Tag: rumours

New Delhi : The Union Home Ministry has issued an advisory to states and Union Territories (UTs) asking them to take measures to prevent incidents of mob lynching fuelled by rumours of child lifting circulating on social media, an official said on Thursday. The advisory urged the states as well as the UTs to keep a watch for "early detection of such rumours and initiate effective measures for countering them". "The states and UTs have been asked to direct district administrations to identify vulnerable areas and conduct community outreach programmes for...