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Mallika Dua dismisses rumours of her father Vinod Dua's death
Updated : 5 days, 3 hours ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 29 (ANI): Journalist Vinod Dua’s daughter Mallika has said her father “is in the ICU, fighting still” and no misinformation or rumours should be spread about his demise.
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Navjot Singh Sidhu slams Punjab AG, says 'justice is blind but peo
Updated : 3 weeks, 6 days ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], November 7 (ANI): President of Congress' Punjab unit Navjot Singh Sidhu slammed the state's Advocate General APS Deol, a day after the latter accused him of interfering with the work of the Punjab Government and spreading misinformation.
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Tripura Police invoke UAPA against 102 Twitter accounts for spread
Updated : 4 weeks ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], November 6 (ANI): Tripura police have invoked the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) against 102 Twitter accounts for allegedly spreading misinformation about the recent violence that took place at Panisagar in North Tripura last month.
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Information war waged against India in Maldives under garb of nati
Updated : 1 month ago IST
Male [Maldives], November 1 (ANI): A new report by Colombo based agency has revealed that a big information war is being waged by certain parties in the Maldives against India, whereby the perpetrators are spreading misinformation under the garb of nationalist identity.
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Society should not glamourise unhealthy behaviour including psycho
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 23 (ANI): With rising incidents of the use of psychoactive substances which are commonly known as 'drug' coming to the fore in the country, experts believe that the drug problems are being prevalent in the country, drug misinformation problem is quite widespread.
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Anuation to help student inventors in securing patents, copyrights
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 16 (ANI/PNN): Despite being the country with the highest number of students in the world, student innovation in India remains erratic. The number of patents, trademarks, copyrights, etc., filed by students remains minimal. Major factors for this homuncular figure i
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Google to demonetise YouTube videos on climate misinformation
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], October 9 (ANI): Amid an increasing pressure to tackle misinformation on climate change on the world's largest video platform- YouTube, the parent company Google has announced that it will start demonetising content on the platform that includes climate change denial.
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Most Americans worry over misinformation crisis, blame social medi
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], October 8 (ANI/Sputnik): Some 81 per cent of Americans view the spread and dissemination of misinformation as a major national problem and many blame social media for propagating it, a new opinion poll revealed on Friday.
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YouTube bans videos with vaccine misinformation
Updated : 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 30 (ANI): In an attempt to stem the flow of anti-vaccine misinformation, YouTube said that it will not allow videos that claim vaccines approved by health authorities are dangerous or don't work.
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Covid vaccine hesitancy due to misinformation by Opposition, says
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 17 (ANI): Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri slammed the Opposition parties in the country and alleged that they are spreading misinformation that led to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.
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Belief in misinformation can be curbed by fact-checking
Updated : 2 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], September 12 (ANI): Fact-checking reduces belief in misinformation and leaves a more enduring mental imprint than false claims, according to a new study.
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'Some people propagating misinformation', says Union Agri minister
Updated : 2 months, 3 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 8 (ANI): Union Agriculture Minister on Wednesday hit back at those propagating "misinformation" about minimum support price after the farm laws were introduced.
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