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"Preliminary investigation confirms that the incident was criminal in nature and not religious. Allegations about forcing the victim to chant religious slogans remain unsubstantiated," the Bankura police informed.

While making up a story, which is often does, Rahul Gandhi forgot a crucial detail, Arun Jaitley was not alive when the farm laws were introduced and when the farmers in Punjab along with some opposition parties started protesting against them.

Soon after the video of the incident went viral, the usual suspects assumed that the perpetrator was a Hindu and began making doomsday predictions about India's secularism and future based on the isolated incident.

The Ahmedabad-Mumbai High-Speed Corridor spans 508 km and is being developed using Japan’s Shinkansen (bullet train) technology.

The Print falsely claimed that the study will examine the rise in deaths among people under 45 years of age and its connection with COVID-19 vaccine.

In May, several reports claimed that Uttar Pradesh has highest crime rate with 7.4 per capita crime as per NCRB 2024 report. But, latest NCRB report is from 2022, and 7.4 per capita crime is statistically impossible

The fear-mongering against COVID-19 vaccines, and the general anti-vaxxer rants against vaccines are all stemmed from the larger propensity among uninformed, unscientific and superstitious masses against modern medicine. Unfortunately, in India, a large part of the anti-vaccine propaganda has been done by politicians and fraudulent 'researchers' misusing academic facilities.

Docial media accounts especially from the terror state began to promote false news regarding a confidential National Security Advisor (NSA)-level meeting between China, Iran, Russia and Pakistan under the SCO framework, alleging that India was not invited for the same and portrayed it as a diplomatic victory for Islamabad.

In Odisha's Rayagada district, 40 members of a tribal family underwent a purification ritual after their daughter married an SC man. The video of the incident was misused to falsely claim 'casteist oppression', insinuating force by other castes.

The bill confers sweeping powers on the state government to take action against not just people residing in Karnataka but also those living outside the state.