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By Anmol Alphonso A video showing a polling agent press the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) button five times for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate during a mock poll is being shared with the misleading claim that it was captured during voting in the second phase of the Lok Sabha election. BOOM found that the incident happened in Assam's Karimganj where the mock poll video went viral as actual voting. In the viral video, a man can be seen pressing the EVM button five times in a row for the BJP candidate and sitting Member of Parliament (MP) Kripanath Mallah. The video is being shared ...
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By Hazel Gandhi A post purportedly made from Assam's Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's X account is viral online with the false claim that he criticised Sania Mirza following her separation from Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik by saying that her "Pakistani child" should not be granted an Indian visa. BOOM found that the claims are false, the post was made by a verified X account impersonating Sarma. Shoaib Malik recently married Pakistani actress Sana Javed amid rumours about his separation from wife Sania Mirza. Following his wedding announcement and pictures, the former Indian tennis pla...
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By Hera Rizwan In 2022, Shajahan Ali Ahmad, a resident of Bongaigaon, Assam, faced an abrupt termination from his assistant manager position at a private bank due to his inability to maintain an Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) account. The government of India mandated, in June 2021, that EPF account holders link their Aadhaar number to their accounts for functionality, a requirement Ahmad couldn't meet as his Aadhaar had been locked since 2018. EPF, functioning as a savings account for Indian employees, involves contributions from both the employer and employee. This accumulated fund serves as...
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By Nidhi Jacob Bharatiya Janata Party's national spokesperson, Shehzad Poonawalla, in a recent TV debate with national spokesperson for the Indian National Congress Supriya Shrinate claimed that the then prime minister of the UPA government, Manmohan Singh never visited or spoke about Assam or any other northeast state when violence erupted during his tenure. "During the 8-year rule of the UPA government, 8,000 incidents occurred of which 2,000 people of the northeast region were killed. If one word had been uttered by Manmohan Singh then I will change my name," Poonawalla said. "He (Singh) wa...
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By Anmol Alphonso An old video from December 2022 showing a leopard jumping over a barbed wire fence and attacking a four-wheeler in Jorhat, Assam, is being shared with the false claim that the wild animal had pounced on a vehicle in Goregaon, Mumbai. The viral video is being shared with the caption, "Royal Palms, Goregaon, behind Aarey Dairy, Unit # 7, Mumbai, Luckily window glass was up and shut" Click here to view The same video is also being widely shared on WhatsApp with the same misleading caption. BOOM received the video on our WhatsApp tipline number (7700906588) Also Read:Old Video Of...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video showing a tornado in Myanmar is being falsely shared as a video from the recent storm that occurred in Tinsukia, Assam. BOOM found that the video is from the Naypyidaw region of Myanmar that recently saw a rare tornado that claimed 8 lives and destroyed several buildings. Heavy rains and storms have claimed the lives of two people in Tinsukia, Assam since last week, ANI reported. In light of this, the India Meteorological Department had issued a yellow warning for the entire northeast region and schools and colleges in Tinsukia were also instructed to be shut down by th...
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By Hera Rizwan Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera was arrested by the Assam Police, hours after he was deplaned from a Delhi-Raipur flight, on Thursday. An FIR had been lodged against Khera at in Uttar Pradesh and Assam for his remarks against PM Modi at a press conference. In a recent press conference, Khera changed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's name while calling for a joint parliamentary investigation into the Adani-Hindenburg dispute. "If Narasimha Rao could form a JPC (Joint Parliamentary Committee), if Atal Bihari Vajpayee could form a JPC, then what problem does Narendra Gautam Das...so...
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By Pranjal Baruah Guwahati: Assam has been witnessing protests since February 3, 2023, as the state police decided to launch its ‘war against child marriage’. In just 24 hours, the police arrested over 2,044 persons who were allegedly involved in child marriages. The state government has cited the high Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) and Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) as the prime reasons to curb child marriages. The National Family Health Survey that was conducted in 2019-20 and released last year revealed that Assam had an underage pregnancy rate of 11.7%, that’s significantly higher than the nat...
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By Pranjal Baruah Guwahati \- Just two days after it opened, a private museum set up by an organisation to showcase the culture and heritage of 'Miyas' — descendants of Muslim migrants from East Bengal (now Bangladesh) in Assam — was sealed by the government. Soon after, three people have been arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). The chief minister of the state has called for a probe into the organisation's funding. Meanwhile, the police is trying to find out if the people who set up the museum had links with terrorist outfits like Ansarullah Bangla Team and Al-Qaeda...
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By Aatreyee Dhar ASSAM- For nineteen-year old Rijumoni Pegu, a woman from the indigenous Mising tribe who lives near Agoratuli range of the Kaziranga National Park, foraging wild herbs holds a legacy of a land that belonged to them. Once or twice a week, she joins the village womenfolk to gather edible finds in the woods such as Indian Chestnut vine (Noi-tenga) and Fiddlehead fern (Dhekia) for her traditional fare. The plant parts are preserved to be used in a ritual observed to pacify 'Dobur Uie' or spirits that bring upon natural calamities, she says. But her inclination to view the wild pla...
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