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LinkedIn scammers are trapping job seekers with fake resume reviews, bogus upskilling offers, and jobs that don't even exist. It's a dark hole. Read on!

In this edition, I will tell you about how to find the information about any wildfire activity. Basically, in case you want to check whether a particular location has caught fire or has active fire hotspots.

Tool used: NASA FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System)

It provides access, with minimal delay, to satellite imagery, active fire/hotspots, and related products to identify the location, extent, and intensity of wildfire activity.

How to use:

• Step 1: Go to NASA FIRMS’ website.

• Step 2: On the right hand side, you will see a ‘Basic Mode’ window. Select the date you wish to check the fire activity for.

• Step 3: On the left hand side, you will see an icon for location, click on that. You can enter the exact coordinates of the location. Tip: You can find the exact coordinates using Google Earth Pro.

• Step 4: Once you have chosen the location and the date, you can track the fire activity of the area.

• Learn more about the tool here.

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LinkedIn Scammers Trap Job Seekers With Fake Resume Reviews, Upskilling Offers

🔖 The Anatomy Of LinkedIn Scams 

• It can be anything from an innocuous resume review from a sham professional that costs less than an espresso to multi-brand HR experts selling upskilling courses and charging for bogus referrals at top-tier companies.

• A Deloitte employee confirmed that they are aware of the LinkedIn recruitment scams.

• Many of these accounts do not list any actual employment history with the companies they claim to have connections with. Nevertheless, their posts garner hundreds of comments from eager job seekers.

• A bunch of LinkedIn scams involve direct advertisements of job posts, seemingly at renowned companies from recruitment experts, often leading applicants to shady websites.

• While recruitment mountebanks run wild on LinkedIn, legitimate companies are also helping exacerbate the situation. According to cybersecurity firm NordLayer, fake job offers emerged as one of the most common forms of a LinkedIn-native scam, while fake profiles impersonating a well-known company or affiliated professional came in a close second. Read Nadeem Sarwar’s story.

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UP’s New Policy Pays Content Creators Big Bucks—But At What Cost?

🔖 The incentive: Under the new policy, payments of up to Rs 8 lakh per month are on offer to influencers enlisted to promote government schemes. The policy categorises influencers based on their followers and bases payments solely on views.

Critics say: Prateek Waghre of the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) cautioned that this setup could distort reality, as creators are financially incentivised to focus on government-approved narratives. “Legally, there’s nothing inherently wrong—it’s like running ads. But because public money is involved, the incentives to shape content are concerning,” Waghre explained.

But, what do the influencers/creators have to say? Find out in Hera Rizwan’s story.

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Ayushman Bharat To Cover All Citizens Over 70: How Will The Scheme Work?

🔖 Update: The Union Cabinet has expanded the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) to include health coverage for individuals aged 70 and above, regardless of their income.

Currently, the scheme provides Rs 5 lakh in annual shared coverage to all members of eligible families, targeting the bottom 40 percent of the population economically, irrespective of age.

Questions: Are all citizens above the age of 70 applicable for the revised scheme? Is every senior citizen in a family covered under the scheme? Hera Rizwan explains in this story.

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🚫 Fake News You Almost Fell For

🔍 The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Haryana unit posted a cropped video on X, to falsely claim that leader of the Opposition of the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party are conspiring to end caste-based reservations. Read 🔗 Nidhi Jacob’s ↗️ fact-check.

🔍 Did Congress leader and former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda say the party will end reservations if it comes to power? Find out in 🔗 Nivedita Niranjankumar’s ↗️ fact-check.

🔍 Claim: CJI DY Chandrachud's second wife, Kalpana Das, is the niece of Dr. SP Das, an orthopedic surgeon and personal physician to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. But, is this true? Find out in 🔗 Srijit Das’ ↗️ fact-check.

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