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‘Being treated like a terrorist, anti-national’: Baba Ramdev slams critics of Patanjali Coronil, says some people want to vilify Ayurveda

OpIndia Staff -
Baba Ramdev stated that Patanjali has made efforts to help people and its Coronil kit has been cleared by Ayush Ministry.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Christian man shot dead by Muslim neighbour for purchasing house in Muslim dominated area in Peshawar

OpIndia Staff -
Christian man Nadeem Joseph and his mother-in-law were attacked by one Salman Khan and his sons for buying house in Muslim area
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News Reports

Security forces save a three-year-old child from being killed by terrorists in Kashmir. Watch as cops take him to his mother

OpIndia Staff -
The child's grandfather was killed by the terrorists in Sopore today.
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Crime

Terrorists who had killed minor boy eliminated by security forces, bodies buried away from their native village

OpIndia Staff -
Two terrorists of Jammu Kashmir Islamic State (JKIS) that had killed an eight-year-old boy and a CRPF jawan killed in encounter
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News Reports

Lalbaugcha Raja will not come this year, Mandal decides not to hold Ganesh Utsav due to Coronavirus pandemic

OpIndia Staff -
Lalbaugcha Raja Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Mandal has announced that they will hold any festivities this year amid the Covid-19 pandemic
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News Reports

Former attorney general Mukul Rohatgi refuses to represent Chinese video-sharing app TikTok in Supreme Court

OpIndia Staff -
Mukul Rohatgi said that he doesn’t want to represent Chinese app TikTok against the Government of India.
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News Reports

Mother of Aatish Taseer calls mother of a martyred soldier ‘BJP troll’, claims she is more patriotic because she grew up in ‘army stations’

OpIndia Staff -
To Meghna Girish's polite disagreement, Tavleen Singh resorted to name-calling and accused her of being a 'BJP troll'.
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News Reports

Bahuda Yatra: Lord Jagannath in Puri is returning to his temple today, read about the festival and rituals associated

OpIndia Staff -
Bahuda Yatra is the festival where Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra, and Devi Subhadra are brought back to their temple in their respective Rathas.
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News Reports

Ayush Ministry grants approval for Patanjali’s ‘Coronil’ kit, to be sold as an immunity booster and not as a cure for coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
Patanjali had had launched their 'Coronil' kit last week, claiming that it will cure coronavirus within a week. It also claimed that they took part in a trial conducted at the privately-run National Institute of Medical Sciences in Jaipur.
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Social Media Fact-Check

Fact-check: Was Wikipedia updated with time of Sushant Singh Rajput’s death even before he had died

OpIndia Staff -
Various social media users have come up with conspiracy theories surrounding Sushant Singh Rajput's death.
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News Reports

ED attaches assets of Aijaz Hussain Khawaja, a National award-winning artisan cum LeT terrorist and hawala operator. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached assets worth Rs 7.32 lakh of Aijaz Hussain Khawaja, who is a convicted Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist. In 2003, Khawaja was one of the 44 winners of the President's National Awards for artisans and handicrafts.
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Editor's picks

China wrote to Doordarshan protesting Taiwan coverage, DD aired programs on Tibet too

OpIndia Staff -
In January this year, the public broadcaster Doordarshan aired a special broadcast on reelection of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen which upset China.
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News Reports

US telecom regulator designates Chinese firms Huawei, ZTE as national security threats

OpIndia Staff -
The US telecommunications regulator issued the declaration and proposed requiring rural carriers to remove and replace equipment from the two Chinese companies from existing US networks.
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News Reports

Social media account of an opera singer being censored due to his resemblance with Chinese President Xi Jinping

OpIndia Staff -
The account of Liu Keqing, 63, on the Chinese tik-tok like Douyin was locked by the Chinese authorities for resemblance with Xi Jinping.
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Politics

‘We give better quality rice than the Centre,’ says Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee while announcing free ration for people

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee govt was previously criticised over the ration distribution during the coronavirus lockdown.
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Politics

‘Why didn’t you rectify 1962’s mistake when you were Defence Minister?’: Congress leader Nitin Raut slams Sharad Pawar after the NCP supremo criticised Rahul...

OpIndia Staff -
Sharad Pawar had earlier criticised Rahul Gandhi for his attempts to politicise the India-China face-off at Ladakh.
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Politics

Kejriwal tries to take credit for Center’s free ration scheme, exposed by Meenakshi Lekhi

OpIndia Staff -
Meenakshi Lekhi exposed Kejriwal's attempt to take credit for free ration scheme in Delhi.
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News Reports

Killer TikTok: How teens used the app to post suicide videos, film killer stunts and glorify antisocial behaviour

OpIndia Staff -
TIkTok has been banned by the Government of India along with 58 other other apps for posing a threat to national security.
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News Reports

EU air safety agency suspends Pakistan International Airlines to operate in Europe for the next 6 months

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) ould discontinue all its flights to Europe temporarily
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News Reports

As Balochistan freedom fighters claim responsibility for attack on Pakistan Stock Exchange, Imran khan accuses India of carrying out the attack

OpIndia Staff -
Imran Khan said that Pakistan has "no doubt" that the terror attack on Pakistan's Stock Exchange was carried out by India.
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Opinions

Manojātasatya: Speak up for, not stigmatise, mental health! The necessity of reducing the stigma and how we can go about reducing it

Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar -
Among our civilisational claims to fame in the times of yore are the ancient medical science known as Ayurveda (that arises from the Sanskrit words Ayur or life, and Veda or science) as well as the addressing of mental health.
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News Reports

No new users, old users can’t access: TikTok gone completely from your phones

OpIndia Staff -
Chinese video sharing app TikTok has also stopped working for the existing users a day after the government of India banned the app over security concerns. Essentially, the problematic app has now completely stopped working.
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Government and Policy

China issues statement on ban on 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, expresses ‘serious concern’ and ‘opposes the move’ by Indian govt

OpIndia Staff -
India decided to ban 59 Chinese apps, including Tiktok, for engaging in subversive activities that posed a threat to country's sovereignty and integrity
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News Reports

After govt’s TikTok ban, demand for Indian ‘Chingari’ app skyrockets, 90,000 new users joining every hour

OpIndia Staff -
Hailed as an alternative to Chinese TikTok, Chingari is available in multiple languages such as Bangla, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, etc.
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News Reports

After PM Modi extends free foodgrains for poor till November, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee announces free ration for people till June 2021

OpIndia Staff -
The announcement from Mamata Banerjee that West Bengal will extend free ration to poor till June 2021 cannot be viewed in isolation with the state polls that are scheduled to happen in 2021
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Opinions

Dubai: Chimera on a spiral towards its death

Lakshmisha K S -
So are we going to see death of Dubai in 2020, is this the end of it. The answer is no, while the above factors are going to impact Dubai, some of these take a longer-term to play out.
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Opinions

Sharia law in Minneapolis and Antifa’s role: How concerned should we be?

agarwalvj -
While the prejudice has been part of us as human beings for time immemorial, by the privileged toward underprivileged, Floyd’s death led to climatic conditions with the unprecedented and sinister idea as dire as the city governed under Sharia law.
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Politics

Imran Khan parrots Indian liberals, panics over ‘change in demographic structure’ after India issues domicile certificates in Jammu & Kashmir

Jhankar Mohta -
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan fumes as India issues domicile certificates in J&K, seeks UN intervention.
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News Reports

Security tightened outside Taj hotels in Mumbai after a call threatening 26/11 style attack

OpIndia Staff -
The Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel was attacked by heavily armed LeT terrorists from Pakistan on 26 November 2008.
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Political History of India

When Nehru curbed press freedom and freedom of expression to protect ‘moral standards’ of Indians and faced opposition by all his opponents

OpIndia Staff -
Jawaharlal Nehru, who is again ironically hailed as a beacon of liberalism, was insistent on curbing the freedom of the press.
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Government and Policy

India’s NGO sector vying for urgent attention: Action Agenda for NITI Aayog

Ravi Pokharna -
This article outlines four issues along with suggestions can be considered by NITI Ayog to revitalize India’s NGOs Sector:
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News Reports

Tuticorin custodial death case: Tamil Nadu government transfers SP out of the district, puts him under ‘compulsory wait’

OpIndia Staff -
A forensic team from Madurai was appointed to collect evidence from the station. Following a nationwide outrage over the incident, five policemen have been suspended including an inspector and two sub-inspectors.
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News Reports

Liberals accidentally reveal why Congress is soft on China: Loyalty

Jinit Jain -
Soon after the Indian government banned 59 Chinese apps, including TikTok, liberals expressed their outrage, asking the government to return the Rs 30 crore donated by TikTok towards the PMCARES Fund
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News Reports

As India unlocks, PM Modi addresses nation, govt to provide ration to 80 crore people under Gareeb Kalyan Yojana till November end

OpIndia Staff -
In his address to nation, Prime Minister Modi today reiterated that as we enter 'unlock' phase 2, the threat of coronavirus still lingers at large.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Tech giant Microsoft to set up technology hub in Greater Noida

OpIndia Staff -
In February 2020, Microsoft had announced its intentions to set up a tech hub in Uttar Pradesh.
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News Reports

After fake licenses scandal of pilots, Pakistan International Airlines hit with a ticketing scam totalling 8 million

OpIndia Staff -
Prior to this incident, PIA had grounded 150 Pakistani pilots suspected of having fake licenses.
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Government and Policy

The significance of India banning 59 Chinese apps and the window of opportunity it presents

Guest Author -
Decision of India to ban 59 Chinese apps has sent ripples across the world, with global media giants picking up the threads of a story that has just begun to develop.
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News Reports

Israel bans Christian missionary channel God TV’s Hebrew version, says it is trying to convert Jews

OpIndia Staff -
Asher Biton, the chairman of the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Council in Israel has stated that he has given a seven-day ultimatum to the God Tv's channel 'Shelanu' to stop broadcast.
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Media

Bombay High Court stays FIR against Arnab Goswami, says Mumbai Police failed to show any prima facie case against him

OpIndia Staff -
The Bombay High Court has stayed the FIRs filed against Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami by the Mumbai Police.
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News Reports

Andhra Pradesh: AP tourism official attacks differently abled female co-worker, beats her with iron rod for asking him to wear a mask. Watch video

OpIndia Staff -
In the CCTV footage that has now gone viral on social media, an enraged Bhaskar could be seen dragging the female employee from her chair onto the ground and throwing blows over her head, face and back.
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Media

NDTV India Editor Ravish Kumar blatantly lies about Davinder Singh ‘walking out of jail’ for lack of charge sheet

OpIndia Staff -
A separate case was registered against Davinder Singh by National Investigation Agency in which he has not been granted bail and thus, he will continue to remain lodged in the jail
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Six hospitalised after man feeds cannabis sabzi instead of fenugreek sabzi as ‘joke’

OpIndia Staff -
A family of six was reportedly rushed to the district hospital by the police in Miyaganj village in Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh, after they mistakenly consumed a dish made from hemp, a variety of cannabis.
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News Reports

Delhi anti-Hindu riots charge sheet: In Jafrabad, the Muslim mob had started pelting stones at the people demanding re-opening of roads

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi anti-Hindu riots that started on the 24th of February had a definite precursor to it.
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News Reports

Toronto: Tibetan Youth Congress slams China, raises pro-India slogans outside the Chinese Consulate General

OpIndia Staff -
The Tibetan protestors held placards and shouted slogans saying Tibet stands with India.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Maulana threatens China after Chinese companies ban Pakistani employees from offering namaz

OpIndia Staff -
In a video that has gone viral on social media, a visibly upset maulana can be heard threatening China to not interfere in their religion.
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News Reports

New swine flu virus with ‘pandemic potential’ identified by researchers in China: Study

Dibakar Dutta -
The paper found that about 4.4% of the general population have already been exposed to the new strain of the Swine flu virus.
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News Reports

Bharat Biotech’s potential COVID-19 vaccine ‘Covaxin’ enters clinical trials after DGCI approval

OpIndia Staff -
Bharat Biotech gets DGCI's approval for clinical trials of potential Covid-19 vaccine.
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News Reports

Andhra: 3 days after Kurnool incident, another gas leak in Vizag kills 2 persons, 4 hospitalised

OpIndia Staff -
The incident took place at the factory which is located at the Jawaharlal Nehru Pharma City (JNPC) area in Vizag.
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News Reports

Lucknow: Priyanka Gandhi close aide and UP Congress’ minority cell chief Shahnawaz Alam arrested for role in anti-CAA violence

OpIndia Staff -
UP Police arrested Congress minority cell chief for involvement in December 2019 anti-CAA riots in Lucknow.
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Social Media

Day after Govt of India banned 59 Chinese apps, TikTok India releases statement, claims does not share data with Chinese govt

OpIndia Staff -
A day after Govt of India banned 59 Chinese apps over security and data concern, TikTok issues a statement.
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