News Reports

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

Economy and Finance

Modi delivers: Only 28 luxury items remain in 28% GST slabs, rates slashed for several goods

OpIndia Staff - 22 December, 2018

Vegetables (cooked or uncooked), and frozen vegetables have been shifted to zero percent slab from previous 5%.

Crime

AgustaWestland: Court rejects Christian Michel’s bail plea, sends him to 7-day ED custody

OpIndia Staff - 22 December, 2018

The ED had earlier filed a charge-sheet claiming Michel received Rs 225 crore as kickbacks from AgustaWestland

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Despite Congress promises, Rajasthan farmers unlikely to get waiver certificate till after 2019 elections: Report

OpIndia Staff - 22 December, 2018

The report suggests that there is no clear timeline yet on how to proceed regarding the loan-waiver scheme and it will take a lot more time than expected to distribute loan waiver certificates to the farmers.

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Chandrababu Naidu disagrees with MK Stalin’s endorsement of Rahul Gandhi as PM candidate

OpIndia Staff - 22 December, 2018

He accused the BJP government of misusing the government agencies like CBI and ED against his MPs and MLAs.

Law

AgustaWestland case: Delhi court rejects plea of Christian Michel seeking a separate cell in Tihar jail

OpIndia Staff - 22 December, 2018

Christian Michel argued that some of his inmates would be released soon and any incorrect statement made by them outside might go against his interest

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Indian High Commission officials in Islamabad complain of harassment by Pakistani agencies

OpIndia Staff - 22 December, 2018

New Delhi had lodged a strong protest with the Government of Pakistan over harassment of Indian Diplomats in Islamabad

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Days after Congress govt in MP ‘waives off’ loans, farmer commits suicide because he wasn’t eligible

OpIndia Staff - 22 December, 2018

The family of the deceased farmer allege that he ended his life as he was not entitled to the farm loan waive-off promised by the newly elected Chief Minister Kamal Nath.

Crime

2016 Nawada rape case: Then RJD MLA and two others get life imprisonment for raping a minor

OpIndia Staff - 22 December, 2018

On February 16, 2016, Radha Devi and Sulekha Devi had taken the minor victim to Yadav’s residence in Nawada on the pretext of a birthday party and had assisted Yadav in the rape of the minor girl.

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Department under Punjab CM Amarinder Singh is building dam to protect his farmhouse from monsoon flooding: Report

OpIndia Staff - 22 December, 2018

Interestingly, the Village Panchayat, which never demanded the dam earlier, passed a resolution requesting the government to build the dam just around the time the farmhouse construction began, claims the report.

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