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2, Including 62-Year-Old Man, Arrested For Making Fake Passports In Mumbai
Two persons, including a 62-year-old man, were arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch on Wednesday for allegedly making fake passports and visas and issuing bogus COVID-19 test reports, an official said.
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Fake Covid Vaccination Camps Reported In UP, Maharashtra, Bengal: Centre
Instances of fake COVID-19 vaccination camps and vaccines have come to the central government's notice from Maharashtra, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh, the Lok Sabha was told on Friday.
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Facebook Says It Spent Over $13 Billion on Safety, Security Since 2016
Facebook said on Tuesday it has invested more than $13 billion (roughly Rs. 95,830 crores) in safety and security measures since 2016, days after a newspaper reported the company had failed to fix "the platform's ill effects" researchers had identified.
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Covid Swabs Replaced For Staff To Show Ill, Claim Leave, 1 Arrested: Cops
A ward boy of a government hospital at Khamgaon in Maharashtra's Buldhana district was arrested for allegedly replacing the swab samples in the lab to facilitate the employees of a private company get positive COVID-19 report for medical leave.
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Mamata Banerjee Says Suspect BJP Role In Fake Vaccination Camps
A day after the centre sought a report from the Bengal government on fake COVID-19 vaccination camps, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that the state government was not associated with them and wondered if the BJP had any hand in the camps.
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CoWIN COVID-19 Vaccination Data Leak Claim Refuted by the Government, Investigation Initiated
CoWIN data leak claim that was circulated on social media on Thursday has been denied by the government. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said that prima facie, the reports appeared to be fake. A reseller on the dark Web was found to be selling alleged data of 150 million people vaccinated by the COVID-19 vaccines in the country.
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CoWIN Hacked Reports "Appear To Be Fake", But Will Investigate: Centre
The CoWIN system used for registering people for COVID-19 vaccination is completely secure and reports of the system being hacked "appear to be fake", the government said in a statement on Thursday.
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"Fake News": Tejasvi Surya On Reports He Apologised For Bengaluru Bed Row
BJP MP Tejasvi Surya has denied reports that he apologised to those working at a municipal COVID-19 war room in Bengaluru, after his allegations of what he called a "bed-blocking scandal" at his own party-controlled civic body took a communal turn.
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"Twitter Move Not For Criticism, But Fake Covid News": Government Sources
Twitter on Saturday deleted a number of tweets flagged by the centre as spreading "fake news" about its handling of the Covid pandemic
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Lab Technician Arrested For Allegedly Issuing Fake Covid Negative Report In Maharashtra: Cops
A lab technician has been arrested for allegedly issuing bogus COVID-19 negative certificates for Rs 1,000 each in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Thursday.
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Gujarat Shuts Down 2 Surat Labs For Allegedly Issuing Fake COVID-19 Reports
The Gujarat government today said it has shut down two testing laboratories located in Surat for issuing fake COVID-19 negative certificates.
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Case Against Mumbai Couple, Daughter For Forging COVID-19 Report
A couple and their daughter were booked on Tuesday for allegedly tampering with their COVID-19 positive test report to travel from Mumbai to Jaipur, an official said.
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"Chief Minister Fakes It As Usual": Tejashwi Yadav On Gaps In Vaccination
Bihar Leader of Opposition, Tejashwi Yadav, today said that the media expose alleging fake entries for Covid-19 tests to meet targets followed a pattern of data fudging that has over the years siphoned huge funds from the state. Not mincing words, he held Chief Minister Nitish Kumar answerable for this "scam".
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Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter Asked by EU to Extend Fake News Watch With COVID-19 in Focus
The European Commission has told Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft to continue monthly reports on their efforts to tackle fake news, especially on COVID-19, for another six months.
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Delhi Court Grants Bail To Doctor Accused Of Issuing Fake COVID-19 Reports
A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to a doctor Khush Bihari Parashar, who was arrested on September 3 on the allegation of being involved in issuance of fake COVID-19 test reports on the letterheads of some reputed labs.
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2, Including 62-Year-Old Man, Arrested For Making Fake Passports In Mumbai
Two persons, including a 62-year-old man, were arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch on Wednesday for allegedly making fake passports and visas and issuing bogus COVID-19 test reports, an official said.
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Fake Covid Vaccination Camps Reported In UP, Maharashtra, Bengal: Centre
Instances of fake COVID-19 vaccination camps and vaccines have come to the central government's notice from Maharashtra, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh, the Lok Sabha was told on Friday.
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Facebook Says It Spent Over $13 Billion on Safety, Security Since 2016
Facebook said on Tuesday it has invested more than $13 billion (roughly Rs. 95,830 crores) in safety and security measures since 2016, days after a newspaper reported the company had failed to fix "the platform's ill effects" researchers had identified.
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Covid Swabs Replaced For Staff To Show Ill, Claim Leave, 1 Arrested: Cops
A ward boy of a government hospital at Khamgaon in Maharashtra's Buldhana district was arrested for allegedly replacing the swab samples in the lab to facilitate the employees of a private company get positive COVID-19 report for medical leave.
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Mamata Banerjee Says Suspect BJP Role In Fake Vaccination Camps
A day after the centre sought a report from the Bengal government on fake COVID-19 vaccination camps, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that the state government was not associated with them and wondered if the BJP had any hand in the camps.
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CoWIN COVID-19 Vaccination Data Leak Claim Refuted by the Government, Investigation Initiated
CoWIN data leak claim that was circulated on social media on Thursday has been denied by the government. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said that prima facie, the reports appeared to be fake. A reseller on the dark Web was found to be selling alleged data of 150 million people vaccinated by the COVID-19 vaccines in the country.
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CoWIN Hacked Reports "Appear To Be Fake", But Will Investigate: Centre
The CoWIN system used for registering people for COVID-19 vaccination is completely secure and reports of the system being hacked "appear to be fake", the government said in a statement on Thursday.
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"Fake News": Tejasvi Surya On Reports He Apologised For Bengaluru Bed Row
BJP MP Tejasvi Surya has denied reports that he apologised to those working at a municipal COVID-19 war room in Bengaluru, after his allegations of what he called a "bed-blocking scandal" at his own party-controlled civic body took a communal turn.
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"Twitter Move Not For Criticism, But Fake Covid News": Government Sources
Twitter on Saturday deleted a number of tweets flagged by the centre as spreading "fake news" about its handling of the Covid pandemic
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Lab Technician Arrested For Allegedly Issuing Fake Covid Negative Report In Maharashtra: Cops
A lab technician has been arrested for allegedly issuing bogus COVID-19 negative certificates for Rs 1,000 each in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Thursday.
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Gujarat Shuts Down 2 Surat Labs For Allegedly Issuing Fake COVID-19 Reports
The Gujarat government today said it has shut down two testing laboratories located in Surat for issuing fake COVID-19 negative certificates.
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Case Against Mumbai Couple, Daughter For Forging COVID-19 Report
A couple and their daughter were booked on Tuesday for allegedly tampering with their COVID-19 positive test report to travel from Mumbai to Jaipur, an official said.
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"Chief Minister Fakes It As Usual": Tejashwi Yadav On Gaps In Vaccination
Bihar Leader of Opposition, Tejashwi Yadav, today said that the media expose alleging fake entries for Covid-19 tests to meet targets followed a pattern of data fudging that has over the years siphoned huge funds from the state. Not mincing words, he held Chief Minister Nitish Kumar answerable for this "scam".
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Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter Asked by EU to Extend Fake News Watch With COVID-19 in Focus
The European Commission has told Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft to continue monthly reports on their efforts to tackle fake news, especially on COVID-19, for another six months.
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Delhi Court Grants Bail To Doctor Accused Of Issuing Fake COVID-19 Reports
A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to a doctor Khush Bihari Parashar, who was arrested on September 3 on the allegation of being involved in issuance of fake COVID-19 test reports on the letterheads of some reputed labs.
