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Thursday, June 4, 2020

Politics
- Culture and History
  
  Comparing African Americans to Muslims in India is like reading history upside down
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 3 June, 2020
  
  In other words, Indian ‘secularism’ has been a yoke on nearly everyone’s shoulders. On the shoulders of Hindus, backward castes, women, LGBTQ, the poor. Indian ‘secularism’ has only ever helped Islamist patriarchy.
  
  News Reports
  
  Modi 2.0 government asserts its commitment to uproot corruption from India, warns the ‘high and mighty’
  
  OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020
  
  P Chidambaram, the former union minister, considered 'untouchable' for a long time, was arrested by the CBI last year and had spent over 106 days in custody before managing to get released under strict bail conditions.
  
  News Reports
  
  BMC asks hospital incharges to coordinate with members of radical Islamist outfit PFI for burials of Muslim coronavirus patients
  
  OpIndia Staff - 2 June, 2020
  
  The BMC notice read that a 'task force' made by the radical Muslim organisation will oversee the burial of Muslim coronavirus patients.
  
  News Reports
  
  Jharkhand govt cancels permission to BRO for recruiting workers from the state for construction projects near LAC in Ladakh
  
  OpIndia Staff - 2 June, 2020
  
  Jharlhand govt had permitted BRO to hold a recruitment drive in Dumka to hire workers for projects in Ladakh, but now permission cancelled
  
  News Reports
  
  ‘40,000 coronavirus test reports still pending’: Bengal Governor accuses Mamata Banerjee government of administrative negligence
  
  OpIndia Staff - 2 June, 2020
  
  Speaking to India TV, the West Bengal governor also stated that the state government has not made adequate arrangements for migrant workers and the state police is working as TMC party workers.
Opinions
- Opinions
  
  ‘Muslim Lives Matter’ at a time of BLM: Biggest lesson from this development is that Indian liberals and Western progressives are devotees of the...
  
  K Bhattacharjee - 3 June, 2020
  
  Indian liberals decided that it was a good opportunity to equate Indian Muslims with the Black population in the USA and trend 'Muslim Lives Matter'.
  
  Culture and History
  
  Comparing African Americans to Muslims in India is like reading history upside down
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 3 June, 2020
  
  In other words, Indian ‘secularism’ has been a yoke on nearly everyone’s shoulders. On the shoulders of Hindus, backward castes, women, LGBTQ, the poor. Indian ‘secularism’ has only ever helped Islamist patriarchy.
  
  Opinions
  
  The fake equivalence communists are trying to manufacture between Blacks of America and Muslims of India
  
  Saket Suryesh - 2 June, 2020
  
  The killing og Geoge Floyd in the USA by the cops and the subsequent riots have got the Communists in India to draw a false equivalence between blacks in USA and Muslims in India
  
  Opinions
  
  Halal certified products: Where the packaging industry go wrong and the way forward
  
  Sunil Pachar - 1 June, 2020
  
  Halal, as a word, owes its origin to the means to slaughter an animal. Diﬀerent tribes or religions must be having their own ways to slaughter for the reasons best known to them and many of them are even continuing now
  
  OpIndia Explains
  
  India must take a firm stand while holding dialogue over LAC: History of conflict, China’s devious motives and the fear behind the curtain
  
  Lt Gen Abhay Krishna - 1 June, 2020
  
  Under the prevailing geo political situation today, India, must adopt a firm stand drawing a red line at all levels while progressing with any dialogue over LAC with China
Fact-Check
- All Media Fact-Check Political Fact-Check Social Media Fact-Check
  
  News Reports
  
  The Wire report claims Tripura govt paid less amount to students for mid-day meal scheme, data shows govt paid 50% more
  
  OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020
  
  Tripura govt debunks The Wire report saying less amount was paid to students under mid-day meal scheme during lockdown
  
  Media Fact-Check
  
  Food Corporation of India fact-checks Scroll, calls out its deliberately misleading report claiming 65 lakh tonnes food grains wasted amid lockdown
  
  OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020
  
  The FCI has slammed Scroll after the latter published a report claiming that India had let 65 lakh tonnes of grains go to waste.
  
  Media Fact-Check
  
  CNN News 18 withdraws fake news misquoting Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Ladakh standoff
  
  OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020
  
  Ajai Shukla, a known conspiracy theorist of the Congress era, brazened out to peddle the same misinformation to claim that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh publicly admitted that Chinese soldiers had crossed into India's side of the LAC in large numbers.
  
  News Reports
  
  Meerut: Shakib posed as Hindu to trap Punjab girl who eloped with him with jewellery worth Rs 25 lakh, beheads her after revealing his...
  
  OpIndia Staff - 2 June, 2020
  
  Meerut police solves one-year old mysterious murder case, finds Muslim Shakib had eloped with Hindu girl pretending to be Hindu and then killed her
Media
- News Reports
  
  Family of deceased Coronavirus positive doctor says that reports of him having to wait 10 hours in Mumbai hospital to get a bed is...
  
  OpIndia Staff - 4 June, 2020
  
  Deceased Mumbai doctor Chittaranjan Bhave's daughter says he didn't had to wait 10 hours to get COVID-19 treatment as per reports
  
  News Reports
  
  The Wire report claims Tripura govt paid less amount to students for mid-day meal scheme, data shows govt paid 50% more
  
  OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020
  
  Tripura govt debunks The Wire report saying less amount was paid to students under mid-day meal scheme during lockdown
  
  Media Fact-Check
  
  Food Corporation of India fact-checks Scroll, calls out its deliberately misleading report claiming 65 lakh tonnes food grains wasted amid lockdown
  
  OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020
  
  The FCI has slammed Scroll after the latter published a report claiming that India had let 65 lakh tonnes of grains go to waste.
  
  Entertainment
  
  Hindustani Bhau says influential people calling him to ‘sit and talk’ after he filed complaint against Ekta Kapoor on inappropriate sex scene in web...
  
  OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020
  
  Vikas Pathak aka Hindustani Bhau shared a video on Instagram on Tuesday alleging that he is getting calls from several "big people" who are requesting him to talk and solve the issue.
  
  Media
  
  Scientist Anand Ranganathan exposes hate, selectivity, lies, and propaganda of ‘kitty party journalist’ Saba Naqvi. Watch video
  
  OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020
  
  Saba Naqvi, a troll masquerading as a 'journalist' had an embarrassing moment on TV on Tuesday as her propaganda and lies got exposed on national television.
Variety
- All Books Culture and History Satire
  
  Culture and History
  
  Comparing African Americans to Muslims in India is like reading history upside down
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 3 June, 2020
  
  In other words, Indian ‘secularism’ has been a yoke on nearly everyone’s shoulders. On the shoulders of Hindus, backward castes, women, LGBTQ, the poor. Indian ‘secularism’ has only ever helped Islamist patriarchy.
  
  News Reports
  
  Buddhist rock carvings vandalised by Islamists in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan flag painted on ancient artwork
  
  OpIndia Staff - 30 May, 2020
  
  Islamists vandalise Buddhist rock carvings in Gilgit-Baltistan by writing Islamic slogans on the rock-art from 800 AD.
  
  Books
  
  Nightmare of Nehruism – a ‘tribute’ to Jawahar Lal Nehru by Sita Ram Goel
  
  OpIndia Staff - 27 May, 2020
  
  Excerpts from the book "How I became a Hindu" by Sita Ram Goel in which he talks about how he felt about independent India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Nehruism.
  
  Opinions
  
  Praṇavārth: Brahman, Manifested
  
  Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar - 25 May, 2020
  
  Praṇava (प्रणव) - ॐ holds a position of paramount importance in Dharma.
Specials
- All Interviews OpIndia Explains OpIndia Scoops
  
  OpIndia Explains
  
  As in US, so in India: Antifa in India glorifies Naxalism, advocates violence against Sanghis and engages in genocidal rhetoric
  
  K Bhattacharjee - 1 June, 2020
  
  India cannot afford to take the threat of Antifa India lightly. India has been waging a war against Red Terror for decades.
  
  OpIndia Explains
  
  India must take a firm stand while holding dialogue over LAC: History of conflict, China’s devious motives and the fear behind the curtain
  
  Lt Gen Abhay Krishna - 1 June, 2020
  
  Under the prevailing geo political situation today, India, must adopt a firm stand drawing a red line at all levels while progressing with any dialogue over LAC with China
  
  News Reports
  
  Amidst pandemic and untold suffering, the circle of life continues: 31 births in Shramik trains amidst Lockdown
  
  Nupur J Sharma - 28 May, 2020
  
  Lakhs of migrant labourers have been transported back to their home states in special Shramik Trains that have been started by the Government of India.
  
  Interviews
  
  Ultimately, we are all in this together: Psephologist Pradeep Bhandari talks about his month long ground reporting on coronavirus and migrant crisis
  
  OpIndia Staff - 21 May, 2020
  
  Psephologist Pradeep Bhandari traveled for over a month to understand and get to the bottom of the ground realities of the migrant crisis. In conversation with OpIndia, Bhandari talks about how the governments fared and what more they could do to mitigate the crisis.
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Food Corporation of India fact-checks Scroll, calls out its deliberately misleading report claiming 65 lakh tonnes food grains wasted amid lockdown

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

The FCI has slammed Scroll after the latter published a report claiming that India had let 65 lakh tonnes of grains go to waste.

Family of deceased Coronavirus positive doctor says that reports of him having to wait 10 hours in Mumbai hospital to get a bed is...

OpIndia Staff - 4 June, 2020

Deceased Mumbai doctor Chittaranjan Bhave's daughter says he didn't had to wait 10 hours to get COVID-19 treatment as per reports

Internet security firm Malwarebytes Labs report says coronavirus campaigns causing a surge in malware attacks

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

Tech security report says cyber criminals are using work from home and coronavirus campaigns to launch malware attacks

Civil liberties group sues US President Donald Trump for his executive order to regulate social media, alleges the order curbs free speech

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

NGO Centre for Democracy and Technology files federal lawsuit against Donald Trump's order to regulate social media

Maharashtra governor overrules CM Uddhav Thackeray’s decision to cancel final year university exams, calls it ‘violations of University Act’

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

Maharashtra CM in an address to the State on Sunday evening announced that the state had no choice but to promote final-year students based without exams

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, nurses of AIIMS Delhi continue to protest for better facilities

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

The Union of nurses in AIIMS Delhi is demanding better facilities for nursing staff especially female staffers

Indian Railways refunds Rs 1,885 crore to passengers against cancellation of trains due to coronavirus lockdown

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

On May 21, Indian Railways had announced to restart services of 200 passenger trains that it will operate from June 1.

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News Reports

The Wire report claims Tripura govt paid less amount to students for mid-day meal scheme, data shows govt paid 50% more

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

Tripura govt debunks The Wire report saying less amount was paid to students under mid-day meal scheme during lockdown

News Reports

Delhi anti-Hindu riots: Tablighi Jamaat, PFI, Jamia links emerge as Delhi Police files charge sheet

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

The Tablighi Jamaat links have emerged in the charge-sheet filed by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police pertaining to violence in Shiv Vihar area during the Anti-Hindu riots in Delhi.

News Reports

Amul pumped in Rs 8,000 crore back into rural economy during lockdown, increased milk collection by 15% with seamless supply chain

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

Dairy cooperative AMUL stood tall as the coronavirus crisis hit the country and against all odds managed to ensure that milk distribution is not impaired and supply chain management is seamless.

News Reports

LGBT Community condemns pride march at Lal Chowk, abandons Pride Kashmir even as radical Muslims give them death threats

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

LGBT Community is now saying that holding pride marches during pride month is worthy of condemnation.

Opinions

‘Muslim Lives Matter’ at a time of BLM: Biggest lesson from this development is that Indian liberals and Western progressives are devotees of the...

K Bhattacharjee - 3 June, 2020

Indian liberals decided that it was a good opportunity to equate Indian Muslims with the Black population in the USA and trend 'Muslim Lives Matter'.

News Reports

IB officer Ankit Sharma was specifically targeted by a mob led by Tahir Hussain, deep-rooted conspiracy behind the murder: Charge-sheet by Delhi Police

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

According to charge-sheet by Delhi POlice, Ankit Sharma was specifically targeted by a mob led by suspended AAP leader Tahir Hussain

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