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Friday, August 8, 2025
TopicFake news

Topic: fake news

Fact Check: Photo of Gandhi family lunch predates Manmohan Singh’s death, taken in a Delhi restaurant

Image of Sonia, Rahul & Priyanka Gandhi with Priyanka's husband, daughter & mother-in-law has gone viral with claims that it shows them in Vietnam after the former PM's death.

Fact Check: Rahul Gandhi didn’t skip Manmohan Singh’s funeral, viral claims are false

Rahul, along with other senior Congress leaders, paid his last respects to the late former PM. Rahul, Priyanka & Sonia Gandhi were also present at party HQ in Delhi to pay their respects.

Fact Check: No tax on regular UPI payments, 1.1% charge only on PPI instruments like digital wallets

An X user claimed that starting rom 1 April, transfers above Rs 2,000 via UPI will be taxed. The 1.1% tax has been applicable only on Prepaid Payment Instruments since 2023.

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: 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: Video of Nitish meeting INDIA bloc leaders is from 2023, before he left Oppn allliance

The viral video, which shows Nitish Kumar meeting Congress's Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, along with RJD's Tejashvi Yadav, is from last year, before the Bihar CM joined NDA.

Fact Check: Boarding pass hinting at Rahul Gandhi’s plans to leave India on 5 June is photoshopped

The photo of the original boarding pass, assigned to Ajay Awtaney, was featured in a 2019 article published on a website named 'Live From A Lounge'.

Fact Check: Shah Rukh Khan did not say ‘Rahul Gandhi will be next PM’ on X, viral post is fake

No such post was found on the actor's X profile and an analysis of his account’s activity log on a social media analytics website found that no post was deleted recently.

On Camera

US has misread India. New Delhi will hedge, push back, and assert

India’s foreign policy today is driven less by Western alignment or global liberalism and more by domestic political imperatives — economic, ideological, and electoral.

Smartphones, gems, pharma: Which Indian exports will be worst hit by Trump tariffs, which will be spared

Electronics—specifically smartphones—& energy & pharma products make up 30% of Indian exports to US. 25% tariff on India came into effect Thursday, extra 25% to kick in by August-end.

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to attend CENTCOM chief’s farewell, second visit to US in two months

Munir was earlier in America in June when he had a two-hour luncheon meeting with the US president at the White House.

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.