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Sunday, November 16, 2025
TopicFake news

Topic: fake news

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...

Congress state units compare Gujarat migrant exodus with Partition using 2010 photo

The widely-shared image, showing an overcrowded passenger train, is from Mathura.

Shashi Tharoor among thousands sharing hoax that Qatar banned Patanjali for ‘chemicals’

The post claims Qatar banned Patanjali products after finding “excessive chemicals” in all of them. MP Shashi Tharoor said it ‘was serious, if true’.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.