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By Hazel Gandhi A viral post claiming that the Delhi Public School in Goa recently gave permission to its female students to wear bikinis to school amid rising temperatures is satire. BOOM found that the viral image and claim is from an Instagram account that regularly posts satirical news which are not based on real incidents. The post shows the photo of a white bikini and carries the text, "DPS Goa allows bikni as girl's school uniform for summers as they find Goa's weather too hot and humid." It is being shared on Facebook with varying captions. One post reads, "Who is teaching their daught...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old photo of children sitting on the floor and studying in a rural school is being shared with the false claim that it is from the BJP-ruled stated Uttarakhand. BOOM found that the photo is from Bihar and was taken in 2013. The photo shows children sitting on the floor with their books while a teacher is present to highlight the lack of infrastructure and basic facilities in the school. On Twitter, the post was shared by Y. Sathish Reddy with the caption, "#BJP Model school in #Uttarakhand ๐". Sathish Reddy is a part of KCR's Bharat Rashtra Samithi formerly known as Telangan...
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By Srijit Das A video of teachers and students singing Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram, a devotional song popularised by Mahatma Gandhi, at a government school in Jammu and Kashmir is being shared on social media with false communal claims that teachers are indoctrinating students against Islam. The video shows a group of teachers singing the bhajan, as boys and girls in school uniforms and burkhas respectively, join in the prayer service. BOOM found that the prayer ceremony took place in Government High School, Nagam, Kulgam following a Jammu & Kashmir School Education Department directive to cele...
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By Kaisar Andrabi A school in Kanpur became the centre of controversy this week after several parents alleged that students in the school were being made to recite Islamic prayers in the morning. While the school has maintained that students would recite prayers from all regions, they stopped the practice immediately. A day after protests at the Florets International School in P Road in Kanpur's Sisamau, the Uttar Pradesh police booked the managing director under Sections 295A of the Indian Penal Code and Section 5(1) of the UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act 2021. On the ev...
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