News Reports

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Turkish govt-owned news portal publishes misleading photograph with Indian Covid stats

OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2021

Photograph of Nepalese cremation ground passed as India's while publishing Covid-19 stats by Turkish News outlet TRT World

Crime

21-year-old college student raped and murdered in Medinipur district in West Bengal, 3 including a woman arrested

OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2021

West Bengal police arrested 2 masons and their female aide for rape and murder of a college student, who have confessed to the crime

Fact-Check

Scroll journalist mischievously shares misleading, old report to insinuate that union govt is funding a trial of using Gayatri Mantra to treat Covid-19

OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2021

While AIIMS Rishikesh is testing using gayatri mantra along with usual treatment for Covid-19, fake news claims it as standalone treatment

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The facts about Ernakulam ‘war room’ for COVID control and how the ‘Kerala govt’ manages it

Venkat Goli - 6 May, 2021

The Ernakulam 'war room' for COVID is actually Integrated Command and Control Centre that was fully funded by the Government of India as a part of the Smart City Mission.

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Uttar Pradesh: Yogi govt to set up oxygen plants in 37 districts, GOI approves

OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2021

A government spokesperson informed that 4,370 oxygen concentrators have been made available to all districts with each community health centre being equipped with 20 concentrators.

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Union Home Ministry forms four-member fact-finding team to probe post-election violence in West Bengal

OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2021

Multiple reports of brutal killings, arson, loot, rape and vandalism have come forth from different parts of West Bengal since May 2

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Netizen who was hounded by the Uddhav Thackeray govt gets victory as Bombay HC quashes FIR against her

OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2021

The Maharashtra government had booked Sunaina Holey for her tweet on the mass congregation of migrant workers outside the Bandra station amidst the Covid-19 induced nationwide lockdown in April 2020.

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Wrestler murder case: Police looking for olympian Sushil Kumar as accused. What we know so far

OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2021

Wrestler Sushil Kumar has been named as one of the accused in a murder case in Delhi.

Crime

West Bengal: Another BJP worker murdered, TMC goons ransack BJP candidate’s house in Jadavpur

OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2021

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, BJP president JP Nadda said that at least 14 BJP workers have been killed during the post violence that erupted following the victory of Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress in West Bengal.

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