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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 ...

A video showing BJP president Amit Shah directing senior BJP leader LK Advani togo somewhere has gone viral on social media. The caption said, “Open insult to Advaniji”. It further read:”Height of arrogance as Amit Shah directs party veteran leader Advaniji to go off the stage, thus insulting the person who made the party stand on its own.” The video ...

As Indian elections are in full swing, several misleading images have been doing rounds. The Facebook handle “Narendra Modi for 2019 PM” has shared the above image recently claiming that a burqa-clad Congress worker (man) was held while trying to vote in the name of one Shameena (woman voter). It was shared by more than 11,000 users. मुजफ्फरनगर मे संजीव ...

Thank you Hiraben Modi@kunalkamra88#AyegaTohModiHi😂😂😂……kaise ?#MyVoteforCongress #GujaratElections2019 pic.twitter.com/Bd0dkHR9Wb — Mere Achhe Din Ayenge (@VotHardVotHard) April 23, 2019   Amid elections to the Lok Sabha, here’s a political message used with PM Narendra Modi’s mother holding a paper that read “Don’t vote for Modi”. The message with the image shows “Thank you Hiraben Modi”. Hiraben is Modi’s mother. At the very look, ...

Some social media messages and photos have shown Rahul Gandhi as seated while filing the nomination papers before the officers, whereas PM Narendra Modi was visibly standing while filing his papers at Varanasi recently. The claim was that Rahul ignored the norm to stand while handing over the nomination papers to the officers but PM Modi respected it. It waas ...

A viral video posted on a Facebook page is going viral this month coinciding with the Lok Sabha elections. It shows a woman thrashing a leader with her slipper in Himachal Pradesh. The 32-second long video shows two women walking to the leader at a Himachal Parivahan Mazdoor Sangh meeting with flowers. One of them suddenly takes out her slipper ...

BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya recently tweeted inserting a video that claims Yogendra Yadav of Swaraj India party was named Salim originally and sought votes using the name. He claimed, “I usually don’t carry TV debates to social media but making an exception to expose Yogendra Yadav’s Janus face.” Here’s the video shared by Malaviya in which Yadav was ...

With Indian elections entering the second phase of voting on Thursday, April 18, 2019, a tweet was going viral coinciding with the voting taking place in Tamil Nadu, which is home to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Google CEO sundar pichai caste his vote #Sarkar #OruViralPuratchi — SARKAR ASHOK (@ashok_nanban) April 18, 2019 It was tweeted by one Sarkar Ashok under ...

In Karnataka, fake religious letters have become common before every elections and one such letter debunked last year by fact checkers has again popped up blaming Congress leader Sonia Gandhi. The letter allegedly written by Karnataka Congress leader MB Patil to Sonia Gandhi way back in July 2017 has made it to Twitter this year by the Karnataka unit of ...

अपने बेटे से कहो 72 हजार और 22 लाख नौकरी के बारे में ना बोले नहीं तो मेरा क्या होगा गुजरात जाना पड़ेगा वहां की जनता भी अब जुमले में नहीं फसती 😀😀 pic.twitter.com/R5E6t0W2Wk — neha kumari { चौकीदार चोर है } (@SheikhMdTajUdd1) April 3, 2019 See the above image that is widely shared and being circulated in social media ...