Saturday, July 27, 2024

Archives of OpIndia

Sorry state of affairs, no solution in sight until 2027: SC expresses concern on untreated solid waste in Delhi, directs centre to hold meeting...

The Supreme Court on Friday expressed grave concern over tonnes of untreated solid waste in Delhi and noted no concrete solution seemed to be in sight until 2027

‘No state has been denied anything’: FM Nirmala Sitharaman busts opposition propaganda on Union Budget 2024

FM Nirmala Sitharama busted opposition's 'unfair budget' propaganda, assuring that the budget didn't exclude any state.

Bengaluru is a brand: Karnataka minister HK Patil defends renaming Rmanagara district after BJP calls it Congress allergy for Lord Ram

Karnataka Minister HK Patil cited the aspirations and demands of the people and their representatives as the driving force behind the decision to merge Ramanagara district with Bengaluru South

‘Shows their allergy towards Ram and Ram Mandir’: BJP lashes out at Congress govt in Karnataka over renaming Ramnagara as Bengaluru South

The Siddaramaiah-led Karnataka state cabinet approved the renaming of Ramnagara to Bengaluru South on Friday.

Operation Chakra-III: CBI arrests 43 persons in collaboration with FBI, INTERPOL and others to dismantle cybercrime network

The CBI in coordination with FBI and law enforcement agencies in multiple countries through INTERPOL, arrested 43 accused as a part of an ongoing Operation CHAKRA-III

Is the US carrying out ‘political censorship’ in India under the garb of combating fake news? Here is what we know so far

'Disinfo Lab' pointed out that the US government also forced the likes of Reddit, Amazon and Wikipedia to take down, promote certain forms of literature and make content changes.

Gujarat: ‘Sir tan se Juda’ attempt on VHP member in Bhuj leaving him gravely injured, accused Nizam and Irfan arrested

In Gujarat's Bhuj, a Vishwa Hindu Parishad activist was brutally assaulted by two Muslim youngsters on 22nd July, leaving him gravely injured.

Royal Moidams of Assam’s Ahom dynasty included in the UNESCO World Heritage List: All you need to know about the 700-year-old mound burial system

The Charaideo Moidam became India's 43rd UNESCO World Heritage Site, the first in Assam and the northeast India.

Chilkur Balaji temple priest requests Telangana govt to preserve sanctity of sacred land, Bajrang Dal protests against efforts to construct a mosque by claiming...

The protesters accused the Telangana Congress govt of hurting the temple's sanctity and being biased towards Muslims.

France’s high-speed rail system TGV disrupted by multiple acts of sabotage hours ahead of Olympics opening ceremony, over 800,000 affected

"Coordinated malicious acts targeted several TGV lines last night and will seriously disrupt traffic until this weekend. I strongly condemn these criminal actions which will compromise the vacation departures

‘Ban on govt officials joining RSS was arbitrary and without material evidence’: Here’s what MP HC said while lamenting over the five-decade-old ban

The Madhya Pradesh HC lamented that it took five decades for the Centre to rectify the mistake of banning an internationally famed organisation like RSS.

Moidams, the mound burial system of the Ahom dynasty in Assam, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List during ongoing session in Delhi

The mound burial system of the Ahom dynasty in Assam Moidams was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List under the category Cultural Property on Friday.

‘Transparency and informed choice of the consumer was the idea behind the decision’: UP govt defends Kanwar Yatra ‘nameplate’ order in SC

UP govt stated that the directive was implemented to maintain peace during the Hindu pilgrimage of Kanwar Yatra.

Dehumanising bigotry, casteist slurs, and more: Instagram influencer’s jovial reel about her Brahmin community targeted with hateful posts

A Brahmin Instagram influencer was targeted with dehumanising slurs, posts filled with anti-Brahmin bigotry over a reel wherein she described about her community's societal habits.

Muslim girl’s family assaults her Hindu husband, threatens to kill him and drags her away, girl kept in police protection in Amroha

After a Hindu boy married his Muslim lover in Uttar Pradesh, the family of the girl attacked the boy's family and forcibly took the girl with them

Left and its delusion: Democrats debate whether ‘coconut’ for Kamala Harris is racist, Desis whine over ‘Lotus for Potus’ slogan alleging BJP connection

The ongoing debate over 'coconut' and 'Lotus' reference for Kamala Harris goes on to show how leftist hysteria and mental gymnastics know no bounds.

‘Agnipath is a necessary reform, we need to keep the Army young and fit’: PM Modi in Ladakh on Kargil Vijay Diwas

Highlighting the scheme, PM Modi said that the goal of Agnipath was to make the Army young and keep the Army continuously fit for war. He said that the major reforms in the army have been a long-standing demand.

‘Treat India on par with NATO, Japan and Korea’: Senator Marco Rubio introduces US-India Defense Cooperation Act to strengthen ties

Taking to X, Senator Marco Rubio informed about introducing the bill “U.S.-India Defense Cooperation Act” and wrote, “In order to strengthen our partnership with India, it’s essential we increase our strategic relationship w/ New Delhi. Introduced a bill to best support India as they continue to face aggression from Communist China.”

25th anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas: Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh remembers the indomitable spirit of Indian soldiers

Meanwhile, in Kargil security was heightened ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the Kargil War Memorial on the occasion of the 25th Kargil Vijay Diwas 2024.

Planned carnage, foreign intervention and a hidden Islamist nexus: Real objective behind violence in Bangladesh under the garb of ‘quota protests’

Although the Awami League government has succeeded in foiling the attempt of the BNP-Jamaat nexus to capture power by unseating Sheikh Hasina, the coming days may bear much harder challenges as BNP-Jamaat is adamantly looking to return to power.

Congress party distances itself from party MP and former Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi’s support to Khalistani MP Amripal Singh in Lok Sabha, says...

Congress party has said that the comments made by party MP Charanjit Singh Channi in support of Khalistani MP Amirtpal Singh are his own and he does not represent the party’s views

Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu compares former CM Jagan Mohan Reddy to ‘drug lord Pablo Escobar’

Launching a scathing attack on former Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday compared YSRCP chief to slain Columbian narco-terrorist, Pablo Escobar.

Bungalow No 1: Centre allocates Lutyens bungalow to AAP for its office after the party was asked to vacate its office on court land

Bungalow No. 1, Ravi Shankar Shukla Lane, New Delhi will be the new address of the Aam Aadmi Party headquarters.

India strongly takes up Hindu Temple vandalisation issue with Canadian authorities, expects swift action

Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday that India has strongly taken up the vandalisation of temple in Edmonton with Canadian authorities in Delhi and Ottawa, adding that India expects Canada to take swift action.

Guna: Principal Catherine Vattoly of Vandana Convent School booked for snatching mic from students reciting Sanskrit verses; ABVP stages protest, files complaint

Catherine Vattoly stopped sixth-grade students from chanting Sanskrit verses during the morning assembly on 15th July. A First Information Report (FIR) was registered against her, per the authorities.

Uttar Pradesh: Bulldozers raze down decades old illegal flower market in Lucknow- Details

The flower market earlier operated from the 2000 sq ft of land behind the Imambada area of the city. It was shifted to the Hussainabad Trust land in the year 2001.

Foreign affairs sole prerogative the Union Government as per the constitution, states should not intrude: MEA on Kerala govt appointing ‘foreign secretary’

Reacting to Kerala government appointing a Secretary for External Cooperation, the Ministry of External Affairs said that foreign affairs are the "sole prerogative" of the Union Government and not concurrent or state subject

My grandfather died for the nation, not for Congress: Former Punjab CM Beant Singh’s grandson Ravneet Bittu slams Congress leader Charanjit Channi in Parliament

Responding to Channi's comment “Bittu Ji, your grandfather was a martyr, but he died when you left the Congress", Ravneet Singh Bittu, a state minister in the NDA government, responded that his grandfather didn't die for the Congress party, but for the nation.

CBI court finds 14 people including CPM leader guilty in 14-year-old murder case of Congress leader Anchal Ramabhadran in Kerala, 4 acquitted: Details

Ramabhadran's wife earlier filed a petition in the High Court stating that justice was not done in the investigation.

The world remembers Akhlaq, but not Tejram: Here is how Tejram was lynched in Bareilly by a Muslim mob over stopping them from playing...

The report said that the head bones of Tejram were damaged during his lynching as a result of strikes from large stones and iron rods, and blood clots had developed in his brain.

The regular Q&A drama between Pakistani journalist and US State Dept to lecture India is now peddling false claims of Muslim victimhood: How the...

Matthew Miller replied citing the Supreme Court's interim stay on the directive and said, "We have seen those reports. We have also seen the reports that the Indian Supreme Court on July 22nd issued an interim stay on the implementation of those rules, so they’re not actually in effect now."

President Droupadi Murmu announces that Durbar Hall and Ashok Hall in Rashtrapati Bhavan have been renamed Ganatantra Mandap and Ashok Mandap

President Droupadi Murmu announced on Thursday that two of the important halls of Rashtrapati Bhavan, namely, Durbar Hall and Ashok Hall, have been renamed as Ganatantra Mandap and Ashok Mandap, respectively, according to a President's Secretariat release.

Ghaziabad: Mohammad Alam, father of four, strangles his second wife Pooja Devi to death with her dupatta, dumps her body in canal

Mohammad Alam and Pooja Devi were living together for four years before they tied the knot in an Islamic wedding.

Congress govt in Karnataka passes resolution against NEET in assembly, demands return to state-organised CET for medical admissions

Siddaramaiah-led Congress government on Thursday passed a resolution in both houses of the Karnataka legislature against the NEET

Manchester Police arrests 4 Muslim community members for brutally assaulting 3 airport staff and a police officer, viral video used to peddle ‘Islamophobia’ claims

The video of action by Manchester Police after the attack is being used by Islamists to claim Islamophobia saying that the Police assaulted them because they are Muslims.

US flags removed, burnt and replaced by Palestine flags, cop dragged by Pro-Palestine group: Chaos in Washington DC during Netanyahu’s visit

A US Park Police commander confirmed that two of the three American flags taken down by protesters were set on fire. The demonstration further resulted in road closures in the Capitol and Union Square locations. Protesters also burned an effigy of Netanyahu and demanded an end to US military funding to Israel during its ongoing crisis in Gaza.

Kamlesh Tiwari murder case: Supreme Court Bench grants bail to Syed Asim Ali, the accused conspirator in the murder

Kamlesh Tiwari, the Hindu Samaj Party leader was murdered in Lucknow on October 18, 2019, when the assailants came to meet him on the pretext of working for his outfit. He was murdered at his home in Naka Hindola area in Lucknow.

Delhi High Court declines to stay release of Netflix show ‘Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper’ on ICAI’s defamation lawsuit, read what the court said

Delhi High Court asserted that the Netflix series does not refer to the profession of Chartered Accountancy.

Reliance Industries gets US approval to continue crude oil import from Venezuela amid sanctions

Before the United States placed oil sanctions on Venezuela in 2019, Reliance was the second-largest private buyer of Venezuelan crude oil, trailing only China's China National Petroleum Corporation.

Ashiq Ali is the hero, Vikrant and Sunny forgotten: How Islamists choose heroes based on religion and how, it is done only to whitewash...

Islamists and the entire liberal ecosystem have developed this penchant for selecting heroes based on religion, though they do so primarily to whitewash Jihadis rather than out of admiration for their valou

‘Gays for Gaza’ is like ‘Chickens for KFC’: Israel’s PM Netanyahu slams supporters of Hamas during address at US Congress, calls for an ‘Abraham...

PM Benjamin Netanyahu also pointed out the irony of some protest slogans such as “Gays for Gaza” highlighted the severe persecution of the LGBTQ community in regions controlled by Hamas and other Islamic groups. Mocking the slogan, he said, “They might as well hold up signs saying ‘Chickens for KFC'.

Meerut: Teenage girl gang-raped, brutalised with iron rod, Haseen, Shahrukh, Ikramuddin, Mohsin named as accused by victim family

As per the local reports, the girl was gang raped by the 4 suspects identified by the family of the girl. They abducted her, gang-raped her, and then murdered her by inserting an iron rod in her private parts. The suspects also burned the face of the girl by pouring acid on it.

UP: Lakme Academy director Rakshanda Khan booked for pressuring Hindu trainees to marry Muslims and convert to Islam in Moradabad

The duo alleged that Sapna alias Rakshanda Khan used to encourage Hindu girls to befriend Muslim boys and do Nikah with them after converting to Islam. They also alleged that Rakshanda used to keep Hindu girls in groups with Muslim boys at the academy situated on Kanth Road. The duo said that Rakshanda Khan was originally a Hindu, however, converted to Islam before marrying a Muslim man named Shahnawaz Khan 17 years ago.

Majid Freeman formally charged with encouraging terrorism: Instigator of 2022 anti-Hindu Leicester violence whose links to ISIS and Al Qaeda OpIndia had exposed

Majid Freeman, who had spread lies and misinformation about the role of Hindus in the 2022 anti-Hindu Leicester riots, has been charged with inciting terrorism and lending support to the proscribed terrorist organization, Hamas

Washington DC: Pro-Palestine group releases insects and sets off fire alarms at Watergate Hotel where Israeli PM Netanyahu was staying, dye fountains red, over...

Additionally, a DC-based pro-Palestine group named ‘Palestinian Youth Movement’ has claimed that it released mealworms and insects inside the Watergate Hotel where Netanyahu is staying during his current US visit.

‘Judicial impropriety’: Justice BR Gavai-led SC bench expresses displeasure as another bench hears the same case, refers the matter to CJI

Justice Gavai expressed displeasure after another bench led by Justice AS Oka took up the same contempt case later.

“No company will be forced into the internship programme”: Union Govt clarifies on stipend for interns in top 500 companies announced in budget

Government sources have said that the top 500 companies will not be forced for the internship programme announced in the Union Budget

She is my possession, I will convert her to Islam and marry her: Dilshad Ali kidnaps Hindu girl in Uttar Pradesh, dares anyone to...

The perpetrator worked as a brick kiln worker in the Basti area of Uttar Pradesh where he lured the victim.

Assam: Shahid Ali arrested for sexually harassing a woman; was blackmailing her with obscene videos

Shahid Ali, the sexual predator, was arrested by Dispur Police for blackmailing a woman with obscene videos.