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Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Politics
- News Reports
  
  Gold smuggling case: Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan distances himself and the state government from the raging controversy
  
  OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020
  
  Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan pointed out that the said parcel came to the UAE consulate and that the Kerala government had nothing whatsoever to do with it.
  
  News Reports
  
  West Bengal: TMC suspends 18 panchayat members over corruption in disbursement of cyclone Amphan funds
  
  OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020
  
  "We are rectifying the discrepancies in fund allocation. Every affected family will receive the monetary relief,” TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee was recently quoted as saying.
  
  News Reports
  
  ‘China is not a hostile power’: Former advisor to PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee downplays Chinese aggression, calls campaign to boycott Chinese products ‘stupid’
  
  OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020
  
  Kulkarni even encourages Indians to seek inspiration from China's achievements, amidst the border standoff at the Line of Actual Control.
  
  News Reports
  
  After praising India’s TikTok ban, Mike Pompeo says the USA may also ban Chinese social media apps
  
  OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020
  
  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has stated that his country is also exploring options to ban Chinese apps, including TikTok that threat data security.
  
  Politics
  
  Shiv Sainiks to launch ‘chaddi-baniyan’ protest against their own govt in Maharashtra to oppose inflated electricity bills
  
  Jinit Jain - 6 July, 2020
  
  Shiv Sena members donning briefs and vests are planning to launch a protest against govt in Maharashtra against the unusually high electricity bills
Opinions
- Opinions
  
  How Mumbai’s long-awaited dream of IFSC status is nowhere near complete and Gandhinagar secured IFSC status
  
  Guest Author - 7 July, 2020
  
  Manmohan Singh announced in 2004 that Mumbai would be turned into Shasnghai. However, that did not happen.
  
  Opinions
  
  In defence of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra, and no, this is not satire
  
  Nupur J Sharma - 6 July, 2020
  
  After spending 6 years trying to orchestrate the "coming of age of Rahul Gandhi", there are sections within the Left ecosystem that are visibly frustrated with him.
  
  Politics
  
  “Jahaan hue balidaan Mookherjee, wo Kashmir hamara hai”: Remembering Dr S P Mookherjee on first birth anniversary after abrogation of Article 370
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 6 July, 2020
  
  Today is July 6, the birth anniversary of Dr S P Mookherjee, the first one sine this dream was fulfilled. And it is extremely special.
  
  Politics
  
  Politics and Instagram generation: Of memes, misinformation and whole lot of misguided youth
  
  Nirwa Mehta - 5 July, 2020
  
  The newer generation seems as clueless about politics as the current opposition leaders.
  
  News Reports
  
  Dog Meat Ban in Nagaland incites accusation of ‘cultural imperialism’, ‘food fascism’, shows how liberal imperialism can deepen fault-lines in the country
  
  K Bhattacharjee - 5 July, 2020
  
  The ban on dog meat in Nagaland has sparked cultural anxieties in the north eastern state, which may fuel existing separatist feelings
Fact-Check
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  Media Fact-Check
  
  The Wire’s claims that NCPCR saw 8-fold increase in complaints post-Coronavirus outbreak are false: Read details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020
  
  The Wire has recently been trying to milk the coronavirus pandemic to cast aspersions on Modi government
  
  Media Fact-Check
  
  Central govt rejects Business Standard report on the merger of CBDT and CBIC, schools the newspaper on journalism
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 July, 2020
  
  Business Standard had published an article claiming that the central government is mulling over the merger of CBDT and CBIC as a part of its austerity drive to reduce the costs amidst coronavirus pandemic
  
  News Reports
  
  Guardian falsely claims China built radar tower near Pangong Tso lake in last few weeks: Read details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 4 July, 2020
  
  Satellite images and media reports show that China had built radar station near Pangong Tso lake years ago, not recently as Guardian claims
  
  News Reports
  
  Congress leaders and anti-BJP trolls spread fake news that Modi’s visit to Leh military hospital was staged: Here are the facts
  
  OpIndia Staff - 4 July, 2020
  
  The Conference Hall of the Leh Army Hospital has been convereted into a ward for soldiers with minor injuries, that does not mean it is fake
Media
- Media Fact-Check
  
  The Wire’s claims that NCPCR saw 8-fold increase in complaints post-Coronavirus outbreak are false: Read details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020
  
  The Wire has recently been trying to milk the coronavirus pandemic to cast aspersions on Modi government
  
  Media
  
  ‘You work to protect Islamist terrorists, you’re anti-Hindu and anti-India’: Read Kapil Mishra’s response to The Quint
  
  OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020
  
  Responding to The Quint journalist, he said that in his personal opinion Quint is anti-India and anti-Hindu and biased against the truth.
  
  Law
  
  SC tears into lawyer for approaching apex court accusing it of biased in listing Arnab Goswami case for urgent hearing: Here is what transpired
  
  OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020
  
  The SC had granted three-week interim protection to the Arnab Goswami against multiple FIRs filed against him by the Congress
  
  Media
  
  Rajdeep Sardesai tries to claim Nehru’s Himalayan Blunder is a ‘narrative’. Here is how Nehru failed against China
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 July, 2020
  
  Speaking on the current situation in Ladakh over the faceoff with China, Sardesai claimed that the ghost of Nehru still haunts the BJP.
  
  Media
  
  Journalists with The Wire and The Hindu indulge in brazen Hinduphobia, cast aspersions over Lord Hanuman’s sexual orientation
  
  OpIndia Staff - 4 July, 2020
  
  It appears that the only prerequisite to having gainful employment with the notorious leftist websites such as ‘The Wire’ and 'The Hindu' is to harbour and manifest Hinduphobic views.
Variety
- All Books Culture and History Satire
  
  Culture and History
  
  Nindāstuti: A Dharmic Paradigm of Devotion through Apparent Censure
  
  Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar - 7 July, 2020
  
  Nindāstuti is a form of Shleshakavya - a poetic composition that is laden with double-entendres and is looked upon as a form of Dvesha-bhakti
  
  News Reports
  
  Read about the valorous tale of 1965 Param Vir Chakra winner Abdul Hamid – ‘The Tank Destroyer’ – on his birth anniversary
  
  OpIndia Staff - 1 July, 2020
  
  Abdul Hamid is remembered for his extraordinary bravery in the battle of Asal Uttar, one of the fiercest tank battles fought during the 1965 India-Pakistan war.
  
  News Reports
  
  Bahuda Yatra: Lord Jagannath in Puri is returning to his temple today, read about the festival and rituals associated
  
  OpIndia Staff - 1 July, 2020
  
  Bahuda Yatra is the festival where Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra, and Devi Subhadra are brought back to their temple in their respective Rathas.
  
  Culture and History
  
  The battle of Rezang La: When 123 Indian soldiers faced impossible odds against 3000 well-armed Chinese and fought to the last man
  
  Guest Author - 22 June, 2020
  
  On a freezing and unforgiving November night, 123 Indian soldiers – frostbitten, weary, hungry and heavily outnumbered – defied the might of the rampaging Chinese Army. On 18 November 1962, Major Shaitan Singh and men of Charlie Company, 13 Kumaon Regiment, forever passed into the mists of legend.
Specials
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  Interviews
  
  ‘Turn vegan’ anti-slaughter poster in Lucknow featuring goat not related to Eid, claims PETA in an exclusive interview with OpIndia
  
  OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020
  
  A massive controversy was kicked up after the Islamic fundamentalists vehemently protested against the PETA poster in Lucknow which showed a goat urging people to go vegan
  
  OpIndia Explains
  
  China’s Inner Mongolia reports suspected cases of bubonic plague: Here is all you need to know about ‘Black Death’ plague
  
  Jinit Jain - 6 July, 2020
  
  Authorities in China in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have called for a Level III alarm after cases of 'Black Death' plague, or Bubonic plague, emerged from the region
  
  News Reports
  
  China’s ‘Century of Humiliation’: How period between First Opium War in 1839 and victory of CCP in 1949 shapes China’s view about the world
  
  OpIndia Staff - 4 July, 2020
  
  The Chinese claim to Vladivostok is a stark reminder of the extent to which the 'Century of Humiliation' plays a very crucial role in shaping China's foreign policy.
  
  OpIndia Scoops
  
  Tahir Hussain not only planned and instigated the mob, but was also pelting stones and petrol bombs at Hindus: Chargesheet
  
  OpIndia Staff - 4 July, 2020
  
  While Dilbar Negi was dismembered and burnt alive, Ankit Sharma was mutilated, murdered and dumped in a Chand Bagh drain by a Muslim mob spearheaded by AAP leader Tahir Hussain
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Galwan standoff breathes life into the ‘Free Tibet’ movement, Tibetan activists hope India will soon address the Chinese occupation of Tibet

OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020

In the aftermath of the Galwan stand-off, the movement to free Tibet from the clutches of China has once again gathered steam.

Congress calls out MP Smriti Irani for alleged toilet scam in Amethi during 2018-2019 when Rahul Gandhi was the sitting MP

OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020

Congress party shot itself in the foot when it posted a tweet alleging a toilet scam in Amethi under the watch of Smriti Irani.

‘It’s not like Narendra Modi is paying for the temple construction’: Islamists in Pakistan’s Islamabad unite to punish ‘kafirs’

OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020

The construction stopped after a radical extremists razed the boundary wall of the first proposed temple in Islamabad.

Rajnath Singh orders speedy completion of road projects in Ladakh worth Rs. 20,000 crores, BRO instructed to complete strategic DSDBO road in 3 months:...

OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has given the go-ahead to speed up the completion of the road projects in Ladakh.

Australian surfer Carmen Greentree abducted and raped for 2 months in a houseboat in Kashmir in 2004, pressurised to convert to Islam

OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020

Carmen Greentree has penned a book titled "A Dangerous Pursuit of Happiness" narrating her abduction and rape in Kashmir.

Gold smuggling case: Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan distances himself and the state government from the raging controversy

OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan pointed out that the said parcel came to the UAE consulate and that the Kerala government had nothing whatsoever to do with it.

The Wire’s claims that NCPCR saw 8-fold increase in complaints post-Coronavirus outbreak are false: Read details

OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020

The Wire has recently been trying to milk the coronavirus pandemic to cast aspersions on Modi government

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A massive controversy was kicked up after the Islamic fundamentalists vehemently protested against the PETA poster in Lucknow which showed a goat urging people to go vegan

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