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Viral Video Of School Kids Touching A Soldier’s Feet Is Not From India
June 19Original video from Sri Lanka has been passed off as that from India
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Cars Melting Due To High Temperature In Kuwait? A FactCheck
June 19BOOM found that the images are old and the objects in the image did not melt...
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IAS Officer’s Photo Shared As Junior Doctor Resting Foot On Patient’s Bed
June 19BOOM found that the man in the photo is IAS Officer Jagdish Sonkar and not a...
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FactCheck
Old Videos Shared As Pakistanis Reacting To The India Vs Pak Cricket World Cup Match
June 18With India defeating Pakistan in the cricket match played on June 16, social media has been...
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Did Pakistani Cricket Fans Say, ‘We Don’t Want Kashmir, Give Us Virat Kohli’?
June 18The banner in the original image reads, "We Want Azaadi", and is taken during a protest...
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Beheading From Brazil Shared With Communal Spin As Rajasthan
June 18The video is from a 2018 incident when a Brazilian teenager was stabbed and beheaded by...
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Viral Posts Claiming Kolkata NRS Medical College’s Doctor Has Succumbed To Injuries Are False
June 17BOOM spoke to Sourav Datta, a junior doctor from NRS Medical College, who rubbished such rumours...
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Video Of Punjab Congress Councillor’s Brothers Beating A Woman Falsely Linked To BJP
June 17While two of the main accused in the brutal attack on a woman are brothers of...
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India Is Teeming With ‘Cheapfakes’, Deepfakes Could Make It Worse
June 17Disinformation using videos in India so far have been clips of real incidents shared with a...
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Pakistani Doctors March In Solidarity With West Bengal’s Doctors’ Strike And Other News You Almost Believed
June 16In this week’s News You Almost Believed, we bring you the truth behind viral photos and...
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No, Suicide Bomber’s Belt Did Not Explode During His Funeral Procession
June 16BOOM found that the video was shot when a car bomb exploded during a funeral procession...
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Old Footage Of Assault On MP Doctor Shared Amidst Doctors’ Strike In West Bengal
June 15BOOM reached out to the Chief Medical Health Officer of Madhya Pradesh's Bhind District Hospital who...
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Man Urinating During Cricket Match Is Indian, Not Pakistani
June 14The graphic video shows a man urinating in the stands during a cricket match. BOOM was...
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Madhu Kishwar’s Never-Ending Tryst With Fake News
June 13Kishwar's reluctance at verifying the information she puts on public domain appears to have taken a...
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Was A Man Stabbed For Raping A Minor In Uttar Pradesh? A FactCheck
June 10BOOM found that the video is from Hyderabad, where a man was stabbed by his wife's...
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“Will Always Be A Hindu”: Tirupati Board Chairman YV Subba Reddy Refutes Claims Of Being A Christian
June 13BOOM spoke to Subba Reddy after viral posts claimed he was a Christian and hence should...
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Old Footage Of Assault On MP Doctor Shared Amidst Doctors’ Strike In West Bengal
June 15BOOM reached out to the Chief Medical Health Officer of Madhya Pradesh's Bhind District Hospital who...
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FactCheck
Was Mumbai Journalist Nitika Rao Attacked For Questioning The Government?
June 11BOOM spoke to Nitika Rao who said that she was beaten by goons sent by a...
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FACT FILE
Doctors Strike In West Bengal : 7 Things You Need To Know
June 14Virtual shutdown of medical facilities following the attack on junior doctors in NRS Medical College, West...
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A Women Safety Helpline Dead Since 2017 Lives On Through Misleading Facebook Posts
June 12The post refers to an actual helpline created by the Mumbai Police in 2014 but which...
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No, Pakistani Doctors Did Not March In Solidarity With West Bengal’s Ongoing Doctors’ Strike
June 15Lucknow's King George's Medical College students organised the protest march on Thursday as a mark of...
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No, Suicide Bomber’s Belt Did Not Explode During His Funeral Procession
June 16BOOM found that the video was shot when a car bomb exploded during a funeral procession...
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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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