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My own son is trying to kill me: Bihar’s Akhtar Imam nominates pet elephants as his legal heirs, alleges threat from family

OpIndia Staff -
Akhtar Imam's wife had separated from him earlier and was given her share in his properties. He runs a trust named Asian Elephants Rehabilitation and Wildlife Trust (AERAWAT).
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News Reports

After Muslims complain about ‘idol worshiping’, PUBG removes a mode from their mobile game that allegedly involved it

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After the latest version of the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) video game sparked a huge controversy among Muslim players the developers have now rolled back the update. The Muslim players had accused the game developers of promoting 'idol worshipping'.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Blackout in Karachi triggers ‘Indian planes coming’ fear, residents confuse PAF planes as Indian fighter jets

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According to the local residents of Karachi, the city was put under 'blackout' after rumours of Indian Air Force fighter jets went close to Karachi and other parts of Sindh.
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Social Media

Why are some journalists so eager to defend Rahul Gandhi when questions are asked to him: Babita Phogat takes jibes at Congress’ love for...

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The Gandhi-scion was caught meeting Chinese officials secretly not once but twice, raising suspicion among the policymakers regarding the intent of his secretive meeting with the Chinese.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: BMC Deputy Commissioner Shirish Dixit dies of coronavirus

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Shirish Dixit had tested positive for coronavirus only on a day before but was asymptomatic.
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News Reports

After the Kerala elephant case, 12 arrested for killing a jackal in Tamil Nadu using country-made explosives

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The Forest Department in Tamil Nadu also investigated as to how the accused had got hold of the country bombs.
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Media

The Wire founding-editor Siddharth Varadarajan justifies using an individual’s image without his permission in lukewarm apology

OpIndia Staff -
Siddharth Varadarajan issued a half-hearted apology for The Wire using an individual's image without his permission.
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News Reports

Javed Akhtar wins the Richard Dawkins Award: Here is how the drama unfolded

OpIndia Staff -
Javed Akhtar has won the Richard Dawkins Award, however, for a while there, people wondered if he really had won the award. Here is how the drama unfolded
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News Reports

After Washington, #BlackLivesMatter protestors vandalise Gandhi statue in London’s Parliament Square, injure 35 police personnel

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Some #BlackLivesMatter miscreants defaced the Mahatma Gandhi statue with scribbling 'racist' on its plinth and splattering it with white paint
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News Reports

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal tests negative for coronavirus

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Arvind Kejriwal has cancelled all his meetings since Sunday and has isolated himself, as per reports
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News Reports

These nine incidents since 2017 of rapes, abductions and forced conversions of Hindus characterises Haryana’s Mewat as “Mini-Pakistan”

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Muslim fundamentalism in Haryana's Mewat is deep-rooted and firmly ingrained as Hindus, especially Dalits in the region are constantly assaulted, raped, kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam
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News Reports

India and China disengage at multiple points in Eastern Ladakh, PLA troops move back at certain locations

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The People’s Liberation Army has moved back its troops and infantry combat vehicles by 2.5 km by in Galwan area, Patrolling Point 15 and Hot Springs area. In reciprocation, India has also moved some of its troops back.
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News Reports

‘Will solve the border issue through dialogues’: Nepal Defence Minister says there is no sense in ‘deploying the Army’

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Nepal's communist government had approved a controversial map claiming the Indian territories of Lipulekh and Kalapani as theirs. The Oli government is on the way to get the parliament's nod to change their national emblem that depicts the map.
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News Reports

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s effigy burnt in protest after Pak-sponsored terrorists kill Kashmiri Hindu Sarpanch Ajay Pandita

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BJP Youth wing burnt effigy of Imran Khan to protest against Sarpanch Ajay Pandita's assassination
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Crime

Tamil Nadu shocker: Hungry eight-year-old girl raped multiple times by six men in Nagercoil, five including one 75-year-old Mohammad Noah arrested

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Two of the arrested in the gang-rape of the 8-year-old girl in Nagercoil in Kanyakumari are juvenile
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Crime

Meerut rape accused Waseem raped the woman and filmed the sex video to ‘shame a Hindu woman on internet’

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Meerut Rape case victim says accused Waseem Ahmad lured her and shot sex videos to teach Hindu woman a lesson.
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News Reports

Post mortem reports prove that migrant workers did not die of starvation as claimed by sections of the media

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Numerous media reports have claimed that migrant workers died due to hunger and starvation in Shramik Trains.
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News Reports

BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia and his mother Madhavi Raje diagnosed with coronavirus, hospitalised in Delhi

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Jyotiraditya Scindia had reportedly developed symptoms of the Chinese virus and was hospitalised 4 days ago.
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News Reports

Former Justice investigates Mewat, talks about abduction, rape, forceful conversion to Islam of Hindu girls, rampant atrocities against Dalits

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Muslims in Mewat were being able to carry out these crimes against Dalits in connivance with the administration and the local police
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Woman kills pregnant second wife of husband in Moradabad, wields gun around the dead body as stunned bystanders stand scared

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According to police officials, the gun was provided to the accused by her husband Zafar who is absconding ever since the incident.
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News Reports

Delhi Police crime branch arrest one Khalid Saifi for his role in Delhi anti-Hindu riots, pictures of him with journalists, politicians emerge

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Khalid Saifi was earlier arrested by the Delhi police from the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protest site at Khureji Khas on February 26
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Opinions

Why will anybody travel to Delhi for Coronavirus treatment? Here is how AAP is bluffing to cover failures

Abhishek Banerjee -
AAP has created a fake debate around a non-issue. Their real objective is to steer the conversation away from their failures in Delhi.
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News Reports

Vishv Books of Delhi Press publishes anti-Hindu literature, books titled ‘Brahman Union’ and ‘Dharam ka Shaap’ sold on Amazon

OpIndia Staff -
Vishv Books, an associate company of Delhi Press, has published several titles that stand out due to their anti-Hindu slant.
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Politics

Mamata Banerjee threatening journalists with fake FIRs for reporting against state govt: Home Minister Amit Shah

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Amit Shah mentioned how the political environment has been deteriorating in West Bengal under the Mamata Banerjee's rule. The Home Minister also added that the Mamata Banerjee-led government has been threatening and intimidating journalists for exposing her government's failure.
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News Reports

Kashmir: LeT’s new proxy group TRF takes responsibility for the assassination of Sarpanch Ajay Pandita, says no ‘political stooges’ will be spared

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The terrorist group issued a statement warning that no 'political stooge' in the valley who stands with the 'occupational regime' will be spared.
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News Reports

Journalist Madhu Trehan’s husband, Naresh Trehan, booked for forgery and money laundering: Here is all you need to know

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The complainant said that Naresh Trehan had flouted advertisement terms in pursuit of his personal agenda.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Donkey named in FIR, ‘arrested’ with 8 men for participating in a gambling race

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The SHO of the police station has stated that the donkey was named in the FIR too and is currently tied up inside the police station premises.
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News Reports

State facts, not rhetorics: Group of Intellectuals and Academics on Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘leaked’ tape on Delhi riots

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The GIA informed the Facebook CEO that it had sent a fact-finding team to areas in Delhi that were hit by violence earlier this year.
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News Reports

People of West Bengal will reduce her to a “political refugee” says Amit Shah. Here are the 5 scathing remarks made by Shah against...

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserted that the West Bengal state, under Mamata Banerjee's rule, remains the only state in the country that propagates political violence
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News Reports

Who killed Swedish PM Olof Palme to be revealed soon: Could this signal fresh trouble for Gandhis in the Bofors case?

OpIndia Staff -
The prosecutors investigating the case have received a dossier from South Africa and the Swedes are set to present their findings on the Olaf Palme assassination and the Bofors scam connection could sound trouble for the Gandhi family
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Politics

Amit Shah sounds the poll bugle in West Bengal through virtual rally, says BJP government in state will bring back the ‘Sonar Bangla’ glory

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Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah kicked off the party’s campaign for West Bengal 2021 Assembly elections on Tuesday with a virtual rally.
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News Reports

Coronavirus outbreak in China may have begun in August and not December 2019 as claimed: Harvard study

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While the study could not directly confirm that the dramatic increase in hospital traffic is due to coronavirus, it gave credence to the hypothesis that the outbreak of the pandemic may have happened before its identification in the wet markets of Wuhan.
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Social Media

Madhya Pradesh: Congress tries to question Shivraj Chouhan govt for ‘missing’ data, ends up embarrassing itself and deletes tweet, read details

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The MP Congress tweet, which defied all sorts of logic, went to insinuate that the MP government was hiding the details of 32% of cases after Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan did not specifically speak about it.
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News Reports

“There is a limit to politics”: Amit Shah slams Mamata Banerjee for not adopting Ayushman Bharat, says BJP CM in Bengal will implement it...

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah today while addressing a virtual rally in West Bengal criticised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for not implementing Ayushman Bharat health scheme of the Union Government.
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Social Media

Fact Check: No, a Muslim man was not forced to lick the spit of a Hindu. Here is the truth

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While torturing the victim, the accused could be hearing saying, "Kyu bola Ramzan ka Naam? Aab bolega Ramzan ka naam? Tere ko DCP ko du kya?"
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News Reports

Are you the mouthpiece for lobbying foreign airlines? Union Minister Hardeep Puri slams ET for misleading report on Air India’s Vande Bharat Mission

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Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday responded to the allegations made by the Economic Times in a report that claimed the Air India's Vande Bharat Mission for repatriation of stranded Indians is overpriced and mismanaged.
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News Reports

China cries foul as India-Australia sign defence deals, sees it as attempt to ‘confront’ China

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The improvement of diplomacy and bilateral ties between India and Australia seems to have spooked China.
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News Reports

XXX 2 controversy: Ekta Kapoor deletes sex scene, slams cyberbullying by online trolls

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Ekta Kapoor slammed cyberbullies for abusing, issuing rape threats to her and her mother Shobha Kapoor on social media
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Politics

Arvind Kejriwal has become the monster he once promised to fight

Nirwa Mehta -
In middle of coronavirus crisis, Delhi Chief Minister abandoned lakhs of people, just because he could.
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Media

As Mumbai crosses 50,000 COVID cases, police summons Arnab Goswami for another round of interrogation

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In April, Arnab Goswami was questioned by Mumbai Police for over 12 hours for questioning Sonia Gandhi’s silence over Palghar Sadhu lynching
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News Reports

Palghar mob lynching: Local grilled by CID in the sadhu lynching case commits suicide

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Dhangada was one among many people questioned by the police in their alleged role in the Palghar mob lynching case.
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News Reports

Jammu and Kashmir: Sarpanch Ajay Pandita shot dead by terrorists in Anantnag

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Congress Sarpanch Ajay Pandita of Lokbowan Larkipora, Anantnag was fired upon by the terrorists while he was working in his orchard.
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News Reports

Delhi minorities commission awards ‘activist’ Teesta Setalvad with a lifetime achievement award for her ‘contribution to human rights’

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Controversial 'activist' Teesta Setalvad had been widely criticized for instigating crowds during the anti-CAA protests .
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Social Media Fact-Check

No, Brahmins did not severe tongue of a 16-year-old girl as a sacrifice to protect village from Coronavirus: Here is the truth

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Kamran alleged that owing to superstitious beliefs that the village would be protected from the wrath of the deadly Wuhan Coronavirus, the Brahmins in the village cut off the tongue of a Class 8 student as religious 'sacrifice'.
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News Reports

Sandesara scam: Congress leader Ahmed Patel cites ‘Corona’ to evade questioning, ED says ‘we will come home and question’

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Congress leader Ahmed Patel has sent a letter to the Enforcement Directorate and has used 'corona' as an excuse to evade questioning by the Enforcement Directorate in the over Rs 14,000 crore Sandesara scam.
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News Reports

‘Indians are a beastly people with a beastly religion’: The racism of British ‘hero’ Winston Churchill

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A statue of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was vandalised by Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters on Sunday.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Hundreds of TMC workers clash with BJP workers, heckle BJP leader Sabyasachi Dutta

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Sabyasachi Dutta was on his way to meet an injured BJP worker when his entourage was stopped and attacked at
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News Reports

Delhi LG overturns Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s diktat, says Delhi hospitals open to all patients

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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal had yesterday announced that hospitals in the city would be reserved only for Delhi residents till the time coronavirus cases in the national capital are brought under control
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News Reports

DMK files FIR against popular Tamil YouTuber Maridhas for calling M Karunanidhi as the ‘father of corruption’

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Maridhas claimed that the success of the former DMK patriarch was due to manipulative skills and a shrewd divide and rude policy.
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News Reports

Shop owners lock horns with mall owners in Uttar Pradesh. Read why shops remain shut despite malls opening-up

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Even as malls opened up in Uttar Pradesh, the shop owners decided to keep the shops closed owing to demand of rent waiver
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