Wednesday, October 21, 2020

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‘Comedian’ Agrima Joshua, who calls herself ‘feminist’, passes offensive sexual comments against woman due to political differences

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Agrima Joshua had earlier found herself in a controversy after insulting the Shivaji Maharaj memorial during a performance.
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Bihar: Police arrest National Ulema Council Party candidate for campaigning on buffalo

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Gaya Police has arrested Mohammad Parvez Mansoori for campaigning on a Buffalo for the upcoming Bihar Assembly Elections.
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Paris beheading case: Victim Samuel Paty to be conferred France’s highest order, mosque to be shut down

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Days after the history teacher beheading by a radical Islamist in Paris, the French govt has decided to confer the highest order of merit Legion d'Honneur posthumously.
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UK: 37-year-old paedophile named Rehan Baig jailed for raping chickens to death while his wife filmed it

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Rhan Baig's wife had also joined him in the videos and at one point he alternated between having sex with his wife and the chickens.
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#Tweet4Bharat: Here is a list of the winners in the English category and their winning tweet threads!

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The participation exceeded expectations greatly and finally, after much deliberation, we are now in a position to declare the winners.
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Madrasas are breeding grounds for terrorists: MP cabinet minister Usha Thakur

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BJP MLA from Indore, Usha Thakur said that government funding to all madrasas should come to an end
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Game over for India Today? CBI registers FIR in TRP Scam after UP Govt recommends probe based on private complaint

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CBI has registered an FIR to investigate the TRP scam after a private complaint was registered in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
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Government and Policy

‘Lockdown over but Coronavirus still here’: As PM Modi rings warning bell ahead of festive season, here are key takeaways from his address

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In his 12-minute address, PM Modi urged people to maintain caution and wear masks while stepping out of their homes
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Opinions

The social hierarchy of Muslim society: Is the caste system a problem unique to Hindus?

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Often ignored by the media, there is wide scale discrimination present in Muslim society between two factions- Ashraf and Ajlaf.
Political History of India

The MP who was sentenced to death: In Bihar elections, Anand Mohan Singh’s wife and son are now RJD candidates

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Son and wife of Anand Mohan Singh, first-ever MP to get death sentence, are contesting in upcoming Assembly Elections in Bihar
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News Reports

FT publishes damning investigation implicating China, WHO and their role in the spread of Coronavirus: Here are 7 takeaways

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The Financial Times carried out an investigation about China's initial mismanagement and complacency that led to a global coronavirus pandemic
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Media

After Mumbai Police harasses Arnab Goswami, ex-cop Iqbal Shaikh approaches court to stop Republic TV from reporting on TRP scam: Read details

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Iqbal Shaikh accused Arnab Goswami and Republic TV of engaging in a smear campaign against Mumbai Police.
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News Reports

Srinagar: Govt-allotted office building of Kashmir Times sealed by authorities 5 years after allottee’s death, current Exec Editor calls it ‘vendetta’

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Estates Department informed that they just took possession of the property after serving notices to Kashmir Times to vacate the premises.
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Coronavirus
Latest status and reports from India

India
7,648,373
Total cases
Updated on 21 October, 2020 1:30 AM
India
6,791,113
Recovered
Updated on 21 October, 2020 1:30 AM
India
115,939
Deaths
Updated on 21 October, 2020 1:30 AM

Data automatically updated from this public source

40,937,185
Updated on 21 October, 2020 1:30 AM

Opinions

Political History of India

The indomitable Lokmanya Tilak: His political activism, activities in Mumbai, camaraderie with Swami Vivekananda and legacy

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The prefix "Lokmanya" comes from the fact that Lokmanya Tilak was modern India's first mass leader looked up to by the masses.
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Opinions

Jinnah’s ideology: Prof Brij Narain, a strong supporter of Pakistan’s creation, was hacked to death by an Islamist mob in Lahore in 1947

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Prof Brij Narain, an enthusiastic exponent of Pakistan, was hacked to death in broad daylight by a Muslim mob even as he kept pleading them to stop ransacking his house in Lahore in the wake of partition .
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If Congress comes back to power, it will be impossible to utter a word against them

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This time, they will have a third and most potent weapon: technology and dominance in the digital space.

TimesNow joined the Left in condemning Republic TV to hell, now, the Left is gunning for them too

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The 'TRP scam' started off when Mumbai Police Commissioner Parambir Singh named Republic TV and hid the fact that the FIR which was filed, based on the Hansa Research Report, named India Today

BARC says exactly what India Today said when the truth was revealed: ‘But it was confidential’

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BARC has strongly condemned Republic TV in a statement for revealing what it calls confidential communication.

This is why ‘liberal’ condemnation that we see around Paris beheading was missing when Kamlesh Tiwari was murdered

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A high school teacher in Paris was beheaded by an Islamic fanatic for showing cartoons of prophet Mohammed to his students.
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Politics

Political Fact-Check

Unless Mohua Moitra is a Hindu from Pakistan, her comment on CAA makes no sense: Here is how the TMC leader made a fool...

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The Citizenship Amendment Act does not affect the Indian citizens but TMC MP Mahua Moitra said she would not furnish her papers for the CAA
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Kamal Nath refuses to apologize despite Rahul Gandhi’s rebuke, suggests RaGa never understood the context of ‘item’ remark

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Congress strategy of appeasement thwarted: Karnataka HC stops construction work on ‘tallest Jesus statue’ being built on government land

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Kathua lawyer links sex crimes with worshipping Devi to target and guilt trip Hindus during Navratri, Congress joins in

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Congress, media target Varun Gandhi for unwillingness to speak to a stranger late at night: Here is who the man was and why he...

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Frustrated with “rants” of Shashi Tharoor, MP Nishikant Dubey requests Lok Sabha speaker to put him in a committee where there is no Tharoor

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When murders, kidnappings were an ‘industry’, only Shahabuddin and ‘the family’ ruled: The infamous saga of ‘Jungle Raj’ in Bihar

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‘Arnab Goswami is not an accused’: Bombay HC says if Mumbai Police wants to question him, they will have to issue summons

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‘Uddhav Thackeray has formed a special team to bring down Republic TV, Arnab has to be locked up’: Explosive sting reveals MVA govt plot

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Fact-Check

Media

Former adviser to Manmohan Singh, Pankaj Pachauri brazens it out after being caught spreading fake news about Indian trade with China

Pankaj Pachauri claimed Indian imports from China had increased by 27% during tension between the two countries at the LAC.
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Fact-Check

Barabanki: How media and Rahul Gandhi attempted to create another Hathras using the rape of a Dalit girl but the identity of perpetrator foiled...

Politicians and the media attempted to create another Hathras over the Barabanki Rape by inserting a caste angle.
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News Reports

Pro-congress journalists and trolls target Amitabh Bachchan’s son-in-law Nikhil Nanda when another Nikhil Nanda criticised Rahul Gandhi

Nikhil Nanda, the MD of JHS Svendgaard Laboratories Limited, had exposed Rahul Gandhi for criticising India's handling of COVID-19 crisis
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News Reports

Union govt says Business Standard report claiming retrenched workers will have to return reskilling fund if not reskilled is fake, rules not yet framed

Business Standard spreads fake news on Reskilling fund for retrenched workers as per Industrial Relations Code 2020
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Media

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The benign gibberish on AajTak: How a clueless anchor and a clueless journalist discussed how clueless they are

Since no news channel seem to have any prior information about the PM's message, Aaj Tak probably decided to share random sentences repeatedly.
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Times of India spreads fake news about PV Sindhu quitting national camp due to fall-out with family and coach: Here is the truth

Badminton world champion PV Sindhu has left the national camp meant for Olympic hopefuls and travelled to London to work on her recovery and nutrition.
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Anti-Trump legal analyst of CNN and The New Yorker contributor suspended after masturbating on Zoom call

Jeffrey Toobin has offered an apology for masturbating on the Zoom video call and said that he thought he had put the video and audio on mute.
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Family of girl murdered in terror attack condemns BBC for providing platform to terrorist Ahlam Tamimi, painting her as a victim: Read details

Ahlam Tamimi was convicted and sentenced for 16 years her role in a pizza parlour bombing in Jerusalem in 2001 before her imprisonment was cut short in a prisoner-exchange deal with Hamas
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News Reports

Kashmiri Muslim woman called ‘terrorist’ by her landlady in Delhi? Read the full story that tells you exactly what happened

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Videos show that Noor Bhat was threatening landlady for asking to pay rent & bills, no proof that she was assaulted & called terrorist
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OpIndia Explains

Hindu woman married to Muslim man without converting does not have equal rights as others in the family according to Islamic law: Read details

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According to Islamic law, marriage of Muslim boy with idol worshipper or a fire worshipper girl is considered irregular marriage
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News Reports

11 incidents of brutal attacks on Hindu sadhus in 2020 in the country that failed to trigger any outrage

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In 2020, there have been several attacks on sadhus, but only a few, like the infamous Palghar lynching, managed to trigger any outrage
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News Reports

TRP Scam: Hansa Research Group complaint, on the basis of which FIR was filed, mentions only India Today, Republic TV not mentioned

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The complaint by Hansa research finds no mention of Republic TV network but mentions India Today on at least 2 occasions.
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OpIndia Explains

Joseph Stiglitz, the economist that Rahul Gandhi praised for attacking Modi, is known for his questionable policies and wrong predictions

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Joseph Stiglitz had praised the economic policies of Venezuelan govt, said subprime crisis will not happen
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Social Media

Dance moves by Dr Arup in Silchar, Assam wins Internet, inspires Hrithik Roshan

The Assam doctor's dance video has gone viral on social media, gaining thousands of likes and comments.
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Entertainment

Live streaming of ‘Ayodhya ki Ram Leela’ on DD National’s YouTube channel gains over a million digital views

The live telecast of the event was launched by Neelkanth Tiwari, Tourism, Culture, Religious Affairs Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and Pravesh Sahib Singh Verma, MP Uttar Pradesh.
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Entertainment

In 2012 ‘out of town’ Salman Khan partied with Parambir Singh in Mumbai on day Bandra cops could not serve him Court summons for...

As reported by Mid-Day in 2012, Salman Khan and Parambir Singh were both found attending a Christmas party hosted by Sunny Dewan and his wife Anu Dewan in Mumbai. This when the Bandra cops claimed Khan was not in town.
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News Reports

Odisha lawyer Mehendi Reza gives rape threats to Kangana Ranaut on Navratri post, claims Facebook ID was ‘hacked’

Actress Kangana Ranaut receives rape threat on her post wishing people for Navratri.
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News Reports

ISIS terror magazine calls to avenge Babri demolition, instigates Muslims to wage ‘Jihad’ against India

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The digital publication named 'Voice of Hind' instigates Muslims to wage war against India to 'avenge' Babri.
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Government and Policy

Captain Amarinder Singh tables resolution in Punjab Assembly to oppose Centre’s farm laws: Read details

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Captain Amarinder Singh added that the farm laws, passed by the Parliament were against the Indian Constitution, as agriculture falls under State subject (Entry 14 List-II)
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News Reports

UP Police team returns empty-handed again after Punjab govt puts mafia don Mukhtar Ansari on ‘bed-rest’ for 3 months

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Punjab govt cites medical problems for jailed don Mukhtar Ansari, avoids handing him over to UP police
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Social Media

From DDLJ to IPL: Netizens come up with hilarious ideas about what PM Modi might say today at 6 PM in his address to...

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PM Modi today announced on Twitter that he is going to address the nation at 6 pm today, sparking amusing responses from social media users.
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News Reports

Karnataka Magistrate receives bomb threats demanding release of accused in Sandalwood drug case and Bengaluru riots: Read details

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While the Congress party has claimed that it has no connection with the deadly riots in Bengaluru, an exclusive Times Now report has unearthed the links of the party with the riots.
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News Reports

Accused in Ratan Lal murder was in touch with lawyer right after committing the crime: Read how ‘targeted for being Muslim’ trope is crumbling

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That narrative was yet against shattered in court when the bail plea of an accused in the constable Ratan Lal murder was denied by the judge after his lawyers had claimed that he was targeted for being a Muslim.
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News Reports

Coronavirus has already peaked in India, can be controlled by the end of February 2021, says expert panel

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The panel also claimed that if all protocols are followed, the pandemic can be controlled by end of February 2021 with minimal active symptomatic cases.
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News Reports

BSP MLA Vinay Shankar Tiwari and wife booked by CBI in Rs 750 crore bank fraud case

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Vinay Shankar Tiwari from BSP is the sitting MLA from Chillupar, Gorakhpur.
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News Reports

UK: Conservative party’s Israel body condemns BBC’s attempt to portray convicted Hamas terrorist as a victim, asks to apologise

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CFI urges BBC to apologize to victims of 2001 Jerusalem bombing for showing Tamimi as a victim. The US has a 5 million USD bounty on Ahlam Tamimi.
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Social Media

Twitter first says Leh a part of China, then, they say technical glitch, gets it horribly wrong even after fixing it: Read how

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Nitin A Gokhale found that the microblogging platform had not fixed the technical glitch, despite being well aware of the sensitivity around it.
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News Reports

ABP News team attacked, stones pelted at crew in RJD held constituency of Arwal

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RJD's Ravindra Singh is the sitting MLA from Arwal. ABP's Sumeet Awasthi had shared that a local IYC leader has been threatening to beat up anchor Akhilesh Anand.
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Crime

Hyderabad: Hindu woman confronts boyfriend Syed Mustafa over marriage promises, stabbed to death by him and his brother

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24-year-old Hindu woman was brutally stabbed to death by her lover Syed Mustafa and his brother on Saturday night at Rein Bazar neighbourhood of Hyderabad
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