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PIB Fact Checker debunks fake DRDO letter alleging failure in BrahMos miss
Updated : 10 months, 1 week ago IST
The Fact Check unit of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) on Thursday exposed a misleading letter which is being circulated online alleging a failure in BrahMos missile components.
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PIB Fact Check exposes fake video claiming IAF helicopter crash during Op
Updated : 10 months, 1 week ago IST
The Fact Check unit of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) has debunked another misinformation campaign by Pakistan-based social media handles falsely claiming an Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter crash linked to India's 'Operation Sindoor'.
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PIB Fact Checker debunks fake video claiming Pakistani strike on Amritsar
Updated : 10 months, 1 week ago IST
The Fact Check unit of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) has exposed yet another misinformation campaign by Pakistan-based social media handles, which are trying to blatantly hijack the narrative and distract from the on-ground reality.
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Claims of Pakistan destroying Indian Brigade HQ in retaliation for 'Operat
Updated : 10 months, 1 week ago IST
In the early hours of Wednesday, India carried out its deepest strikes inside Pakistan's undisputed territory since 1971, according to CNN, successfully targeting terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. This marks New Delhi's most significant military action within
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Centre factchecks "microphone muted" claim by Mamata Banerjee; Nirmala Sit
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Meanwhile, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told ANI that it is "completely false" of Mamata Banerjee to claim that her microphone was switched off and claimed that every chief minister at the meeting was "allotted their due time to speak."
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FSSAI-marked cow urine circulated on social media platforms is fake: PIB F
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
An image circulating on WhatsApp that claimed that India's food safety regulator Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) marked cow urine is being bottled and sold in the market is fake, PIB Fact Check has clarified in a post on X.
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Centre notifies PIB Fact Check Unit under IT Rules 2021
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
The Union government notified the Fact Check Unit (FCU) under the Press Information Bureau (PIB) of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) as the fact check unit of the Centre on Wednesday.
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RBI cautions on fake press release on Abhyudaya co-operative bank's licens
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
PIB Fact Check has posted on X, "A Press Release, dated 25 October 2023, being shared online, alleges that @RBI has cancelled the license of Abhyudaya Co-operative Bank Ltd. This Press Release is fake. RBI has not issued any such Press release. For more info visit: http://rbi.org.in. This is
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Advertisement claiming around 29,000 vacancies are being offered by India
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
The Press Information Bureau (PIB) fack check unit on Friday busted the misinformation of an advertisement, allegedly shared by Indian Railways, about the vacancies being offered for the posts of Assistant Loco Pilot and Technicians, saying that no such notification has been issued by the ra
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Currency conversion fee receipt issued by RBI doing rounds is fake: PIB Fa
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
PIB Fact Check, the government arm that busts fake news and misinformation related to the government, categorically said, “This receipt is fake. RBI does not issue any such receipts."
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No business leaders invited for G20 dinner, PIB terms news reports “mislea
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Media reports claiming that prominent business leaders have been invited for the G20 ‘Special Dinner’ being hosted at the main venue Bharat Mandapam were “misleading”.
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"Now govt to decide what is fake": Kapil Sibal Centre's notification
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Saturday slammed the Centre amid the controversy over its notification on Thursday to appoint a fact-checker to track fake news and have them taken down.
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