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By Hazel Gandhi A video of a large religious procession in Greater Noida is being shared with a misleading claim that it shows a pilgrimage from Nepal's Janakpur to Ayodhya ahead of the inauguration ceremony of Ram Mandir slated for later this month. BOOM found that the claims are misleading; while there is a pilgrimage organised from Nepal to Ayodhya, this particular video is old and shows a 3-km Kalash Yatra held in Greater Noida ahead of self-styled godman Dhirendra Shastri's sermon. The Ram temple in Ayodhya is set to be inaugurated on January 22, 2024, amid much anticipation and its own s...
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By Anmol Alphonso A photo of a list of 17 Nepali nationals who were either killed or injured in Kibbutz Alumim, an area near the Gaza Strip during the recent Hamas attack is being shared with a false claim that they are names of Indian citizens kidnapped by the Islamic militant group. On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a large-scale assault on Israeli forces as a part of their 'Al-Aqsa Storm' operation. Hamas had breached a fortified border fence, killing and capturing both Israeli soldiers and civilians. The Islamic militant group had also take several hostages including foreign nationals aft...
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By Hazel Gandhi The photo of a clock tower from Nepal is being falsely shared as the one in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir which was restored ahead of the G20 meet in the city. Srinagar hosted the G20 delegates for three days, from May 20-22, and the misleading claim is being circulated in this context. The photo is being shared with the caption, "The clock tower (Ghanta Ghar) is being restored and rebuilt by SMC to reflect our heritage and architecture – down to the finest details as a part of Srinagar’s facelift for G20 meet..." Click here to view the post and here for an archive. Also Read:No,...
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By The Conversation Chrystal Zhang , RMIT University A Yeti Airlines ATR 72-500 aircraft crashed in Pokhara in central Nepal on January 15 2023, killing at least 68 passengers on board. The aircraft was en route from Nepal’s capital Kathmandu to Pokhara, the country’s second largest city, situated under the picturesque Annapurna mountain range. While the picturesque landscape of the country appeals to tourists, it poses significant challenges to aviation operators, who need to embrace and navigate the challenging environment. The air crash on Sunday was Nepal’s worst aviation disaster since 19...
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By Sk Badiruddin An old video showing a plane nosediving and crashing in Bagram, Afghanistan, is circulating as footage of the recent plane crash in Nepal's Pokhara. BOOM found that the video shows explosion of a Boeing 747 cargo jet in Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan on 29 April 2013. Soon after reports of the plane crash in Nepal's Pokhara hit headlines, several unverified visuals started doing the rounds on social media. Among them, a Facebook Live footage of one Sonu Jaiswal, who was onboard the aircraft was also viral. BOOM was able to verify that the viral video was live-streamed on Faceboo...
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By Anmol Alphonso Hours after a Yeti Airlines plane crashed in Nepal's tourist town of Pokhara on Sunday, a video shot by an Indian passenger on board, went viral showing the terrifying final moments of the flight leading up to the crash. BOOM was able to verify that the viral footage was shot by Sonu Jaiswal, one of the five Indian passengers on board, and that it was live streamed from Jaiswal's Facebook account. At least 68 people were killed on January 15, 2022 when Yeti Airlines flight YT691 crashed in Pokhara according to Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority. The flight from Kathmandu to Pok...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old video from Moscow, Russia is being shared with a false claim that it shows the recent passenger plane crash in Pokhara, Nepal. BOOM found that the video is from the Moscow region in Russia and was shot in August 2021. A Yeti airlines plane from Kathmandu with 72 people aboard crashed on Sunday, January 15, 2023, in Pokhara. Being termed Nepal's deadliest plane crash in 30 years, authorities have said that they don't believe anybody from the plane would have survived the crash. Since the plane crash, several videos are being shared on social media claiming to be from this...
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By Sk Badiruddin Several news outlets used an old image of a plane crash site from Kathmandu, Nepal to report about the flight crash of Yeti Airlines that happened in Pokhara, Nepal on January 15, 2023. BOOM found that the image used by the media outlets is originally from a wreckage site of an aircraft, owned by private firm Sita Air, that happened in Kathmandu, Nepal on September 28, 2012. According to reports, the death toll rose to 68 after a domestic flight owned by Yeti Airlines crashed in Pokhara, Nepal on January 15. The flight was carrying 72 passengers from Nepal's capital Kathmandu....
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By Rohini Chatterji Residents of Delhi woke up to tremors in the early hours of Wednesday. While the shaking was distinctly felt in Delhi, and the entire National Capital Region, the epicentre of the earthquake was far away, near Dipayal Silgadhi in the Doti district of western Nepal. India's National Centre for Seismology said that the epicentre was over 300 kilometres away from Delhi. The earthquake left six people dead in Nepal and hundreds panicked in the NCR region. Residents described the experience as scary. Some said that it felt like the tremors lasted for a long time. However, the ea...
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