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28-year-old fast of 81-year-old Urmila Chaturvedi to end with Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan

OpIndia Staff -
81-years-old Urmila Chaturvedi will break her fast when Ram Mandir construction begins, she has been eating only fruits since 1992
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News Reports

Jharkhand: Cow slaughtered on Bakri Eid, meat thrown near Narsingh Temple in Hazaribagh

OpIndia Staff -
On Saturday, tension reportedly flared up between two communities in the Khapariyawan area of Hazaribag city in Jharkhand after a cow was allegedly slaughtered in a house near Narsingh temple on the occasion of Bakr Eid.
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Media

Barkha Dutt interviews Sushant Singh Rajput’s therapist, who breaks client confidentiality to give a clean chit to Rhea in middle of investigation

OpIndia Staff -
Barkha Dutt and Susan Walker Moffat breaks patient confidentiality by releasing mental illness history of Sushant Singh Rakput
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Social Media Fact-Check

Congress shares images from West Bengal to attack Nitish Kumar-led govt over floods in Bihar

OpIndia Staff -
In a hurry to attack the Nitish Kumar-led government in Bihar, the Bihar Congress on Friday resorted to passing-off an old image from flood-hit areas of West Bengal as that of Muzaffarpur, Bihar Sharif, Bhagalpur and Patna in Bihar.
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Media

Conspiracy of Silence: How mainstream media works to obliterate the brutal massacre of Karsevaks in 1990 from public memory

OpIndia Staff -
Almost all media houses who have prepared timeline of Ram Mandir movement have omitted the massacre of Karsevaks in 1990
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Opinions

Sainyavyapadeśa: Summons of the Indian Army to develop Self-Reliance in Defence Procurements

Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar -
The indigenization of military equipment and defence infrastructure needs significant improvement in India
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News Reports

After Kangana Ranaut hits out at the son of a Chief Minister, gunshots heard outside her house in Himachal Pradesh

OpIndia Staff -
Kullu district police rushed to the house of Kangana Ranaut after gunshot sounds were heard near her house in Himachal Pradesh.
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News Reports

Late Amar Singh had beaten Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar black-and-blue for making personal remarks at a party in 2000: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Late Amar Singh had narrated how had beaten Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar for using abusive language at a party in 2000
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News Reports

JNU ‘student’ Umar Khalid questioned by Delhi Police in connection with Delhi Riots case, mobile phone seized

OpIndia Staff -
The FIR registered against Umar Khalid said that the Delhi Riots were a preplanned conspiracy hatched by the JNU Scholar and his associates.
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News Reports

Congress leader Jitu Patwari spreads fake news claiming that PM Narendra Modi is flying in a luxurious private jet: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Madhya Pradesh Congress MLA Jitu Patwari uses photo of a private chartered plane claiming that it is used by PM Narendra Modi
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Government and Policy

How Amit Shah saved Delhi from hitting AAP’s ‘target’ of 5.5 lakh Coronavirus cases by July 31

Abhishek Banerjee -
Towards the end of March this year, just as Coronavirus was making its way across India, the AAP government quietly signed up Delhi for the Center’s Ayushman Bharat program.
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Media

When NDTV wanted 1000 karsevaks to be murdered in a storm of bullets to protect the secular fabric of the country

OpIndia Staff -
NDTV journalist had asked Kalyan Singh if it was wise to save lives of thousands of karsevaks at the expense of "dividing the country"
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Opinions

Women-led Self Help Groups: Frontline workers in the fight against COVID-19

Guest Author -
The mention of SHGs by PM Modi holds significance here since in the last few years, this women-led movement has become an institution for women empowerment and economic prosperity of rural India
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Editor's picks

Ayodhya Diaries: When Nehru tried to impose his ‘Aurangzeb diktat’, an ICS officer KK Nair refused to budge

OpIndia Staff -
Ram Janmabhoomi movement spearheaded by KK Nair was later continued by the likes of LK Advani, Ashok Kumar, Kalyan Singh, Vinay Katiyar, and Uma Bharti.
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Politics

Former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh dies at the age of 64

OpIndia Staff -
Amar Singh dies after prolonged illness. He was receiving treatment at a hospital in Singapore. His daughters and wife were by his side.
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News Reports

Incentive scheme for mobile phone & component manufacturing a huge success, production of ₹11.50 lakh crore and export of ₹7 lakh crore expected in...

OpIndia Staff -
22 mobile phone and component manufacturing companies have filed applications under the PLI Scheme, to bring ₹11,000 crore investment
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Media

Hypocrisy in the time of pandemic: How NDTV shames Hindus during a temple festival but did the opposite during Eid

OpIndia Staff -
NDTV, like the rest of the mainstream media, regularly attacks Hindu traditions and festivals while giving others a free pass.
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News Reports

Aaditya Thackeray meets Mumbai Police Commissioner, reports say Sushant Singh Rajput’s death was discussed

OpIndia Staff -
According to reports, a politician's son had attended a party at Sushant Singh Rajput's residence, a night before his alleged suicide
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News Reports

Kashmir: Residents heave a sigh of relief as 3 remote villages near LoC get electricity for the first time after 73 years

OpIndia Staff -
Keran, Mundian, and Patruu villages near LoC in Kashmir get electricity after completion of a electrification project
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News Reports

Bihar Police fails to receive Sushant Singh Rajput postmortem report from Cooper Hospital, Rhea Chakraborty goes underground: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Bihar Police has reportedly acquired crucial evidence in connection with the alleged suicide of Sushant Singh Rajput.
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News Reports

J&K govt refutes lies peddled by Rahul Gandhi and NDTV, says Saiffudin Soz not under arrest or detention, visited Delhi twice in October and...

OpIndia Staff -
While Saifuddin Soz claims that he is under house arrest, J&K govt denies it, he was seen visiting Delhi & roaming freely on Srinagar streets
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Satire

If Bakra Eid was a Hindu festival: 10 images that tell the tale of how ‘liberal’ media and celebs would have reacted

THE SKIN DOCTOR -
Today is the Islamic festival of Bakra Eid where thousands of cattle, goats and buffaloes specifically are slaughtered by pious Muslims as an offering to Allah
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News Reports

Maharashtra government employee commits suicide over non-payment of salary for over two months

OpIndia Staff -
Amol Dhondiram Mali, 35, was under tremendous stress due to lack of work and the non-payment of the salary for the last 2 months
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News Reports

Jammu and Kashmir government to take action against employees involved in anti-national activities: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Jammu and Kashmir government forms panel to take action against employees found involved in anti-national activities
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News Reports

‘This house is on sale due to fear of members of a particular community’: Posters come up on houses of Hindus in riot-affected areas...

OpIndia Staff -
Hindus in riot-affected areas in Delhi are living under a constant fear of being persecuted by members belonging to a particular community
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News Reports

President Donald Trump hints at banning TikTok in the United States, the decision may be taken today

OpIndia Staff -
US President Donald Trump informed that he might ban TikTok, a Chinese video-sharing social media app, in the country.
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Entertainment

Irrfan Khan’s son Babil goes from being ‘Dara Hua Musalman’ to ‘I was raised without a religion’

OpIndia Staff -
Babil Khan had claimed that he did not want to be judged by his religion and said that he is a human being just like rest of the Indians
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Entertainment

Following controversy surrounding Ekta Kapoor and ‘XXX’ series, MoD writes to CBFC: Depicting Armed forces in web series or films to require NOC

OpIndia Staff -
The move comes after Army personnel and their uniform was depicted in a bad light in XXX Uncensored, for which an FIR was filed against Ekta Kapoor
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News Reports

BMC allows sacrifice of 150 buffaloes per day for Eid, Muslim organisation fumes, to move HC for permission to slaughter 5,000 buffaloes

OpIndia Staff -
BMC issued such a notification to restrict the slaughter of buffaloes ahead of the Eid after Bombay high court issued a direction to the civic body on the same.
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Government and Policy

Karnataka state government puts on hold the deletion of the chapter on Tipu Sultan from history textbooks

OpIndia Staff -
Karnataka government reportedly halted its decision to drop chapter on Tipu Sultan from the class 7 curriculum in the State
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News Reports

Parwez Parvaz, who had once moved court seeking FIR against Yogi Adityanath, gets convicted in a gangrape case and is awarded life imprisonment

OpIndia Staff -
Parwez Parvaz, who had moved the Allahabad High Court in 2007 seeking an FIR against Yogi Adityanath, has been convicted in a 2018 gangrape case.
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News Reports

American Organisation to protest against ‘Hindu Fascists’ at New York during Bhoomi Pujan of Ram Mandir, supports ‘liberation of Kashmir’

OpIndia Staff -
South Asia Solidarity Initiative (SASI), a far-left group, has called for people to join them in their bid to disrupt what it called a 'vile spectacle of fascism'.
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News Reports

While Rhea Chakraborty releases statement in her defence, Sushant Singh Rajput’s bodyguard confirms all allegations against the actress

OpIndia Staff -
After ED registered PMLA case in Sushant's death case, Rhea Chakraborty has released a video statement in her defence
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News Reports

When Pakistan cannot take Kashmir, they change the name of their highway to Srinagar

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan decides to rename its highway as Srinagar on the first anniversary of abrogation of article 370 by Indian govt
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Opinions

‘Hindus taking away jobs’: The old justification for genocide in Kashmir is back on play again as August 5 approaches

Sanghamitra -
While peddling an agenda of alienation, the usual elements never bother to mention that the Kashmiri Muslim is as Indian as the Jammu Hindu and Ladakhi Buddhist, and every Indian citizen is granted the right to education, jobs and property by the constitution of India.
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Opinions

Is India next? Google CEO fumbles when questioned about influencing search result to favour Democratic candidate, USA RW website alleges bias

OpIndia Staff -
Republican Representative from Ohio, Jim Jordan, asserted that "Big Tech's out to get Conservatives."
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News Reports

UP police arrest Congress leader Anoop Patel for inciting mother-daughter duo to self-immolate in front of Yogi Adityanath’s office

OpIndia Staff -
The UP police had registered an FIR against four people including an AIMIM leader Kadir Khan and Congress leader Anoop Patel
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Social Media

Islamists target Congress and former Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath for welcoming the construction of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya

OpIndia Staff -
Islamists slam Kamal Nath for welcoming ram Mandir construction, ask Congress not to ask for Muslim vote in future
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News Reports

Communists in Tripura demand that lockdown restrictions should be removed on the occasion of Bakr Eid

OpIndia Staff -
Tripura CPI(M) says that imposing lockdown on Bakr Eid is reckless, demands that the restrictions should be relaxed on that day
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Government and Policy

A saga of mistakes: Misadventures and policy fiascos of Congress governments of the past

Guest Author -
Even as the Indian National Congress (INC) inherited, by default, the reins of power from the British in 1947, it went about making mistake after mistake.
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News Reports

Enforcement Directorate files money laundering case in connection with the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput

OpIndia Staff -
Father of actor Sushant Singh Rajput had filed an FIR alleging that Rhea Chakraborty had stolen Rs 15 crores from the actor
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Government and Policy

National Education Policy 2020: The prospect of research and innovation

Dr. Dinamani -
he government has announced the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The new vision of the government has redefined the trajectory of education by bringing about momentous structural changes in the Education System of India
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Social Media

‘If I’m found hanging in my house, please know I did not commit suicide: Kangana Ranaut says hinting at political connections behind Sushant Rajput...

OpIndia Staff -
After several media reports discussed the presence of a politician's son in Sushant's party the night before his suicide, Kangana has hinted at the identity of the mysterious person.
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News Reports

‘I saw Uddhav Thackeray on TV, but not his administration’: MNS chief Raj Thackeray slams Maharashtra govt for mishandling of Coronavirus crisis

OpIndia Staff -
Criticising the state government, Raj Thackeray said that the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance in Maharashtra won't last for long
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News Reports

‘Build the road somewhere else’: Telangana Waqf Board outrages after deserted Mosque’s boundary wall was demolished for road construction

OpIndia Staff -
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority had reportedly demolished the outer wall of the deserted Qutub Shahi Masjid near High Tech city to construct a new road.
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News Reports

VHP to collect soil from major Dalit temples for Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan ceremony

OpIndia Staff -
Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) informed that soil from Dalit temples will be collected for Bhoomi Pujan in Ayodhya on August 5
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News Reports

Gujarat High Court directs districts to issue notification banning animal slaughter in public during Bakra-Eid

OpIndia Staff -
The Gujarat High Court has directed that a notification be passed across the state prohibiting animal slaughter in public on Eid-al-Adha.
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News Reports

Arundhati Roy’s old speech calling govt’s anti-terror ops in Kashmir as ‘state terrorism’ included in Calicut University syllabus, BJP demands its removal

OpIndia Staff -
BJP Kerala has demanded removal of the 'Come September' speech by Arundhati Roy, which has been included in the University of Calicut syllabus.
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News Reports

Had it been Pakistan, would have taken her from your house: The full story of what happened when Nazmul kidnapped Dinesh’s daughter at gunpoint

Jhankar Mohta -
A minor girl was abducted on gunpoint while she was returning from the market with her father. The alleged incident took place on July 26 in Begusarai’s Bhikan Chak village that falls under Bachhwara police station.
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Politics

Congress imploding: Sparks fly during RS meeting, questions raised on if party was ‘sabotaged’, rebels support Modi’s NEP

OpIndia Staff -
In a Rajya Sabha meeting convened and chaired by Sonia Gandhi, sparks flew between the young leaders and party veterans over the accountability of party's numerous debacles
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