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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…

Vladimir Putin’s plane escorted by IAF jets? 8-year-old video falsely viral

Abhishek Kumar6th December 2025

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited India on December 4 and 5, 2025, for the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit. A video has since gone viral on social media, showing Putin seated…

The long march to Hindu Rashtra: From meat ban to ‘Mandir Wahi Banega’ — Bageshwar Baba’s padyatra had it all

Prantik Ali5th December 20255th December 2025

The 10-day ‘Sanatan Hindu Ekta Padyatra’ organized last month by Hindutva icon Dhirendra Shastri lived up to expectations as the apparently ‘apolitical’ rally turned into a platform for aggressive political…

Muslim driver ‘assaulted’ in Agra over ‘Jai Sri Ram’: Arrested Rohit Thakur has a history of similar cases

Shinjinee Majumder5th December 20256th December 2025

A week after a 57-year-old Muslim taxi driver from Agra was allegedly harassed and assaulted for refusing to chant Jai Sri Ram, the main accused, Rohit Thakur, has been arrested….

Video of Udhayanidhi Stalin using computer ‘without switching it on’ is AI generated

Prantik Ali5th December 2025

A video is viral on social media seemingly showing deputy chief minister of Tamil Nadu Udhayanidhi Stalin working on a computer with a blank, unlit screen, while three or four…

Indian real estate firm Prestige Group has no connection with Hong Kong building that caught fire

Ankita Mahalanobish3rd December 20253rd December 2025

After the inferno at Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong’s Tai Po area claimed the lives of at least 151 people, an X account named RTSG News claimed that the…

Viral video of man trying to fly using makeshift wings is AI-generated

Oishani Bhattacharya3rd December 2025

A 10-second-long clip showing a man attempting to fly off a building using a makeshift flying machine and then falling down on the roof of a car is viral on…

Deepfake alert: Videos of Ravish Kumar, Shiv Aroor and Palki Sharma reporting on NDA leaders’ Pak overtures viral

Shinjinee Majumder1st December 2025

A video circulating online shows journalist Ravish Kumar accusing Bihar’s National Democratic Alliance (NDA) leaders of funding Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) through offshore accounts to propagate a pro-India stand around Operation…

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

Ankita Mahalanobish29th November 20253rd December 2025

Clippings from news bulletins apparently reporting Sonam Wangchuk’s death in the Jodhpur Central Jail have surfaced on social media and are being widely shared across platforms. Some of these purported…

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Balasore horror: Cow vigilantes who ‘lynched’ Makandar Mohammad were known to him

4 hate speech events per day in 2025; 88% in BJP-ruled places: CSoH report confirms India’s slide into hate politics