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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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Not paid news: New York Times refutes BJP claim on article about AAP schools
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Why a Japanese spy suddenly embraced Islam in Bombay in the early 20th century
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What accounts of growing Indian illiberalism miss: The grounds for bigotry were laid before 2014
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Subhas Chandra Bose and Emilie Schenkl: A marriage that defied the Third Reich
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World Photography Day: How photography helped shape India’s freedom struggle
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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: MP policeman turns to religious leader to identify murderer, he claims to know who did it
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Watch: Manipur CM N Biren Singh shows off football skills for Durand Cup inauguration
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‘Smile Please’: Delhi Police warns against traffic violations with a ‘World Photography Day’ post
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Watch: The horrifying moment when a four-storey building collapsed in Mumbai, no casualties reported
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‘When you want to have chapati and biryani’: Video of biryani burrito confuses food lovers
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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: The trailer of ‘Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives’ season 2 is here
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‘Duranga’ review: Suspend disbelief if you want to enjoy the twists
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‘Tamilrockerz’ review: In show about piracy, some insights about the price of cinemania
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‘Dobaara’ review: An engaging thriller about time travel and alternate reality
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‘Nope’ review: Jordan Peele’s sci-fi horror is mostly a yup