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By Hazel Gandhi Several news outlets including The Indian Express, India Today, and Latestly have published reports about a staff lunch organised by UK PM Rishi Sunak on the occasion of Pongal on January 15, 2023. However, BOOM found that the video is actually from Waterloo, Canada, where a Pongal feast was organised by the Tamil Cultural Association. Pongal, also known as Thai Pongal, is a Hindu harvest festival celebrated by Tamilians in India and Sri Lanka. The video shows a few police officers and other people enjoying a Pongal feast in what looks like a community hall. The viral tweet was...
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By BOOM Team With just two weeks left for the year 2022 to end, Google released its most trending search terms of the year. Things like CoWin, the Indian government's web portal for vaccine registration, was among the top searches on Google. People also wanted to know how to download vaccination certificates and also how to link PAN with Aadhaar. Newsmakers like Rishi Sunak, Nupur Sharma, Lalit Modi and Eknath Shinde also dominated the searches. Sunak became the UK's first non-white prime minister of Indian origin, while BJP's Sharma stirred controversy with her disparaging remarks on Prophet ...
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By BOOM Team Rishi Sunak, UK's newly elected prime minister is already facing the first rebellion from Tory MPs over UK's plans for new housebuilding targets. The UK parliament was set to take a vote on new housing targets next Monday but was delayed after Conservative MPs signed an amendment to abolish certain sections of the new bill. The vote has been delayed after dozens of MPs threatened to rebel,The Telegraph reported. The report said that 50 Conservative MPs signed an amendment to the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Bill in a bid to abolish the mandatory house-building targets for local a...
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By BOOM Team British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has approved a youth mobility partnership scheme with India that offers 3,000 visas to 18-30-year-old degree-educated Indians every year to live and work in the UK for up to two years. This was announced on Wednesday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his British counterpart on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Indonesia's Bali. "We discussed ways to increase commercial linkages, raise the scope of security cooperation in context of India's defence reforms and make people-to-people ties even stronger," Modi said after meeting Sunak. This wa...
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By Srijit Das An old video of United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been shared on social media platforms misleadingly claiming that he offered prayers to a cow after becoming the prime minister. Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty, in the video, can be seen offering aarti to a cow standing inside an enclosure. The couple follows instructions of a priest standing beside them to perform the rituals. BOOM found the video is from August this year when Rishi Sunak was campaigning for the prime ministerial candidacy within the Conservative party in the UK. Indian descent Sunak became third pri...
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By Srijit Das A morphed graphic of Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar featuring a fake quote of United Kingdom's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak praising former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his ability to revive India's economy, is circulating on social media. The graphic with the quote features a logo of Dainik Bhaskar, and images of Sunak and Singh, appearing to show that it was published by the news organisation on one of their social media platforms. BOOM found that the quote attributed to Sunak is fake. We also reached out to Dainik Bhaskar, which confirmed the same. Rishi Sunak was recently elec...
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By Srijit Das A video showing a doppelganger of United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak dancing at a club in Ibiza is widely circulating on social media with a false claim that it shows Sunak unwinding. BOOM found the video shows a Rishi Sunak lookalike, partying at a beach club in Ibiza. Sunak has recently been elected as UK's third Prime Minister this year after the country faced an economic crisis. The development took place after Liz Truss tendered her resignation as prime minister, post holding the office for 45 days. The video is being shared with a Hindi caption which translates to, "...
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By BOOM Team Rishi Sunak scripted history by becoming Britain's first Indian-origin Prime Minister, and with that made it to the front pages of most Indian newspapers. Him, alongside the Indian cricket team's win over arch-rivals Pakistan in a T20 World Cup match added to the Diwali celebrations back in India. Indians had been waiting for this news for a while. Sunak was, in fact, set to take the top job after his rivals Boris Johnson and Penny Mordaunt withdrew from the race to replace Liz Truss as leader of the Conservative Party. Truss quit and Sunak formally took over. But while the celebr...
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By Rohini Chatterji Rishi Sunak made history on Diwali day as he was appointed the first non-white prime minister of the United Kingdom in the aftermath of Liz Truss's resignation. Sunak appointed a new cabinet on Tuesday that includes Dominic Raab as Deputy Prime Minister, Jeremy Hunt as the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Simon Hart as parliamentary secretary to the treasury. "I will place economic stability and confidence at the heart of this government's agenda," Sunak said during his first speech as prime minister. Sunak took over as prime minister as Truss resigned from the post after a ...
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By Anmol Alphonso A video showing United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visiting the Bhaktivedanta Manor, the UK headquarters of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), in August this year, is being shared with the misleading claim that it is after he became prime minister . In the video, Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty can be seen at the temple being greeted by Visakha Dasi, the temple president, and other monks. The manor was also the residence of ISKCON founder Srila Prabhupada who lived there in the 1970s. Sunak, 42, formally took charge as Britain's first Indian...
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