Fact Check: No, Indian government has not approved pharmacists to run clinics in the country
A Hindi newspaper clipping has gone viral on social media with the claim that the Centre has approved pharmacists in the country to open clinics and prescribe medicine to patients. What is the truth behind the claim?
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UPDATED: January 4, 2021 19:19 IST
A Hindi newspaper clipping with the claim that the Indian government approved for pharmacists in the country to open clinics and also prescribe medicine to patients is going viral on social media.
The Indian government
recently allowed postgraduate trained Ayurveda surgeons to perform 58 types of surgeries creating a stir in the country, particularly in the community of allopathic doctors. The Centre s decision will now allow these trained Ayurveda surgeons to legally perform procedures such as skin grafting, cataract surgery, and root canal treatment.
Fact Check: No, Kerala has not banned Jio Internet services in the state
Fact Check: No, Kerala has not banned Jio Internet services in the state
Amid the ongoing farmers’ agitation, the Kerala Assembly on Thursday (December 31), passed a unanimous resolution demanding repeal of the Centre’s three contentious agricultural laws. Now, if a viral claim circulating on social media is to be believed, the Kerala government has decided to ban operations of Reliance Jio in the state from 2021.
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UPDATED: January 1, 2021 11:38 IST
The claim says that the Pinarayi Vijayan government has decided to provide government-owned network service and mobile phones at half of Jio’s prices.
Fact Check: Kejriwal did not begin New Year 2021 by offering namaz at Jama Masjid
Fact Check: Kejriwal did not begin New Year 2021 by offering namaz at Jama Masjid
A photo of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wearing a skull cap has gone viral with a claim that the CM ushered in the New Year by offering a namaz at the Jama Masjid in Delhi. How true is the claim? Find out!
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UPDATED: January 1, 2021 23:12 IST
A claim that Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal offered namaz in Delhi s Jama Masjid wearing a skull cap on the first day of the New Year is going viral on social media.
Fact Check: This is not a Jio tower set on fire amid farmers’ protest
Fact Check: This is not a Jio tower set on fire amid farmers’ protest
A short video clip of a burning mobile tower is circulating on social media with the claim that it is a Jio tower set on fire during the farmers’ agitation. The caption in Hindi with one such video translates to, “Effect of farmers’ movement! Jio tower set on fire”. India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found the claim to be misleading. This is a 2017 video from Dehradun and not related to the ongoing farmers’ agitation.
Fact Check: PM Modi never said Vajpayee started the first Metro in India
Many on social media have claimed that PM Modi, in a speech, had said the credit for the first metro service in the country goes to late PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
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UPDATED: December 30, 2020 18:45 IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India’s first driverless metro train operations on Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line on December 28. Soon after,
social mediawas engaged in a debate on who started the first metro rail service in the country.
Many on
Facebookclaimed that PM Modi, in his speech, had said the credit for the first metro service in the country goes to Vajpayee.