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State govt run and private hospitals in Delhi to be reserved for Delhi residents only, outsiders can go to central govt hospitals: Arvind Kejriwal

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Delhi govt has decided that the state government-run hospitals private hospitals in Delhi will be reserved for Delhi residents only
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News Reports

Meet cartoonist Vishal: Busting leftist monopoly in narrative with Hindutva cartoons, one at a time

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Vishal makes cartoons on Instagram which seeks to bust the leftist monopoly over the control of discourse
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News Reports

J.K. Rowling is a TERF! Rainbow Fascism attacks the Harry Potter author for saying biological sex is real and only women can menstruate

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It all began when J.K. Rowling took offence over an opinion piece on a media portal that addressed women as 'people who menstruate'.
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News Reports

Tensions between India and Nepal likely to mount as New Delhi not likely to engage with the Himalayan country ready to change its map

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India may not participate in talks as Nepal is passing constitution amendment to change its map to include Indian territories
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News Reports

“How did he arrange buses during the lockdown?” Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut alleges political conspiracy behind Sonu Sood arranging transport for migrants

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Sanjay Raut alleges that Sonu Sood arranging transport for migrants is political conspiracy to overshadow the work done by state govt
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News Reports

“India is ONE”: Himanta Biswa Sarma slams Maharashtra and Delhi governments for disowning Assamese people amid coronavirus crisis

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Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has expressed shock at the 'second-class citizen' treatment meted out by Maharashtra and Delhi state govts, to people from other states who are residing and earning their livelihood in these states.
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News Reports

Jharkhand: Geological Survey of India discovers gold reserves of 250 kgs near Jamdeshpur, to be auctioned soon

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The Geological Survey of India submitted its final report to state Govt on June 3, enabling auction of the the gold mines
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News Reports

Nalini Sriharan, one of the convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination, was two months pregnant when arrested

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Nalini Sriharan is the longest serving female prisoner in India and gave birth to her daughter Arithra while in prison.
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News Reports

Former Bombay HC justice Micheal Saldanha accuses Bishop of Mysore KA William of murder, sexual misconduct, corruption

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Former Bombay HC judge alleges that Bishop of Mysore KA William is letting loose a virtual reign of terror in the Diocese of Mysore
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News Reports

Commando Sunaina Patel, who continued fighting Naxal terrorists during pregnancy, gives birth to a daughter

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Commando Sunaina Patel had joined the elite anti-Naxal unit Women DRG in Chhattisgarh when she was 2 months pregnant
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News Reports

Delhi: “He will kill me. Please save my life”, says Hindu woman who was earlier tortured by her Muslim husband to eat beef

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Hindu woman named Neha Jogi narrates her harrowing experience of being married to a Muslim husband, Nafees Khan
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News Reports

Safoora Zargar, arrested for inciting Delhi riots, was the general secretary of the Congress-backed NSUI’s Jamia unit

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The sociology student from Kashmir was an active member in Congress and its student wing NSUI in Jamia till it was dissolved in 2018.
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News Reports

Punjab: Communal tension prevailed in Jalandhar after pregnant woman was beaten up by youth over drug trafficking

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The drug problem in Phillaur, (Jalandhar) Punjab caused communal tension between two groups after a youth beat up a pregnant woman.
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Politics

As Rajya Sabha polls near, Gujarat Congress MLAs huddle up in Rajasthan after three MLAs quit the party in one week

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Congress MLAs huddled up in a star resort in Rajasthan ahead of Rajya Sabha polls on June 19.
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News Reports

Himachal Pradesh: Police arrests man accused of feeding explosives to a pregnant cow in a viral video

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On Saturday, a man was reportedly arrested in Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh over allegations of feeding explosives to a pregnant cow last month.
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News Reports

Delhi likely to have 1 lakh coronavirus cases by end of June, expert committee setup by Delhi govt says 42,000 beds will be by...

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The committee has advised the government to make arrangements an additional 15,000 beds by the end of June and around 42,000 by mid-July to cater to the needs of the patients in the national capital.
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News Reports

Coronavirus: Delhi Medical Association slams Arvind Kejriwal for threatening doctors by filing FIRs, say they feel insulted by the way they’re treated

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The Delhi Medical Association (DMA) condemned Delhi government's action to file FIR against the authorities of the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, a leading private hospital in the national capital for "violating rules for registering coronavirus tests".
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News Reports

Delhi Police Crime Branch cop found dead under mysterious circumstances, reports say he was investigating Delhi riots

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On Saturday, a Delhi Police Inspector, who was working with the Special Cell, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his car on Rampura main road in Keshav Puram in the national capital.
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News Reports

Mumbai gas leak: Foul smell of suspected gas leak creates panic, BMC asks people to stay calm as it tries to investigate the origin

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Foul smell emanated from various parts of Mumbai leading to a situation of panic as many suspected gas leak.
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News Reports

Shekhar Gupta peddles anti-Brahmin narrative accusing Brahmins of enjoying imaginary privileges

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If 'Brahmin Bashing' was ever a sport, perhaps the 'liberal-secular' Shekhar Gupta and his ilks in the media would have won a medal
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News Reports

FIR registered against Ekta Kapoor and others on charges of hurting religious sentiments and insulting army personnel in erotic web series XXX

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The complainant Neeraj Yagnik said that he registered a complaint after he noted that there has been objectionable use of national emblem and army uniform in the web series.
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News Reports

Netizens flag inflammatory posts inciting violence by a man named Afsaar Bhai, demand intervention from UP CM Yogi Adityanath and UP Police

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Citing chaotic protests in the US, the man incited violence by calling for a fresh wave of violent protests, more gory than the previous ones
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News Reports

NIA arrests key terror-funding plotter Abdul Jabbar Sheikh in 2019 Vishakhapatnam espionage case from Mumbai

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Abdul Rehman Abdul Jabbar Sheikh is the 15th person to be arrested in the Vishakhapatnam Indian Navy espionage case
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News Reports

‘American filmmaker Cynthia Ritchie told me that Pakistan PM Imran Khan wanted to have sex with her’: Pakistani TV host

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Cynthia alleged that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is spreading fake news against her and called Ali Saleem a nice guy but misguided
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News Reports

13-year-old Madurai girl convinces her hairdresser father to donate entire savings to help the needy during Coronavirus lockdown

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Despite harrowing experience of losing everything 7 years ago, Mohan distributed grocery and essential items to the poor during lockdown
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News Reports

Delhi Government files FIR against Medical Superintendent of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital for allegedly flouting ICMR directives on Coronavirus testing

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Delhi govt files FIR against Sir Ganga Ram Hospital for allegedly not using RT PCR app while collecting Coronavirus samples as per ICMR norms
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News Reports

Bangladesh: Rohingya refugee camp area in Cox’s Bazar declared red zone after Coronavirus cases rise sharply

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Rohingiya refugee camp area in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, placed under strict lockdown after rapid rise in Wuhan coronavirus infections
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News Reports

BJP leader Nandini Sharma shares video showing dead bodies lying unattended in Delhi hospital alongside patients undergoing treatment

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A video shared on social media shows Coronavirus patients being treated next to unattended death bodies of Coronavirus victims
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News Reports

Twitter temporarily deactivates official Amul account after Amul posted a topical asking to boycott Chinese products

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Amul said that their Twitter account was deactivated without informing them after they posted a topical on boycotting Chinese products
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OpIndia Scoops

A South African anti-racism campaign, the inexplicable presence of Congress leader Anand Sharma and how Indian interests may be compromised

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7 out of 8 of those panelists belonged to South Africa, however, there was one name that did not add up - Anand Sharma, Congress leader.
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News Reports

Defence Ministry advises media to refrain from any speculative and unsubstantiated reporting on India-China border situation

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Defence ministry said that any speculative reporting about India-China border situation would not be helpful
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Politics

Gujarat: Ahead of Rajya Sabha polls, Congress moves its MLAs to resorts

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The Election Commission (EC) has now finalised the polling of four Rajya Sabha seats in Gujarat on June 19.
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News Reports

This is not the first time Arvind Kejriwal has said he doesn’t watch Rahul Kanwal’s shows, here is an incident from 2014

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Arvind Kejrowal rejects the claim of India Today journalist Rahul Kanwal that he watched his program on Delhi hospitals
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News Reports

Congress leader Archana Dalmia passes off an old image from 2017 as recent one, deletes it after being caught

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Archana Dalmia claimed that the woman had died by the railway tracks of the MP's Damoh and she was spotted by people in the state
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News Reports

Coronavirus: Mild and asymptomatic cases do not need hospitalization, says Delhi Health department

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Citing union health ministry guidelines, Delhi govt said that Coronavirus patients with mild and no symptoms do not need hospitalization
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Every Sikh wants Khalistan, says Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh on 36th anniversary of Operation Bluestar

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The controversial remarks came from the Akal Takht chief on the occasion of 36th anniversary of the Operation Blue Star
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Government and Policy

A tale of 2 contradictory orders: How Arvind Kejriwal govt made the Coronavirus fight impossible for doctors at Ganga Ram Hospital

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Reportedly, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital would test 150-170 Coronavirus samples and conduct 30-40 surgeries per day, prior to the government order.
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News Reports

Communist Party is ‘both a court and police station’: Kerala women’s panel chief MC Josephine courts controversy

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State Women’s Commission chairperson MC Josephine kicked up a controversy after she claimed that her party Communist Party of India (Marxist) was both a court and a police station
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News Reports

Celebrities have commercialised dissent in India, they say ‘BlackLivesMatter’ while endorsing racist fairness creams: Kangana Ranaut

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Kangana Ranaut slams celebrities for speaking on 'Black Lives Matter' while staying silent on incidents like Palghar lynching
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News Reports

Pakistan: 8-year-old maid Zohra Shah beaten to death after she accidentally let two parrots escape from cage

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When the parrots flew away, a miffed Siddiqui and his wife Umm Kulsoom beat the victim 8-year-old Zohra Shahblack and blue, killing her
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News Reports

News of Chhota Bheem ditching Chutki to marry princess Indumati is fake, clarifies maker of animated show after netizens outrage over ‘betrayal’ by Bheem

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Netizens launch #JusticeForChutki campaign after news spread that Chhota Bheem is ditching best friend Chutki to marry princess Indumati
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Media Fact-Check

No, Jyotiraditya Scindia has not ‘removed BJP’ from his Twitter bio: Here is the truth

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Media claimed that Jyotiraditya Scindia, the former Congress leader who is now with the BJP, had removed his association with the BJP from his Twitter bio.
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News Reports

“Yoga has no place in the life of Christians,” Greek Orthodox Church issues diktat against yoga to its followers

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Greek Orthodox Church said yoga has no place in the life of Christians after Greek media recommended Yoga during lockdown
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Entertainment

On the need for making “The Judge” – A movie on Love Jihad and the typical ‘liberal’ reaction of Hindus to the issue

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Maker of The Judge explains why he made a movie on Love Jihad, a topic not touched by mainstream movie makers
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News Reports

FIR registered in Delhi against journalist Vinod Dua for spreading fake news and creating public nuisance: Read the details

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FIR registered by Delhi police against Vinod Dua on the complaint of Delhi BJP spokesperson Naveen Kumar for reporting fake news
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Media Fact-Check

How AltNews ‘fact-checked’ the pregnant elephant story to shield Muslim suspects, quietly changed copy but continued to peddle agenda

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AltNews tried to 'fact-check' the brutal incident that resulted in the death of an elephant in Kerala with the aim to shield the Muslim suspects
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News Reports

“Indira Gandhi was above all Sharanas”, says Congress leader Siddaramaiah defending naming schemes after her while opposing flyover named after Savarkar

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Former Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah says that Indira Gandhi's statue was even greater than social-reformers such as 'Sharanas'.
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News Reports

US filmmaker says former Pakistan minister Rehman Malik raped her, former PM Yousaf Raza Gilani manhandled her: Watch

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Cynthia D. Ritchie said that sexual assault against her by Senator Rehman Malik had happened occurred at Interior Minister's residence in 2011
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News Reports

Second Pinjra Tod activist Devangana Kalita booked under UAPA in the Delhi riots case

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Pinjra Tod activist and JNU student Devangana Kalita booked under UAPA for Delhi riots, she is under judicial custody after her arrest
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Crime

Hackers take down website of Maneka Gandhi’s NGO after she blamed people of Malappuram district for the death of pregnant elephant

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The hackers put a message on the web page saying that Maneka Gandhi used the matter of elephant's death for dirty politics.
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