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Pakistan journalist Hamid Mir speaks on Matiullah abduction case, hints at ISI and the army facilitating intimidation of media persons

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Hamid Mir informed that he was unsure about the role of 'non-civilian' authority in the forced disappearance of Matiullah Jan, until segments of his show were 'censored' by those who have been 'historically' accused of executing such abductions.
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News Reports

Karan Acharya, the artist behind the Rudra Hanuman portrait, puts life into the cloud, wins hearts

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Karan Acharya is the same artist who's "Rudra Hanuman" poster had given a lot of heartburns to the usual coterie of liberals
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Fact-Check

Congress, India Today get together to promote Rahul Gandhi, end up adding imaginary zeroes in social media views. Read details

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In their haste to 're-launch' Rahul Gandhi for the nth time, India Today and Congress IT Cell added imaginary zeroes to the number of views, mistaking millions as crores.
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News Reports

Kerala: High Court refuses anticipatory bail, ‘activist’ Rehana Fathima to approach SC over controversial video case

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In June, Fathima had stirred up controversy after she posted a Facebook video where her minor children were painting on her naked body.
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Social Media Fact-Check

Fact-check: No, Govt of India is not selling 3 Khadi masks for Rs 999

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On Friday, several social media users took to Twitter to share images of an advertisement put out by a certain seller, who claims to be selling three Khadi masks for Rs.999.
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News Reports

Two girls get trapped in raging Pench river in Madhya Pradesh while taking selfies, rescued by police and locals

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A video of two girls being trapped at the centre of a violently raging Pench river has gone viral on the Internet.
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News Reports

“If we don’t act now CCP will erode our freedom”: Mike Pompeo pitches for a new “alliance of democracies” to tackle China

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China ripped off our prized intellectual property and trade secrets, US State Secretary Mike Pompeo tears into China
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News Reports

Haryana man Jumma arrested after confessing that he killed his 5 children over the last 5 years

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After bodies of two teenage sisters found in a canal, their father Jumma confesses that he killed them and 3 other children earlier
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News Reports

Jammu and Kashmir: Remote villages in Shopian get electricity for the first time with PM’s Soubhagya scheme

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Electricity to these villages has been provided under the central government's Saubhagya Scheme launched by PM Modi in 2017.
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News Reports

Bengaluru: Municipal officials barricade residences of coronavirus patients by nailing tin sheets on doors, removes it after uproar

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BBMP officials nailed tin sheets on the doors of two residences in Bengaluru after a resident tested positive for Coronavirus
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News Reports

Rajasthan Congress MLA Babulal Bairwa staying in Fairmont hotel develops breathing problems, admitted to hospital

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The Congress MLA been admitted to Sawai Man Singh Hospital in the city after he complained of breathing problems.
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Crime

Delhi: COVID positive minor girl sexually assaulted by another patient at ITBP facility, case registered

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According to the additional DCP (South district) Parvinder Singh, a case had been registered against the COVID positive duo under the POSCO Act and IPC Section 376.
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News Reports

Rajasthan Fertiliser scam: Agrasain Gehlot, brother of Ashok Gehlot named as a part of smuggling syndicate in DRI and custom department report

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Earlier, the ED had conducted raids at the premises of Agrasain Gehlot in Delhi, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Gujarat in connection to the fertiliser scam.
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News Reports

Meet Latoya Ferns-Advani: Maharashtra Youth Congress spokesperson who wants ISIS ‘fighters’ legitimised by ‘giving’ them a state

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Latoya Ferns-Advani, who likes to write columns in Pakistani publication like Daily Times believes that the terror organisation ISIS should be legitimised by giving the 'fighters' their own state.
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News Reports

Maharashtra govt to distribute Rs 1.80 crores to 121 Madarsas in the state for salaries of their teachers

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The Maharashtra government had launched the Dr Zakir Hussain Madarsa Modernisation Scheme to modernise these Islamic religious centres by developing infrastructure and for the appointment of teachers to educate children in modern subjects and grant of scholarships.
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Communal tension prevails in Sitapur village after a 14-year old minor girl was raped

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Communal tension has prevailed in the Sakran village of Sitapur district after a minor girl was raped by one Khaleel.
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News Reports

Congress supporter goes to court to stop Bhumi Pujan for Ram Temple at Ayodhya

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The petition filed by Congress supporter Saket Gokhale stated that the Bhumi Pooja at Ayodhya is a violation of the 'Unlock 2.0' guidelines and demanded the court to stay the event in the interest of public health during a pandemic.
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News Reports

Body of Hindu saint found hanging from tree in temple premises in UP, locals allege he was murdered

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Body of Balayogi Satyendra Anand Saraswati Maharaj found hanging from a tree in Veer Baba temple premises in Sultanpur in UP
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News Reports

Govt of India bans Greta Thunberg ‘inspired’ Fridays For Future website after they spam Environment Minister’s mailbox

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Action has been taken against the websites of 'Let India Breathe' and 'There is No Earth B', along with 'Fridays For Future'.
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News Reports

Meet Sonu Punjaban: The notorious sex racketeer who brutalised a minor girl by rubbing chilli powder on her private part and forced her into...

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Sonu Punjaban and his accomplice were convicted under various sections of the IPC on July 16 and sentenced on July 22
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News Reports

Muzaffarnagar: Body of man exhumed for autopsy a month after burial as family alleges murder by wife

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Police exhumed the body of 33-year-old Mohd Nasir one month after the burial following his death on 24th June
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News Reports

Times Now runs news claiming Amitabh Bachchan has recovered from COVID-19, Big B calls it ‘incorrigible lie’

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Amitabh Bachchan stated that the claims made by Times Now are incorrect. He added that it is "irresponsible, fake and an incorrigible lie".
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News Reports

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal says he has not been invited to Ram Mandir Bhumi Pooja yet

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"I have not been invited so far. Lord Rama should bless us and Delhiites," Arvind Kejriwal said about Ram Mandi Bhumi Pooja
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Crime

Meerut love jihad case: Disturbing video emerges showing how Shamshad had buried the corpses of the mother-daughter duo in his own house

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Priya and her daughter were missing from 28 March, as revealed by her friend who was earlier in constant contact with her.
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News Reports

Rajdeep Sardesai casts aspersions on Justice Arun Mishra after SC order on Rajasthan political crisis, deletes tweet

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Upset over SC order on Rajasthan political crisis, Rajdeep Sardesai insinuates Justice Arun Mishra’s connection with PM Modi
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News Reports

Government issues formal sanction letter for grant of Permanent Commission to women officers in Indian Army

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The order grants Permanent Commission to Short Service Commissioned (SSC) women officers in all ten streams of Indian Army
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News Reports

PETA’s Eid campaign: Pontificates on every Hindu festival, but still cannot dare to ask Muslims to stop slaughtering animals

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Peta India has has claimed that they have written to authorities to stop ‘illegal’ animal transport and slaughter. However, they are yet to run a campaign asking Muslims to stop killing animals in the name of sacrifice.
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News Reports

Mumbai police bust racket of fake social media accounts, may question celebrities including Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone

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Mumbai Police Crime Branch has unearthed more than 50 companies that were involved in selling fake social media followers
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News Reports

Congress, Samajwadi Party leaders want mosques opened for Bakri Eid even as coronavirus cases surge

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Islamic clerics from Darul Uloom Deoband has written a letter to the Yogi Adityanath government making five demands ahead of the Eid festival.
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News Reports

Criticism of Muslim rulers trigger liberals and Islamists, as they come together to attack IAS officer on Twitter

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IAS officer Somesh Upadhyay on Tuesday ruffled quite a few feathers by criticising the Islamic invaders who ruled India for centuries.
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News Reports

Indian business tycoon Mukesh Ambani becomes the world’s fifth-richest man according to Forbes Real-Time Billionaires list

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Mukesh Ambani had recently declared that his company Reliance Industries had become a net debt-free company
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News Reports

Afghan and Rohingya Muslims start converting to Christianity to get Indian citizenship under CAA: Report

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India has not ratified any international convention on refugees and international laws on refugees not binding on India
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News Reports

Jharkhand: Youths molest woman going to Shiv temple, attack her for protesting; FIR filed against Saddam, Riaz, Shahil, Kaif and eight others

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Jharkhand: Communal tension erupts after Muslim youth beat up Hindu woman for protesting eve-teasing
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh: Unemployed youth who set himself on fire complaining about food dies, BJP blames Congress govt’s misrule

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The Baghel government had declared that Hardev Sinha was mentally unstable, a claim which his wife had strongly refuted.
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News Reports

Former RBI governor Urjit Patel blames UPA govt for banking mess, says RBI too fell short on several counts

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The former RBI governor Urjit Patel in his yet-to-be-released book writes that several government banks did not have senior management in place, and governance suffered.
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Fact-Check

Video of activist-devotee of Padmanabhaswamy temple circulated as Travancore royal family member and ‘richest person in the world’

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Shilpa Nair's video from 13 July where she was thanking the SC judges and lawyers for the Padmanabhaswamy Temple verdict was used in a WhatsApp share claiming she is from the Travancore royal family who has now become 'world's richest person'.
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News Reports

Bollywood celebs’ ties with Pakistan’s ISI puppets surface once again, netizens demand an investigation

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A multitude of Indian Bollywood celebrities has been hobnobbing with Pakistani businessmen and anti-India lobbyist over decades now.
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News Reports

India gets the first-ever Siddi lawmaker. Did you know India is home to about 60,000 people from the community which descended from Bantu people...

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The Siddi community are believed to be the descendants of the African Bantu tribe. They live in small rural pockets in Karnataka, Goa, Gujarat and Maharashtra.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: 30-year-old doctor Tufail Ahmed arrested for attempting to rape a coronavirus positive girl in Aligarh

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As per reports, the woman, a coronavirus positive patient was recovering in an isolation ward when Dr Tufail Ahmed allegedly raped her.
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News Reports

OpIndia quotes ANI to name Kamal-ud-din’s son as the main culprit in journalist Vikram Joshi’s death, lands up irking the pro-Islamist lobby

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The leftists claimed that OpIndia was trying to sensationalise and communalise Vikram Joshi's death
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News Reports

Watch: As uncle plots kidnapping of niece, mother fights kidnappers to save her 4-year-old girl child in Delhi’s Shakarpur area

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The entire plot of kidnapping was hatched by the child's uncle, who had a fight with the child father over some money
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News Reports

Fact Check: 6-years-old images of a Bangladeshi boy saving a young fawn from drowning being passed off as a recent one from Assam floods

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The image widely shared on Internet about a teenage boy saving a baby deer is not from Assam but old image from Bangladesh
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News Reports

Kerala: Anujith, who had saved hundreds of lives a decade ago, saves eight more lives by donating organs after his death

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Organs like heart, kidneys, eyes, small intestine and hands of Anujith will be donated following his death in a bike accident
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News Reports

PETA’s pontification and its nauseating hypocrisy over animal rights, which has been lauding animal product users as animal lovers

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Several persons awarded ‘person of the year’ by PETA consume meat, and use leather fashion accessories
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News Reports

Destroy crosses, Jesus images, put pictures of Mao and Xi Jinping: China ordering Christians

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China's clampdown against religious manifestation is a part of explicit set of instructions issued by Chinese premier Xi Jinpingin order to "Sinicise" all religions to ensure their loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party.
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News Reports

Google search result shows that the cause of terrorist Ajmal Kasab’s death was suicide

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If one searches forthe phrase “Ajmal Kasab death” on Google, the search result wrongly shows suicide as the cause
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News Reports

Chinese govt jails two Tibetan musicians for composing song praising HH the Dalai Lama, arrests another for sharing it on social media

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The two Tibetans, Tsetan and Tsego were sentenced to seven years and three years in prison respectively by a Chinese court.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee says ‘voices are being muzzled’ and ‘people unable to speak due to reign of fear’

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Mamata Banerjee said that voices are being muzzled and media is not being spared, while her govt continues targeting media
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Social Media

Kangana deserves COVID the most: Comedian mocks actress’ stand against nepotism, deletes video later

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Mocking Kangana's stand against the prevalent nepotism in Bollywood, Dudeja was seen saying she deserves coronavirus the most.
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News Reports

Jharkhand: In custody since April and despite strict quarantine, 3 Tablighi Jamaat women found pregnant

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As the pregnancies of these women are not over 3 months old, it is quite evident that the Tablighi Jamaat women got pregnant while in quarantine.
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