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The ‘news’ of Ankita Bauri raped & murdered in Bengal while returning from August 15 protest is fabricated

Prantik Ali21st August 2024

Several social media users have shared the ‘news’ that a girl named Ankita Bauri, a student of Burdwan University in West Bengal, was raped and murdered while she was on…

Arshean Alam social media trial: Alt News probe finds he was at home at the time of the R G Kar rape-murder

Shinjinee Majumder & Oishani Bhattacharya20th August 202420th August 2024

A 31-year-old doctor was allegedly raped and murdered at the state-run RG Kar Medical Hospital and College in Kolkata in the wee hours of August 9. Her body was discovered…

Pelvic girdle, hyoid bone broken? R G Kar victim’s post-mortem report says no fracture found

Oishani Bhattacharya & Pratik Sinha19th August 202421st August 2024

Following the alleged rape and murder of a doctor (postgraduate trainee) at the government-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, various claims about the circumstances of her…

150 grams semen found in R G Kar victim’s body? No, post-mortem report mentions weight of genitalia

Pratik Sinha & Indradeep Bhattacharyya18th August 202419th August 2024

A week into the alleged rape and murder of a doctor (a postgraduate trainee) at Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, several theories have surfaced in public discourse…

Seminar room at R G Kar Hospital – the crime scene – was not impacted by the midnight violence after Kolkata rape & murder

Indradeep Bhattacharyya18th August 202421st August 2024

A week into the alleged rape and murder of a doctor (a postgraduate trainee at the pulmonary medicine department) at Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, several theories…

‘What is our fault?… that we are Hindus?’ Tales of attacks on minorities pour in from Bangladesh

Shinjinee Majumder18th August 2024

“..We always remained silent; whatever the students did, they did well. We had nothing to say. We stayed quiet… everything they did was fine. But today, why should we be…

Muslims, Bengali-speaking migrant workers branded as ‘Bangladeshi’; ‘revenge attacks’ in Delhi, UP, Odisha

Abhishek Kumar17th August 202417th August 2024

Bangladesh was plunged into an unprecedented crisis on August 5 with the ouster of erstwhile Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina following months of violent student protest. Looting and attacks were reported…

Bangladesh: Yet another video of assault on Awami League youth leader viral in India with a communal spin

Kinjal16th August 2024

This story uses screenshots and not actual tweets in view of the graphic nature of the video being fact-checked. The political unrest that erupted in Bangladesh following the student protests…

Bangladeshi man in search of his son: False ‘Hindu’ claim by ANI triggers misinformation, media misreports

Oishani Bhattacharya14th August 202414th August 2024

A video featuring an elderly man sitting on the street with a picture of another man hanging from his neck is being widely shared on social media. In the clip,…

Viral video: Man’s failed attempt to abduct estranged wife in Noakhali falsely shared as attack on Hindus

Oishani Bhattacharya13th August 2024

A distressing video of what appears to be a woman being carried by four men into a car is viral on social media with the claim that it shows a…

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Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma’s speech at Varanasi varsity shared out of context, falsely linked to RSS

Police thrashing TMC workers in Bengal? 2023 video falsely viral on polling day