On February 7, Manjinder S Sirsa, a member of Shiromani Akali Dal, tagged the Chief Minister of Punjab, Captain Amarinder Singh, to point out the “deteriorating standards of education in Punjab“ in a tweet (archive). Sirsa also shared a link in the tweet which claimed 1.5 million children remain out of school …Read more at ......
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Prime minister Narendra Modi addressed the Lok Sabha in an over hour-long speech on January 6. Amidst the attacks on Congress and the Left, discussions on the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the protests opposing the legislation, the PM also spoke about the abrogation of provisions of Article 370. During his …......
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After the enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on December 12, 2019, a wave of protests against the law began taking place in different parts of India. These were soon followed by protests in several other countries. While analyzing how various organisations covered the protests, Alt News found that the coverage …Read more ......
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Several social media users have shared an image which shows people scattered and fallen on the road. The accompanying claim suggests this is the repercussion of the Coronavirus outbreak in China. #_ , patient admit hai …Read more at ......
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Ahead of the Delhi assembly elections on February 8, a 26-second video has gone viral which shows a man on wheelchair accepting a blanket. After introducing himself and thanking the organiser for distributing blankets to differently-abled persons, he is seen getting up from the wheelchair and walking away. This video has been …Read more ......
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Ahead of the Delhi assembly elections on February 8, a 26-second video has gone viral which shows a man on wheelchair accepting a blanket. After introducing himself and thanking the organiser for distributing blankets to differently-abled persons, he is seen getting up from the wheelchair and walking away. This video has been …Read more ......
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Coronavirus (CoV) is the latest pandemic that has emerged from Wuhan, China and has spread to over 24 countries including India. New research has estimated that over 371 people have died, exceeding the count of the previous SARS outbreak, while more than 75,000 people have been infected just in Wuhan. Recently, three …......
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A video of Chinese president Xi Jinping visiting a mosque is widely circulating on social media with the claim that he requested the Muslim community to pray for the country during the “present crisis”. It is noteworthy that China is witnessing an outbreak of coronavirus. A new report says that over 75,000 …R......
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A video of Chinese president Xi Jinping visiting a mosque is widely circulating on social media with the claim that he requested the Muslim community to pray for the country during the “present crisis”. It is noteworthy that China is witnessing an outbreak of coronavirus. A new report says that over 75,000 …R......
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Amidst the extensive media coverage of the coronavirus outbreak, two videos (viewer discretion is advised) have gone viral on social media. One of them is a 90-second video which shows pigs being torched alive and the other is a 30-second clip which shows hundreds of pig buried alive in a pit. The …Read more at ......
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Many users on Facebook are sharing the video with the claim, "Pigs are being destroyed by Chinese government to control the diseases. It may be Corona and any other disease."Read more at ......
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Several social media users are sharing a 20-second video clip to claim that cricketer Irfan Pathan is supporting the women protesting against CAA at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi. Is this true #FactCheckRead more at ......
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A video of women thrashing a man is being shared on social media with the claim that the man is BJP leader ‘Anil Upadhyay’. One Jaan Mohd Tyagi shared a Facebook ‘watch party’ on January 31 and said in Hindi, “Women thrash BJP leader Anil Upadhyay. Let’s make him famous [Translated from …Read more at ......
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A piece of ‘breaking news’ was flashed on television screens across the country on February 4. Leading channels claimed that the home ministry, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, said that the government has not taken any decision to implement the National Register of Citizens (NRC) pan-India. “Will &hell......
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On January 15, Bharatiya Janata Party social media head Amit Malviya tweeted a video of a group of men talking about the Shaheen Bagh protesters. They alleged that women participating in the sit-in protest are being paid to demonstrate against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens. A …Read more at ......
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On January 31, Times of India reported India's first case of the new strain of coronavirus in Thrissur, Kerala. Since then, the disease has been covered extensively in the media. Recently, videos of a meat market have gone viral with the claim that it is from the Chinese city Wuhan, the epicentre …Read more at ......
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