Currently, as per the guidelines issued by the regulatory central bank Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in August 2015, all banks will be closed on every second and fourth Saturday of the month. The decision came into effect from Sept. 1, 2015, but bank associations have long been clamouring for all Saturdays to be closed holidays for banks, similar to ...
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Did Shah Rukh Khan donate Rs. 45 crore to Pakistan? Fact check
Amid Pulwama attacks on Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans, killing 45, fake news have kicked off several other controversies. Among them, a clip showing Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan donating Rs 45 crore to the gas tragedy victims while ignoring our own jawans has re-surfaced taking many people by surprise. Shared anew when the Pulwama attacks are overshadowing everything ...
Read More »Adani exports power to Pakistan? Fake Twitter message shared by many
What has started on social media as suggestion to India’s business companies to refrain from doing business with Pakistan in view of the Pulwama massacre of CRPF jawans too too many twists and turns. One such tweet by AAP activist Preeti Sharma Menon @PreetiSMenon said: “It took the sacrifice of 42 jawans for @narendramodi to remove #MFN status from Pakistan. ...
Read More »Did Kapil Sibal seek UK courts to postpone Mallya’s extradition?
Kapil Sibal waiting Outside Supreme Court to urge the SC to Postpone #MallyaExtradition till after 2019 Lok Sabha polls, citing “huge political ramifications”#VijayMallya #ModiGetsMallya #mallyacomingback pic.twitter.com/hpj4u7B25f — President of Dracula’s (@PresidentDrMK) February 4, 2019 A surprising claim about Kapil Sibal went viral on social media on Thursday claiming that the Congress leader, who is also a lawyer, was representing Vijay ...
Read More »One helipad for PM means cutting 1000 trees? What’s the truth?
A PTI report quoting local Divisional Forest Officer said several trees were removed without obtaining permission for a helipad at Bolangir in Odisha and an enquiry was ordered. PTI later removed the story. The helipad was being constructed for the upcoming visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Soon, ABP News TV channel telecast a news claiming that the helipad at Bolangir ...
Read More »BJP’s 5-Year Challenge faces flak over wrong images
Recently, BJP’s regional heads and state wings have been posting a spree of image-based messages on Twitter and Facebook showcasing their achievements in the last five years under the series “5 Year Challenge”. But unknowingly BJP Chhattisgarh and BJP’s Karnataka Twitter images are misleading or wrong and used to show the positive side of the development. Here is our #5YearChallenge. Western ...
Read More »Hyd-Vijayawada flight ticket costs Rs.50000 to Rs.1 lakh; Despite trolls, NTV was right
@IndiGo6E please see this Telugu news channel @NtvteluguHD spreading fake news about your fare it’s 50k HYD to Vijayawada hahaha Compare the timing in my 2 pics for the truth. pic.twitter.com/YDk6A1jAMd — shafi شفیع (@MohommadShafi) January 9, 2019 A quick look at this twitter message will surprise any reader as an air ticket, that too a one way trip from ...
Read More »Did NDTV fall for this magic number of 1.25 crore or 1250 crore houses?
What NDTV started as a minor mistake of replacing a dot in a figure, turned things turtle. It all began with NDTV tweeting Narendra Modi’s statement about the number of houses built by the government so far. Attributing the fact to PM, the NDTV tweeted: “Over 1250 crore houses have been set up. People have celebrated Diwali in their new homes. ...
Read More »Fake News, Fake Reviews mar Shah Rukh Khan-starrer ‘Zero’, ahead of release
The latest victim of fake news is actor Shah Rukh Khan’s film “Zero” that received negative and fake reviews on social media before its release. Some quoted Censor Board members to make their fake reviews sound authentic. The tirade started with a guessing game on the number of screens the film “Zero” will be released on December 21 and it ...
Read More »BJP not top advertiser but top brand in TV ads
Quoting a BARC report, major news publishers including the Economic Times had published that BJP is the top TV advertiser. Here’s the news item: But the truth is, as per the BARC list for top 10 brands, BJP is on top of the list with 22,099 insertions, just behind the tenth top advertiser Marico Ltd. that had put out 22,195 ...
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