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Karnataka: Two, including online food delivery agent Munir Naz, arrested by Mangaluru Police for pro-terrorist graffiti

OpIndia Staff - 6 December, 2020

Mangaluru police commissioner Vikash Kumar said that the accused committed such a crime to gain publicity. He added that the two accused painted the graffiti at court road three weeks before they wrote on the walls at Bejai.

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Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan objects to renaming of Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology after RSS ideologue MS Golwalkar

OpIndia Staff - 5 December, 2020

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan said that Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology should be named after some eminent scientist

World

‘King, please come back and save the country!’: Massive protests in Nepal demand the restoration of Hindu Monarchy

OpIndia Staff - 5 December, 2020

Hundreds and thousands of Royalists took to the streets of Nepal to demand the restoration of the Hindu Monarchy.

Political Fact-Check

Rahul Gandhi tweets to fuel farmers’ protests: Here is how Congress had promised similar farm laws in 2019 election manifesto

OpIndia Staff - 5 December, 2020

Congress promised abolition of APMC Act and replacement of Essentials Commodities Act, 1955 in manifesto, thereby promises similar farm bills

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Anil Vij tests positive for Coronavirus days after he joined third phase of vaccine trials: Here is why there is no reason to panic

OpIndia Staff - 5 December, 2020

As Covaxin trial is double blinded, there is 50% chance that Anil Vij got placebo in place of vaccine, and he only received one dose

Opinions

TRS goes from 99 to 56 seats, BJP goes from 4 to 49: Here is why, and it is not what English media thinks

S. Sudhir Kumar - 5 December, 2020

Elections to the GHMC were actually due in February of 2021 but TRS decided to pre-pone the elections by three months to gain an upper hand

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NIA files chargesheet in Khalistan Liberation Front narco-terror case: Narco-terrorist Singh was using money from drug trade to strengthen KLF

OpIndia Staff - 5 December, 2020

Accused used to receive smuggled Heroin from Pakistan-based Jajbir Singh Samra and use proceeds to strengthen Khalistan cause

Government and Policy

United Nations classifies marijuana as a ‘less dangerous drug’, decision, for which India voted too, to help further medicinal use

OpIndia Staff - 4 December, 2020

With the categorisation of marijuana as a less dangerous drug, it is believed that the medicinal and therapeutic potential of the drug can now be recognised.

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