News Reports

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

Politics

AIIMS discriminated, Priyanka Gandhi’s supporters took back the shawls she had distributed among the injured: Claims JNU girl

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2020

Kritika Sen, a JNU student and ABVP member, has alleged that when the injured students were being admitted to AIIMS, the doctors there were asking each student whether they belonged to ABVP or the left.

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After Pakistan uses ‘Free Kashmir’ placard to further anti-India agenda, Mumbai woman behind the poster ‘clarifies’

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2020

The presence of “Free Kashmir” poster at the protest led many to suspect that it is not merely a students’ protest against the JNU violence, but there were anti-national forces involved.

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Fringe group Hindu Raksha Dal claims responsibility for violence at JNU, says the university is hotbed of anti-national activities

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2020

Hindu Raksha Dal leader Pinky Chaudhary releases video message claiming responsibility for JNU violence

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‘Girls strategically abused, threatened, shouted at the students who were getting registered.’ Read a professor’s horrifying account on JNU violence

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2020

Indrani Roy Chowdhury, Associate Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University on Monday took to Facebook to share what happened on campus which led to unprecedented violence where masked goons wreaked havoc.

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Rajasthan sees significant increase in crimes in 2019, crime against women go up by 50% in one year

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2020

41,155 cases of crime against women were reported in Rajasthan in 2019, which is 13,561 more than in 2018

Media

JNU violence: Rape victim says ex-The Hindu journalist who roughed up Republic TV reporter abused her and called her names to protect the accused

Nirwa Mehta - 7 January, 2020

Abhimanyu Singh's wife, Aletta Andre, a Dutch journalist in India, is accused of writing fake stories regarding a rape case of Indian where the accused was a Dutch citizen. However, she has since denied the allegations.

Politics

We have just formed government, yet to fill our pockets: Congress minister Yashomati Thakur in Maharashtra

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2020

"Our government was not in power until now. We have just managed to form a government. I have just taken oath as a minister. We are yet to fill our pockets", the Congress minister was seen saying.

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