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Here is how The Lancet used dubious sources to blame Modi Govt for the Covid crisis

K Bhattacharjee - 9 May, 2021

Following the abrogation of Article 370, The Lancet had issued a strong condemnation of the Indian Government.

Media

Indian diaspora protests against West Bengal post-poll violence in UK, Canada, Australia and United States

OpIndia Staff - 9 May, 2021

"The State machinery is failing the people of West Bengal as the Hindus are subjected to killings, rapes, and exodus from their homeland," a protestor said.

Politics

Prashant Kishor to fire 85 percent of his IPAC staff after Bengal election victory, may start a political career in Bihar: Report

OpIndia Staff - 9 May, 2021

Only the core 100-150 people will be retained to carry out political strategising work that Prashant Kishor ked IPAC does.

World

China’s ‘out-of-control’ rocket debris disintegrates over the Indian Ocean, lands near the Maldives

OpIndia Staff - 9 May, 2021

Notably, the rocket which is uncontrollably falling back to Earth is the same space module whose launch was gloated upon by a Chinese Communist Party body to mock India's handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

Politics

Himanta Biswa Sarma favourite to become new Chief Minister of Assam, could take oath on 10th May

OpIndia Staff - 9 May, 2021

Himanta Biswa Sarma, a former Congress leader, joined the BJP in 2015, a year after the general elections.

News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Ghazipur DM relieves two doctors of district hospital from duty for allegedly denying admission and misbehaving with patients

OpIndia Staff - 9 May, 2021

The doctor stationed in the emergency ward allegedly claimed that the hospital was facing a shortage of oxygen supply. However, backtracked his statement upon being questioned by the DM.

News Reports

Pakistan: Minor Hindu girl made to recite Kalma while getting raped, rapist ‘demand custody’ as she can’t return to ‘kafir parents’

OpIndia Staff - 9 May, 2021

The victim was gang-raped constantly over four days by one Muhammad Tanveer and his aides in Goth Ghulam Muhammad in Karachi in the Sindh province of Pakistan.

News Reports

‘Dominance of one religious group cannot prevent religious celebrations of other’, says Madras HC after local Muslims object to Hindu procession

OpIndia Staff - 9 May, 2021

The Madras High court concluded that similar acts of 'resistance' by other religious groups would result in loss of lives, destruction of properties, riots, religious fights and chaos.

News Reports

“Too much pressure on me, I can give one machine to each Khan Market friends”, Navneet Kalra’s purported audio clip goes viral

OpIndia Staff - 9 May, 2021

The Delhi Police has recovered an audio clip in which Navneet Kalra is allegedly heard discussing the allotment of oxygen concentrators to his "friends" in the Khan Market area.

News Reports