News Reports

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

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Indian Railways refunds Rs 1,885 crore to passengers against cancellation of trains due to coronavirus lockdown

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

On May 21, Indian Railways had announced to restart services of 200 passenger trains that it will operate from June 1.

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India lodges strong protest over desecration of Buddhist carvings in PoK’s Gilgit-Baltistan, asks Pakistan to vacate illegally occupied territories

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

India has lodged a strong protest with Pakistan over the destruction of Indian-Buddhist heritage in the Gilgit-Baltistan region

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Sweden’s Coronavirus response hailed by Indian liberals was flawed, admits country’s response in-charge

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

Sweden remains the only Scandivanian country with an outsize number of cornavirus infection and fatalities, much higher than those witnessed in Finland, Denmark and Norway

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Supreme court refuses to entertain a plea seeking India to be officially renamed only as ‘Bharat’

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

Dismissing plea to rename the country as only Bharat, CJI said that it is not the job of the court to consider such issues

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The Wire report claims Tripura govt paid less amount to students for mid-day meal scheme, data shows govt paid 50% more

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

Tripura govt debunks The Wire report saying less amount was paid to students under mid-day meal scheme during lockdown

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Food Corporation of India fact-checks Scroll, calls out its deliberately misleading report claiming 65 lakh tonnes food grains wasted amid lockdown

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

The FCI has slammed Scroll after the latter published a report claiming that India had let 65 lakh tonnes of grains go to waste.

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Kerala: After firecracker explosion in mouth kills a pregnant elephant, reports emerge where another elephant had died due to mouth injury in April

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

In April this year, a female elephant in Kollam, Kerala, had also died in similar fashion. Authorities suspect she also bit on food filled with crackers.

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Delhi anti-Hindu riots: Tablighi Jamaat, PFI, Jamia links emerge as Delhi Police files charge sheet

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

The Tablighi Jamaat links have emerged in the charge-sheet filed by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police pertaining to violence in Shiv Vihar area during the Anti-Hindu riots in Delhi.

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