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By Hera Rizwan The Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD) has issued an advisory cautioning citizens regarding various scams occurring via the messaging platform WhatsApp. The police think tank, functioning under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, also outlined a set of "do's and don'ts" in a published note on its website, addressing the prevalence of "data-breach acts". The advisory further mentioned that the social media intermediary, WhatsApp, has been notified about these incidents, and several government bodies and Ministry officials are actively addressing the issue. Given tha...
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By Mohammed Kudrati A message is going viral on WhatsApp and social media, soliciting donations for the Army Welfare Battle Casualty Fund. According to the message, the fund has been promoted by Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, and is used to purchase weapons for the army and paramilitary forces. BOOM found this message to be misleading. While Kumar did in fact promote a Home Ministry fund called 'Bharat Ke Veer', we found no reported instance of him promoting the Army Welfare Battle Casualty Fund. Furthermore, both of these funds are meant for welfare of the army and paramilitary forces, and are...
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By Mohammed Kudrati Several users of social media are incorrectly calling out Union Home Minister Amit Shah for referring to the production of milk per capita in grams (a unit to measure weight) instead of litres (to measure liquid). BOOM found that major government and external data sources on the production of milk have referred to it in a unit of weight - grams, kilograms or tons. Shah made these comments at the IDF Dairy Summit in Greater Noida on September 12. He says at the 25 minutes and 10 second mark that per head, India's milk consumption had risen from 40 grams in 1970 to 155 grams ...
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By Mohammed Kudrati India saw 882 cases of fake news being registered in 2021, according to data released by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), a body under the Ministry of Home Affairs, show. These 882 cases of fake news and rumours impacted 892 victims, according to the data. Telengana reported the highest number of these cases, at 218, followed by Tamil Nadu at 137 and Madhya Pradesh at 129. The crime rate of fake news pan-India however, remains negligible, at 0.1. This is also the case with all states individually, where the crime rate ranges from 0 to 0.6, except for the Andaman and...
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