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News Reports

Vietnam: Facebook bends over backwards to appease communist regime by censoring ‘anti-state’ comments: All you need to know

Dibakar Dutta - 20 November, 2020

The Vietnamese government has threatened to close down Facebook if it did not censor anti-state political content on the platform

Law

Abusive ‘comedian’ Kunal Kamra gets one step closer to seeing his desire of being a ‘liberal’ hero fulfilled: Read how

OpIndia Staff - 20 November, 2020

AG KK Venugopal has given his consent to initiate contempt proceedings against Kunal Kamra for his latest tweet insulting SC

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Shekhar Gupta virtue signals media for ‘fake news’ regarding India’s strike on Pakistan, Gen VK Singh reminds him of his own ‘coup story’

OpIndia Staff - 20 November, 2020

The minister and former army chief reminded Shekhar Gupta of the days when the senior journalist had published a fake story making wild speculations about a so-called 'coup' attempt by the Indian Army in Delhi.

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Delhi Police arrests Instagram ‘influencer’ and her friends for robbing a man and spending lavishly in Goa: Read details

OpIndia Staff - 20 November, 2020

Instagram "influencer" Amrita Sethi and her two friends were arrested from Goa for robbing USD 3,300 from a man in South Delhi

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Vatican launches ‘internal investigation’ after the Instagram handle of Pope Francis ‘likes’ a Bikini model’s photo

OpIndia Staff - 20 November, 2020

Vatican sources have said that the account of Pope Francis is managed by a team of employees and not the Pope himself.

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PM Modi praises book by young authors, ends up crashing their website due to high traffic

OpIndia Staff - 19 November, 2020

Website link shared by PM Modi while promoting a book resulted in server crash due to surge in traffic.

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Facebook user slapped with defamation suit, police notice for using the terms ‘Dhritarashtra’ and ‘Penguin’ for Maharashtra govt

OpIndia Staff - 19 November, 2020

Balakrishna Deekonda sent statutory notice accusing him of defaming, degrading reputation of Maharashtra CM and his govt on Facebook

Government and Policy

Parliamentary panel headed by Meenakshi Lekhi grills Twitter, asks why vile tweets by Kunal Kamra not removed, seeks response in 7 days

OpIndia Staff - 19 November, 2020

Kunal Kamra, known for his abusive behaviour on social media platforms, faces contempt cases over his vile tweets attacking the Supreme Court

News Reports

US woman removed from American Airlines flight for harassing fellow passenger and violating safety norms, plays Muslim card

OpIndia Staff - 19 November, 2020

Amani Al-Khatahtbeh had confronted a 'white man' who was allowed to go ahead of her in a line because he was 'pre-check' and did not need to remove shoes for security check.

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