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Published by BOOM Live By Rohini Chatterji Israeli filmmaker and chairman of the jury of the 2022 International Film Festival of India (IFFI) Nadav Lapid’s remarks calling The Kashmir Files ‘vulgar’ and ‘inappropriate’ has triggered a row with Israel’s ambassador to India criticising the comments and another member of the jury saying Lapid’s remarks were […]

Published by BOOM Live By Mohammed Kudrati An old fake message claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been declared as the best prime minister in the world by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has resurfaced on WhatsApp. The message features an image of PM Modi alongside the caption congratulating Indians

Published by BOOM Live By Ritika Jain Delhi High Court on Friday issued an interim ex parte injunction against individuals using Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan’s image in an unauthorized manner. The high court said it was undisputed that Bachchan is a well-known personality and was represented in various advertisements. Bachchan is pained by those using

Published by BOOM Live By Anmol Alphonso An old video of four people announcing that they are converting to Islam during a lecture by controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik from May 2016 in Qatar, is being shared with the false claim that it is a recent incident during the ongoing FIFA World Cup 2022. Naik

Published by BOOM Live By Nivedita Niranjankumar A photo of a woman wrapped in plastic and fit in a suitcase is being shared with a false communal claim that she was killed by a Muslim man. BOOM found that the victim was a Aayushi Chaudhary murdered by her parents, Nitesh and Brijbala Yadav in what

Published by BOOM Live By BOOM Team Rescue workers continued their search for people trapped under the rubble caused by an earthquake that hit West Java, Indonesia on Monday, killing over 100 people. Reports suggest that many still remain trapped under the debris of collapsed houses in Cianjur town and officials have said that the

Published by BOOM Live By Sana Fazili The sale of Pakistan-made Rooh Afza has been banned in India after its owner Hamdard National Foundation approached the Delhi High Court and filed a suit. The owner alleged that the products of a Pakistani counterpart were being sold on e-commerce website, Amazon. In the suit, Hamdard National

Published by BOOM Live By The Conversation Not long ago, FTX was one of the world’s largest trading platforms for cryptocurrencies. Founded in 2019, the Bahamas-based crypto exchange had a meteoric rise to prominence, and was valued at more than US$30 billion earlier this year. All that has changed in the past two weeks. First,

Published by AFP Beijing (AFP) – Fresh from securing a historic third term as China’s top leader, President Xi Jinping is poised for a triumphant re-entry to the world stage at a pivotal G20 summit next week. After almost three years of self-imposed pandemic isolation where international diplomacy was largely conducted via videolink, China now