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TopicFact check

Topic: Fact check

Nishikant-led House panel flags ‘regulatory gaps’ in online media & OTT, calls for more PIB fact-checks

Ministry of Information & Broadcasting acknowledges regulatory gap in dealing with online media & OTT platforms. Efforts are underway to develop broader measures, it states. 

Modi fact-checks Pakistan, visits Adampur, releases video & photo with S-400 in background

Pakistan claimed it had decimated Adampur air force base and taken out the S-400 Triumf air defence system. PM landed on the very air strip Pakistan claimed to have bombed.

The Meta-morphosis, a novella by Zuckerberg & no man’s Greenland

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Fact Check: Pushpa 2 trailer launch passed off as MVA meeting in BKC

X users shared videos of a large crowd in an open ground and claimed gathered in support of MVA. In reality, it was for a trailer launch event in Patna for Allu Arjun's upcoming film.

Fact Check: Boarding pass hinting at Rahul Gandhi’s plans to leave India on 5 June is photoshopped

The photo of the original boarding pass, assigned to Ajay Awtaney, was featured in a 2019 article published on a website named 'Live From A Lounge'.

Fact Check: Kanhaiya Kumar hasn’t been attacked. Photo shared on social media is from JNU days

The viral photo dates back to 2016 when Kanhaiya Kumar was hospitalised after a hunger strike.

Fact Check: Video of anti-AAP protest in Haryana is old, unrelated to 2024 Lok Sabha polls

An old video of ex-servicemen from Punjab urging Haryana voters to vote against the AAP has been shared out of context amid ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

Fact Check: EVMs destroyed in Manipur after alleged proxy voting. NCP leader’s claim is wrong

NCP leader Jitendra Awhad wrongly claimed that women in Manipur vandalised the EVMs because they generated 'lotus slips' no matter which button was pressed.

Amended IT rules ‘won’t muzzle political views’: HC ruling on fact check unit relies on Centre’s stance

Bombay HC refused to stay setting up of fact check unit under amended IT rules after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said only online content on central government business to be checked.

On Camera

The influencer war that took rural creator Pujarini Pradhan global

As social media debated whether audiences were consuming Pujarini Pradhan as a symbol, The Juggernaut turned her into a story that could circulate globally, with or without her participation.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.