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1,000 Trees Have Been Cut for PM’s Temporary Helipad? – A Fake News Busted...
January 15, 2019On January 14, 2019 several media portals carried a report saying that a large number of trees have been cut to make space for temporary helipad for Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was scheduled to visit Odisha. The reports quoted staggering numbers, grabbing eyeballs. The Indian Express wrote Modi’s Odisha [...]
No Recommendations to Make Hindi Compulsory in Schools – It is a Fake News...
January 10, 2019Scaremongering and negativity created by any fake news arguably makes it viral. Often the clarification with respect to a particular fake news, which emerges afterwards, might not have the same messaging capability as the fake news itself. This perhaps is true in the instance of scaremongering efforts with regard to [...]
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Direct Benefit Transfer – Plugging the Leakages
January 4, 2019Case Studies: A. Under the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY), cash incentives are provided to women as compensation for wage loss, post-delivery of first living child, so that women get adequate rest and nutrition. CA total cash incentive of Rs 5,000 is delivered in three installments, that is on [...]
Doing Business in India – Made Easy, Efficient and Effective
December 31, 2018For many centuries, the Indian sub-continent was the preferred destination for traders and businessmen. However, post colonization by the East India Company, our economy dried up and after 1947, India was left to the mercy of pseudo-socialist politicians who believed that the Government should be in the business of doing [...]
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When A Fact Check from OpIndia Shot Down a Story by Business Standard
January 14, 2019Not too long ago, India’s rising media portal OpIndia published a data story by Abhishek Banerjee, Assistant Professor (Math) at IISc Bangalore to show how Prime Minister Narendra Modi is way ahead of Rahul Gandhi in terms of popularity according to Google Trends. After this story, Business Standard, a daily [...]
The hypocrisy of Rahul Gandhi and Opposition Parties Over GST
January 12, 2019In recently concluded 32nd Goods & Services Tax (GST) Council meeting, the government tried to ease the process of GST further. We have explained this in one of our earlier articles as to how the Modi government has adopted a ‘Minimum Viable Product’ approach (feedback based continuous improvements) to smoothen [...]
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