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Bengaluru murder: Right Wing’s communal narratives fall flat as accused identified as Mukti Ranjan Ray from Odisha

Shinjinee Majumder26th September 202427th September 2024

The dismembered body of a 29-year-old woman was discovered inside a refrigerator in her home in Bengaluru’s Vyalikaval neighbourhood on Saturday, September 21. The victim, identified as Mahalakshmi, worked at…

Shimla SP: Same date of birth on Aadhaar cards result of default auto-fill; rejects ‘propaganda’ & ‘false narrative’

Ankita Mahalanobish26th September 2024

Against the backdrop of the recent communal flare-ups in Shimla, several social media users have claimed that 35 immigrant Muslim shop owners in Shimla were found with the same Aadhaar…

Baghpat: Religious ensigns on bikes of Muslim youths peddled as Pakistani flags; video falsely viral

Pawan Kumar24th September 2024

A video has been circulating widely on social media showing a crowd stopping bike riders, verbally abusing them, and accusing them of waving the Pakistani flag. In the footage, a…

Did K C Venugopal state Congress would abolish reservations? No, viral newspaper clipping is fake

Abhishek Kumar24th September 202424th September 2024

A newspaper clipping has gone viral on social media, which carries a report on Congress general secretary K C Venugopal’s ‘statement’ that Congress’s biggest target was to abolish reservations in…

Tirupati: Details of Pakistani company ‘A R Foods’ falsely viral with communal spin to ‘laddoo’ row

Prantik Ali24th September 2024

Amid the raging controversy over the alleged use of animal fat in the making of Tirupati ‘laddoo’, several social media users have claimed that the ghee used in the preparation…

Man arrested for desecrating idols in Faridpur temple is not an Indian, but a Bangladeshi

Ankita Mahalanobish23rd September 202423rd September 2024

Several social media users have claimed that an Indian national named Sanjit Biswas was arrested in Bangladesh for vandalising idols of Hindu deities in two temples in the Faridpur district….

Sex workers beaten up in Dhaka: Video falsely viral as attack on Hindus for not wearing burqa

Prantik Ali20th September 2024

A video is viral on social media which shows a man in a blue T-shirt and carrying a stick, chasing and attacking at least two women in the busy streets…

2016 photo from China falsely viral as AIIMS doctors paying last respects to Sitaram Yechury

Ankita Mahalanobish19th September 202419th September 2024

Bengali daily and CPI(M) mouthpiece Ganashakti published a photograph in its September 17 edition which shows doctors bowing their heads in front of what appears to be a dead body…

Adani Group: Viral ‘press release’ with admission of bribery in Kenya is fake

Abhishek Kumar18th September 2024

Recently, several agreements have been signed between India’s Adani Group and the Kenyan government, including one on the leasing of Kenya’s main international airport to the Adani Group and constructing…

Ganesha idol in Bengaluru police van: Viral claims misleading; PM Modi leads Right Wing’s misinformation campaign

Ankita Mahalanobish18th September 202419th September 2024

Addressing a public meeting at Kurukshetra in poll-bound Haryana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on September 14, 2024, “In Congress-ruled Karnataka, even Ganpati is being put in jail. They have…