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Telangana police mock drill video viral as terror attack in Tirupathi Tirumala bypass road

Pooja Chaudhuri23rd January 2019

A video viral on social media is being circulated with claims that one terrorist was killed and three were arrested at Tirupathi Tirumala bypass road. The video has been shared…

Did gun toting men force people to participate in TMC’s mega rally? No, its an old India Today broadcast

Jignesh Patel23rd January 201923rd January 2019

A video of an India Today broadcast showing masked men waving guns at people has gone viral on social media. Masked men in the video can be seen brandishing guns…

No, terrorist Syed Salahuddin did not contest Kashmir elections on Congress ticket in 1987

Pooja Chaudhuri23rd January 201923rd January 2019

A Facebook page Narendra Modi – True Indian shared a post on January 22, claiming that Syed Mohammed Yusuf Shah, popularly known as Syed Salahuddin, had contested Kashmir assembly elections in 1987 on…

Amit Shah falsely claims ‘Vande mataram’ & ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ slogans not raised at TMC’s Mega Rally

Pooja Chaudhuri22nd January 2019

At his rally in West Bengal’s Malda, BJP president Amit Shah claimed that no slogans of ‘Vande Mataram’ and ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ were raised during the Opposition’s Mahagathbandhan rally….

No, Mamata Banerjee did not exclusively promote Islam or Urdu at the United India rally

Jignesh Patel22nd January 2019

After the mahagatbandhan rally in Kolkata organized by the TMC, social media user Gaurav Pradhan tweeted a screenshot of a television news broadcast attributing a statement to West Bengal CM Mamata…

Fake news about Modi govt to print currency notes featuring former PM late Atal Bihari Vajpayee shared on social media

Pooja Chaudhuri21st January 2019

An article recently viral on social media suggests that the PM Modi-led government has taken a “historic step” of printing Indian currency notes featuring former prime minister late Atul Bihari…

#10YearsChallenge: BJP Karnataka tweets three sets of images, get all three wrong

Jignesh Patel19th January 201919th January 2019

On January 17, BJP Karnataka tweeted a collage of images drawing comparison between 2009 and 2019 to depict the positive changes in India brought about by the Modi-led government at…

BJP Bihar passes off a 2009 image as its development project in the last 5 years

Pooja Chaudhuri18th January 2019

The official Twitter handle of BJP Bihar shared purported before and after pictures of a stretch of road to depict infrastructural development achieved by the state government in the last…

Images of PM Modi taking a dip during 2004 Kumbh Mela shared as recent

Jignesh Patel18th January 201918th January 2019

A set of images featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking a holy dip in a river has gone viral on social media. It is claimed that the Prime Minister took…

BJP uses misleading images to showcase Western Peripheral Expressway