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Photo of lunch hosted by Sardar Patel falsely viral as Maulana Azad’s Iftar party

Vansh Shah8th April 2023

Some social media users have shared a picture of important leaders from the Cabinet of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, including B R Ambedkar and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, sharing a…

Hate Speech: At Hyderabad Ram Navami rally, T Raja Singh ups the ante against Muslims, calls for Hindu Rashtra

Shinjinee Majumder & Kalim Ahmed6th April 2023

Taking part in the Ram Navami Shobha Yatra in Hyderabad on March 30, suspended BJP MLA T Raja Singh delivered yet another communally charged speech rife with open calls for…

Dumped passports found: 2018 video viral with false claim about ‘illegal Muslim settlers’

Vansh Shah5th April 2023

A video is viral where some youngsters can be seen picking up trashed passports from a paddy field alongside a village road. Social media users have shared this video with…

Exclusive: Network of shadow Facebook pages spending crores on ads to target Oppn are connected to BJP

Abhishek Kumar4th April 202317th April 2023

For the last few years, political propaganda on social media has been a part and parcel of electoral politics across the world. Alongside that, advertising has become an important tool…

Video of BMC demolition drive in Santacruz viral as ‘bulldozer Raj’ in Uttar Pradesh

Vansh Shah3rd April 2023

A video has been making rounds on social media where an aged man can be seen lying down in front of a bulldozer. He then gets up and can be…

Jains contribute 24% of total income tax in India? Unfounded claim viral for years

Abhishek Kumar1st April 2023

From time to time, different types of claims regarding the Jain community circulate on public forums, online communities and social media. The reach of these claims is so wide that…

Rampyari Gurjar led 40,000 soldiers to defeat Timur? No credible evidence to back such claim

Indradeep Bhattacharyya31st March 202311th April 2023

Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on March 11 unveiled a statue of Kotwal Dhan Singh Gurjar at a police training school in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. During his speech at the programme, he…

Right Wing users falsely claim Rahul Gandhi deleted Savarkar tweets, then delete their own tweets

Indradeep Bhattacharyya29th March 202330th March 2023

Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s grandson Ranjit Savarkar on Monday, March 27, said he would file an FIR against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi if the latter did not apologize for…

Video from China viral as trial run of train on Chenab bridge in J&K

Vansh Shah29th March 2023

The highest railway bridge in the world, which will link Katra and Banihal and span the Chenab River at a height of 359 meters, is under construction in Jammu and…

CPI not among top 20 deadliest terror groups; Aussie thinktank rectifies error

Abira Das28th March 2023

The screenshot of a report on the ‘Global Terrorism Index 2023’ published by the Institute of Economics and Peace (IEP) is viral on social media. The picture was a list…

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Exclusive: ‘+6.30’ in Rahul Gandhi’s ‘vote theft’ PDF metadata does not prove it’s made in Myanmar

KP Sharma Oli only Nepalese PM to never visit India? No, he visited as PM in 2016 & 2018