A video from 2020 wherein a burkha-clad woman destroys Hindu idols in a shop in Bahrain has been falsely shared as an incident from Kerala.
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Logically→ Muslim man in Indore threatens Hindu woman with a knife to force her to marry him.
Piyush alias Shanu was arrested for threatening a woman with a knife in Indore. The police did not report any communal angle in the matter.
Logically→ Nishank Rathore, an engineering student, was killed in Bhopal for supporting former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma.
Preliminary probe by the Special Investigation Team confirmed that Nishank was not murdered but died by suicide possibly due to high indebtedness.
Logically→ No increasing trend was observed in communal riots in India between 2018 and 2020.
Even though there was a decline in the number of communal riots from 2018 to 2019 in India, the figure almost doubled in 2020 as per NCRB data.
Logically→ The video shows a Muslim man dying under a truck carrying Kanwariyas during a procession in Deoband in July 2022.
The incident that occurred during the 2017 annual Kanwar Yatra in Deoband has been misattributed to the recent Kanwariyas procession in Deoband.
Logically→ A Nothing Phone (1)’s unboxing video showed a note from the company stating that the “device is not for South Indians.
The unboxing video of Nothing Phone (1) was a prank by a YouTuber. The note was faked and the box was empty.
Logically→ The video shows 26-year-old PM Narendra Modi practicing yoga in the monastery of Swami Sadhu Dayanand in Rishikesh.
A 2021 video of Acharya Santosh Trivedi performing yoga in Kedarnath has been misattributed to PM Narendra Modi practicing yoga in Rishikesh.
Logically→ India has imposed a goods and services tax on school books.
The government of India has not imposed a goods and services tax on school books. All printed books are tax-free.
Snopes→ UN Projects World Population Will Reach 8 Billion on Nov. 15
The United Nations estimates that the world’s population will reach 8 billion on Nov. 15 and that India will replace China as the world’s most populous nation next year.
Logically→ India has offered military support to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
The High Commission of India in Colombo has denied reports that India is sending military troops to Sri Lanka.
Poynter→ Fact checker detained in India for allegedly inflaming religious strife
Factually is a newsletter about fact-checking and misinformation from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network. Sign up here to receive it in your email every other Thursday. On June 27, Indian authorities arrested journalist […] The pos
Logically→ A viral video shows alcohol was served to attendees during a BJP event in Telangana in July 2022.
Logically→ An image shows that BJP’s presidential candidate, Draupadi Murmu, visited RSS headquarters in Nagpur to meet Mohan Bhagwat.
Logically→ A video shows the people of Aurangabad celebrating after their city was renamed Sambhaji Nagar.
A video of Aurangabad people celebrating Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Jayanti was falsely shared as celebrating the renaming of Aurangabad city.
Logically→ A video shows the National President of Mahila Congress, Netta D’Souza, spitting on police during protests against the Agnipath Scheme.
The video showing Netta D'Souza spitting on police is from a protest against the ED's questioning of Rahul Gandhi, not the Agnipath scheme.
Logically→ A Muslim mob attacked police constable Sandeep Chaudhary during a demonstration in support of the Kanhaiya Lal killers.
Sandeep Chaudhary was injured during a protest against Kanhaiya Lal's murder in Rajsamand. The accused does not belong to the Muslim community.
Logically→ Cow urine or “go-mutra” has been proven to be an anti-cancerous medicine.
Snopes→ Cups, Straws, Spoons: India Starts on Single-Use Plastic Ban
India banned some single-use or disposable plastic products as part of a federal plan to phase out the ubiquitous material in the nation of nearly 1.4 billion people.
Logically→ Udaipur’s Muslim population has grown from 3.5 percent in 2011 to 15.67 percent in 2021.
Logically→ A video shows Muslims holding a massive rally in Bareilly, India, demanding Nupur Sharma’s arrest over her remarks against Prophet Muhammad.
A video of Muslims protesting against Haridwar Dharam Sansad's hate speech in Bareilly on January 2022 has been falsely linked to the Prophet Muhammad row.
Logically→ A video shows a demonstration defending the Prophet Muhammad held in India.
A video showing a 2021 ceremony commemorating TLP leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi in Pakistan has been misattributed as a protest in India.
Logically→ An image shows Canada-based Yemeni businessman Ali Al Jamal, who fired his Hindu Indian employees over the Prophet Muhammad row.
The image of the Governor of Marib Governorate, Yemen, Major General Sultan Al-Arada, has been misinterpreted as a businessman from Canada.
Logically→ Multiple images show Indian PM Narendra Modi inaugurating an underwater tunnel underneath the Brahmaputra river in Assam.
Images of a Fehmarnbelt project have been falsely shared as an underwater tunnel built under Brahmaputra, along with old photos of PM Modi from 2017.
Logically→ The RBI will replace Mahatma Gandhi’s image on Indian currency notes with pictures of Rabindranath Tagore and APJ Abdul Kalam.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has refuted the rumors about changes to its existing currency notes.
Logically→ This is an image of a Shivling from Gyanvapi Mosque, Varanasi.
This image is from the Baba Bhusandeswar temple in Baleswar or Balasore district in Odisha, not from the Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi.
Logically→ A video shows people in Varanasi celebrating after a Shivling was discovered in the Gyanavapi Mosque.
The video dates back to 2019 and is not related to the recent Gyanavapi mosque controversy.
Logically→ This image shows Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann with Goldy Brar, who has claimed responsibility for singer Sidhu Moose Wala’s murder.
The man pictured in the widely shared image is not the one who is allegedly responsible for Moose Wala's murder. They just have the same name.
Logically→ Calcutta High Court has asked the Election Commission to deport TMC MLA Alo Rani Sarkar.
Alo Rani Sarkar has dual citizenship and her name appeared on Bangladesh's electoral list, so the court has asked the EC to deport the TMC MLA.
Logically→ This image shows a 282-year-old East India Company ship returning to London for the first time since 1787.
The image, taken in 2007, shows a replica of Sweden's Gotheborg ship on the Thames at Tower Bridge. The original shipwrecked in 1745.
Snopes→ New Australian Leader Albanese Makes Whirlwind World Debut
Hours after being sworn in as Australia's new prime minister, Anthony Albanese found himself fresh off a jet and thrown into the glare of a global spotlight.
Logically→ A video shows a bridge collapsing in Assam due to floods in May 2022.
The video showing a bridge collapsing is not from the recent Assam floods but from flash floods that hit Eastern Indonesia in April 2021.
Logically→ An image shows a 12 feet long Shiva Linga discovered at the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
This image of the Shiva Linga is from the Cham Temple Complex in Vietnam, not from the Gyanvapi mosque.
Logically→ The Congress party has decided to adopt the “one family, one ticket” rule with a clause that will exclude only the Gandhi family.
The party has decided to adopt the "one family, one ticket" rule. However, it doesn't have any clause to exclude the Gandhis.
Snopes→ Indian Couple Longing for Grandchild Sues Son, His Wife
A retired Indian couple is suing their son and daughter-in-law, demanding that they produce a grandchild within a year or pay them 50 million rupees ($675,000).
Poynter→ Indian fact-checkers are tracking the patterns of falsehoods in the country
Fact-checkers in India identified political falsehoods, communal rumors across the country’s hyper-local cultures and “miracle cures” that hawk foods as replacements for modern medicine as broad trends of misinformation in […] The post Indi
Logically→ A Dalit man was lynched by a Hindu extremist mob for marrying a Muslim woman in Hyderabad.
Nagaraju was a Dalit man killed by his Muslim wife Syed Ashrin Sultana's family over their inter-faith marriage
Logically→ Nissan Motors is exiting the Indian market.
After Nissan chose to discontinue its sub-brand, Dastun, in India, some social media posts falsely claimed that the company is exiting the country.
Logically→ Banks in India will be closed for 13 days in May 2022.
The Bank of India has confirmed that there are only 11 days of holidays for Indian banks in May 2022, including weekends.
Logically→ These images show Aamir Khan with members of terrorist organizations.
Images of Aamir Khan meeting Shahid Afridi, Junaid Shamshed, and Tariq Jamil at Hajj in 2012 are shared with false narratives that he met terrorists.
Logically→ Indian Oil Corporation Limited advises against filling a vehicle to its maximum capacity during hot temperatures.
IOCL has debunked the fake viral advisory, clarifying that filling fuel to the vehicle's full capacity is safe, irrespective of the season.