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National Anti-Doping Agency suspends wrestler Bajrang Punia after he refused to give sample for dope test, could be barred from Olympic selection trials

OpIndia Staff - 5 May, 2024

On 23rd April, NADA issued a notice to Bajrang Punia asking him to reply by 7th May. As per reports, so far Bajrang Punia has not replied to the notice and hence has been provisionally suspended.

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Gujarat: Islamic preacher Sohail arrested for threatening to kill Hindu activist, was planning to target Nupur Sharma and T Raja Singh

OpIndia Staff - 5 May, 2024

Sohail was reportedly in touch with handlers in Nepal and Pakistan for 1.5 years, besides people based in Indonesia, Vietnam and Kazakhstan.

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Punjab: 19-year-old Bakshish Singh beaten to death over alleged sacrilege, SGPC justifies the killing, calls for boycott of murdered boy’s family

OpIndia Staff - 5 May, 2024

Police said Bakshish Singh allegedly torn few pages of Shri Guru Granth Sahib and tried to run away from the Gurdwara.

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Desperate BBC passes off Congress worker, arrested for spreading fake news, as Telangana Chief Minister to create ‘Darr ka Mahol’

Dibakar Dutta - 5 May, 2024

The BBC later tweaked its headline to refer to Arun Reddy as 'top India opposition official,' which too is a misleading description of the arrested Congress worker.

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‘Why bother responding when you don’t care about outside noise?’ Sunil Gavaskar lashes out at Virat Kohli over strike-rate rant

OpIndia Staff - 4 May, 2024

Sunil Gavaskar lambasted Virat Kohli over his angry rant against commentators for raising questions over his strike-rate.

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Uttarakhand: Officials apprehend Mosar Alam and four others for setting fire to forests, video of man threatening to burn down mountains goes viral

OpIndia Staff - 4 May, 2024

The Uttarakhand police have arrested 52 people so far for setting fire to forests and destroying several acres of pristine land.

SDPI, which PFI is using to revive itself post-ban, comes out in support of pro-Hamas Principal of Somaiya School Parveen Shaikh

OpIndia Staff - 4 May, 2024

SDPI is the political arm of the banned radical Islamist outfit PFI. In a Facebook post, it extended support to Parveen Shaikh and dubbed OpInida's expose as a testimony of 'Islamophobia in India.'

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‘Gandhis did nothing here’: Amethi locals and Smriti Irani take Rajdeep Sardesai to the cleaners after Rahul Gandhi runs away to Rae Bareli

OpIndia Staff - 4 May, 2024

Rajdeep Sardesai was schooled by Amethi locals and Smriti Irani during his reporting over Congress decision to field KL Sharma instead of Rahul Gandhi from Amethi.

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