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Published by BOOM Live By BOOM Team Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor and Mallikarjun Kharge emerged as the top two names who will contest for the October 17 elections for the Congress party president. On the final day of submission, both Kharge and Tharoor filed nomination papers on Friday. Both Kharge and Tharoor were backed by […]

Published by BOOM Live By BOOM Team The death toll in the stampede at Indonesia’s Kanjuruhan Stadium has risen to 174, while 180 others have reportedly sustained injuries in the chaos that broke out in the East Java province on Saturday. The accident took place in the football stadium after supporters of the two rival

Published by AFP Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine said Saturday it encircled several thousand Russian troops near a key town in one of the four Moscow-held territories that President Vladimir Putin annexed a day earlier despite condemnation from Kyiv and the West. Putin staged a grand ceremony in the Kremlin on Friday to celebrate the

Published by BOOM Live By The Conversation Tactical nuclear weapons have burst onto the international stage as Russian President Vladimir Putin, facing battlefield losses in eastern Ukraine, has threatened that Russia will “make use of all weapon systems available to us” if Russia’s territorial integrity is threatened. Putin has characterized the war in Ukraine as

Published by BOOM Live By Mohammed Kudrati The Governor of Reserve Bank of India, Shaktikanta Das, today announced that the Monetary Policy Commitee (MPC) had decide to hike its policy repo rate by 50 basis points, taking the repo rate to 5.9% as the rupee reaches all time lows and inflation remains high. Further, the

Published by BOOM Live By Alisha Dutta The outbreak of COVID-19 was many things for many people, for the rich it was a time when they could stay back home with their family and contemplate, while for some it meant the loss of livelihood and starvation. For Devesh Mirchandani, a 26-year-old choreographer, it meant no

Published by BOOM Live By Srijit Das A fake message claiming an increase in child kidnapping cases across Kashmir carried out by a Srinagar-based gang is circulating on WhatsApp and other social media. The viral message further states that the police have issued notices to mosques over reports of abductions of a noticeable number of

Published by BOOM Live By Kaisar Andrabi DELHI—A day before the government banned the Popular Front of India (PFI) for its alleged links with global terrorist groups, students and teachers from Jamia Millia Islamia University were told that they cannot assemble in and around the campus as section 144 has been imposed in the surrounding

Published by BOOM Live By Mohammad Salman Several Hindi news outlets including Navbharat Times and Hindustan published a report claiming about 400 mosques and madrasas in Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur district received notices for having illegal electricity connections. The reports are viral in the backdrop of a survey of ‘unrecognised’ madrasas being conducted over the next

Published by BOOM Live By BOOM Team For the second time this month, raids were reportedly conducted at Popular Front of India (PFI) offices across India on Tuesday. Several arrests were made on Tuesday as well. ANI reported that raids were conducted in Assam, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana. The raids