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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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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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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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Trending
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The real reason why Modi says what he does – Hindu India accepts it
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BJP’s street-fighters in coastal Karnataka want a share in power
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The Assam voter who no longer supports the BJP because of the CAA
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Lok Sabha polls: Ladakh MP rallies supporters after BJP drops him from candidate list
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Arvind Kejriwal destroyed evidence in liquor policy case: ED to Supreme Court
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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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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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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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Video
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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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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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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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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The Reel
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Watch: In ‘The Big Cigar’, the Black Panther founder flees America through a fake movie
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‘Dil Dosti Dilemma’ review: A feelgood entertainer about young love and old ties
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In ‘Tahader Katha’, the many partitions endured by a freedom fighter
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Watch: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ trailer
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Start the week with a film: A legend returns in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’