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Kiren Rijiju tweets misleading video about football in India

A self-confessed football enthusiast, Rijiju tweets a video featuring a young boy from Brazil, claiming it’s from India.

Video of ‘assault’ on Imran Khan is from a fall at campaign rally five years ago

The accident occurred as Khan slipped and fell 15 feet while a platform lift was carrying him up to the stage. He was immediately taken to hospital.

Postcard News editor does it again, allegedly posts old photo of Yasin Malik arrest to claim crackdown on separatists

The image tweeted by Mahesh Vikram Hegde has received around 700 retweets and more than 1,600 likes.

HoaXposed: No, Omar Abdullah did not threaten to end the Amarnath Yatra

Facebook post accusing Abdullah of making the threat shared over 27,000 times.

Fake video of suicide bomber in Kashmir is going viral on WhatsApp

The video, of a funeral procession in 2012, is actually from Syria.

HoaXposed: Fake photograph of ‘corrupt politicians being executed’ in China goes viral on WhatsApp

Taken on 7 April, 2004, the photograph is actually of convicts at a sentencing rally in the Chinese city of Wenzhou.

UNESCO declared Indian national anthem as the best, tweets Babita Phogat

Before Phogat could delete the fake news tweet, it had at least 111 retweets and 192 replies.

Tweeted by Mevani, bad photoshop job with a Bollywood jibe goes viral

The actual photo on which the meme is based features just Adityanath and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and dates back to March this year, when the CM had received the Art of Living founder in Gorakhpur. Mevani later apologised for the post.

HoaXposed: Video showing assault on BJP leader on Modi govt anniversary is from 2017 Gorkhaland stir

The video was retweeted by more than 20,000 people on Twitter and liked by more than 1,000.

HoaXposed: National flag not hoisted at Red Fort post sunset because of the code

The picture of the Red Fort without the National Flag in Delhi was shared by more than 29,000 people and had over 12,000 reactions on one Facebook post.

On Camera

How govt brought Vodafone Idea back from the brink & earned a neat profit in the process

In 2021, the government allowed telcos to convert interest on deferred spectrum payments and AGR dues into equity. This made it the single largest stakeholder in Vodafone Idea.

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, 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.