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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A video of Home Minister Amit Shah is being shared on social media claiming that it shows him promising to end reservations for Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) communities if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is voted back to power. Fact: BOOM found that an old video has been edited and in the original video which dates back to 2023, Amit Shah is seen talking about ending Muslim reservation in Telangana if BJP is voted to power in the state. Shah had recently dismissed Congress' allegation that his party would end r...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video purporting to show Pakistani flags being raised at a recent rally in Hyderabad, Telangana is viral online with the false claim that the incident took place under the Congress government's rule in the state. BOOM found that the video is at least six months old and was taken before the Congress came to power in the state. Further, the video does not show Pakistani flags and was taken during the celebrations of Milad un Nabi. The video shows Islamic flags being raised in a rally near the Tank Bund area in Hyderabad, Telangana. News outlet Asianet reported on the video base...
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By Srijit Das An old video from Telangana has resurfaced on social media platforms with a false claim that the footage shows a Bharatiya Janata Party leader assaulting a pastor in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Several captions also misidentify the assaulter in the video as a BJP minister from Kanyakumari. BOOM had debunked the video in 2018, when it went viral with a similar false claim. We found that the video shows an incident that took place in Telangana on May 27, 2018, when a church member assaulted the pastor following an internal dispute. The video shows disturbing visuals of a man confronting ...
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By Karan Saini AI generated images were widely shared on social media platforms in the run up to the recent legislative assembly elections in Telangana. While this may be a prelude of what to expect in the upcoming Legislative Assembly and General Elections in 2024, there’s very little being done by tech companies to safeguard their system. The safeguards of image generation tools are easy to bypass and the guidelines don’t seem to have any impact. Meanwhile, even as these AI generated images went viral on social media, the Election Commission has stayed mum throughout. AI generated media on s...
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By Hazel Gandhi A fake quote attributed to Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy is viral online with the false claim that he promised to auction the land on which Hindu temples stood as long as it ensured the welfare of Muslims in the state. BOOM found the claims to be false; Reddy has been misquoted, and in reality, he made no such statement. The claim is being shared with a screenshot, purportedly from a news bulletin by Telugu-language news outlet NTV Telugu. Some of the text in the bulletin's graphic, translated roughly from Telugu, reads, "We will help Muslims by auctioning the land", "...
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By Hera Rizwan According to the recently released National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, India has recorded a consistent rise in cybercrime cases, escalating from 50,035 cases in 2020 to 52,974 in 2021 and further to 65,893 in 2022. The number of registered cybercrime cases in India surged by 24.4% in 2022 compared to the preceding year. Telangana has once again reported the highest number of cybercrimes for the second consecutive year, experiencing a significant surge of 48.5% from 10,303 cases in 2021 to 15,297 in 2022. The state's overall cybercrime rate (per lakh population) stands at ...
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By Nidhi Jacob The number of registered cyber-crime cases in India surged by 24.4% in 2022 compared to the preceding year, the latest Crime in India report published by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) showed. The crime rate (per lakh population) has increased from 3.9 in 2021 to 4.8 in 2022. India has recorded a consistent rise in cyber-crimes, escalating from 50,035 cases in 2020 to 52,974 in 2021 and further to 65,893 in 2022. For the second year in a row, Telangana recorded the highest number of cyber-crimes, a 48.5% rise from 10,303 cases in 2021 to 15,297 in 2022. The state recorded ...
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By Anmol Alphonso A viral graphic, purportedly showing a 'Poll of Polls' by news outlet NDTV that predicts a landslide victory for the Congress party in the Telangana assembly elections against the incumbent Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), is fake. NDTV also put out a statement calling the graphic fake, and adding that it has not conducted the 'Poll of Polls' for Telangana. Telangana is set to vote on November 30, 2023, with the counting and results to be declared on December 3, 2023. The Congress Party is being seen as the main contender to the ruling BRS with the BJP eyeing to make inroads in ...
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By Anmol Alphonso A video of a special pilgrimage train decorated for the annual celebration or Urs of Badshah Qadiri, a Sufi leader, is viral with false communal claims that it shows Muslims converting a passenger train into a 'Muslim Express' to run between Hyderabad and West Bengal. BOOM found that the train was running between Hyderabad, Telangana and Wadi, Karnataka for the annual celebration of the Urs of Badshah Qadiri in Gulbarga, Karnataka. We also reached out to Rakesh, Chief Public Relations Officer, South Central Railway, who corroborated the same. Urs means the celebration of the ...
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By Anmol Alphonso A video showing a group of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leaders including Nampally MLA Jaffar Hussain Meraj at the Superintendent of Police's office in Jagtial arguing with the police and demanding action against the Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) after he had allegedly attacked a student and her mother on a bus, is being shared with the false claim that it is from Karnataka after the Congress won a majority in the assembly election. The Congress Party won 135 seats in the Karnataka assembly election on May 13, 2023, crossing the halfway mark of 113 seats and...
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