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Has social service become a way of Conversion for the Missionary mafia?

Prabhas Shakya -
In the last few years, it is seen that social service is also becoming a tactic to convert people. Specifically, the Christian missionaries are front runners in this practice.
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News Reports

Pakistan: District magistrate allows Muslim man to keep Hindu girl as wife, girl’s parents say she was kidnapped and forcefully converted to Islam

OpIndia Staff -
The girl, who was missing since June 17 in Pakistan, reportedly admitted in the court that she had married the Muslim man of her own accord
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News Reports

‘Masjid tere baap ka hai kya’: Mumbai girl heckled for requesting to lower volume of Azaan blaring from mosque’s loudspeaker

OpIndia Staff -
Mankhurd MLA Abu Azmi asked the girl to leave her residence if she has a problem with the high volume of azaan from mosque loudspeaker
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News Reports

ED questions Ahmad Patel at his residence in connection with the Sterling Biotech-Sandesara scam

OpIndia Staff -
As Ahmed Patel didn't visit ED office after summons, ED team visits his residence for questioning in Sterling Biotech-Sandesara scam
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News Reports

‘Congress leadership is incompetent, loyalty matters to them and not genuine feedback’: Elder brother writes open letter to Sanjay Jha

OpIndia Staff -
Vibuthi Jha pointed out how foolish and dangerous it was for Congress leader Sanjay Jha to "permanently wed" to any ideology.
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Media

PTI is doing itself no good by going rogue and it can lose crores of rupees it gets each year from Prasar Bharati

OpIndia Staff -
The Prasar Bharati is deeply anguished by news agency PTI coverage in recent times and is considering withdrawing financial support
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News Reports

Entire Chandigarh can feed on langar, my sense of hunger comes from New York: Watch how casual racism of BBC was exposed by chef...

OpIndia Staff -
When BBC anchor assumed that chef VIkas Khanna's sense of hunger came from India, he corrected that it came from his New York experience
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News Reports

Supreme Court stays investigation and coercive action against journalist Amish Devgan on multiple FIRs for his ‘Lootera Chisti’ remark

OpIndia Staff -
Journalist Amish Devgan says he mistakenly said "lootera Chisti' in place of Allauddin Khilji, SC stays probe and action against him
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Media

Prasar Bharti writes to PTI, to review relationship after the news agency provides a platform for China to run its propaganda

OpIndia Staff -
The Prasar Bharti is deeply anguished by news agency PTI's coverage and is considering withdrawing financial support.
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News Reports

Delhi Riots: Delhi Police charge-sheet says Dr Anwar, owner of a local hospital, organised riots that led to the killing of Dilbar Negi

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi Police has named Dr MA Anwar, the owner of Al-Hind hospital in the riot-hit Mustafabad area, as one of the organisers of Delhi riots
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Opinions

Rajiv Gandhi Foundation: Rahul Gandhi must explain why RGF has so much money but no impact via these 8 dud projects

S. Sudhir Kumar -
Shocking revelations have shown us that over the past many years, the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation had continuously received funds PMNRF and various govts around the world
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News Reports

ACP Anuj Kumar who was hit on the head in the Delhi riots elevated to the post of Additional Deputy Commissioner

OpIndia Staff -
Anuj Kumar said that their team was trying to hold talks with the Islamist mob peacefully and asked them to stay confined to service road.
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News Reports

TikTok is secretly accessing your iPhone’s clipboard: Report raises massive security concern about Chinese app snooping on users

OpIndia Staff -
Forbes noted that while TikTok had vowed to put an end to this 'invasive practice,' but it continued unabated as late as April.
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Government and Policy

Modi govt to draw list of countries to replace China in supplying critical components that cannot be manufactured locally

OpIndia Staff -
The Modi government has understood that the dependence on cheap Chinese imports cannot be substituted in a short span of time and thus looking for alternative markets such as South Korea, Japan, Taiwan for imports of certain products.
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Editor's picks

Rahul Gandhi aide posts a photo of PM Modi with Kyrgyzstan President to insinuate his proximity with China

OpIndia Staff -
With the Congress in a fix over its China links emerging, several people on Twitter started posting pictures of Congress leader with Chinese functionaries.
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News Reports

Rajiv Gandhi Foundation received money from fugitive Mehul Choksi: Here are the details

OpIndia Staff -
The Rajiv Gandhi foundation received funds from an organisation named Naviraj Estates Private Limited and Mehul Choksi is one of the directors of this company
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh government orders to scrutinise documents of all teachers in aided madarsas in the state after the Anamika Shukla scam

OpIndia Staff -
Following the Anamika Shukla scam, UP govt decided to verify the certificates of teachers in govt schools and madarsas
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News Reports

Mumbai edition of The Hindu asks its employees to resign citing weak financial condition

OpIndia Staff -
More than 100 journalists, sub-editors, and other employees have been asked to resign in various editions of The Hindu newspaper.
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News Reports

Actress and Rajya Sabha MP Roopa Ganguly demands CBI probe in Sushant Singh Rajput’s death

OpIndia Staff -
Roopa Ganguly expressed her suspicion over the investigation into the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
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News Reports

Watch: Bishop Scott Girls’ school principal in Patna attacks guardian when questioned fee charged despite schools being shut during lockdown

OpIndia Staff -
A video has gone viral in which Bishop Scott Girls' school principal in Bihar is seen losing her cool on a guardian
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu: Outrage over custodial death of father-son duo, police accused of sexual torture and murder, judicial probe ordered

OpIndia Staff -
The death of a father and son-duo in police custody in Tuticorin has generated a huge outrage in Tamil Nadu.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Son of TMC leader thrashed with broomsticks and shoes by locals for fraudulently obtaining Cyclone Amphan relief fund: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Protestors had alleged that even though the house of the TMC leader did not suffer any damage, yet he was a beneficiary of the relief fund.
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News Reports

Hundreds of local artisans trained to make handcrafted leak-proof bamboo bottles under Pradhan Mantri Van Dhan Vikas Yojana in Tripura

OpIndia Staff -
Tripura IFS officer trains hundreds of artisans to make leak-proof bamboo bottles under Pradhan Mantri Van Dhan Vikas Yojana
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News Reports

Rajiv Gandhi Foundation’s links to Clinton Foundation, Ford Foundation, donations from several foreign govts and potential quid pro quo

K Bhattacharjee -
The Rajiv Gandhi foundation received donations from foreign governments other than China as well.
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News Reports

TMC leader publicly shamed by locals in South 24 Paraganas for siphoning off compensation meant for Cyclone Amphan victims

OpIndia Staff -
TMC leader Swapan Kumar Bhati gheraoed and shamed by public for illegally receiving compensation amount meant for victims of Cyclone Amphan
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Law

Supreme Court stays FIRs against OpIndia editors and CEO filed by West Bengal govt seeking removal of reports, issues notice to state govt

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court stays FIR filed by WB govt against OpIndia editors and CEO for reports published on the portal related to the state
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News Reports

Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights wants 11 ‘activists’ released, arrested for Delhi anti-Hindu riots: Here is what they have been charged...

OpIndia Staff -
India had previously slammed UN OHCHR after it filed application in SC against the implementation of CAA, yet, they have released a statement on 'activists' arrested for Delhi riots
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Law

Petition filed in Supreme Court challenging the arbitrary ban in Kerala on animal sacrifice in temples

OpIndia Staff -
Plea was filed in the apex court on Thursday challenging a Kerala law that prohibits animal sacrifice for appeasement of deities in temples and temple precincts.
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Opinions

Newslaundry’s Sharjeel Usmani glorifies Islamist Shahrukh Pathan, who fired at police officials during anti-Hindu riots in Delhi

Jinit Jain -
Sharjeel Usmani, who writes columns for Newslaundry, Firstpost and DailyO, posted a tweet hailing Delhi riots accused Shahrukh Pathan as his 'hero'.
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News Reports

US Senate passes bill for Hong Kong’s autonomy, proposes sanctions against China’s efforts to restrict autonomy

OpIndia Staff -
The bill was brought in by the Democrat Chris Van Hollen from Maryland and Republican Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
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News Reports

Over 200 J&K youths issued Pakistani visas go missing, intel sources believe Pakistan training youths to carry out terror attacks in India

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan has issued visas to 399 youth from jammu and Kashmir since 2017, out of which whereabouts of 218 are not known.
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News Reports

Home Ministry calls out Reuters’ misleading report claiming Army has taken over COVID-19 facilities in Delhi, says ‘The news is far away from reality’

OpIndia Staff -
While one temporary Coronavirus hospital has been handed over to ITBP, Reuters claims all Delhi Coronavirus hospitals given to army
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News Reports

“Deliberate attempts to cause misunderstanding between Bhutan and Assam”: Bhutan Govt denies claims that it has stopped irrigation water to Assam

OpIndia Staff -
Bhutan govt has clarified that due to Coronavirus, Assam farmers were not allowed to enter the country to repaid traditional irrigation channels
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News Reports

Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden demands the ‘restoration of people’s rights’ in Kashmir; expresses his disapproval for CAA-NRC

Jinit Jain -
Joe Biden categorises Kashmir and Assam in India with the forced detention of over a million Uyghur Muslims in China
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News Reports

T- Series director Divya Khosla dismisses allegations by Sonu Nigam, accuses him of encouraging extortion and blackmail

OpIndia Staff -
Divya Khosla claimed that Sonu Nigam used to sing for ₹5 in Delhi's Ramlila when he was spotted by T-Series founder Gulshan Kumar
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News Reports

Australian Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane raided by security agencies for his links with China, suspended from the party

OpIndia Staff -
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and Australian Federal Police (AFP) confirmed that raids has been conducted at the residence of the Labor MP. "This activity does not relate to any specific threat to the community," ASIO said.
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News Reports

Mangaluru: BJP corporator Manohar Shetty enters a manhole to clean it himself, images go viral

OpIndia Staff -
When local sanitation workers and city corporation vehicle operator refused to do the job, citing dangers, the BJP MP reportedly entered the manhole himself to have it cleaned.
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OpIndia Explains

Not just PMNRF, 7 ministries and govt depts, including MHA and 11 PSUs ‘donated’ to Rajiv Gandhi Foundation from 2005 to 2013

OpIndia Staff -
If impropriety of allocating PMNRF funds to Rajiv Gandhi Foundation was not enough, multiple govt departments, ministries and PSUs 'donated' to Rajiv Gandhi Foundation between 2005 and 2013
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News Reports

Manmohan Singh tried to allocate Rs 100 crores to Rajiv Gandhi Foundation in the Union Budget when he was Finance Minister

OpIndia Staff -
The archived records of the Indian parliament's discussion of the Union Budget in 1991-92 shows a section when, after the then Finance Minister Manmohan Singh allocated a sum of Rs 100 crores to the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, there was a huge uproar from the opposition leaders.
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News Reports

‘She can gift the PM her bangles and a lot of other things’: Congress MLA’s offensive, misogynist remarks against Smriti Irani

OpIndia Staff -
Shashank Bhargava reportedly made the comment during a cycle rally organised by the Congress, against the fuel price hike.
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OpIndia Explains

Rajiv Gandhi Foundation received ‘donation’ from the PMNRF not once but thrice: Here are the details

OpIndia Staff -
As disclosed in the Annual Reports, the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation received donations from the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund (PMNRF) not once but multiple times.
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News Reports

The United States to move troops from Europe to counter the Chinese threat to India and Southeast Asia

OpIndia Staff -
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the increasing Chinese aggression in the region was one of the main reasons why they decided to move the troops closer to India and Southeast Asia.
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News Reports

Hindustan Unilever to drop words like ‘whitening’, ‘lightening’ and ‘fairness’ from skincare products

OpIndia Staff -
Hindustan Unilever Limited has announced that they will refrain from using words like fair/fairness, White/whitening and light/lightening.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh Child Rights Panel issues notice to Priyanka Gandhi for “misleading” comment on Kanpur shelter home

OpIndia Staff -
Uttar Pradesh Child Rights Panel sends notice to Priyanka Gandhi for her Facebook comment, says she has hurt the honour of girls
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News Reports

Childs Right body asks Congress leader Jitu Patwari to apologise or face legal action for misogynistic tweet against girl child

OpIndia Staff -
NCPCR issues notice to Congress leader Jitu Patwari for comparing girl child with failure, asks him to apologise or face action
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News Reports

Haryana: Shringi Rishi Asharam’s mahant Rambhaj Das murdered, case registered against 3 persons named by the saint before death

OpIndia Staff -
Hindu saint named Mahant Rambhaj Das was murdered on Wednesday night in Haryana by three persons, case registered
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News Reports

‘Shaheed kar diya’: Imran Khan refers to terrorist Osama Bin Laden as martyr while speaking in Pakistan parliament

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan OM Imran Khan said in parliament that USA had martyred Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan
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News Reports

16-year-old TikTok celebrity Siya Kakkar dies by suicide, family demands detailed police investigation

OpIndia Staff -
The news of the suicide of TikTok star Siya Kakkar comes days after actor Sushant Singh Rajput died by suicide
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News Reports

Alwar: Man found dead after he refused to withdraw case against Aneesh Khan and others for raping his minor daughter

OpIndia Staff -
One Aneesh Khan raped the minor Hindu girl in Alwar and when his father refused to withdraw the case, he was found dead
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Opinions

“Somebody had to do it, then why not me”, account of a ‘liquidator of Corona’ participating in Coronavirus screening conducted by RSS and ABVP

Eshaan Ganpule -
ABVP leader narrates his experience as 'liquidator of Corona' in conducting Coronavirus screening organised by RSS and ABVP
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