News Reports

News reports about current affairs encompassing various topics, fields, and entities.

Crime

Jharkhand: Dalit woman files complaint against Christian villagers alleging torture to forcefully convert her family, harassment of minor daughter

OpIndia Staff - 5 September, 2021

A woman in Jharkhand has lodged a complaint alleging that some villagers are torturing her family members to accept Christianity

Media

BBC shuts down senior academic when she talks about how Pakistan has harboured and nurtured terrorists

OpIndia Staff - 5 September, 2021

"You are doing their propaganda work," Christine Fair commented before being cut off by the BBC presenter Philippa Thomas

World

Watch: Citizens of France protest against Macron’s vaccine passport mandate, chant ‘freedom’, force police to retreat

OpIndia Staff - 5 September, 2021

Anti-vaccine passport protesters in France invaded a mall on Saturday and raised slogans of 'freedom' and forced police to retreat.

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Jharkhand: BJP MLA Biranchi Narayan threatens legal action against allotment of namaz room in the assembly

OpIndia Staff - 5 September, 2021

BJP MLA Biranchi Narayan has written to Jharkhand speaker opposing the decision to allot a room in the assembly to offer namaz

World

Pakistan: Tehreek-e-Taliban suicide attack kills 3 in Quetta, Balochistan, Minister blames India

OpIndia Staff - 5 September, 2021

A suicide blast in Quetta has claimed the lives of three men of the Frontier Corps of Pakistan. TTP has claimed responsibility.

World

Taliban goes through porn sites to compile lists of Afghan prostitutes to kill

OpIndia Staff - 5 September, 2021

Many videos have surfaced on porn sites where Afghan prostitutes were having sex with their clients. Talibs are reportedly hunting them down and killing them.

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New Zealand: Knife attack terrorist identified as Samsudeen with history of violent extremism, was under watch after release from jail

OpIndia Staff - 5 September, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern conceded that the prosecutors had ran out of legal options to keep the terrorist behind bars

Entertainment

Javed Akhtar compares VHP, RSS to Taliban, complaint filed

OpIndia Staff - 5 September, 2021

While speaking on NDTV, Javed Akhtar claimed that the Islamist group Taliban and the VHP and RSS have 'same mentality'

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Maharashtra: Muslim women distribute pamphlets, get minor non-Muslim girls to wear hijab in Nagpur near CM house

OpIndia Staff - 5 September, 2021

Girls Islamic Organisation is the women's wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, an Islamic organisation which was formed in 1948 in Jamia Nagar, Delhi. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind was twice banned by the Government of India.

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