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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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Topic: WhatsApp

HoaXposed: Fake photograph of ‘corrupt politicians being executed’ in China goes viral on WhatsApp

Taken on 7 April, 2004, the photograph is actually of convicts at a sentencing rally in the Chinese city of Wenzhou.

Kimbho’s no Bolo rip-off, Patanjali says just hired same techie who made US app

App developer Aditi Kamal explains that US app Bolo Messenger was created by her and her husband when they were in the US. It was a startup funded by their savings.

Launching next week, WhatsApp Pay will attempt to hasten India’s payments

Whatsapp's entry into India’s payments space has been likened to WeChat, which reshaped payments in China when it expanded beyond messaging.

India’s most notorious con jobs are almost always ‘launched’ by NASA

Time and again, the US space agency has stepped in to refute fake claims and hoaxes that surface in India.

HoaXposed: National flag not hoisted at Red Fort post sunset because of the code

The picture of the Red Fort without the National Flag in Delhi was shared by more than 29,000 people and had over 12,000 reactions on one Facebook post.

Was it upper castes or foreign hand? Modi govt clueless on who called Dalits’ Bharat bandh

The Intellegince Bureau has been assigned the job of finding out who actually called for the 2 April shutdown and it seems to be struggling for an answer.

WhatsApp speculation about solar storm is just that: Speculation

The storm has already passed, still there is a buzz that it will knock out power, cause darkness and give us dizziness over the weekend.

In WhatsApp forwards on Nirav Modi, PM Modi is the selfless hero & Congress the villain

The Whatsapp forwards create the impression that the truth is something other than what the mainstream media is presenting.

Everyone you give your data to needs to be accountable for it: lawyer Manasa Venkatraman

The lawyer and researcher said that even if data is given for the purpose of national security, agencies need to be held accountable for it. 

India’s unending obsession with ‘husband-wife’ jokes, both ‘veg’ and ‘non-veg’

Marriage jokes constitute the majority of WhatsApp forwards wherein women are invariably shown as the cause of trouble in men’s life.

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Dhankhar’s resignation: How Modi-Shah’s ‘capable’ BJP has served another strong message to RSS

One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.

Unclaimed deposits worth Rs 67,000 crore lying in banks, 87% in public sector banks alone, Parliament told

SBI holds Rs 19,239 crore in unclaimed deposits, or 26% of the abandoned money in public banking system. PNB, Canara Bank follow.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.