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Kerala nun rape case: Accused Franco Mulakkal tests positive for coronavirus after court issued non-bailable warrant

OpIndia Staff -
Kerala nun rape accused Bishop of Jalandhar Franco Mulakkal tested positive for covid-19, after the Kottayam trial court cancelled his bail and issued non-bailable warrant.
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News Reports

Congress govt used sedition law against its own minister: Sachin Pilot says he’s hurt but wont join BJP

OpIndia Staff -
Sachin Pilot has expressed disappointment at Ashok Gehlot-run Rajasthan government and said that the government has failed to try and fulfil the promise it made to the people who voted for them.
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Social Media

Comedians apologise to the Maharashtra CM, HM, Aaditya Thackeray and Raj Thackeray for cracking jokes on Shivaji Maharaj

OpIndia Staff -
After years of blaming BJP for fascism, oppression and a lot more, comedians promptly line up to post apologies to Shiv Sena, MNS and NCP leaders fearing reprisal for offensive content.
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News Reports

Muslim Congress leaders pressurise Maharashtra govt to allow Bakri Eid sacrifice even as Shiv Sena-led govt puts several restrictions on Ganesh Utsav

OpIndia Staff -
Ahead of the Islamic festival, the Muslim leaders have reportedly expressed their concerns to the government regarding the preparedness and arrangements of cattle mandis (makeshift market) in the city amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
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News Reports

Trump attacks China again, says US holds it responsible for concealing the virus and unleashing it upon the world

OpIndia Staff -
Donald Trump again attacked China and accused the communist country of concealing the coronavirus and unleashing it upon the world.
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News Reports

Kerala racket smuggled 150 kgs of gold since September 2019: NIA

OpIndia Staff -
The NIA had arrested two key accused in Kerala gold smuggling case, Swapna Suresh and Sandeep Nair, from Bengaluru on Saturday
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Politics

Did you know Farooq Abdullah’s daughter Sara Abdullah had a rough time convincing her family for marrying ‘Hindu’ boy Sachin Pilot: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Sara Abdullah had to suffer a lot of hardship to marry Sachin Pilot because her family did not want her to marry a 'Hindu' man.
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News Reports

Google to join hands with Prasar Bharati for edutainment series to help business owners amid Covid-19

OpIndia Staff -
Google and Prasar Bharati to bring edutainment series for small businesses amid Covid-19 pandemic
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News Reports

‘I swear by Kashmiri mothers and sisters that I will wear a suicide jacket to destroy a Temple built in Pakistan’: Pakistani man in...

OpIndia Staff -
Islamists in Pakistan had recently opposed the construction of Shri Krishna temple in Islamabad, the country’s capital.
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News Reports

Hindus in Nepal protest against oppression of the Hindu community in Pakistan, burn Imran Khan’s effigy

OpIndia Staff -
Activists from the Hindu Community in Nepal protested outside the Pakistan Embassy in Kathmandu against the atrocities committed against Pakistani Hindus.
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Entertainment

At least 7 stand-up comedians deactivate or protect their Twitter accounts after netizens dredge up deplorable old tweets and videos

OpIndia Staff -
Unnerved by the possibility that they might be entrapped in a legal dispute, comedians deactivate/protect their Twitter account after users highlighted their reprehensible old tweets insulting Hindu Gods and Goddesses
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News Reports

Bihar: Govt imposes complete lockdown from July 16 to July 31 to curb the coronavirus explosion in the state

OpIndia Staff -
On Tuesday, the overall coronavirus tally in the state rose to 18,853 with record 1,432 new cases in the last 24 hours.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Blasphemy complaint against opposition politician for saying ‘all religions are equal’

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"This is a country of 22 crore people, irrespective of religion. No religious group is superior to another religious group," Khawaja Asif had said in the National Assembly.
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Political History of India

How Ambedkar busted the myth of ‘Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb’ through his speeches and book ‘Pakistan or Partition of India’

Saket Suryesh -
Ambedkar was, in reality, always wary of the Communists and their propensity of creating chaos and anarchy.
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News Reports

Melting French glacier lead to resurfacing of Indian newspapers which could be from 1966 plane crash

OpIndia Staff -
Air India 101 had collided in the summit of the Mont Blanc mountain range on January 24, 1966, killing all 117 people on board
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News Reports

West Bengal: Doctor accuses Mamata govt of publishing misleading information on the states’ coronavirus preparedness on its health website

OpIndia Staff -
The doctor spoke in his interview with ABP News that health infrastructure in Bengal is deteriorating and the situation is grim.
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Crime

France: Man who shouted ‘Allah hu Akbar’, robbed and defecated on an 85-year-old pensioner, sentenced to 18 months in prison

OpIndia Staff -
Thr 85-year-old pensioner was attacked, beaten with punches and was defecated upon by the criminal inside his Le Crosic home.
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News Reports

Chief Minister of Puducherry directs Forest Department to return Lakshmi the Elephant to her home at the Manakula Vinayagar Temple

OpIndia Staff -
Lakshmi the Elephant will return to her home at the Manakula Vinaygar Temple in Puducherry on Wednesday.
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News Reports

Gandhi family’s Associated Journals Limited “unethically” took possession of land meant for SC/ST hostel in Mumbai, says report

OpIndia Staff -
Land sanctioned for Dalits hostel was taken over by AJL and converted into a commercial property, says report.
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News Reports

Police stopped my car, took my keys away: BTP MLA from Rajasthan says he is being forcefully stopped from going anywhere

OpIndia Staff -
BTP has 2 MLAs in the Rajasthan assembly and party chief Mahesh Vasava had issued a notice asking them to remain neutral and not support either Congress, BJP or Pilot.
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News Reports

Union Minister reveals senior Congress leader requested 35, Lodhi Estate be allotted to another INC MP so Priyanka Gandhi could stay on

OpIndia Staff -
With the SPG cover withdrawn, Priyanka Gandhi should have vacated the Lodhi Estate bungalow, but she continued to stay on, say reports.
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News Reports

Rajasthan crisis deepens: Congress fires Sachin Pilot as Deputy CM and state Congress chief, accuses him conspiring with BJP to destabilise govt

OpIndia Staff -
Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala today announced that Congress rebel leader Sachin Pilot has been sacked as Rajasthan state Congress chief and removed from his post of Deputy Chief Minister of the state.
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Politics

Youth Congress is horrified at KP Sharma Oli’s Ayodhya comment, but Congress itself said there is no evidence for existence of Shri Ram

OpIndia Staff -
Youth Congress, the youth wing of the Congress party, jumped on the scene and demonstrated what appeared to be unnecessary bravado.
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News Reports

Employee Welfare Scheme launched in the name of late Arun Jaitley; Family donates pension for Group ‘C’ employees of Rajya Sabha

OpIndia Staff -
The Employee Welfare scheme will be called 'Arun Jaitley Financial Assistance for group C employees scheme'.
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News Reports

No actionable evidence so far to link BJP leader Kapil Mishra and Anurag Thakur with the Delhi anti-Hindu riots: Police to HC

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi Police said before the High Court that the PILs against political leaders including Kapil Mishra were "motivated"
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News Reports

Bangladesh: Islamists dig up the grave of an Ahmadi newborn and throw the corpse on the road because she was ‘infidel’

OpIndia Staff -
The Ahmadis are persecuted on religious grounds in Bangladesh and Pakistan because radical Islamists believe that they are not Muslims.
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News Reports

Another YouTuber, Imtiyaz Shaikh alias Umesh Dada, arrested for issuing rape threats against comedian Agrima Joshua

OpIndia Staff -
Agrima Joshua had shared a clip of her a year-old video in which she had made contemptuous remarks for the Chhatrapati Shivaji Memorial in Arabian Sea, drawing publice ire
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News Reports

Vikas Dubey case: 6 killed in encounters, 4 arrested, 21 accused named, manhunt on for 11 others

OpIndia Staff -
UP Police inform tha 21 accused have been named so far in the Vikas Dubey case. Apart from 6 who have been killed, 4 have been arrested.
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News Reports

USA rejects China’s ‘might is right’ claims on the South China Sea, says PRC’s predatory mindset has no place in the 21st century

OpIndia Staff -
The State Department reiterated that carrying out unilateral activities in the territory of sovereign countries along the South China Sea for fishing or hydrocarbon development is 'unlawful harassment'.
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News Reports

PTI slapped with Rs.84 crore bill for missing payments and lease agreement violation for its office

OpIndia Staff -
The Land and Development office has accused the news agency of violating the terms of the lease agreement under which they got the land for the office on Sansad Marg, New Delhi.
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News Reports

Kanpur encounter: Postmortem report of 8 policemen killed by Vikas Dubey’s men reveals extreme brutality. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
The postmortem report of the 8 cops who were killed when gangster Vikas Dubey's men ambushed them earlier this month has revealed barbaric details.
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News Reports

China eyes 400 billion dollar deal with Iran, may cloud India’s Chabahar port prospects

OpIndia Staff -
Iran's yet-to-be-signed deal with China may cloud India's prospects at the Chabahar port.
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News Reports

Here are the six significant statements by the court today while denying bail to Tahir Hussain, accused in the Delhi anti-Hindu riots

OpIndia Staff -
Tahir Hussain had sought bail saying there was no cogent evidence to link him to Ankit Sharma's murder
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News Reports

Nepal PM says Shri Ram was Nepali and India has created ‘fake Ayodhya’, admits scholars will not believe his ‘new fact’

OpIndia Staff -
Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli claimed that India falsely says Shri Ram was born in Ayodhya, India.
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News Reports

Amidst rising demand to boycott Chinese products, Bollywood actor Karthik Aryan drops multi-crore endorsement deal with Oppo

OpIndia Staff -
Karthik Aryan has become the first Bollywood actor to drop a multi-crore deal with a Chinese brand.
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News Reports

AMU girl complains about being threatened and hounded since CAA was passed, told she will be made to wear “brass hijab”

Jhankar Mohta -
Calling her a "Sanghi", the fellow AMU students had attacked her for calling out sexualisation of women in the varsity
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Opinions

The death of BJP MLA Debendra Nath Roy shows that no opposition political leader is safe in West Bengal

K Bhattacharjee -
BJP MLA in West Bengal, Debendra Nath Roy, was found hanging in public on Monday.
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News Reports

Why ‘liberal’ hate against Amitabh Bachchan for getting admitted to a hospital after testing positive for Coronavirus makes no sense at all

Jinit Jain -
A bevy of perverse liberals took to Twitter to denounce Amitabh Bachchan after he got Coronavirus, claiming it to be a "privilege of rich" and accusing him of needlessly occupying a hospital bed
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News Reports

London: Indian diaspora, PoK activists and Iranian diaspora protest outside the Chinese embassy over ‘expansionist policies’

OpIndia Staff -
Demonstrators were heard singing the Indian National Anthem 'Jan Gan Maan' and the Indian National song, 'Vande Mataram' at the protest site.
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Entertainment

AIB co-founder Rohan Joshi, who wanted entire Pawar family dead, deactivates his Twitter account

OpIndia Staff -
AIB co-founder Rohan Joshi has deactivated his account after screenshots of his abusive tweets against politicians went viral .
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News Reports

Gehlot’s last ‘resort’? Congress moves MLAs to Jaipur hotel, Pilot claims Rajasthan govt has lost majority

OpIndia Staff -
Reports claimed that 107 MLAs, including some independents, were present at the CM's residence. Congress has moved its MLAs to a resort in Jaipur.
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Crime

In touch with ISIS recruiters since 2015: NIA arrests 2 Islamic State terrorists in Pune planning to carry out terror attacks in India

OpIndia Staff -
The duo arrested by the NIA were involved in promoting and propagating ISIS and their activities in India
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Politics

CPI(M) bats openly for ‘Urban Naxals’, including a convicted Maoist, demands their immediate release on grounds of health

OpIndia Staff -
The polit bureau of the CPI(M) has demanded the immediate release of dreaded 'Urban Naxals' on health grounds.
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News Reports

Islamists issue rape threats to a social media user for asking Muslims to recite Azaan at lower volume

OpIndia Staff -
Apart from Fardeen Modal, Rima's Azaan tweet miffed other Muslims, who also abused the Hindu girl on Twitter
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News Reports

Kerala: Kottayam court cancelled Bishop Franco’s bail, issues non-bailable warrant in nun rape case

OpIndia Staff -
The court issued a non-bailable warrant against the rape-accused bishop after he failed to appear for the 14th time in the proceedings of the local Kerala court on Monday.
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OpIndia Scoops

Secret meetings, plan of action and riots: How Safoora Zargar and others are intertwined in the murder of Ratan Lal during Delhi riots

Nupur J Sharma -
Name of Jamia Millia Islamia student Safoora Zargar appears multiple times in Ratan Lal murder chargesheet
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News Reports

India may have 17 lakh+ total coronavirus cases by 3rd August, with over 6.9 lakh active cases, says study

OpIndia Staff -
India may have 17 lakh+ Covid-19 cases by 3rd August, says Professor Shamika Ravi.
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News Reports

Google head Sundar Pichai, who studied at IIT Kharagpur, is all set to bring a digital revolution worth Rs 75,000 crore in India: Read...

OpIndia Staff -
Google, headed by Sundar Pichai, pitches in to help bring about a digital revolution in India
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News Reports

West Bengal: Cops recover ‘suicide note’ from the deceased BJP MLA Debendra Nath Roy. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Debendra Nath Roy was found hanging from the roof of a closed tea shop in the village of Balia in Bindol Panchayat in Rajiganj.
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News Reports

A tribute to Tapan Ghosh: The firebrand leader who helped Muslim women marry their Hindu lovers and secure a happy ending to their love...

OpIndia Staff -
Hindutva Icon of West Bengal, Tapan Ghosh, passed away on Sunday, days after he was diagnosed with the Wuhan Coronavirus.
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