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Sudden floods have caused devastation in Nepal. More than 350 people have died while over 1,500 remain missing. Amid the disaster, misinformation continues to spread on social media. A video showing flooding and landslides is being circulated with claims that it depicts the current flash floods in Nepal. However, an investigation shows that the video is not from Nepal. It shows a flash flood that occurred last year in Uttarkashi district of India’s Uttarakhand state.What is being claimed? Yeste...

Former interim government Sports Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan had claimed in a Facebook post that the current board administration had removed the name “Shaheed Abu Sayeed Stand” from the Mirpur Sher e Bangla National Cricket Stadium. The stand was named in memory of the martyrs of the July uprising. However, an inquiry found that no such incident had actually taken place. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has now issued an official statement on the matter. In a Facebook post on We...