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Friday, May 14, 2021

Politics
- News Reports
  
  VHP says more than 3500 villages and 40000 plus Hindus affected by Bengal violence, urges judiciary to take note
  
  OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021
  
  VHP urged the Courts to protect the citizens and accordingly direct the Mamata Banerjee government and the local administration.
  
  News Reports
  
  Journalists join hands with Congress trolls to spread propaganda against BJP over Delhi High Court ordered probe by police
  
  OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021
  
  Journalists blame BJP after Youth Congress president Srinivas B V questioned by Delhi Police on the orders of Delhi High Court
  
  News Reports
  
  West Bengal: BJP MP Subhas Sarkar attacked with stones and bricks in Bankura, BJP blames TMC goons
  
  OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021
  
  BJP MP Subhas Sarkar was attacked allegedly by TMC workers while he was going to meet farmers in Patalkhuri village
  
  Editor's picks
  
  ‘Delhi’s govt was just complaining, not trying to handle logistics of oxygen supply’: Director of INOX
  
  OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021
  
  Jain said that the central government's job is to inform these manufacturers to produce a certain amount of oxygen, which they did and made a chart for each state with specific volume allocation.
  
  News Reports
  
  While Rahul Gandhi demands centralised vaccine purchase, Karnataka Congress demands permission to purchase vaccines directly
  
  OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021
  
  Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar demanded permission to buy vaccines directly using MLA/MLC funds and party fund
Opinions
- Opinions
  
  Massive Eid gatherings show the futility of lockdown during the second wave of the pandemic in India, it is time to lift them now
  
  K Bhattacharjee - 14 May, 2021
  
  The Muslim community across the world is celebrating Eid ul-Fitr today. With it, the holy month of Ramadan comes to an end.
  
  News Reports
  
  Kejriwal govt sets aside Rs 50 crores for free vaccination of Delhi residents, while spending far more on PR: Details
  
  Jinit Jain - 14 May, 2021
  
  While AAP government in Delhi spent Rs 150 crores on PR from Jan to March, it has only allocated Rs 50 crores for the free vaccination of Delhi's 2 crore population.
  
  Opinions
  
  The façade of Indian secularism: How the uncomfortable truth about realities of Sanatanis is hidden by Lutyens ecosystem
  
  Vinayak - 13 May, 2021
  
  The neatly ordered world according to the Nehruvian idea of India is nothing more than brushing the rubbish under the carpet and pretending upon the cleanliness while ignoring the fact that someday the rubbish will overflow the bounds of the rug.
  
  Opinions
  
  Israel: Here is why the average Hindu supports them
  
  mrityunjay - 13 May, 2021
  
  Israel has no history of animosity against India and her citizens and Israel has stood during India in thick and thin.
  
  Political History of India
  
  Jawaharlal Nehru: History has been kinder to him because he rewrote it
  
  Vinayak - 13 May, 2021
  
  Even in the Macaulay tinted version of history parroted by the Congress his contributions pale in comparison to Mohandas Gandhi who too benefited from the same.
Fact-Check
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  News Reports
  
  Did the Modi govt approve Covaxin for 12-year-olds? Here is the truth
  
  OpIndia Staff - 10 May, 2021
  
  As of May 10, a total of 17,01,76,603 vaccine doses have been administered according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
  
  Fact-Check
  
  Did BJP leader Tejasvi Surya ‘apologise’ for his alleged ‘communal’ remarks on the BBMP bed scam? Here are the facts
  
  Shashank Bharadwaj - 8 May, 2021
  
  After Tejasvi Surya took the names of 17 employees in the BBMP case who are Muslims, Congress party and media houses had attacked him
  
  News Reports
  
  Turkish govt-owned news portal publishes misleading photograph with Indian Covid stats
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2021
  
  Photograph of Nepalese cremation ground passed as India's while publishing Covid-19 stats by Turkish News outlet TRT World
  
  Fact-Check
  
  Scroll journalist mischievously shares misleading, old report to insinuate that union govt is funding a trial of using Gayatri Mantra to treat Covid-19
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2021
  
  While AIIMS Rishikesh is testing using gayatri mantra along with usual treatment for Covid-19, fake news claims it as standalone treatment
Media
- News Reports
  
  ‘We were used by media, everyone from DM to CMO helped’: Family of RSS worker who died of COVID denies The Print report of...
  
  OpIndia Staff - 13 May, 2021
  
  Phone call recordings expose lies of The Print alleging that RSS worker didn't get help from govt before dying of Covid-19
  
  Media
  
  Shekhar Gupta’s ThePrint indulges in tragedy porn while emotionally manipulating a grieving family of RSS worker
  
  Jinit Jain - 12 May, 2021
  
  Instead of giving a distressed family some space and letting them grieve the loss of a loved one, Gupta sends his vultures to settle political scores.
  
  Opinions
  
  Here are 12 instances when the leftist media fanned fear against vaccines just before the second Covid wave
  
  Jinit Jain - 12 May, 2021
  
  Leftist propaganda websites hosted articles that raised doubts about Indian vaccines, thereby fuelling vaccine hesitancy in the months leading to the resurgent coronavirus outbreak.
  
  News Reports
  
  Washington Post and DW News resort to vulture journalism, criticised by netizens for ‘promoting’ India’s Covid crisis on Twitter
  
  Dibakar Dutta - 11 May, 2021
  
  Social Media users slammed Washington Post and DW for 'selling human tragedy' for cash.
  
  News Reports
  
  How Rajdeep Sardesai, a self-declared vulture, defended UAPA accused Natasha Narwal who is under trial for Delhi anti-Hindu riots
  
  OpIndia Staff - 10 May, 2021
  
  Rajdeep Sardesai and others have been using the death of her father to stir sympathy for UAPA accused Natasha Narwal, claiming that her arrest was wrongful.
Variety
- All Books Culture and History Satire WTF News
  
  Opinions
  
  Islamists praise Hitler while cursing Israel, but did you know that Hitler wished he were a Muslim too?
  
  T Waraich - 13 May, 2021
  
  "The Mohammedan religion would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?" Hitler is quoted as saying,
  
  News Reports
  
  China: Strong wind blows away floor panels in 100m high glass bridge, tourist left clinging to railings
  
  OpIndia Staff - 11 May, 2021
  
  The incident took place in Piyan Mountain near the city of Longjing in China.
  
  Opinions
  
  Manoj Das the storyteller: Alive forever, in a million smiles and a million memories
  
  Sanghamitra - 4 May, 2021
  
  How does something as insignificant, and as regular as death binds a writer who is alive in a thousand stories.
  
  WTF News
  
  Worried because his hens stopped laying eggs, a poultry farmer in Pune approaches police
  
  OpIndia Staff - 23 April, 2021
  
  The Pune poultry farmer said that his hens stopped laying eggs after consuming the feed manuactured by a particular firm in Ahmednagar
Specials
- All Interviews OpIndia Explains OpIndia Scoops
  
  News Reports
  
  While Delhi govt was alleging inadequate oxygen supply, data show it was returning oxygen to suppliers, asked them to store the excess
  
  OpIndia Staff - 13 May, 2021
  
  Due to lack of storage plants and not enough demand, Delhi govt had returned oxygen and asked the suppliers to store them
  
  OpIndia Explains
  
  No documents or ID proof? Here is how the vulnerable section of the society will get their COVID vaccine
  
  Nirwa Mehta - 12 May, 2021
  
  How will the vulnerable population of India who do not have a valid ID proof get Coronavirus vaccine? Ministry has a prescribed procedure for it
  
  News Reports
  
  Herman Knippenberg – The Dutch diplomat who sent the ‘Serpent’ Charles Sobhraj behind bars
  
  Anurag - 12 May, 2021
  
  Herman Knippenberg was a Dutch diplomate in Thailand who had gathered vital information about Charles Sobhraj in Bangkok
  
  News Reports
  
  Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ Air Defence System: What is it and how does it work
  
  Shashank Bharadwaj - 12 May, 2021
  
  To counter the low-cost warfare initiated by Hamas, the Israel Defence Forces has activated its state-of-art air defence system - 'Iron Dome' to protect its civilian population from the barrage of rockets.
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Israel used deceptions to lead Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives into the tunnels in Gaza Strip before bombing them

OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021

Israel misled Hamas into believing that there will be ground attack, when the operatives went into the tunnels, IDF bombed them

VHP says more than 3500 villages and 40000 plus Hindus affected by Bengal violence, urges judiciary to take note

OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021

VHP urged the Courts to protect the citizens and accordingly direct the Mamata Banerjee government and the local administration.

Pro-Palestine protesters from Jordan and Lebanon attempt to infiltrate into Israeli territory, IDF tanks fire warning shots

OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021

Protesters from Jordan are trying to cross over to the West Bank through the King Hussain bridge amidst the conflict with Israel.

Rajasthan: Large gathering in Dungarpur mosque for Eid Namaz busted by police

OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021

The Ashok Gehlot-led government has imposed a strict two-week lockdown in the state from May 10 to May 24 in the state.

‘No country can manage the astronomical numbers that India has’: Dr Devi Shetty hails govt’s Covid handling

OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021

Even if we present this to the US government, there is no way they can manage it … forget any other country. These are astronomical numbers that no country in the world has the infrastructure to manage," said Dr Shetty.

Will Param Bir Singh get arrested? Maharashtra govt says won’t arrest till May 20th, state to file response: Details

OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021

In April, inspector Bhimrao Ghadge had levelled serious corruption allegations against Param Bir Singh and the other officials

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In Focus

Journalists join hands with Congress trolls to spread propaganda against BJP over Delhi High Court ordered probe by police

News Reports

OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021

Journalists blame BJP after Youth Congress president Srinivas B V questioned by Delhi Police on the orders of Delhi High Court

Editor's Picks

News Reports

Read how RSS volunteers turned a defunct, British-era hospital, lying unused for over 2 decades, into a 200-bed COVID-19 facility

OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021

Volunteers of the Sangh Parivar, BJP and other organisations cleaned up the defunct KGF hospital in Karnataka to handle COVID-19 crisis

Opinions

Massive Eid gatherings show the futility of lockdown during the second wave of the pandemic in India, it is time to lift them now

K Bhattacharjee - 14 May, 2021

The Muslim community across the world is celebrating Eid ul-Fitr today. With it, the holy month of Ramadan comes to an end.

‘Delhi’s govt was just complaining, not trying to handle logistics of oxygen supply’: Director of INOX

OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021

Jain said that the central government's job is to inform these manufacturers to produce a certain amount of oxygen, which they did and made a chart for each state with specific volume allocation.

News Reports

Dr.Reddy’s commences rollout of Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines, to be priced at Rs 995.40 per dose

OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021

Deepak Sapra, the global head of Custom Pharma Services at Dr Reddy's Lab became the first person to receive the Sputnik V shot at Hyderabad today.

News Reports

Kejriwal govt sets aside Rs 50 crores for free vaccination of Delhi residents, while spending far more on PR: Details

Jinit Jain - 14 May, 2021

While AAP government in Delhi spent Rs 150 crores on PR from Jan to March, it has only allocated Rs 50 crores for the free vaccination of Delhi's 2 crore population.

News Reports

Israel Defence Forces debunk propaganda peddled by Palestinian supporters, explain how Hamas is causing death of Gazan civilians

OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021

Israel Defence Forces informed that about 1,750 rockets have been fired at the Jewish State by terror outfits such as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Coronavirus
Latest status and reports from India

India

24,062,205

Total cases

Updated on 14 May, 2021 8:20 PM

India

20,079,599

Recovered

Updated on 14 May, 2021 8:20 PM

India

262,425

Deaths

Updated on 14 May, 2021 8:20 PM

Data automatically updated from this public source

161,950,581

Updated on 14 May, 2021 8:20 PM

Opinions

The façade of Indian secularism: How the uncomfortable truth about realities of Sanatanis is hidden by Lutyens ecosystem

Vinayak - 13 May, 2021

The neatly ordered world according to the Nehruvian idea of India is nothing more than brushing the rubbish under the carpet and pretending upon the cleanliness while ignoring the fact that someday the rubbish will overflow the bounds of the rug.

Israel: Here is why the average Hindu supports them

mrityunjay - 13 May, 2021

Israel has no history of animosity against India and her citizens and Israel has stood during India in thick and thin.

Jawaharlal Nehru: History has been kinder to him because he rewrote it

Political History of India

Vinayak - 13 May, 2021

Even in the Macaulay tinted version of history parroted by the Congress his contributions pale in comparison to Mohandas Gandhi who too benefited from the same.

Here are 12 instances when the leftist media fanned fear against vaccines just before the second Covid wave

Opinions

Jinit Jain - 12 May, 2021

Leftist propaganda websites hosted articles that raised doubts about Indian vaccines, thereby fuelling vaccine hesitancy in the months leading to the resurgent coronavirus outbreak.

Samajwadi Party’s Covid politics: Why they want to derail the vaccination drive in Uttar Pradesh

Opinions

Shantanu Gupta - 11 May, 2021

Akhilesh Yadav sent a very irresponsible message to his followers, that this is 'BJP’s vaccine' and 'I will not take this vaccine'.

As ‘farmer leaders’ distance themselves, Tikri gangrape incident shows the dark side of “activism”

Opinions

Abhishek Banerjee - 11 May, 2021

In today’s world, activism is a full time job in itself. The only thing it is missing is proper regulation, with benefits and protections for everyone involved.

Politics

West Bengal: BJP MP Subhas Sarkar attacked with stones and bricks in Bankura, BJP blames TMC goons

OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021

BJP MP Subhas Sarkar was attacked allegedly by TMC workers while he was going to meet farmers in Patalkhuri village

While Rahul Gandhi demands centralised vaccine purchase, Karnataka Congress demands permission to purchase vaccines directly

News Reports OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021

Chhattisgarh health minister who had spread vaccine hesitancy against Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin now takes the same jab

News Reports OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021

West Bengal: Another BJP worker from Nandigram killed in post-poll violence, Suvendu Adhikari pays tribute

News Reports OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021

After backlash from Islamists, Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan and Congress leader Oommen Chandy edit their Facebook posts condemning Palestinians for nurse’s death

News Reports OpIndia Staff - 13 May, 2021

WB Governor’s decision to visit Assam to meet victims of TMC violence irks Mamata Banerjee, ‘orders’ to ‘refrain from surpassing CM’

News Reports OpIndia Staff - 13 May, 2021

French President Macron’s party bans hijab wearing candidate to contest election, says hijab on election poster goes against secularism

World OpIndia Staff - 13 May, 2021

Congress president Sonia Gandhi ‘took note’ of Saamana editorial view over party’s poll debacle in Assam, West Bengal and Kerala, claims Shiv Sena

News Reports OpIndia Staff - 12 May, 2021

Rani Ahilyabai Holkar’s family writes to Maha CM, objects to Sanjay Raut’s attempt to compare Mamata Banerjee with the great queen

News Reports OpIndia Staff - 12 May, 2021

Fact-Check

Did the Modi govt approve Covaxin for 12-year-olds? Here is the truth

Did BJP leader Tejasvi Surya ‘apologise’ for his alleged ‘communal’ remarks on the BBMP bed scam? Here are the facts

Turkish govt-owned news portal publishes misleading photograph with Indian Covid stats

Scroll journalist mischievously shares misleading, old report to insinuate that union govt is funding a trial of using Gayatri Mantra to treat Covid-19

Media

News ReportsOpIndia Staff - 13 May, 2021

‘We were used by media, everyone from DM to CMO helped’: Family of RSS worker who died of COVID denies The Print report of...

Phone call recordings expose lies of The Print alleging that RSS worker didn't get help from govt before dying of Covid-19

MediaJinit Jain - 12 May, 2021

Shekhar Gupta’s ThePrint indulges in tragedy porn while emotionally manipulating a grieving family of RSS worker

Instead of giving a distressed family some space and letting them grieve the loss of a loved one, Gupta sends his vultures to settle political scores.

News ReportsDibakar Dutta - 11 May, 2021

Washington Post and DW News resort to vulture journalism, criticised by netizens for ‘promoting’ India’s Covid crisis on Twitter

Social Media users slammed Washington Post and DW for 'selling human tragedy' for cash.

News ReportsOpIndia Staff - 10 May, 2021

How Rajdeep Sardesai, a self-declared vulture, defended UAPA accused Natasha Narwal who is under trial for Delhi anti-Hindu riots

Rajdeep Sardesai and others have been using the death of her father to stir sympathy for UAPA accused Natasha Narwal, claiming that her arrest was wrongful.

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News Reports

While Delhi govt was alleging inadequate oxygen supply, data show it was returning oxygen to suppliers, asked them to store the excess

OpIndia Staff - 13 May, 2021

Due to lack of storage plants and not enough demand, Delhi govt had returned oxygen and asked the suppliers to store them

News Reports

Herman Knippenberg – The Dutch diplomat who sent the ‘Serpent’ Charles Sobhraj behind bars

Anurag - 12 May, 2021

Herman Knippenberg was a Dutch diplomate in Thailand who had gathered vital information about Charles Sobhraj in Bangkok

News Reports

Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ Air Defence System: What is it and how does it work

Shashank Bharadwaj - 12 May, 2021

To counter the low-cost warfare initiated by Hamas, the Israel Defence Forces has activated its state-of-art air defence system - 'Iron Dome' to protect its civilian population from the barrage of rockets.

News Reports

Islamist Sharjeel Usmani jumps on the BDS bandwagon: All you need to know about the movement against Israel

OpIndia Staff - 11 May, 2021

Sharjeel Usmani has jumped on the BDS movement bandwagon and has asked people to boycott brands such as Puma and HP.

News Reports

Activist who raised questions about Hemkunt Foundation’s funding and donations faces abuses, death threats

OpIndia Staff - 11 May, 2021

Yuvraj Pokharna, one of the activists who raised questions against Hemkunt Foundation's fundraiser is getting abuses and threats on social media and phone.