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  Beware! Offensive posts, fake news can land WhatsApp, Facebook group admins in jail

  April 21, 2017 12:05 IST

  If you ever fancied the role of a group administrator – on WhatsApp and Facebook that is – think again as you could now be liable for prosecution if any rumour or fake news is circulated on the group you administer.

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  Aussie pacer Mitchell Starc praises Virat Kohli on Twitter, tweet lands in fake account

  Cricket | March 31, 2017 18:51 IST

  After all the acrimony both on and off the field, Australian spearhead Mitchell Starc today took to Twitter to congratulate Indian skipper Virat Kohli for the series win against Australia in the just concluded Border-Gavaskar

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  UGC declares 23 universities, 279 colleges as ‘fake’, Delhi tops the list

  India | March 20, 2017 17:15 IST

  As many as 23 universities and 279 technical institutes operating in India have been declared as ‘fake’, with Delh topping the list with 66 colleges .

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  Fake news: New civics course in US schools to spot fictional news

  World | February 14, 2017 18:49 IST

  Differentiating between real and fake news had come across as a big challenge for voters in the recently concluded US elections that has seen a bitter fight both before and after the verdict. In a

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  Top 10 fake news forwards in 2016 that we almost believed

  India | December 27, 2016 15:45 IST

  Social media may have become a gamechanger owing to its rapidity to propagate news and opinion. However, it also comes with a major limitation as it has become a tool to spread false stories and serve propaganda.

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  Astroturfing: The technology that helps detect false posts on Facebook, Twitter

  October 25, 2016 11:22 IST

  Scientists have developed a new method for spotting people who post false reviews, comments or tweets from multiple social media accounts to espouse opinions.

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  Divyanka Tripathi loses cool at media for circulating fake stories about her marriage (see pics)

  Bollywood | July 14, 2016 20:37 IST

  Divyanka Tripathi looses cool at media for circulating fake stories about her marriage.

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  Is the leaked photo of Rani Mukerji’s daughter fake? Here’s what her spokesperson has to say!

  Bollywood | July 11, 2016 19:05 IST

  Photos of Rani Mukerji’s daughter going viral on social media is fake.

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  Guy's fake Facebook post 'Predicts the Future', fools over two lakh people

  Tech Auto | June 23, 2016 12:34 IST

  Texas: What would happen if a Facebook post dated December 2015 popped up in your newsfeed predicting every major happening of the US? Would you believe it? Even if you didn’t, more than two lakh people actually did. A man named Pablo Reyes shocked

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  Man wearing fake 'suicide belt' filled with cookies and salt arrested in Brussels

  World | June 22, 2016 9:36 IST

  Brussels: A man wearing a fake explosive belt filled with salt and cookies who triggered a major security alert in Brussels and an emergency meeting of key government ministers on Tuesday has been arrested by

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  Days before R-Day, man sneaked into IGI on fake ticket, stayed there for 10 days

  India | June 02, 2016 11:55 IST

  New Delhi: In a one-of-a-kind incident for any Indian airport, a man armed with a fake ticket managed to sneak into New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International airport and strangely, managed to stay there for a

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  Rumours over ‘death of Afridi’s daughter’ untrue?

  Cricket | April 26, 2016 19:10 IST

  The news about the death of Shahid Afridi’s younger daughter that has been making the rounds on social media since yesterday could be fake.

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  '7 new features, numbering system to check fake currency'

  September 07, 2015 8:16 IST

  New Delhi: To check the menace of fake Indian currency, new notes, especially the Rs.1,000 and Rs.500 denominations, will have 7 new security features and a new numbering system, official sources here said on Sunday.The

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  UGC releases list of 21 fake universities

  India | July 01, 2015 19:40 IST

  New Delhi:  Warning students to refrain from enrolling in fake institutions, the UGC has released a list of 21 such bogus varsities of which eight are in Uttar Pradesh and six in Delhi.In a notification

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  Singlehood: Only Indian husband would understand this feeling!

  Lifestyle | November 16, 2014 10:31 IST

  This video is a funny take on Indian husbands; lies which they often resort to, and how they make absurd excuses every second day in order to avoid  their wife's ire.And how their face brightens

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  Modi a 'fake OBC', claims Congress

  Politics | May 08, 2014 19:45 IST

  New Delhi: Narendra Modi is a “fake OBC”, the Congress today claimed seeking to puncture the BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate's attack on Priyanka Gandhi over her “neech rajniti” barbs and demanded an apology from him.

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  Invisible 'fingerprints' to write obituary of fake currency?

  April 27, 2014 17:07 IST

  London: Fake currency and counterfeit credit cards that often invade the markets may soon become things of the past if newly-developed invisible “fingerprints”—tiny tags made of silver nanowires—stand the test of time.The silver nanowires could

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  Pakistan national airline sacks 350 employees over fake degrees

  April 05, 2014 18:44 IST

  Lahore: Pakistan's national flag carrier has sacked 350 employees, including pilots and air hostesses, for having faked their educational qualifications. ”We have terminated 350 employees after their educational degrees turned out to be fake. Five

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  Gautam Adani to take action against fake Twitter account

  India | March 26, 2014 11:33 IST

  Ahmedabad: The Adani group said here yesterday that it would take action against a fake Twitter account in the name of the group's founder Gautam Adani, using his photograph, to target Aam Aadmi Party chief

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  India Mars mission: ISRO warns of fake social media profiles

  India | December 17, 2013 9:58 IST

  Bangalore: The Indian space agency on Monday cautioned people on forged profiles about its Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter."It has come to our notice that a number of