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Congress leader says a combination of Rum and half-fried eggs can cure Coronavirus, calls ‘Old Monk’ rum as ‘Khodays’

OpIndia Staff -
Gatti said he had himself tried many medicines for coronavirus but vouched that only rum and eggs worked. Shockingly, in the entire video, he refers to 'Old Monk' rum by a lesser known brand 'Khodays'.
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News Reports

AIMIM leader Kadir Khan, Congress leader Anup Patel instigated mother-daughter duo from Amethi to set themselves on fire in front of Yogi Adityanath’s office

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FIR lodged against AIMIM's Kadir Khan and Congress's Anup Patel for instigating mother-daughter duo to set themselves on fire
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News Reports

Rajasthan political crisis: BJP slams Congress for levelling allegations of horse-trading, demands CBI inquiry into phone tapping scandal

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BJP questions Congress over phone tapping issue during political crisis in Rajasthan, demands an urgent CBI probe into the matter
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Politics

After bungling up Rajasthan, Congress quotes Indira Gandhi to hail the principle of respecting ‘electoral mandate’, reduces itself to a joke

OpIndia Staff -
Quoting Indira Gandhi, Congress tweeted, "Respecting the electoral mandate is quintessential in a democracy. Even the slightest attempt to subvert it is an insult to the hardworking citizens. #CongressKeVichaar".
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News Reports

Pakistani Christian girl abducted and forcibly converted to Islam, now pregnant and confined to one room due to sexual assault by abductor Abdul

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Huma Younus, a Christian girl who was kidnapped from her home in Karachi on October 10 last year, has become pregnant due to the incessant sexual violence perpetrated by her abductor Abdul Jabbar
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Law

Retiring Judge Banumathi reveals how she believes in the Gospel of Jesus Christ despite being a ‘Hindu’

OpIndia Staff -
Justice Banumathi has served 6 years in the apex court, following her appointment in 2014, she is also the 6th woman to ever grace the apex court
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News Reports

Man who tonsured head of a Nepali in Varanasi turns out to be associated with Shiv Sena, calls himself a ‘disciple of Bala Saheb’

OpIndia Staff -
A Nepali man was tonsured and forced to shout ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Nepal PM Murdabad’ by one Arun Pathak who was from Shiv Sena
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Complaint filed against Congress leaders says that plan to falsely accuse Union Minister with audiotape hatched at CM Gehlot’s residence

OpIndia Staff -
Hours after a complaint was filed against Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat for conspiring to pull down its government in Rajasthan, a complaint has been filed against Congress leaders by a BJP leader for making false accusations
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News Reports

Human trial of coronavirus vaccine COVAXIN begins, no adverse effects reported on the subjects so far: Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij

OpIndia Staff -
Haryana Health Minister says no adverse effects reported on the subjects so far in Human trial of Coronavirus vaccine COVAXIN
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News Reports

Tablighi Jamaat case: Delhi court grants bail to 34 more foreign nationals on plea bargaining

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Delhi court has granted bail to a number of foreign nationals on plea bargaining who had attended Tablighi Jamaat violating visa rules
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News Reports

Two members of Tamil YouTube channel Karuppar Koottam arrested after insulting Hindu God Murugan in a video

OpIndia Staff -
Two individuals associated with YouTube channel 'Karuppar Koottam' have been arrested by the police in Tamil Nadu.
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News Reports

“No Namaaz in Masjid”, Maharashtra Government tells Muslims to pray at home during Bakri Eid due to coronavirus

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Maharashtra govt have asked Muslims to celebrate Bakri Eid in a simple manner, and banned prayer in mosques during the eid
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News Reports

Class 8 textbook published by Maharashtra govt replaces freedom fighter Sukhdev with Kurban Hussain, probe ordered

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Maharashtra govt's textbook says Kurban Hussain was hanged alongside Bhagat Singh and Rajguru, bot Sukhdev
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News Reports

Vatican releases ‘manual’ to guide Bishops to conduct probes into allegations of sexual offences by church priests

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Vatican has directed Bishops across the world to report sexual offences committed against minors by predator priests
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News Reports

‘Drone boy’ Prathap responds to OpIndia fact-check, fails to prove that he made any drone, received any award- Detail analysis of his responses

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‘Drone boy’ Prathap responds to OpIndia fact-check, fails to prove that he received awards, medals for developing drones
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News Reports

While DMC Chief Zafarul Islam peddles Muslim victimhood, his report finds 98% Muslim women of riot-hit NE Delhi don’t think Hindus discriminate against them

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi Minorities Commission study dispels the narrative of 'Muslims under threat' quite effectively.
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News Reports

S Jaishankar dismisses Rahul Gandhi’s claims on India’s foreign policy, reminds him of UPA’s geopolitical blunders that undermined India’s interests

OpIndia Staff -
Jaishankar asked Rahul Gandhi to compare India's responses to Pakistan after the Uri and Pulwama attacks to that of UPA-era response to 26/11 Mumbai attacks, and Manmohan Singh's Sharm-al Sheikh and Havana blunders.
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News Reports

Vishal Kumar, a bright 19-year old ABVP activist who was murdered by Islamists in Kerala eight years ago

OpIndia Staff -
On the 17th of July, 2012 Vishal Kumar, a 19-year old ABVP karyakarta, was murdered in Kerala by goons associated with the Campus Front of India.
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Opinions

COVID-19 lockdown: Indian Railways, the champion of India’s fight against the pandemic

G Indira -
As all means of transport came to a halt, railways took the burden of ensuring that the supply of food-grains, vegetables, petrol, coal, medicine, parcel service, construction material and much more, is never halted.
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Opinions

While puppet CM of Balochistan Jam Kamal Khan Alyani touts the Gwadar marine drive, here is the truth

Hakeem Baloch -
On 12th of July 2020, the puppet chief minister of Balochistan Jam Kamal Khan Alyani in a Tweet posted three pictures of Gwadar Marine Drive claiming that “ #Gwader marine drive after completion of road, streetlights, parks and floodlights on the beach.”
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Politics

How a ground-level BJP karyakarta rattled Shashi Tharoor

Abhishek Banerjee -
Sometimes, it is the little things that tell you the most about a person and how he thinks. We will find out what led Shashi Tharoor to spit out this fiery tweet.
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News Reports

West Bengal: 4 days after BJP MLA was found hanging, party leader alleges Mamata govt is trying to kill MP Arjun Singh

OpIndia Staff -
BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya has tweeted that West Bengal police had gheraoed the house of BJP MP Arjun Singh to assassinate him
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News Reports

Complaint filed by priest against the brother of UP BJP MLA for stealing slippers, mobile phones of devotees at a temple in Siddarthnagar

OpIndia Staff -
The priest of Sinheshwari Devi Mandir in the city has filed a complaint alleging that BJP MLA Shyamdani Rahi's brother has been stealing slippers, mobile phones and helmets of the temple devotees
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News Reports

Pyare Miyan who ran a sex trafficking racket of minor girls arrested from Srinagar, lived in govt bungalow allotted in 1990: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Pyare Miyan, the primary accused in the sex racket case involving minor girls, arrested from Srinagar after he was absconding for 4 days
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi video: A litany of half-truths that shields China and blames India

K Bhattacharjee -
Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi finally released the video that he had promised, although a couple of days behind schedule.
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News Reports

After Vikas Dubey, UP Police cracks down on Mukhtar Ansari’s illegal empire in several places, in Jaunpur, with Dhol and fanfare: Here are details

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The UP Police have book several dozen of Ansari's associates under the gangster act and has been cancelling their arms licenses.
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News Reports

Did Iran leave India out of the Railway project in Chabahar? Here is everything we know so far

OpIndia Staff -
Iran denied media reports of India being dropped from Rail project saying there was no agreement with India, but India says there was an MoU
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Crime

Gujarat: Madarsa cleric from Kutch booked for raping a minor girl multiple times

OpIndia Staff -
As per the victim's complaint, she was sent by her family to the said madarsa to learn Urdu and Arabic when she was 15.
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News Reports

As Uddhav Thackeray govt buys expensive cars for ministers, doctors and nurses leave Mumbai to return to Kerala as BMC keeps salary pending

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The BMC has been consistently deferring the payment of doctors as promised by the Maharashtra government while requesting the Kerala government for the medical resources
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News Reports

Arunachal Pradesh: Christian group apologises after pastor burns idol of Goddess Ain Donyi, legal rights group writes to HM about rampant conversion campaigns

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The incident shocked Tajum Tasung from Vanvaashi kalyan Ashram. He said, "The action of Christians in Seppa region is shameful. I condemn the incident. I have never seen anything like this.
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu: Saffron paint poured on the statue of Periyar in Coimbatore, tension ensues in Sundarapuram area

OpIndia Staff -
The Tamil Nadu police said that some unidentified people poured saffron paint on the statue of Periyar, tension is now brewing in the area
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News Reports

Indian Express report insinuates Delhi Police giving special treatment to Hindu accused in riot cases, Police calls it ‘highly misleading’

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi Police in its rejoinder to Indian Express said that the tone and tenor of the report were misleading and gave the impression that the Delhi Police was acting in a biased manner.
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News Reports

Congress brings in ‘audio recording’ drama to claim BJP is trying to buy MLAs: Did it inadvertently admit that Gehlot does not have the...

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress and CM Ashok Gehlot have been firmly asserting that they have a majority and the Rajasthan government is stable. The sudden audio drama and claims of a Congress MLA saying that they do not have the numbers adds new twist to the political development in the state.
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News Reports

‘We see it in Himalayas where China recently took aggressive stand’: USA State Dept issues statement against Chinese aggression and expansionism

OpIndia Staff -
Pointing out the recent 'aggressive stance of China' on Indian frontiers and the South China Sea, SCA noted that Beijing's misadventure is not a local phenomenon but an essential feature of 'a nationalist and Marxist-Leninist mindset'.
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News Reports

Bhima Koregaon case accused Varavara Rao tests positive for coronavirus, shifted to JJ hospital

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Activist Varavara Rao tests positive for Coronavirus, shifted to JJ hospital from Taloja central jail
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News Reports

Police lodges FIR after AMU student receives threats from another student, told she will be forced to wear “brass hijab”

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Police file FIR after AMU students threaten female student for saying girls in the University are forced to cover themselves up in hostels
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News Reports

Curious Case of Mohan Nursing Home: Who killed Shahid and why was his body dumped anonymously by Muslims in front of a hospital

Nupur J Sharma -
Chargesheet in Delhi riots case says that bullet that had hit Shahid could not have come from Hindu rioters as they too far away
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Fact-Check

Fact-check: Did the Rs 263 crore Sattar Ghat bridge in Bihar collapse within 29 days of construction?

OpIndia Staff -
The barbs were not limited to the opposition parties. Some netizens also blamed Bihar govt for the Sattar Ghat Bridge collapse
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News Reports

Netizens outrage after Scotch-Brite says it will remove ‘regressive’ bindi in new logo

OpIndia Staff -
Karthik Srinivasan, who claims to be communications strategy consultant, recently took to LinkedIn to call out Scotch-Brite for their logo which stereotypes gender roles.
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News Reports

India to begin International flights to select countries via Air Bubbles till travel restrictions due to Coronavirus remain: Civil Aviation Minister

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Unless international civil aviation returns to pre-covid state, air bubbles are the only answer, said civil aviation minister
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News Reports

Sachin Pilot & other rebel Congress MLAs approach Rajasthan HC against Speaker’s disqualification notice, court grants time to amend the plea

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Earlier in the day, Congress had sacked Sachin Pilot as the state chief and removed him from the Deputy CM's post
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News Reports

Sushant Singh Rajput’s girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty requests home minister Amit Shah to hand over Sushant’s suicide case to CBI

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After receiving death and rape threats, Rhea Chakraborty seeks CBI probe into her boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput's death case
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News Reports

Maharashtra: NCP demands Rs.11,000 as ‘donation’ from aspirants to consider them for Gram Panchayat administrator posts

OpIndia Staff -
The NCP leaders in Pune have asked aspirants of the post to pay Rs 11,000 donation to the party to be eligible for the Panchayat Administrator post.
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News Reports

Congress governments over four decades kept changing rules to allot free Lutyens land to Rajiv Gandhi Foundation: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
A report by Times Now stated that ongoing high-level probe against the Gandhis-controlled Rajiv Gandhi Foundation has exposed a convenient arrangement that saw Gandhi family virtually taking over prime Lutyens land through various trusts including the RGF.
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News Reports

Watch: Alcoholic man ruthlessly beat a stray dog to death in Ghaziabad, gets arrested after video of the act go viral

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Ghaziabad man taken into custody after video of him beating a stray dog to death went viral on social media
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News Reports

“Was attacked because I’m a Dalit”: Says social media user Madhur Singh who finds inaction of NCW against comedian Kenny Sebastian worrisome

OpIndia Staff -
Social media user Madhur Singh, popularly known as ThePlacardGuy has expressed concern that the lack of action of National Commission for Women against comedian Kenny Sebastian for obscene comments against his mother.
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News Reports

‘India took extraordinary step to ban TikTok and other Chinese apps, US shouldn’t trust them either’: 25 US Congressmen urge Trump to follow India’s...

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Praising India’s decision to ban 59 Chinese apps, 25 US Congressmen asked Trump not to trust these apps either in a strongly worded letter
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News Reports

Here is why #BabyPenguin is trending on Twitter, and why Aaditya Thackeray is called so by some

OpIndia Staff -
Yuva Sena registered complaint against twitter user for calling Aaditya Thackeray "Baby Penguin" and Uddhav Thackeray "Aurangzeb"
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh CM orders removal of Guna SP and Collector, high-level inquiry ordered after Dalit couple consumed pesticide

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Shivraj Singh Chouhan removes Guna SP and Collector after Dalit couple who were encroaching govt land consumed pesticide
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News Reports

Complaints of fake and bad quality seeds: MNS workers vandalise agriculture department office in Latur, Maharashtra

OpIndia Staff -
MNS workers vandalize office of co-director Agriculture department, Latur, demanding compensation to farmers over bad quality seed distribution and action against private companies.
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