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Social media users claim Modi govt restricted personal computer imports to benefit JioBook, the fact is it will be worst affected product: Details

Raju Das - 3 August, 2023

Will restriction on import of personal computers benefit Reliance's Jio Book? A fact check

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Nuh violence: Islamists use visuals of armed cops in plain-clothes to spread fake news that Hindu devotees in Jalabhishek Yatra were carrying guns

OpIndia Staff - 3 August, 2023

Islamists use visuals of cops in civilian cloths to allege that Hindu devotees were carrying guns in the Jalabhishek Yatra

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‘Journalist’ Puneet Kumar Singh claims a Hindu man’s shop was vandalised by ‘Bhagwa goons’ in Nuh assuming that the shop was owned by a...

Shraddha Pandey - 2 August, 2023

Several videos and "claims" associated with them are making their way online from the violence-hit Nuh region of Haryana.

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Islamists accuse 2 Hindus of burning a Gurugram under-construction mosque, Hindus say they were on their way from Nuh after Islamists unleashed violence

Nupur J Sharma - 1 August, 2023

Islamists on social media started alleging that two Hindus, VHP workers, were responsible for burning an under construction mosque in Gurugram hours after the Nuh violence

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‘Does it matter?’ Former JNU prof and Afzal Guru supporter brazens out when called out for passing off an old video from Colombia as...

Jinit Jain - 28 July, 2023

Former JNU professor Jayati Ghosh shared an old video from Colombia to take a dig at 'New India' under the Modi government.

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Bengal, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and now Karnataka: How non-BJP governments misuse state machinery to silence dissenting voices

Paurush Gupta - 25 July, 2023

The hounding of Rashmi Samant is yet another manifestation of how opposition-ruled states use police power to suppress critical voices.

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Mother of all ironies: Karnataka Congress govt ropes in Alt News, with a history of spreading fake news, for fighting misinformation

OpIndia Staff - 25 July, 2023

This has led to speculations by netizens that the Karnataka Congress government is mulling to monetarily benefit Alt News by availing its services using taxpayer's money.

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24 hours after Subhashini Ali ‘apologised’ for spreading fake news about Manipur incident, she is yet to delete her tweet falsely blaming BJP leader

OpIndia Staff - 24 July, 2023

Twenty-four hours have, however, past since Subhashini Ali admitted that she had spread fake news about the Manipur incident and the RSS, yet she has not bothered to delete her malicious tweet

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