Questions tagged [india]
for questions about claims based in India, or limited to India.
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Did Former Chief Justice of India commuted death sentence of a person who raped and killed 4 year old girl?
This is posted used by Hindu group in small protest in New York to protest against Indian judiciary.
So, I want to Know did Uday Umesh Lalit (former CJI) commuted death sentence of pedophile who raped ...
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Was there a punishment in Mauryan Empire where one would be forbidden from speaking rest of life?
The Geographica is an ancient Greek Encyclopedia, thought to have been written around 2,000 years ago by Strabo.
An English language translation, The Geography of Strabo, was written by Horace Leonard ...
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Had India ever deported Rohingya people, as of December 2017?
In December, 2017, Kiren Rijuju, the then Union Minister of State for Home Affairs of India, was asked a question in parliament about the status of the Rohingyan people living in India.
He responded:
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Did YouTuber Jay Foreman draw "a fake map of the India-Bangladesh border" which subsequently "turned up in an episode of Geography Now"?
As everyone knows, it's not a nice feeling when you've worked very hard on something and somebody steals it. Like that time I painstakingly drew a fake map of the India-Bangladesh border and it ...
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Is abortion common in Kota, India?
Kota, Rajasthan is a city with a reputation for its educational services, but also for an apparent high rate of suicide amongst its students.
This meme suggests that abortion is much more common than ...
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Have Indian forces been shooting hundreds of Kashmiris in their eyes, with pellet guns or shotguns?
According to AA
Over 6,200 people were wounded by pellets – 782 with eye injuries – between July 2016 and February 2017, according to Mehbooba Mufti, former chief minister of the region.
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Did the BJP deliberately flood Delhi, as alleged by the Aam Aadmi Party?
Background: Delhi, the National Capital Territory of India, is currently flooded. Excess water upstream of Yamuna river is being released.
Allegations: Multiple senior politicians from Aam Aadmi Party,...
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Did Biden claim that the Boeing-Air India deal will support 1 million jobs? Is the claim true?
This Business Insider India news report is one of many that claim that Biden said that a $34 billion dollar Air India order for 220 Boeing planes will support 1 million US jobs, and that many of those ...
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Is Dr. Zakir Naik a citizen of Malaysia?
Dr. Zakir Naik
According to the above Wikipedia article, Dr. Zakir Naik obtained Malaysian citizenship. However, there is no citation supplied in favor of that claim.
Zakir Naik on why he fled to ...
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Did Jawaharlal Nehru send a plane to Indore to bring back a pack of cigarettes?
There has been this claim going around Twitter talking about the former Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru and his need for cigarettes.
For example, Twitter user @RishBagree wrote:
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Was the Chinese ship Da Cui Yun carrying materials for building WMD?
Chinese ship carrying suspected cargo to Pakistan allowed to leave, equipment held back
DRDO confirms Chinese ship India stopped was carrying nuclear-capable equipment to Pakistan
The above article ...
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Is India drastically undercounting covid deaths?
The official count of covid-19 deaths from the Indian government currently (2 September 2021) stands at about 440 thousand, a rate of about 315 per million people (see Our World in Data).
This is a ...
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Did the Indus Valley Civilization use cotton as a writing material?
In his book, Science and Secrets of Early Medicine, Jürgen Thorwald writes about the script of the Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa civilizations: (in rough translation)
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Did Mohammad Ali Jinnah in 1945 say, “Muslims who are opposing Pakistan will spend the rest of their lives proving loyalty to India”?
A widely-retweeted Dec 12 2019 tweet by @TonyAshai reads
Mohomad Ali Jinnah said in 1945, “Muslims who are opposing #Pakistan will spend rest of their lives proving loyalty to India” and #Modi and #...
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Did Pakistan lose each and every war it fought with India from 1947 to 1999?
The speaker in this video says that:
The Pakistani army has lost every war it's fought with India from the original war in 1947 until the latest war in 1999 ...
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Was Kulbhushan Jadhav an Indian spy working for RAW?
On 3 March 2016, Pakistani security forces arrested an Indian person from Pakistan's restive Baluchistan province. They also recovered an ID and a passport from him. The ID said he was a "serving ...
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Has the polio vaccine used in India from 2005 onwards caused hundreds of thousands of cases of paralysis?
This study from 2018 establishes a strong correlation between the introduction of a new version of a polio vaccine in 2005 in India and a very high number of Non-Polio Flaccid Acute Paralysis (NPAFP) ...
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Was the Nazi Hakenkreuz logo based on the Indic swastika?
"Swastika" is sanskrit word for an ancient geometrical symbol, broadly used in Indic cultures. Amongst countries that were involved with World War II, it is associated with the Nazi flag, designed by ...
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Was the 1971 Pakistani surrender in Bangladesh the first public surrender in history?
In 1971 India invaded east Pakistan, which ended in the "public surrender" of the Pakistani military on the 16th of December, and modern day Bangladesh is the result. Many of the articles ...
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Were the women of Travancore, India, taxed for covering their breasts by breast size?
There are some claims regarding a weird tax which existed just over a century ago in a part of India.
Several articles say that this tax existed. For example, the Economic Times:
State of ...
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Was the debris of a missile presented by India authentic?
In February 2019, Indian officials presented the alleged wreckage of an AIM-120C5 AMRAAM missile as evidence that Pakistan used an F-16 in the shooting down of IAF jets (as only an F-16 could fire ...
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Does this statue outside a school in India depict a Hindu Brahmin begging in front of Virgin Mary?
This video was circulating on social media with the following caption:
At the entrance of St. Mary's H. S., Manapparai, Tiruchy, Tamilnadu, a brahmin is depicted as begging in front of Virgin Mary. ...
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Is this meme about the former prime minister of India true?
Recently the former prime minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee passed away due to illness.
Since then this meme has been circulating on social media:
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What was the real reason for India pulling out of the 1950 World Cup? [closed]
There is a common claim that India refused to play with shoes during the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
However it does mostly seem to be a myth. This, this and this article clearly seem to debunk this myth. ...
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Did 64,000 married Indian men take their own lives in 2012 after charges of domestic abuse?
Section 498a of the Indian penal code makes it an offence for a husband or his family to subject his wife to cruelty or harassment.
Hridaya-Nest of Family Harmony is a Men's Rights organisation that ...
