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‘Not possible to cremate dead bodies quietly,’ Yogi refutes allegations of Covid data fudging, explains tradition of Jal Pravah

OpIndia Staff - 31 May, 2021

Yogi Adityanath spoke on varied issues, from Covid to the recently concluded gram panchayat polls in an interview with Economic Times.

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UP: ‘On sale’ signs put outside homes as Dalits consider fleeing Noorpur citing persecution by hooligans from Muslim community, police denies claims of migration

OpIndia Staff - 31 May, 2021

Noorpur is a Muslim-majority village in Western Uttar Pradesh with 125 Hindu families and about 800 Muslim families.

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The tussle between Baba Ramdev and IMA has become an ‘Ayurveda Vs allopathy’ debate. It doesn’t need to be

Jinit Jain - 31 May, 2021

As India grapples with the resurgent coronavirus outbreak, both the Ayurveda and allopathy practitioners and supporters need to realise that both treatments can coexist simultaneously, without the need to discredit the other.

OpIndia Scoops

Who is Sohail Hashmi, the ‘historian’ who got fined for filing a motivated petition against Central Vista project

Akshita Bhadauria - 31 May, 2021

It is interesting to note how both the Hashmi siblings, Sohail and Shabnam, appear to be going out of their way to spread the narrative of the very party whose leaders killed their own brother.

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Meet Archbishop KP Yohannan: Asia’s richest evangelist infamous for diverting ‘charity funds’ for purchasing real estate

Dibakar Dutta - 31 May, 2021

In June 2015, the Kerala government had issued orders to recover land illegally owned by the Believers Eastern Church.

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Aligarh empty vaccine case: Initial investigation reveals nurse Niha Khan had criminal mindset, could hamper vaccination drive. Details

OpIndia Staff - 31 May, 2021

Niha Khan confessed to inserting injections inside the body of the vaccine recipients but taking them out without releasing the vaccine.

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‘Why women are not safe in AAP’, member questions Kejriwal after party councillor assaults her, FIR filed

OpIndia Staff - 31 May, 2021

The AAP woman worker alleged that Ramesh Matiala directed two women party workers to slap her in front of him

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The origins of Covid-19: A laboratory-made virus and a massive cover-up by culpable parties? An analysis

OpIndia Staff - 31 May, 2021

After almost 1.5 years since pandemic broke, it is still unclear how Covid-19 originated, thanks to irresponsible behavior of some scientists and the Chinese government.

Opinions

Tamil Nadu’s opposition to ‘one state, one vote’ in GST council opens a Pandora’s Box where the state stands to lose

Venkat Goli - 31 May, 2021

Was the Finance Minister of Tamil Nadu Panivel Thiaga Rajan ignorant of the precedents and the consensus that went into framing the one-state-one-vote rule?

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