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#BanSportsTak: Netizens angry after India Today owned sports channel claims Virat Kohli suffers from ‘disorder’

OpIndia Staff - 22 January, 2021

"It is a disorder for a captain to (be as aggressive as Virat Kohli). It might be acceptable for a player to have this aggression (but nor for a captain)," the journalist claimed.

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‘Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him’: How Lee Kuan Yew brought an end to pilots’ protest in Singapore Airlines

Jinit Jain - 22 January, 2021

In 1980, the Singapore International Airlines(SIA) and its pilots' union SIAPA was engaged in a bitter dispute over the demand of salary hikes.

World

‘F**k Biden’: Twitter suspends prominent Antifa accounts after left-wing mobs continue their rampage following Biden’s inauguration

OpIndia Staff - 22 January, 2021

Twitter has suspended prominent Antifa accounts following a spell of rioting on the occasion of Joe Biden's inauguration as president.

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‘Offensive, misleading’ social media posts against Govt officials, ministers, lawmakers to be brought under cybercrime category: Bihar ADG

OpIndia Staff - 22 January, 2021

Bihar leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav slammed Nitish Kumar Government for the decision. He called the chief minister the "Bheeshm Pitamah" of the corrupt and the "protector of criminals".

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Twitter refused to take down child porn because ‘it did not violate company policy’, sued by sex trafficking victim

OpIndia Staff - 22 January, 2021

The now 17-year-old victim has filed a lawsuit accusing Twitter of allowing the child sexual abuse material be circulated and shared on their platform for months, despite complaints, and refusing to take it down.

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