All posts tagged "elections"
Fake News
Did Multiple BJP Candidates Get Identical Votes of 2,11,820?
May 25Election Commission's website confirms that the number of votes shown on the viral post is completely...
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Elections
How BJP Stormed Mamata Banerjee’s Citadel In West Bengal
May 24Polarisation, a weak Left Front and showdowns - BOOM explores the reason that led to BJP’s...
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Fake News
Did SP Workers Jump The Gun With A ‘PM Akhilesh’ Billboard? Not Quite
May 22Although grammatically incorrect the original hoarding wished Akhilesh Yadav for the new year.
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Fake News
Lok Sabha Results: See How Far These Laddus Have Travelled
May 20Images of laddus being prepared in huge quantity were shared on social media a day before...
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Fast Check
Old Photos Passed Off As TMC Workers Thrashing CRPF Jawans In Kolkata
May 19The images from Kanpur and Guwahati date back to 2017 and 2011 respectively
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Fake News
Did PM Modi Pay Tribute To Nathuram Godse? A FactCheck
May 18Several posts showing the PM garlanding a bust of BJP ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, and paying...
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Fake News
Was A TMC Worker Caught Pelting Stones In Kolkata Wearing A Saffron T-Shirt?
May 17The video has been projected as ‘TMC goons’, involved in the violence that ensued following BJP...
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Fake News
No, Sheila Dikshit Did Not Say ‘Kejriwal Can Sell His Mother For Votes’
May 13An article by Aaj Tak on Sheila Dikshit talking about PM Modi is doctored to give...
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FactCheck
Muslim Woman Slamming Arvind Kejriwal In Viral Video Is A BJP Worker
May 10While the viral post claims a Muslim woman is slamming Arvind Kejriwal for misgovernance in Delhi,...
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Fake News
Urmila Matondkar Did Not But Chhattisgarh CM Called Modi Mentally Unstable For His Rajiv Gandhi Remark
May 9While BOOM couldn't find any news report attributing the viral quote to Urmila Matondkar, Chhattisgarh Chief...
Boom Snips
- India To Be Severely ‘Water Stressed’ By 2050
A new study points to the risk that China and India will be facing severe water shortages due to a […]
- Bengaluru Violence Over New Provident Fund Rules
Thousands of garment workers in Bengaluru clashed with the police and set buses and cars on fire today, angry with […]
Fact Check
- Row Over BJP Entrant Anju Ghosh’s Citizenship
In multiple interviews Anju Ghosh has said that she was born in Faridpur, Bangladesh and that the country is her motherland […]
- Was Jagan Mohan Reddy Blessed Only By Christian Priests While Taking Oath?A Fact-Check
BOOM found that the newly sworn in Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh was blessed by Hindu,Muslim and Christian religious leaders. […]
- Fake Quote Claims Shabana Azmi Said, ‘If Modi Wins This Time I’ll Leave The Country’
Fake quotes attributed to Bollywood actors critical of the government have increased since May 23, 2019. […]
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