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Abandoned baby girl no more even as Sakshi Joshi and Abhishek Upadhyay file FIRs against each other

OpIndia Staff - 17 July, 2019

On 16th July, Abhishek, too, filed a counter FIR against Sakshi Joshi and her husband Vinod Kapri accusing them of CARA rules and Juvenile Justice Act violations.

News Reports

Tiranga TV in yet another controversy: Girl accuses senior producer of sexual harassment, makes lewd chats public

OpIndia Staff - 17 July, 2019

A girl has accused the senior producer of Kapil Sibal backed Tiranga TV of sexual harassment. Himanshi Gupta took to Twitter to make lewd WhatsApp chats public.

News Reports

Congress leader Kapil Sibal and wife to be sued by journalist Barkha Dutt for fraud and cheating in Tiranga TV case

OpIndia Staff - 17 July, 2019

There seems to be no end to the fighting between Congress leader Kapil Sibal and 'journalist' Barkha Dutt over the Tiranga TV fiasco

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Kapil Sibal claims Barkha Dutt was sacked before her tweets, won’t be paid anymore, Barkha says Sibal is lying

OpIndia Staff - 17 July, 2019

As Barkha had predicted, the Sibals also blamed the newly-elected Narendra Modi government for the advertisers to back off. Lack of advertising revenues led to deepening of their financial troubles, they claim.

Opinions

It is only fitting that Barkha Dutt’s last show on Kapil Sibal’s channel was on Kargil War

Editorial Desk - 16 July, 2019

It is indeed poetic that a show on Kargil was done a channel backed by a Congress leader, and it was hosted by Barkha Dutt.

Opinions

Yes Pratik Sinha, the ISRO chairman would pray for a second time before attempting to launch the Chandrayaan 2 again

ashwin - 16 July, 2019

Who would call Zakir Musa, a slain terrorist who wanted to establish Islamic rule, a separatist? Pratik Sinha would.

Fact-Check

UNESCO slams Indian Express story on heritage tag of Darjeeling toy train being ‘under threat’, calls it misleading

OpIndia Staff - 16 July, 2019

The UNESCO New Delhi team and the Indian Railways have been working closely to find a solution to the threats that DHR, popularly known as Darjeeling toy train, faces.

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