News Reports

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News Reports

ZEE Media files criminal defamation case against TMC MP Mahua Moitra for calling them Chor and paid news

OpIndia Staff - 19 July, 2019

Mahua Moitra had filed a criminal defamation case against Zee News journalist Sudhir Chaudhary on June 15 alleging that he claimed that her maiden speech in the Parliament was plagiarised.

Law

Petition filed in Delhi High Court challenging the prohibition and criminalization of Marijuana, lists medical uses of cannabis

OpIndia Staff - 19 July, 2019

The petitioner is being represented by Senior Advocate Arvind Datar and advocate J Sai Deepak.

News Reports

BJP doesn’t want Dalits becoming rich: Mayawati plays the caste card after brother’s benami property gets attached

OpIndia Staff - 19 July, 2019

Mayawati alleged that BJP and its ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) didn't want 'people from the backward castes to do better.'

Social Media

Bengali Newspaper thinks Dustin and Lucas from Stranger Things are French footballers Griezmann and Umtiti in childhood

OpIndia Staff - 19 July, 2019

A Bengali newspaper has taken Griezmann's joking tweet seriously and published the image of Stranger Things actors as a photo from the football stars' childhood.

News Reports

Personal Security Officer of Mehbooba Mufti’s cousin shot dead by unidentified assailant in Jammu and Kashmir

OpIndia Staff - 19 July, 2019

The PSO named Farooq Ahmad was standing outside the mosque in Baba Mohalla area of Bijbehara when an unidentified gunman shot him dead.

Crime

Jharkhand: Court rejects bail of baby-selling nun, Church portal calls it ‘sectarian hatred’

K Bhattacharjee - 19 July, 2019

Christian news portal UCAN claimed that the Missionaries of Charity nun was being denied bail due to sectarian hatred and political pressure from the BJP government.

Law