On 15th December 2022, ‘fact-checker’ and Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair tried to ‘fact-check’ journalist Rahul Shivshankar but ended up spreading fake news himself. Zubair’s tweet with false claim “The 2008 report by Committee on Financial Inclusion was chaired by Dr. C Rangarajan, Not Raghuram Rajan,” claimed Zubair, quoting the tweet by Shivshankar. In his tweet, Zubair wrote, “The 2008 …
The Jammu & Kashmir High Court has refused to entertain a Public Interest Litigation seeking introduction of Islamic Banking in all branches of J&K Bank. The PIL filed by an NGO J&K Peoples Forum in 2018 had sought directions upon the union Finance Ministry for issuing necessary notification for the introduction of Sharia compliant windows as recommended by Deepak Mohanty …
Earlier yesterday, a controversy broke out on the microblogging website Twitter after some users criticised the Tata Group for offering ‘Shariah-compliant’ mutual funds. Need to start boycott I start from tata salt https://t.co/WabmzpSPOz — Saffron Tweeple June 19, 2022 Several social media users, many of whom had no idea how ‘Shariah-compliance’ worked in the stock markets, were caught off-guard by …
On a hot day in June, shortly after Eid, software engineer Naveed Ahmed found himself standing next to homemaker Nazim Begum and electrician Abbas Ali in a serpentine queue. A tale of lax regulation The IMA group scam is only the latest in a series of 14 such ‘halal trading firms’ in Bengaluru that have unravelled or simply vanished over …
