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Video Of Bangladesh Hacking Viral As Hindus Lynched By Muslims In India
June 26BOOM found that the video is originally of Bangladesh, where an accused of a murder case,...
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Video Of Assault Victims Pleading For An FIR Shared With Communal Spin
June 25UP Police has tweeted that the victims and accused are both Muslims and there is no...
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Media
British Herald, Who? How Indian Media Fell For An Unknown Website’s Poll Praising PM Modi
June 25After talking to British Herald officials, BOOM found that the poll has several discrepancies and ambiguities...
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Photo Of Young Rohingya Refugee Shared With Communal Claim
June 24BOOM found that the image of the Rohingya girl was taken from a BBC news report...
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No, A Woman Did Not Give Birth To 17 Babies In The Same Pregnancy
June 24BOOM found that the image of the pregnant woman was photoshopped and the story of Catherine...
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‘Ghost Hand’ In MP Congress’ Advertisement Makes Party A Target Of Social Media Ridicule
June 24A photo of Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath standing next to an old woman in a...
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Guatemala Video Shared As Hindu Girl From MP Burnt Alive For Church Visit
June 24BOOM found that the video is from Guatemala in 2015 when a teenage girl accused of...
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No, Amit Shah Was Not Caught Sleeping In Rajya Sabha
June 22BOOM accessed the RS TV footage and found that Amit Shah wasn't sleeping. The screenshots were...
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Bengaluru’s Modi Masjid Named After PM Modi And Other News You Almost Believed
June 22In this week’s News You Almost Believed, we bring you the truth behind viral photos and...
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Murder Of Gujarat Police Informer Shared As Dalit Killing
June 22Gujarat police told BOOM that the victim is a police informant, who was hacked to death...
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Did A Bridge, Inaugurated By PM Modi, Collapse? A FactCheck
June 21BOOM spoke to the chief engineer, Roads and Buildings Department of the Gujarat Government who informed...
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FactCheck
Were School Students in Kathua Possessed By Ghosts? A FactCheck
June 21Viral post claims students of a school in Haryana were possessed by spirits. BOOM found out...
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Fake News
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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Simulated Video Of Underwater Volcanic Eruption Shared As Real Incident
June 20BOOM found that the simulated video was made by geologists to portray the destructive nature of...
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Bengaluru’s Modi Masjid Not Named After PM Modi
June 20Modi Masjid was originally built 170 years ago, and named after Hazrat Modi Abdul Ghafoor, a...
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Fake News
No, Amit Shah Was Not Caught Sleeping In Rajya Sabha
June 22BOOM accessed the RS TV footage and found that Amit Shah wasn't sleeping. The screenshots were...
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FactCheck
Were School Students in Kathua Possessed By Ghosts? A FactCheck
June 21Viral post claims students of a school in Haryana were possessed by spirits. BOOM found out...
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FACT FILE
Encephalitis Outbreak Among Children In Bihar: 5 Things You Need To Know
June 20BOOM looks at the causes, symptoms of encephalitis and the relationship between litchi consumption and the...
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Fake News
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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No, Bhim Army Chief’s ‘Real’ Name Is Not Naseemuddin Khan
June 19Chandra Shekhar Azad, Bhim Army chief took to Twitter to rubbish the claim about his name.
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Fake News
No, Sri Lankan Muslims Demolishing Mosques Did Not Convert to Hinduism
June 19The photos are of Kekirawa muslims in Sri Lanka who tore down a mosque built by...
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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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