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Sanjay Singh defames Centre with edited clip of President Kovind's farewel
Updated : 3 weeks, 2 days ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 25 (ANI): A war of words erupted between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday after the latter shared an edited clip of Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeting outgoing President Ram Nath Kovind at the farewell ceremony.
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Sri Lanka's ex-Prez Rajapaksa's fleeing to Maldives drives widely shared f
Updated : 1 month ago IST
Male [Maldives], July 15 (ANI): When Sri Lanka's ex-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives in the wake of public protest in the island nation, it resulted in widely shared fake news on social media.
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Centre bans 35 WhatsApp groups for spreading fake news on Agnipath scheme
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 19 (ANI): The Central government on Sunday banned 35 WhatsApp groups for allegedly spreading fake news on the Agnipath Scheme and the Agniveers, government sources said.
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600 cases of fake news, rumours, hate speeches registered in one year in M
Updated : 1 month, 4 weeks ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 19 (ANI): Maharashtra Cyber Cell Department on Saturday informed that it has registered around 600 cases of fake news, rumours or hate speeches in the state in the past one year.
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Russian diplomat refutes reports about Moscow transporting Ukrainian grain
Updated : 2 months ago IST
Nur-Sultan [Kazakhstan], June 17 (ANI/Sputnik): Recent reports claiming that Russia has allegedly been supplying Syria with Ukrainian grain are nothing but misinformation and fake news, Russian Special Presidential Envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev told Sputnik.
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Pakistani journalist Asad Kharal runs fake propaganda against India
Updated : 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 14 (ANI): A Pakistan journalist Asad Kharal is running fake propaganda and spreading misleading news against India.
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Fact-checking group exposes Pak media's fake news on Yasin Malik
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 8 (ANI): A fact-checking organization has exposed the Pakistani media who were spreading fake and deceptive news on Yasin Malik, a separatist leader from Jammu and Kashmir.
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J-K: Ramban District Magistrate orders verification of media groups operat
Updated : 2 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Ramban (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], May 23 (ANI): The Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district, District Magistrate Mussarat Islam on Monday asked police to identify all "fake media groups" that were being operated through "illegal portal-based news channels" in the district without any proper re
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Fake News Alert: Old anti-CAA protest video shared with a false claim
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Murshidabad (West Bengal) [India], April 28 (ANI): On Thursday, a video surfaced on the social media claiming that the Mahishasur Railway Station in West Bengal was "destroyed by Muslims" because of the sound of a train's horn "interrupted" their prayers.
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Shehzad Poonawalla calls Digvijay Singh 'friend, philosopher, guide of fak
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 27 (ANI): A day after Congress leader Digvijay Singh accused the BJP of paying Muslim youths for stone-pelting, the BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla called the Opposition leader a 'friend, philosopher and guide of fake news'.
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I&B Min Anurag Thakur warns stern action against YouTube channels spre
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 26 (ANI): Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur on Tuesday issued a stern warning to YouTube channels involved in propagating false news that creates panic, incites communal disharmony and disturbs the law and order situation in India.
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USCIRF 'penetrated' by anti-India pan Islamist groups: Report
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], April 25 (ANI): The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is slated to publish its annual report on international religious freedom on April 25 but some key influential officials of the USCIRF have been seen on the platforms of IAMC, an Islamist group,
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