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Abusive troll masquerading as journalist Swati Chaturvedi spreads misinformation by sharing cropped image to further Congress agenda

OpIndia Staff -
Not only Swati Chaturvedi but mostly all leftists use carefully cropped or edited images, video to suit their agenda
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News Reports

“Life should move on”, Supreme Court dismisses petitions to defer JEE and NEET examinations

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court said that any further delay in JEE, NEET exams would result in the waste of "precious year" for students
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News Reports

WSJ runs paid promotion of article linking Facebook and BJP based on unknown sources: Here are the details

OpIndia Staff -
Wall Street Journal spends money to promote promote controversial article alleging link between Facebook and BJP on Twitter
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News Reports

Even as Sena hounds citizens for party’s criticism, Netizens mock Sanjay Raut for ridiculous comments against medical professionals

OpIndia Staff -
Shiv Sena spokesperson had asserted that compounders know more than the doctors, drawing the ire of the Indian Medical Association.
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News Reports

NIA arrests Bengaluru doctor Abdur Rehman for ISIS links: Had visited Syria, was working to further terrorist activities in India

OpIndia Staff -
NIA had registered the case after Delhi Police arrested a Kashmiri couple from Okhla Vihar, Jamia Nagar in Delhi earlier in March.
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Politics

Congress pays tribute to Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, ‘first Indian woman to hold a cabinet post in pre-Independent India’, netizens point out brazen nepotism

OpIndia Staff -
Social media users pointed out that Congress party has truly been the flagbearers of nepotism in Indian political landscape
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News Reports

Kangana hits out at Naseeruddin Shah’s ‘half-educated starlet’ comment, asks him whether he can utter same words for a star-kid

OpIndia Staff -
Kangana Ranaut has been one of the most vocal artists to speak against the allegedly prevalent nepotism and mafia culture in Bollywood.
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News Reports

Akshay Kumar donates to Assam flood relief, gets abused and attacked for ‘being Canadian’

OpIndia Staff -
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal took to Twitter to thank Akshay Kumar for his generous donation in time of need.
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News Reports

Sushant’s sister had groped Rhea in a drunken state: Actress’ lawyer issues statement, claims she does not know Aaditya Thackeray

OpIndia Staff -
Rhea's lawyer Satish Maneshinde has stated to India Today in a written communication that the actress never had any contact with Aaditya Thackeray.
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Political History of India

Casteism and Government Schools: Behind the veils of the Dravidian Delusion

Suren -
Whenever the Dravidian movement, especially the DMK is challenged on account of corruption or their support for divisive Breaking India Forces or their Hinduphobia, an immediate shield they use is that of their position as defenders of lower castes against caste-based occupation and discrimination in education.
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News Reports

“Even a prostitute in India charges more for selling herself than Ranjan Gogoi did”: Munawwar Rana spews venom over Ram Janmabhoomi verdict

OpIndia Staff -
Munawwar Rana refused to apologize for his statements, saying that he had not said anything wrong. He said that if he apologises he would feel that he too has sold himself.
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News Reports

Visva Bharati University shuts down, seeks central forces for security after clashes over construction of boundary wall on ‘Poush Mela ground’

OpIndia Staff -
Some local traders, vendors and student activists have been opposing the construction of the boundary wall on the Poush Mela grounds.
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Opinions

Liberals want to save only Prashant Bhushan, not everyone’s free speech rights

Abhishek Banerjee -
Liberals are upset that lawyer Prashant Bhushan has been found guilty of contempt of court and they are crying about their privileged friend, not free speech rights for all.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh Police arrests ‘journalist’ Prashant Kanojia: This is the post through which he spread fake news

OpIndia Staff -
Kanojia was arrested last year too for spreading fake news through his social media handles.
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News Reports

Police complaint filed against ‘comedian’ Munawar Faruqui for making crass remarks against Lord Ram and Sita maa, mocking Godhra victims

OpIndia Staff -
Shivam Rawat said, "I have come to realise that if such behaviour is left unquestioned, it will only encourage others to further indulge in blatant Hinduphobia with impunity."
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News Reports

Pakistan: The extra-judicial killing of Hayat Baloch at the hands of Frontier Corps. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
According to SSP (Turbat), an internal investigation by the Frontier Corps found that the accused personnel 'reacted in haste' and handed him over to the police for further probe into the extra-judicial killing of the 25-year-old student.
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News Reports

1984 Sikh massacre: When former Indian cricketer and UP cabinet minister Chetan Chauhan rescued Sikh teammates from an irate mob

OpIndia Staff -
Former Indian cricket opener and UP minister Chetan Chauhan died on Sunday, August 16, due to COVID-19 related complications
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News Reports

Sanjay Raut insults medical professionals, says ‘compounders know better than doctors’, IMA seeks his resignation

OpIndia Staff -
In an interview with ABP's Marathi channel on 15th August, Raut said that doctors do not know anything and he takes his medicines from compounders (assistants).
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News Reports

Supreme Court dismisses plea to transfer money collected under the PM CARES Fund set up for COVID-19 relief to the NDRF

OpIndia Staff -
The apex court bench comprising of justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy, and MR Shah held that there is no need to transfer funds under the PM CARES to NDRF.
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News Reports

Delhi riots: Tahir Hussain grilled by ED over funding of anti-CAA protests, violence via shell companies

OpIndia Staff -
Tahir Hussain had earlier confessed to his involvement in stoking the riots in Delhi earlier this year.
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News Reports

Shaukat Ali becomes ‘Sahil Kumar’: Gwalior woman alleges torture, exploitation after marriage under false identity

OpIndia Staff -
The victim alleged that Shaukat Ali claimed to be a Kashmiri Hindu (Sahil Kumar) to lure her into a relationship and marriage.
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Days after recovering from coronavirus, Home Minister Amit Shah admitted to AIIMS Delhi

OpIndia Staff -
The hospital, as of now, has not specified any specific reason as to why Amit Shah has been admitted.
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News Reports

AAP govt to summon Facebook officials over alleged role in Delhi riots while their own leader Tahir Hussain is in jail for it

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi Assembly committee says it has taken cognisance of 'complaints' against Facebook over its alleged role in spreading hate speech.
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News Reports

Jammu & Kashmir: Protestors block Kashmir highway, Chenab Valley shut down over ‘blasphemous’ remark on Prophet Muhammad

OpIndia Staff -
Muslim leaders in Jammu & Kashmir have protested against the 'blasphemous' remark against Prophet Muhammad and raised slogans demanding death penalty to the accused.
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News Reports

Plea seeks contempt action against Swara Bhaskar over her remarks against SC judgment on Ram Janmabhoomi

OpIndia Staff -
The petitioners have argued that Swara Bhaskar resorted to a 'cheap stunt of publicity' in a bid to make the people revolt against the apex court.
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Social Media Fact-Check

Digvijay Singh spreads misinformation about platform ticket prices even after Railways had already put out the facts

OpIndia Staff -
Singh claimed that the platform ticket under Congress rule in 2011 was Rs 3 while now it is Rs 50, thereby showing an increase of 15 times.
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News Reports

Bihar: SP orders investigation against police personnel who stood on Tricolor-rangoli at Mufassil Police Station

OpIndia Staff -
Police personnel under investigation for standing on Tiranga-Rangoli on 15th August in Bihar
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Fact-Check

Did former BJP mayor Shakuntala Bharti convert the Muslim girl and marry her off to a Hindu boy as alleged by her sister? Read...

OpIndia Staff -
The Muslim girl refuted her sister's allegations levelled at BJP ex-mayor Shakuntala Bharti, said she married at her own will.
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Entertainment

Plea seeks to bring criminal contempt proceedings against controversial actress Swara Bhasker after remarks against Ram Mandir: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
The sanction for prosecution against Swara Bhasker was sought for her remarks on the Ram Mandir verdict.
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News Reports

‘Activists’ begin ‘Mask Se Azaadi’ campaign, burn masks claiming they are spreading diseases, not preventing coronavirus outbreak

OpIndia Staff -
A 'doctor' with dubious credentials, Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury, appears to be fanning an anti-mask movement in India.
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Media

PIB fact-checks Hindustan Times: Report claimed an army soldier died due to injuries sustained in the Galwan clash

OpIndia Staff -
PIB debunked the claims made by the Hindustan Times connecting the death of Havaldar Bishan Singh to the injuries he sustained during Galwan stand-off
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News Reports

Bengaluru violence accused has links with terror outfit Al-Hind and with those accused of murdering RSS activist Rudresh: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Bengaluru police have detained one Samiuddin in connection with the violence that took place at Dj Halli on August 11
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News Reports

Music maestro Padma Vibhushan Pandit Jasraj passes way at the age of 90

OpIndia Staff -
The former Indian PM, late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, had called Padma Vibhushan Pandit Jasraj as "Rasraj".
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Will legally proceed to recover damages from rioters, UAPA invoked: Karnataka CM on Bengaluru violence

OpIndia Staff -
UAPA Act has been invoked against Islamists responsible for the recent Bengaluru violence. Goonda ACT might be invoked.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Farmer thrashed, Lalitpur police initiates action against cop, orders probe

OpIndia Staff -
Lalitpur police stated that action has been initiated against the accused cop and a probe has been ordered.
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Contempt row: 41 lawyers appeal to the Supreme Court against the conviction of Prashant Bhushan

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, the apex court observed that the insinuation by Prashant Bhushan is not an attack against an individual but on the institution itself
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Culture and History

The Islamic invasions of Srirangam: How Delhi Sultanate ravaged one of Vaishnavism’s most sacred sites

Satish Viswanathan -
Srirangam contribution is particularly noteworthy because it is one of the holiest sites for Vaishnavites, the devotees of Lord Vishnu.
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Social Media

Abusive troll followed by Congress and AAP leaders celebrates UP minister’s death, says he wants all BJP leaders to suffer painful deaths

OpIndia Staff -
The habitual troll is followed by many Congress and AAP official functionaries, along with many so-called 'journalists' and 'activists' who identify as 'secular-liberals'.
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Politics

‘Sanghi snake’: Liberals and Islamists slam Arvind Kejriwal led AAP for claiming anti-CAA Shaheen Bagh protests were sponsored by BJP

OpIndia Staff -
Liberals and Islamists slammed the AAP and Arvind Kejriwal for claiming that the anti-CAA protests at Shaheen Bagh were BJP-sponsored
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Social Media

Social media activists share stories on how their pro-BJP content was censored by Facebook even as some accuse Facebook of being ‘pro-BJP’

K Bhattacharjee -
A much hyped-up propaganda has been launched with the intention of portraying Facebook as 'pro-BJP'.
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Social Media

Meet the Odisha MP who had prayed to Maa Durga to make him ‘look like Salman Khan’

OpIndia Staff -
Kendrapara MP and BJD leader Anubhav Mohanty is still waiting for '1 like' from Salman Khan.
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Zee5 issues apology for depicting freedom fighter Khudiram Bose as criminal in web series Abhay – 2

OpIndia Staff -
Zee5, online streaming platform of Zee Television, in its web series depicted freedom fighter Khudiram Bose as a 'criminal'
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Media Fact-Check

Did Aamir Khan really say ‘my wives may be Hindu but my kids will only follow Islam’? Read the details here

OpIndia Staff -
The article earlier published on Santa Banta and still carried by ‘The Siasat Daily’ asserts that Aamir Khan ​claimed that he would raise his kids from Hindu wives as devout Muslims
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Opinions

Kerala’s publicity curve flattens: “Rockstar” Health Minister predicts 10,000 – 20,000 coronavirus cases per day

Abhishek Banerjee -
As of now, Kerala has a little over 44,000 total cases. Just behind Madhya Pradesh which has 45,000 cases. Yes, after all that amazing publicity, Kerala ended up running even with Madhya Pradesh.
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Politics

‘Remember what happened to Abhijit Iyer Mitra when he visited Konark Temple,’ BJD MP warns Odisha TV

OpIndia Staff -
BJD MP Anubhav Mohanty has warned Odisha TV and asked them to remember what happened to Abhijit Iyer Mitra.
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News Reports

ISKCON requests action against Assam based artist Akram Hussain for depicting Lord Krishna with bikini-clad women, minister responds

OpIndia Staff -
Akram Hussain displayed his Krishna's painting along with another which dishonoured the National Flag in 2015
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News Reports

After Rahul Gandhi attacks Facebook India’s Ankhi Das, she receives threat to life, police complaint filed

OpIndia Staff -
Ankhi Das, Director, Public Policy, India, South & Central Asia at Facebook today filed a complaint at Delhi Police's cyber cell unit over violent life threats she has been receiving after her personal details were disclosed online.
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Social Media

Journalist Tavleen Singh sues Twitter user Shashank Singh alias PokerShash over satirical tweet

OpIndia Staff -
Tavleen Singh filed a civil lawsuit against @pokershash in Patiala House Court for his sardonic tweet against the author-writer
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Fact-Check

The Hindu spreads misleading information about PM CARES RTI, trolls use it further to insinuate ‘scam’: Here is the truth

OpIndia Staff -
The Hindu recently published a report claiming that the PM CARES Fund had refused to divulge information in response to an RTI.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Actress Saba Qamar and co-star booked for shooting a song at Wazir Khan mosque in Lahore

OpIndia Staff -
Saba Qamar and Bilal Saeed have been booked for shooting a song at Wazir Khan Mosque in Pakistan's Lahore.
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