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Mass Promotions of students due to Coronavirus lockdown: How an ‘Easy way out’ can tun into a “Way out”

Eshaan Ganpule -
The carrot of promotion which is being dangled in front of students to gain political momentum effectively divides students into two classes
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Entertainment

Meet Radhika Vaz: The abusive feminist comedian who performed nude on the stage, hates Hindu festivals and wishes to don Hijab and Burqa

OpIndia Staff -
Radhika Vaz is an abusive comedian who hides her lack of manners under the guide of humour. But her jokes are not funny.
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Crime

Video of a girl desperately seeking justice for her father’s murder in Madhya Pradesh goes viral on social media

OpIndia Staff -
Kiran Rajput has leveled explosive allegations against police, accusing them of conniving with her father's killers
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News Reports

Fire breaks out at 15th-century cathedral in France’s Nantes, grand organ destroyed, police suspect criminal act

OpIndia Staff -
Major fire broke out in 15th-century cathedral in Nantes, France on Saturday, destroying stained glass windows and the grand organ
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News Reports

‘Is gravel safe for baby penguins?’ Netizens call out BMC after it shares a picture of ‘defective’ road repair work, re-does it after being...

OpIndia Staff -
Social media users had a field day mocking and breaking down the tweet by BMC into hilarious memes
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News Reports

Shiv Sena man gives Indian citizen Rs 1000 to pretend to be a Nepali, get his head tonsured and chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’

OpIndia Staff -
Dharmendra Singh was paid Rs. 1000 by the Shiv Sena member for the paid stunt which caused quite an embarrassment to the country.
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News Reports

‘If you don’t destroy it, your marriage will end’: Newly discovered ancient Buddha statue destroyed on Muslim cleric’s order in Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
After an ancient Buddha statue was discovered during construction activity in Pakistan, it was destroyed on the orders of a Muslim cleric
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Media

Convert to Islam or get ready to die and face Allah’s wrath: ISIS threatens nationalist Janam TV

OpIndia Staff -
State police chief Loknath Behra has ordered police department to enhance the security at the offices of Janam TV after threats from ISIS
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Opinions

India-China Face-off in Ladakh and the nexus between CCP and Congress- Is China trying to bring about political upheaval in India?

Guest Author -
China may have a sinister plan to topple the govt of India to help Chinese Communist Party's partner Congress party in India
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News Reports

Pragya Debnath from Bengal who converted to Islam in 2009 under the influence of her ‘best friend’, arrested from Dhaka for terror links: Read...

OpIndia Staff -
Ayesha Jannat's primary responsibility was to entice teenagers and youths who could be radicalised and brainwashed into joining the terror outfit JMB
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Media Fact-Check

No, PM Modi is not planning to build a multi-cultural centre dedicated to all religions along with Bhavya Ram Mandir on Ram Janmabhoomi

OpIndia Staff -
Retired IAS officer Nripendra Mishra claims news reports claiming PM Modi wants to build Ayodhya as a multi cultural centre for all religions are grossly misleading and incorrect
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News Reports

Watch: Son of Shiv Sena MP abuses traffic police officer, threatens to get him fired from a job

OpIndia Staff -
Shiv Sena MP Vinayak Raut's son Yogesh Raut threatened a traffic police officer after he was stopped fo violating traffic rules
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News Reports

Delhi: Coronavirus positive children develop symptoms of rare Kawasaki disease

OpIndia Staff -
Hospitals in Delhi are witnessing coronavirus positive children develop symptoms of the rare Kawasaki disease.
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News Reports

The governance model of Rajasthan: Ashok Gehlot reveals how he was not ‘in talking terms’ with his Deputy CM Sachin Pilot for the past...

OpIndia Staff -
Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot said he was not communicating with Deputy CM Sachin Pilot since formation of the government
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News Reports

Amidst celebration and fanfare, Lakshmi the Elephant returns home to Manakula Vinayagar Temple

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, CM V. Narayanasami, had directed the forest department to return Lakshmi back to her home at the temple in Puducherry.
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News Reports

Pune emerges as one of top 3 districts in India in terms of active Coronavirus cases: BJP MLA Siddharth Shirole writes letter to Centre...

OpIndia Staff -
Siddharth Shirole, representing Shivajinagar constituency in Pune, has alleged the Maha Vikas Aghadi government of abandoning Pune as the city emerges as a potent coronavirus hotspot
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News Reports

Coimbatore: Unknown miscreants desecrate three Hindu temples and set them on fire, damage Trishul in front of one temple

OpIndia Staff -
Makaliamman temple, Vinayagar temple and Selvavinayagar temple in Coimbatore set on fire, desecreated by unknown people
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News Reports

China forcing mass abortions and sterilization on Uighur Muslims is a stain of the century: US secretary of state Mike Pompeo

OpIndia Staff -
China regularly subjects minority women to pregnancy checks, forces intrauterine devices, sterilisation and even abortion
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News Reports

BSP supremo Mayawati demands President’s rule in Rajasthan, accuses Ashok Gehlot of malpractices

OpIndia Staff -
Mayawati said that Rajasthan CM violated the anti-defection law and betrayed the BSP by admitting its MLAs into the Congress
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi defends anti-Hindu Periyar, who broke Lord Ganesha’s Murthis and slandered Shri Ram

OpIndia Staff -
Congress president Rahul Gandhi has heaped praises on renowned hatemonger EV Ramasamy, aka Periyar.
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News Reports

German manufacturer says drone shown by “drone boy” Prathap as his creation is their property, asks him to clarify or face legal action

OpIndia Staff -
BillzEye - Multicoptersysteme issues statement saying the drone shown by 'drone boy' prathap as his creation is their product
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Politics

Amid power tussle in Rajasthan, Maharashtra Minister and Congress leader claims several of 105 BJP MLAs in the state in touch with Congress

OpIndia Staff -
The Maharashtra Congress leader, Ms Yashomati Thakur claimed that many of the 105 BJP MLAs were outsiders, referring to those who left NCP and Congress ahead of the state assembly polls last year
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News Reports

Congress leader says a combination of Rum and half-fried eggs can cure Coronavirus, calls ‘Old Monk’ rum as ‘Khodays’

OpIndia Staff -
Gatti said he had himself tried many medicines for coronavirus but vouched that only rum and eggs worked. Shockingly, in the entire video, he refers to 'Old Monk' rum by a lesser known brand 'Khodays'.
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News Reports

AIMIM leader Kadir Khan, Congress leader Anup Patel instigated mother-daughter duo from Amethi to set themselves on fire in front of Yogi Adityanath’s office

OpIndia Staff -
FIR lodged against AIMIM's Kadir Khan and Congress's Anup Patel for instigating mother-daughter duo to set themselves on fire
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News Reports

Rajasthan political crisis: BJP slams Congress for levelling allegations of horse-trading, demands CBI inquiry into phone tapping scandal

OpIndia Staff -
BJP questions Congress over phone tapping issue during political crisis in Rajasthan, demands an urgent CBI probe into the matter
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Politics

After bungling up Rajasthan, Congress quotes Indira Gandhi to hail the principle of respecting ‘electoral mandate’, reduces itself to a joke

OpIndia Staff -
Quoting Indira Gandhi, Congress tweeted, "Respecting the electoral mandate is quintessential in a democracy. Even the slightest attempt to subvert it is an insult to the hardworking citizens. #CongressKeVichaar".
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News Reports

Pakistani Christian girl abducted and forcibly converted to Islam, now pregnant and confined to one room due to sexual assault by abductor Abdul

OpIndia Staff -
Huma Younus, a Christian girl who was kidnapped from her home in Karachi on October 10 last year, has become pregnant due to the incessant sexual violence perpetrated by her abductor Abdul Jabbar
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Law

Retiring Judge Banumathi reveals how she believes in the Gospel of Jesus Christ despite being a ‘Hindu’

OpIndia Staff -
Justice Banumathi has served 6 years in the apex court, following her appointment in 2014, she is also the 6th woman to ever grace the apex court
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News Reports

Man who tonsured head of a Nepali in Varanasi turns out to be associated with Shiv Sena, calls himself a ‘disciple of Bala Saheb’

OpIndia Staff -
A Nepali man was tonsured and forced to shout ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Nepal PM Murdabad’ by one Arun Pathak who was from Shiv Sena
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Complaint filed against Congress leaders says that plan to falsely accuse Union Minister with audiotape hatched at CM Gehlot’s residence

OpIndia Staff -
Hours after a complaint was filed against Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat for conspiring to pull down its government in Rajasthan, a complaint has been filed against Congress leaders by a BJP leader for making false accusations
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News Reports

Human trial of coronavirus vaccine COVAXIN begins, no adverse effects reported on the subjects so far: Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij

OpIndia Staff -
Haryana Health Minister says no adverse effects reported on the subjects so far in Human trial of Coronavirus vaccine COVAXIN
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News Reports

Tablighi Jamaat case: Delhi court grants bail to 34 more foreign nationals on plea bargaining

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi court has granted bail to a number of foreign nationals on plea bargaining who had attended Tablighi Jamaat violating visa rules
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News Reports

Two members of Tamil YouTube channel Karuppar Koottam arrested after insulting Hindu God Murugan in a video

OpIndia Staff -
Two individuals associated with YouTube channel 'Karuppar Koottam' have been arrested by the police in Tamil Nadu.
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News Reports

“No Namaaz in Masjid”, Maharashtra Government tells Muslims to pray at home during Bakri Eid due to coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra govt have asked Muslims to celebrate Bakri Eid in a simple manner, and banned prayer in mosques during the eid
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News Reports

Class 8 textbook published by Maharashtra govt replaces freedom fighter Sukhdev with Kurban Hussain, probe ordered

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra govt's textbook says Kurban Hussain was hanged alongside Bhagat Singh and Rajguru, bot Sukhdev
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News Reports

Vatican releases ‘manual’ to guide Bishops to conduct probes into allegations of sexual offences by church priests

OpIndia Staff -
Vatican has directed Bishops across the world to report sexual offences committed against minors by predator priests
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News Reports

‘Drone boy’ Prathap responds to OpIndia fact-check, fails to prove that he made any drone, received any award- Detail analysis of his responses

OpIndia Staff -
‘Drone boy’ Prathap responds to OpIndia fact-check, fails to prove that he received awards, medals for developing drones
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News Reports

While DMC Chief Zafarul Islam peddles Muslim victimhood, his report finds 98% Muslim women of riot-hit NE Delhi don’t think Hindus discriminate against them

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi Minorities Commission study dispels the narrative of 'Muslims under threat' quite effectively.
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News Reports

S Jaishankar dismisses Rahul Gandhi’s claims on India’s foreign policy, reminds him of UPA’s geopolitical blunders that undermined India’s interests

OpIndia Staff -
Jaishankar asked Rahul Gandhi to compare India's responses to Pakistan after the Uri and Pulwama attacks to that of UPA-era response to 26/11 Mumbai attacks, and Manmohan Singh's Sharm-al Sheikh and Havana blunders.
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News Reports

Vishal Kumar, a bright 19-year old ABVP activist who was murdered by Islamists in Kerala eight years ago

OpIndia Staff -
On the 17th of July, 2012 Vishal Kumar, a 19-year old ABVP karyakarta, was murdered in Kerala by goons associated with the Campus Front of India.
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Opinions

COVID-19 lockdown: Indian Railways, the champion of India’s fight against the pandemic

G Indira -
As all means of transport came to a halt, railways took the burden of ensuring that the supply of food-grains, vegetables, petrol, coal, medicine, parcel service, construction material and much more, is never halted.
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Opinions

While puppet CM of Balochistan Jam Kamal Khan Alyani touts the Gwadar marine drive, here is the truth

Hakeem Baloch -
On 12th of July 2020, the puppet chief minister of Balochistan Jam Kamal Khan Alyani in a Tweet posted three pictures of Gwadar Marine Drive claiming that “ #Gwader marine drive after completion of road, streetlights, parks and floodlights on the beach.”
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Politics

How a ground-level BJP karyakarta rattled Shashi Tharoor

Abhishek Banerjee -
Sometimes, it is the little things that tell you the most about a person and how he thinks. We will find out what led Shashi Tharoor to spit out this fiery tweet.
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News Reports

West Bengal: 4 days after BJP MLA was found hanging, party leader alleges Mamata govt is trying to kill MP Arjun Singh

OpIndia Staff -
BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya has tweeted that West Bengal police had gheraoed the house of BJP MP Arjun Singh to assassinate him
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News Reports

Complaint filed by priest against the brother of UP BJP MLA for stealing slippers, mobile phones of devotees at a temple in Siddarthnagar

OpIndia Staff -
The priest of Sinheshwari Devi Mandir in the city has filed a complaint alleging that BJP MLA Shyamdani Rahi's brother has been stealing slippers, mobile phones and helmets of the temple devotees
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News Reports

Pyare Miyan who ran a sex trafficking racket of minor girls arrested from Srinagar, lived in govt bungalow allotted in 1990: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Pyare Miyan, the primary accused in the sex racket case involving minor girls, arrested from Srinagar after he was absconding for 4 days
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi video: A litany of half-truths that shields China and blames India

K Bhattacharjee -
Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi finally released the video that he had promised, although a couple of days behind schedule.
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News Reports

After Vikas Dubey, UP Police cracks down on Mukhtar Ansari’s illegal empire in several places, in Jaunpur, with Dhol and fanfare: Here are details

OpIndia Staff -
The UP Police have book several dozen of Ansari's associates under the gangster act and has been cancelling their arms licenses.
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News Reports

Did Iran leave India out of the Railway project in Chabahar? Here is everything we know so far

OpIndia Staff -
Iran denied media reports of India being dropped from Rail project saying there was no agreement with India, but India says there was an MoU
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Crime

Gujarat: Madarsa cleric from Kutch booked for raping a minor girl multiple times

OpIndia Staff -
As per the victim's complaint, she was sent by her family to the said madarsa to learn Urdu and Arabic when she was 15.
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