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Union govt announces level playing field for digital media including PIB accreditation and other benefits, issues clarification on FDI policy in the sector
Personnel working in digital media outlets will be eligible for PIB accreditation, health benefits, concessional rail fare etc
Union govt says Business Standard report claiming retrenched workers will have to return reskilling fund if not reskilled is fake, rules not yet framed
Business Standard spreads fake news on Reskilling fund for retrenched workers as per Industrial Relations Code 2020
Fact-check: Is government giving free internet to students for online classes during coronavirus lockdown
A message has been circulating over the messaging apps and social media platforms that the government has decided to provide 10 GB of free internet to students so that they can attend online classes.
PIB fact-checks Hindustan Times: Report claimed an army soldier died due to injuries sustained in the Galwan clash
PIB debunked the claims made by the Hindustan Times connecting the death of Havaldar Bishan Singh to the injuries he sustained during Galwan stand-off
The Wire’s claims that NCPCR saw 8-fold increase in complaints post-Coronavirus outbreak are false: Read details
The Wire has recently been trying to milk the coronavirus pandemic to cast aspersions on Modi government
Central govt rejects Business Standard report on the merger of CBDT and CBIC, schools the newspaper on journalism
Business Standard had published an article claiming that the central government is mulling over the merger of CBDT and CBIC as a part of its austerity drive to reduce the costs amidst coronavirus pandemic
Opposition leaders and leftist journalists circulate fake news about substandard PPE kits at AIIMS Delhi, PIB calls out the lie
Journalist Runjhun Sharma had falsely claimed that AIIMS doctors were provided with substandard N-95 and PPE kits
Fact Check: The Wire’s Rohini Singh lies about ventilators received in donation by Gujarat government
The Press Information Bureau claimed that the ventilators were in accordance with the required quality standards and were received as donation by Gujarat government
PIB debunks fake news claiming that Mumbai will be under ‘military lockdown’ for 10 days due to Coronavirus
The video further claimed that if Mumbai was not shut down completely, then, cases in the country might rise up to a whopping 1 crore.
‘You are supposed to inform people’: Rajyavardhan Rathore slices through Shekhar Gupta led The Print’s misleading article
Shekhar Gupta led The Print has been known to spread several lies since its inception. This time they have decided to spread fake news about the Information and Broadcasting Ministry.
