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By Puja Bhattacharjee Priyanka Kadam woke up at 6 a.m. on a cool February morning and reached for her phone out of habit. As she checked her notifications, one from the "Snakebite Interest Group" WhatsApp group caught her attention. Kadam, an admin of the group, is the President and Founder of the Snakebite Healing and Education Society, which addresses snakebite and snakebite-related issues in India. She opened the app to find over a hundred messages detailing a life-or-death situation that had unfolded overnight. At 2 a.m., a doctor in a rural primary healthcare center (PHC) had posted about...
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By Archis Chowdhury An image of two bottles of the soft drink Rooh Afza is going viral on social media with the claim that its manufacturing company 'Hamdard' sells the product in India and Saudi Arabia with two different labels. Captions claim that the bottle sold in India has pictures of fruits, whereas bottles sold in Saudi Arabia and Dubai do not have pictures of fruits due to stricter advertising restrictions. BOOM's fact-check reveals that the viral claim is false. An executive of 'Hamdard' told BOOM that the company sells Rooh Afza bottles in India and other countries around the world u...
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By Anmol Alphonso An old controversial quote from April 2023 by former Pakistani cricketer Javed Miandad, urging the Indian men's cricket team to visit Pakistan for the Asia Cup is being shared with the misleading claim that it is a recent statement. In response to security concerns raised by the Indian side, he had then responded, "Death will come when it will come." The 2023 edition of the ODI tournament was co-hosted by Pakistan and Sri Lanka after India objected to visiting Pakistan due to security concerns. The next ACC Asia Cup in 2025 will be played in T20 format, with the UAE and Oman ...
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By Srijit Das A video from last year showing the Indian men's relay team breaking the Asian record clocking a timing of 2 minutes 59.05 seconds to qualify for the final round of the World Athletics Championships is circulating on WhatsApp as a recent event. BOOM found that that the video is old, and the event occurred at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, in August 2023. The 4-minute 14-second video shows the Indian men's 4x400m relay team surpassing teams such as Great Britain and Japan, securing second place just behind the United States with a time of 2 minutes 59.05 se...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A video showing Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar meeting with leaders of the INDIA bloc is viral as a meeting that took place after the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections. Fact: BOOM found that the viral video is from April 2023, when Kumar's JD(U) was part of the INDIA bloc. Kumar left the INDIA bloc to join the National Democratic Alliance ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in January 2024. Tools used: Looking through the posts on X, BOOM found many users suggesting that the video is old, and shows a meeting that took place while Kumar was with the IND...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A video purporting to show ABP News anchor Sandeep Chaudhary predicting a thumping victory for the I.N.D.I.A. alliance while announcing exit poll figures for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, is viral. Fact: BOOM found that the news graphics in the viral video have been doctored to support the false claim. In the original broadcast, ABP News predicted that the BJP-led NDA alliance would sweep back to power. Tools used: We traced the original ABP News broadcast to June 2, 2024 and found that the news graphic numbers are different from those in the viral video, predict...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A graphic claims that Hindi news channel News24 carried predictions from different satta bazaars (illegal betting markets) showing a close knit race between the Congress-led I.N.D.I.A bloc and the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA coalition, posing a challenge to the BJP's previous claims of winning over 400 seats in the election. Fact: BOOM found that the channel did not carry any such report. News24 executive editor Manak Gupta also took to X to clarify that the graphic is fake. Tools used: We ran a keyword search and checked News24's social media profiles but wer...
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By Hera Rizwan According to "Shrinking Democracy, Growing Violence," a report by the internet advocacy watchdog Access Now, India recorded 116 instances of internet shutdowns in 2023, representing 41% of the 283 cases worldwide. Consequently, India has led the world in internet shutdowns for the sixth consecutive year. Overall, the internet was snapped 283 times across 39 countries last year, an increase in 41 percent from 2022. Myanmar had the second highest number of shutdowns, with 37, although the report suggested that this figure is likely only a “fraction of what were likely hundreds.” F...
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By Archis Chowdhury A fake newspaper clipping of Dainik Bhaskar is viral on social media with the claim that it shows the results of joint survey by Dainik Bhaskar and Nelson predicting a victory for the INDIA alliance in ten states. BOOM found that the viral clipping is fabricated, and does not correspond to the real publication. Dainik Bhaskar's national editor LP Pant further confirmed the same to BOOM and rubbished the viral clipping as fake. Also Read:Unrelated Video Falsely Linked To Congress-DMK Rally In Coimbatore The survey showed the INDIA alliance being ahead of the BJP-led NDA in M...
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By Hera Rizwan Apple, on Thursday, issued new threat alerts to select users in India and 91 other nations, cautioning them about potential security breaches on their iPhones, which may have been targeted by mercenary spyware, similar to Israel’s Pegasus spyware. “This attack is likely targeting you specifically because of who you are or what you do. Although it’s never possible to achieve absolute certainty when detecting such attacks, Apple has high confidence in this warning — please take it seriously,” the email added. This time, Apple refrained from attributing the attack to any specific e...
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