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Meet Maulana Saad Kandhalvi: The Chief of Coronavirus super spreader Tablighi Jamaat who incited Muslims to defy lockdown

OpIndia Staff - 2 April, 2020

Maulana Saad Kandhalvi is a deluded bigot who urged Muslims to defy the nationwide lockdown imposed to arrest spread of Coronavirus

Fact-Check

No, India is not accepting ‘foreign aid’ to fight Coronavirus pandemic: Debunking misinformation spread by Suhasini Haider and Shashi Tharoor

OpIndia Staff - 2 April, 2020

No sooner was the PM CARES fund launched, did conspiracy theories and blatant lies started filling the internet, especially, Twitter.

Social Media

Islamists on TikTok refer to coronavirus as NRC of ‘God’, ‘welcome’ the contagion to India

OpIndia Staff - 2 April, 2020

Islamists on TikTok have 'welcomed' the Chinese coronavirus to India referred to the contagion as 'NRC' of God.

News Reports

Tablighi Jamaat’s Maulana Saad gets into damage control mode, informs attendees that ‘listening to doctors’ is not against ‘Sharia’

OpIndia Staff - 2 April, 2020

Three days after being 'untraceable', Tablighi Jamaat chief Maulana Saad has released an audio recording, presumably shot in a studio without anyone coughing in the audience, appealing to attendees to follow authorities and cooperate with the doctors.

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Police deployed at Delhi hospital after Tablighi Jamaat members refuse to get tested

OpIndia Staff - 2 April, 2020

The Tablighi Jamaat members who were evacuated from the Nizamuddin Markaz on 1 April 2020 are refusing to getting themselves tested and saying that they need not be admitted in the hospital.

Media

Coronavirus reporting: A section of the media appears to be infected with the virus of misinformation and propaganda

Priyanka Deo - 2 April, 2020

Today, the world is affected by the coronavirus pandemic. And today, the means used to consume news are vastly different than college.

News Reports

Tablighi Jamaat’s Maulana Saad had mocked calls to close mosques amidst coronavirus lockdown, said mosque gathering would rather help Muslims

OpIndia Staff - 2 April, 2020

A shocking audio clip from the Nizamuddin Markaz has emerged where the Tablighi Jamaat chief Maulana Saad can be heard mocking the government's call to close mosques and other religious places in a bid to contain the spread of the virus.

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FIRs filed against The Wire Founder-Editor Siddharth Varadarajan for spreading fake news about Yogi Adityanath

OpIndia Staff - 1 April, 2020

UP govt said that as Varadarajan neither deleted the false article and nor apologised, actions are being taken against him and FIR filed

Crime

Indore: Medical team that had gone to check a coronavirus suspect assaulted, pelted with stones, police team attacked too

OpIndia Staff - 1 April, 2020

A medical team that had gone to check on a patient with suspected coronavirus symptoms was attacked and pelted with stones in Indore's Tatpatti Bhakhal.

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