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Shia Muslims take to Twitter to share how they faced harassment and hatred in Sunni-majority Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
On Friday, thousands of Sunni extremists hit the streets of Karachi to lead anti-Shia protests, thereby escalating tensions between the two Islamic sects and sparking fears of a series of violent events.
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News Reports

Ram Jethmalani Memorial Lecture: India’s top legal minds discuss ‘trial by media’ and the need for controlling measures to hold news channels accountable

OpIndia Staff -
Pros and cons of trial by media was the topic for the first Ram Jethmalani Memorial Lecture Series hosted by NewsX
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Interviews

Digital activist supporting Udit Raj as Congress President denies being paid by BJP IT cell

Nirwa Mehta -
In an exclusive conversation with OpIndia's Nirwa Mehta, @Being_humor spills the beans on his Uditians and all things Dr Udit Raj
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News Reports

Delhi riots: Umar Khalid arrested under UAPA after being summoned by the Delhi police

OpIndia Staff -
In his defence, advocate Trideep Pais, representing Umar Khalid in courts, claimed on Saturday that the accusations of conspiracy are 'fabricated', 'false' and obtained under duress.
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Law

Petition in Delhi High Court demands recognition for homosexual marriages under the Hindu Marriage Act

OpIndia Staff -
A petition has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking the recognition of same sex marriages under the Hindu Marriage Act.
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Crime

Rajasthan: Mehboob Qureshi caught beating and abusing a minor to exorcise spirits from her body, absconds after police begins investigation

OpIndia Staff -
The minor girl can also be heard shouting and screaming as Mehboob Qureshi abused her in the name of exorcism.
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News Reports

Mahesh Bhatt wanted to name him Mohammad, says his son Rahul Bhatt, whom 26/11 conspirator David Headley wanted to recruit to ISI

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Bhatt had claimed that Mahesh never considered him like his son and wanted to name him ‘Mohammad.’
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News Reports

“Governor listened to me like a daughter”, actress Kangana Ranaut meets Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari

OpIndia Staff -
Kangana Ranaut meets Maharashtra governor and tells him about the unjest treatment she received from the state government
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Opinions

The shameful indifference shown by the Church towards Sister Lucy and the necessity of questioning the need for nunneries in India

Guest Author -
Sister Lucy had to go through an ordeal to make sure her complaint was heard. Her FIR complaint was deliberately acted upon slowly.
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News Reports

Shia shopkeeper gunned down in broad daylight in Pakistan amidst rising anti-Shia sentiments

OpIndia Staff -
A Shia shopkeeper in Kohat city in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan was gunned down by an unidentified miscreant
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Political History of India

How the sad demise of a Holy Seer brought back the memory of Indira Gandhi’s blatant abuse of power

Sharad Yadav -
Shri Kesavananda Bharti Sripadagalavaru, a prominent spiritual leader, left for his heavenly abode on Sunday, September 6th.
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News Reports

Congress spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill normalises casteism through ‘joke’, deletes tweet after getting called out by netizens

OpIndia Staff -
Congress spokesperson Shergill shares joke with casteist slur, later deletes after backlash.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Imran Khan’s attempts to woo FATF face hurdles from opposition parties over fears of misuse of laws against them

OpIndia Staff -
Imran Khan govt could not pass laws aimed at removing Pakistan from FATF grey list due to non-cooperation by opposition parties
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News Reports

West Bengal: BJP worker Ganesh Roy found hanging from a tree, family alleges murder by TMC workers

OpIndia Staff -
BJP worker Ganesh Roy was found dead hanging from a tree in Goghat in West Bengal, his family has accused TMC of the murder
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Opinions

On this day, in 2013, BJP declared Narendra Modi as PM candidate. I never thought he’d win

Nirwa Mehta -
13th September, 2013, just few months ahead of 2014 Lok Sabha elections, then BJP President Rajnath Singh held a press conference in New Delhi. He was accompanied with the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
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News Reports

Prashant Bhushan suggests Anna movement was RSS conspiracy, father Shanti seeks referendum in Kashmir in interview with Rajdeep Sardesai

OpIndia Staff -
Prashant Bhushan and his father Shanti Bhushan appeared in an interview with Rajdeep Sardesai on India Today.
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News Reports

Nehru got AIIMS made, then why is Sonia Gandhi going abroad for ‘routine medical checkup’, netizens ask Shashi Tharoor

OpIndia Staff -
Shashi Tharoor faces criticism after Sonia Gandhi travels abroad for treatment as he had slammed Amit Shah for treatment in pvt hospital
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News Reports

Pakistan: 14-year-old Hindu girl kidnapped, forcibly converted, and married to her Muslim abductor in Sindh

OpIndia Staff -
An affidavit apparently submitted by the Hindu girl said that her age is 18 years, while her birth certificate says she is 14
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News Reports

Days after resigning from RJD, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh passes away, Lalu Yadav tweets condolences from jail

OpIndia Staff -
Raghuvansh Prasad Singh had recently resigned from Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) while being lodged in AIIMS, Delhi, for COVID treatment.
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News Reports

Model-turned-Congress leader Ria D’Souza claims she witnessed drug consumption in Bollywood parties, says the entire industry do drugs

OpIndia Staff -
Model Andria D'Souza, responding to a social media user, revealed that most people in the TV and film industry consume drugs
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News Reports

Iran executes ace wrestler Navid Afkari over alleged murder during anti-govt protests

OpIndia Staff -
Navid Afkari was earlier sentenced to death for allegedly murdering a security guard during the anti-government protest in Iran in 2018
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Media

Narendra Modi is a fascist

Nirwa Mehta -
When chief ministers of non-BJP-ruled states clamp down on freedom of press, it clearly means Prime Minister Modi is a fascist.
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News Reports

Man’s hand chopped off because of ‘786’ tattoo? Read how ‘liberals’ tried to shield a man accused of molesting a minor

OpIndia Staff -
In past few days, 'liberals' have taken to social media to claim that a man, 28-year-old Akhlaq Salami, was a victim of a hate crime. They claimed that his hand was 'chopped off' because it was tattooed with '786', the numerical equivalent of the Arabic phrase 'Bismillah' in Islam.
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News Reports

Sitaram Yechury, Yogendra Yadav, Jayati Ghosh named in Delhi riots disclosure statement, but not charged. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
News agency PTI had reported that the Delhi Police has named CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury, Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav, left-wing activist Jayati Ghosh, Apoorvanand and documentary filmmaker Rahul Roy as co-conspirators in the communal violence that transpired in the national capital in February.
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Entertainment

Dandekar sisters, celebrity stylist mysteriously delete their ‘Release Rhea’ Instagram post

OpIndia Staff -
Farhan Akhtar's girlfriend Shibani and her sister Anusha Dandekar, who had put up social media post demanding Rhea Chakraborty's release from NCB custody, have now mysteriously deleted their posts.
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News Reports

Union Home Minister Amit Shah admitted to Delhi’s AIIMS again

OpIndia Staff -
The Union Home Minister admitted to AIIMS on Saturday night, at around 11 PM, after he developed some breathing issues.
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News Reports

Jyotiraditya Scindia calls former colleagues Kamal Nath and Digvijay Singh traitors, accuses former Congress government of leaving a debt of Rs 8000 crore

OpIndia Staff -
Scindia accused former Congress government in the state of betraying people by not keeping promise of waiving loans of farmers.
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News Reports

Chinese Virologist Li Meng-Yan says she has evidence to prove that Coronavirus was made in Wuhan lab

OpIndia Staff -
Virologist Li Meng-Yan had earlier claimed that China and WHO knew about the coronavirus long before they cautioned the world about it
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News Reports

Reports claim supplemental charge sheet names Sitaram Yechury and Yogendra Yadav as co-conspirators in the Delhi Riots case, Delhi Police deny

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi Police in its supplemental chargesheet has named Sitaram yechury, Yogendra Yadav, Apoorvanand, Jayati Ghosh and Rahul Roy.
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News Reports

After demolition of illegal property, gangster turned politician Mukhtar Ansari booked under UP Gangster Act

Aditi -
Mukhtar Ansari has been booked by Ghazipur police under the Uttar Pradesh Gangster and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act
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News Reports

Varanasi: Tired of being forced by husband Aftab and his family to adopt Islam, aspiring model Pooja commits suicide, locals call it a case...

OpIndia Staff -
The girl's family also living in Varanasi has pinned the blame of their daughter's death on her husband Aftab and his family
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Specials

Nuclear Fusion: The global ITER project to create a miniature sun on earth for clean energy, and India’s contribution & lack of it

Anurag -
India needs to improve its manpower and monetary contribution for the ITER project aimed at Nuclear Fusion
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News Reports

From blaming Amarnath Yatra for floods in Kashmir to hurting Hindu sentiments: Read why liberals are mourning the death of Swami Agnivesh

OpIndia Staff -
Swami Agnivesh, a controversial political figure is saffron garb, passed away on Friday after prolonged illness due to liver cirrhosis.
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News Reports

Kerala: CPI(M) activist commits suicide in the party office, blames ‘comrades’ for torturing her in her suicide note

OpIndia Staff -
A woman CPI(M) activist was found dead on Thursday night at a one-room building in Udiyankulangara owned by the party in rural Thiruvananthapuram, according to the police probing the case.
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News Reports

Defense Minister Rajnath Singh talks to Navy veteran Madan Sharma attacked by Shiv Sena goons, calls such attacks deplorable

OpIndia Staff -
Navy veteran Madan Sharma also told defence minister Rajnath Singh that he is not happy with the way Maharashtra govt is acting recently
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News Reports

West Bengal: CID files chargesheet in the ‘suicide’ case of Hemtabad BJP MLA Debendranath Roy

OpIndia Staff -
the WB CID on Friday has filed a chargesheet in the unnatural death of BJP MLA from Hemtabad, Debendranath Roy.
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News Reports

West Bengal Congress holds rally in support of “Bengal’s daughter” Rhea Chakraborty in Kolkata, calls her arrest a ‘political conspiracy’

OpIndia Staff -
Congress, dealing with an existential crisis in WB decides to use Rhea Chakraborty as a tool to score political brownie points
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OpIndia Explains

Why Tamil Nadu govt does not want to see the growth of Navodaya Vidyalayas: Some truths about DMK and anti-Hindi agitations

Suren -
Elements in Tamil movie industry started a campaign of circulating their pictures on social media with the caption ‘I am a Tamil Speaking Indian’ or ‘Hindi Theiyadhu Poda’ – ‘I don’t know Hindi, man!’.
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Media

Barkha Dutt issued notice by Delhi HC in plea seeking transfer of her criminal complaint against Kapil Sibal to special PMLA court

OpIndia Staff -
Barkha Dutt had accused Kapil Sibal of firing the journalists at Tiranga TV without prior notice and also of withholding the salaries of journalists for a year.
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News Reports

Fact-check: Old video from 2018 being circulated as a recent one to claim Railway Minister Piyush Goyal was attacked by protesters

OpIndia Staff -
In November 2018, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal had refuted the reports of protesters attacking him as incorrect and misleading
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News Reports

Nirav Modi made a ‘scapegoat’, will not get a fair trial in India: Former SC judge Markandey Katju defends the bank scam accused in...

OpIndia Staff -
Katju claimed that Nirav Modi was being made a "scapegoat" for India’s economic collapse like Jews were blamed by Nazi Germans
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News Reports

J-K: Restoration of centuries-old Raghunath Temple in Srinagar begins almost 3 decades after terrorists vandalised and burnt it down

OpIndia Staff -
Historic Raghunath temple in Srinagar was vandalised and burnt down by Islamic terrorists in the early 1990s
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News Reports

Hours after Mumbai Police arrested six Shiv Sena workers for assaulting former Navy officer, they manage to secure bail

OpIndia Staff -
Following the release of Shiv Sena goons by the Mumbai Police, the opposition party BJP hold protest against the release of the accused
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News Reports

Here is what Suresh Chavhanke said during Sudarshan News’ first episode on ‘UPSC Jihad’

OpIndia Staff -
In the first episode of 'UPSC Jihad' on Sudarshan News, Suresh Chavhanke said that questioning the civil services was his right.
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News Reports

Bombay High Court allows activist Sunaina Holey to approach the court in case of any urgency, assures immunity from arrest for two weeks

OpIndia Staff -
The court directed the police to serve a notice of minimum 48 hours in case they intended to arrest Sunaina Holey
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News Reports

‘Will be denied heaven if he worships other gods’: Islamic preacher Mujahid Balussery calls for turning Kerala into Islamic Caliphate in 10 years

OpIndia Staff -
Mujahid Balussery has once again come under the scanner for making a clarion call for turning the Kerala into an Islamic state
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News Reports

China hands over 5 Indian nationals who had gone missing from Arunachal Pradesh, were hunters and not Indian Army personnel

OpIndia Staff -
After days of speculation, the Indian Army said that the Chinese PLA has handed over all the 5 individuals to them.
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News Reports

‘Kafir Kafir Shia Kafir’: Sunni extremists of Sipah Sahaba lead anti-Shia ‘protests’ in Karachi, pelt stones

OpIndia Staff -
In a video, Sunni extremists associated with Sipah Sahaba can be seen pelting stones at an Imambargah during their demonstrations in Karachi against Shias
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News Reports

Islamic terror group Al-Qaeda threatens Charlie Hebdo with a ‘2015 like massacre’ for deciding to republish Prophet Mohammad cartoons

OpIndia Staff -
The announcement of reprinting the cartoons by Charlie Hebdo has triggered Islamists from several countries
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News Reports

China secretly administers experimental Coronavirus vaccine to 100,000 people

OpIndia Staff -
Three coronavirus vaccine prepared by China are currently undergoing Phase 3 trials to determine their efficacy in warding off COVID-19, the disease caused by Wuhan coronavirus
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