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The Print’s columnist expresses glee over the murder of BJP leader Wasim Bari in Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
Vij had earlier used similar words to mock the murders of truck drivers and traders in Kashmir.
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News Reports

Veteran Bollywood actor Jagdeep dies at 81

OpIndia Staff -
Jagdeep is father of Bollywood actor Javed Jafri.
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News Reports

Jammu and Kashmir: Ex-BJP district President Wasim Bari killed by terrorists, father and brother also murdered

OpIndia Staff -
Former BJP Bandipora President Wasim Bari killed by terrorists who shot at him outside his shop
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News Reports

Watch: BJP’s Sambit Patra and Congress’ Gaurav Vallabh hurl Sukanya Devi and Ranga-Billa cases at each other in intense TV debate

OpIndia Staff -
When Congress spokesperson equated Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah with Ranga-Billa, BJP's Sambit Patra raised Sukanya Devi rape case
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News Reports

Indian Army decides to ban 89 apps for its personnel: Here are the details

OpIndia Staff -
Other than Chinese apps there are other few apps like Facebook, Instagram, etc which the Indian Army has also banned for its personnel
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News Reports

Mahesh Bhatt predicted her end, threw chappal at her: Kangana Ranaut’s team denies Pooja Bhatt’s claims about Bhatts helping Kangana

OpIndia Staff -
Bollywood has always preferred to promote its own progeny and by denying, Pooja Bhatt is running away from the undeniable fact
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News Reports

Turkey govt plans to convert Byzantine cathedral Hagia Sophia into a mosque again. Read about this historical symbol of Muslim-Christian rivalry

OpIndia Staff -
Hagia Sophia, originally a Christian cathedral, was converted into a mosque and then into a museum, will be converted to mosque again
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News Reports

UP police arrest suspended SHO Vinay Tiwari and KK Sharma for tipping Vikas Dubey about the raid

OpIndia Staff -
UP police arrested suspended SHO Tiwari and Beat In-charge Sharma of Chaubeypur police station for tipping Vikas Dubey ahead of police raid.
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Social Media

Only Muslims go to heaven, Ravish Kumar-like non-Muslims can only hope for a mild level of hell: Dr Zakir Naik explains

OpIndia Staff -
Naik said that virtues like honesty and charity cannot ensure qualifying marks for heaven or Jannah. Only Muslims can go to heaven and non-Muslims will go to hell by default, he says.
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News Reports

Muslims hurled abuses and casteist slurs, attacked us with sharp weapons: Mahadalits in Begusarai

OpIndia Staff -
Victim Shankar Paswan claimed that members of Muslim community addressed Mahadalits with casteist slurs before attacking them with weapons
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Opinions

Viśiṣṭvividhīkaran: Sanatan Dharma and Qualified Diversification

Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar -
Sanatan Dharma has been a coming together of Diversification and paths to the Truth, with various sects and traditions over the millennia
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News Reports

Pakistan claims Kulbhushan Jadhav refused to file a review petition against the death sentence

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan claims Kulbhushan Jadhav has rejected the option to file a review petition against death sentence and has preferred to follow up on his mercy petition.
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News Reports

Expansionism was Ravana’s undoing: Uttarakhand minister sends a copy of Ramayana to Chinese Premier Xi Jinping

OpIndia Staff -
Gifting a copy of Ramayana, Uttarakhand tourism minister Satpal Maharaj urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to draw wisdom from Ravana's defeat in the epic and put his resources to a better use.
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News Reports

No, Indian PUBG user did not make Chinese player say ‘Hindustan Zindabad’, Times Network’s website fell for satire

OpIndia Staff -
Times group's MensXP falls for satire, believes that Indian PUBG user made Chinese player say 'Hindistan Zindabad'
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Crime

Bhopal: 55-year-old Sabir Ali enters dairy farm and rapes a cow, arrested after CCTV footage revealed crime

OpIndia Staff -
Incidentally, the CCTV camera in the dairy farm captured the ghoulish incident, where the accused had stealthily entered and brutalised the animal.
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News Reports

People in South Asia, esp Bangladesh, at greater risk of Coronavirus as they have DNA that was the result of ancient humans having sex...

OpIndia Staff -
A particular genome segment spannig six genes on Chromosome 3, inherited from Neanderthals, may be behind an aggravated response to coronavirus infection, some scientists have stated.
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News Reports

Delhi: Body of Muslim coronavirus victim cremated by Hindu family, body of Hindu given to Muslim family for burial

OpIndia Staff -
Just before burial of Coronavirus victim, the Muslim family learnt that it was body of a Hindu person given to them by the hospital
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Politics

Jyoti Basu is the mass murderer India forgot

Abhishek Banerjee -
Please don’t feel bad about speaking ill of the Late Jyoti Basu. If there is another world, be certain that there are (at least) 28,000 voices from the other side backing you up.
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News Reports

Delhi HC lifts gag order against media and victims in #MeToo sexual harassment cases against Newslaundry investor Mahesh Murthy

OpIndia Staff -
Lifting gag order in sexual harassment cases against Mahesh Murthy, Delhi HC said that defendants have freedom of speech
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Politics

Maharashtra: Chief Minister sits at home while Leader of Opposition tours the state extensively amid coronavirus outbreak

Guest Author -
Despite being most affected state in the coronavirus pandemic, CM Uddhav Thackeray has hardly been on the ground taking control of situation.
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Opinions

The Cabal Strategizes: Tahir Hussain behind Delhi Riots

Guest Author -
Tahir Hussain was the one to put the money to sinister use by mobilizing Delhi Riots in February 2020
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Social Media

Payal Rohatgi’s Twitter account suspended, the actress says she is being targeted by ‘liberals and extremists’

OpIndia Staff -
Payal Rohatgi has stated that her efforts to share facts has been projected in a bad light by liberals and extremists who control Twitter.
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News Reports

Delhi riots: Chargesheet links Rajdhani School owner Faisal Farooque with Nizamuddin Markaz, says he was in touch with Maulana Saad’s associate

OpIndia Staff -
The crime branch has stated that Faisal Farooque was a regular attendee at Nizamuddin Markaz and had close ties with Maulana Saad's confidante Abdul Aleem.
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News Reports

Pakistanis and Kashmiri separatists hail terrorist Burhan Wani on his death anniversary, vow to ‘resist India’s occupation’ of Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
In a fierce battle, Burhan Wani was eliminated by security forces on 8th July 2016 in the Kokernag area of the Anantnag district.
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News Reports

Govt to probe violations by Sonia Gandhi headed Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and others, Home Ministry sets up committee

OpIndia Staff -
The committee will coordinate probe into violation of various legal provisions of PMLA, Income Tax Act, FCRA etc by these foundations. Special Director of Enforcement Directorate will head the committee.
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News Reports

Academic loss due to coronavirus: Course load of CBSE curriculum reduced, chapters on ‘secularism’, ‘citizenship’ deleted. Read details

Shashank Bharadwaj -
The decision to drop such topics were made after the direction of the HRD ministry which asked the CBSE to reduce the syllabus for classes 9 to 12 by 30 per cent to compensate for the academic loss caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent closure of schools.
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News Reports

US announces visa restrictions on Chinese Communist Party and People’s Republic of China officials over Tibet access

OpIndia Staff -
US has announced visa restrictions on Chinese officials over access to foreigners to Tibet. Bats for 'meaningful autonomy' for the Tibetan people.
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News Reports

Mumbai: Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar’s house vandalised

OpIndia Staff -
The house of Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar in Mumbai was vandalised by unknown miscreants on Tuesday night. Police has launched a probe.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Vikas Dubey spotted in a Faridabad hotel, hours later his aide Amar Dubey killed in police encounter

OpIndia Staff -
Amar Dubey, a close aide of Vikas Dubey, was an accused in the Kanpur attack on policemen in which eight cops were killed and several others were injured.
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News Reports

Congress calls out MP Smriti Irani for alleged toilet scam in Amethi during 2018-2019 when Rahul Gandhi was the sitting MP

OpIndia Staff -
Congress party shot itself in the foot when it posted a tweet alleging a toilet scam in Amethi under the watch of Smriti Irani.
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News Reports

‘It’s not like Narendra Modi is paying for the temple construction’: Islamists in Pakistan’s Islamabad unite to punish ‘kafirs’

OpIndia Staff -
The construction stopped after a radical extremists razed the boundary wall of the first proposed temple in Islamabad.
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News Reports

Rajnath Singh orders speedy completion of road projects in Ladakh worth Rs. 20,000 crores, BRO instructed to complete strategic DSDBO road in 3 months:...

OpIndia Staff -
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has given the go-ahead to speed up the completion of the road projects in Ladakh.
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News Reports

Australian surfer Carmen Greentree abducted and raped for 2 months in a houseboat in Kashmir in 2004, pressurised to convert to Islam

OpIndia Staff -
Carmen Greentree has penned a book titled "A Dangerous Pursuit of Happiness" narrating her abduction and rape in Kashmir.
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News Reports

Gold smuggling case: Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan distances himself and the state government from the raging controversy

OpIndia Staff -
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan pointed out that the said parcel came to the UAE consulate and that the Kerala government had nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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Media Fact-Check

The Wire’s claims that NCPCR saw 8-fold increase in complaints post-Coronavirus outbreak are false: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
The Wire has recently been trying to milk the coronavirus pandemic to cast aspersions on Modi government
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Interviews

‘Turn vegan’ anti-slaughter poster in Lucknow featuring goat not related to Eid, claims PETA in an exclusive interview with OpIndia

OpIndia Staff -
A massive controversy was kicked up after the Islamic fundamentalists vehemently protested against the PETA poster in Lucknow which showed a goat urging people to go vegan
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News Reports

West Bengal: TMC suspends 18 panchayat members over corruption in disbursement of cyclone Amphan funds

OpIndia Staff -
"We are rectifying the discrepancies in fund allocation. Every affected family will receive the monetary relief,” TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee was recently quoted as saying.
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News Reports

Pulwama attack: NIA nabs Bilal Ahmed Kuchey, 7th terrorist who provided logistics and high-end mobile phones to the JeM terrorists

OpIndia Staff -
With this arrest, the National Investigation Agency has until now nabbed 7 accused in 2019 Pulwama attack
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News Reports

Galwan standoff breathes life into the ‘Free Tibet’ movement, Tibetan activists hope India will soon address the Chinese occupation of Tibet

OpIndia Staff -
In the aftermath of the Galwan stand-off, the movement to free Tibet from the clutches of China has once again gathered steam.
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Culture and History

Nindāstuti: A Dharmic Paradigm of Devotion through Apparent Censure

Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar -
Nindāstuti is a form of Shleshakavya - a poetic composition that is laden with double-entendres and is looked upon as a form of Dvesha-bhakti
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Media

‘You work to protect Islamist terrorists, you’re anti-Hindu and anti-India’: Read Kapil Mishra’s response to The Quint

OpIndia Staff -
Responding to The Quint journalist, he said that in his personal opinion Quint is anti-India and anti-Hindu and biased against the truth.
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News Reports

CMO’s link with gold smuggling racket? Kerala CM’s Vijayan’s principal secretary removed after his name comes up in the scandal

Dibakar Dutta -
The opposition has been accusing that Sivasankar had used his influence to help Swapna Suresh, the main accused, escape and facilitated the clearance of the 'diplomatic package' containing the smuggled gold.
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News Reports

Yeh Dil Mange More! Never forget the exemplary bravery of Captain Vikram Batra who attained martyrdom on this day in 1999

OpIndia Staff -
Captain Vikram Batra was only 24 years old when he sacrificed his life for the country during the Kargil War
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News Reports

“Rahul Gandhi is not a doctor”: AgVa co-founder rejects allegations of Made in India ventilators being substandard, says international vendors trying to sabotage product

OpIndia Staff -
Professor Diwakar Vaish said that international actors are trying to sabotage the product manufactured under the Make in India initiative.
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News Reports

‘China is not a hostile power’: Former advisor to PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee downplays Chinese aggression, calls campaign to boycott Chinese products ‘stupid’

OpIndia Staff -
Kulkarni even encourages Indians to seek inspiration from China's achievements, amidst the border standoff at the Line of Actual Control.
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News Reports

Faisal Farooq, who turned his school into a launch-pad to attack Hindus during Delhi riots, now under ED scanner

OpIndia Staff -
The ED has been informed that Faisal Farooq owns three schools and has numerous properties in Northeast Delhi.
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News Reports

Andaman Police to summon American nationals over Missionary John Allen Chau’s death, say he was brainwashed to go to Sentinel Islands

OpIndia Staff -
The DGP of Andaman Police has stated that they are seeking to examine two of Chau's associates under MLAT and are preparing the documents to be routed through the MEA.
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Crime

West Bengal’s ‘chain man’ sentenced to death for rape and murder: Here is all you need to know about the serial killer

OpIndia Staff -
Serial killer Kamruzzaman Sarkar earned the tag of 'chain man' by entering houses posing as an official from electricity department
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Law

SC tears into lawyer for approaching apex court accusing it of biased in listing Arnab Goswami case for urgent hearing: Here is what transpired

OpIndia Staff -
The SC had granted three-week interim protection to the Arnab Goswami against multiple FIRs filed against him by the Congress
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Entertainment

The dark, disturbing world of mean and hateful ‘sly’ Bollywood insider gossip featuring Rajeev Masand, PinkVilla and others

Nirwa Mehta -
Following Sushant Singh Rajput's suicide, prominent film journalists and critics were accused of writing vile 'blinds' aka unverified, vile gossip.
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