
Digitally altered image of Ousted PM Hasina and Indian PM Modi Goes Viral. Here are the Facts.
An image has recently surfaced on social media platform X(formerly Twitter) showing ousted Bangladeshi PM Hasina with Indian PM Narendra Modi and a snowfall climatic background. Several users have shared the image on social media platforms, claiming that Sheikh Hasina and Narendra Modi have gone to Ladakh amidst the tensions at the India-China border, quoting Hindustan Times as its source.
Sharing this image on Facebook, a user wrote: “Sheikh Hasina and Narendra Modi have gone to lakhs amidst the tensions of India and Chin border-Hindustan Times” (Translated from Bengali)

Interestingly, other users also shared this image and made a similar claim. The Preview link can be seen here.
Fact-Check
In the probe, the DFRAC team found that the viral image had been digitally altered. The original image is from 2009 showing ousted PM Hasina at Lund University of Denmark.
If ousted PM Hasina visited Ladakh with Indian PM Modi, it would definitely hit the headlines in the mainstream but we found that no such reports were available online supporting this claim.
For further investigation, we reverse-searched this image using Google Lens which led us to a report from larseklund carrying a similar image showing Hasina only, not Indian PM Modi.

The report stated that Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, visited Lund University on Saturday 19 December 2009. She was a key participant at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) that took place in neighbouring Copenhagen during the period 7–19 December 2009. Moreover, she held a public lecture about ”Climate Change in Bangladesh – Facing the Challenges”
Furthermore, we also found the archive version of this report showing the same image with Hasina only and stating similar facts.
Hence, the image of PM Modi has been digitally added to the original image since he has not visited the Lund University in Denmark in 2009 when Sheikh Hasina was serving as the PM of Bangladesh.
Conclusion
It is clear from DFRAC’s fact-check that the above viral image of ousted Bangladeshi PM Hasina and Indian PM Modi is digitally altered. In reality, the original image dates back to 2009 and shows Sheikh Hasina’s visit to Lund University in Denmark.