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Nivedita Niranjankumar

Nivedita Niranjankumar

A former city correspondent covering crime, Nivedita is a fact checker at BOOM and works to stop the spread of disinformation and misinformation. When not at work, she escapes into second-hand bookstores, looking for magic or a mystery.

Old Video Of Yasin Maliks Wife Peddled As Her Reaction To His Life Sentence
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Old Video Of Yasin Malik's Wife Peddled As Her Reaction To His Life...

BOOM found that the video is from 2019 when Mushaal Hussein Mullick held a press conference claiming Yasin Malik was...

26 May 2022 12:11 PM GMT
Sent Without Proper Screening: Bangalore School On Gyanvapi Mosque Message
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Sent Without Proper Screening: Bangalore School On Gyanvapi Mosque...

The school sent an email to its alumni network and issued a notice to parents of current students asking them to change...

25 May 2022 3:40 AM GMT
Hyderabad Encounter: SC Panel Wants Cops To Be Tried For Murder
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Hyderabad Encounter: SC Panel Wants Cops To Be Tried For Murder

The SC appointed inquiry commission also said that three of the four accused were minors unlike claimed by the police...

20 May 2022 12:43 PM GMT
Hindutva Group Seeks Nod For Hindu Prayers In Karnatakas Jamia Masjid
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Hindutva Group Seeks Nod For Hindu Prayers In Karnataka's Jamia Masjid

The Hindutva group submitted a petition to the Mandya district authorities claiming a Hindu pooja be held at Jamia...

17 May 2022 1:36 PM GMT
Muslims Are Cancer: Witnessing A Hindu Rashtra Convention In Bengaluru
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'Muslims Are Cancer': Witnessing A Hindu Rashtra Convention In...

In Bengaluru, a convention was organised by Hindu Jana Jagruti where speakers discussed how to build a 'Hindu Rashtra'

10 May 2022 2:39 PM GMT
Fake Quote Claims Ratan Tata Asked For Alcohol Sale To Be Linked To Aadhaar Card
Fast Check

Fake Quote Claims Ratan Tata Asked For Alcohol Sale To Be Linked To...

BOOM found that the message is old and Ratan Tata has earlier also called it out for being fake.

6 May 2022 8:44 AM GMT
Video Of Yograj Singh Playing Cricket Misidentified As PM Modi
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Video Of Yograj Singh Playing Cricket Misidentified As PM Modi

BOOM found that the person in the video is Yograj Singh, former Indian cricketer and father of Yuvraj Singh.

29 April 2022 10:07 AM GMT
Old Al Jazeera Docu Peddled As Arms Training To Children In Madrasas
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Old Al Jazeera Docu Peddled As Arms Training To Children In Madrasas

BOOM found that the video is a scene from a documentary shot by Al Jazeera and shows ISIS giving arms training to...

22 April 2022 10:03 AM GMT
Old Video From Maharashtra Of Muslim Man Threatening Cop Viral As Delhi
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Old Video From Maharashtra Of Muslim Man Threatening Cop Viral As...

BOOM found that the video is old and from Chopda city in Jalgaon district of Maharashtra.

19 April 2022 10:06 AM GMT
Here Till Rajapaksa Resigns: Sri Lanka Protests All Night From Tents
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'Here Till Rajapaksa Resigns': Sri Lanka Protests All Night From Tents

BOOM spent a night with protesters at Galle Face who have camped in tents, cars refusing to leave till President...

14 April 2022 7:45 AM GMT
Sri Lanka Is Running Out Of Insulin, Anti Rabies And Cancer Drugs
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Sri Lanka Is Running Out Of Insulin, Anti Rabies And Cancer Drugs

BOOM spoke to doctors and pharmaceutical workers in Colombo who said the stocks of viral medicines may last only two...

12 April 2022 2:45 PM GMT
Gota Go Home: Protesters Throng Galle Face Demanding Rajapaksas Resignation
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'Gota Go Home': Protesters Throng Galle Face Demanding Rajapaksa's...

Protesters armed with speakers and mics outside the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo chanted, 'Hora Hora, Gota Hora'...

9 April 2022 3:39 PM GMT

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