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

Social Media

Feminism in India founder’s ‘All Muslims are terrorists’ tweet goes viral, a day after she aplogised for derogatory tweet on Mayawati

OpIndia Staff - 19 May, 2021

Pasricha clarified that her tweet was a sarcastic one, directed at the online trolls who were making racially hateful statements towards the then Miss America Nina Davuluri.

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Who drafted the Congress toolkit? Here is what we know

Akshita Bhadauria - 19 May, 2021

Saumya Varma’s LinkedIn profile reveals that she is a policy and political research consultant working with the office of Rajeev Gowda, the Chairman of All India Congress Committee since April 2017.

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Blackmailing, extorting money from minor’s family over explicit images: Delhi police arrest culprit Md Aamir

OpIndia Staff - 19 May, 2021

Faced with constant intimidation, the victim's father had filed a complaint with the Alipur police station in Delhi.

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‘Delhi CM does not speak for India’: MEA responds to Kejriwal’s ‘Singapore Variant’ fear-mongering

OpIndia Staff - 19 May, 2021

The official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs revealed that the Singapore government had called the High Commission raising a strong objection to Kejriwal’s statement.

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Madhya Pradesh: Congress MLA booked for abetment of woman’s suicide, body found at his residence

OpIndia Staff - 19 May, 2021

Singhar is said to have met the widowed woman on a matrimonial site last year and got engaged to her in December 2020 while still being married to his first wife.

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Silence for 7 months, then multiple letters after Covid second wave hit: Maha CM’s communication with PM revealed by RTI

OpIndia Staff - 19 May, 2021

Maharashtra CM did not contact PM Modi for seven months over Covid-19 support, RTI reveals.

Politics

Dynasty Politics: Pinarayi Vijayan appoints son-in-law Mohammad Riyaz, an accused in riots case, as a minister in his cabinet

OpIndia Staff - 19 May, 2021

Riyaz is infamous for leading ‘beef cooking’ protests after the center sought to regulate cattle purchase and sale. He had also unsuccessfully contested for the Kozhikode Lok Sabha seat in 2019.

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