“World-famous Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan dies in accident” reads an article of Myanmar News in Burmese language on 7th Oct 2021. Recently, some images have been circulated across some websites and social media platforms claiming that Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan died in a plane crash. This claim was circulated across the internet after […]
Continue Reading
On October 13,2021, at the book launch of “Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition” written by Uday Mahurkar and Chirayu Pandit, the Defence Minister of India, Rajnath Singh addressed the gathering and spoke for a few minutes. Upon addressing connections between Savarkar and Gandhi, Rajnath Singh said the following, “Lies were spread […]
Continue Reading
On October 14,2021, Sambit Patra, National Spokesperson from BJP posted a video of a Congress rally led by Priyanka Gandhi Vadhra. In the video it can be seen and Vadhra and a few senior leaders are standing on the podium while azan is playing in the background. Patra claimed that that Vadhra purposefully played the […]
Continue Reading
On October 14,2021, a user named @Palashok_ posted a video of what looks like a news coverage by ANI news. In the video it can be seen that cops were attacked by goons in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur. The cop who was attacked is named Sushma Yadav details the incident that she was attacked by BJP […]
Continue Reading
On October 12,2021 amidst news of the growing coal crisis in Delhi and all over the country, an advertisement by the Aam Aadmi Party began to be shared widely on social media. In the advertisement, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal is asking for citizens to donate coal to the government in order to keep the electricity […]
Continue Reading
Just as assembly elections approaches next year, BJP suffered a blow when two politicians from Uttarakhand Yashpal Arya and Sanjeev Arya left the party, resigned from their seats and joined Congress. They are a father and son duo. Amidst this, an image of BJP politician Rekha Arya started to go viral on Facebook. An image […]
Continue Reading
M. Nageswara Rao is an IPS officer who served as the interim-Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for a brief period in 2019. Rao is now retired but continues to be very active on Twitter where he is known to post polarizing views about a variety of topics. He also regularly writes for Op […]
Continue Reading
On October 12,2021 news began to flash that Covaxin had gotten emergency approval from the government to be administered to children between the ages of 2 and 18. This came as a very good news for everyone as children in India have not yet been vaccinated against COVID-19 The news spread like wildfire on all […]
Continue Reading
On October 13,2021, a hashtag named #RSS_देश_की_शान begun trending on Twitter. Within this hashtag, users who support RSS came forward and voiced their support for the Hindu nationalist organisation. Within this hashtag users particularly used an image of a compound stating that RSS workers built India’s second largest COVID-19 care facility with 6000 beds and […]
Continue Reading
A photo showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi being welcomed with an applause is going viral on Facebook and Twitter. In the picture, Modi can be seen standing at the centre of what looks like a conference. This is being vigorously shared on Facebook in the form of a graphic. However, the same claim on Twitter […]
Continue Reading