scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Monday, October 13, 2025
HomeHoaXposed

HoaXposed

Fact Check: Video from Milad-un-Nabi in Maharashtra falsely tagged as Congress election rally in Akola

Viral video is from a bike rally in Latur, Maharashtra, on occasion of Milad-un-Nabi in September. Flags seen in video are Islamic flags & there's no 'ISIS flag' as is being claimed.

Fack Check: Gadkari didn’t attack Modi in his speech. He was talking about caste politics

At a recent rally, Nitin Gadkari said he would kick anyone who talks about caste to gain votes. He did not name PM Modi or any other individual.

Fact Check: Sena (UBT)’s Sanjay Raut didn’t promise higher financial aid to Muslim women if MVA wins

Viral graphic bears logo of Pudhari News. The Marathi news outlet has confirmed that it never carried any such statement by Raut & that font used in viral image is different from theirs.

Fact Check: Amit Shah didn’t address Champai Soren disrespectfully at Jharkhand election rally

The short clip of Union home minister encouraging Soren to come forward on stage has been edited. Soren, ex-JMM leader, had joined BJP in August 2024. He'll contest from Saraikella seat.

Fact Check: ‘Jai Shri Ram’ video isn’t linked to Maharashtra polls. It’s from 2022, shot in UP

A two-year-old video of people chanting "Jai Shri Ram" in a Kanpur housing society is being shared with the false claim that it is a recent recording from Maharashtra.

Fact Check: Yogi didn’t refer to Salman Khan in interview, video altered to replace ‘Islam’ with ‘Salman’

A social media user shared a clip from a 2023 ABP News interview with UP CM Yogi Adityanath, claiming he was referring to actor Salman Khan, asking him to 'follow the law of India'.

Fact Check: Hemant Soren didn’t promise free shrouds before Jharkhand polls. It’s a 2021 video

News outlets reported in 2021 that the Jharkhand government had announced the distribution of free shrouds for patients dying of Covid-19.

Fact Check: Islamic flag mistaken for Pakistan’s at NCP rally in poll-bound Maharashtra

Image from the rally with the flag in background was shared on social media with the claim that it was Pakistan’s. However, it lacks the vertical stripe seen on Pakistan’s flag.

Fact Check: Yogi didn’t campaign on bulldozer in Maharashtra, video circulated with false claim

Video is from BJP candidate Harish Pimple's rally in Murtizapur in Akola, Maharashtra, from 6 November. A party worker had dressed in saffron like Adityanath and stood on the bulldozer.

Fact Check: Social media posts on credentials of ministers are from 2021, not Modi 3.0

In 2021, the cabinet was reshuffled for the first time during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second term. 

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.