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Rabindranath Tagore or Rabindranath Thakur? Here is the truth

OpIndia Staff - 31 December, 2020

Zee News anchor Aman Chopra slammed TMC leader Anirban Banerjee for using the name Rabindranath Thakur instead of Tagore

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From Pranab Mukherjee, Sushant Singh Rajput to Maradona: A list of 15 celebrities who passed away in 2020

OpIndia Staff - 31 December, 2020

This year, consistent with the gloom that has surrounded it, has also seen the deaths of quite a few celebrities, both in India and abroad.

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‘Love Caravan’ Harsh Mander, ‘Ichchhadhaari protester’ Yogendra Yadav and more: The Top 10 villains for the year 2020

OpIndia Staff - 31 December, 2020

Our list of the most heinous villains of the year 2020. And since we are an Indian media outlet, this report is from an Indian perspective.

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From ‘Dr Aisha’ to WSJ and NYT: The Top 10 Fake News for the year 2020 and their fact-checks

OpIndia Staff - 31 December, 2020

The year 2020 was the year of Fake News and Fact Checks. Apart from the Coronavirus pandemic, there was an epidemic of fake news as well.

Opinions

Bihar’s female voter is the unsung ‘Person of the Year’, let us give her the respect she has earned: Here is how

Abhishek Banerjee - 31 December, 2020

A day after Bihar Assembly polls results, a much-flustered intellectual declared: “Elections are no longer the most happening things in our democracy.”

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Reservation for govt school students: Is the Odisha govt admitting that they have created a new backward class in the state?

Sambit Nayak - 31 December, 2020

By announcing reservation for government school students, is CM Naveen Patnaik admitting that in 21 years of his rule, he has created a new backward class in the state?

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F*ck you, 2020

Nirwa Mehta - 31 December, 2020

2020, what a terrible year you have been! You are cancelled.

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When Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi vowed to destroy Somnath temple in India

OpIndia Staff - 31 December, 2020

As Pakistani destroy Hindu temples and continue to persecute religious minorities, a video of Pakistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs vowing to destroy Somnath temple has gone viral.

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Hindu temple razed down in Pakistan, terrorists in J-K lob grenade at temple in Kathua: Details

OpIndia Staff - 31 December, 2020

The terrorists' attack on a temple in Kathua comes just a day after residents of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Karak district in Pakistan razed down a historic Hindu temple.

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