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‘Sanghis’ rape dead bodies, masturbate naked before their daughters while chanting Jai Shri Ram: Congress leader takes political discourse to a new low

OpIndia Staff -
Soon after using filthy anti-Hindu words, and claiming that BJP supporters 'exhume corpses and rape them', Congress' Pankaj Punia went on a twitter spree of liking and retweeting the tweets of Congress supporters who were rejoicing over his statements.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh Bus Row: Priyanka Gandhi aide Ajay Lallu arrested, bus drivers chant anti-Congress slogans complaining about poor quality food

OpIndia Staff -
Ajay Lallu was dragged and removed by UP Police from the Agra-Rajasthan border where he was sitting on a dharna demanding the 'buses' Congress had arranged be allowed to enter the UP border.
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News Reports

Cyclone Amphan: Over 4 lakh evacuated in Bengal, 1 lakh in Odisha as the two states brace for the landfall later today

OpIndia Staff -
As per the latest data released by the Indian Meteorological Department, the Cyclone Amphan is presently about 125 km away from the Odisha port city of Paradip, 240 km South of Digha and 395 km south west of Khepupara.
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News Reports

FIR war: Rajasthan police register retaliatory FIR against UP Addl Chief Secretary and Agra DM after UP police registered FIR against Congress leaders

OpIndia Staff -
Congress run Rajasthan govt took retaliatory action against UP's FIR against Congress leaders by filing FIR against senior officers of UP
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News Reports

Coronavirus lockdown: Temples in Tamil Nadu appeal for relaxation in electricity bills

OpIndia Staff -
The Tamil Nadu Rural Temple Priest association has appealed the government to increase the amount for meant for relief for the temple employees.
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News Reports

Buses for migrant workers: Priyanka Gandhi’s aide Sandeep Singh and UP Congress president Ajay Lallu booked for forgery and cheating

OpIndia Staff -
Congress party also moved the buses carrying migrants to the Uttar Pradesh border without obtaining the necessary passes
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News Reports

Congress blames BJP for posters declaring Kamal Nath and his son as missing in Chhindwara, BJP denies allegations

OpIndia Staff -
Posters stating former Chief Minister Kamal Nath and his son Nakul Nath as 'missing' have been spotted in Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh
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News Reports

‘Prove your allegations or face legal action’: Folk singer Malini Awasthi to Congress IT cell worker after he maligns her and her IAS officer...

OpIndia Staff -
Slamming Gaurav Pandhi over incendiary attack against her family, Malini Awasthi accused he was maligning her for dirty politics
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News Reports

EXCLUSIVE: Petition in Calcutta HC alleges mismanagement of Coronavirus crisis by West Bengal govt, state objects to inspection by Union Home Ministry

OpIndia Staff -
A petition in the Calcutta HC expressed grievances regarding the alleged mismanagement of the Coronavirus crisis by the West Bengal government.
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News Reports

Know about Turkish TV series Ertugrul that Rana Ayyub and Pakistanis are binge-watching

OpIndia Staff -
The Muslim world is drooling over Resurrection: Ertugrul, based on the father of the founder of the Ottoman dynasty.
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News Reports

In the list of 1049 buses provided by Congress, 31 are three-wheelers, 69 ambulances/trucks and details of 70 vehicles unknown: UP government

OpIndia Staff -
Congress had sent a list of over 1000 buses to the UP government seeking permission to ferry migrant workers to their respective home towns
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Opinions

Harassment of OpIndia and its Editors: A note from the CEO, Rahul Roushan

Rahul Roushan -
In the last few days, you would have noticed that we were the target of a coordinated attack from the usual suspects as well as from some unusual corners.
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News Reports

‘Coronavirus is not a pandemic in the country’: Pakistan’s Supreme Court lifts restrictions, orders all markets to be opened

Dibakar Dutta -
The apex court of Pakistan has also asked the provincial governments to not create hindrance in opening up markets and malls while ensuring implementation of standard operating procedures (SOPs). The court also said that the Disaster Management Authority is 'spending too much' on the coronavirus crisis.
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Political History of India

Hindus should never be angry against Muslims: Gandhi’s non-violence, Godse’s speech and Koenraad Elst’s analysis

OpIndia Staff -
The 19th of May 2020 is the 110th birth anniversary of Nathuram Godse, the man who assassinated Gandhi.
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News Reports

Indian Air Force shelves three acquisition projects worth over Rs 8,000 crore to support Make in India and due to high cost

OpIndia Staff -
Indian Air Force shelves plans to buy new Pilatus and Hawk trainer aircraft, formally cancels re-engine project for Jaguars
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News Reports

‘Union Territory’ of Goa doesn’t have enough facilities to treat coronavirus, claims Kerala health minister, Goa CM calls out her claims

OpIndia Staff -
The Health Minister of Kerala, KK Shailaja, described Goa as a union territory of India with not sufficient hospitals to treat the novel coronavirus in her interview with the BBC
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News Reports

Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Chairman Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai’s son Junaid Sehrai among two terrorists killed in Srinagar encounter

OpIndia Staff -
Two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists Junaid Sehrai and Tariq Ahmed Sheikh killed in a encounter with security forces in Srinagar
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News Reports

Jammu and Kashmir: Dalits, children of exiled Kashmiri Pandits can now have domicile certificates and get equal rights at jobs

OpIndia Staff -
The Valmiki community which was brought to work as sanitation workers by the erstwhile state government in 1957, was not eligible for any government jobs apart from sanitation work, despite living and working in the UT for decades.
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Opinions

PM Modi’s Leadership: Governing India and leading the World from the front

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India is fortunate enough to have Prime Minister Narendra Modi to lead the nation from the front in its struggle against coronavirus.
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News Reports

As Priyanka Gandhi sends details of auto rickshaw instead of buses in UP, read how Lalu Prasad Yadav ‘transported’ cattle on two-wheeler in Fodder...

OpIndia Staff -
Forged bills submitted at district treasuries in Bihar revealed that two-wheelers were used to transport cattle including buffalo over several hundred kilometres
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News Reports

Mumbai coronavirus outbreak: Untraceable and missing COVID-19 patients due to wrong contact details compound BMC’s miseries

OpIndia Staff -
More than 100 coronavirus patients remain untraceable and missing at any given time in Mumbai, the epicentre of India's coronavirus outbreak
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Political History of India

Reconciling Nathuram Godse: Why India should move beyond demonising him

K Bhattacharjee -
Nathuram Godse was born on the 19th of May, 1910. He assassinated Gandhi in 1948.
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News Reports

Mumbai: Thousands of migrants gather at Bandra terminus without registration after rumours of special trains

OpIndia Staff -
Migrants started arriving near Bandra railway station since early morning on Tuesday and close to 5,000 gathered at the station
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News Reports

The United States confirms that they are donating ventilators to India for free, media reports claiming India needs to pay $2.6 million are fake

OpIndia Staff -
US President Donald Trump had earlier announced that America will be donating 200 ventilators to India to fight the "invisible enemy"
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News Reports

TikTok star Faizal Siddiqui, who glamorised acid attack, banned from platform over multiple guidelines violation

OpIndia Staff -
Despite TikTok banning account of Faizal Siddiqui, his videos are still visible for all to view and download.
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Social Media Fact-Check

Amidst lockdown and migrant crisis, Congress spokesperson shares an image from Nepal as that of India to play politics over misery of the poor

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress leader from Harayana wanted to suggest that the condition of people in the 'New India', the India that is not ruled by his party anymore, is miserable.
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News Reports

Zee News anchor Aman Chopra teaches a Maulana a lesson in secularism

OpIndia Staff -
The discussion on Zee News was premised on the recent communal incident in Davanagere wherein Muslim women were hounded for purchasing clothes from a Hindu shop.
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News Reports

Journalist points out that the list of ‘buses’ sent by Priyanka Gandhi to UP includes auto-rickshaws, Congress threatens him with FIR

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress, after suffering yet another humiliation, decided to bully and threaten India TV journalist Sushant Sinha with an FIR for reporting facts pertaining to the Priyanka Gandhi's fake list of buses.
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News Reports

Bihar: 8% of initial lot samples from migrant workers returned to state tested coronavirus positive so far, similar patterns in Jharkhand

OpIndia Staff -
Principal Health Secretary of Jharkhand Dr Nitin Madan Kulkarni said, "With thousands still returning home every day, we do not have the infrastructure to put all of them in institutional quarantine."
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News Reports

Man hangs by balcony railing as he tries to jump off over fight with wife over spiciness in food, rescued by neighbours. Watch video

OpIndia Staff -
Video of the man hanging from the balcony of his apartment in Ahmedabad's Chandkhela area has now gone viral on social media
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News Reports

“They demand we stop worshipping Hindu deities and worship only Babasaheb”, says a Dalit family alleging attack by Bhim Army members in Bihar

OpIndia Staff -
The Dalit family alleged that Bhim Army entered the temple and asked to remove the saffron flag bearing an image of Bajrang Bali
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Political History of India

The Tragedy of 19 May 1961: When 11 Bengalis lost their lives for their mother tongue

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The significance of the 19th day of May 1961 is probably as alien a concept to the modern-day Bengali of Kolkata, as civilization is to a Vandal.
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News Reports

In Arnab v Antonia, this round goes to Goswami: SC extends protection by three weeks, emphasises importance of freedom of the press

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dealt a great blow for Arnab Goswami in his ongoing tussle against Sonia Gandhi.
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News Reports

“No interference in the internal affairs of any country”, Afghan Taliban rubbishes claims of ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’ in Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
Following the clarification by the Taliban, it becomes clear that the Taliban will not toe Pakistan's line on Kashmir.
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News Reports

Lockdown 4.0: Public transport, taxi services start in several cities, shops opened with specific social distancing orders

OpIndia Staff -
In Karnataka, the government has allowed resumption of public bus services in the state during the fourth phase of coronavirus lockdown. Parks will be opened for public for 2 hours each in the morning and evening.
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Lockdown 4.0: E-commerce firms resume full operations across the country from Tuesday

OpIndia Staff -
Following the ease of restrictions, e-commerce companies have started taking orders for both essential and non-essential items
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Social Media

Promoting rape, animal abuse, hatred and violence against Hindus: The disturbing trends of TikTok in India

Dibakar Dutta -
TikTok has been the subject of public scrutiny ever creator Faisal Siddiqui promoted acid attacks on women by jilted lovers in a viral video.
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Social Media

Laxmi Agarwal slams TikTok user Faizal Siddiqui for promoting acid attacks against women, thanks NCW For taking action against the video

OpIndia Staff -
Taking to Instagram, Laxmi Agarwal slammed Faizal Siddiqui for promoting such criminal acts through social media platforms.
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News Reports

List of buses sent by Congress to Uttar Pradesh govt includes auto rickshaws and blacklisted numbers, online database reveals

OpIndia Staff -
Priyanka Gandhi, in a letter to UP Additional Chief Secretary (Home) has claimed that the UP government asking for handing over the buses she has arranged for migrant workers is 'political move'.
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Social Media Fact-Check

Coronavirus politics: Congress tweets old video clip to claim they help the poor more than the BJP does

OpIndia Staff -
Passing off old images and videos as recent ones to hit out at the central government is becoming a usual practice for Congress and other prominent persons.
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News Reports

Trump says no US funding to WHO if it doesn’t show independence from Chinese influence in next 30 days

OpIndia Staff -
President Trump said that the review carried out by his administration has confirmed that the WHO consistently ignored credible reports of the virus spreading in Wuhan as early as December 2019.
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Entertainment

Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s wife Aalia sends divorce notice through WhatsApp due to coronavirus lockdown, levels ‘serious allegations’

OpIndia Staff -
While the notice was sent on 7th May, Nawazuddin has not yet responded. The lawyer stated that the legal notice seeks divorce and maintenance.
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News Reports

Bhuj mosque provocation: Man who called for unscheduled azaan and asked Muslims to pick up arms lodged in Surat jail under PASA

OpIndia Staff -
On 7th May 2020, the said person entered the Masjid Imam-e-Rabbani mosque at around 2:30 AM and played an unscheduled azaan.
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News Reports

Ex-BJP leader Yashwant Sinha claims being arrested, was sitting on dharna amid lockdown

OpIndia Staff -
Yashwant Sinha demanded that armed forces and paramilitary forces be deployed to help migrant workers reach their homes.
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Indian Air Force to acquire 450 fighter aircraft for deployment on the northern and western frontiers of India: IAF Chief

OpIndia Staff -
The list of aircraft planned to be inducted by the Indian Air Force included 36 Rafales, said the IAF chief.
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News Reports

Cyclone Amphan to evolve into a super cyclone; Bengal, Odisha on high-alert as landfall expected on May 20

OpIndia Staff -
The Indian Meteorological Department today announced that Cyclone Amphan in Bay of Bengal has intensified into a super cyclone with wind speed close to 200 Kmph
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News Reports

Many migrant trains not yet running due to lack of cooperation from states, railways rue, West Bengal has approved only 19 Shramik trains

OpIndia Staff -
Uttar Pradesh has approved nearly 800 Shramik Trains thus far. West Bengal has approved only 19.
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No ambulance, no help from govt proved fatal for Mumbai cop Amol Kulkarni: Journalist alleges maltreatment of front-line warriors in coronavirus-hit Maharashtra

OpIndia Staff -
Vijay Chormare, the Maharashtra Times journalist has alleged Maharashtra state administration of exhibiting shocking apathy towards police official Amol Kulkarni who was diagnosed and later died of COVID-19
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Entertainment

Oscar-winning ‘Joker’ actor Joaquin Phoenix urges people to virtually adopt a cow

OpIndia Staff -
In a heartwarming video, Joaquin Phoenix was seen carrying the calf in his arms from the slaughterhouse in LA
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Media

Following a severe backlash, NDTV deletes the video where their reporter was seen asking a ‘migrant worker’ to pose and ‘walk again’ while crossing...

OpIndia Staff -
After clarifying that the video was sourced from a stringer, NDTV has now curiously deleted the video altogether.
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