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Fact Check: Video of IAF plane crash in Rajasthan shared with false claim that it was carrying Assad

IAF had confirmed the incident in September via an X post. The 7-second video is being circulated with the claim that Bashar al-Assad was onboard when it crashed near Homs, Syria.

Fact Check: No idols were found at Sambhal mosque survey. Social media posts are fake

Three idols in the viral social media image were found in Karnataka in February 2024, months before the Sambhal mosque survey was conducted.

Fact Check: Rakesh Tikait wasn’t attacked again in Karnataka. Old video is doing rounds

Clips of Rakesh Tikait have gone viral on social media. They show a man attacking him with a wired microphone, throwing ink on his face, and Tikait is seen in tears.

Fact Check: Video of actor Pankaj Tripathi urging people not to vote for BJP is digitally altered

AAP had shared the altered video on its official X account, and though it was deleted shortly after, it garnered over 65,000 views, 1,000 likes & more than 400 reposts.

Fact Check: Video of Dhoni promoting betting platform Unicon365 is manipulated using AI

Viral clip combines 2 segments from an October 2023 discussion featuring the cricketer. Him talking about Unicon365 is not part of original footage & overlaid using manipulated audio.

Fact Check: Video of January anti-EVM protest in Delhi circulated as from Maharashtra post polls

In Maharashtra, the opposition has been questioning the integrity of EVMs after its defeat, with calls for returning to the use of ballot paper.

Fact Check: Modi did not praise ballot papers over EVMs, video of 2016 speech is cropped

In the original video, available on the Modi's official YouTube channel, the PM praises India's use of EVMs while criticising countries like the US that still rely on ballot papers.

Fact Check: Muslim minor girl’s voting video is not linked to UP by-polls

A viral video from May 2024 is doing rounds on social media, which shows a minor girl trying to vote in Sambalpur constituency with a voter slip of an older woman.

Fact Check: Pushpa 2 trailer launch passed off as MVA meeting in BKC

X users shared videos of a large crowd in an open ground and claimed gathered in support of MVA. In reality, it was for a trailer launch event in Patna for Allu Arjun's upcoming film.

Fact Check: Uddhav didn’t call Mughal ruler brother. He referred to Indian soldier Aurangzeb

Rifleman Aurangzeb belonged to the 4 Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry and was kidnapped and later murdered by militants in Pulwama on 14 June 2018.

On Camera

No Mamata Banerjee, women’s safety isn’t a curfew issue

For Indian women, the smallest unit of control becomes the family; the largest, the State. Both speak the same language.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.