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Latest Fact Checks by Ranjini K
Politics-People
Tech-Social-Media
False: PM Narendra Modi called the collapse of the Morbi cable bridge in Gujarat an act of fraud.
Politics-People
False: Rishi Sunak lit diyas at the entrance of the Prime Minister's office in London after being elected.
Events-Activism
Politics-General
False: This photo shows a mass gathering at Rahul Gandhi's rally in Karnataka.
Politics-Elections
Politics-People
False: Member of Parliament Raghav Chadha promoted Aam Aadmi Party at a religious event.
Human Rights-Religion
False: A doctor based out of Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, has received life threats for supporting Hindu organizations.
Events-Natural Disasters
Tech-Social-Media
False: Sharks were swimming in a Florida mall after Hurricane Ian, image shows.
Politics-People
Tech-Social-Media
False: Narendra Modi ignored a question regarding petrol prices during an interactive session.
Politics-General
Tech-Social-Media
False: Sachin Pilot's sketch was presented to Rahul Gandhi during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kerala.
Politics-General
Tech-Social-Media
False: NCP MP Supriya Sule sat in the Maharashtra chief minister's seat.
Politics-People
Tech-Social-Media
False: Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav performed shradh for his living father.
Politics-General
Politics-Elections
Tech-Social-Media
False: Enforcement Directorate raided the residence of an AAP member who is a textile trader in Surat, Gujarat.
Politics-General
Politics-Elections
False: Joe Biden has officially filed for re-election in 2024.
Events-General
Human Rights-Religion
False: Hindu mobs attacked a mosque in Leicester city on September 17, 2022.
Media-Sports
Tech-Social-Media
False: Sri Lanka's flag was displayed on Burj Khalifa after their team won 2022 Asia Cup.
Media-General
Politics-General
False: The Delhi government launched India's first virtual school in August 2022.
Events-General
Politics-General
Misleading: An Ambulance was made to wait in traffic to make way for Amit Shah's convoy in Mumbai.
Events-Humanitarian
Media-General
Media-Celebrities
False: A BBC News report claims Bollywood director Karan Johar and actors Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt have donated crores to Pakistan flood victims.
Human Rights-Religion
Media-General
Tech-Social-Media
Misleading: A Texas school district removed Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl" from libraries.
Events-General
Human Rights-Religion
Tech-Social-Media
Misleading: The Indian national flag was designed by Muslim woman Surayya Badruddin Tyabji.
Human Rights-General
Human Rights-Activism
Tech-Social-Media
False: A soldier shot a stone pelter in Jammu and Kashmir.
Economics-Business
Media-General
False: Indian journalist Ravish Kumar resigned from NDTV after Adani Group acquired 29.18 percent stake in the news channel.
Politics-General
False: BCCI Secretary Jay Shah insulted the Tricolor by refusing to hold it after India's win in Asia Cup.
Politics-Policy
False: BJP government is giving a ₹6,000 allowance every month to unemployed youth.
Events-General
Human Rights-Religion
False: 128 kg of gold was recovered from the house of a Tirupati Balaji temple priest.
Events-General
Geopolitical-General
Human Rights-Race
Misleading: Jammu & Kashmir Police thrashed a group of Rajasthani men for raising pro-Pakistan slogans.
Events-Activism
Human Rights-Religion
Media-Celebrities
Tech-Social-Media
False: A Sikh group protested against actor Aamir Khan's film Laal Singh Chaddha.
Events-General
Geopolitical-General
Misleading: Arvind Kejriwal asked to hoist the national flag on August 14 to honor Pakistan's Independence day.
Politics-General
Politics-People
False: The U.S. Supreme Court has signed a verdict to impeach U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Economics-Business
Politics-General
False: Narendra Modi-led BJP government is planning to privatize the CISF.
Health-General
Human Rights-General
Politics-Policy
Misleading: North Carolina proposed a bill that legalizes the murder of pregnant women who seek an abortion.
Human Rights-Religion
Politics-General
False: A burkha-clad woman destroyed idols of Hindu gods in Kerala.
Human Rights-Religion
Misleading: Several Muslims gathered to protest the appointment of a new Brahmin Collector in Kerala.
Human Rights-Religion
Tech-Social-Media
Misleading: Muslim man in Indore threatens Hindu woman with a knife to force her to marry him.
Human Rights-Religion
Politics-General
Tech-Social-Media
False: Nishank Rathore, an engineering student, was killed in Bhopal for supporting former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma.
Human Rights-Religion
Politics-General
Misleading: No increasing trend was observed in communal riots in India between 2018 and 2020.
Events-Activism
Politics-People
False: United States Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez faked her arrest during an abortion rights demonstration outside the Supreme Court.
Health-Covid
Politics-General
False: Donald Trump released a statement on President Biden's health after the latter tested positive for COVID-19.
Events-General
Tech-Social-Media
False: Pope Francis has announced his retirement.
Geopolitical-Conflict
Tech-Social-Media
False: A video shows Ukrainian farmers continuing to harvest amid shelling during the Russian invasion in 2022.
Events-General
Tech-Social-Media
False: A video shows two women swept away by waves on Bandra beach in Mumbai.
Economics-General
Geopolitical-General
Politics-People
False: A video shows people celebrating the death of Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in China.
Events-General
Geopolitical-General
False: A video shows a huge crowd gathered to welcome the Liverpool Football Club in Thailand.
Human Rights-Religion
Politics-General
False: The image shows Supreme Court Justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala having lunch with Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy.
Media-General
Politics-People
False: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi called Udaipur killers "children."
Events-General
False: A video shows people running in fear after hearing gunshots at Lake Eola, Orlando.
Events-General
Politics-General
False: Biryani will be served to the murderers of Kanhaiya Lal, a tailor, in Udaipur jail.
Climate-General
Conspiracies-General
Tech-General
False: Viral images show that powerful lasers caused wildfires in California.
Events-General
False: Gunshots were fired at the Barclays Center in New York City on May 29, 2022.
Human Rights-Gender
Tech-Social-Media
False: The Texas school shooter was trans.
Geopolitical-Conflict
False: This video shows a destroyed railway station in Lviv, Ukraine following Russian military attacks.
Human Rights-Religion
Tech-Social-Media
False: An image shows the Nandi statue from Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi, UP.
Human Rights-Religion
False: A video shows a Hindu police officer faking an injury to incite violence against Muslims in Jodhpur.
Human Rights-Religion
Tech-Social-Media
Misleading: A video shows a Muslim man assaulted by a Hindu extremist mob in Delhi on May 11, 2022.
Geopolitical-Conflict
Politics-People
Tech-Social-Media
False: An image still from a video shows Oleksandra Zelenska, Volodymyr Zelenskyy's daughter, disowning her father for killing Ukrainian people during the Russian invasion.
Human Rights-Religion
False: The image from a video shows Uttar Pradesh police beating people offering prayers on the street.
Human Rights-Religion
Media-Entertainment
False: A Hindu activist attacked a Muslim man with a sword after watching the recently released movie, "The Kashmir Files", in Haliyal, Uttara Kannada.
Events-General
False: A video shows people running in fear after firing and blast at the Brooklyn subway, New York.
Events-General
Human Rights-Religion
False: An image from the video shows Hindu activists pelting a mosque with stones in Mulbagal, Karnataka.
Economics-General
Politics-General
True: Delhi's GSDP has increased by 50 percent since the 2016-17 financial year.
Human Rights-Religion
Misleading: A Hindutva mob lynched two Muslim men over a scuffle in the Kaushambi district of Uttar Pradesh.
Events-General
Politics-General
False: The video shows an incident that occurred in Punjab, under the Bhagwant Mann government, of a drunken police officer failing to lift himself from the ground.
Geopolitical-Conflict
Human Rights-Race
False: Images show African students assaulted in Ukraine during the Russian invasion.
Events-General
Politics-Elections
False: A video shows BJP goons were assaulting a man while celebrating the Uttar Pradesh assembly election victory.
Events-General
Geopolitical-Conflict
False: An image shows Ukrakine's Bayraktar TB2 drone struck a fuel train from Belarus during the Russian invasion.
Geopolitical-Conflict
Media-Celebrities
Misleading: Former Miss Ukraine has joined the military to fight against Russia.
Geopolitical-Conflict
False: An image shows a Russian aircraft being shot down by Ukraine during the Russian invasion, supposedly the sixth such craft to have been destroyed.
Human Rights-Religion
Politics-Policy
The Karnataka High Court has ruled that the hijab will not be allowed in any educational institutes.
Human Rights-Religion
False: Khaleel Alam Rizvi, a 34-year-old man from Bihar was lynched for consuming beef.
Human Rights-Religion
False: A Muslim man killed a Hindu woman for refusing to convert to Islam in Surat.
Human Rights-Religion
False: The Mayor of Dorval turned down Muslim parents' request to remove pork from school canteen menus.
Human Rights-General
Human Rights-Religion
True: A video of men attacking a Muslim woman in Morocco was falsely attributed as an incident in India.
Politics-People
False: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished the Gowd Saraswat Brahmin community on the occasion of Kodial Teru.
Politics-General
Misleading: Goa received an estimated budget of Rs.432 crores from Congress in the 2013-14 fiscal year.
Events-General
Media-General
Unverifiable: Almost 28 sets of Lego toys are sold every second during the Christmas season.
Health-Covid
True: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Rishikesh is researching if Gayatri Mantra can cure COVID-19.
Health-Covid
False: Ayurvedic practitioner Anandaiah's herbal medicine cures COVID-19.
Health-Covid
False: COVID-19 test kits have both positive and negative swabs to pre-determine results.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Unverifiable: The Covishield vaccine may provide lifetime immunity against COVID-19.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Misleading: A 16-year-old student died due to the aftereffect of the COVID-19 vaccination in Madhya Pradesh, India.
Events-General
Health-Covid
Misleading: Instances of serious crimes in Uttar Pradesh in 2020 were the lowest since 2013.
Health-General
Health-Covid
False: The Omicron variant causes heart attack and blood clots in an infected individual.
Events-General
False: Amar Jawan Jyothi at India Gate will be extinguished after 50 years.
False: During a live broadcast, an Argentina reporter collapsed due to the aftereffect of the COVID-19 vaccines.
Health-Covid
False: Inhaling hydrogen peroxide could prevent COVID-19.
Conspiracies-Aliens
False: NASA hired religious experts to predict human reactions to aliens.
Conspiracies-General
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: A woman developed uncontrollable shaking because of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Events-Humanitarian
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Partly_True: Pakistan purchased COVID-19 vaccines from China.
Events-General
False: Manisha Valmiki's father was killed in Hathras, UP.
Climate-General
Tech-General
True: Solar and wind power as a share of global electricity has doubled since 2015.
Events-General
True: Flight Lieutenant Srividya Rajan was Gunjan Saxena's course-mate at the Udhampur Airforce base.
Politics-General
True: A picture of Ram is on the Fundamental Rights part of the original Constitution of India.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: South Africa's President, Cyril Ramaphosa, said that there is no sign of the Omicron variant in the country.
Politics-General
False: A viral photo shows former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi eating seafood.
Health-Vaccines
Media-General
False: Food stamps recipients have to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to continue on the program.
Health-General
False: Goat milk is consumed to cure dengue.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: Teenagers do not benefit from the COVID-19 vaccination.
Health-Covid
Quarantine is mandatory for those returning to Mangaluru city from abroad.
Politics-General
Misleading: Rahul Gandhi had agreed upon an MOU with the Chinese Communist Party over the Indo-China border.
Economics-General
Events-General
Misleading: Americans spend an estimated $6 billion annually on Halloween.
Conspiracies-General
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: The COVID-19 vaccines contain microchips.
Health-Covid
Politics-General
Unverifiable: Congress prepared a COVID-19 toolkit to target the Modi government.
Economics-Business
Events-General
False: World's largest floating solar farm is being built in Singapore.
Economics-Business
Human Rights-Religion
Tech-Social-Media
Tech-Business
असत्य: Jio is offering an 84-day free recharge of ₹ 555 on the occasion of Ram-temple construction.
Politics-General
Politics-Policy
दिशाभूल: Students to get free smartphones from the Indian government amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Events-General
Politics-General
Partly_True: Barack Obama deported more people in his first term than Trump.
Events-General
True: Students to be taught Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Ramsetu at Madhya Pradesh Colleges.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Tech-Social-Media
False: A video claimed that a baby was paralyzed after participating in COVID-19 vaccine trials.
Events-General
Politics-General
Politics-People
Unverifiable: The Taliban found 6.5M dollars stored in Vice President of Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh's home.
Human Rights-Gender
True: Texas reported 14,824 rape cases in 2019.
Health-Covid
Misleading: Public and Private schools in Punjab are closed until September 30 due to COVID-19.
Politics-General
Tech-Social-Media
False: Northern alliance fighters attacked a convoy of Taliban in Panjshir valley.
Human Rights-Gender
Tech-Social-Media
False: A viral video shows Taliban militants auctioning women for $1.34.
Health-Covid
Politics-Policy
False: The Indian government advised caregivers of quarantined patients to take hydroxychloroquine prophylaxis as a preventative measure.
Health-Covid
Human Rights-Race
True: 40 percent of migrants have been tested positive for COVID-19 in Laredo, Texas.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Human Rights-Activism
True: Thousands protested against vaccination rules in France.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
True: Singapore plans to vaccinate 66 percent of its population by August 9, 2021.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Media-General
True: Over 99 percent of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are of unvaccinated people.
Politics-General
False: Lakshadweep Island has the lowest crime rate in the country.
Economics-General
Health-Covid
True: The pandemic caused a 6.1 percent decrease in the wealth of Indian adults.
Events-General
Politics-General
Tech-Social-Media
False: The Ministry of Home Affairs is planning to relocate the headquarters of several Central Reserve Police Force.
Health-Covid
True: A fully vaccinated New Jersey doctor died of COVID-19 on a trip to India.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
True: India's COVID-19 vaccination drive figure has crossed 30 crores.
Health-General
Events-General
Health-Covid
True: Queen Elizabeth awarded the U.K.'s National Health Services for COVID-19 service.
Health-Covid
False: No children under the age of five have died from COVID-19.
Health-Covid
False: Hydroxychloroquine and zinc treatments increased coronavirus survival rate by almost three times.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Misleading: More than 4,000 fully vaccinated people have been hospitalized or died with COVID-19 in the U.S.
Health-General
Health-Covid
True: Bone death has been recorded in post-COVID-19 patients in India.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Tech-Business
True: More than 50 countries have shown interest in adopting India's Co-WIN platform.
Health-Covid
Tech-Social-Media
Misleading: Children have a 99.99 percent chance of surviving COVID-19.
Human Rights-Race
Media-Entertainment
Politics-People
True: A YouTuber has been arrested for making derogatory remarks against an Arunachal MLA.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Tech-General
False: Data of 150 million COVID-19 vaccinated people were leaked from the CoWin App.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: COVID-19 vaccines can increase the risk of miscarriage.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
True: Weyan village is the first in India to record 100 percent COVID-19 vaccination.
False: The Indian music director Bappi Lahiri has passed away.
Partly_True: The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched”.
Health-Covid
True: COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. is expected to fall sharply by the end of July.
Health-Covid
Politics-General
True: Some directions in the alleged COVID toolkit refer to events that have taken place in April 2021.
Politics-People
Politics-Policy
True: Indira Gandhi, India's former Prime Minister, declared the President's Rule 50 times during her tenure.
Health-Covid
True: China has closed off its side of Mount Everest to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Health-Covid
Politics-Elections
True: COVID-19 norms flouted in Hathras during election counting.
Health-Covid
Health-Pharma
Health-Vaccines
True: Adar Poonawalla says he has been receiving threats over the COVID-19 vaccine supply.
Health-Covid
Politics-Policy
True: The U.S. imposed a travel ban on India over the COVID-19 outbreak.
Events-Activism
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
True: Students Federation of India protested, demanding vaccines for everyone.
Health-Covid
Media-Sports
True: Two players in the IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders have tested positive for COVID-19.
Health-Covid
Politics-Policy
False: Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation released new lockdown guidelines effective from May 1, 2021.
Events-Humanitarian
Health-Covid
True: India received emergency COVID-19 relief shipments from the U.S.
Health-Covid
True: Weekend curfew imposed in Delhi to contain COVID-19 pandemic.
Human Rights-Gender
Politics-Policy
True: Army Combat Fitness Test scores will be given based on gender to account for fitness differences.
Events-General
Health-Covid
False: The Indian government warned that the Kumbh Mela festival is a super-spreader event.
Events-General
Politics-General
False: Some people tripped over the SUV door that hit CM Mamata.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Misleading: West Bengal is among the top 4 States in India for the cumulative coverage of the COVID-19 vaccination.
Economics-General
True: Economic forecasters have projected that the U.S. economy will exceed 6 percent growth in G.D.P.
Geopolitical-Policy
Politics-People
Misleading: Under Biden, the number of unaccompanied children crossing the Mexico-U.S. border has decreased.
Politics-Policy
Uttar Pradesh became the first state in India where the reservation criteria are abolished.
Economics-General
Politics-General
False: Udhay Stalin: The funds supposed to compensate for the shortfall in Tamil Nadu's GST revenue are being used to make a new parliament building.
Geopolitical-General
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Queen Elizabeth thanked PM Modi for sending COVID-19 vaccines.
Human Rights-General
Partly_True: Lithuania has the highest suicide rate in the world.
Health-Covid
Politics-Policy
Partly_True: Educational institutes in Nashik were allowed to start physical classes for students of Classes IX to XII from January 4.
Politics-Policy
True: BJP's education policy promoted education in regional languages.
Human Rights-Race
Politics-General
Politics-Elections
Misleading: More than 15,000 Rohingya Muslims have been sent to detention centers in Kashmir.
Events-Humanitarian
Politics-Policy
True: Residents in a Toronto suburb are trying to protect a parking lot that’s due to be turned into housing for the homeless.
Conspiracies-General
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: South African children are refusing to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
Politics-General
Politics-Policy
Misleading: Government employees of West Bengal have been deprived of the benefits of the 7th Pay Commission.
Economics-Business
False: China owns DreamWorks Animation.
Economics-General
Politics-Policy
Misleading: The new farm bills give farmers the freedom to sell anywhere in India or abroad, to private or government entities, or to big or small buyers.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
True: India vaccinated over 7 million people against COVID-19 within 26 days.
Health-General
Politics-Policy
False: Biden's executive order allows the US to fund abortions abroad.
Events-General
Politics-People
True: Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace prize.
Human Rights-Gender
Politics-Policy
True: Republicans introduced a congressional bill to ban transgender girls from school sports.
Health-Covid
Unverifiable: The new COVID-19 variant kills 50 percent of those it infects.
Events-Activism
Politics-People
Misleading: Nancy Pelosi praised the storming of the Wisconsin State Capitol in 2011.
Conspiracies-General
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: COVID-19 vaccines are made from aborted fetal cells.
Events-Activism
Geopolitical-Conflict
Misleading: People protested against the killing of the Hazara community in POK.
Politics-People
Politics-Policy
True: Biden ordered to halt the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Misleading: Deepak Marawi died in Bhopal after participating in the Covaxin trial.
Health-Covid
True: In England, an employer must tell their staff if someone they work with tests positive for COVID-19.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Politics-People
Tech-Social-Media
False: Barack Obama has warned Africans against getting a COVID-19 vaccine.
Events-Activism
Politics-Elections
True: A police officer died after clashing with the pro-Trump mob.
Health-Covid
Politics-Policy
True: Americans to get a $600 unemployment relief cheque as part of the COVID-19 relief package.
Economics-Business
Tech-Business
Partly_True: Wistron at Kolar unit reported Rs 437 crore losses due to damage caused in a dispute.
Human Rights-Gender
Politics-Policy
True: The U.K. government will ease the ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood.
Events-General
Partly_True: A swarm of honeybees can gang up to roast invading hornets alive.
Events-General
Politics-Policy
Partly_True: Neil Armstrong had to clear customs after returning from the Moon.
Human Rights-Religion
False: Tripura has reduced the number of holidays for Hindus' famous Durga Puja.
Politics-People
Politics-Policy
Misleading: Joe Biden wants to take away Americans' gun rights.
Politics-General
Misleading: Biden wants American farmers to put their farmland into government land banks.
Economics-General
Politics-Policy
Misleading: Joe Biden will repeal Trump's tax cuts which will lead to increased taxes for the middle class.
Politics-People
Politics-Policy
Misleading: Kamala Harris put poor people in prison.
Health-General
Partly_True: An individual comes into contact with 300 surfaces every 30 minutes, exposing himself to 840,000 germs.
Health-General
True: India has the world’s second-lowest rates of meat consumption per person.
Unverifiable: Amy Coney Barret will vote to repeal Obamacare.
Events-Activism
Politics-General
Politics-Policy
During the Congress protests, the same tractor was burnt twice in Punjab and again in Delhi.
Economics-General
Politics-Policy
Misleading: Donald Trump's policies boosted lower and middle-income Americans.
Politics-Elections
Politics-People
Partly_True: Bernie Sanders is concerned that Biden would lose to Trump with his more centrist approach.
Health-Covid
Politics-People
True: Trump left the Walter Reed Medical Center.
Economics-General
Politics-General
True: 6.8 lakh Indian companies have closed down in FY 2019.
Economics-General
Events-Terrorism
Politics-People
Partly_True: Donald Trump siphoned close to $4 million from an organization that was meant to help first responders of 9/11.
Economics-General
Partly_True: India's economy is in a bad shape and the market is under an unprecedented recession.
Health-Covid
True: Mississippi and Georgia have more per capita deaths due to COVID-19 during the second half of the pandemic season.
Economics-Business
Health-Covid
True: Lulu Mall, situated in Edapally, is closed because of COVID-19.
Health-Covid
True: Forty-three doctors of Karnataka on the frontlines of the pandemic died of COVID-19 since March.
Health-Covid
False: COVID-19, along with the sun's UV rays, entered the earth through the depleted spaces in the ozone layer.
Politics-People
Politics-Policy
True: Kerala's Rajya Sabha MP Elamaram Kareem has asked for an increment in the EPS 95 pension scheme.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: The vaccine for COVID-19 is ready.
Politics-People
Silvio Berlusconi has been accused of multiple sexual crimes.
Health-Covid
Partly_True: There is a risk of transmission of the virus if students gather in one place.
Economics-General
Health-Covid
Politics-General
True: Modi government took loans from the Chinese controlled bank.
Politics-Elections
Politics-People
Misleading: 200 current and retired military commanders sign a letter to state Trump is the best commander in chief ever.
Events-General
True: The Indian Army captured a post from the Chinese.
Events-Humanitarian
Human Rights-General
False: Periyar E. V. Ramasamy remained silent about the Kilvenmani massacre.
Health-General
Health-Covid
Partly_True: Far UVC light kills COVID-19.
Health-General
Health-Covid
Partly_True: Far UVC light can kill the airborne influenza virus.
Events-Humanitarian
Health-Covid
Partly_True: Call center helplines cannot correctly handle COVID-19 patients' needs.
Economics-General
Tech-General
True: The price of lithium batteries has gone down 79% from 2010 to 2017.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Politics-People
False: Vladimir Putin's daughter has died after being administered with the second dose of the Sputnik V vaccine.
Health-Covid
Politics-Policy
Partly_True: There is strong public support for the UK government's decision to ban people from socializing in more than six groups in most circumstances.
Misleading: Tata Steel president Jamshed Irani has criticized the Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut.
Events-General
True: IIT Delhi prescribes graduation including B.Tech as a minimum qualification for the post of Dog Handler
Events-Activism
True: Dr. Indrajit Chakraborty is the Administrative Head of Kohinoor Hospital, Mumbai.
Health-General
Events-General
True: Nearly 43,000 farmers and daily wagers died by suicide in 2019.
Health-General
Partly_True: Refined oil usage is the leading cause of cancer in many of the tropical regions.
Partly_True: If a man shows up positive on a pregnancy test, he could have cancer.
Economics-General
True: India's GDP growth rate falls to the lowest in decades.
Geopolitical-General
True: India acts to secure the border after Himalayan clashes with China.
Human Rights-General
Misleading: Obama called Edward Snowden a traitor.
Politics-General
Partly_True: The former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi was involved in some scientific scams.
Economics-General
False: Peanuts are of Indian origin.
Health-Covid
Partly_True: COVID-19 antibodies will last at least for 4 months.
Health-General
True: Individuals don't have two Y chromosomes, Y can't recombine with itself and thus it has become smaller and smaller over millions of years of evolution.
Politics-Elections
True: The project 'Modi is unelectable' reached its climax in the 2014 elections.
Media-Sports
True: Lionel Messi is leaving Barcelona.
Media-Celebrities
False: The investigation into the death of Sushant Singh Rajput has concluded.
Politics-People
Politics-Policy
False: Trump's travel restrictions on China early in 2020 helped save many lives.
Geopolitical-Conflict
Politics-General
True: Russia is expected to make a military intervention in Belarus.
Politics-General
True: The Intelligence Bureau of India tracked whereabouts of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose until the 1960s and reported directly to the British MI5.
Media-Celebrities
False: Veteran Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar is dead.
Events-General
True: Mahatma Gandhi is likely to become the first non-white person to feature on the British currency.
Health-General
Health-Covid
Partly_True: COVID-19 infection is more likely for people with some specific blood groups.
Economics-General
Tech-Social-Media
False: NKGSB Cooperative Bank will be permanently closed.
Politics-People
False: Sonia Gandhi resigned from the president’s post.
Media-Celebrities
True: The mystery woman spotted at Sushant Singh Rajput's home on June 14 was Rhea Chakraborty's brother Showik's friend.
Geopolitical-General
Geopolitical-Conflict
Politics-General
True: Turkish Universities are being used as a front to promote anti-India activities.
Geopolitical-General
Geopolitical-Policy
Partly_True: Russia’s military is officially training soldiers from the Central African Republic.
Events-General
Health-Covid
False: Regular trains will run from September 31, 2020.
Health-General
Health-Covid
False: WHO has claimed that asymptomatic Covid19 patients cannot transmit the disease.
Economics-General
Health-General
Politics-General
True: More than 700,000 jobs were lost in the UK in 2020.
Events-General
Health-Covid
True: Lockdown-hit poultry farmers in Haryana are burying the birds alive.
Events-General
Politics-People
True: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan had organized a tree-planting ceremony recently.
Economics-Business
True: China has extended anti-dumping tariff on Indian optical fibre.
Geopolitical-General
Geopolitical-Conflict
True: India has rejected a new Chinese proposal to solve the Ladakh border issue.
Health-Covid
False: The Central Government has confirmed that schools in India will remain closed until December 2020.
Economics-Crypto
Politics-Policy
True: The Indian government is planning on banning cryptocurrency in India.
Media-General
Politics-General
Politics-People
Politics-Policy
False: The Lieutenant Governor of J&K resigned after he saw people suffering due to the abrogation of Article 370.
Media-Sports
True: Wolves were the authors of a new chapter in European football.
Politics-People
Politics-General
False: Kamala Harris is not a naturalised U.S citizen.
Health-Covid
Health-Pharma
COVID-19 medicine named Favipiravir which costs at ₹35/- per tablet has been launched in India.
True: The Lieutenant Governor of J&K Mr. G.C Murmu has resigned.
Health-General
Media-General
Partly_True: A new type of virus is being reported from China which is passed from the bite of ticks.
Health-General
True: A vegan diet of plant-based whole foods has been associated with a lower risk of heart disease.
Geopolitical-General
Media-General
True: A mysterious package of seeds received in the mail appears to have originated in China.
Media-Celebrities
Media-Entertainment
True: 'Mother India' actress Kumkum passes away at 86.
Tech-Social-Media
True: Raisa Ansari, a vegetable vendor has completed a Ph.D. in Materials Science from an Indore University.
Economics-Business
True: There is a Switzerland-based company that will name your baby for $29,000.
Health-General
Health-Covid
True: Low levels of vitamin D are associated with an increased risk of COVID-19 infection.
Events-General
Tech-Social-Media
False: A 22-month-old baby boy is in critical condition after accidentally shooting himself in the chest with a nail gun.
Health-Covid
True: COVID-19 rates in South Dakota are on the rise.
Human Rights-Religion
Politics-General
False: The textbook of class nine in Karnataka preaches students to propagate Islam and Christianity.
Geopolitical-General
Politics-Policy
False: Israel will bomb Pakistan's nuclear facilities if it attacks India.
Health-General
Health-Covid
Tech-General
Tech-Business
True: The oximeter apps is not a reliable way to measure blood oxygen levels.
Events-Activism
Politics-General
True: Black Trump supporter shot to death in Milwaukee hours after Pro-Trump interview.
Health-Covid
True: Florida man arrested for purchasing Lamborghini with COVID-19 relief funds.
Events-Natural Disasters
Geopolitical-General
Tech-Social-Media
False: US-Mexico border wall in Texas collapse partially due to a storm.
Events-General
Geopolitical-Conflict
True: China has erected new structures in the Pangong Tso area.
Media-Sports
False: Jose Mourinho is returning to Chelsea as head coach.
Conspiracies-General
False: A letter was written by Jawaharlal Nehru calling Subhas Chandra Bose a war criminal.
Politics-General
False: Himachal Pradesh Congress MP silenced PM Modi during her speech at the Parliament.
Health-Covid
Human Rights-General
False: An individual may face up to six months in prison for not wearing a mask in Indiana.
Human Rights-General
Media-Celebrities
Partly_True: Shahrukh Khan has links with Tony Ashai, who is rumoured to be an ISI agent.
Human Rights-Gender
False: It is legal for a policeman to sexually assault female detainees in 35 states in the United States.
Events-General
Health-Covid
True: Lockdown has postponed the mass occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic in India by three crucial months that have helped in saving thousands of lives.
Health-Covid
Politics-General
False: Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf wrote a letter to the Primanti brothers, informing them that they were disallowed from serving Nachos.
Events-General
True: Twitter accounts of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and other top businessmen have been hacked.
Geopolitical-General
False: An Indian Spy quadcopter has been shot down by the Nepalese Army.
Events-Activism
Media-Celebrities
Sharukh Khan has stopped the shooting of Tipu Sultan after protests.
Health-Covid
India might record 2.87 lakh COVID-19 cases per day by February 2021.
Health-Covid
False: The Indian Home Ministry has permitted to open schools.
Geopolitical-General
False: Iran has dropped India from the Chabahar rail project.
Health-Covid
Partly_True: Dr. Bartlett is treating COVID-19 patients with a 100% success rate using inexpensive methods.
Events-Activism
Misleading: Railway employees in India are on an indefinite strike for one week over the privatization of Indian railways.
Media-General
True: The world's largest elephants can be found in Tanzania.
Health-Covid
False: India has reached stage 3 or the community transmission phase of Covid-19.
Politics-General
False: Sattarghat bridge inaugurated by CM Nitish Kumar collapsed in Gopalganj.
Politics-Policy
False: The Karnataka state government has cut the pension of the retired employees.
Human Rights-General
Media-Celebrities
False: Breonna Taylor's killers have been arrested and charged.
Politics-General
False: A portion of the Sattarghat bridge on Gandak river in Bihar’s Gopalganj collapsed a month after Bihar CM Nitish Kumar inaugurated it.
Geopolitical-Policy
True: Chinese troops are withdrawing from the disputed border regions along the LAC, shared with India.
Health-Covid
Partly_True: Asymptomatic COVID-19 patients are spreading the infection.
Politics-Policy
True: Asif K Yusuf has submitted fake certificates to get into IAS.
Events-General
False: Security guards turn off the camera in Ghislaine Maxwell's cell.
Economics-General
The Indian government has raised excise duty 18 times in 18 days on petrol and diesel.
Politics-People
Tech-General
False: PM Modi appointed drone wiz Prathap as a DRDO scientist.
Events-General
False: The 'cycle girl' Jyoti Paswan has been murdered by an ex-army man in Bihar.
Health-Covid
True: Parents' associations have filed a petition in the Supreme Court to ask schools not to collect fees during the lockdown.
Economics-General
Geopolitical-General
False: The online casino operator Europa Casino Inc. has lost millions of rupees to Indian players.
Geopolitical-Conflict
The Indian army has captured the Pangong lake known as the 'finger 8' region from China.
Events-General
India has bagged the infrastructure development rights for two islands in the Indian Ocean.
Politics-General
Misleading: The most dangerous cities in the U.S. are all run by Democrats.
Economics-Business
Health-Covid
False: British Airways is closing down.
Geopolitical-Conflict
Partly_True: Indian Soldiers were beaten and drowned to death during the clashes at the Galwan valley.
Geopolitical-Conflict
Media-General
False: China accepts that 30 of its soldiers were killed at the Galwan valley.
Events-General
Geopolitical-Conflict
True: China is now staking claim of Sovereignty to the whole of Galwan Valley.
Tech-Business
False: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's 'Statue of Unity' was made in China.
Human Rights-General
Politics-General
False: Indian soldiers were sent unarmed for patrolling the Indo-China border.
Geopolitical-Policy
Politics-Policy
True: Indian troops are allowed to use weapons on the Chinese border.
Politics-Policy
Tech-Social-Media
True: The government of India is monitoring our social media.
Tech-Social-Media
Tech-Business
False: The 'online' and 'last seen' options will no longer be available on Whatsapp.
Health-Covid
Tech-Social-Media
False: ICMR has released 21 dos and don'ts on how to resume life after lockdown.
Politics-Policy
Tech-Social-Media
True: There are repercussions for recruits who decide to quit People's Liberation Army.
Tech-Social-Media
False: Facebook's new algorithm has limited a feed to posts from 26 friends.
Events-General
Health-Covid
True: Hotels in Himachal Pradesh will re-open by mid-September.
Events-General
Health-Covid
True: 10th and 12th grade ICSE board students can choose to appear or skip their examinations.
Events-General
Two Muslim youths named Amjad Ali and Tamim Shaikh have been arrested in Kerala in relation to the killing of a wild elephant.
Health-Covid
Tech-Social-Media
False: COVID -19 is caused by bacteria that causes blood clotting.
Health-Covid
Media-General
Unverifiable: Dawood Ibrahim has succumbed to COVID-19.
Health-Covid
Human Rights-Religion
Tech-Social-Media
True: Staff at a private hospital in Rajasthan discussed not treating Muslim patients on WhatsApp.
Human Rights-Religion
False: Two members of the Muslim community were arrested in relation to the elephant's death in Kerala.
Health-Covid
Politics-Policy
True: New Zealand has lifted almost all of its COVID-19 restrictions.
Economics-Business
Unverifiable: A survey for National Biscuit Day found 83 percent of people saying that they would rather have coffee and biscuit than go out on a date.
Economics-General
Health-Covid
True: Eastern European farmworkers are flown to the UK on charter flights to pick fruit and vegetable crops.
Events-Humanitarian
Health-Covid
A video shows a suspected coronavirus patient was detained by police in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh.
Health-General
Politics-General
False: There is hysteria during the current outbreak of coronavirus, whereas people were calm and collected during the H1N1 outbreak during Obama's presidency.
Health-Covid
Tech-General
False: Thermal scanners are effective in detecting people infected with the novel coronavirus.
Events-General
Health-Covid
True: Jonathan David, a 35-year-old man who pleaded guilty to ignoring the COVID-19 quarantine directive by repeatedly leaving a Perth hotel to see his girlfriend will spend one month in prison.
True: Donald Trump's ban on travel from Europe escalates pain for airlines.
Geopolitical-General
True: Taiwan is not a member of the WHO because China lobbied against their membership.
Health-Covid
Politics-General
False: Coronavirus is a huge problem but the Modi government is in a stupor, claims former Congress president Rahul Gandhi.
Misleading: India would be heading for a nationwide lockdown from 8 PM onwards on 19 March 2020 over the coronavirus outbreak.
Health-Covid
Politics-General
True: President Trump insulted a reporter for asking him what he would like to say to Americans who are scared amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Unverifiable: India was probably the first country to re-elect the party which introduced Goods and Service Tax.
Climate-General
Health-Covid
False: High temperature and high relative humidity significantly reduce the transmission of COVID-19.
Misleading: Germany owes US money because they spent less than 2% of its GDP on National Defence.
Health-Covid
True: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been tested positive for COVID-19.
Health-Covid
Human Rights-General
Misleading: 15 districts in Uttar Pradesh will be sealed down entirely amid coronavirus pandemic.
Misleading: Maharashtra Police have launched a free ride scheme for women.
Health-Covid
False: Lockdown in Maharashtra had been extended to 30 April 30 2020 by the order of the Mumbai High Court.
Health-Covid
Human Rights-General
True: At least 5 people in China have disappeared, gotten arrested, or been silenced after speaking out about the coronavirus.
Health-Covid
False: A viral image claims to be of cows wearing masks in Uttar Pradesh amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Health-Covid
Human Rights-Religion
False: A hospital in Ahmedabad splits COVID-19 wards on the basis of faith and religion.
Politics-Elections
Misleading: “We can only re-elect @realDonaldTrump". said Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden during a campaign speech in Missouri.
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