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Friday, July 18, 2025
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Topic: SM Hoax Slayer

Viral clip claiming to show Ukraine helicopter crash is from 8 years ago

Shania Mathew -
Several news websites have tweeted screenshots and video of a chopper accident claiming it to be the one that crashed in Kyiv Wednesday.

HoaXposed: Fake viral post claims BJP supporters kicked out of train over 10-year-old girl

Nikhil Rampal -
The video was posted by various groups and pages and has been shared by more than 18000 people from a public group named 'Calcutta Liberals'.

HoaXposed: Rahul Gandhi’s potatoes & gold ‘gaffe’ was actually a dig at Modi’s promises

Talha Ashraf -
Viral 20-second clip that’s being laughed at by BJP bigwigs is actually a shortened version of Rahul Gandhi mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

HoaXposed: Minister shares picture of Korean floating solar plant, claims it’s in Kerala

Sabah Gurmat -
The Kerala power minister shared a photo of what he claimed was a floating solar power plant but it turns out it was a fake.

HoaXposed: BJP Minister shares photo of Vietnamese Bridge claiming it’s in Chhattisgarh

ThePrint Team -
The minister, who received praise for his 'achievement', later deleted the Facebook post

HoaXposed: AAP’s Alka Lamba tweets fake photo of pre-poll survey, deletes

ThePrint Team -
The AAP MLA tweeted 'results of a pre-poll survey' that ABP said it had never done.  ThePrint Reporter Alka Lamba, AAP MLA from Chandni Chowk, tweeted...

HoaXposed: Navbharat Times retweets phony building collapse video

ThePrint Team -
The Navbharat Times official twitter has been caught retweeting a video that inaccurately claims to show a recent building collapse

ThePrint and SM Hoax Slayer announce lie-busting partnership

ThePrint Team -
ThePrint is proud to announce its partnership with the overworked and bull's-eye lie-buster S M Hoax Slayer

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Opinion

India’s solar ambition needs financial vision – ISA must move from commitments to execution

Arvind Mayaram -
The ISA should champion a Global Solar Asset Registry for standardised project information, and establish a Solar Credit Guarantee mechanism to mitigate political and currency risks.

CJI’s involvement in selection of CBI director is a safeguard, not a subversion

Report leak, global headlines pinned Air India crash on dead pilots. But nothing adds up

+TFP

Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Defence

3 top ULFA-I leaders ‘killed’ in Myanmar, Indian Army denies role as insurgent group alleges involvement

Snehesh Alex Philip -
The banned group claimed their leaders & cadres were killed in ‘drone strikes’ by the Indian Army. Guwahati Defence PRO denies any such operation.

National Interest

RSS chief Bhagwat draws the line at 75. India’s politics stares at the Modi Exception

Shekhar Gupta -
BJP has no dynastic succession, at least not at the top. You can trace this back to Vajpayee-Advani era. This act of spotting, empowering younger talent is even more striking with the choice of BJP presidents.

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