“This is India… In Uttar Pradesh a Christian pastor is being given a donkey ride after shaving his head in half. This inhuman act was done by the activists of a youth organization, Hindu Yuvavahini Bajrag Dal founded by Yogi Adityanath.” This message has been shared along with a photograph which shows &he......
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“This is not sand in front of the two bald heads. it is human crowd at the BJP Kolkata rally. Yesterday was an unusual day in Kolkata. Modi ji was in town! Mamta B was not! On the vast Brigade Ground was a massive crowd of 10+ lakh Karyakartas(figure given by the …Read more at ......
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A video widely shared on social media shows a man voting for the BSP but the EVM machine registers a vote for the BJP. It is being claimed that the incident occurred during the recent polling in Meerut. “* Inquiry …Read more at ......
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With the conclusion of the second phase of elections on Thursday, a photo of Google CEO Sundar Pichai is doing the rounds on social media. Majority of the users are sharing the image with the narrative that Pichai flew all the way from the USA to cast his vote in the Lok …Read more at ......
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A few days back, social media was abuzz with a similar claim that "Pakistan flags" were waved in Rahul Gandhi's rally in Kerala's Wayanad, the second seat the Congress president is contesting.Read more at ......
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India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found the claim to be misleading. This video or the incident is not from the ongoing Lok Sabha polls but of a by-election that took place in Jammu and Kashmir in 2017.Read more at ......
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India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found that the Facebook post claiming Rahul Gnadhi was sitting as he filed his nomination is false.Read more at ......
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A video, currently doing the rounds on social media, shows a man beating up a policeman in a restaurant. Certain posts claim the man to be Congress MLA Anil Upadhyay from Madhya Pradesh.Read more at ......
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India Today's Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found the letter to be a fake. The organisations named in the letter do not even exist.Read more at ......
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India Today's Anti-Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found that during Navratri in 2017, Shabana Azmi did make a similar remark. This has been pointed out by many in the comment section of her tweet.Read more at ......
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In the original prank video, a son tells his father that his girlfriend is pregnant. The video is edited to show the son saying he voted for Congress.Read more at ......
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Sadhvi Pragya, accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case, will be contesting the ongoing Lok Sabha election on a BJP ticket. News of Pragya’s nomination from Bhopal, MP had sparked a furore. On social media, several netizens hit out at the BJP for nominating a terror accused. One of them was actor …Read......
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The controversy surrounding Union textiles minister Smriti Irani’s educational qualification had recently snowballed after Irani, in her affidavit before the Election Commission ahead of the ongoing Lok Sabha polls, had declared that she is not a graduate. This was contradictory to her earlier poll affidavits of 20......
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BJP MP and actor Paresh Rawal retweeted a purported newspaper clipping (archive) according to which an Indian politician was arrested in Boston airport for possession of drugs. The politician was a son for a former prime minister, claimed the alleged clipping dated ‘September 30, 2001’. At the time of writing th......
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