English Vocab 13 By Anoop Verma Sir
Being factual in the post-truth era Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, for all practical purposes, recently threatened Israel with a retaliatory ( बदले का / प्रतिकार का ) nuclear attack, in response to a fake news report that the Israelis had said they would use nuclear weapons against Pakistan if it sent ground troops to Syria. Earlier, a man fired an assault rifle in a pizzeria in Washington, D.C. after reading online that it was involved in a child trafficking ring linked to Hillary Clinton. In India, a fake story said there was a GPS tracking chip embedded ( सन्निहित / अन्तः स्थापित होना ) in the new Rs.2,000 note. Fake news — the deliberate creation of factually incorrect content to mislead people for some gain — is becoming an increasingly serious problem. And tackling it is imperative( आवश्यक / अनिवार्य ) in a perpetually( निरंतर / नित्य ) wired and click-happy world. Everyo...