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Political History of India

Destruction of temples, Hindu houses, and killings of Hindus before and after the demolition of illegal structure on Ram Janmabhoomi

GujaratRiots.com -
After the reclamation of Ram Janmabhoomi by Hindus, the left media and its Islamist cohorts are bracing themselves to unleash a war against the Hindus.
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News Reports

Two articles published in Saudi Arabia websites call for reexamination and editing of the Quran, but, for spelling and grammatical errors alone: Here are...

OpIndia Staff -
Two articles published on websites in Saudi Arabia have demanded that 'scribal errors' in Quran be corrected and reexamined.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Samajwadi Party leader attempts suicide, accuses former CM Mulayam Singh Yadav’s grandson Tej Pratap Singh Yadav of harassing him

OpIndia Staff -
Samajwadi Party state unit has expelled the leader after learning about his Facebook post defaming Tej Pratap Yadav.
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News Reports

Mumbai: 4 policemen suspended for beating a man to death while enforcing lockdown, SIT formed

OpIndia Staff -
Even after almost 5 months since Raju Velu's death, no arrests had been made so far in the case by the Mumbai Police.
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Politics

Who are Mukesh and Sudhanshu Bansal, arrested for donating money to AAP through shell companies? Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi Police has arrested two businessmen, one Mukesh and another Sudhanshu Bansal, for transferring money to AAP through shell companies.
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News Reports

Supreme Court dismisses petition seeking inquiry against former Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi

OpIndia Staff -
Justice Arun Mishra termed the PIL against Ranjan Gogoi as "infructuous', asked why it was not filed in the last two years
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News Reports

Supreme Court grants permission for religious functions at 3 Jain Temples in Mumbai during ‘Paryushana’

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier last week, the Shri Parshwatilak Shwetambar Murtipujak Jain Trust had approached the top court seeking permission to keep Jain Temples open during the Paryushana festival which commenced on August 15.
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News Reports

Weeks after converting Hagia Sophia, Turkey converts the 4th-century Byzantine built Chora monastery to a mosque

OpIndia Staff -
The Chora church was converted into a mosque by the Ottomans in 1511. In 1945, Turkey'c council of ministers had passed a decree to convert it into a museum.
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News Reports

Pakistan-backed Islamist groups planning to assassinate select Hindu leaders to ‘avenge’ Ram Mandir construction: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Intel reports suggest Pakistan backed Islamic fundamentalist terror outfits are planning the assassination of select Hindu leaders.
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Delhi police arrest two businessmen who were transferring money to Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP through shell companies

Nupur J Sharma -
Delhi Police have arrested two businessmen, Mukesh and Sudhanshu Bansal, who were transferring money to Arvind Kejriwal run AAP through shell companies
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Entertainment

Netflix movie sparks outrage for sexualising children, streaming platform says it ‘cannot comment’ on whether it supports pedophilia or not

OpIndia Staff -
Netflix apologised for the 'inappropriate artwork' for the movie and said that they have updated the pictures and description.
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Law

The saga of humiliation: Here are 10 cases for which Supreme Court reprimanded Prashant Bhushan in the last decade

OpIndia Staff -
Conduct of Prashant Bhushan has led the SC to express grave concern over and over again but the senior advocate is remorseless
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News Reports

Over 800 dignitaries and lawyers write to CJI raising concern over the conduct of ‘pressure groups’ in the Prashant Bhushan matter: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Over 700 lawyers have written a letter to the CJI, expressing concern over certain lobbying groups to tarnish the image of the judiciary when their political ends are not met.
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Sports

As Suresh Raina announces retirement, PM Modi writes a warm letter to the cricketer: Read the letter

OpIndia Staff -
Suresh Raina announced his retirement from international cricket on August 15, the same day as former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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News Reports

Samajwadi Party leader Lautan ‘Ram’ Nishad says Lord Ram never existed, he is a fictional character like in movies

OpIndia Staff -
Lautan 'Ram' Nishad,who is also the president of Samajwadi Party (SP) Backward Class Cell, said that Lord Shri Ram was just a fictional character just as in the movies.
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Kangana Ranaut makes an announcement, will be joining Twitter soon: Watch her video message

OpIndia Staff -
Kangana Ranaut is all set to join Twitter, announcement made via video message posted by her team
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News Reports

Twitter removes hashtags #TablighiJamaat #CoronaJihad and others after Telangana HC issues notice to it over ‘Islamophobic’ content

OpIndia Staff -
Twitter informed Telangana HC that it has removed "offensive" trends spreading "hatred against Islam" and hashtags attempting to portray Muslims as the spreaders of the Chinese coronavirus
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News Reports

Javed Akhtar and his gang keep an eye, filter ‘Islam-friendly’ people in the Industry: Kangana in Republic interview

OpIndia Staff -
Kangana stated that people like Javed Akhtar claim to be 'atheists' but they actually keep an eye and filter 'Islam-friendly' people in the industry.
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News Reports

West Bengal: BJP worker arrested for ‘offensive’ post against the nephew of Mamata Banerjee

OpIndia Staff -
West Bengal police arrested a 24-year-old BJP worker named Sudhadip Das for allegedly posting 'offensive' content against Abhishek Banerjee, nephew of Mamata Banerjee
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News Reports

‘My existence is worthless if I can’t help you,’: Leaked WhatsApp conversation between Rhea and Mahesh Bhat on June 8. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, Mahesh Bhat had claimed that he had met Sushant only twice and he had nothing to do with Rhea's break up with Sushant.
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News Reports

‘Will hold Muharram events despite coronavirus, arrest if you can’: Shia cleric Kalbe Jawad dares Lucknow authorities

OpIndia Staff -
Maulana Jawad, the cleric who is 'mutawwali' of Imambara Ghufranmaab, also said that he will hold religious events despite the restrictions and police are free to arrest him.
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News Reports

Begusarai: Main accused behind Hindu minor girl’s abduction Izmul arrested, girl confirms of being kept in confinement and administered sleeping pills

OpIndia Staff -
OpIndia, following the case closely, reported how Begusarai police had insisted that this was a matter of "love affair"
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News Reports

Pakistan Minister boasts of having such a precise bomb that it will target India all the way to Assam, but without harming the Muslims

OpIndia Staff -
The Pakistan minister admits that the Indian Army is far superior to the Pakistan Army in conventional warfare
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News Reports

“Uttarakhand will give befitting answer to those who killed Dilbar Negi”: Kapil Mishra hits out as Kejriwal says AAP will contest state elections

OpIndia Staff -
Arvind Kejriwal had said that AAP will contest in all 70 seats in Uttarakhand assembly elections
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News Reports

Manish Tewari opens a pandora’s box, writes to Facebook asking to contact his US-based lobbyist on alleged Facebook-BJP links

OpIndia Staff -
Manish Tewari reveals that US based lobbyist Bharath Gopalaswamy is his policy advisor, seeks involvement in the Facebook-BJP link debate
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Opinions

The challenges to ‘Secularism’ and the need to implement NRC to preserve it

Guest Author -
The day the Hindus become a religious minority in India, their eventual decimation would become a matter of time as it happened in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
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Culture and History

Democratizing Temple administration: Throwing the baby out with the bathwater

Sai Priya Chodavarapu -
In the ongoing discussion about state entrenchment in Hindu Temples, we come face to face with the question of what the alternative system would be
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Crime

Agra: Lady doctor brutally murdered for rejecting senior’s marriage proposal, arrested accused confesses to the crime

OpIndia Staff -
Dr Yogita's body was found from the fields in Bamrauli Katra area under Dauki police station of Agra.
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Culture and History

From Java, Philippines, Bali, Cambodia, Borneo to Burma: Understanding Ganesha from an iconographical perspective

Monidipa Bose Dey -
Ganesha, also popularly referred to as Vighnesvara, is the god who presides over obstacles, by both placing them in the way and also removing them
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Crime

Karnataka police books 61 accused under UAPA for involvement in Bengaluru riots

OpIndia Staff -
A week after the horrific Bengaluru riots, the Bengaluru Central Crime Branch (CCB) has questioned two Congress corporators, including a former mayor, in connection with the violence.
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Opinions

Throwing India to the radicals: Biden, Harris and why India is the perfect target of hate for the American left

Abhishek Banerjee -
Left to his own devices, Joe Biden would have no hostility towards India. He’s not the problem: the problem is his party. Rather, what his party has become.
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News Reports

UK-born Head of Christian Evangelical Mission in Odisha sexually assaulted minor boy in shelter home, arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Odisha Police have booked John Patrick Bridge under SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) and POCSO Act for sexually assaulting minor boy
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News Reports

SC rejects Prashant Bhushan’s plea for sentencing by another bench, Bhushan says wont apologise for tweets

OpIndia Staff -
The bench observed that it can be "very lenient" only if the person concerned can show a sense of remorse from the core of his heart.
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Social Media

‘Will Sonia Gandhi do the same for Balasaheb’: Netizens question as Uddhav Thackeray offers floral tribute to Rajiv Gandhi

OpIndia Staff -
Many social media users wondered what the late Balasaheb Thackeray would have thought about his son playing tributes to Rajiv Gandhi as an alliance partner of Congress.
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News Reports

Russian opposition leader and critic of Vladimir Putin ‘poisoned’, admitted at ICU after becoming unconscious in a flight

OpIndia Staff -
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny lost conscious after his flight from Tomsk, Siberia to Moscow took off, suspected to be poisoned
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Cricket

‘Dhan-Kuber’ of Indian sports BCCI hurts patriotic sentiments by awarding IPL sponsorship to China-backed Dream 11

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Interestingly, China-backed Dream 11 was already an 'official partner' of the BCCI and organizes the controversial fantasy version of the IPL.
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News Reports

PM Modi writes an outstanding tribute to MS Dhoni on his retirement. Read the letter

OpIndia Staff -
Former Indian captain MS Dhoni has shared a heartfelt letter of appreciation from Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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News Reports

As Congress tries to paint Rajiv Gandhi as the catalyst in reclamation of Ram Janmabhoomi, book by close friend shatters that myth: Here are...

OpIndia Staff -
The memoir by Rajiv Gandhi's friend and old school mate claims that the former PM was not aware of the unlocking of Ram Ramjanmabhoomi site in February 1986.
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Specials

Shah Bano Case: When Rajiv Gandhi overturned SC judgement protecting Muslim women’s right to maintenance during talaq

OpIndia Staff -
Rajiv Gandhi govt had passed the Muslim Women (Protection on Divorce Act), 1986 to overturn the SC verdict in Shah Bano case
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Political History of India

Nagpur Riots of 1923: How it played in Dr K.B Hedgewar’s life and lead to the formation of RSS

Nivan -
The incident of 1923 made Dr Hedgewar think intensively about the condition of Hindus in Nagpur, and played a major role in his decision of founding the RSS
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News Reports

Construction of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya begins, the Mandir trust requests devotees to donate copper

OpIndia Staff -
The trust has asked devotees across India to donate copper wires and copper rods for the construction of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya
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Opinions

Hayat Baloch: Dragged and murdered by the Pakistani establishment, with 8 bullets fired point black

Hakeem Baloch -
Since the brutal murder of Hayat Mirza, Baloch people have been protesting across Balochistan and demanding justice for Hayat Baloch.
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News Reports

Curious case of ‘United Nations’ NGO appreciating ‘Kingdom of Mamata Banerjee’ for their Covid-19 work. Here is what we know

Anurag -
An 'international NGO' associated with the 'UN' appreciated the West Bengal govt's efforts for coronavirus. Except, the 'UN' here is not United Nations.
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News Reports

Mahesh Bhatt plants a paid article praising himself after finding himself at the centre of nepotism debate in Bollywood

OpIndia Staff -
To counter allegations of nepotism, Mahesh Bhatt plants paid article praising himself saying he gave opportunity to many newcomers
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News Reports

Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris says Coronavirus is a racist virus during her speech accepting her nomination

OpIndia Staff -
Kamala Harris called Covid-19 a racist virus during her acceptance speech of the nomination for the post of Vice President
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News Reports

Pre-partition Hanuman Mandir razed to the ground in Pakistan: Here is how builder took advantage of lockdown to demolish Temple

OpIndia Staff -
The radical Islamists beileve that the construction of Hindu temple in Pakistan is against the ideas of Islam
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News Reports

Congress era NSA with links to George Soros insinuates India’s domestic policy should be decided by the USA

OpIndia Staff -
Why does a former NSA think that India's democratically elected government should need the permission, evaluation and approval of the USA before deciding on its domestic policies is another large question mark.
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News Reports

Facebook removes hundreds of pro-Trump QAnon groups ahead of US elections, limits their reach

OpIndia Staff -
QAnon is a collective term for groups of activists and conspiracy theorists who share anonymous claims. Facebook has said that many of these groups show patterns of violent behaviour.
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News Reports

Trump ‘cancels’ Goodyear, calls for boycott of its tyres after company policy banning MAGA attire goes viral, the company distances itself from the policy

OpIndia Staff -
After internal slide of Goodyear listing 'MAGA Attire' in unacceptable category emerged on Internet, President Trump hits back
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News Reports

AMU organises webinar to discuss Khilafat movement, BJP calls it a threat to country’s internal security, seeks action against varsity

OpIndia Staff -
AMU had conducted the webinar on August 13 and a Turkish professor also took part in the discussion on the Khilafat movement
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