Monthly Archives: December, 2020

World

Indonesian radical Muslims change words of Azan from ‘hurry to the prayer’ to ‘rise up for Jihad’: Here is what happened

OpIndia Staff -
A verse of the chant, which originally means “hurry to the prayer”, has been changed to “hayya alal jihad”, or “rise up for jihad” in Azan
News Reports

China may have ‘planned’ the Galwan Valley faceoff, knowing there would be fatalities, says US security panel report

OpIndia Staff -
US agency claimed China planned Galwan Valley clash of June 15, with an intention to 'use fighting to promote stability'.
News Reports

Kangana Ranaut served legal notice for mistaking an elderly woman in farmer protests for Bilkis Bano of Shaheen Bagh

OpIndia Staff -
Kangana Ranaut had commented on Twitter that the Shaheen Bagh Dadi was available on hire for appearing in protests. She had deleted her tweet later.
News Reports

Twitter refuses to delete fake image posted by Chinese official or tag it as ‘manipulated media’ despite official complaint by Australia

OpIndia Staff -
The fake image posted by Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson was created by a Weibo user, but Twitter refuses to remove or tag it as fake
News Reports

Mask violators to compulsorily serve at COVID-19 community centres: Gujarat High Court directs State to issue notice

OpIndia Staff -
The Gujarat High Court observed that monetary fines were not a sufficient enough deterrence for people to conform to COVID-19 guidelines and protocols
News Reports

Uttar Pradesh govt to scrap controversial scheme that rewarded ‘interfaith’ marriages: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Uttarakhand, which retained most of the laws from the parent state Uttar Pradesh, had also continued with the controversial 1976 scheme that incentivised interfaith marriages.
Opinions

After US elections, Facebook and Twitter are getting ready to interfere with Indian elections: Why the centre must take note before 2024

Nupur J Sharma -
With Twitter's admitted Left-wing bias, nobody needs to wonder which side they would choose to censor and the trajectory is rather evident with the censorship of Malviya's tweet.
Media

“Fact checking” is a new name for same old propaganda journalism

Abhishek Banerjee -
Why did journalists lose all credibility? Because bit by bit, we realized that journalists were just feeding us an agenda, not reporting facts.
News Reports

Attorney General declines his consent to Congress supporter Saket Gokhale for initiating contempt proceedings against author Shefali Vaidya

OpIndia Staff -
The AG informed Saket Gokhale that as the tweets by Shefali Vaidya are more than one year old, contempt case can't filed against her
News Reports

Ex-Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh’s father Yograj Singh joins Farmer’s protests, justifies “Indira thok di” comment

OpIndia Staff -
Multiple videos of Yograj Singh, Yuvraj Singh's father, have gone viral on social media where he has been giving provocative speeches amid the ongoing farmer protests
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