Jugantor, Maasranga use old photo in recent Delhi collapse news
Recently, a building collapsed in the Satya Niketan area of New Delhi and Bangladeshi news media published reports on this incident. However, an investigation by Dismislab has found that Jugantor and Maasranga News used a photograph of a 2018 building collapse incident in their photocards.
On September 6, 2026, a photocard was published on the official Facebook page of Jugantor. It read, “Six-story building collapsed in Delhi, fear of many being trapped.” On the same day, using the identical photograph, a photocard published on the official Facebook page of Maasranga News read, “Six-story building collapsed in Delhi, fear of many people being trapped.”
In addition, VOD Bangla, an online news portal that identifies itself as a news media outlet, published a report on September 6, 2026. The headline of the report read, “Multi-story building collapse in Delhi, fear of many people being trapped.” The same photograph was also used in this report.
Conducting a reverse image search to verify the authenticity, led to a report published by the Indian news outlet The Hindu on July 19, 2018. The photograph used in that report matches the photograph used in the photocards of Jugantor and Maasranga News.
The headline of the report by The Hindu reads, “Seven dead, fear of many people being trapped in a Noida building collapse.” This report mentioned that seven people were killed in a building collapse in Noida, India, and that a rescue operation was underway.
Therefore, a photograph of a 2018 building collapse was used in the photocards of Jugantor and Maasranga as the photograph of the building collapse in Delhi’s Satya Niketan area.
Incidentally, on September 6, a six-story building collapsed in the Satya Niketan area of the Indian capital, New Delhi. Six students died in this incident.
All social media captions, quotations, and news excerpts in this article have been translated into English from the languages in which they were originally posted or published.
