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IPL 2024 Fact Check: MS Dhoni Wearing Waist Belt for the First Time for CSK?

Even though Ruturaj Gaikwad is now captain, MS Dhoni is still very much in charge of the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL. Even at this age, the expert has shown how good he is
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Fact Check: Debunking the Viral Video of PM Modi Holding Rabindranath Tagore Portrait Upside-Down

A lot of people on social media are sharing pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi accepting an upside-down painting of Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore. The claim: PM Modi was working in West Bengal for
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Fact Check: Did LK Advani of BJP Really Call Rahul Gandhi the “Hero of Indian

Claim Did LK Advani, a leader in the BJP, praise Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by calling him an Indian political hero? Fact A keyword search for “Advani Rahul Gandhi praises” did not turn up any
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Fact Check: Alleged Assault on BJP Leader in Haryana

On social media, there is a film of a fight between a group of people with the claim that the public beat up a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in Sirsa, Haryana.  A lot of
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Fact Check: Discrediting the ‘PoK’ Tiranga Story – No Evidence of Indian Flag Waved at

Since May 10, there have been large-scale, violent protests in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) against the Shahbaz Sharif government’s economic policies and rising prices in the country. Do people really wave the Indian flag at these
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Fact Check: Alleged Doctor Attack Show Exposed as Deepfake

In this clip, a news anchor says that another panelist hit a doctor during a news argument. The video starts with the attack and then cuts to the doctor talking about it and then saying
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Fact Check: Old Video Circulating Claims Manisha Koirala Supports Hindu Rashtra in Nepal

People are spreading a lie that an old video of Nepali actor Manisha Koirala talking about how Nepal is a Hindu country and criticizing its secular status was something she said during the 2024 Indian
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Fact Check: Debunking Claims of Rahul Gandhi’s Alleged Visit to Ram Mandir After Raebareli Nomination

On May 6, Acharya Pramod Krishnam, a former leader of the Congress Party, said that Rahul Gandhi was planning to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the building of Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir “once voted
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Fact Check: Chandrababu Naidu’s Allegedly Edited Image at YSRCP Manifesto Launch Goes Viral

The Verdict [Fake] A picture from 2017 was digitally changed to make it look like N. Chandrababu Naidu was watching Andhra Pradesh CM Reddy give the YSRCP manifesto. What’s the claim? On social media, there
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Fact Check: Congress Workers Did Not Obstruct Uddhav’s Speech – Here’s the Truth

At a recent gathering in Wardha, Maharashtra, did workers for the Congress party get in the way of Uddhav Thackeray’s speech? Many people shared a video of Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray trying to talk but being
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