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By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya BONGAON, West Bengal - On April 7, the modest house of Mridulal Mandal at Kaya village in West Bengal’s North 24-Parganas district had over 150 guests. None of them had any blood or marital relation with the Mandals. They had come to attend the annual fair of the Matua religious sect at Thakurnagar, about 3km from Kaya, and spent the night at Mandal’s place. They had simple vegetarian meals. “Our connection is greater than blood relations. We are followers of the same path,” said Mandal with a hearty smile, speaking of his guests. It is common among the Matua communi...
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By Dipanjan Sinha Use of artificial intelligence (AI) in politics is an ethical debate that the entire intellectual spectrum is unsure of. But in an unexpected turn of events, the Bengal branch of the CPI (M)- The Communist Party of India (Marxist)- often accused of being opposed to computers in the 90s, stepped ahead of others a few weeks ago with an AI generated presenter, Samata. In two episodes that are out now, the avatar, a sari-clad woman, reads out the party’s perspective on recent events in West Bengal in English. The first episode out on March 27 was about the collapse of a building ...
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By Srijit Das A set of two photographs is circulating on social media with a false claim that it shows West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has faked her crown injury. In one of the photos circulated online, Banerjee can be seen lying on a bed, blood trickling from the center of her forehead. The other image shows her delivering a speech, holding a microphone, with an adhesive bandage visible on the left side of her forehead. BOOM found that the image of Banerjee with an adhesive bandage on the left side of her forehead dates back to January this year when she sustained an injury in a ca...
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By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya Sandeshkhali, West Bengal — A remote, impoverished area in West Bengal in the Sundarban region along Bangladesh border has been on the boil since the second week of February. Hundreds of women hit the streets at Sandeshkhali, staging agitations demanding action against local leaders of the state’s ruling party, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC). They have alleged widespread economic exploitation and sexual harassment. Over the past three weeks, properties of several TMC leaders have come under attack and several parts of Sandeshkhali witnessed...
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By Swasti Chatterjee A disturbing video of a group of men sexually assaulting a woman on a bike in Bihar has surfaced on WhatsApp with a false claim that it shows an incident from West Bengal. The captions further give the incident a communal spin and state that the accused are Muslims who attacked a Hindu woman. The video is circulating on WhatsApp with an English caption, "Look how much lenience the dirty demon Mamatha Banergy CM of west Bengal has given to the Muslim bastards who openly harass & assault Hindu women.This is the horrible state of affairs in all states where the useless,antina...
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By Hera Rizwan The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), on Monday, clarified that while intimation for updating the Aadhaar database is regularly sent to holders, no Aadhaar numbers have been canceled. This statement follows West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's claim that the BJP-led Centre was 'deactivating' Aadhaar cards in her state, made just a day prior. Addressing a public distribution event in Birbhum district, Banerjee claimed that the central government deactivated Aadhaar cards of individuals in the state before the Lok Sabha polls, preventing them from accessing...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old video of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee agitated after hearing slogans of Jai Shri Ram being chanted on the streets is viral online as a recent video. BOOM found that the claims are misleading, the video dates back to May 2019 and was taken in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district. The clip shows Banerjee's convoy passing by as some people on the streets can be heard chanting Jai Shri Ram slogans. Banerjee then comes out of the car and begins reprimanding the men. The video is being shared with the caption, "The scene of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata B...
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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 Nidhi Jacob West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, while addressing an event on the foundation day of Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) claimed that she was the Union Railway Minister when Pokhran-II was conducted in May 1998. She further said that she had arranged pipes for the tests. However, official records show that Nitish Kumar was the Railways Minister between March 1998 and August 1999. At 2:47:27 timestamp she claimed, "Even Atal Vihari Bajpayee has done Pokhran; I know, I was the rail minister during that time. I know from where the pipes had gone. I had to source them". Bane...
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By Srijit Das A viral video of Mamata Banerjee where it appears the West Bengal chief minister said Hindu epic Mahabharat was written by Bengali poet and freedom fighter Kazi Nazrul Islam, is cropped and misleading. BOOM found that the video has been cropped out of context to make it appear like Banerjee made an embarrassing faux pas. In the widely circulated video, the chief minister can be heard saying, "Mahabharat... Kazi Najrul Islam wrote". The video went viral after Banerjee falsely mentioned that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi went to the moon and mixed up Indian astronaut Rakesh S...
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