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Akshita Kumari

New Delhi

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Digital Verification Journalist at AFP Relaxnews

Articles

  • 3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Akshita Kumari

    Old footage of people throwing stones at a convoy of vehicles has been misrepresented online as depicting Muslims attacking Indian paramilitary forces following the country's four-day conflict with Pakistan. There have been no official reports of any such incident and the clip was filmed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir in May 2024. "The video is said to be from Jammu and Kashmir," reads the Hindi-language caption to the video filmed from a serpentine mountain road.

  • 4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Akshita Kumari

    Two images of Rahul Gandhi have circulated in social media posts falsely claiming they are proof that the Indian opposition Congress party leader had posed for photos with a YouTuber arrested for allegedly spying for Pakistan. They surfaced after four days of fighting between the nuclear-armed foes, but the originals show the visuals were altered to insert the YouTuber's face.

  • 1 month ago | yahoo.com | Akshita Kumari

    The founder of an armed group that New Delhi accused of carrying out an attack on tourists in Kashmir did not hold a press conference after India and Pakistan agreed to a US-brokered ceasefire, contrary to posts claiming Islamabad was sheltering him. The video used in the false posts was in fact filmed in January 2017 and he has been imprisoned since 2020 on terror financing charges.

  • 1 month ago | yahoo.com | Akshita Kumari

    Hours before New Delhi and Islamabad agreed to a ceasefire that brought a halt to days of intense fighting, a video was shared in posts falsely claiming it showed an Indian air force pilot who ejected from their plane and landed in Pakistan. The video was in fact filmed a year earlier on Instagram by a user who said it showed him paragliding in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. "Indian female pilot landed safely in Pakistan," reads the caption of a Facebook video shared on May 10, 2025.

  • 1 month ago | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Akshita Kumari

    Akshita KUMARI / AFP India / AFP Middle East & North Africa15 May 2025 at 11:31 pm·3-min readBefore New Delhi and Islamabad agreed to a ceasefire, bringing a halt to four days of intense fighting across their contested frontier, a video was shared in posts falsely claiming it showed Indian missile strikes on Pakistan. The footage has in fact circulated since October 2024 in news reports about missiles fired at Israel by Iran.

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