No, Bhim Army Chief’s ‘Real’ Name Is Not Naseemuddin Khan

Chandra Shekhar Azad, Bhim Army chief took to Twitter to rubbish the claim about his name.

News: A Twitter account named ‘Hindu First’ falsely claimed that
Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad’s ‘real’ name is Naseemuddin Khan. Azad took to Twitter to rubbish the viral post.

The tweet which has gained around 1,500 retweets and 2600 likes on Twitter states, “Bhim Army leader Chandrasekhar Ravan’s real name is Naseemuddin Khan. How many people knew this? This is a devious move by Muslims to divide Hindus”

In Hindi – “भीम आर्मी के नेता चंद्रशेखर रावण का असली नाम नसीमुद्दीन खान है! कितने लोगों को पता था ये? हिन्दुओं को तोडने की कुटिल मुस्लिम चाल.”

The false claim is also viral on Facebook with the same caption. A Facebook user named ‘Arun Kumar Shukla’ shared the claim in a post which has gained around 1,900 shares.

Click here to view the post.

BOOM has previously fact-checked misleading information that is communal in nature circulating on social media on public personalities.

How a Kerala mental health center treated a Bangladeshi man and helped him return home

Raffi* had been admitted at the government Mental Health Care Center on 29 October 2018 after he was rescued.

Kerala News: Raffi* appears not to have come to terms with the fact that he will finally be returning home. Nearly eight months after he was found in Alappuzha, the Bangladeshi native will be escorted by police personnel to his homeland. Unfamiliar with any language except Bangla, a smile appears on Raffi’s face when he sees a guard who knows his mother tongue.

Raffi had been admitted at the Government Mental Health Care Centre on 29 October 2018 after he was rescued by fishermen in Alappuzha district. The fishermen tried to rescue him when he was about to kill himself by jumping into the sea. Following this, he was presented before the Judicial First Class Magistrate in Alappuzha and the court ordered him to be admitted at the Mental Health Centre, Peroorkada, Thiruvananthapuram.

“What he said about the incident is that he was trying to go to Bangladesh by making a raft using bottles. On admission at the Centre, he was diagnosed with psychosis. He must have been in stress, which aggravated his condition, prompting him to attempt to kill himself. Although there was a sudden improvement in his condition, without being able to communicate with him as he didn’t know any language but Bangla, we found it tough,” Dr Arun, the psychiatrist who had taken care of Raffi’s treatment, told TNM.

A month later, the hospital brought an interpreter who speaks Bangla. Meeting someone speaking his own language had a huge impact on Raffi, which helped the doctors as well in providing him… continue reading full story

This 12-yr old Kerala girl battling a rare disease needs your help for her treatment

Shahina has been diagnosed with Leukemia and ITP and has been undergoing treatment both at RCC Thiruvananthapuram and Government Medical College, Kozhikode.

Kerala News: Shahina has been battling with a rare disease that was diagnosed for the first time in the history of Kerala’s Regional Cancer Center (RCC), the state’s premier cancer care institution located in Thiruvananthapuram.

The 12-year old girl was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in September 2017 and with ImmuneThrombocytopenia (ITP) in April 2018. Shahina is undergoing treatment for leukaemia at RCC and for ITP at Government Medical College, Kozhikode.

The medicine for her treatment draws up expenses of about Rs 70,000 a month and her family, which hails from Thodupuzha in Idukki, is struggling to keep up with the bills.

“It’s one of the rarest of diseases, leukaemia with ITP. The doctors told us that only 150 such cases have been reported in the world and only four such cases have been reported in India. This is the first time in the history of RCC that Leukemia with ITP has been detected,” Shahina’s father Shajahan told TNM.

Shajahan, who worked in tourism-related and construction jobs in the past, quit working after his daughter was diagnosed with leukaemia.

Shahina is a ninth standard student in Thodupuzha. In the past year, the family has been taking her to both RCC and the Medical College for treatment. Shahina has an elder brother who passed the tenth grade this year…. continue reading her full story

Bengaluru Ponzi Scam: IMA founder Mansoor Khan may have fled to Dubai on June 8

The police are looking into METT Travels, which they believe was the agency that helped Khan obtain his visa.

Karnataka News: Amidst allegations of defrauding over 32,000 people to the tune of Rs 1,700 crore, I Monetary Advisory (IMA), founder Mohammed Mansoor Khan is believed to have fled the country even before the company shut down.

Central Crime Branch (CCB) sources revealed that based on a tip off from the RBI, the sleuths had begun investigating Mansoor Khan’s financial dealing a week before he absconded. Documents being circulated on WhatsApp with the insignia of UAE Interior Ministry suggest that Mansoor Khan had fled the country on June 8.

CCB sources say that Mansoor Khan was summoned for questioning on June 6 based on directions of DG and IGP Neelamani Raju regarding possible fraudulent activities perpetrated by IMA. The Special Investigating Team (SIT) probing the financial scam believes that Mansoor Khan had prior knowledge about his arrest a month before the scam came to light.

“It seems he sketched out an elaborate plan. So far, his wife and two children aged 12 and 4 years are also nowhere to be found. Preliminary probe revealed that they may have fled Bengaluru in late February or early March. We are checking the veracity of the immigration document being circulated on WhatsApp. He had received the visa on May 5, which means he had planned the escape a month in advance,” an SIT source said.

SIT sleuths are probing to see whether Mansoor Khan’s family members too fled to Dubai way before he did. “We are in touch with METT Travels, which we believe is the agency Khan used to obtain his visa. We are checking to see if they helped obtain visa for his… continue reading full story

How Bengaluru cops uncovered the smuggling of Ya Ba, a party drug in the city

Known as the madness drug, Ya Ba causes mood swings, prolonged period of sleep and depression and can even cause stroke.

Karnataka News: Bengaluru’s Central Crime Branch sleuths on Friday arrested a 27-year-old man named Jahangir Ghazi, who was in possession of 1,000 Ya Ba tablets, popularly known as Bhul Bhulaiya or the “madness drug”, worth Rs 10 lakh. Ya Ba is a mixture of methamphetamine and caffeine.

Over three years ago, Jahangir Ghazi from West Bengal’s North 24 Parangas arrived in Bengaluru and soon began working as a construction labourer. However, it was over 18 months ago that Jahangir became acquainted with peddling drugs when he moved to Parappana Agrahara area.

CCB sources say that Jahangir became acquainted with men from his home state, who were dealing upscale party drugs and reaping huge profits and he allegedly became a conduit, who smuggled drugs from Bangladesh.

“We have interrogated him about how he began peddling drugs but we are yet to figure out who his accomplices were and who is running the racket. It was from his friends from West Bengal that he learnt of the drug named Ya Ba and decided to smuggle it into the city. He learnt that there is a huge demand for methamphetamine-based drugs in Bengaluru and so he became the man who smuggled the drug into the city,” a CCB official said.

CCB sleuths had received intelligence about Jahangir’s alleged drug peddling in October 2018. The sleuths had even laid out a trap for Jahangir in December last year. However, he had evaded arrest and continued to… continue reading full story

‘Leila’ review: Huma Qureshi’s dystopian drama suffers due to a hurried screenplay

While the first two episodes are riveting, the saga loses its shine from there on – confused whether it should be a science dystopia or a social dystopia.

Entertainment News: Leila comprises six episodes, of runtimes varying between 40 to 50 mins on average. Created by Urmi Juvekar, the series – based on Prayaag Akbar’s novel of the same name – has been directed by Deepa Mehta, Shanker Raman and Pavan Kumar. It stars Huma Qureshi in the lead, with Siddharth playing a notable role.

Leila, for reasons hard to fathom, sets the timeline in 2047. It takes digs at the current political situation, using a fictional land called Aryavarta ruled by one Mr Joshi, who is ubiquitous, like the Big Brother of 1984, his posters everywhere. The people and children of Aryavarta are brainwashed, constantly parroting the words fed to them about how Aryavarta is their mother – with an air of Brave New World, borrowing gloomy streaks from The Hunger Games and V for Vendetta, spruced with a nationalistic fervour.

The paradox though lies in how little the world seems to have evolved in 2047, rickety buses and tankers an excellent example to prove how unimaginative the makers have been with the storyline. The world hasn’t gone anywhere in 28 years, they seem to assume.

Aryavarta’s art design annoys anyone well-versed with dystopian movies or novels. Is Aryavarta a country, a city, a state – that is hard to understand from what is on display. What we see is largely one big city, which is made up of several sectors, each sector for a different community, separated by high walls. Then there are the slums which exist beyond the high walls, where people deal with squalor, black rain, dust, pollution and an acute water scarcity. The moral police punish couples indulging in inter-community marriages, abducting the women and torturing them in a Purity Centre, and the mixed-blood kids are sold to childless parents with money or… continue reading full review

Meet the 27-year-old man raising awareness on menstrual hygiene in Hyd slums

Kamal Nayak, the founder of Good Universe, raises awareness on sexual and reproductive health, holds medical camps and more.

Telangana News: 27-year-old Odisha native Kamal Nayak speaks fluent Telugu that can put any Hyderabadi to shame, but it’s not something he learned to earn his bread and butter. Instead, it was because he left his plush job at a popular production house in Hyderabad to pursue a social cause that he says is very close to his heart.

Kamal is on a mission to educate and create awareness about menstrual hygiene. He is also the founder of Good Universe, an NGO that is working to educate people, irrespective of gender, in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh on the importance of sexual and reproductive health.

Kamal, a United Nations fellow for Sustainable Development, moved to Hyderabad in 2012 to work as a production crew member in the Nagarjuna film, Damarukam. Though the job paid him well, he realised he wasn’t cut out for the film industry.

“Having seen poverty close enough back at my hometown in Odisha, I left the job and joined ‘We Change You’, an NGO that created awareness on the ill-effects of alcoholism and smoking among industrial workers. For two years, I worked with a few other NGOs before I joined Osmania University to pursue my Bachelors degree in Social Work,” Kamal says.

Along with a few friends, Kamal began visiting homes at the slum, sharing meals and cups of tea with family members so they could get to… continue reading full story

Virat Kohli becomes fastest batsman to score 11,000 runs in ODIs

Virat Kohli already holds the record for being the fastest to 10,000 ODI runs.

Cricket World Cup 2019: India skipper Virat Kohli rose to the challenge on Sunday against Pakistan and added another feather to his cap by becoming the fastest player in the history of the game to cross the 11,000-run mark in ODIs.

Kohli achieved the feat in 222 innings, going past Sachin Tendulkar who took 276 knocks to go past the 11,000-run mark. Ricky Ponting reached the milestone in 286 innings, while Sourav Ganguly took 288 innings to achieve the feat.

Kohli also became only the third Indian after Tendulkar and Ganguly and ninth cricketer overall to get to 11,000 ODI runs .

Kohli already holds the record for being the fastest to 10,000 ODI runs.

Kohli missed out on an opportunity in India’s third group stage match against New Zealand in Nottingham which was called off due to rain without a single ball being bowled.

On Sunday, Kohli brought up his 51st ODI half-century off 51 balls, his second fifty on the trot.

When rain stopped with India on 305/4 after 46.4 overs, the India captain was unbeaten on 71 off 62 deliveries (4×6).

Rohit Sharma’s 85-ball ton to Kuldeep’s 2 scalps: 5 key moments from India-Pak match

Although rain interrupted play in the second half during Pakistan’s run chase, the result was never in doubt once India had put a formidable total of 336 on the board.

Cricket World Cup 2019: Yet another India-Pakistan match at the ICC World Cup and another result in India’s favor. It was much the same script as the previous 6 matches at the World Cup between these two sides as India trounced their arch-rivals by 89 runs at Old Trafford, Manchester on Sunday. Although rain interrupted play in the second half during Pakistan’s run chase, the result was never in doubt once India had put a formidable total of 336 runs on the board.

Here are the top 5 moments from the match:

1. Rohit Sharma’s 85-ball century

Rohit Sharma’s pristine form in this World Cup continued with another delightful century, which came off just 85 balls, the fastest of his career so far. Opening the innings for the first time with new partner KL Rahul in the absence of Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit dominated the partnership during the early stages.

2. Kohli’s innings

Virat Kohli came to the crease when India lost the first wicket at 136. Kohli kept up the run-scoring momentum in the company of Rohit who was well set at the other end. It wasn’t the usual belligerent innings from the skipper but he kept the run-rate ticking by running hard between the wickets.

3. Shankar’s wicket off his first ball

Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s injury while bowling his third over meant that Vijay Shankar was given the ball unexpectedly early, inside the first 10 overs of Pakistan’s innings. But Shankar came up with a corker to get rid of… continue reading full story

The Rise Of The Ultra Rich & The Fall Of Philanthropy

In 2018, their wealth increased by Rs. 4,891 billion.

Video Stories India: 831 Indians have wealth of over Rs.1000 crores. India has highest number of ultra rich after United States and China. But it still ranks 124 out of 146 countries in the world giving Index.

Although the number of super rich Indians is up by 12%, the philanthropic donations by India’s ultra rich fell 4% from 2014. In 2018, their wealth increased by Rs. 4,891 billion.

Currently, India’ s top philanthropist is Azim Premji. He has contributed around $21 Billion Dollars to various causes which accounts for 80% of large donations made by the ultra rich in India.

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