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Old image from Bihar shared as man in Kolkata standing on Indian national flag

Kinjal7th August 20208th August 2020

A picture of a man standing on the Indian national is floating on social media the past few days. The person has the Pakistani flag wrapped around him and a…

Video from Karachi shared as boy rescued from manhole during heavy rains in Mumbai

Kinjal7th August 2020

Pictures of flooded roads due to heavy monsoons in Mumbai are widespread on social media. The downpour on August 5 broke a 46-year-old record. In 12 hours, Mumbai witnessed 294mm of…

Video from South Africa shared as man cuddling with cheetah in Pipleshwar Mahadev temple

Archit7th August 20203rd August 2021

Several social media users have shared a video of a person sleeping with cheetahs. As per the claim, the video is from Pipleshwar Mahadev, a Rajasthan-based Hindu temple in Mochhal….

Chennai skating boy misidentified as ‘Jamal Mallik’, fictional character from ‘Slumdog Millionaire’

Kinjal6th August 2020

A video of a young boy performing stunts on rollerskates has gone viral on social media. As per claims, the boy is “Jamal Malik from Mumbai”. Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA…

Video from China shared as vehicles driving on potholed road in Mumbai

Pooja Chaudhuri6th August 20207th August 2020

A video of vehicles driving over a huge pothole on the road has been shared with the claim that it is from Mumbai. #vehicles suspension testing in #Mumbai #RoadSafety #MumbaiRains…

Moscow’s forest soccer field shared as football ground in Ukhrul, Manipur

Archit5th August 20205th August 2020

Several Facebook and Twitter users have posted an image of a football ground surrounded by trees. As per social media claims, the football ground is from Ukhrul in Manipur. A…

Delhi doctor’s arrest in kidney transplant racket viral with false COVID angle

Archit5th August 202019th April 2021

Several Facebook users have shared a message that claims that a doctor named Devendra Sharma was arrested for surgically removing the kidneys of healthy people by falsely declaring them COVID…

Coronavirus: Old video of crowded KR Market in Bengaluru shared as recent

Kinjal3rd August 20203rd August 2020

A video of a crowded market is being widely shared on social media. The video has been shot from a high vantage point and shows people shopping. On July 31,…

Mock drill video shared as terrorist caught by Delhi police in Gaffar market

Pooja Chaudhuri31st July 2020

A video of policemen escorting a man from the basement of a building has been shared on social media as “terrorist” caught in Delhi’s Gaffar market. The person recording the…

Old video from South Africa shared as monkeys inside hospital in India

Kinjal29th July 2020

A video of monkeys inside a hospital ward was shared by Pakistan-based Geo News reporter Murtaza Ali Shah as India on June 26. A hospital somehere in India taken over…

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Muslim husband beat up Hindu wife? No, photos of Bangladeshi couple viral with Islamophobic ‘Abdul’ trope

Javed Akhtar, Banu Mushtaq and the contagion of religious sentiments getting hurt