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By Nidhi Jacob A fake list, claiming WikiLeaks has identified 24 Indian political leaders from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), including Prime Minister Narendra Modi as holders of black money in secret banks in the UK is viral on social media. It lists the amounts in dollars and rupees and claims that these leaders are looting the country. This is a fake claim that has been circulating and rehashed since 2011. According to the viral claim, after the recent defeat of former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, "the black money of Modi and his ministers is exposed. WikiLeaks has released the ...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video showing cleaning work being done near the Masjid An Nabawi in Medina, Saudi Arabia, is viral online with the false claim that the area was cleaned after Union Minister Smriti Irani's visit. BOOM found that the claims are false and the cleaning is a routine operation that takes place inside the mosque and in its vicinity. The Masjid Al Nabawi, also known as the Prophet's Mosque, is the second holiest site in Islam, located in Medina. Minority Affairs Minister Smriti Irani visited Medina on January 8. 2024, as part of her two-day state visit to Saudi Arabia. The Bilateral...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video showing cleaning work being done near the Al Nabawi mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia, is viral online with the false claim that the area was cleaned after Union Minister Smriti Irani's visit. BOOM found that the claims are false and the cleaning is a routine operation that takes place inside the mosque and in its vicinity. The Masjid Al Nabawi, also known as the Prophet's Mosque, is the second holiest site in Islam, located in Medina. Minority Affairs Minister Smriti Irani visited Medina on January 8. 2024, as part of her two-day state visit to Saudi Arabia. The Bilateral...
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By Archis Chowdhury A week after Ireland-based newspaper The Irish Times published a scathing editorial piece on the prevalence of ethnic and religious violence in India under the Narendra Modi-led administration, several leaders of Modi's Bharitiya Janata Party shared another article published on the website of the same newspaper, purportedly as an editorial piece by the media outlet praising Modi for 'transforming India'. BOOM found these posts to be misleading; the article being shared by the BJP members, including cabinet ministers, is actually a letter written by the Ambassador Of India t...
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By Shrey Banerjee An old photo of aircraft partially submerged in water near the airport hangar in Chennai has resurfaced and is circulating on Facebook with false claims that it shows latest visuals of a flooded Ahmedabad Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Airport. BOOM had debunked the same image in 2017 when it was viral with a similar claim. We found that the image is from Chennai’s International Airport from 2015 after floods hit the city of Tamil Nadu. The image is now circulating with the caption, “#गुजरात_माडल का अहमदाबाद एयरपोर्ट बना बंदरगाह। #मीडिया की नजरों से ओझल क्यों? (The Gujarat Model-ba...
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By Srijit Das A morphed image of Union Minister Smriti Irani looking at a photograph of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on her laptop screen amidst the latter's 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' is viral on social media with a false claim that Irani is keeping a close eye on Gandhi's campaign. BOOM found that the image is digitally manipulated. The original photograph dates back to December 2020 and does not feature Rahul Gandhi on Irani's laptop screen as shown. On September 7 the Indian National Congress launched its nationwide foot march campaign called the 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' (Uniting India Rally) in Kanya...
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By Rohini Chatterji Amid a political feud between the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Union Minister Smriti Irani over the ownership of a Goa bar, the Delhi High Court has said that prima facie evidence shows that neither Irani nor her daughter Zoish owns the land on which the Silly Souls Cafe stands. The political row was triggered when a lawyer, Aires Rodrigues, said that he found through an RTI that the restaurant and bar had renewed their liquor licence by providing documents to authorities of a deceased person named Anthony Dgama. Dgama is said to have died in 2021, but the...
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By Sana Fazili Amid uproar over Leader of Opposition Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury's 'Rashtrapatni' remark on President Droupadi Murmu, a war of words broke out between Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Union Minister Smriti Irani in Lok Sabha on Thursday. Irani trained guns at the Congress and accused the party president of 'sanctioning the humiliation' of President Murmu. The house was adjourned after the commotion over Chowdhury's remark about the President on a Television interview. Sonia Gandhi is learnt to have rejected the allegations made by Irani after the House proceedings were resumed an...
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By Nivedita Niranjankumar Social media posts claiming the cafe in Goa allegedly run by Union Minister Smriti Irani's daughter Zoish, serves beef are false as the screenshots of a menu card circulating online are not from Silly Souls Goa Cafe & Bar. BOOM found the screenshots are of the menu at Upper Deck - a restaurant at the Radisson Blu resort in Goa. The Silly Souls Goa Cafe & Bar in Assagao, made headlines last week after opposition leaders from Congress claimed that the restaurant was owned by Zoish Irani and the liquor license it was using was "illegal". The opposition further alleged th...
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By Anmol Alphonso A screenshot of Union MinisterSmriti Irani's Instagram post wishing her stepdaughter Shanelle Irani on her engagement in December 2021, along with other photos of Shanelle and her fiancé, is being shared online with misleading claims. Several social media users have misidentified the young woman as Zosih Irani, the minister's 18-year old daughter who is embroiled in a controversy over a liquor licence to an upscale restaurant and bar in Goa. A political row recently broke out between Irani who is the minister for women and child development and the Congress party over the Sil...
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