Security guards stabbed in suspected hate crime in Mumbai’s Mira Road; ATS joins probe
In what is being perceived as a communal hate crime, two security guards were allegedly stabbed in Mumbai after being asked about their religion in the early hours of April...
Clash in Murshidabad? Old video from Varanasi given communal spin, falsely linked to Bengal polls
A video, around 21 seconds in length, is viral on social media, purporting to show a group of Hindu men thrash a Muslim man named Nazrul Islam in West Bengal’s...
A video of a massive crowd of people from the Muslim community gathered in a madrasa has been shared with the claim that it shows an Iftar gathering hosted in…
Despite India facing a severe second wave of COVID-19, the central government did not ban religious gathering for Kumbh Mela in Haridwar. About 35 lakh pilgrims have gathered at the…
Nearly 30 lakh people have gathered by the banks of the Ganga in Haridwar for the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the largest religious gatherings in the world. As the…
[Warning: The video shows violence and may be distressing for some readers.] A gruesome video is being circulated on social media with the claim that a young Muslim labourer was…
Videos showing violence against woman take little time to be circulated with ‘love jihad’ claims in India. Two videos have recently been shared with similar communal overtones. In the first,…
Around the first week of April, several social media users posted an image of a policeman interrogating a couple, while passers-by record the incident on phone cameras. The image has…
West Bengal elections have become a hotspot for communal misinformation as claims suggesting that the Mamata Banerjee government is unsympathetic towards the state’s Hindu population are widespread. In the latest…
A photograph of a rioting mob has been shared amid West Bengal elections with the claim that it depicts violence against Hindus in Hooghly. #StandWithBengalHindus is the hashtag used along…
Recently, a claim has been making the rounds on social media that the trustee of Mumbai’s famous Siddhivinayak Temple is a man named Salim, while the president of the Tirupati…
A disturbing video of a man sexually assaulting a girl while another records the act has been shared with the claim that a Muslim woman ‘handed over’ her Hindu friend…