News Outlets Misidentify Sonu Nigam Namesake Tweet Praising Bihar Youth
By Srijit Das Several news outlets including The Indian Express, AajTak, Times Now and News 18 mistook a tweet by lawyer named Sonu Nigam Singh for singer Sonu Nigam and claimed the latter had praised a Bihar youth Amarjeet Jaikar for his singing, on Twitter. Jaikar has become a social media sensation after a video of him singing a popular Bollywood song Dil De Diya Hai went viral. The video has already received plaudits from actors Sonu Sood, Nitu Chandra Srivastava and has reportedly landed him a playback opportunity for the upcoming Sonu Sood-starrer film Fateh. BOOM found that Jaikar was p...