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Fact Check: Photos from Argentina are being wrongly shared as visuals of AAP, INDIA bloc rally

Social media users shared photos from 2022, claiming that it shows massive attendance at the Loktantra Bachao rally.

Fact Check: Modi’s wife hasn’t joined Congress. Fake rumours resurface before every election

According to a 2017 report in The Times of India, the Congress had asked Jashodaben to contest the Gujarat Assembly elections, but she declined.

Fact Check: NIA survey claiming declining support for BJP, growing opposition from youth fake

Viral image lists several key findings from the 'survey', like diminishing appeal of Ram Mandir issue & support for Modi. Official in NIA says agency doesn't conduct any political surveys.

Fact Check: Image of anti-BJP campaign not from Tamil Nadu, from a 2021 pre-poll rally in Kolkata

The image, which shows people holding 'no vote to BJP' posters, is from a protest carried out ahead of West Bengal assembly elections in 2021. It has no links with 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

Fact Check: No BJP leaders ‘beaten up’ in TN, viral video of scuffle between BJP workers from 2023

Original video of the incident from last yr shows that during a rally in Odisha, a fight broke out after a BJP leader was stopped from approaching party state president's jeep.

Fact Check: Viral video makes false claims of ECI undermining AAP’s poll campaign ahead of LS polls

Video shows man removing posters, seemingly of AAP, and leaving BJP flags untouched. Original video is of NSUI's posters being removed in Jaipur, way before model code of conduct kicked in.

Fact Check: CBI hasn’t named Chandrababu Naidu, Nara Lokesh in Vizag drug bust case

The drug haul triggered a political fight between the YSRCP and Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP, just weeks ahead of the Assembly elections. Each party has accused its rival.

Fact Check: Rahul didn’t credit BJP with ‘uniting’ India, a speech he made in MP’s Morena was altered

In original video uploaded on Congress's YouTube channel, which has been edited to make it appear as if Rahul Gandhi is praising BJP, he says, 'BJP's dividing one religion from another'.

Fact Check: Kejriwal didn’t talk about exploiting the poor. Social media video lacks context

In the original video, Arvind Kejriwal advocates changing the system by empowering people instead of helping them through charity.

Fact Check: Mamata Banerjee’s Garden Reach video is morphed. Nobody raised Jai Shri Ram slogans

Mamata Banerjee visited the Paharpur area in West Bengal to address the bereaved families of the 12 people killed in a building collapse.

On Camera

Azad, Antony, Geetha—6 candidates to watch in 2024. Their win can reshape politics in states

While Chandra Shekhar Azad is a streetfighter who has caught the fancy of Dalit youth, Anil Antony is the face of the BJP’s fresh social engineering attempt.

Air India reduces baggage allowance by 5-15 kg, bringing it in line with rest of industry

Air India’s new policy, effective from 2 May, introduces new weight limits for tickets in each of the different 'fare families' — Comfort, Comfort Plus, and Flex.

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley, India registers protest

New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.