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Published by BOOM Live By Mohammed Kudrati The Reserve Bank of India [RBI] today hiked the policy repo rate by 50 basis points, from 4.40% to 4.90%. This is the second hike in the policy repo rate in just more than a month, with the previous hike of 40 basis points coming in an unscheduled

Published by BOOM Live By Anmol Alphonso A six-year-old old newspaper clipping claiming that a Qatari princess was caught in an orgy with seven men is fake. The clipping has been revived and falsely shared by right-wing accounts in the backdrop of Qatar and other Arab countries condemning two BJP spokespersons for making remarks against

Published by Reuters UK BERLIN (Reuters) – Investor morale in the euro zone rose more than expected in June, the first increase after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a survey showed on Tuesday, as many companies have not yet felt as much impact from inflation and supply bottlenecks as feared. Sentix’s index for the euro zone

Published by DPA Apple’s latest round of software updates to its range of devices has emphasised the dominance of the company in the technology sector, one industry expert has said. Ben Wood, the chief analyst at CCS Insight, said the announcements made on Monday during the firm’s annual WWDC event, which spread across updates for

Published by BOOM Live By Waquar Hasan Guna, Madhya Pradesh: Haseen Bano’s house in Madhya Pradesh’s Baduria on May 13 was buzzing with celebrations as her granddaughter was getting married. The family was celebrating haldi rituals when two village headmen—Gagan Sarpanch and Kalla Sarpanch—showed up. They asked for Bano’s sons, Naushad and Shahzad, to join

Published by BOOM Live By Mohammed Kudrati Jagat Prakash Nadda, the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has misleadingly claimed that India’s per capita gross domestic product (GDP) has nearly doubled from ₹79,000 to ₹1.5 lakh. He has given no other details alongside this claim. BOOM referred to data from the Reserve Bank of

Published by BOOM Live By Ritika Jain Sita Sahu, one of the women petitioners in the Gyanvapi Mosque-Kashi Vishwanath Mandir title dispute case, has been very busy. If not court hearings or media interviews, Sahu is busy attending functions where the four women petitioners are being felicitated for their plea seeking permission to pray at

Published by BOOM Live By BOOM Team Arab countries launched protests against the Indian government over controversial remarks made by the Bharatiya Janata Party members Nupur Sharma and Naveen Kumar Jindal against the Prophet Mohammed. On a TV channel debate show last week, Sharma, who was the BJP’s national spokesperson, insulted the Prophet Mohammed and