The Supreme Court has stayed the implementation of three farm laws and set up a four-member committee that will scrutinize them.
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Logically→ Adani owns the Pune junction railway station.
The viral image of a platform ticket, which claims that the Adani group owns the Pune junction railway station, is edited and fake.
Logically→ A consortium of 190 countries has booked 2 billion doses of Covaxin.
Covaxin, India's first indigenous COVID vaccine developed by Bharat Biotech, a Biotechnology company, did not receive any pre-booking orders.
Logically→ Deepak Marawi died in Bhopal after participating in the Covaxin trial.
The autopsy report of Deepak Marawi shows that poisoning as the probable cause of death. Covaxin is a two-dose vaccine, and he only received one dose.
Logically→ BJP bagged majority seats in Karnataka’s Gram Panchayat election 2020.
Gram Panchayat election is not party-based; it is misleading to say that a party bagged seats. Political parties unofficially back candidates.
Logically→ Hyderabad fortified its position as the COVID-19 vaccine capital of the world.
Four companies developing COVID-19 vaccines in India are based in Hyderabad. However, USA and China have been ahead of India in the vaccine rollout.
Logically→ India approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for emergency use.
The Drugs Controller General of India approved a COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University for emergency use.
Logically→ A photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi bowing before Priti Adani, wife of industrialist Gautam Adani has gone viral.
A picture of Narendra Modi greeting Deepika Mondal was incorrectly claimed to show he bowed before Gautam Adani's wife, Priti Adani.
Logically→ Modi government has abolished more than 1500 old laws in 6 years.
There is insufficient data in the public domain to ascertain the number of laws abolished by the government between 2018 and 2020.
Logically→ India becomes the second worst-affected country after surpassing 1 crore COVID-19 cases.
On Dec 19, India's total Coronavirus cases stood at 10,004,599, whereas Brazil's cases stood at 7,162,978.
Logically→ The chiefs of the three Indian armed services have given written statements to Home Minister Amit Shah that they cannot chase away farmers’ large gathering as they are not terrorists to be attacked.
The Indian army was not deployed to deal with the gathering, and no such letter written by the army chiefs to Home Minister is publicly available.
Logically→ In 2010-11, the FDI rate brought in by West Bengal stood at 1%, it also stands at 1% in 2020.
The Foreign Direct Investment rate brought in by West Bengal varied between 1 percent to 2 percent from 2010 to 2020.
Logically→ Between Oct 2019 to Sept 2020, WB occupied the 10th position out of all states in terms of total FDI inflow.
According to the data released by The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, WB occupied the 10th position.
Logically→ PUBG mobile India to be launched soon.
The government has not provided the necessary permission to relaunch the app in India.
Logically→ West Bengal ranks 25th out of 32 states & UTs benchmarked in 2017-18 in terms of per capita net state domestic product at constant prices.
West Bengal ranked 25th out of all the states and union territories in terms of per capita net state domestic product at constant prices.
Logically→ Adani has taken over Indian railways.
'Adani' branding on the Indian Railways is a commercial advertisement aimed at boosting revenues of the national carrier.
Logically→ Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel airport in Ahemdabad is now called Adani airport.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Airport in Ahmedabad has not been renamed to Adani Airport, but AAI handed over its operations to Adani groups.
Logically→ Mamata Banerjee had called the 2012 Park Street rape case a fabricated one.
In 2012, Mamata Banerjee said that the victim's reporting of the rape was false and politically motivated to tarnish the government’s reputation.
Logically→ Unemployment rate in West Bengal has increased by a staggering 217% between October 2016 and 2020.
A 217 percent increase from 4.6 percent equals to 14.58 percent, but the rate in October 2020 was an approximate increase by 117 percent.
Logically→ Andhra Pradesh has overtaken West Bengal as the largest producer of fish.
According to the Economic Survey 2020, the total fish production of Andhra Pradesh was the highest of all states in 2017-18. West Bengal stood second.
Logically→ 46 percent of people in West Bengal admitted to paying bribes.
West Bengal reported low instances of corruption, at 46 percent when the national average was 51 percent.
Logically→ Mamata Banerjee has barred the implementation of PM-Kisan scheme for farmers.
Mamata Banerjee's condition for implementing PM-Kisan scheme is that the funds should be routed through the state government.
Logically→ Besides having the highest cases of human trafficking, Bengal’s 42% of such cases are of minors.
Maharashtra registered the highest number of human trafficking cases. A 2019 study found 42 percent victims of sex trafficking in Bengal were minors.
Logically→ Farmers protesting are demanding the release of people booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) had organized the event demanding people's released booked under UAPA. 32 farmer unions passed a resolution distancing from it.
Logically→ Under the TMC, over 150 BJP workers have been murdered, and 11 innocent Gorkhas were shot dead by the TMC police.
West Bengal has witnessed deadly clashes between TMC and BJP workers over the years, but an accurate death toll cannot be verified
Logically→ The Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana has not been implemented in West Bengal.
No proposals have been recommended or sanctioned in West Bengal under the PMMSY scheme and the reason remains unclear.
Logically→ Sharad Pawar will be taking over as the chairperson of the UPA.
Media reports suggesting Sharad Pawar taking over as the president of UPA are unsubstantiated and baseless.
Logically→ West Bengal has the highest number of rape cases.
The National Crime Records Bureau’s 2019 annual report shows that Rajasthan reported the highest number of rapes cases with 5,997 cases.
Logically→ As per NCRB data of 2019, Trinamool ruled West Bengal witnessed the highest number of political murders.
Data from 2018 was refurbished for use in the NCRB report of 2019 and the numbers presented by the MHA do not corroborate with the 2018 data.
Logically→ As per NCRB data of 2019, Trinamool ruled West Bengal witnessed the highest number of political murders.
Data from 2018 was refurbished for use in the NCRB report of 2019 and the numbers presented by the MHA do not corroborate with the 2018 data.
Logically→ NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant says that too much of democracy is hampering reforms in India.
While talking about tough reforms, Amitabh Kant said "Tough reforms are very difficult in the Indian context. We are too much of a democracy."
Logically→ The Trinamool Congress won a seat in the Panchayat Samiti elections.
AITMC has not won any seats as of now in Rajasthan Panchayat Samiti elections 2020. The counting is still in progress.
Logically→ Farmer producing companies in Maharashtra made almost Rs. 10 crore in out-of-mandi trade since new farm laws came into effect.
While new laws did boost FPCs, it is difficult to ascertain the extent of its benefit to grassroot farmers who mostly saved on transportation costs
Logically→ Coronavirus ‘originated in India’ in 2019 summer, say Chinese researchers.
The paper suggesting that the virus originated in India is yet to be peer-reviewed. Broad scientific consensus is that the virus originated in China.
Logically→ Diego Maradona had visited the Sreebhumi Durga Puja pandal in Kolkata.
Diego Maradona’s visit to Kolkata was rescheduled due to which he could not visit the Sreebhumi Sporting Club Durga Puja pandal.
Poynter→ Electronic ballots are effective, fast and used all over the world — so why aren’t they used in the U.S.?
People living in at least 25 countries might be reading the news today that the U.S. still hasn’t elected a president and asking themselves, “Why isn’t the United States using electronic ballots like us?” In those 25 countries, elec
Logically→ MP & MLA Somabhai said Shah paid him and other Congress MLAs crores to resign.
Former Congress MLA Somabhai Patel was caught in a sting claiming to have been bribed to quit Congress. However, he didn't mention Amit Shah's name.
Logically→ You need to pass NEET-PG to get an MBBS seat.
NEET (PG) is a single entrance examination for admission to various MD/MS and PG Diploma courses.
Logically→ Mamata Banerjee has never lost an election.
Mamata lost the 1989 general elections, and her party TMC was defeated in 2006 West Bengal's Assembly Elections.
Logically→ West Bengal police threw crude oil bombs at BJP protest rally on Oct. 8, 2020.
Howrah city police were hurling smoke bombs to disperse the crowd at the BJP protest rally on October 8, 2020, and not crude oil bombs.