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By Archis Chowdhury A newspaper advertisement on a gathering of Indian boarding schools ran the image of the Bellevue Palace, the German president's residence, as a boarding school in India. BOOM confirmed that the ad was indeed published on the second page of Hindustan Times' Delhi City edition on October 1, 2023. However we were unable to find it in other major newspapers. Philipp Ackermann, the German Ambassador to India, fact-checked the ad on X (formerly Twitter), and clarified that the building seen in the ad "is no boarding school". "It is the seat of the German President in Berlin. Our...
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By Hazel Gandhi Four unrelated visuals from different parts of the world are being shared as Chennai Super King fans showing their support for the team ahead of the IPL final against Gujarat Titans. The match between CSK and GT was originally scheduled for Sunday, May 28. However, due to heavy rains at the venue in Ahmedabad, it has been shifted to the reserve day, May 29. If the rains persist, GT, who are currently leading the scoreboard, will automatically win the trophy. Amid this, some visuals purporting to show CSK supporters storming the streets and chanting the team's name in the Narend...
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By Archis Chowdhury Social media is rife with videos showing Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg being held by German police as photographers come and take pictures, with the claim that it shows her recent detention by the German police being staged as a publicity stunt. BOOM found this claim to be false; the German police denied these claims andtold Reuters that Thunberg was detained, and not arrested, and was eventually released after an identity check. A spokesperson for the interior ministry of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where Thunberg was detained, told the BBC that ...
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By BOOM Team Twenty-five people, including former soldiers, were detained in raids across Germany over the suspicions of plotting a coup to overthrow the government on Wednesday. The group is reported to have far-right members, including a former member of the German parliament, and had been planning the coup for months, the BBC reported. The accused people reportedly include members of Reichsbürger [Citizens of the Reich] movement, a German far-right group that has been under the radar for violent attacks and racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories, BBC said in a report. Germany's Justice ...
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By Sk Badiruddin An old video of supporters throwing flares and causing a ruckus at a stadium in Germany's Hamburg has been falsely shared as a fire mishap from the ongoing FIFA World Cup 2022, Qatar. BOOM found that the viral video shows visuals of supporters lighting flares, a product used to produce smoke and fire, and throwing them at the stadium and field causing a cloud of smoke; The fans created the chaos after former European champions Hamburg SV were relegated from a German football tournament for the first time in several years in May, 2018. According toreports, a fire broke out at n...
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By BOOM Team Russia's state energy giant Gazprom has said the supply of natural gas to Germany will be delayed owing to "urgent maintenance work". The announcement was made on Friday, hours before the supply services were to be restarted after it was closed down on Wednesday for maintenance, AP reported. Gazprom in its announcement has said the pipeline will be shut indefinitely after a leak was found in a turnine on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. Also Read:India's GDP Grows 13.5% In First Quarter Of FY23 In a statement issued on Friday, Gazprom said the gas transissions via the Nord stream gas p...
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