Brief Outline: Remarkable: India's RaghuramRajan has been appointed Governor of the Bank of England! With an Indian (NasserHusain) having captained the England cricket team already, all that's left to complete a reverse colonization is for an Indian to be Prime Minister.

Ayupp Verification: Fake

Origin: The Fake news was spread on Facebook and other websites followed soon.

Viral Example:

Remarkable: India's RaghuramRajan has been appointed Governor of the Bank of England! With an Indian (NasserHusain) having captained the England cricket team already, all that's left to complete a reverse colonization is for an Indian to be Prime Minister.

Congratulating Mr. Raghuram Rajan, elected as Governor for Bank of England.

And, as usual, whatever we Indians have with us, the value of those things is recognised by foriegners and they take it away.

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Detailed Analysis: This news story was posted on a facebook post and later taken and reposted by other individual like Sashi Tharoor.  The fake news claims that former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has been appointed the Governor of the Bank of England.

The facebook post was uploaded in 28 April, 2018 and ever since has been widely shared for more than 7500 times on the facebook. Many pro supporter of the former RBI governor immediately started to support him on this and congratulate the ex governor.

We did not find any fact in the news being spread of Raghuram Rajan being appointed the Governor of Bank of England. However speculation were very high. As per DNA, Former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan as been named as one of the contenders for the top job of the UK’s central bank. The leading Financial daily, Financial Times has named Raghuram Rajan as someone who might replace Mark Carney, he current governor of Bank of England. 

At present, Raghuram Rajan is back in Chicago, and is now the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

As per news published by NDTV on 23 April, Raghuram Rajan, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, has been named as one of the possible contenders for the top job at the Bank of England (BoE), according to a report by UK-based Financial Times.

Raghuram Rajan May Be In Race For Top Post At Bank Of England: Report

London: Raghuram Rajan, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, has been named as one of the possible contenders for the top job at the Bank of England (BoE), according to a report by UK-based Financial Times.

Raghuram Rajan is currently not been assigned the Governor of bank of england job in England.

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Chetan Sharma is an Indian fact-checker and news writer, writing news for Ayupp since 2014.

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