Data: European Countries report a high Case Positivity Rate during the Second wave of COVID-19
The European countries & the USA are currently experiencing a second wave of COVID-19. The number of daily cases being…
This photo of Mechanised scavenging equipment is from India, not China
https://youtu.be/g4MWVXnRdTk A social media post (here, here and here) featuring two images side by side: one showing manual scavenging and…
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25% of all Padma Awards in Sports went to Cricketers
From 1954 to 2018, a total of 225 civilian awards (Padma Awards & Bharat Ratna)…
Be a ‘GST-wise’ Consumer!
As consumers, we are all paying GST on various goods and services in our daily…
Fake News Alert: AICTE has not issued any Circular scrapping the 75% Attendance rule for Engineering
A circular in the name of AICTE has been widely shared on social media in…
Non-FASTag users entering the FASTag lane have to pay 100% penalty at Toll Plazas
The government amended rules in 2014 seeking to impose a 100% penalty on non-FASTag users…
How much Subsidy does the Government extend to Haj Pilgrims?
Debate on secularism in India is probably incomplete without the reference to subsidies extended by…
‘Launch a special drive to dispose the pending Online RTI applications’, CIC to Election Commission
About 2000 RTI applications filed through the ‘RTI Online’ portal are waiting for response by…
