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Had 40 trains lost their ways?

All around the social media their are posts that 40trainslost their ways. There is undoubtedly extraordinary circumstances in the country because of mass movement of migrant labours. To make the migrant labours reach their destinations, railways is running ‘Shramik Special’ trains. However such news which seems hard to digest. The professional railways which is the world second largest rail network which is run under a single management system, can it create a blunder like this ? The claims were also made that, the train departed from Surat took 9 days to reach Sivan, which was meant to reach within 2 days, which has resulted in the death of 7 people due to starvation. Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala has also criticised the government on twitter sharing a piece of newspaper cutting. To check the claim made on the social media, we examined the twitter accounts of the spokesperson of the railways, Ministry of Indian Railways and PIBFactCheck. The spokesperson of
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Congress shared Modi's leisure picture

 On May 28, the official twitter account of the congress party has shared a picture where Prime Minister Modi is seen with a girl who seems to give the Prime minister a head massage. With the picture the tweet criticised the ruling government and appealed for a mass movement.  To examine the reality of this picture I reverse image searched it on google. The search was an easy task. As I searched it I got to know that this is a very old picture, the image was real, however the Image is of Madame Tussauds Wax museum. Where the PM was giving measurements for his wax statue.     However, there has been no claim made with the picture but the picture was used to tarnish the image of the Prime Minister, which was irrelevant to use in any such context. later the tweet was removed from the account.     

Reality check of forest fire in Uttarakhand

There has been a circulation of few pictures on the social media, claiming that Uttarakhand forests are under tremendous fire, with the hashtags, 'prayforUttarakhand' and 'Uttarakhandisburning'. Since I too live in Nainital city of Uttarakhand, many of my friends called me and asked for my safety, they were horrified to see the viral pictures on the web. On May 24, Times of India had reported that 51.34 hectares of forest land in the state land has ablaze with fire. It further stated that the Kumaun region reported the maximum wildfires with 21 incidences while Gharwal and reserve forest areas reported 16 and 9 instances respectively. Prayers for Uttarakhand has became the top trending topic of the social media platform on May 26. The forest fires are however the natural process which occur every year, it gives the space to the forest to replenish and regrow. The claims were hard to believe for me because I am someone who experience fire every year in the mountain