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Elections
Why The Lotus Failed To Bloom In Kerala In 2019
May 25In Kerala, the hopes were high for the BJP camp and all the Kerala-based media surveys...
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Fast Check
‘Welcome Modiji’ Buses in London To Congratulate Narendra Modi? A FactCheck
May 25The images are of 2015, when a bus named Modi Express was launched by the Indians...
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Fake News
No, SRK Did Not Say ‘I Would Leave India If Modi Becomes PM’
May 24Shah Rukh Khan had clarified in 2014, when a similar tweet from a fake handle was...
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Elections
How BJP Stormed Mamata Banerjee’s Citadel In West Bengal
May 24Polarisation, a weak Left Front and showdowns - BOOM explores the reason that led to BJP’s...
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Elections
In A Historic Landslide, Narendra Modi Led BJP Retains Power For Second Term
May 23Narendra Modi holds fort for the second term. BJP win the Lok Sabha elections with a...
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Elections
‘Jagan’naut Storms Andhra Pradesh, Set To Take Oath As CM By May End
May 23Jagan Mohan Reddy led a massive social media campaign under the tutelage of political strategist Prashant...
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Fake News
Old Images Shared As ‘Proof’ Of BJP’s Role In College Street Violence
May 23BOOM found that one image is from Jamshedpur protests during a Bharat Band(2012), the other is...
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Fake News
Video Capturing Gang War Shootout In Delhi Shared As Bangalore, Mumbai
May 23The video is from Dwarka in Delhi when two gangsters opened fire at a member of...
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Elections
Live: 2019 Lok Sabha Election Results Visualised
May 23After six tumultuous weeks of polling in seven phases, the day of announcement of the results...
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Elections
LIVE: BJP Led NDA Cross The Half-Way Mark
May 22The counting of votes in the Lok Sabha election of the world’s largest democracy is underway,...
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Fake News
Did SP Workers Jump The Gun With A ‘PM Akhilesh’ Billboard? Not Quite
May 22Although grammatically incorrect the original hoarding wished Akhilesh Yadav for the new year.
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Fake News
Sanjay Dutt Converting To Islam? No, That’s Bad Photoshop
May 21BOOM ran a reverse image search and found that the original image of Dutt neither has...
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Fake News
This Picture Of Donald Trump Endorsing PM Modi Is A Hoax
May 16This picture is from 2015, and has also been exploited by Nigerian social media to show...
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Politics
Exit Poll Promotional Video Shows Dummy Data, Clarifies India Today
May 16India Today's editor Rahul Kanwal told BOOM that dummy data was used for tech checks in...
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Fake News
Riot Video From Bangladesh Passed Off As West Bengal
May 17Viral post claims the video show Muslims chasing Hindus out of West Bengal. The original video,...
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Fake News
Was A TMC Worker Caught Pelting Stones In Kolkata Wearing A Saffron T-Shirt?
May 17The video has been projected as ‘TMC goons’, involved in the violence that ensued following BJP...
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Fake News
Old Video Of Amit Shah Falling Passed Off As West Bengal
May 16The incident is from 2018 when Amit Shah was campaigning in Madhya Pradesh for the state's...
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Fake News
Did PM Modi Pay Tribute To Nathuram Godse? A FactCheck
May 18Several posts showing the PM garlanding a bust of BJP ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, and paying...
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Fake News
India Today’s Exit Poll Dummy Data And Other News You Almost Believed
May 18In this week’s News You Almost Believed, we bring you the truth behind viral photos and...
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Fake News
Was A Youth Beaten For Hoisting A Saffron Flag In West Bengal? A FactCheck
May 16This is a video from Deoria, Uttar Pradesh in March 2018 of an unrelated incident.
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FactCheck
Viral Child Abuse Video Is From Syria, Not Gujarat
May 20Politician Jignesh Mevani tweeted the same video with a caption that claimed the clip was that...
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FactCheck
Were 300 EVMs Seized From A Shop In Uttar Pradesh?
May 21Viral posts claim that 300 EVMs were seized from a shop owned by a BJP leader...
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BOOM Snips
Google Rolls Out Nougat Upgrade For Nexus Devices
August 24Google has officially begun rolling out Android’s 7.0 software upgrade to those with Nexus devices. ...
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BOOM Snips
Drone Captures Centre Of Ubinas Volcano Crater In Peru
August 24Vulcanologists used a drone to inspect the crater of Peru’s Ubinas volcano on August 21. ...
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BOOM Snips
Earth Quakes In Italy – Tremors Recorded Of 6.2 Magnitude
August 24A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit central Italy and rescuers are searching for survivors. At least 21...
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BOOM Snips
World’s Longest, Highest Glass Bottom Bridge Opens In China
August 23Touted as the “world’s highest and longest” glass-bottom bridge, it stretches between two mountain peaks in...
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BOOM Snips
One Of India’s Richest Temples, Just Got Richer
August 23Siddhivinayak Temple, a two century-old temple in Mumbai just raised Rs. 1.1 crores by auctioning off...
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BOOM Snips
Coral Bleaching In A Reef, Caught On Camera
August 23Rare video footage shows the violent act of coral bleaching, caused by high sea water temperatures...
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BOOM Snips
It Took Four Fire Fighters To Rescue This Boy From A Sofa
August 23The four-year-old somehow managed to squeeze into a gap in the furniture at a pedicure shop...
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BOOM Snips
Rio Olympics Comes To A Close
August 22The Rio Olympics ended with a spectacular carnival-inspired closing ceremony, and the official handover to 2020...
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BOOM Snips
Mongolian Wrestling Coaches Strip In Olympics
August 22A pair of Mongolian wrestling coaches stripped off their clothing in a protest of a call...
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BOOM Snips
Doctors In Punjab Operate On A Policeman Who Swallowed 40 Knives
August 22Surgeons in Punjab have removed 40 metal knives from a patient who had an ‘uncontrollable urge’...
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BOOM Snips
PV Sindhu’s Olympic Silver Creates History In More Ways Than One
August 22PV Sindhu became India’s first woman to win an Olympics silver medal on August 19 after...
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Culture
Calling Hinduism A Way Of Life Is Meaningless: Sanjeev Sanyal
August 22Who is a Hindu? What does he believe or can he be an unbeliever and still...
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FACT FILE
- Delhi University Professors Divided On PM Modi’s ‘Bhrastachari No.1’ Jibe About Rajiv Gandhi
While 207 professors from Delhi University have condemned the controversial remark by signing a public statement, as many as 121 professors have expressed their support for PM Modi. […]
- Congress Pledges To Scrap Sedition: All You Need To Know About The 160-Year Law
Tilak in 1908 and Kanhaiya Kumar in 2016 were both victims of India’s sedition law – a remnant of the British era in Indian law […]
Fake News Police
- Old Images Shared As ‘Proof’ Of BJP’s Role In College Street Violence
BOOM found that one image is from Jamshedpur protests during a Bharat Band(2012), the other is from clashes in Lucknow that took place in 2010. […]
- Video Capturing Gang War Shootout In Delhi Shared As Bangalore, Mumbai
The video is from Dwarka in Delhi when two gangsters opened fire at a member of rival gang […]
Fact Check
- Gau Rakshaks In MP Attack 3 For Allegedly Carrying Beef, Force Them To Say ‘Jai Shri Ram’
Madhya Pradesh police told BOOM that the trio – two Muslims and a Hindu – were allegedly carrying beef. The victims and attackers have been arrested […]
- 9 Family Members, 5 Votes? No, This Jalandhar Candidate Actually Got 856 Votes
BOOM checked the Election Commission of India’s website and found that Neetu Shutteran Wala had in fact polled 856 votes and not just five. […]
