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Unveiling the hidden challenges behind the greatest religious celebration ever: Maha Kumbh, 2025
The Maha Kumbh Mela 2025, a grand religious event drawing millions of pilgrims, is a celebration of spiritual unity. However, this huge gathering brings significant challenges that need immediate attention. Attempts to use this festival to sow seeds of communal disparity, exploitation of sanitation workers, restrictions on media freedom, environmental hazards, and issues with crowd management reflect the gaps in planning and execution.
Busted: Exploring the origins of Australia as ‘Astralaya’ and the potential Indian Yogi influence on Baalbek Temple in Lebanon
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Spiritual figures make competing claims about Australian and Lebanese History, both Sadhguru's Isha and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's organisations in the spotlight
India tops list of countries at risk due to misinformation: what does this mean for India’s democracy?
As India grows as a developing power, misinformation and its tendency to lead to violence is an ongoing concern
Muslims in India bear the brunt of dis/misinformation: report
An in-depth analysis by Boom Live, an independent fact-checker, reveals alarming trends of targeted dis/misinformation aimed against the religious minority
Bihar: Hindutva leaders cry ISIS style murder, police reveal girlfriend real killer
Manoj Kumar Shah, a caretaker at Gopalgunj’s Shiv Temple in Danapur found dead after missing for five days. While BJP leaders initially called it an ISIS style murder, these allegations were busted when the investigation by the police revealed that the victim’s ex-girlfriend killed him because he threatened her with posting compromising images online.
Bihar: How festival holidays become target of fake news
Two days ago, Bihar's Education Department released the list of school holiday, which was then blown out of proportion by the media, sparking a misinformation wave
Attempts to give communal turn to blasts in Kerala unsuccessful, 3 cases filed by Kerala Police, CM Vijayan urges restraint & unity
Even after Dominic Martin surrendered to Kerala Police taking responsibility for the blasts, political leaders from BJP backed by right wing trolls spread misinformation, target Kerala government for allowing pro-Palestine protests in the state
A swarm of fake news hits social media from India, hatred for all that is Muslim given a fillip: Hamas-Israel conflict
In the wake of escalating conflict in Palestinian and Israeli territories, driven by the attack on Israel by Hamas on 7th of October, social media is awash with misinformation campaigns. One such significant portion of this campaign seems to be helmed by India. Various journalists have reported how Indian users supporting Israel can be found under any post about Israel and Palestine.
Supreme Court finds self-regulation of TV to be “ineffective”, will frame stringent laws
CJI Chandrachud: “Unless you make the rules stringent no TV channel has no compulsion to comply. For any violation if there is a lakh penalty then what stops them?"
Report facts, not rumours, do not call for violence: EGI to Indian media outlets
A watchdog body for the Indian media, the Editors Guild of India (EGI) has called on all journalists and media houses to exercise all professional standards of journalism in the coverage of this conflict tearing apart the state
Balasore Train tragedy: The claim that a Muslim Junior Engineer caused accident false: Railways
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“This is factually incorrect. The entire staff is present & a part of inquiry”: Railway officer clarifies to news spread by the infamous Sudarshan News