Fact check: Adityanath’s claim about Uttar Pradesh’s unemployment rate doesn’t add up

The state’s unemployment rate never touched double digits in 2017, and instead of a drop, data shows there has been a 29% rise during his tenure.

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· Jun 13, 2022 · 01:30 pm

Explainer: How chip-embedded e-passports announced in the 2022 Budget will make travel smoother

According to the International Civil Aviation Organization, more than 100 countries have already rolled out e-passports.

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· Feb 05, 2022 · 07:30 pm

Fact Check: Did India start screening flyers from Covid-19-hit nations before it had any patients?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the claim in his address to the nation on April 14.

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· Apr 16, 2020 · 11:30 pm

E-cigarette ban: Vapers make up just 0.07% of the 267 million who use more harmful tobacco products

Health experts widely justify the ban, citing that a young population doesn’t need an added addiction.

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· Sep 26, 2019 · 08:30 pm

In Bihar, five people have been killed in just one month over rumours of child lifting

All eight attacks stemmed from rumours circulated on social media.

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· Aug 30, 2019 · 01:30 pm

Fact check: Could Narendra Modi really have used a digital camera and email in the 1980s?

The first commercial digital camera, the Kodak 100, was sold in 1991. And India launched its first public internet service in 1995.

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· May 14, 2019 · 03:54 pm

Modi is wrong – his government did change the law on foreign funding of political parties

In May, the government amended the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act to change the definition of what a foreign source is.

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· Dec 22, 2016 · 07:30 pm

Arhar Modi: Prices of pulses rose 40% under BJP government, but the reasons go back many years

General food inflation, on an average, which touched 16% as UPA II ended, fell to 3% under the Modi government.

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· Aug 01, 2016 · 05:30 am

Kerala isn’t Somalia: Modi wrong on infant death claims

It is unclear what data the prime minister used to make his claim in his election rally.

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· May 12, 2016 · 09:30 pm