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Within a day after his execution on the first day of Eid ul-Adha on December 30, 2006, the mortal remains of the dethroned Iraqi president Saddam Hussein were buried in a tomb in his birthplace, Al-Awja (near Tikrit), about 95 miles north of the capital city of Baghdad. Reports say that then-US president George W Bush had personally authorized the immediate transfer of the slain leader’s body on

Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi has termed the media reports that a 70-year-old man was beheaded in Darbhanga for naming a town square "Narendra Modi chowk," as baseless and irresponsible. He said that the property dispute between the accused and the victim led to the murder. "Totally false that the murder in Darbhanga case was due to naming Modi Chowk. It was a case of land dispute

Rahul Upadhyay, a 25-year-old Hindu youth, whose ‘death’ helped the communal outfits to unleash violence and attack Muslims in Kasganj district of Uttar Pradesh, on Monday presented himself before media to prove the he’s still alive. Meanwhile, the police have apprehended four people for spreading false rumours of his death. “I assure you, I am alive. Don’t use my death to incite violence. I don’t

Multilingual actor Prakash Raj has decried a fake statement on secularism and tolerance attributed to him by miscreants on social media. He also urged people to question fearlessly. The actor, who has been targeting by saffron elements for opposing extremism and communalism, shared the fake quote on Twitter with a caption: By spreading such lies instead of debating my views, you are proving to the

Within a day after four senior judges of Supreme Court broke their silence on alleged corruption in judiciary and warned that democracy in India is at stake, the mainstream media across India in general and poll-bound state of Karnataka in particular, have been successful in diverting the people’s attention by focusing on porn star-turned-Bollywood super star Sunny Leone. India Today on Saturday

The timely clarification by local police brought the situation under control in Karnataka’s Belagavi after a Bharatiya Janata Party leader released a fake video clip purportedly showing some Congress members belonging to Muslim community “dancing to the tune of the Pakistani national anthem” during the Eid Milad-un-Nabi celebrations. It was Raju Topannanavar, BJP’s general secretary for Mahanagara

Bengaluru, Oct 20: Kannada film actor Darshan Thoogudeepa hit the headlines during Diwali thanks to an award presented to him in the United Kingdom. Many television channels and daily news papers in Karnataka reported that the Sandalwood star was officially honoured by the British parliament. Some Kannada TV news channels went on to claim that he was the fourth Indian and first South Indian to be

Mangaluru, Oct 4: A controversial voice message by the leader of one of the coastal Karnataka-based Salafi groups has sent shockwaves in the region after local media gave massive coverage to the 11-minute clip in which the speaker apparently discouraged his followers from joining another Salafi splinter group and claimed that its members dress like ‘ISIS’ terrorists. The audio clip, which contains

Mumbai, Jun 23: Days after Pakistan hammered a blundering India by 180 runs to lift the ICC Champions Trophy, at The Oval, a video showing hundreds of people donned in white attire with skull caps on their heads celebrating men in green’s victory has created a row on social media. The online ‘swayamsevaks’ of Sangh Parivar went on to claim that the video was shot in a mosque in Mumbai's Mira road

You might have come across instances of some television channels trying to malign some individuals by running ‘out-of-context’ and ‘doctored’ video clips of their speeches. In the age of social media, common man too has learnt the art of fooling people by spreading edited video clips. This time an out-of-context video clip of a television interview of veteran Bollywood actor Om Puri has gone viral