Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Politics
- Opinions
  
  Breathing oxygen? Thank a tree hugger in Aarey forest
  
  Sanghamitra - 21 April, 2021
  
  As media reports started going oxygen, oxygen, oxygen in the last few days, the 'liberals' recalled their primary school science lessons.
  
  News Reports
  
  AAP supported farmer protests hampering war against Covid-19, oxygen supplier writes to GOI saying tankers delayed due to roadblocks by protestors
  
  OpIndia Staff - 20 April, 2021
  
  Inox Air Products said that they are facing delays in Delhi while transporting oxygen due to road blockades by the farmer protestors
  
  Law
  
  ‘Won’t interfere in ongoing polls’, Supreme Court junks petition filed by TMC leader seeking 100% VVPAT verification of votes
  
  OpIndia Staff - 20 April, 2021
  
  SC rejected plea by TMC leader Gopal Seth seeking 100% VVPAT matching saying it is not inclined to interfere in ongoing poll process
  
  News Reports
  
  After getting vaccinated himself, Rakesh Tikait says the Modi government will be responsible if farmers get COVID-19
  
  OpIndia Staff - 20 April, 2021
  
  Rakesh Tikait had recently said that 'farmers' protests is not Shaheen Bagh than can be stopped in the name of coronavirus
  
  News Reports
  
  ‘Farmers’ to march from Punjab to Delhi amid Covid surge, Yogendra Yadav says they will not let govt quell the protest in the name...
  
  OpIndia Staff - 20 April, 2021
  
  This 'farmer' march comes at a time when Delhi is going through a surge in Coronavirus cases, with testing facilities getting overwhelmed.
Opinions
- Opinions
  
  Breathing oxygen? Thank a tree hugger in Aarey forest
  
  Sanghamitra - 21 April, 2021
  
  As media reports started going oxygen, oxygen, oxygen in the last few days, the 'liberals' recalled their primary school science lessons.
  
  Opinions
  
  Journalism: The new performance art
  
  Nupur J Sharma - 20 April, 2021
  
  With the COVID-19 pandemic, journalists have screamed "Beware of the Ides of March" to anyone who would listen - Barkha Dutt for example.
  
  Opinions
  
  From censorship to propaganda and disinformation: Here’s how China seeks to reshape the narrative on the repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang
  
  Jinit Jain - 20 April, 2021
  
  From outrightly denying the existence of Uyghur repression, China has evolved its strategy to hardened public stance, vigorously deflecting criticism and showing a tenacity to confront its critics in the West.
  
  Opinions
  
  Of Grief and Grievances: Maharashtra suffers as MVA leadership sinks to low-level politics in crisis
  
  Guest Author - 20 April, 2021
  
  As Maharashtra continued to peak with the highest number of COVID-19 positive cases in the nation, CM Maharashtra Uddhav Thackeray clearly made his choice to ‘fall’ in the second kind.
  
  Opinions
  
  Why did 9 anti-Modi parties demand from Election Commission that rallies must be held?
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 20 April, 2021
  
  Let us get into the dirt and start pointing fingers, if that is what everyone wants. How did the second wave come to be?
Fact-Check
- All Media Fact-Check Political Fact-Check Social Media Fact-Check
  
  News Reports
  
  Pro-AAP vlogger Dhruv Rathee spreads fake news about only BJP campaigning for Bengal elections, gives clean chit to TMC, Left, and Congress
  
  OpIndia Staff - 19 April, 2021
  
  While TMC, Congress and the Left are all continuing with rallies and crowded election campaigns, Dhruv Rathee made a ranting Facebook post blaming only the BJP. He did not share it on Twitter.
  
  News Reports
  
  Fact-Check: Did the centre terminate the insurance cover for healthcare workers killed in the line of Covid duty?
  
  OpIndia Staff - 19 April, 2021
  
  Some reports have suggested that GoI has cancelled the insurance scheme for Health workers. In reality it was extended for one month and new plans will be announced soon.
  
  News Reports
  
  Congress leaders, others share old picture of Yogi and Amit Shah in Kumbh, accuse them of spreading Coronavirus
  
  OpIndia Staff - 19 April, 2021
  
  Alka Lamba shares old picture of Kumbh to malign Yogi Adityanath and BJP, Netizens follow suit
  
  Media
  
  Siddharth Varadarajan of The Wire spreads fake news a day after The Logical Indian apologised for the same: Read details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 17 April, 2021
  
  Siddharth Varadarajan spread fake news again, in fact, the same fake news that the Logical Indians had apologised for just a day ago.
Media
- News Reports
  
  India Today shares prescription medicines containing steroids, which could be fatal for some, for ‘home treatment’ of Covid-19
  
  OpIndia Staff - 20 April, 2021
  
  India Today cited Canada-based Dr Zain Chagla to urge people to 'self-medicate' in the face of the Coronavirus crisis
  
  News Reports
  
  From sitting on upturned dustbins to photo ops at crematorium grounds, Barkha Dutt gets questioned for her ‘vulture journalism’
  
  OpIndia Staff - 20 April, 2021
  
  While the situation on ground is indeed grim, people on social media have been calling out the dramatics by journalists who could have perhaps focused on the news instead of their brand building.
  
  Opinions
  
  Journalism: The new performance art
  
  Nupur J Sharma - 20 April, 2021
  
  With the COVID-19 pandemic, journalists have screamed "Beware of the Ides of March" to anyone who would listen - Barkha Dutt for example.
  
  Media
  
  ABC journalist complains about kids’ cartoon not having queer, disabled or gender diverse dogs of colour, PinkNews calls it ‘important debate’
  
  OpIndia Staff - 18 April, 2021
  
  ABC network journalist Beverly Wang sparked controversy with a 'woke' article criticising a cartoon for children called 'Bluey'.
  
  Media
  
  ABP journalist falls for joke where iPhone user claimed to have started ‘Indu ki Dhaba’ after job loss
  
  OpIndia Staff - 17 April, 2021
  
  ABP journalist Astha Kaushik bought the iPhone user's fake 'Indu ki Dhaba' claims without any due verification.
Variety
- All Books Culture and History Satire WTF News
  
  WTF News
  
  Taiwan man marries the same woman four times, divorces thrice to get extra paid leaves, employer fined for refusing to pay
  
  OpIndia Staff - 16 April, 2021
  
  The bank clerk in Taiwan pulled off this bizarre stunt up until he managed to get his 8 days paid leave extended up to 32 days
  
  Satire
  
  As ESPN goes for gender-neutral terms, here is how Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Capitals match commentary may read like
  
  Sandeep Kadian - 15 April, 2021
  
  The 'Gentleman's Game' is no longer one as gentleman is not an inclusive term and it offends those who put pronouns in Twitter bios.
  
  News Reports
  
  Indonesia: Man almost marries the wrong woman after Google Maps guides him to the wrong location
  
  OpIndia Staff - 14 April, 2021
  
  After the groom's party enter the bride's house for a wedding in Indonesia, someone in the group realised they are in the wrong house
  
  WTF News
  
  Woman’s fear of cockroaches leads couple to change houses 18 times, husband files for divorce
  
  OpIndia Staff - 12 April, 2021
  
  A couple in Bhopal has changed 18 houses in three years of marriage due to the wife's fear of cockroaches.
Specials
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  OpIndia Explains
  
  How China’s ‘Re-education through labour’ policy put minorities in labour camps even before the Uyghur crisis: About the Masanjia camps
  
  OpIndia Staff - 20 April, 2021
  
  The letter went into detail about the conditions at China's Masanjia Labor Camp, including the gruelling hours, verbal abuse and physical abuse
  
  OpIndia Explains
  
  Government of India opens COVID-19 vaccine for everyone above 18 years of age: All you need to know
  
  OpIndia Staff - 19 April, 2021
  
  On April 19, the Government of India announced the Phase 3 Strategy of Covid-19 vaccination.
  
  News Reports
  
  As Commonwealth Games Village turns into a Covid-19 facility, here is the chronology of the 2010 Congress scam
  
  OpIndia Staff - 19 April, 2021
  
  According to an RTI filed by the Indian Express in 2020, over 50 cases of payment disputes related to the Commonwealth Game scam still remain pending.
  
  News Reports
  
  While Arvind Kejriwal’s ‘Corona App’ shows ample beds available for Covid-19 patients, hospitals deny
  
  Jhankar Mohta - 16 April, 2021
  
  A number of tweets by users and a check by OpIndia has found that the 'real-time' data in the Delhi government's Corona App is far from reality.
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Chhattisgarh: One tribal minor girl gang-raped and another pressured to convert, 14 ABVP workers arrested during protest demanding justice

500 ABVP workers surrounded the collectorate and raised slogans against the Congress-led Chhattisgarh govt and the police administration

जयन्ती मिश्रा - 15 December, 2020

News Reports

‘Will shoot you, bow down to us if you want to live in Mewat’: Faisal and Parveen warn Hindu youth against following Hindu rituals...

"Mewat mein rehana hain toh humare hisaab see rehna hoga", the Hindu youth alleges he has been living under constant threat

जयन्ती मिश्रा - 12 November, 2020

OpIndia Scoops

Will get you murdered, dogs will eat your corpse: AajTak journalist harassed by Editor for not writing anti-Modi articles, writes to PMO

Ram Krishna has accused Aaj Tak editor Panini Anand of compelling his juniors of writing critical articles against the Modi government, failing which he has reportedly stalled promotions and appraisals

जयन्ती मिश्रा - 29 August, 2020

News Reports

Don’t chant Ram Ram, chant Allah Allah: Hindu family in Delhi’s Kalindi Kunj says Amanatullah Khan’s close aide attacked them for celebrating Bhoomi Pujan

Hindu family alleges attack by close aide of Amantullah Khan for celebrating Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan. Says police ignored their complaint and took action against the Hindu side.

जयन्ती मिश्रा - 13 August, 2020

News Reports

From Shamshad trapping Priya impersonating a Hindu to killing her and her daughter: The complete story of the Meerut love jihad case

Priya's best friend Chanchal narrates the incidents that led to the brutal murder of the mother-daughter duo Priya and Kashish in love jihad

जयन्ती मिश्रा - 26 July, 2020

News Reports

OpIndia Exclusive: Pakistani Hindu refugees unceremoniously removed from Delhi govt school after being given admission

According to Gulsher, after agreeing to admit the children, Delhi government school officials said that they cannot admit them because they were 'too old'.

जयन्ती मिश्रा - 24 September, 2019