Independent assessments found no clear winner in the May 2025 conflict.
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Pakistan won the May 2025 armed conflict against India.
TOTAL BS
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India
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India imposed onion export controls, not a nationwide restaurant-use ban.
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The Government of India banned restaurants from using onions beginning in 2026.
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The Reserve Bank of India serves as India’s central bank.
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The Reserve Bank of India is the central bank of India.
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India became the fourth country to achieve a lunar soft landing.
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The Chandrayaan-3 mission's successful lunar soft landing made India the fourth country to soft-land a spacecraft on the Moon.
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The IOC will elect the 2036 Summer Olympics host in 2029.
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India has officially been awarded the hosting rights for the 2036 Summer Olympic Games.
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India’s PIN codes remain in use alongside the complementary DIGIPIN system.
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India's Postal Index Number system has been replaced by DIGIPIN.
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Pakistan has deployed Chinese SH-15 howitzers along the India–Pakistan border.
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Pakistan has deployed 250 Chinese-made howitzers along the India–Pakistan border.
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Raman Puri has broadly stressed India lacks an industrial defence ecosystem.
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Vice Admiral Raman Puri said that the main problem with India's aircraft carrier programme was not technical, but that India lacked the ecosystem needed to build something that complex.
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Current evidence shows Mumbai is not under active attack.
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Mumbai, India is currently under attack as part of a coordinated incident.
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Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant documents were exposed online in a data breach.
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Files relating to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, described as India’s largest nuclear power plant, were exposed in a data breach.
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Public evidence has not shown Pakistan’s government directed or authorized the Pahalgam attack.
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The Government of Pakistan was responsible for an attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
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India is deploying layered, AI-fused surveillance networks along the LAC.
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India is building a multi-layered, sensor-based surveillance and early-warning network along the India–China Line of Actual Control (LAC) from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh that integrates radars, electro-optical sensors, drones,…
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E20 petrol is generally safe for compatible vehicles in India.
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Ethanol-blended gasoline is harmful for vehicles used in India.
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Swarna Kupa is usually dry and fills briefly once a year.
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The Swarna Kupa (also spelled Suna Kua) well at the Jagannath Temple in Puri, Odisha, India never runs dry.
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No credible evidence confirms any terrorist attack in India using pen-shaped bombs.
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Pen-shaped bombs have been used in terrorist attacks in India.
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U.S. and Indian accounts say a Palau-flagged ship was struck off Oman.
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United States military forces sank an Indian-flagged vessel in the Strait of Hormuz and ignored the vessel's distress calls for help.
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Reports describe the Titlagarh temple’s interior as about 10–20°C.
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A temple in Titlagarh, Balangir district, Odisha, India has an interior area where the temperature remains near or below 0°C (32°F) even when the outside temperature is higher.
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Walk Free’s 2023 Global Slavery Index ranks India, China, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia and Indonesia top by prevalence.
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The Walk Free Foundation's Global Slavery Index 2023 lists the six countries with the largest numbers of people in modern slavery as India, China, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, and Indonesia.
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The Simon Commission report preserved British control by rejecting central self-government.
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The Simon Commission report was biased in favor of British colonial rule in India.
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The 1927 Simon Commission appointment triggered boycotts and widespread protests in 1928.
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The appointment of the Simon Commission sparked protest movements across India.
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