Fact check: Will the central government reduce retirement age to 50 due to COVID-19?

ongoing coronavirus pandemic has evidently brought upon a number of fake stories going around internet. One common me witnessed in se posts across internet has been fabricating fake news surrounding decisions taken by state or central government. se fake stories can also go on and affect lives of incent people if y do t fact check and find source of news. One such piece of information has w come to light. 

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Claim 

Recently, some questionable news portals across internet were claiming that central government has brought down retirement of ir employees to 50 years. It was claimed that decision has been taken in wake of coronavirus pandemic as virus has me senior citizens much more vulnerable. fake news actually went on and went viral on internet, while also creating an atmosphere of paraia amongst people. 

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Rating - False

official Twitter handle for Press Information Bureau in India has declared that claims about retirement brought done to 50 years of are completely false. On or hand, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs has also come forwards and clarified that such rule has been passed by central government. Check out official clarifications below - 

Origin 

fake story was first shared on various questionable and independent news portals. Though ir articles mselves stated that re has been official confirmation yet, news was still published ahe. story was n picked up by various social media users who started sharing it on social media. 

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Google Trends Analytics 

As fake news about retirement brought down to 50 started doing rounds on internet; A number of netizens took to Google to search credibility behind story. This resulted in a surge of Google searches about same. Check it out below - 

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