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Uttar Pradesh: Vikas Dubey spotted in a Faridabad hotel, hours later his aide Amar Dubey killed in police encounter

OpIndia Staff -
Amar Dubey, a close aide of Vikas Dubey, was an accused in the Kanpur attack on policemen in which eight cops were killed and several others were injured.
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News Reports

Congress calls out MP Smriti Irani for alleged toilet scam in Amethi during 2018-2019 when Rahul Gandhi was the sitting MP

OpIndia Staff -
Congress party shot itself in the foot when it posted a tweet alleging a toilet scam in Amethi under the watch of Smriti Irani.
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News Reports

‘It’s not like Narendra Modi is paying for the temple construction’: Islamists in Pakistan’s Islamabad unite to punish ‘kafirs’

OpIndia Staff -
The construction stopped after a radical extremists razed the boundary wall of the first proposed temple in Islamabad.
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News Reports

Rajnath Singh orders speedy completion of road projects in Ladakh worth Rs. 20,000 crores, BRO instructed to complete strategic DSDBO road in 3 months:...

OpIndia Staff -
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has given the go-ahead to speed up the completion of the road projects in Ladakh.
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News Reports

Australian surfer Carmen Greentree abducted and raped for 2 months in a houseboat in Kashmir in 2004, pressurised to convert to Islam

OpIndia Staff -
Carmen Greentree has penned a book titled "A Dangerous Pursuit of Happiness" narrating her abduction and rape in Kashmir.
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News Reports

Gold smuggling case: Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan distances himself and the state government from the raging controversy

OpIndia Staff -
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan pointed out that the said parcel came to the UAE consulate and that the Kerala government had nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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Media Fact-Check

The Wire’s claims that NCPCR saw 8-fold increase in complaints post-Coronavirus outbreak are false: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
The Wire has recently been trying to milk the coronavirus pandemic to cast aspersions on Modi government
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Interviews

‘Turn vegan’ anti-slaughter poster in Lucknow featuring goat not related to Eid, claims PETA in an exclusive interview with OpIndia

OpIndia Staff -
A massive controversy was kicked up after the Islamic fundamentalists vehemently protested against the PETA poster in Lucknow which showed a goat urging people to go vegan
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News Reports

West Bengal: TMC suspends 18 panchayat members over corruption in disbursement of cyclone Amphan funds

OpIndia Staff -
"We are rectifying the discrepancies in fund allocation. Every affected family will receive the monetary relief,” TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee was recently quoted as saying.
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News Reports

Pulwama attack: NIA nabs Bilal Ahmed Kuchey, 7th terrorist who provided logistics and high-end mobile phones to the JeM terrorists

OpIndia Staff -
With this arrest, the National Investigation Agency has until now nabbed 7 accused in 2019 Pulwama attack
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News Reports

Galwan standoff breathes life into the ‘Free Tibet’ movement, Tibetan activists hope India will soon address the Chinese occupation of Tibet

OpIndia Staff -
In the aftermath of the Galwan stand-off, the movement to free Tibet from the clutches of China has once again gathered steam.
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Culture and History

Nindāstuti: A Dharmic Paradigm of Devotion through Apparent Censure

Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar -
Nindāstuti is a form of Shleshakavya - a poetic composition that is laden with double-entendres and is looked upon as a form of Dvesha-bhakti
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Media

‘You work to protect Islamist terrorists, you’re anti-Hindu and anti-India’: Read Kapil Mishra’s response to The Quint

OpIndia Staff -
Responding to The Quint journalist, he said that in his personal opinion Quint is anti-India and anti-Hindu and biased against the truth.
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News Reports

CMO’s link with gold smuggling racket? Kerala CM’s Vijayan’s principal secretary removed after his name comes up in the scandal

Dibakar Dutta -
The opposition has been accusing that Sivasankar had used his influence to help Swapna Suresh, the main accused, escape and facilitated the clearance of the 'diplomatic package' containing the smuggled gold.
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News Reports

Yeh Dil Mange More! Never forget the exemplary bravery of Captain Vikram Batra who attained martyrdom on this day in 1999

OpIndia Staff -
Captain Vikram Batra was only 24 years old when he sacrificed his life for the country during the Kargil War
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News Reports

“Rahul Gandhi is not a doctor”: AgVa co-founder rejects allegations of Made in India ventilators being substandard, says international vendors trying to sabotage product

OpIndia Staff -
Professor Diwakar Vaish said that international actors are trying to sabotage the product manufactured under the Make in India initiative.
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News Reports

‘China is not a hostile power’: Former advisor to PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee downplays Chinese aggression, calls campaign to boycott Chinese products ‘stupid’

OpIndia Staff -
Kulkarni even encourages Indians to seek inspiration from China's achievements, amidst the border standoff at the Line of Actual Control.
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News Reports

Faisal Farooq, who turned his school into a launch-pad to attack Hindus during Delhi riots, now under ED scanner

OpIndia Staff -
The ED has been informed that Faisal Farooq owns three schools and has numerous properties in Northeast Delhi.
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News Reports

Andaman Police to summon American nationals over Missionary John Allen Chau’s death, say he was brainwashed to go to Sentinel Islands

OpIndia Staff -
The DGP of Andaman Police has stated that they are seeking to examine two of Chau's associates under MLAT and are preparing the documents to be routed through the MEA.
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Crime

West Bengal’s ‘chain man’ sentenced to death for rape and murder: Here is all you need to know about the serial killer

OpIndia Staff -
Serial killer Kamruzzaman Sarkar earned the tag of 'chain man' by entering houses posing as an official from electricity department
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Law

SC tears into lawyer for approaching apex court accusing it of biased in listing Arnab Goswami case for urgent hearing: Here is what transpired

OpIndia Staff -
The SC had granted three-week interim protection to the Arnab Goswami against multiple FIRs filed against him by the Congress
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Entertainment

The dark, disturbing world of mean and hateful ‘sly’ Bollywood insider gossip featuring Rajeev Masand, PinkVilla and others

Nirwa Mehta -
Following Sushant Singh Rajput's suicide, prominent film journalists and critics were accused of writing vile 'blinds' aka unverified, vile gossip.
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Media

Vinod Dua cites OpIndia case to plead for quashing of FIRs, Court says cases different, IO instructed to submit investigation details in a week

OpIndia Staff -
In the last hearing, the SC had granted Vinod Dua interim protection from arrest till July 6.
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News Reports

Delhi Riots: Funds received from the UK, Oman and UAE in January, Police continues to probe foreign funding link

OpIndia Staff -
Sleuths of Delhi Police have made a major revelation about the alleged foreign funding into the violent anti-Hindu riots that rocked the national capital in the last week of February
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Entertainment

Sushant Singh Rajput’s last movie ‘Dil Bechara’ set to release online, trailer breaks Avengers’ record on YouTube

OpIndia Staff -
Sushant's 'Dil Bechara' is releasing on 24th July on Disney+Hotstar, the trailer has broken records with 5.1 million likes on YouTube.
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Opinions

How Mumbai’s long-awaited dream of IFSC status is nowhere near complete and Gandhinagar secured IFSC status

Guest Author -
Manmohan Singh announced in 2004 that Mumbai would be turned into Shasnghai. However, that did not happen.
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News Reports

Pakistan: After destroying under construction walls, radical Islamists recite Azan at proposed Hindu temple site

OpIndia Staff -
The plot was allocated by the Islamabad city development authority to the local Hindu community to build a temple, the first Hindu temple in the Pakistani capital city.
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News Reports

After praising India’s TikTok ban, Mike Pompeo says the USA may also ban Chinese social media apps

OpIndia Staff -
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has stated that his country is also exploring options to ban Chinese apps, including TikTok that threat data security.
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News Reports

PoK: Protests held against Pakistani govt and China over illegal dam construction on Neelum and Jhelum rivers

OpIndia Staff -
Protests held in Pakistan occupied Kashmir against illegal dam constructions over Neelum and Jhelum rivers.
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News Reports

Gold smuggling scandal rocks Kerala, CMO’s links with main accused Swapna Suresh under scrutiny

OpIndia Staff -
30 kg of smuggled gold inside baggage marked for UAE Consulate seized in Kerala. CMO's involvement with main accused Swapna Suresh alleged.
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News Reports

After India banned them over privacy concerns, TikTok claims it will pull out of Hong Kong due to ‘new Chinese law’

OpIndia Staff -
TikTok has claimed it will pull out of Hong Kong as sharing user data is against its policy.
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Cricket

Cricket, fans, media and dogs: 10 Dhoni quotes which will bring smile on your face

OpIndia Staff -
Ten most popular quotes of former Indian skipper MS Dhoni
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News Reports

“I will kill all Hindus”: Pakistani man makes his kid display bigotry in all glory over construction of temple in Islamabad. Watch video

OpIndia Staff -
The temple in Islamabad has been a bone of contention for the Islamists in Pakistan.
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Entertainment

Theatre of absurd: Hateful Hansal Mehta launches online petition asking Amitabh Bachchan to unfollow hateful KRK on Twitter

OpIndia Staff -
Filmmaker Hansal Mehta for Shaheen Bagh protests signed an online petition requesting Amitabh Bachchan to unfollow KRK on Twitter.
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Media

Russian journalist convicted for “justifying terrorism” asked to pay fine of $6,950, prosecutor demands six-year imprisonment

OpIndia Staff -
Many human rights groups and media watchdogs have criticised the verdict against the Russian journalist and demanded her acquittal.
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News Reports

Slain DSP Devendra Mishra had in March warned then SSP about a possible attack by Vikas Dubey and his nexus with police

OpIndia Staff -
Slain Deputy SP Devendra Mishra had wriiten nine times to the then SSP urging inquiry against SO Vinay Tiwari and Vikas Dubey.
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Politics

Shiv Sainiks to launch ‘chaddi-baniyan’ protest against their own govt in Maharashtra to oppose inflated electricity bills

Jinit Jain -
Shiv Sena members donning briefs and vests are planning to launch a protest against govt in Maharashtra against the unusually high electricity bills
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News Reports

Arunachal Pradesh: Pastor burns idol of tribal Goddess Ain Donyi in the name of Jesus, calls her ‘power of the enemy’

OpIndia Staff -
A pastor destroyed idols and religious symbols in Arunachal Pradesh of Goddess Ain Donyi.
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News Reports

Bengal: 13 arrested for violent clash between TMC and Communists during protest against TMC for ‘misappropriation of funds meant for Amphan victims’

OpIndia Staff -
They included 5 SUCI leaders and 8 Trinamool workers. Cops had also arrested TMC leader Pintu Pradhan in connection to the case.
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Politics

‘TMC goons vandalised my car, attacked our party workers unprovoked’, says BJP MP Arjun Singh

Dibakar Dutta -
Arjun Singh had earlier accused the Joint Commissioner of Police of trying to assassinate him, on the instructions of Mamata Banerjee.
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News Reports

Congress to attempt to woo Brahmins in Uttar Pradesh: Change in strategy after Yogi’s action against gangster Vikas Dubey?

OpIndia Staff -
Former Union Minister Jitin Prasada has claimed that atrocities on the Brahmin community have increased under the Yogi government.
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News Reports

Over 10000 people in Assam’s Nagaon district attend the funeral of Islamic preacher Khairul Islam Mufti, 3 villages sealed

Jhankar Mohta -
Apart from not maintaining social distancing, many attending the funeral of the Islamic preacher in Assam were without masks
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News Reports

Frozen samples of virus almost identical to coronavirus was sent to Wuhan Lab of Virology in 2013: Read details of the shocking report

OpIndia Staff -
According to Shi Zhengli, an expert on SARS-like coronaviruses, the coronavirus bears stark resemblance with the frozen samples of bat virus that were sent to Wuhan Institute of Virology, collected from an abandoned bat cave in China's Yunnan province
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News Reports

Telangana: 10 senior doctors and 70 nurses resign over substandard protective equipments

OpIndia Staff -
About 300 medical professionals in Telangana have been afflicted with the coronavirus, buttressing the doctors and nurses' claim that the protective gears provided to them is not shielding them from the coronavirus
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News Reports

Delhi: Dainik Bhaskar journalist suffering from cancer and coronavirus commits suicide by jumping from fourth floor of AIIMS

OpIndia Staff -
Presumably, the multiple ailments and mental stress collectively forced Tarun Sisodia to take such a drastic step.
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News Reports

Kerala: Centre directs State to take disciplinary action against one Asif for forging caste certificate in UPSC exam

OpIndia Staff -
As per the report, Asif had forged his caste certificate during UPSC exam to claim benefits of reservation meant for non-creamy layer of OBCs.
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Media Fact-Check

Central govt rejects Business Standard report on the merger of CBDT and CBIC, schools the newspaper on journalism

OpIndia Staff -
Business Standard had published an article claiming that the central government is mulling over the merger of CBDT and CBIC as a part of its austerity drive to reduce the costs amidst coronavirus pandemic
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Opinions

In defence of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra, and no, this is not satire

Nupur J Sharma -
After spending 6 years trying to orchestrate the "coming of age of Rahul Gandhi", there are sections within the Left ecosystem that are visibly frustrated with him.
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News Reports

Keralites in Kuwait to be most impacted as 8 lakh Indians may be forced to leave over new immigration law

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, Kuwaiti officials have stated that 1.3 million out of the 3.35 million expats in the nation are either illiterate or can barely read or write.
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News Reports

Congress does u-turn on public-private partnerships in Indian railways since the UPA era: Here is what happened then and now

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress party, of late, has been protesting against what it calls the ‘privatisation’ of Indian Railways.
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