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As news media is abuzz with the farmers rally of tractors in New Delhi on the Republic Day and reaching the Red Fort to hoist different flags of their own, an image depicting a man wearing a white Modi t-shirt and attacking a policeman with a lathi has surfaced.   Digiteye India received the image on its WhatsApp handle for ...

In an IMF graph of growth for the year 2020, almost all the countries except China were shown with negative growth. Citing the data from IMF, social media channels of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have put out a claim that India’s growth for 2020 was 8% despite the pandemic. It said, Indian Economy Rebounds. See the graph put out ...

The protesting farmers have been demanding the Centre to scrap the three contentious farm bills for over two months. They took out a tractor rally on Jan. 26, 2021 and some of them reached the historic monument Red Fort, from where the Prime Minister usually addresses the nation on the Independence day. While the visuals of the protesting farmers around ...

As there is a considerable surge in the deaths of birds due to the recent bird flu outbreak in India, social media is equally abuzz with claims stating that the strange phenomenon is related to the testing of 5G spectrum by telecom major Reliance Jio. The claim has garnered support among political leaders as Chunni Lal Sahu, Vice President of ...

An image of a Platform Ticket Of Pune Railway Junction purportedly owned by Adani group is making rounds. It has ben shared by users on twitter and WhatsApp with a message: “Adani Railway, Railway Ab Hamari Niji Sampati Hai” [Now Railways are the property of Adani group.] It may be recalled that the context of the message relates to the ...

Several social media posts citing that NASA has confirmed that the Earth will be in complete darkness for six days in December, a frequently surfacing claim on the social media . These social media claims give a hyperlink to an article stating the same. Videos are also in circulation on the same topic. Fact Check:  The article which is embedded ...

With a few countries already administering the COVID-19 vaccines to their citizens, vaccine talk has increased the momentum. News about the vaccine distribution mechanism are of utmost importance and many countries, including India, have decided to give the first dosages to frontline workers and then the others. DigitEye Team received a fact check query on its WhatsApp number. The claim ...

A picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi standing in a hospital cabin with Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani is going viral. The picture has been shared widely and forwarded many times. It was shared to coincide with the news of Mukesh Ambani’s photos with his grandson being shared widely on news and social media. In one of the shared messages ...

A social media post claims that the ration cards issued to families in Andhra Pradesh have the picture of Jesus Christ printed on them. The post also included a picture of a ration card with the photo of Christ printed on it. The viral post states “यह आंध्रप्रदेश का राशन कार्ड है, जिस पर देवी-देवता का फोटो होता तो देश ...

  DigitEye India team received a fact-checking request on the Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana  (PMJJBY) scheme. The message reads “P.M Bima Yojana (PMMLI)| First you will get 70 lakhs and then every month you will get 30 thousand monthly pension”. A perusal of social media platforms showed that a huge number of people have also posted about it. ...