#FactCheck: Viral Video of Chandra Arya Speaking Kannada Unrelated to Canadian PM Nomination
Executive Summary:
Recently, our team encountered a post on X (formerly Twitter) pretending Chandra Arya, a Member of Parliament of Canada is speaking in Kannada and this video surfaced after he filed his nomination for the much-coveted position of Prime Minister of Canada. The video has taken the internet by storm and is being discussed as much as words can be. In this report, we shall consider the legitimacy of the above claim by examining the content of the video, timing and verifying information from reliable sources.
Claim:
The viral video claims Chandra Arya spoke Kannada after filing his nomination for the Canadian Prime Minister position in 2025, after the resignation of Justin Trudeau.
Fact Check:
Upon receiving the video, we performed a reverse image search of the key frames extracted from the video, we found that the video has no connection to any nominations for the Canadian Prime Minister position.Instead, we found that it was an old video of his speech in the Canadian Parliament in 2022. Simultaneously, an old post from the X (Twitter) handle of Mr. Arya’s account was posted at 12:19 AM, May 20, 2022, which clarifies that the speech has no link with the PM Candidature post in the Canadian Parliament.
Further our research led us to a YouTube video posted on a verified channel of Hindustan Times dated 20th May 2022 with a caption -
“India-born Canadian MP Chandra Arya is winning hearts online after a video of his speech at the Canadian Parliament in Kannada went viral. Arya delivered a speech in his mother tongue - Kannada. Arya, who represents the electoral district of Nepean, Ontario, in the House of Commons, the lower house of Canada, tweeted a video of his address, saying Kannada is a beautiful language spoken by about five crore people. He said that this is the first time when Kannada is spoken in any Parliament outside India. Netizens including politicians have lauded Arya for the video.”
Conclusion:
The viral video claiming that Chandra Arya spoke in Kannada after filing his nomination for the Canadian Prime Minister position in 2025 is completely false. The video, dated May 2022, shows Chandra Arya delivering an address in Kannada in the Canadian Parliament, unrelated to any political nominations or events concerning the Prime Minister's post. This incident highlights the need for thorough fact-checking and verifying information from credible sources before sharing.
- Claim: Misleading Claim About Chandra Arya’s PM Candidacy
- Claimed on: X (Formerly Known As Twitter)
- Fact Check: False and Misleading
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Executive Summary:
A viral video (archived link) circulating on social media claims that Vice Admiral AN Pramod stated India would seek assistance from the United States and President Trump if Pakistan launched an attack, portraying India as dependent rather than self-reliant. Research traced the extended footage to the Press Information Bureau’s official YouTube channel, published on 11 May 2025. In the authentic video, the Vice Admiral makes no such remark and instead concludes his statement with, “That’s all.” Further analysis using the AI Detection tool confirmed that the viral clip was digitally manipulated with AI-generated audio, misrepresenting his actual words.
Claim:
In the viral video an X user posted with the caption
”India sells itself as a regional superpower, but its Navy Chief’s own words betray that image. If Pakistan attacks, their plan is to involve Trump, not fight back. This isn’t strategic partnership; it’s dependency in uniform”.
In the video the Vice Admiral was heard saying
“We have worked out among three services, this time if Pakistan dares take any action, and Pakistan knows it, what we are going to do. We will complain against Pakistan to the United States of America and President Trump, like we did earlier in Operation Sindoor.”
Fact Check:
Upon conducting a reverse image search on key frames from the video, we located the full version of the video on the official YouTube channel of the Press Information Bureau (PIB), published on 11 May 2025. In this video, at the 59:57-minute mark, the Vice Admiral can be heard saying:
“This time if Pakistan dares take any action, and Pakistan knows it, what we are going to do. That’s all.”
Further analysis was conducted using the Hive Moderation tool to examine the authenticity of the circulating clip. The results indicated that the video had been artificially generated, with clear signs of AI manipulation. This suggests that the content was not genuine but rather created with the intent to mislead viewers and spread misinformation.
Conclusion:
The viral video attributing remarks to Vice Admiral AN Pramod about India seeking U.S. and President Trump’s intervention against Pakistan is misleading. The extended speech, available on the Press Information Bureau’s official YouTube channel, contained no such statement. Instead of the alleged claim, the Vice Admiral concluded his comments by saying, “That’s all.” AI analysis using Hive Moderation further indicated that the viral clip had been artificially manipulated, with fabricated audio inserted to misrepresent his words. These findings confirm that the video is altered and does not reflect the Vice Admiral’s actual remarks.
Claim: Fake Viral Video Claiming Vice Admiral AN Pramod saying that next time if Pakistan Attack we will complain to US and Prez Trump.
Claimed On: Social Media
Fact Check: False and Misleading
CyberPeace and Suraksha Catalyst: Building the Next Chapter of Indo-US Cybersecurity Collaboration
Some partnerships are transactional. Others are declarations of intent. The Memorandum of Understanding signed between CyberPeace and Suraksha Catalyst at the Indo-US Cyber Conclave 2026, held alongside the RSA Conference in San Francisco, belongs unmistakably to the latter category.
It represents more than two organisations agreeing to work together. It brings together two complementary approaches to cybersecurity—CyberPeace ’s community-centred mission and Suraksha Catalyst’s enterprise and Indo-US cybersecurity ecosystem—with a shared ambition to turn collaboration into measurable impact.
Why This Collaboration Is More Than Symbolic
It would be easy to view an MoU signed at a marquee international event as a ceremonial gesture. But the significance of this collaboration lies in what both organisations bring to the table.
CyberPeace brings deep experience in building cyber resilience across communities, institutions, students and other stakeholders. Its approach recognises that cybersecurity is not only a technical challenge; it is also a question of awareness, education, trust and collective responsibility.
Suraksha Catalyst brings a strong connection to cybersecurity leaders, industry and the broader Indo-American technology ecosystem. Its work helps create pathways between cybersecurity practitioners, enterprises, emerging innovators and strategic stakeholders.
Together, these capabilities create a bridge between community resilience and enterprise-grade cybersecurity, connecting education and awareness with industry exposure, mentorship and practical implementation.
The collaboration is already reflected in the NJ Youth Chapter Mentoring Program, which focuses on inspiring high school students to pursue cybersecurity careers while empowering them to strengthen cyber resilience in their own communities. The programme brings together industry mentors and young learners through a structured five-week journey.
This makes the partnership tangible: rather than limiting collaboration to institutional dialogue, it creates opportunities for young people to learn from cybersecurity professionals and then apply that knowledge in real-world environments.
Two Different Roads to the Same Frontier
CyberPeace has built its approach around the idea that a safer digital world requires participation from multiple layers of society. Its work extends beyond cybersecurity professionals to students, educators, communities and institutions.
Suraksha Catalyst approaches the same challenge through the industry and enterprise ecosystem, creating connections among cybersecurity leaders and organisations across India and the United States.
These different starting points converge around a common principle: cybersecurity resilience becomes stronger when knowledge, expertise and opportunity move across institutional boundaries.
The NJ Youth Chapter Mentoring Program is a strong example of this convergence.
Its first pillar, Mentor Connect, connects high school students with CISOs and security practitioners through weekly 30-minute virtual mentoring sessions. Its second pillar, Community Cyber Corps, encourages students to take what they learn and use it to raise cybersecurity awareness among local small businesses.
The model therefore moves beyond conventional mentoring. Students are not simply receiving knowledge; they are being encouraged to transform that knowledge into community impact.
From Mentoring to Real-World Experience
The programme follows a five-week journey, beginning with virtual mentoring, progressing to a business visit and concluding with a share-and-reflect phase.
This structure provides students with multiple dimensions of exposure:
Learn → Experience → Apply → Reflect
During the programme, participants engage with practical cybersecurity and AI topics including:
- Passwords and passkeys
- Responsible AI use
- AI-enabled phishing
- Patching and software updates
- Deepfake and voice fraud
- Network and Wi-Fi hygiene
- Incident response
- Prompt injection basics
- Vendor and supply-chain risk
These are not presented merely as theoretical cybersecurity concepts. Students are encouraged to understand how such risks manifest in everyday organisational environments and how individuals and businesses can respond.
Turning Young Learners into Community Cyber Ambassadors
Perhaps the most important dimension of the initiative is its emphasis on community impact.
As part of the programme, mentees put their learning into practice by leading a hands-on AI and cybersecurity workshop for employees at a local business. They explored the cyber threat landscape, social engineering, safe browsing and responsible AI, while also gaining experience communicating cybersecurity concepts to a real business audience.
This creates a valuable two-way impact.
Students gain practical experience, confidence and exposure to professional cybersecurity environments. At the same time, local businesses receive access to cybersecurity and AI awareness guidance.
The underlying idea is simple but powerful: when young people are given both knowledge and the opportunity to lead, cybersecurity awareness can travel beyond the classroom and into the wider community.
Inside the Security Operations Center
The programme also provides participants with direct exposure to enterprise security operations.
During an SOC visit, mentees experienced cybersecurity and physical security operations firsthand, observed live threat dashboards and learned how access and infrastructure are secured. Industry professionals also walked them through their day-to-day responsibilities and answered their questions.
For students considering cybersecurity as a career, such exposure can make an otherwise abstract career path tangible. Seeing security professionals operate in real environments helps connect classroom learning with the realities of enterprise cybersecurity.
The Bigger Message
The partnership between CyberPeace and Suraksha Catalyst therefore carries a message that extends beyond the signing of an MoU.
Cybersecurity's most difficult challenges—from protecting communities and young people to strengthening businesses and developing the next generation of cybersecurity professionals—cannot be addressed by a single sector working independently.
They require civil society's reach, industry's expertise, mentors' experience and young people's energy to move in the same direction.
For CyberPeace collaboration with Suraksha Catalyst creates an opportunity to extend its mission of building a safer and more peaceful cyberspace into a broader Indo-US ecosystem.
For Suraksha Catalyst, the collaboration creates an opportunity to connect its industry-oriented ecosystem with community-level cybersecurity education and youth empowerment.
And for the students participating in initiatives such as the NJ Youth Chapter Mentoring Program, the partnership turns cybersecurity from something they simply study into something they can experience, communicate and apply.
From an MoU to a Movement
The real measure of this partnership will ultimately be what emerges from it: joint programmes, mentorship opportunities, community initiatives, knowledge exchange, research, capacity building and stronger connections between cybersecurity professionals and the next generation.
The NJ Youth Chapter Mentoring Program offers an early illustration of what that vision can look like in practice—industry mentors connecting with students, students engaging with real businesses, and young people taking cybersecurity knowledge back into their communities.
The Indo-US cybersecurity relationship is increasingly creating space for governments, enterprises, technology leaders, researchers, civil-society organisations and young innovators to contribute to a shared digital future.
The CyberPeace –Suraksha Catalyst collaboration adds another important layer to that ecosystem: connecting enterprise expertise with community resilience and youth empowerment.
Because the future of cybersecurity will not be shaped only by those who build the technology or defend the infrastructure. It will also be shaped by the people who learn, teach, mentor, question and carry that knowledge into the communities around them.
That is where this partnership has the potential to make its most meaningful contribution—not simply by signing an agreement, but by turning collaboration into capability, capability into confidence, and confidence into lasting cyber resilience.
Reference
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/a-proud-milestone-for-suraksha-catalyst-share-7440575975614070784-THNR/
- https://surakshacatalyst.com/
- https://cyberpeace.org/
Introduction
The government has announced that the new criminal laws will come into force on 1st July 2024. The Union Government notified that three recently enacted criminal laws, viz. Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023, and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023 will be effective from 1st July 2024. The Indian Penal Code 1860, Code of Criminal Procedure 1973, and Indian Evidence Act 1872 have been replaced by these new criminal laws.
On 23 February 2024, the Ministry of Home Affairs Announced the Effective Date of new criminal laws as follows:
- Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 Effective from 1-7-2024, except Section 106(2).
- Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 Effective from 1-7-2024.
- Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 The provisions will come into force on 1-7-2024 except the provisions of the entry relating to section 106(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, in the First Schedule.
Section 106(2) Will Not Be Enforced
Truckers protested against this provision, which provides 10 years imprisonment and fines for those who cause death by rash and negligent driving of a vehicle not amounting to culpable homicide, and escape without reporting it to a police officer. As of now, the government has promised truckers and transporters that subsection 2 of Section 106 of Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) will not come into force. This subsection deals with fatal hit-and-run cases and prescribes higher penalties for not informing authorities immediately after an accident.
Section 106(2) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 read as follows;
106. Causing death by negligence.—
(2) Whoever causes death of any person by rash and negligent driving of vehicle not amounting to culpable homicide, and escapes without reporting it to a police officer or a Magistrate soon after the incident, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description of aterm which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023
The Bhartiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023 will replace the Indian Evidence Act 1872. The Act has undergone significant modification to maintain its fundamental principles for fair legal proceedings and adapt to technological advancements and changes in societal norms. This Act recognises electronic records as primary evidence under Section 57. It also allows the electronic presentation of oral evidence, enabling remote testimony and ensuring that electronic records will have the same legal effect as paper records.
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 replaces the 1973 Code of Criminal Procedure, introducing certain modifications. This Act, under section 176, requires forensic investigation for crimes punished with seven years' imprisonment or more. Section 530 of BNSS, 2023 is a newly inserted provision which envisages the use of electronic communication audio-video electronic means for trials, inquiries, proceedings, service and issuance of summons. Electronic mode is permitted for all trials, inquiries, and proceedings under section 173 of this Act. The concept of Zero FIR is also introduced under section 173(1) and mandates police stations to register the FIR, irrespective of jurisdiction.
Conclusion
India's new criminal laws are set to take effect on 1st July 2024. These laws modernise the country's legal framework, replacing outdated statutes and incorporating technological advancements. The concerns from stakeholders led to the withholding of enforcement of Section 106(2) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023. The new criminal laws aim to address contemporary society's complexities while upholding justice and fairness.
References
- https://www.indiatoday.in/india/video/new-criminal-laws-to-come-into-effect-from-july-1-2506664-2024-02-24
- https://www.lawrbit.com/article/ipc-crpc-evidence-act-replaced-by-new-criminal-laws/
