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Vinod Dua cites OpIndia case to plead for quashing of FIRs, Court says cases different, IO instructed to submit investigation details in a week

OpIndia Staff -
In the last hearing, the SC had granted Vinod Dua interim protection from arrest till July 6.
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News Reports

Delhi Riots: Funds received from the UK, Oman and UAE in January, Police continues to probe foreign funding link

OpIndia Staff -
Sleuths of Delhi Police have made a major revelation about the alleged foreign funding into the violent anti-Hindu riots that rocked the national capital in the last week of February
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Entertainment

Sushant Singh Rajput’s last movie ‘Dil Bechara’ set to release online, trailer breaks Avengers’ record on YouTube

OpIndia Staff -
Sushant's 'Dil Bechara' is releasing on 24th July on Disney+Hotstar, the trailer has broken records with 5.1 million likes on YouTube.
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Opinions

How Mumbai’s long-awaited dream of IFSC status is nowhere near complete and Gandhinagar secured IFSC status

Guest Author -
Manmohan Singh announced in 2004 that Mumbai would be turned into Shasnghai. However, that did not happen.
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News Reports

Pakistan: After destroying under construction walls, radical Islamists recite Azan at proposed Hindu temple site

OpIndia Staff -
The plot was allocated by the Islamabad city development authority to the local Hindu community to build a temple, the first Hindu temple in the Pakistani capital city.
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News Reports

After praising India’s TikTok ban, Mike Pompeo says the USA may also ban Chinese social media apps

OpIndia Staff -
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has stated that his country is also exploring options to ban Chinese apps, including TikTok that threat data security.
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News Reports

PoK: Protests held against Pakistani govt and China over illegal dam construction on Neelum and Jhelum rivers

OpIndia Staff -
Protests held in Pakistan occupied Kashmir against illegal dam constructions over Neelum and Jhelum rivers.
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News Reports

Gold smuggling scandal rocks Kerala, CMO’s links with main accused Swapna Suresh under scrutiny

OpIndia Staff -
30 kg of smuggled gold inside baggage marked for UAE Consulate seized in Kerala. CMO's involvement with main accused Swapna Suresh alleged.
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News Reports

After India banned them over privacy concerns, TikTok claims it will pull out of Hong Kong due to ‘new Chinese law’

OpIndia Staff -
TikTok has claimed it will pull out of Hong Kong as sharing user data is against its policy.
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Cricket

Cricket, fans, media and dogs: 10 Dhoni quotes which will bring smile on your face

OpIndia Staff -
Ten most popular quotes of former Indian skipper MS Dhoni
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News Reports

“I will kill all Hindus”: Pakistani man makes his kid display bigotry in all glory over construction of temple in Islamabad. Watch video

OpIndia Staff -
The temple in Islamabad has been a bone of contention for the Islamists in Pakistan.
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Entertainment

Theatre of absurd: Hateful Hansal Mehta launches online petition asking Amitabh Bachchan to unfollow hateful KRK on Twitter

OpIndia Staff -
Filmmaker Hansal Mehta for Shaheen Bagh protests signed an online petition requesting Amitabh Bachchan to unfollow KRK on Twitter.
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Media

Russian journalist convicted for “justifying terrorism” asked to pay fine of $6,950, prosecutor demands six-year imprisonment

OpIndia Staff -
Many human rights groups and media watchdogs have criticised the verdict against the Russian journalist and demanded her acquittal.
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News Reports

Slain DSP Devendra Mishra had in March warned then SSP about a possible attack by Vikas Dubey and his nexus with police

OpIndia Staff -
Slain Deputy SP Devendra Mishra had wriiten nine times to the then SSP urging inquiry against SO Vinay Tiwari and Vikas Dubey.
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Politics

Shiv Sainiks to launch ‘chaddi-baniyan’ protest against their own govt in Maharashtra to oppose inflated electricity bills

Jinit Jain -
Shiv Sena members donning briefs and vests are planning to launch a protest against govt in Maharashtra against the unusually high electricity bills
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News Reports

Arunachal Pradesh: Pastor burns idol of tribal Goddess Ain Donyi in the name of Jesus, calls her ‘power of the enemy’

OpIndia Staff -
A pastor destroyed idols and religious symbols in Arunachal Pradesh of Goddess Ain Donyi.
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News Reports

Bengal: 13 arrested for violent clash between TMC and Communists during protest against TMC for ‘misappropriation of funds meant for Amphan victims’

OpIndia Staff -
They included 5 SUCI leaders and 8 Trinamool workers. Cops had also arrested TMC leader Pintu Pradhan in connection to the case.
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Politics

‘TMC goons vandalised my car, attacked our party workers unprovoked’, says BJP MP Arjun Singh

Dibakar Dutta -
Arjun Singh had earlier accused the Joint Commissioner of Police of trying to assassinate him, on the instructions of Mamata Banerjee.
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News Reports

Congress to attempt to woo Brahmins in Uttar Pradesh: Change in strategy after Yogi’s action against gangster Vikas Dubey?

OpIndia Staff -
Former Union Minister Jitin Prasada has claimed that atrocities on the Brahmin community have increased under the Yogi government.
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News Reports

Over 10000 people in Assam’s Nagaon district attend the funeral of Islamic preacher Khairul Islam Mufti, 3 villages sealed

Jhankar Mohta -
Apart from not maintaining social distancing, many attending the funeral of the Islamic preacher in Assam were without masks
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News Reports

Frozen samples of virus almost identical to coronavirus was sent to Wuhan Lab of Virology in 2013: Read details of the shocking report

OpIndia Staff -
According to Shi Zhengli, an expert on SARS-like coronaviruses, the coronavirus bears stark resemblance with the frozen samples of bat virus that were sent to Wuhan Institute of Virology, collected from an abandoned bat cave in China's Yunnan province
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News Reports

Telangana: 10 senior doctors and 70 nurses resign over substandard protective equipments

OpIndia Staff -
About 300 medical professionals in Telangana have been afflicted with the coronavirus, buttressing the doctors and nurses' claim that the protective gears provided to them is not shielding them from the coronavirus
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News Reports

Delhi: Dainik Bhaskar journalist suffering from cancer and coronavirus commits suicide by jumping from fourth floor of AIIMS

OpIndia Staff -
Presumably, the multiple ailments and mental stress collectively forced Tarun Sisodia to take such a drastic step.
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News Reports

Kerala: Centre directs State to take disciplinary action against one Asif for forging caste certificate in UPSC exam

OpIndia Staff -
As per the report, Asif had forged his caste certificate during UPSC exam to claim benefits of reservation meant for non-creamy layer of OBCs.
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Media Fact-Check

Central govt rejects Business Standard report on the merger of CBDT and CBIC, schools the newspaper on journalism

OpIndia Staff -
Business Standard had published an article claiming that the central government is mulling over the merger of CBDT and CBIC as a part of its austerity drive to reduce the costs amidst coronavirus pandemic
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Opinions

In defence of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra, and no, this is not satire

Nupur J Sharma -
After spending 6 years trying to orchestrate the "coming of age of Rahul Gandhi", there are sections within the Left ecosystem that are visibly frustrated with him.
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News Reports

Keralites in Kuwait to be most impacted as 8 lakh Indians may be forced to leave over new immigration law

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, Kuwaiti officials have stated that 1.3 million out of the 3.35 million expats in the nation are either illiterate or can barely read or write.
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News Reports

Congress does u-turn on public-private partnerships in Indian railways since the UPA era: Here is what happened then and now

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress party, of late, has been protesting against what it calls the ‘privatisation’ of Indian Railways.
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News Reports

NIA files charge sheet Jammu and Kashmir tainted cop Davinder Singh, Hizbul terrorist Syed Naveed and 4 others in a terror case

OpIndia Staff -
Davinder Singh, along with Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists was nabbed by the J & K Police in Kulgam in January this year. The NIA later took over from J&K Police.
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News Reports

Kanpur encounter: Three cops suspended on suspicion of connection with Vikas Dubey, 115 police personnel under scanner

OpIndia Staff -
UP Police investigating whether any moles in the department who might have tipped off Vikas Dubey, the gangster, that led to gruesome killing of 8 police personnel last week.
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News Reports

Vikas Dubey operated like a Maoist, had hidden arms and explosives inside bunker and walls of his house: UP Police

OpIndia Staff -
Vikas Dubey reportedly employed goons armed with AK-47. The police confirmed that the gangster had fired hundreds of rounds on the raiding police team during the ambush that killed 8 policemen on Thursday night.
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News Reports

Jamia violence: Supreme Court orders petitioners to remove objectionable content against Home Ministry

OpIndia Staff -
The petitions against the Home Ministry alleged that the 'orders' to beat up Jamia students came from top.
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News Reports

Disengagement reported from LAC’s Galwan and Pangong Tso after talks between NSA Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister, China confirms

OpIndia Staff -
After Galwan Valley, China has also been pulling back from Finger 4 Pangong, the 1st such pullback from the area since May 10.
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OpIndia Explains

China’s Inner Mongolia reports suspected cases of bubonic plague: Here is all you need to know about ‘Black Death’ plague

Jinit Jain -
Authorities in China in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have called for a Level III alarm after cases of 'Black Death' plague, or Bubonic plague, emerged from the region
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Politics

“Jahaan hue balidaan Mookherjee, wo Kashmir hamara hai”: Remembering Dr S P Mookherjee on first birth anniversary after abrogation of Article 370

Abhishek Banerjee -
Today is July 6, the birth anniversary of Dr S P Mookherjee, the first one sine this dream was fulfilled. And it is extremely special.
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Media

Rajdeep Sardesai tries to claim Nehru’s Himalayan Blunder is a ‘narrative’. Here is how Nehru failed against China

OpIndia Staff -
Speaking on the current situation in Ladakh over the faceoff with China, Sardesai claimed that the ghost of Nehru still haunts the BJP.
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Social Media

‘Romantic Rape’: Read how an Odia TV channel was caught promoting a talk show that was ‘romanticizing’ rape

OpIndia Staff -
Further in the clip, the male actor tries to explain to the female actor that a rape scene cannot be romantic and he always wanted to be a 'hero', not a villain. To which the female actor replies, "so you wanted to do a romantic rape scene, not a usual rape scene like the villains do".
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News Reports

Galwan Valley: Buffer zone established at clash location, Indian, Chinese forces remove temporary structures, reports suggest

OpIndia Staff -
On June 15, around 20 Indian soldiers were killed in action when Chinese troops had attacked them with stones, batons and barbed wires.
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Editor's picks

They removed the hoardings themselves: Lucknow Police confirms after PETA India claims no Maulana took an offence on anti-goat slaughter poster

OpIndia Staff -
Lucknow Police confirmed that contrary to their claims, PETA has removed the hoardings itself.
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News Reports

After Coronavirus pandemic and swine flu, a city in China now issues warning for bubonic plague

OpIndia Staff -
Last week, China's Xinhua news had reported two confirmed patients of bubonic plaque in Khovd province of Western Mongolia.
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News Reports

Vikas Dubey case: Injured cop narrates how policemen were trapped, says Chaubeypur cops stood watching while others were being killed

OpIndia Staff -
Kanpur encounter eyewitness tells how their 'own' helped Dubey's gang.
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News Reports

Telangana: Doctor alleges hospital kept her hostage over nonpayment of bill for coronavirus treatment, releases video

OpIndia Staff -
A government doctor in Telangana who contracted coronavirus while treating patients was reportedly held hostage by the private hospital where she was undergoing treatment over nonpayment of bill.
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Politics

Despite shrill Rafale campaign, Rahul Gandhi has attended zero sittings of Parliamentary Committee on Defence

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi has not attended a single sitting of the of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence.
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News Reports

In a first in the world, Indian Railways sets up solar power plant in Madhya Pradesh to run trains

OpIndia Staff -
The 1.7 MW solar power plant of Indian Railways will feed power to the overhead power lines to power the traction systems of locomotives
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News Reports

Ladakh standoff: Tibetan community in Manali cheer for Indian Army, wave flags as the convoy passes by

OpIndia Staff -
The current standoff between India and China began on May 5-6 and has been continuing all along the LAC up to Sikkim.
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News Reports

Agra’s Taj Mahal may reopen from Monday with restrictions, district authorities in dilemma as fresh cases rise

OpIndia Staff -
The visitors to the Taj Mahal will have to mandatorily wear masks at all times, and keep their distance from each other.
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Politics

Politics and Instagram generation: Of memes, misinformation and whole lot of misguided youth

Nirwa Mehta -
The newer generation seems as clueless about politics as the current opposition leaders.
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News Reports

UP police looking for moles who helped Vikas Dubey in Kanpur ambush, his Lucknow property may be demolished

OpIndia Staff -
All policemen of local police station are under investigation on how Vikas Dubey got information about police movement
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News Reports

Dog Meat Ban in Nagaland incites accusation of ‘cultural imperialism’, ‘food fascism’, shows how liberal imperialism can deepen fault-lines in the country

K Bhattacharjee -
The ban on dog meat in Nagaland has sparked cultural anxieties in the north eastern state, which may fuel existing separatist feelings
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News Reports

TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee compares finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to ‘Kaali Naagin’

OpIndia Staff -
TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee said that finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is killing people like a black venomous snake
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