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Hours after expressing displeasure over new BJP team, Subramanian Swamy retweets report that hails Priyanka Gandhi

OpIndia Staff -
Snubbing the demand of Subramanian Swamy to remove BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya, BJP had retained in the new party team
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Crime

CBI registers case alleging violation of FCRA regulations in Kerala govt’s flagship ‘Life Mission’ project

OpIndia Staff -
Kerala govt violated FCRA norms as 'Life Mission' project was funded by an international agency without approval of central govt
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Opinions

‘Everybody does it, what is the big deal?’ Is Bollywood drug probe really worth prime time? Short answer is yes. Read why

Nirwa Mehta -
To claim that the Bollywood drug abuse has nothing to do with common man's life is like living in a fool's paradise, to put it mildly.
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News Reports

NCB seizes mobile phones of Deepika Padukone, Sara Ali Khan, Rakul Preet, Karishma Prakash to search for evidence in the Bollywood drug case

OpIndia Staff -
The NCB officials have impounded the mobile phones of these actresses to search for clues and more digital evidence for their involvement in the drug trade in the film industry.
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News Reports

Despite rising Coronavirus cases, West Bengal government set to reopen cinema halls from October 1

OpIndia Staff -
Demands were made by several actors in the Bengali film industry, including TMC MPs Mimi Chakraborty and Nusrat Jahan.
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh: Journalist Kamal Shukla dragged on street, beaten up by Congress goons

OpIndia Staff -
Kamal Shukla, editor Bhoomkal Samachar, a regional newspaper, was dragged on the street by Congress goons, beaten and attacked with a sharp weapon.
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News Reports

Former union minister and BJP leader Jaswant Singh passed away, PM Modi tweets condolences

OpIndia Staff -
A close confidante of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Jaswant Singh played an important role in strengthening BJP’s position in Rajasthan.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Daughter registers a complaint against father for ‘cheating’ her in Ludo game

OpIndia Staff -
After losing a game, the young woman developed bitterness against her father. The resentment increased over time after the father defeated her in subsequent games.
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Politics

Here is how senators and Joe Biden reacted to Donald Trump announcing Amy Coney Barrett as his Supreme Court nominee

OpIndia Staff -
Donald Trump announced Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee for the Supreme Court seat vacated by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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News Reports

Donald Trump formally announces Amy Coney Barrett as his Supreme Court nominee to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat

OpIndia Staff -
US President Donald Trump has formally announced Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court
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News Reports

Shiromani Akali Dal quits NDA over farm bills and ‘insensitivity of govt to Punjabi and Sikh issues’

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After farm bills were passed, Akali leader and union food processing minister had resigned from the government in protest
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News Reports

PM Modi calls for an expanded role of India in the United Nations: Here are the 7 key highlights of his speech at the...

OpIndia Staff -
PM Narendra Modi raised questions over the handling of the coronavirus crisis by the United Nations during his speech at UNGA
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News Reports

Mumbai Police to seize vehicles of media houses chasing celebrities summoned for questioning after more channels join the car chase race

OpIndia Staff -
As channels that had mocked other channels for 'media circus' start chasing cars of celebrities, Mumbai Police decide to end the menace
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News Reports

NCB’s questions to actor Deepika Padukone in the Bollywood drug mafia probe accessed by media, was grilled in three phases

OpIndia Staff -
Deepika Padukone in the interrogation which lasted for 5 hours, accepted being part of the Whatsapp group
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News Reports

Deepika Padukone confesses to NCB of being a part of drug chats Whatsapp group: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
The legal hassle is likely to increase for Deepika Padukone after she admitted to having drugs-related conversation with her manager Karishma Prakash.
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News Reports

Clashes erupt between tribal people and local Christians in Chhattisgarh over alleged forest land encroachment

OpIndia Staff -
Kondagaon SP Siddharth Tiwari rejected the claim of the Chhattisgarh Christian Forum and said the matter related to land encroachment.
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News Reports

Congress party, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra shares UPA-era images of farmers in distress to criticise Modi govt’s farm bills, score self-goal

OpIndia Staff -
To prove that farmers are unhappy with farm reforms brought by Modi govt Congress uses photos and videos from UPA govt era
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News Reports

‘This is the economic expansionism of Islam’, VHP President warns about the dangers of Halalonomics. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) President Alok Kumar highlighted the dangers of Halal economy or Halalonomics.
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Opinions

Bollywood drug scandal coverage by media saves liberals the blushes as Bharat Bandh becomes a mega flop

Abhishek Banerjee -
Ironically, one thing that saved liberals the blushes due to flop Bharat Bandh was same Bollywood coverage they had been mocking
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Entertainment

‘Bha*ve, what should I do if you have an open marriage’, Sherlyn Chopra goes off at Bollywood perverts

OpIndia Staff -
Sherlyn Chopra has been in the news after making sensational allegations against influential individuals in Bollywood.
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News Reports

Danish Pension Fund blacklists China, to pull out investments worth €54 million over human rights violations

OpIndia Staff -
Danish pension fund AkademikerPension pulling out its investments from China due to suppressing dissenting voices &violating human rights
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News Reports

Kanpur Police inches closer to bust the Love Jihad racket, nabs a woman advocate who prepared fake documents for the accused

OpIndia Staff -
The Uttar Pradesh police, through this advocate, is trying to find out the links of the ongoing ‘Love Jihad’ racket in Kanpur
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News Reports

Man who sent death threats to Yogi Adityanath arrested by UP Police, claims he sent the messages while drunk

OpIndia Staff -
Truck driver Amarpal arrested after he sent death threats to UP CM demanding the release of jailed BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari.
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News Reports

The Wire journalists share edited video to spread fake news about BJP workers attacking anti-farmer bill protestors in Patna: Here’s the truth

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BJP workers had clashed with Jan Adhikar Party workers after BJP officer was attacked, but journalists blame BJP for 'attacking' protestors
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Government and Policy

Economics of Higher Education in India: Tamil Nadu as a sample state

Suren -
There is a need to derive an economic solution for the issue of NEET protests that we see in Tamil Nadu and the seeming unfairness.
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News Reports

Kerala terrorist convicted, was one of the few Indians to receive tough ISIS battle training in Iraq to wage Jihad: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Subahani Haja Moideen, who was arrested by NIA in October 2016, had fought for ISIS in Iraq and was entrusted with the responsibility of building a sprawling ISIS network in India
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh police establish links between all five cases of Love Jihad in Kanpur’s Juhi colony, forms SIT to probe the allegations

OpIndia Staff -
UP police have constituted a Special Investigating Team (SIT) to probe allegations of ‘Love Jihad’ and forced conversion after several cases emerge from Kanpur
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News Reports

Despite rhetoric, Bharat Band supported by Congress fails to impress, Indian Railways see no impact on train operations, movements see increase

OpIndia Staff -
Indian Railways saw an increase in freight volume during the Bharat Bandh called by farmer organisations compared to the previous day
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News Reports

Punjab govt refuses to help farmers as stubble burning threatens to aggravate coronavirus crisis due to worsening air pollution. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Doctors and epidemiological experts believe that stubble burning could aggravate the COVID-19 situation due to impact on air pollution.
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News Reports

Petition in Supreme Court seeks protection for transgender persons against sex crimes under existing laws

OpIndia Staff -
A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking protection of laws for the transgender community against sex crimes.
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Politics

“Aapko dadi hui hai”, BJP spokesperson takes potshots at opposition at the expense of Shaheen Bagh ‘sherni’ Bilkis Bano

OpIndia Staff -
Bilkis Bano. Shaheen Bagh, has been named by the Time Magazine in its list of ‘100 Most Influential People of 2020’.
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News Reports

A tale of love, sacrifice and devotion: How the last Hindu of Ghazni stayed back in Afghanistan to take care of his Temple, even...

K Bhattacharjee -
Raja Ram may have never set his feet in India but his name bears the unmistakable mark of the intimate relationship he shares with out country.
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News Reports

UP Police receives death threats against CM Yogi Adityanath from unidentified person demanding the release of jailed BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari

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The threat messages were sent on the UP Police number 112 threating to wipe out the govt if Mukhtar Ansari is not released in 24 hours
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News Reports

AIIMS doctor revealed that Sushant Singh Rajput was strangled to death, says family lawyer Vikas Singh

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The Supreme Court advocate also revealed that a doctor at AIIMS had told him "long back" that photos of Sushant Singh Rajput body indicated that he was strangled to death.
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News Reports

Hours before his assassination, advocate Babar Qadri slammed J&K Bar Association of being a Hurriyat outpost, accusing them of colluding with separatists

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Babar Qadri called the J&K bar association it a group of hooligans, accusing them of colluding with the separatists & terrorists for politics
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Entertainment

The controversy around Sunil Gavaskar’s comments and Anushka Sharma’s reaction to it only highlights the perils of pseudo feminism

Jinit Jain -
Sunil Gavaskar made a benign reference to the viral video of Anushka bowling to Virat Kohli during the lockdown.
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Media

AajTak ke camera se nahi bach payegi Deepika Padukone: As the actor makes her way to NCB, IndiaToday does everything they criticise Republic for

OpIndia Staff -
The Aaj Tak reporter added several non-essential information about Deepika Padukone to claim that the coverage was exclusive
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Government and Policy

Sectarian violence, forced conversion of minorities including Hindus, illegal occupation of PoK: India goes all out at UNGA

OpIndia Staff -
India recently exercised its Right to Reply' at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to counterattack the misleading narrative put forth by Pakistan
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Law

Every inch of the land of Katra Keshav Dev is sacred for Hindus: Civil Suit filed in Mathura court for reclamation of Krishna Janmabhoomi

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Almost a year after the historic judgement in Ram Mandir case, a civil suit has been filed in a Mathura court seeking the ownership over entire 13.37 acres of Krishna Janmabhoomi land in Mathura
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News Reports

After NCB arrests Kshitij Prasad, Karan Johar releases statement, says he did not know him ‘personally’: Read the full statement

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In a statement issued soon after arrest of Kshitij Prasad by the NCB in connection with the drug nexus, Karan Johar claimed the arrested person was only briefly employed by Dharma Productions in November 2019
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Sports

She was bowling to him, I did not use any other word: Sunil Gavaskar issues clarification after being targetted with fake news

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Hours after being subjected to online backlash for 'sexism' and 'misogyny' on the basis of fake news, ace cricketer Sunil Gavaskar responded to the controversy
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Entertainment

Nassar Abdulla suggests summoning the ghost of Sushant Singh Rajput to find out the truth about his death – In all seriousness

OpIndia Staff -
In a bizarre incident on live TV, Bollywood actor Nassar Abdulla went to advise the media and NCB to seek answers into the Sushant Singh Rajput suicide case by summoning his ghost
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News Reports

Amy Coney Barrett expected to be Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee: CNN

OpIndia Staff -
Amy Coney Barrett, a circuit judge on the US Court of Appeals, is expected to be POTUS Donald Trump's Supreme Court of nominee.
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News Reports

Indian govt to decide on next step in Vodafone retrospective tax case after studying the order by Permanent Court of Arbitration rejecting India’s tax...

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Vodafone won its arbitration against the ₹20,000 crore tax demand by India at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in Hague
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News Reports

‘Women have fundamental right to choose their vocation’: Bombay High Court rules that Prostitution is not a criminal offence under the law

OpIndia Staff -
Releasing 3 women sent to correctional facility by lower court, Bombay High Court clarified that prostitution is not a crime under law
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News Reports

Pakistan link to Paris knife attack emerges, at least one perpetrator reported to be of Pakistani origin

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistani link to the Paris knife attack on Friday emerges. The arrested suspect is reported to be an 18-uear old man.
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News Reports

‘Maaro, Kaato’, Muslim mob shouts as they attack beleaguered Hindu family in Kanpur over Facebook post: Read details

Jhankar Mohta -
"Poora Tandav teen ghante tak chalta raha", says the Hindu family in Kanpur which came under attack from an irate Muslim mob
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Opinions

From Hindu Hriday Samrat to Secular Liberal: Why Shiv Sena transformed itself so radically

Ajay Sudame -
If Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray had made one big compromise to grab the power, to continue in power he is making a series of them
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Crime

Panipat triple murder: Noor Hasan raped the bodies of his wife, her sister and mother after killing them, burnt faces to prevent identification

OpIndia Staff -
The accused had killed his wife and her sister with a sharp weapon and had burnt their faces with diesel before dumping the bodies in separate locations.
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Culture and History

Tales from the Baburnama: Babur’s homosexuality and ‘love’ for a young child

Nivan -
Often idolised by the extremist section of Islamic society, Babur is assumed to be an ideal Muslim who followed all the modern day practises of Islam.
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