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Sudhir Chaudhary, CNN-News18 share graphic caning video, but it’s not from Karachi

Chaudhary and CNN-News18 falsely suggested video showed a Chinese engineer attacking a Pakistani driver in Karachi. Original video is from Malaysia.

Manmohan Singh didn’t hold sweet box like a ‘servant’ for Gandhi family, Rahul held it too

Author Shefali Vaidya shared an image on Twitter, saying the former PM was holding a sweet box like a ‘family servant’, while Rahul and Sonia Gandhi were mingling with people.

Woman, hanging from a tree in viral image, was not killed by a Muslim but by her ‘lover’

The image was also shared with captions that wrongly claimed that the woman was a Dalit. Media reports said she was killed by her lover as he wanted to hide the affair.

Viral photo of Indira Gandhi addressing Army jawans is from Leh, not Galwan Valley

Many Congress handles & party leaders have shared the picture to draw a contrast with what they call PM Modi’s ‘surrender’, but it’s not factually accurate.

Images of Sushant Singh Rajput’s ‘suicidal’ posts go viral, but he didn’t tweet after Dec 2019

The images surfaced Sunday afternoon as news of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput's suicide broke.

AAP shares images of Covid bed facility at Pragati Maidan, Congress MLA says it’s in Mumbai

AAP members and several pages on social media shared the post, claiming that a 2,500-bed Covid-19 facility was being set up in Delhi’s Pragati Maidan.

Viral video of ‘Sanskrit letter’ from Ayodhya excavation is actually a ‘Hebrew’ artefact

A 28-second video of a ‘Sanskrit letter’ inside a copper vessel is being falsely claimed to have been excavated from the Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya.

Photos of man breaking woman’s body at the hip goes viral, but it’s not from this year

Social media users claimed absence of govt facilities during lockdown forced man to break the body in order to transport it in a sack.

Social media claims this video is of people fighting on Eid. Here’s the fact

Social media users, including one belonging to a verified Twitter handle, shared the video claiming members of a family were engaged in a fight on Eid.

Sambit Patra marks 6 ‘cars and autos’ on Priyanka Gandhi’s vehicle list, gets it 50% wrong

Sambit Patra claims in tweet that out of the 1,000 buses provided by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to ferry migrants in UP, some are actually ambulances, cars, autos and scooters.

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.

Indian Coast Guard seizes Iranian fishing vessel, rescues six Indian crew members

The ICG said in a statement that the boat was seized and brought to Kochi for further investigation on May 6.

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.