About 100 to 150 young Chinese vloggers have spent around a month in Bangladesh livestreaming from poor neighbourhoods in Dhaka and presenting the footage to Chinese audiences on WeChat as if it were New Delhi. That is the claim in a report in Bangladesh's Prothom Alo, cited by Navbharat Times.

The streamers have been filming in Dhaka's slums and telling viewers they are showing the Indian capital. The footage is presented to Chinese audiences as a picture of life in New Delhi, even though it was filmed in Bangladesh.

What the report claims

According to the report, the vloggers film Dhaka's poor neighbourhoods and describe them as New Delhi, portraying Indians as living in dirty and poor conditions. The claim is that the footage is passed off deliberately, not by mistake, to shape how Chinese viewers see India.

The report says the streamers have been in Bangladesh for around a month. The number involved is put at about 100 to 150, all of them young vloggers livestreaming from the streets.

Where the videos were filmed

The neighbourhoods named in the report include Tekpara and Uttara, both in Dhaka. These are poor areas of the Bangladeshi capital, and the streams show street scenes, crowded lanes and slum housing.

The footage then reaches Chinese audiences on WeChat, where viewers are told they are looking at the Indian capital. The platform matters, because WeChat is where many Chinese users get their news and video, and the claim is that the audience has no easy way to check where the scenes were really filmed.

How Indian users reacted

Indian social media users reacted angrily to the report, calling it a deliberate attempt to damage India's global image. Users quoted in the coverage include Levina, Sonam Mahajan and Shrimoy Talukdar, who linked the vlogging to a wider Chinese influence operation.

The anger is about the framing as much as the filming. The users quoted argue that showing Dhaka's slums as Delhi is not a mistake but a way to present India as poor and dirty to an audience abroad.

The claims rest on the Prothom Alo report, and they have not been independently verified here. What is clear is the reaction: Indian users see the alleged filming as an attack on India's image, and the report has set off a sharp debate online about how foreign social media portrays the country.