025

A video, around a minute-long, is viral on social media with the claim that it shows American military personnel in the process of deporting illegal immigrants from Islamic countries. The…

Woman thrown under moving train after gangrape in Bangladesh? No. Video is scripted

Abira Das1st April 2025

Note: The report only uses blurred screenshots instead of the scripted clip because the visuals may be triggering for some readers. A video showing a headless woman’s body on railway tracks…

Nagpur clashes: Cryptic cauliflower memes referring to mass killings in 1989 Bhagalpur riots resurface

Oishani Bhattacharya & Prantik Ali30th March 202523rd May 2025

Often, innocuous-seeming symbols are encrypted with coded messages. For instance, in the United States, a hangman’s noose is associated with the far-Right, White supremacist group Ku Klux Klan (or the…

Old video from Bangladesh viral as Muslims attacking Hindus in Bengal’s Malda district

Shinjinee Majumder29th March 202529th March 2025

At least 34 people were arrested and internet services shut down in West Bengal’s Malda district after communal clashes were reported from Mothabari and surrounding areas. Tension erupted on Wednesday,…

Ex-Columbia scholar Ranjani Srinivasan refutes US’ ‘self-deportation’ claim; uni head resigns amid Trump crackdown

Indradeep Bhattacharyya29th March 202529th March 2025

Ranjani Srinivasan, the former Columbia University (CU) PhD scholar from Chennai, has refuted media reports and US homeland security secretary Kristy Noem’s claim that she self-deported from the US. Speaking…

Muslim youth threatens to get policeman suspended? Scripted video viral

Pawan Kumar28th March 2025

A 24 second video is currently viral on social media with the caption “Salim threatened the police”. In the video, a man wearing a cap generally worn by Muslims threatens…

Flying coconut: Clipped video of News Nation show ‘Operation Pakhand’ viral with false claims

Abhishek Kumar28th March 2025

A clip from news channel News Nation featuring a man making a coconut fly in the air using some hand gestures has been doing the rounds on social media. However,…

Holi 2025: Consent goes for a toss again; violence against women, religious minorities takes front seat

Oishani Bhattacharya & Shinjinee Majumder28th March 20254th April 2025

On Holi this year, Congress-ruled Telangana became an easy target for the Opposition. Leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party went all guns blazing after the Hyderabad and Cyberabad police issued…

Nagpur violence: Video evidence disproves CM Fadnavis’s claim that burnt effigy had no religious text

Shinjinee Majumder26th March 2025

Simmering communal tensions led to violent clashes in Nagpur on March 17. Right-wing outfits, such as the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal, led protests seeking the removal of…

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Sonam Wangchuk ‘safe & sound’, confirms his wife amid deepfakes announcing his ‘death’ going viral

Attack against Muslims in India? No, viral video of woman collapsing is from Bangladesh