The Win of Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu On December 13th, 21 years old, Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu was declared the winner of the 70th edition of the beauty pageant and returned home with the title of Miss Universe 2021. The crown of Miss Universe came to India after 21 long years. The last Miss Universe from India […]
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As the new variant of corona virus ‘Omicron’ is emerging, social media platforms are filled with posts regarding this new variant. #OmicronVariant is also running with thousands of tweets on Twitter. Under this hashtag, an image has got viral of a movie poster with the title “The Omicron Variant”. Many people have shared this poster […]
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It was some time ago. A company doing media management work in the election was given the task of turning the vote of the people in their favour by a political party in a particular area. The company collected the profiles of all the voters living in that area. Decoded their likes and dislikes. After […]
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On 1st Dec, 2021, hashtag #JusticeForRailwayStudents is trending at number one on twitter with 3.0M Tweets. Railway aspirants are furious with the government after the board has been halting the exams of Group D, candidates are demanding the Railway Recruitment Board to conduct the exam as soon as possible. To show their outrage against the […]
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Fake News and propaganda is a reality of the post truth era. And it is not just a mischief or sadistic pleasure derived by an individual sitting in an alley. It is an organised nexus that has transformed into cyber warfare in the past decade. The malafide practice is not just taking place within any […]
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The security firm Sucuri found that hundreds of WordPress websites were targeted with ransomware attacks. These websites were defaced over the weekend with a message saying that their websites were locked and demanded 0.1 bitcoin( Rs.4,34,817.31) to be transferred to an account. The attackers also added a time limit to the exchange causing a lot […]
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About a week ago, violence suddenly began to erupt in Maharashtra’s Amravati followed by Malegaon, Nanded and Parbhani. The violence was communal in nature where about 8,000 people gathered on the streets of Amravati to participate in it. The aftermath of Tripura violence led to some Muslim organisations to organise a protest in these towns […]
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While the digital world is in full bloom in the world, it is also the most infamous source of fake news or misinformation casting its dark web on netizens. In this era of post truth, it is essential to wait, think and then share any piece of information that is not authenticated by any source […]
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The violence in Tripura flared up about 2 weeks ago when more than 10 incidents of communal violence were reported within a span of 4 days. The violence can be traced to communal violence in Bangladesh during the Durga puja. The aftermath of the violence affected Tripura as well, which shared three of its sides […]
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Around the world, and more specifically in India, disinformation is spreading and becoming a successful phenomenon of deception. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how fast and wide information can spread: so fast, that the phenomenon has been given the name, “infodemic”. This disinformation, in Indian context, is broadly categorized into two — fake news and […]
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