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NIA tells Bombay HC ‘Urban Naxal’ Varavara Rao attempting to take undue advantage of Coronavirus to get bail

OpIndia Staff -
The NIA has accused 'Urban Naxal' Varavara Rao of attempting to take undue advantage of the Coronavirus outbreak.
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Entertainment

Movie critic Rajeev Masand who wrote ‘blind items’ against Sushant Rajput called by Mumbai police for questioning

OpIndia Staff -
Reprehension on Bollywood's 'powerful and influentials' got many movie critics like Rajeev Masand to defame Sushant
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Media

The Indian Newsroom: Book by former NDTV employee exposes the strange nexus between NDTV and Congress

OpIndia Staff -
Bhushan has detailed in his book that NDTV had formed a dedicated team and run a long and elaborate campaign 'exposing' Natwar Singh's alleged corruption with the sole aim to remove him from the cabinet. But strangely, the successful campaign finds no mention in the organisation's 'untold stories'.
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Editor's picks

Chetan Bhagat accuses Vidhu Vinod Chopra of bullying him to an extent where he contemplated suicide

OpIndia Staff -
Chetan Bhagat, writer, and Anupama Chopra, film critic got into an ugly spat on Tuesday on Twitter where Bhagat alleged that Chopra's husband, filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra bullied him so much that he contemplated suicide.
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Crime

Ukraine: Armed man seizes a bus, takes 20 people hostage claiming fight against ‘system’

OpIndia Staff -
Media reports say that the man has claimed to have seized another bus. It is yet to be confirmed whether the gunshots have injured any hostages.
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Entertainment

Ranvir Shorey’s tweet on ‘independent film crusaders turning mainstream Bollywood flunkies’ triggers Anurag Kashyap’s elaborate meltdown

OpIndia Staff -
Ranvir tweets independent-film-crusaders turning mainstream-Bollywood-flunkies, Anurag had meltdown assuming it is about him
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News Reports

Sharjeel Imam tests coronavirus positive, may delay police’s exercise to bring him back to Delhi

OpIndia Staff -
Sharjeel Imam will be kept in Guwahati till he recovers from coronavirus.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Thackeray govt approves Rs 50,000 annually to each Bombay HC judge as ‘spectacle allowances’

OpIndia Staff -
In a resolution, the MVA government in Maharashtra has approved an allowance of Rs 50000 annually for the spectacles of judges and their family members.
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News Reports

PETA tries to apologise for their Hinduphobic billboard that connected Rakhi with leather, peddles more Hinduphobia in the process

OpIndia Staff -
PETA India, in a recent press release, has 'apologised' for its recent billboard connecting the Hindu festival of Rakshabandhan with leather consumption.
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Opinions

Dear liberal media, please promise to be respectful no matter how Covaxin trial goes

Abhishek Banerjee -
As India begins human trials of coronavirus, the liberal media needs to learn its lessons from its own conduct on how to be respectful, should we not succeed at first go.
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: 8 persons arrested for attacking, critically injuring journalist in Ghaziabad, 1 policeman suspended

OpIndia Staff -
CCTV footage shows Joshi being stopped, dragged and assaulted by some miscreants while he was returning on a motorcycle with his daughters on Monday night.
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OpIndia Explains

Nazariya QFRG: Brainwashed children, advertised colouring book for students with nude women wearing dildos and masturbating

K Bhattacharjee -
Another shocking post of Nazariya QFRG has started gaining traction on social media.
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Social Media

Sushant Singh Rajput’s death: Mid-Day cites unnamed ‘sources’ to claim he had bipolar disorder, changes it to ‘depression’ after being called out

OpIndia Staff -
The article in Mid-day had cited unnamed sources from a leading hospital in Mumbai to claim that Sushant Singh Rajput was suffering from 'bipolar disorder' before quietly changing it to 'depression'.
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News Reports

India’s first Chinese coronavirus vaccine, COVAXIN, undergoes human trials: Here are the details

OpIndia Staff -
Human trials of indigenously prepared covid-19 vaccine COVAXIN starts across 12 trial centres in India
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News Reports

CBI summons OSD to Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot and Congress MLA Krishna Poonia for questioning in SHO Vishnudutt Vishnoi suicide case

OpIndia Staff -
The Vishnudutt Vishnoi suicide case was handed over to the CBI after Rajasthan Congress govt was pressurised from all quarters
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News Reports

HC orders for detailed report from Punjab govt after sons allege father was alive after body swap amid coronavirus outbreak

OpIndia Staff -
Body of 92-year-old man gets swapped with that of 37-year-old woman in Punjab amid coronavirus outbreak
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News Reports

N-95 masks may not stop the virus if worn by an already infected person, govt issues advisory against its use

OpIndia Staff -
The central government has asked states and union territories to encourage their citizens to use homemade cloth masks instead of valved N-95 masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
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News Reports

NCW urges NCPCR to look into the rape and murder of BJP leader’s minor sister in Dinajpur, WB

OpIndia Staff -
While family claimed that the minor was raped, WB police said that there was no rape and the girl died due to poisioning
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News Reports

700 Sikhs, Hindus from Afghanistan to be allowed to come and live in India: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, a 55-year-old Nidan Singh Sachdeva, an Afghan Sikh community leader was abducted by extremist groups and was released after much effort by Indian and Afghan authorities.
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News Reports

This Rakshabandhan, people go vocal for local, willing to pay little more for made in India Rakhis

OpIndia Staff -
Ahead of Rakshabandhan, Indians go vocal for local and support made in India products by ditching Chinese Rakhis
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News Reports

‘The way Urban Naxals protect terrorists, they now protect movie mafia’: Kangana Ranaut hits out on Anurag Kashyap, Swara Bhaskar

OpIndia Staff -
Kangana Ranaut is now being attacked from all sides by many Bollywood personalities after she openly criticised the mafia-gangs of the industry and their operation of systemic exploitation of talented artists.
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News Reports

Pakistan threatens to ban Chinese app TikTok over ‘obscene and immoral’ content, suspends PUBG temporarily

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan's telecom regulatory authority bans Big, threatens to ban TikTok too.
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Entertainment

Did you feel sympathy for Pakistan after watching Raazi? ‘Calling Sehmat’ author exposes how that was done by Bollywood

OpIndia Staff -
'Calling Sehmat' author Harinder Sikka on Monday took to Twitter to expose how Raazi, the Alia Bhatt film based on the book, had a different ending than his book.
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News Reports

Karnataka: ‘Drone boy’ Prathap arrested for breaking quarantine rules

OpIndia Staff -
After travelling from Bihar to Hyderabad to Bengaluru, 'Drone boy' Prathap violated 14-day home isolation quarantine rules.
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News Reports

Carryminati fundraiser for Assam and Bihar floods collects over a million rupees, YouTuber to add Rs 1 lakh to the contribution

OpIndia Staff -
YouTuber CarryMinati has announced that he will add Rs. 1,00,000 to the Rs. 10,31,137 was collected during the charity live stream on his YouTube channel
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News Reports

Chopragaj murder case: Questions raised over a post mortem report made in ‘hurry’ and the mysterious discovery of a corpse. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
The Chopragaj murder case has led to a chaotic schene in the region of West Bengal with a mysterious dead body recovered.
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News Reports

Khalid Saifi’s child who’s asking ‘will daddy come home for Eid’ should know about his daddy’s crimes

OpIndia Staff -
It becomes imperative to remind Rana Ayyub about the allegations against Khalid Saifi, whom she tries to project as the victim.
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News Reports

BJP stalwart LK Advani likely to accompany PM Modi to Ayodhya for Ram Mandir’s Bhumi Pujan

OpIndia Staff -
PM Narendra Modi, along with LK Advani and others, is set to visit the Ram Janmabhoomi on August 5 for Bhumi Pujan.
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News Reports

University of Oxford’s Coronavirus vaccine shows positive results in early trials, results ‘promising’ according to experts

OpIndia Staff -
The early trials showed that the Coronavirus vaccine led the cells to making antibodies and T-cells that can fight Covid-19.
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Politics

Omar Abdullah to sue Chhatisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel for insinuating he was released because Sachin Pilot is his brother-in-law

OpIndia Staff -
The Jammu Kashmir National Conference has hit out at Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel for linking the release of Omar Abdullah to Sachin Pilot.
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News Reports

‘Mythologist’ Devdutt Pattanaik seconds Nepal PM’s ‘Shri Ram is Nepali’ claim, mocks Lord Hanuman by referring to India as “land of monkeys”

OpIndia Staff -
Casteist slurs, abusive and sexiest jibes, and an untriggered display of anger are what Devdutt Pattanaik posts are all about
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News Reports

Tagore International School in Delhi comes under fire for brainwashing children into gender identity politics, stringent action demanded

K Bhattacharjee -
Tagore International School has come under intense criticism after a post on Facebook made by a LGBT organisation in June 2018 went viral.
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Social Media

‘Names of my children were written in Mosques as targets to be killed’: Kashmiri Hindu woman demands apology from Barkha Dutt for justifying genocide

OpIndia Staff -
The Kashmiri Pandit woman, a victim of the exodus, stated that the names of her young sons was written in a local Mosque as targets for killing.
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Entertainment

After Kangana Ranaut accuses Mahesh Bhatt of abusive behaviour, entire Bhatt family posts cryptic messages on social media

OpIndia Staff -
Kangana had accused Mahesh Bhatt of abusive behaviour, claiming that he had thrown a footwear at her and had yelled at her angrily when she had rejected a role.
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News Reports

PETA India lies about not having a foreign chief functionary: Here are the details

OpIndia Staff -
Startling details have emerged regarding the functioning of PETA India since the latest controversy over Bakr-Eid.
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News Reports

Man commits suicide at Congress headquarters, body recovered from servant’s quarter

OpIndia Staff -
A staff member at the Congress headquarters at 24, Akbar Road in Delhi committed suicide in the servant quarter.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Dalit family gets beaten up by Muslims after pigs reared by former enters their house

OpIndia Staff -
In the Motipur area of Bahraich district, Uttar Pradesh, one Nasiruddin and his accomplices attacked a house of Dalit for rearing pigs.
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News Reports

Loyola College sexual harassment case: Victim denies justice for four years, AICF seeks probe against Fr. Xavier Alphonse

OpIndia Staff -
The All India Christian Forum has acknowledged the efforts made by Jesuit Curia in Rome for conducting two separate investigations in the case. However, he expressed disappointment that the Jesuit order in India failed to publish the report of his recent investigation.
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News Reports

“Sachin Pilot nikamma hai, nakaara hai”: Ashok Gehlot says he is not here to ‘sell baingan’. Watch video

OpIndia Staff -
Ashok Gehlot alleged that Sachin Pilot had backstabbed the party despite being respected for seven long years
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News Reports

Vikas Dubey encounter: SC asks UP govt to reconstitute probe committee, says appalled that he was earlier granted bail

OpIndia Staff -
CJI SA Bobde sought for a report on all bail orders after learning that the gangster Vikas Dubey was earlier released on bail.
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News Reports

Bengal: Family of minor victim alleges she was raped and murdered, police claim no sign of sexual or physical assault

OpIndia Staff -
"Inquest by a magistrate and videography of the Post Mortem was done. As per the PM report cause of death is “effect of poison”. No injury marks anywhere in the body has been found. There is no sign of sexual or physical assault," said West Bengal police.
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News Reports

‘Nehru did not attend Somnath Bhumi Puja’: Congress, NCP question PM Modi’s Ayodhya visit for Ram Mandir

OpIndia Staff -
The Bhumi Pujan ceremony for the Ram Mandir is scheduled for 5th August. PM Modi is likely to attend the same.
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Fact-Check

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi recycles old images of Assam floods as current images of the plight of flood victims in the country

OpIndia Staff -
Priyanka Gandhi made an appeal to the workers and leaders of her party to help those battling the floods on the ground in Assam.
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News Reports

PETA India encourages Muslims to be ‘kind’ on Eid, by giving guidelines on ‘how to slaughter goats kindly’

OpIndia Staff -
It's surprising how on one hand, PETA India is advocating veganism, and on the other hand, it teaches 'effective' slaughtering
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Politics

This is why Sharad Pawar is attacking Ram Temple at Ayodhya and Narendra Modi

Ajay Sudame -
NCP leader Sharad Pawar on Sunday attacked PM Modi for his upcoming visit to Ayodhya for Ram Mandir Bhumi Pujan
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi video 2: The youth icon not only appears confused but also ends up revealing something damaging

Editorial Desk -
Rahul Gandhi tweeted a 2 minute 39 second video clip of himself today where he was talking about China's strategic game plan with respect to India.
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News Reports

Japan rolls out subsidies plan worth 536 million USD for its companies shifting manufacturing facilities from China

OpIndia Staff -
The Japanese government, in another announcement, said that they would also assist additional 30 firms in investing in Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar and other southeast Asian countries.
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News Reports

Bengaluru police arrest one Sameer Ullah for triggering panic via fake video claiming to be from COVID hospital

OpIndia Staff -
In the viral video, one doctor named Dr. Rana Singh could be heard as saying, "Ma'am, this is the amount of rush that we are getting at room number 5 (in) OPD ground floor. Looking at the amount of patients here, it is a complete threat to all the doctors and staff of the hospital including the patients."
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News Reports

Bollywood nepotism debate: Karan Johar’s 2017 clip asking Kangana Ranaut to ‘leave the industry’ goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
Recently, Kangana Ranaut had said in an explosive interview that the Bollywood mafia works to harass 'outsiders' like Sushant Singh Rajput and also hinders their career progress.
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News Reports

Ram Mandir: PM Modi likely to visit Ayodhya for Bhumi Pujan on 5th August

OpIndia Staff -
The Bhumi Pujan ceremony will mark the beginning of the construction of the grand Ram Mandir that is expected to take about 3 years to complete.
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