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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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UP man who rescued sarus crane booked under Wildlife Protection Act
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Why has the West always been threatened by female nudity?
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Opinion: Nandita Das’s ‘Zwigato’ is luminous in its humanism
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Watch: Nita Ambani choreographs dance celebration for Mumbai Indians after entering WPL final
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What Rajasthan’s right to health law promises – and where it falls short
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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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Watch: Women in saris play football in a tournament in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
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Watch: Protestors storm Israeli PM’s home, break barriers, after Netanyahu plans judicial changes
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Watch: IPS officer swims against the current from Gateway of India to Elephanta Caves
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Pension protests in France: Diners eat at restaurants as fires rage on the streets
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Innocent (1948-2023): Five memorable scenes featuring the actor (and former MP) from Kerala
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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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Start the week with a film: The very violent and very clever ‘Battle Royale’
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Review: ‘Boston Strangler’ looks for the woman in the serial killer story
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‘Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga’ review: A smart and entertaining thriller
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‘Jubilee’ trailer: Series is set in the Hindi film industry of the 1940s and 1950s
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‘Bheed’ review: Chaos and ambivalence at a check post aimed at tackling the Covid outbreak