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“Indian Female Air Force pilot has NOT been captured. Pro-Pakistan social media handles claim that an Indian Female Air Force pilot, Squadron Leader Shivani Singh, has been captured in Pakistan. This claim is FAKE!,” PIB clarified in a tweet.

In the middle of mounting military hostilities between India and Pakistan, and a nominal ceasefire reached on the latter's initiative after it foresaw the threat of continuing military escalation, Pakistani social media accounts are trying to claim some kind of moral victory by sharing a fake AI-generated news article.

Congress MP Jairam Ramesh accused the Modi government of 'chickening out' at the IMF and failing to vote against Pakistan's loan request.

The Hindu published fake news claiming that three Indian jets crashed in Jammu and Kashmir's Akhnoor, Ramban, and Pampore areas, later deleted

The Dehradun Police have rubbished the claim made by 'Mr Haque' and others that the Muslim man was thrashed because of his religious identity. In reality, it was a case of road rage.

After a letter appeared claiming that Israel has accused an Indian Amy officer of sexually assaulting a female Israeli army officer, Israeli Embassy clarified that this is fake news

OpIndia could not find any post on Google Cache, other than that of Ishan Saxena, that alleges the death of a Muslim corporate worker in Bengaluru for not reciting the Gayatri Mantra and not commenting on the Pahalgam terror attack.

The Election Commission pointed out that the disgraced cop Ranjeet Kasale was not part of any election duty in the 2024 Maharashtra polls and was instead posted at the Beed Cyber Police Station.

A false claim is made by some media houses and social media users that the Union government has proposed imposing GST on UPI transactions

On 1st April, several media houses falsely reported that a Delhi court has ordered registration of FIR against Kapil Mishra in the 2020 Delhi riots case, but actually further probe was ordered