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Maharashtra: Thane hospital gives body of wrong Coronavirus victim to family, after cremation hospital informs that their family member is alive

OpIndia Staff -
After a family cremated body of Cornoavirus victim, hospital informed they their family member is alive & they were given wrong body
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Social Media

After obscene comments, clip of comedian Kenneth Sebastian calling Sanskrit ‘most useless language ever’ goes viral. Watch video

OpIndia Staff -
In the video titled "Journey to the centre of my brain", Sebastian is seen thanking God because 'all the people who spoke Sanskrit are dead'.
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News Reports

West Bengal: News channel owner Sheikh Safiqul Islam, his wife Alima Khatun and journalist Suraj Ali Khan arrested after the channel exposed corruption

OpIndia Staff -
Web Channel Arambagh TV owner Sheikh Safiqul Islam, his wife Alima Khatun and journalist Suraj Ali Khan were arrested on 29 June
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News Reports

NCW takes cognisance of the vile, obscene abuses hurled by comedian Kenny Sebastian, asks for probe

OpIndia Staff -
Kenny Sebastian was accused of hurling vile, misogynist abuses over Instagram comments. The abuses were flagged by many social media users.
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Fact-Check

The curious case of ‘Drone Boy’ who has made 600 drones using broken mixer grinders and televisions. A fact-check

Raju Das -
While 'drone boy' Prathap NM has claimed to have made 600 drones using e-waste, not a single photo or video of them exist
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News Reports

‘He is with the Samajwadi Party’: Gangster Vikas Dubey’s mother says the government must do what is appropriate

OpIndia Staff -
Speaking to the media, Sarla Devi, the mother of Vikas Dubey said that they came to know of his arrest after watching the news on the television.
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Crime

Congress MP and AIUDF MLA booked for violating social distancing norms during the funeral of Islamic preacher Khairul Islam Mufti

OpIndia Staff -
Thousands of people had gathered for the funeral of Aminul Islam's father Khairul Islam Mufti last week.
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News Reports

Criminal Vikas Dubey had tortured his school headmaster to death, exhibited criminal behaviour since childhood: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Vikas Dubey had tortured his school headmaster Siddheshwar Pandey to death during his childhood
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News Reports

New video suggests AajTak report on sexual exploitation in Chitrakoot was misleading, ‘victim’ says she didn’t understand the questions

OpIndia Staff -
AajTak shares a misleading report on sexual exploitaion of girls in Chitrakoot, gets fact-checked
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News Reports

Wasim Bari Murder: Kashmir IG confirms negligence by security detail, all 10 PSOs suspended

OpIndia Staff -
DGP Dilbag Singh has informed that two LeT terrorists, one local man and another a Pakistani, have been identified in the case.
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Opinions

Suicide or Murder? As officials rule out any foul play, some questions are yet to be answered

Meena Das Narayan -
The mysterious death of popular Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput has opened a can of worms.
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OpIndia Scoops

Used cartridges from the rooftop: What was collected from the scene where Ratan Lal was murdered and what it all means

Nupur J Sharma -
During the anti-Hindu Delhi riots, the brutal murder of Ratan Lal was one of the first acts of violence that shook the nation from the 24th of February to the 26th of February
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News Reports

Congress doubles down on its ‘Brahmin card’ with the arrest of Vikas Dubey and encounter of his aides

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader Jitin Prasada has been trying to stoke casteist fires over the Vikas Dubey issue, by trying to portray UP Police's action on the gangster and his associates as 'caste-oriented atrocity' against the Brahmins.
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News Reports

HRD Minister clears the air about the exclusion of some chapters from CBSE syllabus for current year, calls MSM’s reporting sensationalism

OpIndia Staff -
HRD Minister said that news reporter are sensationalizing the removal of chapters from CBSE syllabus due to lockdoown
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News Reports

Unconfirmed reports of Newslaundry columnist Sharjeel Usmani being ‘picked up’ by UP Police emerge on social media

OpIndia Staff -
Islamists and 'liberals' claimed on social media that Newslaundry columnist Sharjeel Usmani, who had hailed Delhi riots shooter Shahrukh as 'Mujahid', has been 'picked up' by UP Police.
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News Reports

“Opening doors and windows help virus escape”: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee shares her wisdom on fighting Coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
Responding to remands of air-conditioners from doctors, Mamata Banerjee advised them to keep doors and windows open
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News Reports

Bangladesh: Video of Muslims destroying fence of 200-year-old Hindu temple goes viral on social media

OpIndia Staff -
Hindus in Bangladesh claim that fence of 200 year old Shiva temple was destroyed by Muslims, video goes viral
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Media

From Vikas Dubey has reached Nepal to he may be encountered ‘because he knows dirty secrets’: Read how conspiracy theorists spun yarns

OpIndia Staff -
As Vikas Dubey was on the run, the journalists kept themselves busy conjuring up various conspiracy theories.
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News Reports

Watch: ‘Main Vikas Dubey hoon Kanpurwala,’ the gangster announces and gets a resounding Kanpur-style slap by police in return

OpIndia Staff -
Dubey was arrested by Ujjain Police from the Mahakal Temple premises on Thursday.
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News Reports

Kanpur encounter: Notorious gangster Vikas Dubey arrested at police station in Ujjain

OpIndia Staff -
The notorious gangster was arrested by the Madhya Pradesh police after he had managed to escape after unleashing terror on the Uttar Pradesh policemen on July 2 late night killing eight policemen including a DSP.
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News Reports

Netizens ask Netflix to cancel comedian Kenny Sebastian’s special show after he hurls obscene abuses

OpIndia Staff -
Social media users are demanding that Netflix reconsiders special show of Indian comic Kenny Sebastian after he was allegedly found hurling obscene abuses to people on his Instagram page.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Two aides of criminal Vikas Dubey shot dead by the police, 3 killed so far

OpIndia Staff -
Prashant Mishra, an aide of Vikas Dubey, was shot in the leg while trying to escape during his transit to Kanpur. He was admitted in hospital in a critical condition and later succumbed to injuries.
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Social Media

The Print’s columnist expresses glee over the murder of BJP leader Wasim Bari in Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
Vij had earlier used similar words to mock the murders of truck drivers and traders in Kashmir.
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News Reports

Veteran Bollywood actor Jagdeep dies at 81

OpIndia Staff -
Jagdeep is father of Bollywood actor Javed Jafri.
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News Reports

Jammu and Kashmir: Ex-BJP district President Wasim Bari killed by terrorists, father and brother also murdered

OpIndia Staff -
Former BJP Bandipora President Wasim Bari killed by terrorists who shot at him outside his shop
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News Reports

Watch: BJP’s Sambit Patra and Congress’ Gaurav Vallabh hurl Sukanya Devi and Ranga-Billa cases at each other in intense TV debate

OpIndia Staff -
When Congress spokesperson equated Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah with Ranga-Billa, BJP's Sambit Patra raised Sukanya Devi rape case
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News Reports

Indian Army decides to ban 89 apps for its personnel: Here are the details

OpIndia Staff -
Other than Chinese apps there are other few apps like Facebook, Instagram, etc which the Indian Army has also banned for its personnel
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News Reports

Mahesh Bhatt predicted her end, threw chappal at her: Kangana Ranaut’s team denies Pooja Bhatt’s claims about Bhatts helping Kangana

OpIndia Staff -
Bollywood has always preferred to promote its own progeny and by denying, Pooja Bhatt is running away from the undeniable fact
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News Reports

Turkey govt plans to convert Byzantine cathedral Hagia Sophia into a mosque again. Read about this historical symbol of Muslim-Christian rivalry

OpIndia Staff -
Hagia Sophia, originally a Christian cathedral, was converted into a mosque and then into a museum, will be converted to mosque again
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News Reports

UP police arrest suspended SHO Vinay Tiwari and KK Sharma for tipping Vikas Dubey about the raid

OpIndia Staff -
UP police arrested suspended SHO Tiwari and Beat In-charge Sharma of Chaubeypur police station for tipping Vikas Dubey ahead of police raid.
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Social Media

Only Muslims go to heaven, Ravish Kumar-like non-Muslims can only hope for a mild level of hell: Dr Zakir Naik explains

OpIndia Staff -
Naik said that virtues like honesty and charity cannot ensure qualifying marks for heaven or Jannah. Only Muslims can go to heaven and non-Muslims will go to hell by default, he says.
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News Reports

Muslims hurled abuses and casteist slurs, attacked us with sharp weapons: Mahadalits in Begusarai

OpIndia Staff -
Victim Shankar Paswan claimed that members of Muslim community addressed Mahadalits with casteist slurs before attacking them with weapons
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Opinions

Viśiṣṭvividhīkaran: Sanatan Dharma and Qualified Diversification

Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar -
Sanatan Dharma has been a coming together of Diversification and paths to the Truth, with various sects and traditions over the millennia
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News Reports

Pakistan claims Kulbhushan Jadhav refused to file a review petition against the death sentence

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan claims Kulbhushan Jadhav has rejected the option to file a review petition against death sentence and has preferred to follow up on his mercy petition.
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News Reports

Expansionism was Ravana’s undoing: Uttarakhand minister sends a copy of Ramayana to Chinese Premier Xi Jinping

OpIndia Staff -
Gifting a copy of Ramayana, Uttarakhand tourism minister Satpal Maharaj urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to draw wisdom from Ravana's defeat in the epic and put his resources to a better use.
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News Reports

No, Indian PUBG user did not make Chinese player say ‘Hindustan Zindabad’, Times Network’s website fell for satire

OpIndia Staff -
Times group's MensXP falls for satire, believes that Indian PUBG user made Chinese player say 'Hindistan Zindabad'
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Crime

Bhopal: 55-year-old Sabir Ali enters dairy farm and rapes a cow, arrested after CCTV footage revealed crime

OpIndia Staff -
Incidentally, the CCTV camera in the dairy farm captured the ghoulish incident, where the accused had stealthily entered and brutalised the animal.
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News Reports

People in South Asia, esp Bangladesh, at greater risk of Coronavirus as they have DNA that was the result of ancient humans having sex...

OpIndia Staff -
A particular genome segment spannig six genes on Chromosome 3, inherited from Neanderthals, may be behind an aggravated response to coronavirus infection, some scientists have stated.
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News Reports

Delhi: Body of Muslim coronavirus victim cremated by Hindu family, body of Hindu given to Muslim family for burial

OpIndia Staff -
Just before burial of Coronavirus victim, the Muslim family learnt that it was body of a Hindu person given to them by the hospital
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Politics

Jyoti Basu is the mass murderer India forgot

Abhishek Banerjee -
Please don’t feel bad about speaking ill of the Late Jyoti Basu. If there is another world, be certain that there are (at least) 28,000 voices from the other side backing you up.
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News Reports

Delhi HC lifts gag order against media and victims in #MeToo sexual harassment cases against Newslaundry investor Mahesh Murthy

OpIndia Staff -
Lifting gag order in sexual harassment cases against Mahesh Murthy, Delhi HC said that defendants have freedom of speech
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Politics

Maharashtra: Chief Minister sits at home while Leader of Opposition tours the state extensively amid coronavirus outbreak

Guest Author -
Despite being most affected state in the coronavirus pandemic, CM Uddhav Thackeray has hardly been on the ground taking control of situation.
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Opinions

The Cabal Strategizes: Tahir Hussain behind Delhi Riots

Guest Author -
Tahir Hussain was the one to put the money to sinister use by mobilizing Delhi Riots in February 2020
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Social Media

Payal Rohatgi’s Twitter account suspended, the actress says she is being targeted by ‘liberals and extremists’

OpIndia Staff -
Payal Rohatgi has stated that her efforts to share facts has been projected in a bad light by liberals and extremists who control Twitter.
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News Reports

Delhi riots: Chargesheet links Rajdhani School owner Faisal Farooque with Nizamuddin Markaz, says he was in touch with Maulana Saad’s associate

OpIndia Staff -
The crime branch has stated that Faisal Farooque was a regular attendee at Nizamuddin Markaz and had close ties with Maulana Saad's confidante Abdul Aleem.
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News Reports

Pakistanis and Kashmiri separatists hail terrorist Burhan Wani on his death anniversary, vow to ‘resist India’s occupation’ of Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
In a fierce battle, Burhan Wani was eliminated by security forces on 8th July 2016 in the Kokernag area of the Anantnag district.
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News Reports

Govt to probe violations by Sonia Gandhi headed Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and others, Home Ministry sets up committee

OpIndia Staff -
The committee will coordinate probe into violation of various legal provisions of PMLA, Income Tax Act, FCRA etc by these foundations. Special Director of Enforcement Directorate will head the committee.
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News Reports

Academic loss due to coronavirus: Course load of CBSE curriculum reduced, chapters on ‘secularism’, ‘citizenship’ deleted. Read details

Shashank Bharadwaj -
The decision to drop such topics were made after the direction of the HRD ministry which asked the CBSE to reduce the syllabus for classes 9 to 12 by 30 per cent to compensate for the academic loss caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent closure of schools.
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News Reports

US announces visa restrictions on Chinese Communist Party and People’s Republic of China officials over Tibet access

OpIndia Staff -
US has announced visa restrictions on Chinese officials over access to foreigners to Tibet. Bats for 'meaningful autonomy' for the Tibetan people.
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News Reports

Mumbai: Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar’s house vandalised

OpIndia Staff -
The house of Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar in Mumbai was vandalised by unknown miscreants on Tuesday night. Police has launched a probe.
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