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At least 18 inmates, some of them on death row and serving life term, fled from a jail in the Pakistani-controlled part of Kashmir after overpowering guards with a pistol, officials said on Monday. At least one fleeing inmate was killed when guards fired at them, Riaz Mughal, the local police chief in the town of Rawalakot, told dpa. Several police teams were conducting raids in the dense forests and mountains to recapture the inmates, Mughal added. It wasn’t immediately known how the inmates smuggled the pistol inside the prison cell, but an officer said it might have happened with the conniv...
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Jammu (Inde) (AFP) - Les hommes armés qui ont attaqué dimanche soir un bus de pèlerins hindous au Cachemire sous administration indienne ont continué à tirer pendant plusieurs minutes même après la chute du véhicule dans un ravin, ont raconté mardi des survivants traumatisés de l'attaque, qui a fait neuf morts. "Des balles ont d'abord atteint un pneu du bus et il s'est écrasé contre un arbre. Ma tête s'est coincée sous le siège devant moi", a raconté Palit Gupta, une jeune fille faisant partie des 33 personnes blessées. "Mon papa m'a sortie alors que je pleurais et que je criais +sauvez-moi+",...
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Suspected militants in Indian-controlled Kashmir's Jammu province fired at a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims on Sunday, causing at least 10 to die after the vehicle fell into a deep gorge, officials said. The bus was carrying pilgrims to the base camp of the famed Hindu temple Mata Vaishno Devi when it came under attack in the region's Reasi district, senior administrative officer Vishesh Mahajan said. Some of the victims had gunshot wounds, a police officer said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which also left several others injured. The police officer spoke on condition...
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By Nivedita Niranjankumar Media outlets including news wire agency ANI misreported an opinion piece published in The Print as a quote by Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) Vice President and party candidate from Baramulla constituency Omar Abdullah. The media reports claimed that the former J&K chief minister said that Rashid Sheikh winning the Lok Sabha elections from the region, is a sign that "Kashmiri secessionism is far from spent." Abdullah lost by a margin of nearly 2 lakh votes to independent candidate Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid. Founder of the Ja...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video of a group of men chanting slogans in support of the Indian army is being shared to falsely claim that it shows the people of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) voicing their support to India. BOOM found that the video is from August 2023 and shows the Gujjar and Bakarwal communities during a demonstration for their reservation rights in Uri, Baramulla. The nearly 2-minute long video shows a man addressing a crowd and taking an oath. Parts of the oath heard in the video, translated roughly from Hindi are, "We swear to work with the Indian army to protect India's law and co...
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By Adrija Bose Heading towards a barren road, 21-year-old Qaiser Yousuf, a UPSC aspirant, walks a kilometre to an ancient Chinar tree outside their village to make a call to his classmate to download notes. After struggling for more than an hour in the cold to receive a network, Yousuf removes his gaze from the phone screen with a sigh of relief after his notes are downloaded. As he makes his way back to his house, he recalls the countless times he had to endure ridicule and mockery from his classmates in Srinagar, who couldn't believe the struggles he faced just to access the phone network. “...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video showing Lord Ram's hologram on a clock tower is viral online with the false claim that the video is from Lal Chowk, Srinagar. BOOM found that the video is from Dehradun, Uttarakhand, and not Jammu and Kashmir. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22. As devotees across the country look forward to the opening of the temple, opposition leaders including Sonia Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge and the four main religious heads or Shankaracharyas have refused to attend the event. While the opposition claims that the inauguration...
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By Anmol Alphonso News agency Asian News International (ANI) and several mainstream Indian news outlets misreported that Canada updated its travel advisory for India warning Canadian citizens to "exercise a high degree of caution" and advised them against traveling to Jammu and Kashmir, after a diplomatic row broke out between India and Canada. However, BOOM found that the travel advisory for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), parts of the northeast, and areas bordering Pakistan have been on the Canadian travel advisory long before diplomatic tensions between the two countries sur...
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By Runjay Kumar A video showing some students raising slogans of 'Nara-e-Takbeer' and 'Allah-hu-Akbar' is viral online with the false claim that Kashmiri students in Mewar University, Rajasthan, beat up an engineering student for celebrating the success of Chandrayaan-3. BOOM found that the claim is false and the brawl took place due to an issue in the university's canteen. The incident had nothing to do with Chandrayaan-3. ISRO created history on August 23 after its ambitious goal of landing the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the moon's south pole was realised. Social media has flooded with post...
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By Irshad Hussain The Kashmir Walla, an emerging independent media house, also known for doing its critical journalism in Kashmir has remained under extreme pressure for the last few years. Staffers working with Kashmir Walla along with founder Fahad Shah have been facing several FIRs for their reporting on Kashmir. Shah has been in jail since February 2022. The Srinagar-based digital media outlet, a 12 years old with its office in Srinagar, claimed that the Union government has blocked its website and removed all of its social media accounts, terming it "opaque censorship" to its operations i...
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