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Amidst rising coronavirus cases in Maharashtra, doctor alleges Shiv Sena leaders have advised self-medication to suspected COVID patients

OpIndia Staff -
An e-poster in the name of Shiv Sena leaders has gone viral on social media platforms, under which they are advising the coronavirus patients to take prescriptions suggested by the Shiv Sena leaders.
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News Reports

Andhra temples attack row: Jagan’s party benefitting from attacks on Hindu temples, says TDP leader Jayadev Galla

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier this month, a 62-years old temple chariot located inside the Sri Lakshmi Narasimha temple in East Godavari district's Antarvedi was gutted in fire.
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Cricket

Australian cricket legend Dean Jones passes away in Mumbai

OpIndia Staff -
Dean Jones was part of the Star Sports commentary team and was in a bio-secure bubble in a seven-star hotel in Mumbai.
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Entertainment

‘Have seen cricketers, Bollywood superstars and their wives taking cocaine during IPL KKR party’: Actor Sherlyn Chopra

OpIndia Staff -
Actor Sherlyn Chopra said that the nexus is extremely vast and NCB is yet to reach the bigger players of the game.
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Crime

NIA takes over Bengaluru riots probe, names SDPI leader Muzammil Pasha for instigating violence

OpIndia Staff -
The NIA statement mentions that SDPI leader Muzammil Pasha had called a meeting and directed PFI/SDPI members to instigate violence in the area.
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OpIndia Explains

5 questions about the new Industrial Relations Code and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Condition Code answered

OpIndia Staff -
In the current parliament session, three bills - Code on Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions, Industrial Relations Code and Social Security Code were passed to reform Labour laws.
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News Reports

Delhi riots accused and former JNU student Umar Khalid sent to judicial custody till October 22

OpIndia Staff -
Umar Khalid is an accused in the anti-Hindu Delhi riots and is alleged to have provided logistical support for the riots.
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News Reports

“Reports say otherwise”: Justice Lalit rejects Sudha Bharadwaj’s bail plea sought on medical grounds

OpIndia Staff -
Justice Rastogi rebuked Bharadwaj's lawyer, Vrinda Grover, for calling the medical reports false before the Bombay High Court.
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News Reports

Anti-Hindu Delhi Riots: Salman Khurshid, Prashant Bhushan, Kavita Krishnan named in the disclosure statement of the accused

OpIndia Staff -
Former Union Minister Salman Khurshid, CPM leader Brinda Karat, Prashant Bhushan were among those accused of giving provocative speeches during the protests against the CAA.
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News Reports

‘We’ll have to spill the blood of these kaafirs’, eyewitness’ testimony shows Delhi riots were well-orchestrated: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
A sensational testimony of an eyewitness to the February 2020 anti-Hindu Delhi riots proves beyond doubts that the violence were well orchestrated and was not a spontaneous action.
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Government and Policy

The bills will bring a revolutionary change in farmers’ life: Minister of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar

OpIndia Staff -
"MSP is not going anywhere, new farm laws will remove middlemen from the process," says Narendra Singh Tomar.
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News Reports

ABP journalist manhandles and slaps psephologist Pradeep Bhandari

OpIndia Staff -
Pradeep Bhandari was in Mumbai near the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) covering the bollywood drug abuse scandal.
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News Reports

Akshardham Temple attack: 18 years ago, on this day, two terrorists laid siege on our faith

OpIndia Staff -
On September 24, 2002, the Akshardham Temple in Gandhinagar, Gujarat was attacked by LeT terrorists.
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Opinions

Triple talaq to child marriage: All the crimes against ‘Bilkis’ that Indian liberals would have supported

Abhishek Banerjee -
‘Bilkis’ could be any face in the crowd. In India, ‘Bilkis’ could come in many forms. But Indian liberals love just one of them.
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News Reports

What they did on 5th August, was the last nail on the ‘coffin of India’: Farooq Abdullah says Kashmiris would prefer to be ruled...

OpIndia Staff -
Abdullah stated, "once the restrictions are lifted, lakhs of Kashmiris will hit the streets protesting against the Modi government".
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News Reports

The KWAN connection: Deepika Padukone’s NGO had Anirban Das Blah as one of the trustees

OpIndia Staff -
Anirban Das Blah, ex-owner of KWAN Entertainment, was associated with Live Love Laugh Foundation, NGO of Deepika Padukone
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News Reports

Monsoon session of Lok Sabha concludes, becomes the most productive session in the history with productivity rate of 167%

OpIndia Staff -
September 20 was the most productive day of the current session 17th Lok Sabha with 234 per cent of productivity.
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News Reports

Former Amnesty India head Aakar Patel arrested for tweets on PM Narendra Modi, BJP-RSS and Ghanchi caste; released on bail

OpIndia Staff -
Aakar Patel was arrested by Surat Police on a complaint filed by BJP MLA from Surat West constituency Purnesh Modi
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News Reports

Minister of State for Railways Suresh Angadi succumbs to Coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
Minister of State for Railways Suresh Angadi passed away at the AIIMS in New Delhi, he had tested positive for Coronavirys on 11 Septemter
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News Reports

Properties made available for sale or rent only to Muslims appear on several real estate portals

OpIndia Staff -
Even in a cosmopolitan city such as Mumbai, bigoted homeowners actively discriminate between tenants.
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News Reports

KWAN representative told me that I need to attend Karan Johar Parties to make a comeback to movies: Suchitra Krishnamoorthi

OpIndia Staff -
One of the main things is that you need to be seen at Karan Johar's parties, KWAN representative had told Suchitra Krishnamoorthi
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News Reports

CBI carries out multiple raids along India-Bangladesh border; BSF officer and 3 others booked in illegal cattle trade case

OpIndia Staff -
A BSF officer along with 3 others booked by the CBI in connection with the illegal cattle trade along India-Bangladesh border
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News Reports

Pakistan plans to turn illegally occupied Gilgit-Baltistan into a province; the decision to benefit China and CPEC

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan government have received support from all parties to convert Gilgit Baltistan into a full province of the country
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News Reports

Rana Ayyub lies again, this time while writing an ode to the old lady protestor at Shaheen Bagh for Time’s 100 most influential people...

OpIndia Staff -
Rana has written that Shaheen Bagh protestor 'Bilkis' was sitting to protest against the CAA that could "block Muslims from citizenship".
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News Reports

Nepali Youths protest outside the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu against Chinese construction on Nepali territory in Humla

OpIndia Staff -
China has reportedly constructed multiple buildings in the Humla region of Nepal and the Chinese troops are staying in them.
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News Reports

Kerala govt to take action against media houses alleging defamatory reports on state secretariat fire incident

OpIndia Staff -
Apart from filing case under CrPC, Kerala govt will also complain against media with the Press Council alleging defaming reports
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News Reports

Eiffel Tower evacuated after a man shouted ‘Allah hu Akbar’, threatening to blow it up: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
The Parisian authorities have cordoned off the roads leading to Eiffel Tower and a thorough sweep is being carried out to ascertain if the threat was legitimate.
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News Reports

Deepika Padukone, Sara Ali Khan, three others summoned by NCB in Bollywood drug probe

OpIndia Staff -
Deepika’s name had emerged in the drug abuse probe earlier this week after her WhatsApp conversations went viral.
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Opinions

BJP govt must be careful about ecosystem trying to engineer price rises

Abhishek Banerjee -
BJP government needs to watch out about what comes next. The so called “age of controls” may be over, but the mentality of that era might not be.
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News Reports

UP government to recover rent from culprits illegally occupying government land for the duration of the illegal occupancy

OpIndia Staff -
UP CM directed officials to not only demolish the structures built on government lands occupied illegally but also recover rent for the same
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Law

Sudarshan TV case: Supreme Court defers hearing till October 5, channel to respond to IB Ministry notice by Sep 28

OpIndia Staff -
The Court further ruled that the earlier order, which called for an injunction on the remaining episodes of 'UPSC Jihad', will remain operational until the next hearing.
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News Reports

Cannabis: What is it, why is it banned in India and how Rajiv Gandhi played a role in its ban

OpIndia Staff -
Rajiv Gandhi government had passed the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act in 1985 to ban cannabis in India
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News Reports

No coercive step against Facebook exec for ‘role’ in Delhi riots, says Delhi Assembly panel after SC sends notice

OpIndia Staff -
Dehi Assembly panel had sent summons to Facebook India head Atul Mohan alleging ‘deliberate inaction’ by the social media giant against alleged hate speech that ‘culminated in the Delhi riots’
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News Reports

Complaint filed against William Dalrymple for flouting visa norms, trying to interfere in India’s internal affairs

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court advocate and author Monika Arora has stated that William Dalrymple has violated visa norms by trying to interfere in India's democratic process and trample on her freedom of expression.
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Crime

Former CM Chandrababu Naidu slams the YSR government for the recent of attacks on Hindu temples in Andhra Pradesh

OpIndia Staff -
Chandrababu Naidu today slammed YS Jagan Mohan Reddy for not condemning the attacks on temples in the state of Andhra Pradesh
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Editor's picks

Molested the child, did not know what sexuality is: Video where Anurag Kashyap accepted harassing and molesting a kid as a teenager goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
A clip of Anurag Kashyap has surfaced in which he is admitting to molesting and abusing a child when he was a teenager
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News Reports

DGP Gupteshwar Pandey announces voluntary retirement ahead of Bihar elections, expected to join politics soon

OpIndia Staff -
Gupteshwar Pandey has come from very humble background. He was the first person to go to school in his family and his village did not have electricity or roads.
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Culture and History

The far east and its ancient Indian connections

Monidipa Bose Dey -
Many of the common Indians who travelled to these places settled down permanently and married local women, while the Princes who arrived would establish new kingdoms.
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News Reports

US: Town Council refuses to change the name of ‘Swastika’ hamlet, says it is the name of a Holy Hindu symbol that pre-dates Nazi...

OpIndia Staff -
The hamlet drew the name of Swastika in 1913 after the federal government provided a list of all potential names
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Opinions

Feminism and investigative journalism has been misappropriated by ‘champions’ of Indian public discourse

Guest Author -
Feminism is now misappropriated by women as a fallback strawman argument, a fallacy, and to justify personal agenda.
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Opinions

Samyagyayoga: Retrieving the Essence of Yoga

Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar -
Yoga is one of the most popular strands of Indic tradition that has taken a modern face and form, and attracts people from across countries, cultures, civilisations to adopt it.
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News Reports

Sudarshan News case: Dalit activist Sanjiv Newar to file intervention petition in Supreme Court after his comments were portrayed as ‘hate speech’

OpIndia Staff -
Sanjeev Newar stated that his comments in the 'UPSC Jihad' show were misinterpreted as 'hate speech' and 'fake information.'
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News Reports

Umar Khalid is not an exception to the rule of law: Former judges condemn ‘activists’ trying to interfere Delhi riot cases

OpIndia Staff -
"Freedom does not provide pardon from the legal consequences of criminality", the letter by the former judges read.
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News Reports

Bar Council of Delhi issues notice to Prashant Bhushan asking why action should not be taken against him for his conviction in contempt of...

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi Bar Council asks Prashant Bhushan why case under sections 24A and 35 of Advocates Act should not be started against him
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News Reports

FIR filed against Anurag Kashyap in sexual assault case

OpIndia Staff -
Anurag kashyap had been booked under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 341 (wrongful restrain), 342 (wrongful confinement), 354 (sexual assault), 376-1(rape).
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Government and Policy

An analysis of the FCRA Amendment Bill and the impact it is likely to have on ‘Civil Society Organisations’

Suren -
The Rajya Sabha has passed The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2020 on Wednesday.
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News Reports

‘Divorced women are bloodthirsty’ Congress leader Udit Raj claims while giving clean chit to ‘gentleman’ Anurag Kashyap

OpIndia Staff -
Taking to Twitter on Wednesday, the Congress leader Udit Raj, hailing the Bollywood director Anurag Kashyap as a 'gentleman' said that the two separated wives of the 'Metoo' accused director had stood up in support of Kashyap, who are otherwise 'bloodthirsty' in nature.
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News Reports

500,000 Tibetans forced into military-style labour camps in just 7 months of 2020, China calls it ‘vocational training’

OpIndia Staff -
500,000 Tibetans forced into labour camps by China in 2020 alone, says research report by German anthropologist Adrian Zenz.
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News Reports

Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam used social media to radicalise youth, says Delhi Police in charge sheet

OpIndia Staff -
Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam used social media to radicalise youth and mobilise them for the 'chakka jam' as a means to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)
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Media

Anchor of unreliable entertainment show ‘Reliable Sources’ tries to downplay Democrat threats over Supreme Court nomination

OpIndia Staff -
Brian Stelter is the anchor of unreliable entertainment show 'Reliable Sources' on CNN.
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