News Reports

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News Reports

Congress cannot decide if they won Bengaluru Urban Body polls because ‘EVMs were not hacked’ or because ‘paper ballots were used’

OpIndia Staff - 1 June, 2019

The Congress party has registered a victory in the Karnataka Urban Local Body polls, winning 509 of the total 1,221 wards while the BJP secured 366 wards. The JD(S) came third with victory in 174 wards.

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ECI explains in detail why reported ‘mismatch’ of data and allegations of ‘ghost votes’ being polled is fake news

OpIndia Staff - 1 June, 2019

The Election Commission of India has now released a detailed note explaining why the reported mismatch of data is alarmist and nothing but malicious rumour mongering.

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Mamata Banerjee’s response to ‘belligerent’ slogans of Jai Shree Ram: Directs TMC workers to greet callers with ‘Jai Bangla Jai Hind’

OpIndia Staff - 1 June, 2019

TMC workers across the state have been strictly instructed to greet people on phone by “Jai Bangla, Jai hind” instead of "Hello" only after which they can continue the conversation

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ED summons Congress era Civil Aviation minister Praful Patel in connection with Deepak Talwar illegal aviation deals case

OpIndia Staff - 1 June, 2019

The Enforcement Directorate has summoned UPA era Civil Aviation Minister, Praful Patel, on the 6th of June in the Deepak Talwar illicit aviation deals case.

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On the day Amit Shah takes charge of Home Ministry, 5 Kashmiri youth shun the path of terrorism and surrender: Report

OpIndia Staff - 1 June, 2019

The 5 youths shunned the path of terrorism after their families appealed them to return back

Government and Policy

Here are the 5 major decisions taken in the first 24 hours of the new Modi government being sworn in

OpIndia Staff - 1 June, 2019

A day after swearing in, Prime Minister Modi met with the new Cabinet met on Friday and made some key decisions fulfilling the election promises that were made in the manifesto.

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Sonia Gandhi elected to head Congress Parliamentary Party as she thanks Rahul Gandhi for ‘toiling hard’ to take on Modi govt

OpIndia Staff - 1 June, 2019

Sonia Gandhi has been elected to head the Congress Parliamentary Party just like the last time

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Congress fails to introspect, blames Rahul Gandhi’s humiliating defeat from Amethi on lack of cooperation from SP and BSP

OpIndia Staff - 1 June, 2019

The conclusion that the panel drew was unsurprising considering it deflected all the blame to SP-BSP and shielded Rahul Gandhi from taking any part of the blame for his loss in Amethi

Media

India Today’s ‘Anti Fake News War Room’ goes to war against a watermarked meme, again

OpIndia Staff - 1 June, 2019

The so-called 'fact-check' was shared on Twitter by Rahul Kanwal, who is the Director of India Today and Aaj Tak and in his bio, calls himself a 'fake news slayer'.

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