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Fake news, rumours on social media hit Indian firms

Troubles at FabHotels, Infibeam and Kalyan Jewellers due to fake news circulating on WhatsApp and other social media are signs of a larger malaise afflicting corporates of late

2 min read2 Nov 2018
Politics

PM Narendra Modi loses 2.7 lakh Twitter followers in 2 days. Here’s why

Besides that of PM Modi, Twitter follower count of several celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, Aamir Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar have fallen down

1 min read14 Jul 2018
Technology

Fake news spreads 70% more quickly, widely on Twitter, says MIT study

MIT researchers examine about 126,000 stories shared by some 3 million people on Twitter from 2006 to 2017 and found that false news was about 70% more likely to be retweeted by people than true news

2 min read9 Mar 2018
Industry

Twitter is crawling with bots and lacks incentive to expel them

Twitter is scrambling to explain how bots controlled by Russian meddlers may have been used to impact the 2016 president election in the USA

5 min read13 Oct 2017

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The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared

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