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TopicTwitter hoax

Topic: Twitter hoax

‘Indian water highway’ tweeted by former UN Under-Secretary-General is a road from China

New Delhi: On Friday, Erik Solheim, a Norwegian diplomat and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, tweeted a two-second YouTube clip of what he...

Girl posing with Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in viral selfie is not lawyer Nikita Jacob

The girl in the photo is not lawyer Nikita Jacob, an accused in 'toolkit' case, but an AAP supporter who first uploaded it on Facebook on 3 March 2019.

Images of Sushant Singh Rajput’s ‘suicidal’ posts go viral, but he didn’t tweet after Dec 2019

The images surfaced Sunday afternoon as news of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput's suicide broke.

Tushar Gandhi wrongly tweets Narendra Modi never visited Sabarmati Ashram as CM

Narendra Modi actually visited the ashram three times during his tenure as Gujarat chief minister, but Mahatma's grandson insists he never did it willingly. Tushar...

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Buying Russian oil, misreading Trump—3 points will define India’s next energy strategy

India should have secured greater savings by pressing Russia for prices nearer the cap while sustaining high volumes. This would have preserved strategic autonomy and served economic logic.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Shadow war over India’s defence procurement on social media raises concerns of dodgy & undue influence

One such website has drawn particular scrutiny for spreading fake stories that have upset not only the Indian but also foreign defence firms by falsely attributing misinformation.

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.