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Fact Check: Claims of Saraswati Puja not being allowed at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University entirely false

Oishani Bhattacharya5th April 2025

Against the backdrop of a video of an Iftar party at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University (JU) going viral, Union minister and BJP West Bengal president Sukanta Majumdar on March 26 took…

Malhar certification, scheme mooted in Maharashtra to promote ‘jhatka meat’, is not a govt initiative

Abhishek Kumar5th April 20255th April 2025

Malhar certification, a recently launched initiative in Maharashtra that aims to identify Jhatka (animal slaughter performed according to Hindu traditions) meat sellers and provide them with certificates, has stirred up…

Scripted video: Viral clip of Muslim man admitting to marrying own daughter is scripted

Pawan Kumar5th April 2025

A video of an elderly man wearing a white kurta and a skullcap sitting with a young girl has been gathering a lot of traction on social media. The elderly…

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…

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All charades dropped: Assam BJP’s AI video shows Himanta ‘shooting point-blank’ at Muslims

Bus stuck at narrowing of lanes on Mumbai flyover? No, photo shared by Kerala Congress is AI-generated