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Political History of India

The ‘Revolutionary Poet’ and the ‘Great Scholar’: Behind the veils of the Dravidian Delusion

Suren -
One of the persistent pieces of given wisdom in Indian political discourse is that the Dravidian movement was a progressive one.
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News Reports

Tension in UP village after Lord Shiva Idol found vandalised by unknown miscreants during Shravan Mela

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An idol of Lord Shiva was found vandalised by unknown miscreants in a Shiva Mandir in Sheikhpura Kabiruddinpur village in UP
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Opinions

The curious case of Laila Tyabji’s epic meltdown, the ‘personal saree shopper’ of Sonia Gandhi

Shefali Vaidya -
On the eve of #NationalHandloomDay on 7th August, founder of Dastkar and textiles Prima Donna Laila Tyabji chose to rant about this govt’s decision of scrapping of the Handloom Board
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Media

Does Rajdeep Sardesai think that untimely death of Sushant Singh Rajput doesn’t deserve attention because he was not a “very big star”? Seems so

OpIndia Staff -
Calling the investigation into death of Sushant Singh Rajput a 'circus', Rajdeep Sardesai went on to claim that the issue has now turned out to be another feud between Mumbai Police and Bihar Police.
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News Reports

Supreme Court Registry officials face action for ‘wrongful’ listing of Prashant Bhushan’s plea bypassing Justice Arun Mishra’s bench, listing deleted

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Prashant Bhushan plea against contempt court law was listed before justices Chandrachud & Joseph violating Supreme Court guidelines
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News Reports

‘Previous govts did not pay any attention to Ayodhya, Yogi ji’s complete focus in on developing the birthplace of Ram’: Royal of Ayodhya

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Bimlendra Pratap Mishra said that Ayodhya was robbed off its glory due to the absence of a Bhavya Ram Mandir.
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Entertainment

‘Unspoken caste system that shaped America’: Oprah Winfrey sends book, that needlessly drags India into a debate about slavery in USA, to 500 professionals

OpIndia Staff -
"caste' by Isabel Wilkerson is the new pick by celebrity talk-show host Oprah Winfrey for her book club.
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Media

AltNews ‘editor’ makes a hitlist of the Bollywood actors who tweeted in support of Ram Mandir after Bhoomi Pujan

OpIndia Staff -
Yesterday, AltNews co-founder Mohammed Zubair targeted a minor girl in his Twitter fight with a social media user.
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Social Media

Who really is Binod? Read how one Youtube comment triggered a bizarre meme fest

OpIndia Staff -
The name 'Binod', which has now become the talk of the town and trending on Twitter, originated from a YouTube channel 'Slayy Point'
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News Reports

Search for ‘Burnol’ saw a huge spike during Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan, people from Northeast appeared most interested

OpIndia Staff -
Amidst the meltdown suffered by Liberals, several Hindus started suggested that they should apply 'Burnol' to their 'burn wounds' that have been caused by the construction of the Ram Mandir
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News Reports

Will Dalits get entry into the Ram Temple? Here are 4 facts for those using casteism to divide Hindus after Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan

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Contrary to the narrative tried to be build by some people, Dalits have been welcomed in the Ram Mandir movement from the beginning
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News Reports

Pakistan: Maulvi rapes child reading Quran in mosque in Sindh province, caught on CCTV

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Muslim Cleric in Sindh province in Pakistan on the run after video of hem raping a child inside a mosque emerges, case registered
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News Reports

‘He saved our lives’: Survivors of AI plane crash hail Captain Sathe, who served for ‘Golden Arrows’, which has recently been recommissioned with Rafale...

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Captain Deepak Sathe was a decorated former India Air Force pilot. He passed out from AFA with the 'Sword of Honour' in 1981.
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News Reports

Want ban on cow-slaughter, liberation of Kashi and Mathura temples as Dakshina: Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan priest Gangadhar Pathak

OpIndia Staff -
Chief priest of the Ram Mandir bhoomi pujan Gangadhar Pathak, who had returned to Vrindavan after duly completing the foundation laying ceremony of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya has sought ‘dakshina’ from PM Modi
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News Reports

Unethical therapist who revealed personal details of Sushant Singh Rajput on Barkha Dutt’s show accused of money laundering: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Ashish Shelar asked ED and Income Tax Dept to scrutinise financial records of psychologist of Sushant Singh Rajput for 'anomalies which could indicate money laundering'.
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Media

‘These numbers are bewildering’: Watch how Rajdeep Sardesai refuses to believe India Today survey’s approval rating of PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
Rajdeep Sardesai was rather shocked and bewildered as his own channel's survey seems to give PM Modi's handling of the economy an approval rating of 72%
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News Reports

DD’s live coverage of Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan watched by over 160 million people, garnered over 7 billion viewing minutes across channels in India

OpIndia Staff -
Preliminary viewership data suggest that more than 160 million people watched the live broadcast of the 'Bhoomi Pujan' event of Ram Mandir
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News Reports

Delhi Police responds to article on Delhi anti-Hindu riots, asks if ToI is trying to influence investigation and expects police to take guidance from...

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Times of India had published an editorial in which it went on to castigate Delhi Police for its investigation into anti-CAA protests and the subsequent riots
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News Reports

‘Be a good wife’: 14-year-old Christian girl Maria Shahbaz, abducted and converted to Islam, to be returned to her abductor, rules Lahore HC

OpIndia Staff -
The Lahore High Court has ruled in favour of a Muslim perpetrator who abducted, forcibly converted and married an underage Christian girl.
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Air India Express flight coming from Dubai crashes while landing at Kozhikode, breaks down in two pieces

OpIndia Staff -
The Boeing 737 NG aircraft of Air India Express overshot the runway while landing, and crash-landed on the valley below the runway
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News Reports

India cites Pakistani patronage to Dawood Ibrahim’s D-company in a fresh FATF appeal at the UNSC

Jinit Jain -
India raises the issue of Pakistan shielding D-Company boss Dawood Ibrahim at the United Nations Security Council
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Hindu activists block highway, demand arrest of Md Arif, Shadab and others for communal posts on Facebook on Bhoomi Pujan

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The Hindu activists demanded that immediate action must be taken aginst the Muslim youths for their communal posts
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Political History of India

The KGB ties of Indira Gandhi: How India became a puppet of USSR during the Cold War

Nivan -
Mitrokhin Archives are considered to be the most sensational coutner-intelligence documents that have blown the whistle on several countries.
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News Reports

Eid in Balochistan: Another Eid and another protest by Baloch people seeking release of their loved ones abducted by Pakistani military

Hakeem Baloch -
For the last 10 years on every Eid, families of Baloch missing persons have been protesting on the first days of Eid seeking their return
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News Reports

Sunaina Holey, arrested by Mumbai police a day after getting bail in the same ‘offence’, released after lawyer raises alarm: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Vivekananda Gupta, lawyer of Sunaina Holey, has dubbed the arrest by the Maharashtra Police illegal.
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News Reports

Rajiv Gandhi did not want Ram Mandir dispute to be settled, withdrew support after Chandra Shekhar had resolved the age-old issue: Claims upcoming book

OpIndia Staff -
Rajiv Gandhi did not want Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid dispute to be resolved as he did not want Chandra Shekhar to take credit for the same
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Opinions

Hindus, the last standing major pagan culture in the world: Hagia Sophia, AIMPLB and why secularism is a scam

Abhishek Banerjee -
While Muslim majority Turkey wants to intervene in Kashmir, AIMPLB talks about the Hagia Sophia even as it wags its finger at the Supreme Court
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News Reports

Kerala nun rape case: Rape-accused Bishop Franco granted bail again by Kottayam trial court

OpIndia Staff -
The court will now hear the case on August 13, 2020, when the charge-sheet will be read out in the court.
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Government and Policy

Modi govt abolishes textile board with ‘activists’ and ‘experts’ pontificating, to get work done through institutes like NIFT instead

Nupur J Sharma -
The Handloom Board was an ornamental board that had activist and experts who essentially pontificated without doing any real ground work
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News Reports

Bollywood: Rapper Badshah questioned by Mumbai police crime branch over fake follower scam

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, there are over 170 high-profile stars who have allegedly paid to gain fake followers on social media.
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News Reports

Centre defends media’s right to report Tablighi Jamaat case in SC, says Jamiat petition demanding gag order based on non-accredit fact-check portals

OpIndia Staff -
Islamists and their sympathisers had collectively rushed to shield the Tablighi Jamaat super spreaders of Coronavirus
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Media

The Wire claims ‘activist’ Rehana Fathima should be celebrated and not punished for posting video of her children painting on her nude body

OpIndia Staff -
The Wire in an article claimed that the perverse actions of Rehana Fathima ought to be celebrated and not punished.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: FIR filed against miscreants from a ‘particular community’ for attacking Hindus celebrating Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan in Sultanpur

OpIndia Staff -
People from 'particular community' attack Hindus celebrating Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pukam in Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Three linked to radical Islamist outfits PFI and SDPI arrested for sharing communal posts on Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan day

OpIndia Staff -
Dr Aleem, Kamruddin and Sahibe Alam were reportedly caught posting hateful and communally charged posts on Twitter.
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News Reports

‘Blatant Hindu-tilt’: Islamic seminary Jamia Nizamia says Kamal Nath and Congress have betrayed Muslims by supporting Ram Mandir

OpIndia Staff -
Jamia Nizamia, one of the oldest Islamic seminaries in India, has advised fellow Muslims to stop trusting Kamal Nath and Congress
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News Reports

Dalit family in Uttar Pradesh became the first to receive Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan’s prasad, read why

OpIndia Staff -
While a Dalit was chosen for the first prasad, Iqbal Ansari was chosen as the first person to receive the Bhoomi Pujan invite
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News Reports

Kerala gold smuggling case: NIA informs court that prime accused Swapna Suresh had close links with CM Pinarayi Vijayan’s office

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The high-profile Kerala gold smuggling case has wreaked havoc on the incumbent Kerala State government
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News Reports

Kolkata Police files case of stalking and insulting modesty of woman in connection to trolling and harassment of Bengali women online

OpIndia Staff -
Kolkata Police is probing multiple complaints of harassment and trolling against Bengali women on social media platforms.
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News Reports

Sushant death: A month after requesting the Home Minister for a CBI probe, Rhea Chakraborty says CBI probe is ‘illegal’

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Rhea Chakraborty said, "The Bihar government transferred a case with which it had no Jurisdiction to investigate, to CBI instead of the Mumbai Police."
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News Reports

“Ghus ke maro salo ko”: Muslims clashed with Hindus objecting to Ram Pujas on 5th August in West Bengal

OpIndia Staff -
Muslims came out in large numbers in Kolkata to prevent Hindus from celebrating the Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan on 5th August
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News Reports

Ram Mandir: Temple expected to be completed in 36-40 months, Larsen and Toubro to start working at site soon

OpIndia Staff -
Sompura family's Ashish Sompura has prepared the revised design plans. Larsen and Toubro will carry out the construction work.
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Government and Policy

Govt officials wanting exemption from compulsory 14 day home isolation upon arrival in Mumbai now need to take permission from BMC: Details

Shashank Bharadwaj -
On Friday, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) issued a notification for handling the domestic passengers, which states that passengers arriving in Mumbai will have to undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine in light of the coronavirus epidemic that has gripped the city.
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Media

Even as minor girl gets rape threats, co-founder of AltNews justifies doxxing her to intimidate the grandfather

OpIndia Staff -
We had reported earlier, that just because the Twitter user had countered the co-founder of AltNews, Zubair, he had resorted to sharing an image with of the Twitter user with his granddaughter in an attempt to intimidate him.
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Social Media

Doesn’t matter if PM Modi did Bhoomi Pujan, credit for Ram Mandir must go to Rajiv Gandhi: Congress claims, then deletes tweets

OpIndia Staff -
Congress' subsidiaries claimed that it was Rajiv Gandhi who had laid the foundation of the Ram Mandir and not PM Modi.
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News Reports

‘How can a political party enter an agreement with China?’ CJI Bobde bewildered after becoming aware of Congress deal with CCP in 2008

OpIndia Staff -
CJI Bobde said that there something legally unheard of in the plea that demanded an NIA or CBI probe into the MoU signed between CCP and Congress.
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News Reports

ED raids 14 locations linked to Vadra-aide Sanjay Bhandari, accused in the Pilatus Aircraft Scam

OpIndia Staff -
The ED has raided 14 different locations across Delhi, Gurugram and Surat in connection with the Pilatus Aircraft Scam accused Sanjay Bhandari.
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Social Media

Child abuse? Netizens react as co-founder of AltNews shares the photo of an underage girl to intimidate the grandfather

OpIndia Staff -
Responding to a tweet by a Twitter user, Md Zubair chose to target the young girl seen in the profile image of the user instead of replying
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News Reports

Gharwapsi on the day of Ram Lalla’s homecoming: 50 Muslim families embrace Hinduism in Rajasthan, say ancestors were Hindus

OpIndia Staff -
Muslims of 50 families who decided to convert to Hinduism said that their ancestors were Hindus are were forcefully converted
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News Reports

Sushant Singh Rajput revealed to his sister about the plans of ex-partner Rhea Chakraborty to falsely implicate him: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Bihar Police has stated in the Supreme Court that Rhea had left Sushant's house on 8 June after taking his laptops, cash, jewellery, credit cards and important documents.
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News Reports

After Sushant Singh and Sameer Sharma, Bhojpuri actress Anupama Pathak found dead, had shared Facebook video before alleged suicide

OpIndia Staff -
Before her alleged suicide, Anupama had uploaded a video on Facebook where she was seen saying that she has been cheated and has no one to trust.
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