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NIA files charge sheet Jammu and Kashmir tainted cop Davinder Singh, Hizbul terrorist Syed Naveed and 4 others in a terror case

OpIndia Staff -
Davinder Singh, along with Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists was nabbed by the J & K Police in Kulgam in January this year. The NIA later took over from J&K Police.
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News Reports

Kanpur encounter: Three cops suspended on suspicion of connection with Vikas Dubey, 115 police personnel under scanner

OpIndia Staff -
UP Police investigating whether any moles in the department who might have tipped off Vikas Dubey, the gangster, that led to gruesome killing of 8 police personnel last week.
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News Reports

Vikas Dubey operated like a Maoist, had hidden arms and explosives inside bunker and walls of his house: UP Police

OpIndia Staff -
Vikas Dubey reportedly employed goons armed with AK-47. The police confirmed that the gangster had fired hundreds of rounds on the raiding police team during the ambush that killed 8 policemen on Thursday night.
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News Reports

Jamia violence: Supreme Court orders petitioners to remove objectionable content against Home Ministry

OpIndia Staff -
The petitions against the Home Ministry alleged that the 'orders' to beat up Jamia students came from top.
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News Reports

Disengagement reported from LAC’s Galwan and Pangong Tso after talks between NSA Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister, China confirms

OpIndia Staff -
After Galwan Valley, China has also been pulling back from Finger 4 Pangong, the 1st such pullback from the area since May 10.
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OpIndia Explains

China’s Inner Mongolia reports suspected cases of bubonic plague: Here is all you need to know about ‘Black Death’ plague

Jinit Jain -
Authorities in China in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have called for a Level III alarm after cases of 'Black Death' plague, or Bubonic plague, emerged from the region
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Politics

“Jahaan hue balidaan Mookherjee, wo Kashmir hamara hai”: Remembering Dr S P Mookherjee on first birth anniversary after abrogation of Article 370

Abhishek Banerjee -
Today is July 6, the birth anniversary of Dr S P Mookherjee, the first one sine this dream was fulfilled. And it is extremely special.
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Media

Rajdeep Sardesai tries to claim Nehru’s Himalayan Blunder is a ‘narrative’. Here is how Nehru failed against China

OpIndia Staff -
Speaking on the current situation in Ladakh over the faceoff with China, Sardesai claimed that the ghost of Nehru still haunts the BJP.
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Social Media

‘Romantic Rape’: Read how an Odia TV channel was caught promoting a talk show that was ‘romanticizing’ rape

OpIndia Staff -
Further in the clip, the male actor tries to explain to the female actor that a rape scene cannot be romantic and he always wanted to be a 'hero', not a villain. To which the female actor replies, "so you wanted to do a romantic rape scene, not a usual rape scene like the villains do".
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News Reports

Galwan Valley: Buffer zone established at clash location, Indian, Chinese forces remove temporary structures, reports suggest

OpIndia Staff -
On June 15, around 20 Indian soldiers were killed in action when Chinese troops had attacked them with stones, batons and barbed wires.
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Editor's picks

They removed the hoardings themselves: Lucknow Police confirms after PETA India claims no Maulana took an offence on anti-goat slaughter poster

OpIndia Staff -
Lucknow Police confirmed that contrary to their claims, PETA has removed the hoardings itself.
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News Reports

After Coronavirus pandemic and swine flu, a city in China now issues warning for bubonic plague

OpIndia Staff -
Last week, China's Xinhua news had reported two confirmed patients of bubonic plaque in Khovd province of Western Mongolia.
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News Reports

Vikas Dubey case: Injured cop narrates how policemen were trapped, says Chaubeypur cops stood watching while others were being killed

OpIndia Staff -
Kanpur encounter eyewitness tells how their 'own' helped Dubey's gang.
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News Reports

Telangana: Doctor alleges hospital kept her hostage over nonpayment of bill for coronavirus treatment, releases video

OpIndia Staff -
A government doctor in Telangana who contracted coronavirus while treating patients was reportedly held hostage by the private hospital where she was undergoing treatment over nonpayment of bill.
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Politics

Despite shrill Rafale campaign, Rahul Gandhi has attended zero sittings of Parliamentary Committee on Defence

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi has not attended a single sitting of the of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence.
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News Reports

In a first in the world, Indian Railways sets up solar power plant in Madhya Pradesh to run trains

OpIndia Staff -
The 1.7 MW solar power plant of Indian Railways will feed power to the overhead power lines to power the traction systems of locomotives
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News Reports

Ladakh standoff: Tibetan community in Manali cheer for Indian Army, wave flags as the convoy passes by

OpIndia Staff -
The current standoff between India and China began on May 5-6 and has been continuing all along the LAC up to Sikkim.
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News Reports

Agra’s Taj Mahal may reopen from Monday with restrictions, district authorities in dilemma as fresh cases rise

OpIndia Staff -
The visitors to the Taj Mahal will have to mandatorily wear masks at all times, and keep their distance from each other.
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Politics

Politics and Instagram generation: Of memes, misinformation and whole lot of misguided youth

Nirwa Mehta -
The newer generation seems as clueless about politics as the current opposition leaders.
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News Reports

UP police looking for moles who helped Vikas Dubey in Kanpur ambush, his Lucknow property may be demolished

OpIndia Staff -
All policemen of local police station are under investigation on how Vikas Dubey got information about police movement
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News Reports

Dog Meat Ban in Nagaland incites accusation of ‘cultural imperialism’, ‘food fascism’, shows how liberal imperialism can deepen fault-lines in the country

K Bhattacharjee -
The ban on dog meat in Nagaland has sparked cultural anxieties in the north eastern state, which may fuel existing separatist feelings
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News Reports

TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee compares finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to ‘Kaali Naagin’

OpIndia Staff -
TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee said that finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is killing people like a black venomous snake
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Cricket

Men in blue: See how the ODI jerseys for Team India have evolved since 1985

Ritesh -
As an Indian cricket fan, do you remember all the Indian Jerseys donned by the cricketers in ODIs? Here we are trying to show you all the jerseys Indian players worn since 1985.
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News Reports

Meghalaya: Local Bengali youths attacked brutally in suspected hate crime, police warn against breaching communal peace

OpIndia Staff -
Six Bengali youths were injured grievously in Meghalaya on Friday after they were attacked by unidentified goons.
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News Reports

Shahid Afridi makes another controversial statement, says Indian cricket team used to ask forgiveness from Pakistan team after getting badly defeated

OpIndia Staff -
Shahid Afridi has claimed that Indian Cricket Team used to ask for forgiveness during India-Pakistan matches
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News Reports

Police suspect Vikas Dubey was tipped off by a police insider, power in the village was cut before the raid: Report

OpIndia Staff -
8 police personnel are being suspected of leaking information about the raid to Vikas Dubey
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News Reports

Gujarat: Man who had impersonated as a govt employee and hurled shoe at minister appointed as vice president of state unit by AAP

OpIndia Staff -
Gopal Italia, who has several criminal cases against him, appointed as vice president of AAP in Gujarat after he joined the party recently
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News Reports

Meet Malik Shani Awan, the Pakistani youth who demolished wall of temple in Islamabad. ‘Allah wishes, I will not let a temple be constructed...

OpIndia Staff -
Hindus in Islamabad, have halted the construction of a Hindu Temple after the boundary wall was demolished by Islamic extremists.
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Politics

Britain makes CAA like offer to HongKongers persecuted by China

Abhishek Banerjee -
Just because a law does not contain special provisions for every conceivable disadvantaged group does not make it discriminatory.
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News Reports

In a viral clip from 2002, Field Marshal Sam Maneckshaw says how Pakistanis hailed professionalism of Indian Armed Forces: Watch video

OpIndia Staff -
Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw revealed in 2002 video how he was royally welcomed in Pakistan after 1971 war and treated him with respect
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News Reports

Ahead of the release of Mahesh Bhatt’s Sadak 2, clips of him praising Islamist preacher Zakir Naik goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
"We, as Indians, owe it to our brother (Zakir Naik) who is national pride, (and) a prized treasure," Bhatt was heard as saying.
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News Reports

Internal rift erupts in Hurriyat Conference over succession after former chief Geelani accuses others of corruption

OpIndia Staff -
Hurriyat leaders are accused of selling medical seats in Pakistani institutions available for students in Jammu and Kashmir
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News Reports

Retired Gorkha soldiers get domicile certificates in Jammu and Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
Of the around 6,600 persons issued domicile certificate by Jammu and Kashmir government, majority are retired Gorkha soldiers and officers
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News Reports

Vikas Dubey got a call from police station before raid, I saw nothing, claims gangster’s aide who was arrested last night

OpIndia Staff -
8 police personnel were killed and six cops were injured in Kanpur during a police raid to nab Vikas Dubey.
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News Reports

Kanpur encounter: Circle Officer DSP Devendra Mishra’s head and toes cut off by Vikas Dubey’s men, autopsy reveals

OpIndia Staff -
The autopsy report of the eight policemen who died in one of the bloodiest encounters in UP History has revealed Maoist-style ambush and extreme brutality.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Ahead of Bakri Eid, PETA’s appeal to stop goat slaughter infuriates Islamic clerics, bully them into removing hoardings

OpIndia Staff -
PETA had put up a hoarding in Qaiserbagh, which displayed a huge picture of a goat and urged people to turn vegan
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News Reports

Pakistan: Hindu panchayat stops temple construction in Islamabad after radical extremists destroy boundary wall

OpIndia Staff -
According to a Hindu government civil servant, Pritam Das Rathi, about 3,000 Hindus live in Islamabad and the outskirts of the capital city without a temple or a crematorium.
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News Reports

Kim Kardashian as First Lady? Rapper Kanye West announces he is running for US President, Elon Musk extends his support

OpIndia Staff -
US-based rapper Kanye West today took to Twitter to announce that he's going to run for President in the upcoming Presidential elections in America.
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News Reports

On war footing: DRDO builds up 1,000 bed coronavirus facility in record 11 days

OpIndia Staff -
The DRDO has built up a 1,000 bed coronavirus facility in the national capital in 11 days only. The temporary structure also includes 250 ICU beds.
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News Reports

While Maharashtra govt threatens action against Patanjali for Coronil, state municipal corporations endorse “unani kadha” as a remedy against coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
Several municipal corporations in Maharashtra have started promoting Unani Kadha to bookst immunity against Coronavirus
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News Reports

UK, UAE, EU, and Malaysia start crackdown on Pakistan’s official carrier PIA after report that 30% of Pakistani pilots have fake licenses

OpIndia Staff -
Several countries have started disallowing PIA flights after Pakistan aviation minister revealed that 30% of Pakistani pilots had fake licenses
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News Reports

Maharashtra Cyber Police start sending notices on Direct Message to Twitter users for posting ‘offensive’ tweets

OpIndia Staff -
The Maharashtra cyber police has aggressively pursued to stamp down opposing voices by dishing out notices on direct message
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News Reports

Guardian falsely claims China built radar tower near Pangong Tso lake in last few weeks: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Satellite images and media reports show that China had built radar station near Pangong Tso lake years ago, not recently as Guardian claims
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Media

Journalists with The Wire and The Hindu indulge in brazen Hinduphobia, cast aspersions over Lord Hanuman’s sexual orientation

OpIndia Staff -
It appears that the only prerequisite to having gainful employment with the notorious leftist websites such as ‘The Wire’ and 'The Hindu' is to harbour and manifest Hinduphobic views.
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News Reports

ICMR refutes claims of unrealistic goal to release COVAXIN, says it is only cutting red tape, not any necessary clinical process

OpIndia Staff -
ICMR issues statement saying its expedited trial for Covaxin will bypass only red tape and files, not clinical tests
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News Reports

China’s ‘Century of Humiliation’: How period between First Opium War in 1839 and victory of CCP in 1949 shapes China’s view about the world

OpIndia Staff -
The Chinese claim to Vladivostok is a stark reminder of the extent to which the 'Century of Humiliation' plays a very crucial role in shaping China's foreign policy.
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OpIndia Scoops

Tahir Hussain not only planned and instigated the mob, but was also pelting stones and petrol bombs at Hindus: Chargesheet

OpIndia Staff -
While Dilbar Negi was dismembered and burnt alive, Ankit Sharma was mutilated, murdered and dumped in a Chand Bagh drain by a Muslim mob spearheaded by AAP leader Tahir Hussain
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News Reports

Gujarat: Cops nab one Ismaeel Lashkar for raping a 4-year-old girl in Kutch

OpIndia Staff -
19-year-old Ismaeel Lashkar arrested for raping a 4-year-old girl one and half months ago in Gujarat's Kutch district
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News Reports

West Bengal: Maharul Sheikh and Taiful Sheikh killed after crude bombs they were making accidentally explode, 5 others injured

OpIndia Staff -
2 persons killed and five others injured after a bomb accidentally exploded while manufacturing crude bombs in West Bengal
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News Reports

International support for India grows amidst LAC standoff with China, here are key countries opposing expansionist strategies of China

OpIndia Staff -
Several countries like USA, France, Japan, Australia, UK etc support India over the border conflict with China, slams China's aggression
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