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US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...
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This WhatsApp message claiming lockdown in Uttar Pradesh extended is fake, don’t fall for it

COVID-19 is taking a gruesome shape in India. As for the latest data, the virus is affecting over 3 lakh people in the country every single day. In fact, in one of the recent days it touched the 4 lakh mark as well. Due to this, several states such as Maharashtra, Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, among others have imposed lockdown to combat the spread of coronavirus.

Taking advantage of the situation, a WhatsApp message is being circulated, which claims that Uttar Pradesh has extended the existing lockdown due to rising COVID cases.

This WhatsApp message is fake

The viral WhatsApp message claims that Uttar Pradesh will be under lockdown till May 10 and not May 4 as announced earlier. Well, if you have received a similar message on WhatsApp, don’t believe it. This news is fake.

Uttar Pradesh’s fact check team has issued a notification stating that there will not be any extension to the current lockdown in the state. At least for now.

The Uttar Pradesh Fact Check team has posted a screenshot of the WhatsApp message that informs people about the lockdown being extended till May 10.

For the unaware, the Uttar Pradesh government announced a lockdown in the state last week, from Friday evening, April 30 to May 4, Tuesday morning.

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The fake WhatsApp message claims that 21 districts of Uttar Pradesh will be under lockdown till May 10. The areas include Lucknow, Kanpur, Ghaziabad, Gautam Budh Nagar, Agra, Bareilly, Moradabad, Rampur, Sitapur, Aligarh, Saharanpur, and Muzaffarnagar, among others.

Another fake WhatsApp message

There’s another fake message related to UP is being circulated on WhatsApp. This one suggests guidelines during the lockdown which includes suspension of home delivery service from restaurants. This message is fake and home deliveries are not barred during the lockdown. The fact check team of the Uttar Pradesh government has urged people to not believe such fake WhatsApp messages and should first verify all information via official sources.



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