BOOM Fact Check: Debunking Misinformation and Fake news
WEBBOOM Fact Check: A premier destination for factchecking and debunking fake news and misinformation in India. As a trusted authority, BOOM specializes in debunking fake news and viral falsehoods found in photos and videos on social media, ensuring information integrity through rigorous verification processes.
What Data Says About How Middle Class Is Defined In India
WEBJan 21, 2023 · Middle-class households earn from ₹5 lakhs to ₹30 lakhs a year. Aspiring households earn from ₹1.25 lakhs to ₹5 lakhs annually. Destitute households earn below ₹1.25 lakhs annually. Their survey had an average household of 4.6 persons. The middle-class forms 55% in metros, 52% in boom towns and 43% in niche cities, with India's 63 ...
Explained: Why Are Indians Getting Shorter? | BOOM
WEBOct 4, 2021 · Barring the heights of women between the ages of 26-50, which increased by 0.13 cm, the average height of Indians declined. The height of women between 15-25 decreased by 0.12 cm, and heights of men between 15-25 and 26-50 decreased by 1.10 cm and 0.86 cm respectively. In the same period, the …
Fact-Checking 'Sir' Origins: Debunking 'Slave I Remain' Myth
WEBMay 7, 2017 · Debunking the Myth: 'Slave I Remain' Is Not the True Meaning of 'Sir'. BOOM found no credible source that links the word sir to 'slave I remain'. However, a blog by freelance journalist and writer Udaylal Pai, makes that claim. Pai says sir means 'slave I remain', in French. (Some sites state that 'sir' is derived from the Middle French ...
Graphic Images of Kolkata Doctor’s Rape, Murder On X: What Do …
WEBAug 16, 2024 · Graphic Images of Kolkata Doctor’s Rape, Murder Circulate on X. A post-graduate trainee doctor was brutally raped and murdered while on duty at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. Disturbing images of the doctor's body have been circulated on social media platform X, showing her …
Viral Video Claiming Narayana Murthy Has Launched A Trading …
WEBSep 22, 2023 · A video claiming Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy launched an AI-based trading platform to "help Indians have a stable passive income" is fake and part of a phishing scam. The video shows Murthy talking to press persons with an overlaid audio claiming he has launched a new trading platform. The post hyperlinks to …
"I Was Told A Package With My Aadhaar Details Was Seized In …
WEBMay 23, 2023 · The next details the lady shared got me to go straight back from my bed. “A package linked to my Aadhar ID has been seized by the Taiwan authorities and marked as suspicious for holding illegal items,” I remember the lady saying. It was a scam call I found out later. The first impact of the call that usually a scammer does is create a fear ...
Old Video Of Puppies Being Rescued In India Shared As Turkey
WEBFeb 13, 2023 · An old video showing a man trying to rescue puppies trapped under a rubble in India has surfaced on social media with captions linking it to the devastating Türkiye and Syria earthquake. BOOM found the video is from 2019 and from a rescue mission after a building collapsed due to heavy rains. Türkiye and Syria were hit by a deadly earthquake ...
RBI Hikes Repo Rate By 50 Bps To 5.9% As Rupee Weakens, …
WEBSep 30, 2022 · 1. The interest rates. The policy repo rate now stands at 5.9%, which was hiked 50 basis points by the six-member MPC with a 5-1 majority. The rate hike is the second 50 basis point hike in a row and is largely in line with expectations according to a poll of economists that predicted a 35 to 50 basis point hike.. This takes the policy repo rate 190 basis points higher than the 4% mark where ...
Who Built The Qutub Minar? A New Fight Over History
WEBMay 22, 2022 · New Delhi: As cases are fought in various courts over the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, there's a new controversy brewing in the capital city, over the Qutub Minar. Earlier this week a former officer of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Dharamvir Sharma, claimed that a 1200-year-old statue attached to a pillar in the structure of the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque in Qutub Minar complex is of ...