Unprejudiced truth-checking organisation Rumor Scanner on the present time (6 December) printed a sage debunking 13 false and misleading news experiences about Bangladesh printed by 49 Indian media outlets.
The matter of the false experiences – printed between 12 August to 5 December – ranges from attacks on minorities to Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus to ousted high minister Sheikh Hasina.
Read in regards to the false experiences here:
1) Sheikh Hasina’s false delivery letter: Aged high minister Sheikh Hasina fled to India on 5 August within the face of a mass rebellion. Soon after, she allegedly issued an delivery letter claiming the United States develop to be within the relief of her ouster. Her issue develop to be extensively printed by the Indian media.
“On the opposite hand, it develop to be later published that Sheikh Hasina had no longer issued one of these letter. An investigation by the Rumor Scanner crew chanced on that the letter first spread on Fb and develop to be later printed with a date within the print edition of the Agartala-basically basically based each day Tripura Bhobishyot.
“Following this, screenshots of the letter had been extensively shared on social media and later broadcast by several media outlets in each India and Bangladesh,” Rumor Scanner said.
2) Inaccurate Hindu man searching to discover son: After the drop of the Awami League regime in August, moderately quite a lot of Indian media outlets printed a video claiming that a Hindu man develop to be maintaining a human chain to perceive his missing son.
On the opposite hand, a Rumor Scanner investigation known the man as Babul Howlader, a Muslim.
“His son has been missing since 2013, and the human chain develop to be organised so as to discover him,” said the truth-checking organisation.
3) Unfounded sage on CA Yunus’ hospitalisation: Soon after Muhammad Yunus-led meantime authorities took payment on 8 August, Indian media outlets claimed that the Nobel laureate had fallen sick and develop to be admitted to the ICU. The experiences contained a photo of a affected person receiving treatment in a medical institution.
A Rumor Scanner investigation has published that the “photo develop to be no longer of Dr Yunus. If truth be told, it develop to be neither most licensed nor from Bangladesh. Dr. Yunus is, in truth, in appropriate health.”
4) Unfounded issue about lifting ban on militant orgs: After the meantime authorities took payment, Indian media outlets falsely claimed that bans on several banned militant organisations had been lifted.
“On the opposite hand, an investigation by the Rumor Scanner crew chanced on no truth to this issue. The false assertion develop to be circulated in Indian media without any reliable data or evidence to beef up it,” Rumor Scanner said.
5) Unfounded issue on CA Yunus fleeing nation: After Donald Trump emerged victorious within the 5 November US Presidential election, Indian media printed a false sage that Muhammad Yunus had fled to France.
“The photo frail as evidence of his fetch away develop to be truly taken on 8 August, when Dr Yunus develop to be getting back from France to Bangladesh,” Rumor Scanner said debunking the Indian media experiences.
6) Inaccurate experiences on arms smuggling from Pakistan: On 13 November, for the first time since independence, a container-carrying ship docked on the Chattogram port straight from Karachi, Pakistan. Indian media outlets claimed that the ship develop to be the same Pakistani protection power vessel, “Swat”, which had introduced arms and ammunition to the port metropolis correct thru the 1971 Liberation Warfare.
The experiences extra alleged that the ship develop to be carrying weapons from Pakistan to Bangladesh.
Debunking the Indian media experiences, Rumor Scanner said the ship’s name develop to be MV Yuan Xiang Fa Zhan, a business vessel that introduced industrial raw materials and particular person items to Bangladesh.
7) Unfounded experiences on murdered Suggest Saiful being Chinmoy Krishna’s lawyer: On 26 November, Chattogram District Court docket Suggest Saiful Islam Alif develop to be killed correct thru a deliver over the jailing of Sammilito Sanatani Jagaran Jote spokesperson Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari.
Indian media outlets falsely claimed that Saiful Islam develop to be murdered because he develop to be Chinmoy’s lawyer.
“On the opposite hand, this issue develop to be unsuitable. Chinmoy’s lawyer develop to be Subhashish Sharma, no longer Saiful Islam,” states Rumor Scanner.
8) Falsely claiming ban on Indian channels: Indian media outlets no longer too long ago printed experiences claiming that the publicizes of Indian satellite tv for pc channels had been shut down in Bangladesh.
Debunking the experiences, Rumor Scanner said the Indian channels had been restful operational in Bangladesh. “Every the Ministry of Files and Broadcasting and the Cable Operators Association of Bangladesh confirmed to the Rumor Scanner that the issue develop to be a false rumour,” it said.
9) Unfounded sage on building airbase in Hen Neck: Recently, several viral posts on social media and across the net claimed that the Bangladesh Air Drive will safe Asia’s 2d-greatest airbase shut to the “Hen Neck” with technical the aid of China. Lots of Indian media also printed experiences on the false claims.
“The Lalmonirhat airport has been closed for over six decades, and there had been no most licensed initiatives to resume its operations,” said Rumor Scanner.
10) Inaccurate video on Muslims attacking Hindu temple: Recently, a video falsely claiming that Muslims in Bangladesh attacked a Hindu temple and vandalised idols spread online. This issue develop to be also promoted by some Indian media outlets.
Rumor Scanner chanced on that the video develop to be no longer from Bangladesh however from the village of Sultanpur in East Burdwan district, India, exhibiting a scene of idol immersion. “The video develop to be unrelated to any attacks on Hindu temples in Bangladesh.”
11) Claiming accident as assault on bus: Some Indian media outlets falsely portrayed a most licensed collision between a Shyamoli Paribahan bus, which had Indian passengers, and a Bangladeshi truck on the Dhaka-Agartala-Dhaka route in Brahmanbaria, as an assault on the bus.
The Transport Minister of the Indian utter of Tripura, Sushant Chowdhury, also shared this issue in a post on his Fb page, which has been extensively circulated among Indian Fb customers.
In line with these experiences, the truck allegedly collided deliberately with the Shyamoli Paribahan bus in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh. Furthermore, the sage claimed that native residents later threatened to spoil the Indian passengers on the bus, and moderately quite a lot of anti-India slogans had been allegedly raised in entrance of them.
Debunking the claims, Rumor Scanner said, “The accident took place ensuing from overtaking, no longer intentionally, and there develop to be no evidence of any threats or anti-India slogans.”
12) One more false sage on Chinmoy Das’ lawyer: Lots of Indian media outlets spread rumours centring on the arrest of Chinmoy Das. The experiences, containing the image of a particular person below treatment at a medical institution, the experiences falsely claimed the man within the image develop to be Ramen Roy. The experiences also claimed Ramn develop to be Chinmoy Krishna Das’s lawyer and that Muslims attacked him and his residence.
Rumor Scanner debunked the claims, mentioning that Ramen Roy develop to be no longer Chinmoy Das’s lawyer, nor develop to be he fascinated with the case. “If truth be told, Ramen Roy develop to be injured correct thru an assault by miscreants at a programme organised by Sanatan Hindus in Shahbagh on 25 November. There had been no experiences or evidence of his residence being vandalised.”
13) Misinformation on UK commute alert: Recently the United Kingdom issued a commute alert to its citizen to lead particular of Chittagong Hill Tracts ensuing from ongoing violence.
On the opposite hand, some Indian news outlets claimed that the UK had issued a commute advisory warning of attainable terrorist attacks in Bangladesh.
“The commute advisory develop to be no longer particular to Bangladesh however develop to be segment of a broader alert that also integrated countries equivalent to India, Indonesia, Germany, Spain, Sri Lanka, France, and others,” said Rumor Scanner.
Pointing out that generally, UK commute advisories reveal to all travellers and are no longer space-particular, it said, “Whereas a particular warning develop to be issued for the Chittagong Hill Tracts ensuing from ongoing violence, no such advisory develop to be issued for diversified areas of Bangladesh.”
Additionally, Rumor Scanner illustrious that the UK’s advisory indicated that the possibility of terrorist attacks develop to be understanding to be bigger in countries love India, France, Germany, Russia, the United States, and Pakistan compared with Bangladesh.
