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OpIndia report on the Anti-Hindu riots in Delhi is now live on Kindle store and available for purchase

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The Delhi Riots OpIndia report is now live on Kindle and can be purchased on the platform for the nominal cost of Rs. 101.
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News Reports

Pakistan gives Nishan-e-Pakistan award to Kashmiri radical Syed Ali Shah Geelani, wants his ‘struggles’ included in school curriculum

OpIndia Staff -
Last month, Syed Ali Shah Geelani had reportedly resigned from the Hurriyat Conference, a conglomerate of separatist groups in the Valley.
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News Reports

After opposing Bhoomi Poojan of Ram Mandir, Maharashtra government set to give relaxations for Bakra Eid

Jinit Jain -
While Uddhav Thackeray wanted the Bhoomi Pujan of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya to be held via video conferencing, he now might relax guidelines for Eid in Maharashtra
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News Reports

Bangladesh: Joykali Matar Temple, one of the oldest in the region, reconstructed with India’s help, inaugurated by the Indian envoy

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Reconstructed 300-year old Kali Temple was inaugurated in Natore by Indian High Commissioner and Bangladesh minister.
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News Reports

Ahead of Eid, neo-JMB may carry out attacks in Bangladesh and announce new ISIS wing Bengal Ulayat, suggests intelligence report

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Security agencies in Bangladesh have received an intelligence input that terror outfit "neo-JMB", followers of the ISIS ideology, are planning to carry out terror attacks on the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha
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News Reports

‘He thinks we are useless’: Loyalists of Sonia Gandhi in the Congress party feel ignored by Rahul Gandhi, do not support his recent videos

OpIndia Staff -
The NDTV report stated that Chidambaram has stated that though Rahul has sought his opinions on certain occasions in the past, he had not consulted him regarding his current videos and allegations against the PM.
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Politics

Was looking for a time to teach Congress party and CM Ashok Gehlot a lesson: Mayawati orders 6 BSP MLAs to vote against Congress...

OpIndia Staff -
BSP supremo Mayawati has also joined the cacophony and has now decided to take Congress to court for their shenanigans in Rajasthan
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News Reports

Bollywood celebrities were in touch with Pakistan’s ISI-backed agents, made shady deals despite warning: Reports

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Earlier, a Pakistan-origin American citizen named Rehan Siddiqui, and some other event managers were blacklisted by the Home Ministry for their suspected links with the ISI.
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Editor's picks

Facebook de-platforms page that shared videos of ex-Muslims talking about how they were persecuted after they left Islam

OpIndia Staff -
Facebook, on the 27th of July 2020, unpublished a page on the social media platform called Ex-Muslims TV, that merely shared short videos of ex-Muslims and the persecution they faced by the community after they had left Islam.
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News Reports

India lodges strong protests against attempts in Pakistan to covert historic Lahore Gurudwara into a Mosque: Read details

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India lodges strong protest against attempts to convert a historic Gurudwara into a Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan
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Crime

Pakistan: Kitten allegedly raped by 7 boys for over a week, dies due to multiple organ failure

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"This is Pakistan, and these are Pakistani men. Men are choosing animals for rape now after women and minors," the Facebook post emphasised about the grim situation.
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News Reports

Ph.D. student in Singapore uses Linkedin to recruit govt US employees to collect Intelligence on behalf of Chinese officials, pleads guilty in court

OpIndia Staff -
The accused began working with China in 2015 and would initially solicit sensitive information from high-profile individuals in other Asian countries.
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News Reports

Days after accusing it of ‘espionage’, Russia suspends delivery of S-400 missile systems to China

OpIndia Staff -
Russia has reportedly suspended the delivery of S-400 'Triumf' surface-to-air missile systems to China.
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News Reports

Pakistan to organise a series of events to denounce the abrogation of Article 370 on its first anniversary: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
A roster shared by retired Major Gaurav Arya highlights the propaganda campaign and events that Pakistan has organised to criticise the abrogation of Article 370 on its first anniversary on August 5
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Opinions

How one call from Chief Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi changed my views from ‘Why Ram Mandir’ to ‘Mandir Wahin Banayenge’

Nirwa Mehta -
As we get closer to the dream of Bhavya Ram Mandir coming true, my perception of importance of the Ram Mandir underwent a transformation
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News Reports

Israel-India collaboration to develop 30-second COVID diagnostic kit, team of researchers and equipment arrive from Tel Aviv in special flight

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Over 20 researchers from Israel's IDF, health ministry and industries associated with diagnostic solutions arrived in India to carry out the final stages of the testing of a rapid diagnosis kit for COVID-19 with DRDO scientists.
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Crime

Anti-Hindu riots: Delhi court rejects bail plea of three accused in Dilbar Negi murder case

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Delhi court rejects bail pleas of three accused in Dilbar Negi murder case, says they may hamper the investigation.
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News Reports

Telecasting Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan is ‘against India’s secular image’: Communists upset at live telecast by Doordarshan

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The communists have written a letter to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, claiming that live telecast of Ram Mandir bhoomi Pujan will be against 'secularism'.
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News Reports

NCW issues notice to AAP leader Syed Abbas who had hurled sexist abuses at BJP’s Nupur Sharma

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The NCW Chairperson has also written a letter to the Director General of Police in Karnataka and requested for an investigation into the matter.
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News Reports

Telangana: Coronavirus patient falls off bed in Karimnagar hospital, dies due to snapped oxygen supply

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Telangana: Coronavirus patient falls from bed, died due to distruption in oxygen supply.
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News Reports

‘We mourn the fall of what was once a Hindutva Party’: VHP issues statement after Uddhav Thackeray wanted Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan via video...

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VHP issues a strong statement against Uddhav Thackeray's remarks over Ayohdhya Ram Temple Bhoomi Pujan scheduled for August 5.
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Social Media

Freudian slip? After hounding IPS officer Nageshwar Rao, Siddharth Varadarajan unwittingly admits that he is working to destroy Hinduism

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Siddharth Varadarajan had earlier accused senior police officer M Nageswara Rao of spreading 'communal paranoia'.
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Social Media

Radio Mirchi’s RJ Sayema laments over criticism against Bakra Eid, gets reminded of her own statements against Diwali

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Radio Mirchi's Sayema stated that Muslims are not being allowed to celebrate Bakra Eid 'peacefully'.
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News Reports

Watch: Chinese govt mouthpiece tweets video of ‘world’s largest’ amphibious aircraft with a mysterious helicopter appearing out of nowhere

OpIndia Staff -
On Sunday, Chinese Communist government's mouthpiece, People's Daily tweeting a video where it claimed that the world's largest amphibious aircraft was taking off at Shandong airport for a test flight.
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News Reports

Ahead of his questioning by Mumbai Police in Sushant Singh Rajput death case, Mahesh Bhatt posts cryptic tweet

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On Sunday, Anil Deshmukh, Home Minister, Maharashtra, said that Bollywood director Mahesh Bhatt would be summoned for questioning in connection to the investigation into the death of Sushant Singh Rajput.
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News Reports

Nation pays tribute to the ‘People’s President’ Dr APJ Abdul Kalam on his 5th death anniversary

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Dr APJ Abdul Kalam passed away at the age of 83 after having a cardiac arrest while giving a speech in the Indian Institute of Management in Shillong on 27th July 2015
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Media

Himachal man sold his cow to buy mobile for daughter’s education? Read how media manipulated report and mocked his poverty

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The district administration of Kangra district found that the man had 7 animals and he sold his cow because he did not have a place to keep the animal in his cowshed during the monsoons
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News Reports

Indian government bans 47 Chinese apps operating as ‘clones’ of the earlier banned apps

OpIndia Staff -
The ban on 'clone' Chinese apps comes a month after Govt of India banned 59 apps including TikTok over security concerns.
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Fact-Check

Samrin Bano becomes Sakshi Sharma to cheat people and collect donations, Indore police debunk claims of ‘stray dog shelter home’ woman

OpIndia Staff -
Investigation has revealed that the woman in the viral video is a Muslim woman named Samrin Bano who has been operating under several false names to portray herself as a 'dog lover' and seek donations from people.
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News Reports

Bon Voyage: First batch of five Rafale jets leave for India. Watch video as they soar the sky

OpIndia Staff -
Rafale jets will take a short break in UAE before finally leaving for India.
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News Reports

“We believe Ram was our ancestor”, Muslim Ram Bhakts set to witness Bhoomi Pujan for grand Ram temple

OpIndia Staff -
Ahmed, who identifies himself as a 'devout Muslim' and has been to a pilgrimage to Mecca, is also of the belief that Lord Ram is 'Imam-e-Hind'.
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News Reports

India welcomes persecuted minorities from Afghanistan: First batch of 11 Hindus and Sikhs arrive in Delhi

OpIndia Staff -
On Sunday, the first batch of the last remaining Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan landed in India. India is to grant them permanent residency and eventually citizenship.
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News Reports

Nantes cathedral fire: Rwandan refugee seeking asylum in France confesses to arson

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Rwandan refugee arrested for deliberately starting the fire at France's Nantes cathedral.
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News Reports

Latest updates and important links about COVID-19 coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
Live statistics and tracking of news related to COVID-19 coronavirus with focus on India.
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News Reports

‘No one gave me work in Bollywood after I won the Oscar’: Academy award winning sound designer Resul Pookutty reveals shallow world of glam...

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Oscar award winning sound designer Resul Pookutty on Sunday night took to Twitter to reveal that the Hindi film industry shut down its doors for him after he won the award.
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News Reports

‘I was tortured, slut shamed on social media’: Tamil actress Vijayalakshmi attempts suicide, admitted to hospital in Chennai

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Tamil actress Vijayalakshmi on Sunday evening attempted suicide after uploading a video on her Facebook page.
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News Reports

This is why the American editor of The Wire wants to silence IPS officer Nageswara Rao

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Siddharth Varadarajan, has hit out at former interim-director of CBI M Nageswara Rao after the latter spoke out against what he calls "Project Abarahamosation of Hindu Civilisation".
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News Reports

“Muslims have raped at least 5 lakh Kaffirs in the UK in last 40 years,” says survivor of Pakistani grooming gangs- Read excruciating details

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The medical practitioner highlighted how the grooming gangs use 'scriptures' to justify rape after a young girl hits her period.
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News Reports

Police arrest Md Ismail gets for duping Coronavirus patients, media gives it a ‘Hindu spin’ by calling him ‘fake baba’

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Cyberabad police have arrested Mohammed Ismail, a 50-year-old godman, for claiming to treat Coronavirus patients
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News Reports

Out of the oven, into the frying pan: Even after quitting Congress, Priyanka Chaturvedi mimics Rahul Gandhi’s asininity, spreads fake news on Shramik trains

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Priyanka Chaturvedi confuses revenue with profit, wrongly claims Railways made profit from Shramik Special trains
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News Reports

Balasaheb’s legacy undone: ‘Secular’ Uddhav Thackeray says that Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan should be done via video conferencing

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Uddhav Thackeray says Ram Bhakts cannot be stopped to attend Bhoomi Poojan, therefore it should be done via video conferencing
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News Reports

Even after Supreme Court delivered a unanimous judgement, Bloomberg calls Ram Janmabhoomi a ‘disputed site’

OpIndia Staff -
Bloomberg expressed its disappointment over Bhoomi Pujan at Ram Janmabhoomi site and referred to it as a 'disputed' site
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News Reports

From Shamshad trapping Priya impersonating a Hindu to killing her and her daughter: The complete story of the Meerut love jihad case

जयन्ती मिश्रा -
Priya's best friend Chanchal narrates the incidents that led to the brutal murder of the mother-daughter duo Priya and Kashish in love jihad
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Interviews

Afghan journalist and founder of Khaama Press talks about Talibanisation, ISI involvement in terror and evolving India-Afghanistan relations

Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar -
This is an exclusive interview with a rising star of Afghanistan – Khushnood Nabizada, political expert, journalist and owner as well as founding editor of The Khaama Press News Agency, the largest online news service of Afghanistan.
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Opinions

Kargil Vijay Diwas: Congress treated Atal Bihari Vajpayee no better than they treat PM Modi

Abhishek Banerjee -
It is July 26, which is Kargil Vijay Diwas. Who is celebrating? The whole country for sure. But did you know that it wasn’t always like that?
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News Reports

‘For people like me, India was home and always will be’: Afghan Sikh who migrated to India in 1994 at the start of the...

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Sardar Iqbal Singh migrated to India from Afghanistan during the initial stages of the civil war. His daughter was around a year old when they came to India.
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News Reports

Left dominated Wikipedia displays bias against conservative voices yet again, ‘downgrades’ reliability of Fox News after ‘discussion’ by Wiki Editors

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While most editors on Wikipedia said that regular news reports of Fox News are unbiased, admins downgraded its reliability
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News Reports

11 Afghan nationals granted 6-month visas to India, including abducted Nidan Singh and girl who was kidnapped to be converted to Islam

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According to Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee President, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, the tickets and accommodation have reportedly been arranged for the 11 Afghan Nationals who are scheduled to reach Delhi via Kam Air flight under Vande Bharat Mission.
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Crime

“Kill as many Kaffirs as you can”: ISIS calls upon Muslims in India to annihilate ‘disbelievers’ by spreading Coronavirus and carrying weapons

OpIndia Staff -
Islamic State asks radical Islamists to spread Coronavirus to kill as many kaffirs as possible, praises Tablighi Jamaat for doing the same
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News Reports

Kerala: Travancore Devaswom Board appoints Arabic teachers in schools under it

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CPI-M led Kerala government has now decided to employ Arabic teachers in schools managed by Travancore Devaswom Board
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