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‘Recognition And Status’: Why Twitter Blue Subscribers Are Happy To Pay For A Blue Tick

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Published by BOOM Live By Hera Rizwan Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, announced a new deadline for the deletion of the blue verification ticks from legacy verified accounts on the microblogging site. “Final date for removing legacy Blue checks is 4/20,” Musk said in a tweet. This was the latest among the several times […]

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Steer Clear Of Personal Laws: Supreme Court On Same-Sex Marriage

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Published by BOOM Live By Ritika Jain Supreme Court on Tuesday observed that at this stage it could “steer clear of personal laws” and focus on interpretation of the Special Marriage Act to open doors for same-sex marriage. On day 1 of the hearing on pleas seeking recognition of same sex marriage, the five-judge Constitution

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Fake Claim About VC Who Signed PM Modi’s Degree Certificate Goes Viral

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Published by BOOM Live By BOOM FACT Check Team Social media posts claiming former Gujarat University Vice-Chancellor Professor KS Shastri, whose signature is seen on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Masters’s degree, passed away in 1981, two years before the certificate was issued, is false. BOOM found that the claim is entirely false. The screenshot used

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RBI Keeps Repo Rate At 6.5%, Pausing After Six Consecutive Hikes

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Published by BOOM Live By Mohammed Kudrati The Reserve Bank of India [RBI] today kept its benchmark policy repo range unchanged at 6.5% for the first time after six bi-monthly rate hikes since 2022. This move was voted on unanimously at the bi-monthly meeting its six-member Monetary Policy Committee. In his address, Governor Shaktikanta Das,

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Mufti misused my generosity to become CM in 2002: Azad

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The Newscraving Desk Srinagar, Apr 6: Former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has claimed that late. Mufti Muhammad Sayeed misused his “generosity”  to become chief minister of Jammu & Kashmir in 2002. As per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), in his book, Azad, An Autobiography, the former CM  said that he offered Mufti Muhammad Sayeed to

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National Security Concerns Cannot Be Made Out Of Thin Air: SC Reverses MediaOne Ban

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Published by BOOM Live By Ritika Jain Supreme Court on Wednesday said the Centre could not use the bogey of national security to curtail someone’s rights while reversing the telecast ban on MediaOne, a Malayalam news channel. “National security claims cannot be made out of thin air. There must be material facts backing it,” the

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Tyndale Biscoe school warns parents against airing views against institution on social media

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The Newscraving Desk Srinagar, Mar 29: The Tyndale Biscoe school has warned parents against airing views against institution on social media. The school has said that “We have been made aware that a significant number of you are active on various unofficial school/Class WhatsApp groups. Kindly note that parents should not use social media as

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