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By Hazel Gandhi An old ad for CEAT tyres has been edited to add a false anti-Modi tagline asking people to oust the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the centre. BOOM found that the video is from 2017 and shows an advertisement by CEAT tyres; it is unrelated to the ongoing Lok Sabha polls and does not carry any anti-Modi taglines as suggested in the viral claim. In the viral video, the man refuses to pay for a shopping bag, attempting to hold all the items himself, clearly struggling. The video ends with a tagline which can be translated to English as, "Want to save ...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old video showing two men removing slips from VVPAT machines in a strong room, is being shared online with a false claim that it shows Bharatiya Janata Party members engaging in EVM (electronic voting machine) fraud during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. BOOM found that the video dates back to December 2022 and was taken during the Gujarat Assembly Elections. Two election officials at the time clarified that the video shows no wrongdoing, rather a procedure laid down by the Election Commission of India (ECI). The video shows a man opening a sealed box and removing the slips...
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By Anmol Alphonso A fake circular has gone viral on social media claiming that the Election Commission Of India (ECI) has officially released the schedule for the upcoming general elections. The Election Commission of India posted on X rubbishing the claim stating that they have not released the official schedule and that the photo circulating is fake. Lok Sabha elections are expected to be held in April / May 2024, as they have been generally held around that time in India. The viral photo has dates mentioned on it claiming that the Code of Conduct would come into effect on March 12, 2024, al...
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By Akshit Chawla The new law has been criticised by legal experts and parliamentarians for being “very vague” and ‘bolstering’ the government’s interception powers. President of India Droupadi Murmu gave her assent to the new Post Office Bill, 2023 on 24 December 2023. This Act, they say, can be used for surveillance of citizens since it allows the central government to empower officers to intercept, open or detain any item sent via India Post in the interest of public safety or national security. The new Act aims to regulate the functioning of post offices under the government’s Department of...
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By Ritika Jain The Rajya Sabha on Thursday passed the Telecommunications Bill, 2023 even as Opposition MPs remain suspended. The BJP, which is the ruling party at the Centre, ploughed ahead with bills even as at least 143 opposition MPs have been suspended from both houses for the remainder of the Winter Session. Owing to the thin presence of the Opposition, the Rajya Sabha MPs debated the bill for a mere hour, while the Lok Sabha MPs debated the bill for just over an hour on Wednesday before passing it on December 20. At least 97 Opposition MPs have been suspended from the lower house. The Te...
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By Ritika Jain The Lok Sabha today passed the three crucial criminal reform law bills replacing colonial-era laws like the Indian Penal Code, the Indian Evidence Act, and the Code of Criminal Procedure which formed the foundation of Indian criminal jurisprudence for more than a century. More importantly, the three new bills – the Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita (replaces the Indian Penal Code), Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha (Second) Sanhita (replaces the Code of Criminal Procedure), and the Bharatiya Sakshya (Second) Sanhita (replaces the Indian Evidence Act) was passed virtually unopposed amid ...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old video of Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra being manhandled by the Delhi Police is viral online as a recent video and is being connected to her recent expulsion from the Lok Sabha. BOOM found that the claims are false and the video is from October 2023 when Moitra, along with other senior party leaders was dragged out of New Delhi's Krishi Bhawan following a sit-in protest. Mahua Moitra was expelled from the Lok Sabha on December 8 over cash-for-query allegations, after Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi accused her of taking bribes from businessman Darshan Hi...
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By Ritika Jain Union Minister Meenakshi Lekhi on Saturday denied signing a reply to a Parliament question on whether India plans to deem Hamas, an Islamist military organisation governing the Gaza strip, as a terror outfit in India and if Israel had made any such official demand to the government. The Winter Session of the 17th Lok Sabha started on December 4 and is scheduled to conclude on December 22. The first week of Parliament saw the expulsion of TMC MP Mahua Moitra over a 'cash-for-query' scandal. The document showed two questions posed by K. Sudhakaran, a Congress MP from Kerala, addre...
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By Ritika Jain Lok Sabha today expelled TMC MP Mahua Moitra, amid a walkout from Opposition MPs, based on the recommendation of the report tabled by the Ethics Committee of the Lok Sabha in connection with the ‘cash for query’ scandal. Moitra remains expelled from the 17th Lok Sabha. With general elections slated for 2024, this parliament has just a few months left. However, Moitra can challenge the expulsion order by way of a writ petition in the Delhi High Court or the Supreme Court. The report which was scheduled to be tabled on December 4 – the first day of the parliament’s Winter Session,...
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By Nidhi Jacob The Women Reservation Bill, 2023 or the 'Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam' was cleared in the Lok Sabha on September 20 and was unanimously passed in the Rajya Sabha on September 21, 2023. The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Amendment) Bill, 2023Bill2023.pdf) was tabled in the Lok Sabha after it was introduced by Union law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal. The Bill seeks to reserve 33% of all seats for women in the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies. The reservation will not apply to the Rajya Sabha. However, the reservation will only be effective after the census ...
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