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News about veteran Indian economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen’s death started circulating on social media on Oct 10, with the X Corp’s (formerly twitter) handle in the name of this year’s Nobel Economics Prize winner,Claudia Goldin. Most news outlets have picked up the news and PTI has even put out a breaking news on it based on a tweet ...

A message is being circulated widely on WhatsApp ahead of Diwali. The message aims to alert people and urge them to stop buying firecrackers that have been manufactured in China. It claims that these firecrackers are more poisonous than carbon monoxide and can cause cancer. Another part of the message claims that Chinese special decorative lamps can cause blindness as ...