News Reports

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

Crime

Agra: Lady doctor brutally murdered for rejecting senior’s marriage proposal, arrested accused confesses to the crime

OpIndia Staff - 20 August, 2020

Dr Yogita's body was found from the fields in Bamrauli Katra area under Dauki police station of Agra.

Crime

Karnataka police books 61 accused under UAPA for involvement in Bengaluru riots

OpIndia Staff - 20 August, 2020

A week after the horrific Bengaluru riots, the Bengaluru Central Crime Branch (CCB) has questioned two Congress corporators, including a former mayor, in connection with the violence.

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UK-born Head of Christian Evangelical Mission in Odisha sexually assaulted minor boy in shelter home, arrested

OpIndia Staff - 20 August, 2020

Odisha Police have booked John Patrick Bridge under SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) and POCSO Act for sexually assaulting minor boy

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SC rejects Prashant Bhushan’s plea for sentencing by another bench, Bhushan says wont apologise for tweets

OpIndia Staff - 20 August, 2020

The bench observed that it can be "very lenient" only if the person concerned can show a sense of remorse from the core of his heart.

Social Media

‘Will Sonia Gandhi do the same for Balasaheb’: Netizens question as Uddhav Thackeray offers floral tribute to Rajiv Gandhi

OpIndia Staff - 20 August, 2020

Many social media users wondered what the late Balasaheb Thackeray would have thought about his son playing tributes to Rajiv Gandhi as an alliance partner of Congress.

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Russian opposition leader and critic of Vladimir Putin ‘poisoned’, admitted at ICU after becoming unconscious in a flight

OpIndia Staff - 20 August, 2020

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny lost conscious after his flight from Tomsk, Siberia to Moscow took off, suspected to be poisoned

Cricket

‘Dhan-Kuber’ of Indian sports BCCI hurts patriotic sentiments by awarding IPL sponsorship to China-backed Dream 11

rajnishk - 20 August, 2020

Interestingly, China-backed Dream 11 was already an 'official partner' of the BCCI and organizes the controversial fantasy version of the IPL.

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PM Modi writes an outstanding tribute to MS Dhoni on his retirement. Read the letter

OpIndia Staff - 20 August, 2020

Former Indian captain MS Dhoni has shared a heartfelt letter of appreciation from Prime Minister Narendra Modi

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As Congress tries to paint Rajiv Gandhi as the catalyst in reclamation of Ram Janmabhoomi, book by close friend shatters that myth: Here are...

OpIndia Staff - 20 August, 2020

The memoir by Rajiv Gandhi's friend and old school mate claims that the former PM was not aware of the unlocking of Ram Ramjanmabhoomi site in February 1986.

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