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Published by BOOM Live By Sana Fazili Amid the rising monkeypox cases across the globe, India recorded its ninth case on Wednesday after a foreign national tested positive in Delhi. It is yet not known if the 31-year-old woman had traveled abroad recently. Of the nine cases reported from India, five are from Kerala and […]

Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a long history of riling Beijing over democracy and human rights, whether by unveiling a banner on Tiananmen Square or in regular meetings with Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Pelosi, the country’s most powerful lawmaker, stoked fresh tensions in US-China relations

Published by BOOM Live By Anmol Alphonso A viral graphic claiming BR Ambedkar said reservations in India should be abolished the day a tribal woman becomes president of the country, is fake and has been falsely attributed to him. BOOM did not find any evidence to corroborate that such a statement was ever made by

Published by BOOM Live By BOOM Team Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshiyari found himself in a controversy after he said in a speech on Friday that if Gujaratis and Rajasthanis were removed from Maharashtra and Thane, there would be nobody left. This attracted criticism from Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut, who said the remarks insulted Marathi

Published by BOOM Live By Srijit Das A 2019 photo of a damaged road from Thailand is being shared with a false claim that the picture shows the poor conditions of roads in India. According to news reports, newly-inaugurated Bundelkhand expressway developed deep potholes due to heavy rains just days after its inauguration by Prime

Published by BOOM Live 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

Published by BOOM Live By Kaisar Andrabi Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, along with several party leaders, was detained by the Delhi police at Vijay Chowk on Tuesday as they marched towards the Rashtrapati Bhavan to protest against the questioning of party president Sonia Gandhi by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the National Herald case a

Published by BOOM Live By The Conversation Sri Lanka is in the grip of an economic, political and humanitarian crisis. In a remarkable display of anger on Saturday, thousands of protesters disregarded government curfews, rampant military and police presence to storm the presidential palace and the prime minister’s residence, demanding their resignations. It came as

Published by BOOM Live By Saurav Das The arrest of Mohammed Zubair, journalist and co-founder of a fact-checking news website Alt News has sparked outrage not only on the issue of falling press freedom in India, but also on the issue of data privacy. On June 27, Zubair was arrested by the Delhi Police for

Published by BOOM Live By Archis Chowdhury An image showing a group of people sitting at a table is being shared with the claim that it shows Supreme Court judges Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala sharing a meal with NDTV founders Prannoy and Radhika Roy, along with Communist Party of India leader Brinda Karat. BOOM