News Reports

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Tuticorin: Complying with NGT order, Vedanta announces welfare projects worth Rs 100 crore

OpIndia Staff - 12 January, 2019

Vedanta group promises welfare projects worth 100 crores in Tuticorin after Supreme Court nodded the order of NGT for reopening of Sterlite plant.

From Meerabai Guest House to Taj Hotel: How sworn enemies came together for political survival

OpIndia Staff - 12 January, 2019

As BSP supremo Mayawati announces her party's alliance with the Samajwadi party at Lucknow today, it is time to remember the Meerabai Guest House incident

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Uttar Pradesh: Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati declare alliance in Uttar Pradesh, leave Congress out of it

OpIndia Staff - 12 January, 2019

SP-BSP declares alliance in Uttar Pradesh, in a joint press conference, Congress left in the lurch

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While Congress hooligans vandalise movie theatres, Rahul Gandhi tarnishes India in Dubai with his ‘intolerance’ narrative

Shashank Bharadwaj - 12 January, 2019

As Rahul Gandhi poses himself to be the champion of freedom of expression in Dubai, his party workers resorted to vandalism in a bid to protect the first family of the Congress dynasty from facing facts and criticism

Fact-Check

Fact Check: Is UP government distributing free condoms in Kumbh Mela?

OpIndia Staff - 12 January, 2019

The claims of condoms being distributed by the UP government were found to be false.

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In a fresh low, RLD Chief Ajit Singh calls Smriti Irani as ‘Hatti-Katti-cow’, abuses PM Modi and UP CM Yogi Adityanath

OpIndia Staff - 12 January, 2019

Rashtriya Lok Dal president Ajit Singh has shockingly referred the PM Narendra Modi, UP CM Yogi Adityanath and Union minister Smriti Irani as "bull, calf and cow", triggering a row

Economy and Finance

S Gurumurthy sends legal notice to The Economist for defamatory article that called him a ‘fixer’ who ‘gets things done in Delhi’

OpIndia Staff - 12 January, 2019

The concerned article was published in the print issue of The Economist on 24 November.

Gujarat govt cites disgraced ex-cop Sanjiv Bhatt’s criminal past and pending FIRs, opposes bail

OpIndia Staff - 12 January, 2019

Sanjiv Bhatt is accused of being the mastermind behind the entire operation of kidnapping the lawyer and plating the narcotics that implicated the Rajasthan based lawyer.

Crime

Aircel-Maxis Case: As CBI gets sanction from centre to prosecute, NSE Chairman Ashok Chawla resigns

OpIndia Staff - 12 January, 2019

On Friday, Ashok Chawla resigned as the chairman of NSE hours after the CBI informed the court that the Centre has granted sanction to prosecute him in the Aircel-Maxis case.

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