Sk Badiruddin

Sk Badiruddin

Sk Badiruddin is a Kolkata-based journalist and a fact-checking staff at Boom's Bangla desk. Earlier, he was a translator for TRID India, news desk assistant of Onkar News, science news contributor for AIR Kolkata and culture writer for a small scale newspaper.

Video Of Protest In Bangladesh Revived As Post-Poll Violence in Bengal
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Video Of Protest In Bangladesh Revived As Post-Poll Violence in Bengal

BOOM found that the original video, uploaded from Hathazari, Chittagong, on March 28 shows protest against the death of...

9 May 2021 10:52 AM GMT
Photo Of Woman With Amit Shah Falsely Linked To WB Poll Violence
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Photo Of Woman With Amit Shah Falsely Linked To WB Poll Violence

BOOM was able to identify the woman in the photograph with Amit Shah. We reached out to her father Bibhishan Hansda, who ...

6 May 2021 3:01 PM GMT
Video Of Cop Assaulted In Delhi Shared With Communal Spin
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Video Of Cop Assaulted In Delhi Shared With Communal Spin

BOOM found that the incident happened in Delhi, where a cop was thrashed by a gym trainer Rinku Gupta and his accomplice ...

3 May 2021 12:44 PM GMT
Unrelated Video, Images Shared As Arrival Of Ambulances From Pakistan
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Unrelated Video, Images Shared As Arrival Of Ambulances From Pakistan

BOOM found the video and viral images are not related to arrival of ambulances from Pakistan during the ongoing deadly...

3 May 2021 10:29 AM GMT
2017 Image Of Bihar Man Carrying Wifes Corpse Home Shared As Gujarat
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2017 Image Of Bihar Man Carrying Wife's Corpse Home Shared As Gujarat

BOOM found that the incident happened in Purnia, Bihar in 2017 when a father-son duo carried his wife's body on...

28 April 2021 12:56 PM GMT
Clip Of Vaccine Administered With Empty Syringe Is From Mexico
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Clip Of Vaccine Administered With Empty Syringe Is From Mexico

The incident happened in Zacatenco Unit of the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico on April 2, 2021.

25 April 2021 1:35 PM GMT
Image Of Womans Body Broken And Packed Revived Amid COVID-19 Crises
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Image Of Woman's Body Broken And Packed Revived Amid COVID-19 Crises

BOOM found that the images are from 2016 where two men carried a woman's body due to lack of an ambulance available in...

22 April 2021 9:30 AM GMT
Image Of COVID Patient With Oxygen Cylinder On Bike Is From Bangladesh
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Image Of COVID Patient With Oxygen Cylinder On Bike Is From Bangladesh

BOOM found the original image was clicked in Barishal, Bangladesh while a man ferried his mother riding pillion and a...

19 April 2021 1:32 PM GMT
Video From Manipur Peddled As Mob Storming Polling Booth In Cooch Behar
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Video From Manipur Peddled As Mob Storming Polling Booth In Cooch

BOOM found that the video is from 2019, when a mob stormed into a polling booth in Manipur's Kyamgei area

13 April 2021 10:36 AM GMT
Bengal Polls: Morphed ABP Clipping Claims TMCs Win
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Bengal Polls: Morphed ABP Clipping Claims TMC's Win

BOOM found that the newspaper clipping has been edited to include an image of TMC's Dilip Jadhav and a graph predicting...

5 April 2021 1:12 PM GMT
Muslim Couple Marries Off Hindu Foster Daughter, Pic Viral With Misleading Claim
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Pic Of Muslim Couple Marrying Off Hindu Foster Daughter Viral

BOOM found several news report stating that the Muslim couple had married off their foster daughter, a Hindu, from a...

4 April 2021 3:06 PM GMT
2019 Video Of Tribal Woman Assaulted In MP Revived With False Claims
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2019 Video Of Tribal Woman Assaulted In MP Revived With False Claims

In 2019, Madhya Pradesh police told BOOM that the incident involved members of the victim's family.

28 March 2021 6:58 AM GMT