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Fake News
Man Accused Of Being A Child Kidnapper Is Mentally Unstable: Etawah Police
August 22A viral video claims that public has caught a child kidnapper on the prowl. However, UP...
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Fake News
Did The Home Ministry Warn Against Buying Poisonous Chinese Firecrackers?
August 22The message asks Indians to boycott the hazardous firecrackers as China will be flooding the Indian...
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Fake News
9-Year Old Video Of Canada Refusing Visas To Indian Army Officers Shared As Recent
August 22BOOM found that the video was from May 2010 and not recent as being claimed.
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Fake News
Photos Of Former J&K CM’s And Politicians Bungalows? A FactCheck
August 21BOOM found that three of the four photos were of a hotel in Srinagar named The...
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FACT FILE
9-Month Revenue of Statue Of Unity At ₹52.9 Cr, Footfall Above 19 Lakh: RTI Reply
August 21This RTI reply to BOOM also shows that while the statue is making an average monthly...
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Fake News
Family That Put Kids In Car Trunk Mistaken For Abductors; Pics Fuel Rumours Online
August 21BOOM reached out to Ladwa Police who dismissed any child kidnapping rumours and said that the...
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Fake News
No, This Poster Is Not From A Protest At Aligarh Muslim University
August 21BOOM found that the poster was from a protest in London outside the Indian High Commission...
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Health
‘Never Google Your Symptoms’: How A Swedish Doctor Is Battling Health Misinformation
August 21Dr. Henrik Widegren mixes his love for medicine and music with quirky titled songs in his...
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Fake News
Video Of Man Attacking Sikh Trucker Falsely Linked To UP Deputy CM’s Nephew
August 20Viral posts claim that nephew of UP's deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya had brutally attacked a...
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Fake News
India Vs Pakistan: Fake Army Twitter Handles Spread Misinformation
August 20BOOM found that several accounts impersonating Pakistani and Indian Army officers had sprung up on Twitter.
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FactCheck
Cropped Video Of Independence Day Celebrations In WB School Shared With False Claim
August 20BOOM was able to find a longer clip which features both the Indian and Bangladeshi national...
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Fake News
Video Of A Brazilian Gangster Dressed As A Woman Used To Spread A Hoax In Kerala
August 20BOOM found that the video was of a Brazilian gangster caught by prison authorities trying to...
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Fake News
4-Year Old Video Of Imran Khan Losing His Cool Falsely Linked To Article 370
August 19Viral posts claim Imran Khan lost his cool when no country supported Pakistan's stance on India...
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Fake News
Message Claiming Facebook Will Take Over Your Photos Is A Hoax
August 19The bogus message has been revived several times over the past decade.
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Fake News
Pakistani Minister Passes Off Old Videos From Haryana, Telangana As Kashmir
August 19The videos tweeted by Ali Haider Zaidi claiming to show Kashmir are from Haryana and Telangana...
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Fake News
Italy’s Republic Day Celebrations Viral As Indian Independence Day At Trafalgar Square
August 17BOOM found that the viral video was actually of Italy's Republic day celebrations in Piazza Venezia,...
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Fake News
Video Of Professor Hameeda Nayeem Shared As Maharaja Hari Singh’s Granddaughter
August 14BOOM found multiple evidence suggesting that the person in the video is a Kashmiri professor and...
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FactCheck
Government Does U-Turn On Kashmir Protest, Acknowledges Unrest In Soura
August 13India's Home Ministry acknowledges the protest that took place in Srinagar's Soura on August 9, reiterates...
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Fake News
Madhu Kishwar Does It Again; Tweets Old Video Of Rahul Gandhi With Misleading Context
August 16BOOM found that the video was old dating back to April 24, 2019, during the Lok...
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Fake News
Viral Message Claiming RBI Cancelled Leaves Of Its Officers Is False
August 18The RBI dismissed the viral message and said no such order cancelling leaves had been issued...
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Fake News
Hoax Forward About Identifying ‘Fake’ 500 Rupee Notes Resurfaces
August 14An image with two Rs 500 notes has gone viral falsely claiming that if the green...
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Fake News
Mock Drill By NSG Commandos In Mumbai Creates Panic Online
August 15BOOM was able to ascertain that the videos are of a mock drill as there was...
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FactCheck
BJP Link Surfaces In Zomato Beef-Pork Delivery Protests in WB
August 13BOOM found that a slash in salaries paid to the executives, was the crux of the...
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FACT FILE
9-Month Revenue of Statue Of Unity At ₹52.9 Cr, Footfall Above 19 Lakh: RTI Reply
August 21This RTI reply to BOOM also shows that while the statue is making an average monthly...
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FACT FILE
Amid Tight Security and Eerie Calm: How Srinagar Celebrated Independence Day
August 15Independence Day passed off peacefully but restrictions on free movement and communication have left the citizens...
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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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Entertainment
Happy Bhag Jayegi: Dedh Minute Review
August 20Aniruddha Guha reviews Abhay Deol starrer Happy Bhag Jayegi in this week’s film review. ...
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BOOM Snips
Saved By A Tiger: This Video Shows Wild Animals Have Loyal Instincts
August 19A video that has gone viral on Reddit from Mexico has proof that wild animals can...
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BOOM Snips
Donald Trump Disrobed On America’s Streets
August 19An artists’ collective took credit for exposing Donald Trump to unflattering scrutiny on August 18, saying...
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