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“We don’t have electricity and water for 6 days” Locals in Kolkata suffer, amidst no administrative help from West Bengal Government

OpIndia Staff -
"A person who is suffering can only understand what we are going through. There has been no help from the administration," a local sighed.
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News Reports

Minor girl gang-raped by army constable Shahnawaz Sheikh and his friends in Jharkhand town, one arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Minor girl gang-raped by three man in Shahebganj district in Jharkhand when she had gone to an orchard to pick up fallen mangoes
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News Reports

Rourkela: Clashes erupt between locals and police personnel over lifting of coronavirus containment order

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier this month, health workers, police team and ASHA workers were attacked by the minority community residents of the containment zone in Rourkela
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News Reports

Yogi Adityanath government forms Commission for employment and welfare of migrants returned to the state

OpIndia Staff -
The Kaamgar, Shramik (Seva Ayojan and Rojgaar) Kalyan Ayog in UP will look after the employment and welfare of the returned migrants.
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Media Fact-Check

Caravan India journalist spreads lies that 10 migrants have died due to hunger while going back in Shramik Express

OpIndia Staff -
On Tuesday, Caravan India journalist Vidya Krishnan took to Twitter to claim that 40 Shramik Express trains got lost and that the government 'forgot' to feed the passengers which led to death of at least 10 people.
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Editor's picks

As Ram Mandir construction begins, communist leader, National Herald editor share 2018 report to peddle ‘Buddhist site’ narrative

OpIndia Staff -
The recent claims by the leftists are nothing but another round of the false claims to derail the Ram Janmabhoomi temple project and deny Hindus their right.
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News Reports

Two people criticise Uddhav Thackeray, Rahul Gandhi and Sharad Pawar, not only is an FIR filed, but their shop is vandalised by Shiv Sainiks...

OpIndia Staff -
An FIR has been filed against two individuals in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra for making offensive remarks against chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
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News Reports

India’s coronavirus fatality rate among the lowest in the world: Union Health Ministry

OpIndia Staff -
Union Health Ministry Joint Secretary Luv Agarwal said that India's 0.3 per cent deaths per lakh population is the lowest fatality rate in the world
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Opinions

Serving the people of Bharat when they need it the most: Here is why the Left is left behind

Ganesh Turerao -
RSS and Left, over the past two months, have shown what they can do in testing times, it is for India to choose, either selfless service for all or propaganda for some.
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News Reports

Chinese army came armed with stick, stones, clubs with barbed wires to the stand-off with India in eastern Ladakh

OpIndia Staff -
Contrary to the behaviour expected from a professional army, the Chinese Army acted like 'typical bullies.'
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Social Media

Loksatta deletes its Twitter poll after people vote in favour of BJP’s demand to impose President rule in Maharashtra

OpIndia Staff -
Within 5 hours of the 24-hour Twitter poll, the LokSatta deleted its tweet after 51 per cent of voters voted in favour of the BJP's demand.
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News Reports

WHO warns that Countries seeing a decline in COVID-19 cases can witness a ‘second peak’

OpIndia Staff -
The WHO has warned the countries which are reporting a decline in coronavirus cases that they can witness a 'second peak'.
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News Reports

Locusts attack crops in North Indian states, governments issue alert

OpIndia Staff -
The swarms of locust, which entered the country from Pakistan have now become a headache to farmers as the pests are spreading like wildfire in states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
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Politics

Congress gets into damage control mode, after Rahul Gandhi distances Congress from Maharashtra mess, state chief debunks him

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier today, Rahul Gandhi had stated that though the Congress is supporting the Uddhav Thackeray government, they are not in a decision making role.
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News Reports

Several Shramik trains from Maharashtra cancelled again due to lack of passengers, state govt still requesting trains for cyclone-hit West Bengal and Odisha

OpIndia Staff -
After only 39 trains were run yesterday from Maharashtra against the planned 125 trains, the same incident is repeating today
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News Reports

Delhi Police Crime branch files 20 charge sheets against 83 foreign nationals who attended the Tablighi Jamaat event in Nizamuddin Markaz

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi Police Crime Branch filed 20 charge sheets against Tablighi Jamaat members including foreign nationals who attended the Nizamuddin Markaz event.
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News Reports

Sharjeel Imam approaches Supreme Court seeking clubbing of all the FIRs against him, SG Tushar Mehta asks all the states to be notified first

OpIndia Staff -
Tushar Mehta said that all other States, where cases had been filed against Sharjeel Imam, must be made a party in the petition and asked that the SC should send notices to all the states, not just the NCT of Delhi.
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News Reports

Complaint filed against NGO, ‘Serve India Ministries’ for indulging in illegal conversions, anti-Hindu hate speech, FCRA violations

OpIndia Staff -
Legal Rights Protection Forum (LRPF) has flagged a web of illegal activities of Christian organisation 'Serve India Ministries', including nefarious activities of illegal conversions of poor Hindus using deceit, hate speech, enticements and FCRA violations
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News Reports

Companies, organisations prefer donating to PM CARES Fund, NGOs are ‘starving’, says report

OpIndia Staff -
The 100% tax exemption provided for donations to the PM CARES Fund is attracting many organisations, small and big, to divert their contribution away from NGOs, the report says.
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News Reports

Maharashtra crisis: Health workers Mumbai’s KEM hospital go on a strike, corpses in body bags seen lying in the corridors

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, videos of the KEM hospital showing dead bodies of corona patients lying unattended among with those undergoing treatment had gone viral on social media.
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi declares Lockdown a failure in containing Coronavirus, then criticises Modi government for lifting it

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi claimed that the nationwide lockdown was supposed to eradicate the Coronavirus infection in the country, but that didn’t happen
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News Reports

Christian missionaries use money to carry out large scale conversions in Andhra Pradesh, admits YSRCP MP Raghu Ramkrishna Raju

OpIndia Staff -
Ever since YS Jagan Mohan Reddy became the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, he has been accused of promoting activities that encourage conversions into Christianity
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi distances Congress from the Coronavirus mess in Maharashtra, shifts blame squarely to Uddhav Thackeray: Read how

OpIndia Staff -
Today, during a press conference held by Rahul Gandhi, he was asked about the Coronavirus pandemic and its spread in Maharashtra and he squarely shifted the blame to Uddhav Thackeray
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News Reports

Andhra Government stalls the auction of 50 properties owned by Tirupati Tirumala Temple board

OpIndia Staff -
The State Government had asked Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanam (TTD) to reconsider their decision in light of the sentiments of the devotees.
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Media Fact-Check

Dainik Bhaskar’s report on deaths due to lack of food and water on Shramik Express misleading, Indian Railways reveals

OpIndia Staff -
The Indian Railways today called out the Dainik Bhaskar report which claimed that Shramik Express trains run by the Railways were were delayed by a week because of which as many as seven people lost their lives.
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News Reports

Ram Mandir: Mahant Nritya Gopal Das visits Ram Lalla after 28-years, inspects temple construction work at Ram Janmabhoomi

OpIndia Staff -
Mahant Nritya Gopal Das is the chairman of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra, the trust that will oversee the construction and management of the temple at Ram Janmabhoomi, Ayodhya
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News Reports

Kerala: Man buys a cobra, watches while it bites his wife to kill her so he can marry again

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, Sooraj had attempted to kill Uthra earlier in March when she was bitten by a viper. Uthra had to spend a month in the hospital.
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Crime

Nine murders to cover up one: Sanjay Yadav killed his live-in partner Rafiqa, read how 9 people had to die next

OpIndia Staff -
Sanjay Yadav had purchased sleeping pills and laced the family's and the 3 other migrant workers' food. He had then dragged them one by one and had dumped them in a nearby well.
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News Reports

‘Rajiv Gandhi was a murderer’: BJP leader Tajinder Bagga’s tweet irks Punjab Youth Congress, invites threats of FIR and physical assault

OpIndia Staff -
While accepting the challenge posed by the Punjab Youth Congress, Tajinder Bagga said that he would meet them in-person, post the lockdown.
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News Reports

Crowd gathering at funerals and increase in burials in Muslim graveyards stoke fear of coronavirus infection amongst people in Indore, complaint to police

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, there is a significant rise in the number of burials and most of the funeral processions have over 50 to 100 people attending the same. This has stoked fear of spread of Chinese coronavirus.
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News Reports

Kanyakumari: Villagers perform Bharat Mata puja after local Hindu groups and RSS obtain collector’s order to reinstate the statue

OpIndia Staff -
The Kanyakumari Police had covered the Bharat Mata statue after a Christian Missionary group had alleged that the statue had hurt their "religious sentiments"
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News Reports

25 lakh migrant workers returned to state so far amidst Coronavirus pandemic: UP CM Yogi Adityanath

OpIndia Staff -
The Yogi Adityanath govt has been working relentlessly to provide employment and various other facilities to the migrant workers who have returned to the state amidst the nationwide lockdown
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News Reports

UP: Police books over two dozen people for gathering in large groups to offer Eid namaz in a Muzaffarnagar Mosque

OpIndia Staff -
Defying administration's repeated appeals, a raft of Muslims congregated at the mosque in Kajian colony in Muzaffarnagar to offer prayers on the occasion of Eid-al-Fitr
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News Reports

Styrene gas tragedy: LG Polymers was warned over toxic styrene levels, green ministry red flags delay by Andhra govt: Report

Jhankar Mohta -
A major chemical leak from the LG Polymers plant near Visakhapatnam impacted villages in a five-km radius
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Politics

Coronavirus outbreak: Congress demands a fresh Union Budget, claims the pandemic demands increased spending by the centre

OpIndia Staff -
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram in his column has argued that the present scenario has rendered the Union Budget declared in February irrelevant
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News Reports

England: Pakistani arrested for vandalising Guru Arjan Dev Gurdwara, note on Kashmir posted in the Gurdwara recovered

OpIndia Staff -
In the attack which took place on May 25 morning at Guru Arjan Dev Gurdwara in Derby, England, the unidentified man had broken the Gurudwara's windows
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Editor's picks

China to evacuate its citizens from India amidst pandemic and rising border tensions: Here are the details of the press release

OpIndia Staff -
A notice has been published on the Chinese embassy website which states that students, tourists and businessmen who have been stranded in India will be allowed to fly back to China on special flights
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Opinions

Praṇavārth: Brahman, Manifested

Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar -
Praṇava (प्रणव) - ॐ holds a position of paramount importance in Dharma.
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Politics

Do not spread hatred on social media: OSD to Tripura CM slams Asaduddin Owaisi for giving communal colour to an incident of rivalry

OpIndia Staff -
OSD to the Tripura CM slams Asaduddin Owaisi for trying to incite people by sharing a misleading report by TDN World
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News Reports

Nepal PM KP Oli continues his tirade: Blames India for the rising number of coronavirus cases in his country

OpIndia Staff -
Oli said that the people coming in from India 'without proper checking' have vastly contributed to the spread of coronavirus in Nepal.
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News Reports

Eid: No sweets exchanged between BSF and Pakistan Rangers, amidst escalated border tension

OpIndia Staff -
Officials attribute the change in India's stance towards Pakistan to increased incidents of cross-border terrorism on the western border.
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Culture and History

Is Hinduism a ‘religion’ or just a ‘way of life’? Depends on how one defines ‘religion’ itself

Maria Wirth -
Hindus are often heard arguing that Hinduism is not a religion but a way of life while others object and see Hinduism as a religion
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Media

Congress-friendly TV anchor expresses glee at coronavirus cases from Gujarat, mocks ‘Gujarat model’

OpIndia Staff -
Sumanth Raman defended meteoric rise of coronavirus cases in Maharashtra by claiming that the state has been testing three times as compared to Gujarat
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News Reports

Mob lynching and murder of vegetable vendor: Assam police arrest accused Faizul Ali and Yusuf, 3 more absconding

OpIndia Staff -
The other accused, namely, Jalil Ali, Firoze Khan, and Shabir Ali, involved in the lynching of Sanatan Deka are currently absconding.
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News Reports

Migrant workers coming to Maharashtra will need to take permission from ‘us’: MNS chief Raj Thackeray says UP migrant can vote only in UP

OpIndia Staff -
UP CM Yogi Adityanath had yesterday said at a webinar that states wanting the services of UP's manpower will first have to obtain consent from the state government to avail their services
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News Reports

Paatal Lok morphed image of Yogi, other leaders to show corrupt character in the story: BJP MLA files complaint against Anushka Sharma

OpIndia Staff -
Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma is yet to respond to the allegations meted out against her web series Paatal Lok
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News Reports

‘U will keep cleaning toilets’: Shokat Ali and Rashid use derogatory, casteist slurs against Dalit BJP leader Hari Manjhi

OpIndia Staff -
A person named Shokat Ali had supported the 'manual scavenger' remark against the Dalit MP and had stated that regardless of how much he tries, the Dalit MP cannot become a priest and will keep doing what he has been doing all these years.
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Media

NYTimes publishes name of murder victim among long list of coronavirus victims, corrects after being pointed out by netizens

OpIndia Staff -
Devoid of photographs, graphics, and advertisement, the international newspaper carried the stories of 1000 victims of the Chinese pandemic who have been reduced to mere statistics.
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News Reports

Delhi: Tanker operators say AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal collected bribes up to Rs 60 lakhs a month

OpIndia Staff -
The accusations of graft against AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal came to light after a water tanker owner, Dr Rajendra Singh, committed suicide alleging harassment for payment from the AAP MLA and his aide Kapil Nagar
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News Reports

Mumbai Police issues prohibitory order, to take action against messages on social media: Here is how it curbs criticism against Uddhav Govt

OpIndia Staff -
For MLA Aaditya Thackeray too, the most worrying aspect of the pandemic in Maharashtra is the ‘hate on social media'
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