News Reports

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

World

How Belarus President got a plane ‘hijacked’ to arrest a journalist accused of creating mass unrest

OpIndia Staff - 25 May, 2021

Roman Protasevich had reportedly organised protests against Alexander Lukashenko, the President who has ruled Belarus for over two decades.

News Reports

‘Will never discriminate between voters and non-voters’: Yogi Adityanath reassures citizens

OpIndia Staff - 25 May, 2021

Uttar Pradesh, India's most populated state, has till now registered 16,73,785 positive cases for Chinese coronavirus. Of these, 76,703 are active as of now.

News Reports

Fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi goes ‘missing’ in Antigua, is wanted by the CBI and ED

OpIndia Staff - 25 May, 2021

Reports suggest Mehul Choksi may have fled to Cuba fearing extradition to India. India does not have extradition treaty with Cuba.

World

Florida: Black man hurls anti-Semitic slurs at a rabbi, leaves faeces outside a Jewish synagogue

OpIndia Staff - 24 May, 2021

A man yelled racist slurs at a rabbi and dropped a bag full of faeces outside a synagogue in Florida in the United States.

News Reports

146 retired officials demand SC monitored SIT probe into West Bengal violence, 2093 women advocates write to SC judges: Read details

OpIndia Staff - 24 May, 2021

Post-poll violence has become a leitmotif of news emerging out of Bengal following the declaration of results. Umpteen number of violence against political opponents have been reported from the state.

News Reports

Delhi Police clarifies its teams had visited Twitter offices to serve notice over Congress toolkit conspiracy

OpIndia Staff - 24 May, 2021

The Special Cell of Delhi Police is raiding offices of Twitter in Delhi and Gurgaon in connection with Congress toolkit probe.

Politics

AAP shares fake data to show India is doing far worse than US and UK in vaccination: Here is how they lied

OpIndia Staff - 24 May, 2021

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday peddled vaccine statistics that could only ever be considered unadulterated garbage.

News Reports

‘It’s pleasant here, farmers won’t have a problem’: Rakesh Tikait camps at Hisar, says will continue protest until 2024

OpIndia Staff - 24 May, 2021

Rakesh Tikait said that the farmers have liked the place (Hisar) and do not mind camping there until 2024

News Reports

Medical team that visited a village in Ujjain for Covid vaccine awareness attacked, FIR against 4

OpIndia Staff - 24 May, 2021

The medical team had visited the village in Ujjain district to dispel the rumours surrounding Covid vaccines and to encourage locals to be a part of the inoculation drive.

Government and Policy