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OpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

Nikita Tomar's murder for failed love jihad was not an isolated case, Mewat has become a hotbed of crime against women by Muslims

Editor's Picks

Here’s why Jammu and Kashmir does not need a law to protect their land but many other states do

Abhishek Banerjee - 30 October, 2020

In a landmark decision, the Government of India has now decided that any Indian can purchase land in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

French Churches mourn victims of Islamic terror attack while their Indian counterparts had opposed providing relief to victims of Islamic persecution

OpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

The Churches in France tolled their bells to commemorate and honour the victims of the terrorist attack in Nice.

The Hindu spreads fake news about China occupying new regions in Pangong Tso just a month after making money by publishing Chinese propaganda

OpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

The Hindu had quoted an ex-BJP MP to claim that Chinese forces have occupied finger 2 and 3 on north bank of Pangong Tso lake

Munger SP Lipi Singh’s claims shattered, CISF report says Police first opened fire against Hindus, 13 bullets fired

OpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

Munger SP Lipi Singh had earlier defended the police violence on Durga Procession attendees in Munger and claimed that Hindus had fired, not the police

AMU students, who wanted to dig ‘Hindutva ki kabar’, now protest against French President for standing up to Jihad after ‘blasphemy’ beheadings

OpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

After chanting against Hindus the students in AMU have now started a protest French President Emmanuel Macron for his remarks against Islamic terrorism

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Congress MLA organises protest of thousands of Muslims against French President and his ‘Islamophobia’ after his citizens were beheaded for ‘blasphemy’

OpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

Congress MLA Arif Masood organised and led a protest supporting terrorism in the name of Islam that led to the beheading of Samuel Paty and others in France.

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8,136,166

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Opinions

France wakes up to the menace of ‘Islamo-leftism’, an alliance between leftists and Islamists that has been attacking India for decades

K Bhattacharjee - 30 October, 2020

The French education minister spoke out on the dangers of Islamo-leftism in the aftermath of the beheading of Samuel Paty.

Why is Europe locking down instead of copying globally famous Kerala model?

Abhishek Banerjee - 29 October, 2020

The state of Kerala, under the visionary leadership of health minister Shailaja “Teacher” has a solution to Covid-19. Why wouldn’t the world just copy the Kerala model?

Bihar: The shocking story of Jungle Raj hidden in voter turnouts

Politics

Abhishek Banerjee - 28 October, 2020

The shocking story of Jungle Raj in Bihar no one told you.

Two Hindu families see the death of the child, one because she dared to refuse Islam, one, because he wanted to bid goodbye to...

K Bhattacharjee - 27 October, 2020

By any measure, the Faridabad incident and the Munger shooting are indeed absolutely shocking.

This time for Dussehra, feminists turn Laxman Rekha into a symbol of ‘patriarchy’: Here is why they are batshit crazy

Editorial Desk - 26 October, 2020

The occasion is Dussehra and along expected lines, feminists are out in numbers in their attempt to prove that Ramayana, the tale of Maryada Purushottam Rama, reeks of misogyny.

How Indian ‘liberals’ decided to embrace Hindutva!

Abhishek Banerjee - 26 October, 2020

At his traditional Vijaya Dashami rally in Mumbai yesterday, Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray put it clearly. One must take lessons in Hindutva from RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.

Politics

Locals stop Congress leader Kumari Selja from visiting Nikita Tomar’s house, killed by one Tauseef, raise anti-Congress slogans

OpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

Unlike the Hathras case, Congress has not spoken a word of condemnation against this brutal act, where a young girl was shot dead by a Congress leader's kin

Bhopal Congress MLA Arif Masood, who organised anti-France protest, says he would have crushed President Macron’s face for blasphemy

News Reports OpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

Subramanian Swamy condemns the ‘knifing and beheading as retaliation’ in France, however, his condemnation comes with a big ‘but’: Read details

Politics OpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

Samajwadi Party fumes over toilet tiles at Gorakhpur Railway Hospital. Here is what happened

News Reports OpIndia Staff - 29 October, 2020

SC raps West Bengal police for issuing summons to Delhi resident over her Facebook post ‘criticising’ Mamata Banerjee government

News Reports OpIndia Staff - 29 October, 2020

Here are ‘liberals’ who hailed Imran Khan’s benevolence for releasing Abhinandan, while he was shaking in his boots, thinking of Modi going to war

News Reports OpIndia Staff - 29 October, 2020

‘Modi, Modi’ slogans inside Pakistan National Assembly: Here is what happened

News Reports OpIndia Staff - 29 October, 2020

Tamil Nadu: UPA ally VCK MP Thol Thirumavalavan says upper-caste women go behind men of other castes as ‘their’ men do not have any...

News Reports OpIndia Staff - 28 October, 2020

Tamil Nadu: Thol Thirumavalavan’s VCK members stab an office-bearer of Hindu organisation Indu Makkal Katchi

News Reports OpIndia Staff - 28 October, 2020

Fact-Check

Aarogya Setu fiasco: All information sought in RTI query already in public domain, govt to take action against incompetent officials for wrong reply

Despite all information on Aarogya Setu app in public domain, the RTI reply had wrongly said that the NIC and Ministry has no information

OpIndia Staff - 29 October, 2020

Media Fact-Check

Dainik Bhaskar uses NITian Anita Bharti’s image in an article about actress Preetika Chauhan’s arrest by NCB in drug case

Anita Bhati is a student of NIT Patna, who had recently started an online portal of 'TuOn', providing free coaching to students from 7th to 12th grade and those preparing for competitive exams

OpIndia Staff - 26 October, 2020

Alt News selectively cites coronavirus statistics to criticise PM Modi alleging he used selective data

Alt News published an article alleging that PM Modi selectively cited coronavirus numbers to give a rosy picture of country’s fight against the pandemic

OpIndia Staff - 24 October, 2020

Rahul Gandhi claims China has occupied half of India as he says that Chinese forces have intruded 1200 km into Indian territory

Rahul Gandhi said that soldiers of China have occupied up to 1,200 km deep inside into India's territory, that would mean half of India

OpIndia Staff - 23 October, 2020

Media

News ReportsOpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

After The Hindu, Indian newspaper Hindustan Times publishes Chinese propaganda supplement amidst border standoff

Hindustan Times publishes a 4 page supplement prepared by China Daily containing propaganda material by China

MediaOpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

As Pakistan minister admits role in Pulwama attack, Rajdeep Sardesai rushes to his rescue, allows him to ‘clarify’, attack India instead, NDTV follows suit

India Today and NDTV come together to rescue Pakistan minister Fawad Chaudhry after he admitted Terroristan's role in Pulwama attack

News ReportsOpIndia Staff - 29 October, 2020

NBSA summons Zee News editor Sudhir Chaudhary for “divisive” report on the different types of Jihad, says it targets the Muslim community

NBSA asked Zee News Editor-in-chief Sudhir Chaudhary to appear for a hearing on November 26 via video conferencing

News ReportsOpIndia Staff - 29 October, 2020

Mumbai police intensifies witch-hunt, now wants details that would give him almost unfettered access to the Republic TV newsroom: Read details

Mumbai police have demanded access to the newsroom of the channel including the contact details, addresses and login IDs of journalists.

Specials

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Interviews

9 key takeaways from Union Minister Prakash Javadekar’s exclusive interview with OpIndia. Read the details here

OpIndia Staff - 27 October, 2020

Union Minister Prakash Javadekar gave an exclusive interview to OpIndia wherein he spoke on a range of issues such as Bihar elections, relentless hounding of Republic TV, environment woes in Delhi and many others.

Meet Sachin Vaze, the ‘encounter specialist’ cop leading the investigation against Arnab Goswami who was once suspended for custodial murder

OpIndia Staff - 24 October, 2020

Sachin Vaze was suspended from the police force over the custodial death of a 27-year-old software engineer in 2003

OpIndia Scoops

Exclusive: Conversation that shows how Mumbai Police is trying to coerce witness into naming Republic TV in TRP scam

Nupur J Sharma - 23 October, 2020

While Hansa Research report and the FIR filed named India Today in TRP scam, in less than 24 hours, Mumbai Police had seemingly made up its mind that Republic TV was the culprit

Crime

Remembering Lalu’s Jungle Raj in Bihar: When an IAS officer’s wife was raped for two years by an RJD leader

अनुपम कुमार सिंह - 22 October, 2020

During Lalu's Jungle Raj in Bihar, IAS Officer BB Vishwas's wife Chamba Biswas was raped for 2 years by RJD leader Mrityunjay Yadav

Interviews

“Your outrage against Hinduphobic content on OTT platforms may actually be fuelling more such content”- Here is what an industry insider says

Nirwa Mehta - 22 October, 2020

OTT platforms are not hit if a movie or a series if boycotted for Hinduphobic content as people have already paid for subscription

Bollywood, Sports & more

Entertainment

HBO withdraws tweet where it asked which ‘Indian cult’ people are ‘most afraid of’, referring to Aghoris and Brahma Kumaris: Read their apology

HBO India referred Aghoris and Brahma Kumaris as scary cult in now-deleted post

OpIndia Staff - 29 October, 2020

Entertainment

Author Surender Mohan Pathak accuses Amazon Prime’s Mirzapur of tarnishing his image by depicting his crime series ‘Dhabba’ as porn

Famous Hindi crime fiction author Surender Mohan Pathak has sent a notice to the makers of Mirzapur 2, stating his novel ‘Dhabba’ was “mischievously misrepresented” in the series.

OpIndia Staff - 29 October, 2020

Adivasis and family of Gond tribal leader Komaram Bheem objects to his Muslim look in the upcoming ‘RRR’ movie

Komaram Bheem’s grandson Sone Rao said that the movie RRR depicting Bheem as Muslim is nothing but a 'distortion'

OpIndia Staff - 28 October, 2020

Deepika Padukone’s manager Karishma Prakash goes untraceable after NCB raids her house, seizes drugs including charas

The NCB carried out raids at Karishma’s Versova residence and recovered 1.7 grams of charas and at least 2 bottles of CBD oil.

OpIndia Staff - 28 October, 2020

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Election Commission removes Kamal Nath from Congress star campaigner list for his ‘item’ remark for Dalit woman leader

OpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

Election Commission had pulled up Kamal Nath for his misogynist jibe against BJP candidate and Dalit leader Imarti Devi

West Bengal: 15-year-old boy beaten to death inside a police station, BJP alleges the boy beaten as parents were its supporters

OpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

The police denied that the boy was beaten to death in police station, saying he committed suicide inside the toilet

Watch: Video emerges showing Sameet Thakkar being led by men with a rope, his face covered in black cloth while bringing to court

OpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

The person told us that she is well acquainted with people who personally know Sameet Thakkar and that is how she accessed the footage.

Congress leader and Bengaluru Riots main accused Sampath Raj flees from hospital, police issue notice to the hospital

OpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

Sampath Raj was undergoing treatment for COVID-19 in a hospital, and the hospital discharged him without informing police

Jeremy Corbyn suspended from Labour Party after damning report that claims the party broke laws while dealing with antisemitism complaints

OpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

The suspension could ignite a civil war within the Labour Party with allies of Jeremy Corbyn rushing to his defence.

Shadow group of Lashkar-e-Taiba claims responsibility of killing three BJYM workers in Jammu and Kashmir

OpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

Three BJYM workers - Fida Hussain, Umer Hajam and Umer Rashid Beigh were shot dead by terrorists in Kulgam in Jammu &Kashmir on Thursday

Crime

Kerala: Bineesh Kodiyeri, son of senior CPM leader Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, arrested for money laundering and links with drug smuggler Mohammed Anoop

Shashank Bharadwaj - 30 October, 2020

Kerala CPM leader's son Bineesh Kodiyeri was arrested after ED had unearthed his links to one of the main accused in Sandalwood drug case

Assam becomes the first state to introduce ‘Transgender’ as a gender option in state civil service exam application form

OpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

Accepting demand of transgender community, Assam Public service Commission introduces transgender as gender option in exam forms

Alleged Mastermind of Delhi Riots where mobs killed amidst Allahu Akbar chants, condemns France beheadings saying ‘murder and Allahu Akbar’ do not go together

OpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

Apoorvanand wants the world to overlook the religious angles to these barbaric acts so that it suits its political narrative in the country

Russia: Teenager shot dead after he shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’ and stabs police officer

OpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

On Friday, a 16-year-old terrorist was shot dead by police in the Muslim-dominated region of Tatarstan in Russia.

Berlin: Amidst chants ‘Allahu Akbar’ and ‘La Ilaha Illalaha’, Muslims protest against President Emmanuel Macron after France faces Islamist attacks

OpIndia Staff - 30 October, 2020

The crowd of radical Muslims in Berlin, Germany, chanted 'Allahu Akbar' and 'La Ilaha Illalaha’ to protest against the French President