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Thursday, April 25, 2024
TopicFake news

Topic: fake news

Hi-tech fence on Indian border that social media is celebrating is actually in Israel, US

Nikhil Rampal -
Thousands of people have shared images from Israel and the US to claim the Narendra Modi government has bolstered India's border defences.

Video about milk adulteration in India actually shows technique to produce white phenyl

Nikhil Rampal -
The viral video, shared by influencer pages on Facebook, was viewed by more than 1.7 million users.

No, Rajiv and Sonia Gandhi didn’t get married according to Christian customs

Nikhil Rampal -
A Delhi MLA questions Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s religion based on the fake image that has gone viral on social media.

Scientists fighting fake news want ‘outlandish’ engineering book pulled out

Kritika Sharma -
Book for budding engineers claims an Indian sage invented planes 5,000 years before Wright brothers, and gravity was a Vedic-era discovery too.

Even media giants fall to viral hoax that peppers of all colours come from same plant

Sandhya Ramesh -
After reading the ‘fact’, one Twitter user remarked that their ‘whole life had been a lie’.

Panel formed by Modi’s office to fix India’s internet, from fake news to payments

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
A PMO-appointed committee has been tasked with studying a broad range of internet-related issues, and come up with frameworks to solve them.

Current laws inadequate to check abuse of money in polls, says Chief Election Commissioner

PTI -
OP Rawat noted that "machinations" of data theft, data harvesting and fake news pose a potent threat to the electoral process in the country.

Photoshopped image of PM Modi wearing Muslim skull cap shared on social media

Nikhil Rampal -
Pictures tweeted from PM’s official handle show that Modi wasn’t wearing a skullcap while exchanging greetings with the Syedna, the head of the Dawoodi Bohras.

India’s young audience is mature, but storytellers haven’t done enough: Neelesh Misra

Aastha Singh -
Gaon Connection founder Neelesh Misra shares his ideas about content creation, fake news and journalism.

Hoaxposed: Video of children twerking in school is actually from Cuba

Nikhil Rampal -
The video went viral in India on the back of claims that it happens in the country’s ‘convent’ schools.
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How a fading Benares dynasty commissioned North India’s greatest Ramayana paintings

+TFP Anirudh Kanisetti -
In an India that was post-Mughal but pre-British Raj, diplomacy, popular religion, and a constellation of genius painters created the most spectacular Ramayana adaptation ever.

PM Modi isn’t trying to divide India on religion. Guilty are those demanding caste census

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Economy

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

+TFP TCA Sharad Raghavan -
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

Defence

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

ThePrint Team -
The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

National Interest

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

Shekhar Gupta -
While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.

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