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Sunday, June 7, 2020

Politics
- OpIndia Scoops
  
  A South African anti-racism campaign, the inexplicable presence of Congress leader Anand Sharma and how Indian interests may be compromised
  
  Nupur J Sharma - 6 June, 2020
  
  7 out of 8 of those panelists belonged to South Africa, however, there was one name that did not add up - Anand Sharma, Congress leader.
  
  Politics
  
  Gujarat: Ahead of Rajya Sabha polls, Congress moves its MLAs to resorts
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020
  
  The Election Commission (EC) has now finalised the polling of four Rajya Sabha seats in Gujarat on June 19.
  
  News Reports
  
  This is not the first time Arvind Kejriwal has said he doesn’t watch Rahul Kanwal’s shows, here is an incident from 2014
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020
  
  Arvind Kejrowal rejects the claim of India Today journalist Rahul Kanwal that he watched his program on Delhi hospitals
  
  News Reports
  
  Congress leader Archana Dalmia passes off an old image from 2017 as recent one, deletes it after being caught
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020
  
  Archana Dalmia claimed that the woman had died by the railway tracks of the MP's Damoh and she was spotted by people in the state
  
  News Reports
  
  Communist Party is ‘both a court and police station’: Kerala women’s panel chief MC Josephine courts controversy
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020
  
  State Women’s Commission chairperson MC Josephine kicked up a controversy after she claimed that her party Communist Party of India (Marxist) was both a court and a police station
Opinions
- Entertainment
  
  On the need for making “The Judge” – A movie on Love Jihad and the typical ‘liberal’ reaction of Hindus to the issue
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020
  
  Maker of The Judge explains why he made a movie on Love Jihad, a topic not touched by mainstream movie makers
  
  Media Fact-Check
  
  Congress mouthpiece says ‘Muslims have sat quiet and subdued’: Here is how they are wrong and how their dog-whistling might not work
  
  K Bhattacharjee - 5 June, 2020
  
  National Herald published an article that said that the first year of Modi Sarkar 2.0 has been the 'worst possible year' for Muslims in the country.
  
  Opinions
  
  Tiananmen Massacre to Communist attacks on Indian people: A saga of hate, hypocrisy and violence
  
  Guest Author - 4 June, 2020
  
  Thousands of students were killed in broad daylight by the Chinese government to curb dissenting voices in the Tiananmen Square Massacre
  
  Opinions
  
  The Tiananmen Square Massacre: June the 4th 1989 when the Communist Party of China brutally crushed an anti-establishment mass movement
  
  Guest Author - 4 June, 2020
  
  The Tiananmen Square Massacre, also known as the June 4th incident which took place in the year 1989, is regarded as one of the darkest phase in the history of China.
  
  Political History of India
  
  Tiananmen Square Massacre: The heinous face of communism
  
  Guest Author - 4 June, 2020
  
  The Tiananmen Square Massacre was one of the most heinous chapters of the World's political history and it is imperative that it is remembered for what it was
Fact-Check
- All Media Fact-Check Political Fact-Check Social Media Fact-Check
  
  News Reports
  
  Congress leader Archana Dalmia passes off an old image from 2017 as recent one, deletes it after being caught
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020
  
  Archana Dalmia claimed that the woman had died by the railway tracks of the MP's Damoh and she was spotted by people in the state
  
  News Reports
  
  News of Chhota Bheem ditching Chutki to marry princess Indumati is fake, clarifies maker of animated show after netizens outrage over ‘betrayal’ by Bheem
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020
  
  Netizens launch #JusticeForChutki campaign after news spread that Chhota Bheem is ditching best friend Chutki to marry princess Indumati
  
  Media Fact-Check
  
  No, Jyotiraditya Scindia has not ‘removed BJP’ from his Twitter bio: Here is the truth
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020
  
  Media claimed that Jyotiraditya Scindia, the former Congress leader who is now with the BJP, had removed his association with the BJP from his Twitter bio.
  
  Media Fact-Check
  
  How AltNews ‘fact-checked’ the pregnant elephant story to shield Muslim suspects, quietly changed copy but continued to peddle agenda
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020
  
  AltNews tried to 'fact-check' the brutal incident that resulted in the death of an elephant in Kerala with the aim to shield the Muslim suspects
Media
- News Reports
  
  Shekhar Gupta peddles anti-Brahmin narrative accusing Brahmins of enjoying imaginary privileges
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020
  
  If 'Brahmin Bashing' was ever a sport, perhaps the 'liberal-secular' Shekhar Gupta and his ilks in the media would have won a medal
  
  News Reports
  
  FIR registered against Ekta Kapoor and others on charges of hurting religious sentiments and insulting army personnel in erotic web series XXX
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020
  
  The complainant Neeraj Yagnik said that he registered a complaint after he noted that there has been objectionable use of national emblem and army uniform in the web series.
  
  News Reports
  
  Defence Ministry advises media to refrain from any speculative and unsubstantiated reporting on India-China border situation
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020
  
  Defence ministry said that any speculative reporting about India-China border situation would not be helpful
  
  News Reports
  
  This is not the first time Arvind Kejriwal has said he doesn’t watch Rahul Kanwal’s shows, here is an incident from 2014
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020
  
  Arvind Kejrowal rejects the claim of India Today journalist Rahul Kanwal that he watched his program on Delhi hospitals
  
  Media Fact-Check
  
  No, Jyotiraditya Scindia has not ‘removed BJP’ from his Twitter bio: Here is the truth
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020
  
  Media claimed that Jyotiraditya Scindia, the former Congress leader who is now with the BJP, had removed his association with the BJP from his Twitter bio.
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 Scoops
  
  A South African anti-racism campaign, the inexplicable presence of Congress leader Anand Sharma and how Indian interests may be compromised
  
  Nupur J Sharma - 6 June, 2020
  
  7 out of 8 of those panelists belonged to South Africa, however, there was one name that did not add up - Anand Sharma, Congress leader.
  
  OpIndia Explains
  
  Is Safoora Zargar being unfairly kept in jail while she is pregnant? Here is what the law says
  
  OpIndia Staff - 5 June, 2020
  
  Safoora Zargar was denied bail and liberals on social media have been calling the order 'remorseless' and 'shameful'.
  
  OpIndia Explains
  
  Wikipedia vs OpIndia: The crusade launched against OpIndia by Wiki, the left-bias and the players involved
  
  Nupur J Sharma - 4 June, 2020
  
  This is a question that OpIndia has often been asked - why is the Wiki page of OpIndia so negative, and the answer is rather simple - We dared to take on the Leftists
  
  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.
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In Focus

A South African anti-racism campaign, the inexplicable presence of Congress leader Anand Sharma and how Indian interests may be compromised

Nupur J Sharma - 6 June, 2020

7 out of 8 of those panelists belonged to South Africa, however, there was one name that did not add up - Anand Sharma, Congress leader.

Shekhar Gupta peddles anti-Brahmin narrative accusing Brahmins of enjoying imaginary privileges

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020

If 'Brahmin Bashing' was ever a sport, perhaps the 'liberal-secular' Shekhar Gupta and his ilks in the media would have won a medal

FIR registered against Ekta Kapoor and others on charges of hurting religious sentiments and insulting army personnel in erotic web series XXX

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020

The complainant Neeraj Yagnik said that he registered a complaint after he noted that there has been objectionable use of national emblem and army uniform in the web series.

Netizens flag inflammatory posts inciting violence by a man named Afsaar Bhai, demand intervention from UP CM Yogi Adityanath and UP Police

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020

Citing chaotic protests in the US, the man incited violence by calling for a fresh wave of violent protests, more gory than the previous ones

NIA arrests key terror-funding plotter Abdul Jabbar Sheikh in 2019 Vishakhapatnam espionage case from Mumbai

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020

Abdul Rehman Abdul Jabbar Sheikh is the 15th person to be arrested in the Vishakhapatnam Indian Navy espionage case

‘American filmmaker Cynthia Ritchie told me that Pakistan PM Imran Khan wanted to have sex with her’: Pakistani TV host

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020

Cynthia alleged that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is spreading fake news against her and called Ali Saleem a nice guy but misguided

13-year-old Madurai girl convinces her hairdresser father to donate entire savings to help the needy during Coronavirus lockdown

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020

Despite harrowing experience of losing everything 7 years ago, Mohan distributed grocery and essential items to the poor during lockdown

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News Reports

This is not the first time Arvind Kejriwal has said he doesn’t watch Rahul Kanwal’s shows, here is an incident from 2014

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020

Arvind Kejrowal rejects the claim of India Today journalist Rahul Kanwal that he watched his program on Delhi hospitals

Government and Policy

A tale of 2 contradictory orders: How Arvind Kejriwal govt made the Coronavirus fight impossible for doctors at Ganga Ram Hospital

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020

Reportedly, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital would test 150-170 Coronavirus samples and conduct 30-40 surgeries per day, prior to the government order.

News Reports

Celebrities have commercialised dissent in India, they say ‘BlackLivesMatter’ while endorsing racist fairness creams: Kangana Ranaut

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020

Kangana Ranaut slams celebrities for speaking on 'Black Lives Matter' while staying silent on incidents like Palghar lynching

Media Fact-Check

No, Jyotiraditya Scindia has not ‘removed BJP’ from his Twitter bio: Here is the truth

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020

Media claimed that Jyotiraditya Scindia, the former Congress leader who is now with the BJP, had removed his association with the BJP from his Twitter bio.

Media Fact-Check

How AltNews ‘fact-checked’ the pregnant elephant story to shield Muslim suspects, quietly changed copy but continued to peddle agenda

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020

AltNews tried to 'fact-check' the brutal incident that resulted in the death of an elephant in Kerala with the aim to shield the Muslim suspects

News Reports

US filmmaker says former Pakistan minister Rehman Malik raped her, former PM Yousaf Raza Gilani manhandled her: Watch

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2020

Cynthia D. Ritchie said that sexual assault against her by Senator Rehman Malik had happened occurred at Interior Minister's residence in 2011

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