Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing the gathering at Goa Liberation Day celebrations on December 19, 2021, said that Goa went under Portuguese rule during the time Mughal ruled over India. PM Modi said in his speech, “The Portuguese rule in Goa came when other parts of the country were ruled by the Mughals. […]
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A post on WhatsApp is going viral. In which it was claimed that Rs 2,300 crore was transferred from Tirupati temple to Andhra Pradesh treasury and Rs 600 crore from Siddhi Vinayak temple to Maharashtra treasury. Fact Check: In relation to the above two claims, when our team searched the news related to these claims […]
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A post is getting viral on the social media platforms in which it is claiming that times magazine has featured the Farmer Protest on its cover page and claimed it to be the largest protest in Human History. The viral post further states that 2021 was the year of farmers. Here are some of […]
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When was the last time the Indian Army had expressed regret over a military operation gone wrong, especially in areas where the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is in force. The nature of this law, originally named as Armed Forces (Assam and Manipur) Special Powers Act, has always left the scope of such botched […]
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A video is getting viral in social media platforms where it is shown that a pregnant woman is carrying luggage at a metro station and asking strangers for help. No one in the video is helping her except two men dressed in army uniform. They helped that pregnant lady by carrying her luggage and the […]
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A video is widely being shared on social media claiming that the Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav had insulted the deputy chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Keshav Prasad Maurya. In the clip, Akhilesh Yadav can be heard saying, “Who made him the Deputy CM, he should be sent back to do clean the drains” Social […]
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A photo has been circulated recently of a Time magazine cover featuring an image of Elon Musk along with Ghislaine Maxwell. It is claimed that the duo was named the ‘Person of the Year 2021’. https://twitter.com/AlwaysFlacko/status/1470419914846527489 https://twitter.com/alanabell/status/1470754892553678849 “Person of the Year” reads the Title of the magazine cover. This post has been shared and liked […]
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Newspaper cuttings of an alleged statement of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) President Mayawati just before the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections are going viral on social media. In which Mayawati was quoted as saying that ‘भाजपा से मिल सपा को हराएंगे।’. A user posted the newspaper cutting on Facebook and wrote a tweet which roughly […]
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Neena Gupta who is a mathematician and professor at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, has been awarded the 2021 DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Price for young mathematician from developing countries. She has won the price for her amazing work in affine algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, in particular for her solution to the Zariski cancellation problem […]
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On December 16, 1971, exactly 50 years ago, around 93,000 Pakistani forces had surrendered before the joint forces of the Indian Army and Mukti Bahini, leading the way for the formation of Bangladesh and in the liberation of East Pakistan. Since then only, ‘Vijay Diwas’ is celebrated on 16th Dec every year to commemorate the […]
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