Journalist, Fact Checker, Managing Editor - @boomlive_in. Actively fighting disinformation in India. Previous: Business Standard, NDTV
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#BOOMFactCheck 🚨 Social media is rife with false claims and unrelated videos after India's retaliatory military action #OperationSindoor, on #Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam terror attack. BOOM has debunked several such pieces of misinformation. (1/n)
Follow this #thread to read the fact checks ⬇️
Jency Jacob retweeted
Adani is suing me for ₹50 crore, apparently valuing the damage to his reputation at that amount.
I contend that wealth acquired through alleged wrongdoing does not confer credibility or reputation.
My valuation of that reputation? ₹0.
And if the reputational damage is zero, the compensation should be zero.
₹50 crore demanded. ₹0 deserved.
An airport nearby saved the day. But why was there a fuel emergency in the first place? Will we ever know? @DGCAIndia @MoCA_GoI @RamMNK
This is shameful @ABPNews.
सुनो @abp न्यूज़, मैं कोई कॉsल गर्ल या प्रॉस्टिट्यूsट नहीं हूँ.
जब भाजपा का आईटी सेल मेरा हौसला नहीं तोड़ पाया तो तुम जैसे गोदी मीडिया को कमान सौंप दी?
पहले भाजपा के नेता बेटियों की इज्जत ख़राब करते थे, अब तुम लोग भी बेटियों की इज्जत लूटोगे? इतनी हिम्मत? इतनी बेशर्मी? ये बात यहीं खत्म नहीं होगी @abp
बेटियों का सम्मान तुम लोगों के लिए खेल का सामान हो गया है?
@narendramodi @NCWIndia
Jency Jacob retweeted
5.40 pm: Protests against IIT Bombay and demanding justice for Sahil continues as Sahil's parents hunger strike enters its 16 day. @boomlive_in
Jency Jacob retweeted
Richa Parashar says Rahul Gandhi grabbed her shoulder and pulled her violently, says she fell flat.
I point out in the video she said she fell to her knees, and the sequence looks different.
She also says she only informed her channel she was pregnant after this incident.
BJP alleges Rahul Gandhi 'pushed' pregnant journalist during SIR protest in Delhi
NDTV's @GargiRawat speaks to Journalist Richa Parashar
The brazen crackdown on journalists and lawyers by the Delhi Police. Read the meticulous reporting by @adrijabose on how the SC directives meant nothing to the cops who appeared to be working as per a plan to prevent any coverage. @DecodeInternet
decodeinternet.in/digital-st…
Jency Jacob retweeted
Our colleague @NidhiSuresh_ was detained around 3 pm. She was taken in the same van as @neha_aisa. M The cops told the women they could leave around 6.30 pm, but the women are there demanding the men be released too
Jency Jacob retweeted
At least 16 journalists were brutally detained while covering public demonstrations in #India. In addition to the four journalists already mentioned, RSF has learned that Anushka Bhardwaj (#BusinessStandard), Hritik Joshi and Rahul Charas (@NavbharatTimes), Shoaib Daniyal (#Scroll), Anshu (@newslaundry ), Saurabh Sharma (@Reuters ), Jagriti Trisha (BOOM), Shivang Shukla (Mo), Neeraj Jha (@moliticsindia), and freelance journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta were also forcibly detained in #Delhi, along with Kinjal (@AltNews) in #Ahmedabad and Divya Aslesha (Scroll) in #Pune.
Covering events of public interest is not a crime. It is their job. The police's actions against the press are unacceptable.
Constipated 😂 Absolutely
'The New York Times' provides a masterclass to India's constipated editors on how to use a photograph to convey an extra 1,000 words. @nytimes @adnanabidi
Jency Jacob retweeted
Look at the pattern. You were supposed to be a journalist but slowly getting into all those issues BJP wants to lie about. Guess why?
Spoke to Jagriti. She has been released after 3 hours far away from the location from where she was picked up. She was only doing her job shooting a video. The cops gave her no reason for detaining her despite being informed that she is a journalist. @DelhiPolice
.@DelhiPolice why have you detained our reporter @Jtrisha7 ? We have lost contact with her as her phone has been taken away. She was reporting through the day. We seek her immediate release @LtGovDelhi @CPDelhi
Jency Jacob retweeted
Another reporter detained
.@DelhiPolice why have you detained our reporter @Jtrisha7 ? We have lost contact with her as her phone has been taken away. She was reporting through the day. We seek her immediate release @LtGovDelhi @CPDelhi
.@DelhiPolice why have you detained our reporter @Jtrisha7 ? We have lost contact with her as her phone has been taken away. She was reporting through the day. We seek her immediate release @LtGovDelhi @CPDelhi
Jency Jacob retweeted
A video showing a truck unloading waste onto a road is being falsely shared by social media users and some news outlets as an attempt by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to block protesters from reaching Jantar Mantar.
BOOM found that the video is from Panipat, Haryana, where sanitation workers staged a protest and dumped garbage at Samidhan Chowk, GT Road on August 17, 2026.
Read the fact check here:
boomlive.in/fact-check/video…
#FactCheck #JantarMantar
Jency Jacob retweeted
Speaking to BOOM, the woman journalist who accused ACP Vivek Bhagat of sexual assault, at a protest in Delhi against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, has responded to viral claims surrounding an ‘AI-generated’ video circulating online.
She maintained that she possesses authentic evidence of the alleged assault, but added that she will not share it with the Delhi Police until an official FIR is registered. Watch the full video here ⬇️
@srijitofficial reports
#DelhiPolice #Protest #AIVideo
Jency Jacob retweeted
The panic calls have started.
Passengers who booked air tickets through Mumbai airport in next few months; international inbound/outbound to domestic connections and vice a versa.
Which airport will their flight land in or take off from ?
More importantly, they earlier accounted for a 3-4 hour layover at Mumbai CST airport.
It is physically impossible to make it from or to the Navi Mumbai airport in this time frame.
There is no indication that tickets being issued today account for the changeover either.
Jency Jacob retweeted
A deep dive into the contentious Mumbai airport T1 rebuild project via @zinaldedhia04
A review of regulatory filings and statements by the airport operator shows that the scope and execution of the project have changed significantly — from rebuilding T1B, to a proposal to demolish the entire T1 complex, and now to a phased redevelopment beginning with only a section of T1B.
The earliest evidence dates to August 2017, when a structural audit of T1B was conducted.
By the 2019-20 regulatory planning period, MIAL had proposed about Rs 1,205 crore for reconstructing T1B, with AERA records explicitly stating that the existing terminal would be demolished and rebuilt.
thecore.in/n-871996
NMIA to Borivali at 210 Rs looks like a steal. Good if this is true. But will still have to spend 2 to 2.5 hours on the road. Delhi to NMIA about 2 hours, NMIA to western suburbs over 2.5 hours. It’s still not convenient for most passengers living in the western suburbs
Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) expands multimodal connectivity!
▪️MSRTC e-Shivai electric buses to begin from 7 Oct, connecting NMIA with Pune, Dadar & Borivali.
▪️Fares: ₹450 Pune | ₹210 Borivali | ₹170 Dadar East.
▪️21 daily Chalo Bus services connect NMIA with Mumbai, while NMMT operates 7 dedicated airport routes.
▪️Bharat Taxi, Uber Go/Premier, Uber Auto, prepaid taxis, autos & car rentals add more options.
▪️A complimentary hourly shuttle will connect NMIA with Mumbai’s CSMIA, operated by Cityflo, Aarya & Chalo.
▪️Ground transport capacity is being scaled up to 4,594 vehicles, including 3,787 app-based taxis and 547 buses.
▪️NMIA is connected to Panvel, Targhar & Bamandongri railway stations and key road corridors including Atal Setu.
#NaviMumbaiAirport #NMIA #Infrastructure #Mumbai #NaviMumbai #InfraNewsIndia #INI
Forced to shift operations to the new airport during the runway refurbishment window, freighter operators and forwarders are facing higher costs and operational hurdles. Read @zinaldedhia04 special story #NaviMumbaiAirport #AirCargo @the_core_in thecore.in/n-871933
It’s pathetic that there are people justifying how this is all fine and in the long run, everything will be fine 🤦♂️
After 30 years of planning, Navi Mumbai Airport opened in 2025 without NO REAL RAPID TRANSIT LINK. The nearest rail station is 3.2 km away with commuter trains every 60 minutes, the other station is 8.3km away, crowds heavily, and both require unreliable shuttle buses to access.
No cabs were ready to take any trips
In the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, transport has become a massive struggle by design. Bad planning is now a norm.
