47 years since it was opened for operations, the Farakka Barrage, constructed over river Ganges has been at the centre of controversy time and...

A satire video showing a garden sculpture of a ‘sad mushroom’ falsely shared as a ‘talking plant.’ 

A video showing a chainmail armour, with golden embellishments and a bejewelled sword, on display behind a glass case is being widely shared on...

An image showing a large number of human corpses piled together, is being shared widely on social media platform Twitter, with users claiming that...

A video claiming to show how Coronavirus ‘originated from blood’ cells in a laboratory is going viral on the video-sharing platform TikTok. The video shows a drop of blood on a glass slide, which can be seen multiplying into several droplets in a matter of mere seconds. The Bangla caption accompanying the claim says “The way coronavirus was originated from this blood”.  Newschecker has found the claim to be false. Footage from a Netflix series goes viral on social media with a false claim that coronavirus originated from blood cells in the laboratory. 

A video showing a dead body being unwrapped from its white shroud, following which several men bend down to pay their respects to the deceased...