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As per the newly notified rules, the ministry will enjoy the power to constitute a fact-checking unit, which will have sweeping powers to determine what is 'fake or false or misleading', with respect to 'any business of the Central government'.
The Indian government is confident of total inaction from the international community. But there is something more in its latest offensive against the media.