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Wednesday, August 20, 2025
TopicFake news

Topic: fake news

India’s smartphone revolution is a phenomenon on the scale of Independence in 1947

BBC fake news study shows democracies must redo internal wiring to survive social media age.

Trolls & fake news likely on the agenda when Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey meets PM Modi

Jack Dorsey is on a week-long visit to India, and is also set to discuss with PM Modi how Twitter can better engage with the government.

Kareena Kapoor Khan pregnant again? Social media goes gaga with 2016 image

The photo was originally clicked two years ago when Kareena Kapoor Khan was pregnant, before she gave birth to her son Taimur Ali Khan.

Tarek Fatah tweets morphed image of madrasa teaching ‘superiority of Islam over Hinduism’

In the original photo, a teacher in a UP madrasa is seen teaching Sanskrit lessons and not what Fatah has shared.

Rana Ayyub or Shefali Vaidya, nobody is safe from fake screenshots

Both sides of the political divide on social media have used fake images and screenshots to advance their agenda, and the Indian public has lapped it up.

New JNU honorary prof Rajiv Malhotra’s CV: Charges of plagiarism & whole lot of Hindutva

Rajiv Malhotra, appointed honorary professor at JNU’s Centre for Media Studies, has also been accused of propagating fake news. 

Govt to Whatsapp: Not seeking decryption, but location & identity of those sending provocative messages

Information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad asked Whatsapp vice-president to help the govt trace messages and curtail ‘spam farms’.

When SEBI’s image and credibility took a beating because of ‘false reports’

In this excerpt from the book 'A Game Changer's Memoir', ex-SEBI chief G.N. Bajpai revisits the times when, he writes, the Indian media published downright inaccurate and unverified news about the market regulator

No, the Indian Army does not kill its dogs after retirement

Indian Army spokesperson says only animals suffering from terminal and incurable diseases are euthanised.

Kamal Nath trolls MP chief minister Shivraj Chouhan using bad road image from Bangladesh

The picture sent from the verified account of ‘Office of Kamal Nath’ received more than 430 retweets and 1,300 likes so far. New Delhi: A...

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Afzalgunj to Begum Bazar—Hyderabad’s markets don’t look ‘nawabi’. Marwaris, Gujjus built them

Some of Hyderabad’s oldest jewellery and perfume stores—many dating back to the Nizam era—are run by Marwari, Gujrati, and Jain families.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

China pushes for separation of border issue from larger bilateral ties at 24th round of talks with India

New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Tuesday pushed for a “dual-track” progress for ties with India, separating economic ties from the boundary question,...

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?