Fact Check: No, this is not George Foreman and Ricky Ponting singing a popular Bollywood song
Fact Check: No, this is not George Foreman and Ricky Ponting singing a popular Bollywood song
While more and more artists are now making covers of hit Bollywood tracks with unique twists, what is not an everyday event is watching two “foreigners” singing a popular Hindi number.
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UPDATED: December 22, 2020 20:13 IST
While more and more artists are now making covers of hit Bollywood tracks with unique twists, what is not an everyday event is watching two “foreigners” singing a popular Hindi number.
If a video doing the rounds of social media is to be believed, while former Australian Cricketer Ricky Ponting is singing one of actor Shah Rukh Khan s most famous Bollywood numbers Mitwa , former American professional boxer George Foreman is playing the tabla alongside.
Fact Check: Altered cover image of TIME shows Xi Jinping as Person of the Year
Last week, the Time magazine announced its annual Person of the Year for 2020. Soon after an image of the supposed magazine cover with pictures of Xi Jinping, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris went viral. India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found that the viral image is altered.
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UPDATED: December 17, 2020 19:47 IST
The viral image showing Biden, Harris and Jinping as Time s Person of the Year for 2020 is altered and misleading.
Last week, the Time magazine announced its annual Person of the Year for 2020. Soon after, an image of the supposed magazine cover started circulating on social media. This cover has the pictures of Chinese Premier Xi Jinping, United States President-elect Joe Biden and US Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris.
Fact Check: PM Modi is not greeting Gautam Adani s wife in this viral picture
Fact Check: PM Modi is not greeting Gautam Adani s wife in this viral picture
An image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeting a woman with folded hands is circulating on social media with the claim that she is industrialist Gautam Adani s wife Priti Adani. India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found the claim to be false.
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The woman in the picture is Deepika Mondol, wife of a retired Rashtrapati Bhavan photographer.
An image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeting a woman with folded hands is circulating on social media with the claim that she is industrialist Gautam Adani s wife Priti Adani.
Fact Check: Old images of pro-Khalistan demonstrations linked to farmers’ protests
A series of old images is going viral on social media with the claim that these are pro-Khalistan posters and banners which were raised during the ongoing farmers’ agitation in Delhi. AFWA probes the truth.
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The four images we probed during the AFWA investigation.
Amid the ongoing farmers’ agitation, a set of images of some people holding pro-Khalistan banners and posters have gone viral with the claim that these are scenes from the protests near the Delhi-Haryana border.
Several Twitter users have posted the images with the caption, “Why does every protest boils down to religion? Who are these people raising such horrifying slogans? Hum Sikh baadmein hai, pehele Hindustani hai.”
Fact Check: No, this is not a Pakistani journalist praising PM Modi
Fact Check: No, this is not a Pakistani journalist praising PM Modi
A short video clip of a man praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi is circulating on social media with the claim that he is a Pakistani journalist. In the 56-second video, the man is heard saying, No one in the world knew what BJP was. What is the truth behind the claim?
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The video going viral
A short video clip of a man praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi is circulating on social media with the claim that he is a Pakistani journalist.