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Sunday, November 16, 2025
TopicFake news

Topic: fake news

Sangh Parivar is in a hurry to reach Ayodhya, and Dassault chief’s ‘Mann ki Baat’

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

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.

On Camera

What Pakistan Supreme Court judge Mansoor Ali Shah wrote in his resignation letter

The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.

As govt starts rolling back Quality Control Orders, a look at adverse impact they had, mainly on MSMEs

Between 2016 and 2025, around 700 QCOs were issued by the government. Now, it has withdrawn 69 of them.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.