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

OpIndia Staff - 2 December, 2020

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

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 - 2 December, 2020

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 - 2 December, 2020

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

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

OpIndia Staff - 2 December, 2020

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

News Reports

No politicians, farmers only: Centre bars Yogendra Yadav from being a part of farmers’ delegation for the discussions

OpIndia Staff - 2 December, 2020

Yogendra Yadav, a political activist and self-proclaimed psephologist, had wanted to be a part of the discussion but the government objected to his presence.

News Reports

Webchutney: A marketing company with a ‘liberal’ CEO that seems to be dragging Swiggy through the mud

OpIndia Staff - 2 December, 2020

Food delivery app Swiggy recently stoked controversy by responding to a troll account taking an extreme political side

Politics

As ‘Canadian Pappu’ trends, here is a lowdown on how Rahul Gandhi time and again aped Justin Trudeau’s PR strategy

OpIndia Staff - 2 December, 2020

While under Trudeau's leadership Liberal Party in Canada won the 2015 elections, under Rahul Gandhi's leadership, Congress had one of its most humiliating defeats in 2019 general elections.

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