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Civil liberties group sues US President Donald Trump for his executive order to regulate social media, alleges the order curbs free speech

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NGO Centre for Democracy and Technology files federal lawsuit against Donald Trump's order to regulate social media
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News Reports

Maharashtra governor overrules CM Uddhav Thackeray’s decision to cancel final year university exams, calls it ‘violations of University Act’

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Maharashtra CM in an address to the State on Sunday evening announced that the state had no choice but to promote final-year students based without exams
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News Reports

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, nurses of AIIMS Delhi continue to protest for better facilities

OpIndia Staff -
The Union of nurses in AIIMS Delhi is demanding better facilities for nursing staff especially female staffers
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News Reports

Indian Railways refunds Rs 1,885 crore to passengers against cancellation of trains due to coronavirus lockdown

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On May 21, Indian Railways had announced to restart services of 200 passenger trains that it will operate from June 1.
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News Reports

India lodges strong protest over desecration of Buddhist carvings in PoK’s Gilgit-Baltistan, asks Pakistan to vacate illegally occupied territories

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India has lodged a strong protest with Pakistan over the destruction of Indian-Buddhist heritage in the Gilgit-Baltistan region
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News Reports

Sweden’s Coronavirus response hailed by Indian liberals was flawed, admits country’s response in-charge

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Sweden remains the only Scandivanian country with an outsize number of cornavirus infection and fatalities, much higher than those witnessed in Finland, Denmark and Norway
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News Reports

Supreme court refuses to entertain a plea seeking India to be officially renamed only as ‘Bharat’

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Dismissing plea to rename the country as only Bharat, CJI said that it is not the job of the court to consider such issues
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News Reports

The Wire report claims Tripura govt paid less amount to students for mid-day meal scheme, data shows govt paid 50% more

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Tripura govt debunks The Wire report saying less amount was paid to students under mid-day meal scheme during lockdown
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Media Fact-Check

Food Corporation of India fact-checks Scroll, calls out its deliberately misleading report claiming 65 lakh tonnes food grains wasted amid lockdown

OpIndia Staff -
The FCI has slammed Scroll after the latter published a report claiming that India had let 65 lakh tonnes of grains go to waste.
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News Reports

Kerala: After firecracker explosion in mouth kills a pregnant elephant, reports emerge where another elephant had died due to mouth injury in April

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In April this year, a female elephant in Kollam, Kerala, had also died in similar fashion. Authorities suspect she also bit on food filled with crackers.
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News Reports

Delhi anti-Hindu riots: Tablighi Jamaat, PFI, Jamia links emerge as Delhi Police files charge sheet

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The Tablighi Jamaat links have emerged in the charge-sheet filed by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police pertaining to violence in Shiv Vihar area during the Anti-Hindu riots in Delhi.
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News Reports

ISIS supporters rejoice at violent riots in America, claiming them to be ‘divine payback for the treatment of Muslims’

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Pro-ISIS supporters are expressing their joy over the violent riots across several American cities on the Telegram app, says a report.
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News Reports

Community transmission of Coronavirus in Mumbai began before the lockdown was imposed: TISS Researcher

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Researchers from Tata Institute of Social Sciences have said that Coronavirus community transmission in Mumbai started before lockdown
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News Reports

RSS worker in Madhya Pradesh was lynched by a Muslim mob for opposing derogatory remarks on Sita Mata: Reports

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RSS worker Rajesh Phoolmali was critically injured by the Muslim mob in the clashes that erupted on May 18. On May 31, he had succumbed to his injuries in Safdarjung hospital in Delhi.
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Entertainment

Hindustani Bhau says influential people calling him to ‘sit and talk’ after he filed complaint against Ekta Kapoor on inappropriate sex scene in web...

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Vikas Pathak aka Hindustani Bhau shared a video on Instagram on Tuesday alleging that he is getting calls from several "big people" who are requesting him to talk and solve the issue.
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News Reports

Delhi HC slams Delhi government for long delays in the cremation of bodies of Coronavirus victims in the city

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The Delhi government has been receiving flak for fudging data of the number of coronavirus deaths and it unpreparedness in handling the pandemic
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News Reports

Amul pumped in Rs 8,000 crore back into rural economy during lockdown, increased milk collection by 15% with seamless supply chain

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Dairy cooperative AMUL stood tall as the coronavirus crisis hit the country and against all odds managed to ensure that milk distribution is not impaired and supply chain management is seamless.
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News Reports

Telangana: Farmer ploughing field finds pots with gold and silver ornaments

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As per the New Indian Express report, a total of 25 pieces of ornaments were found in those pots.
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News Reports

LGBT Community condemns pride march at Lal Chowk, abandons Pride Kashmir even as radical Muslims give them death threats

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LGBT Community is now saying that holding pride marches during pride month is worthy of condemnation.
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Opinions

‘Muslim Lives Matter’ at a time of BLM: Biggest lesson from this development is that Indian liberals and Western progressives are devotees of the...

K Bhattacharjee -
Indian liberals decided that it was a good opportunity to equate Indian Muslims with the Black population in the USA and trend 'Muslim Lives Matter'.
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News Reports

IB officer Ankit Sharma was specifically targeted by a mob led by Tahir Hussain, deep-rooted conspiracy behind the murder: Charge-sheet by Delhi Police

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According to charge-sheet by Delhi POlice, Ankit Sharma was specifically targeted by a mob led by suspended AAP leader Tahir Hussain
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Crime

Kerala: Police identify WhatsApp group circulating child pornography, 3 persons including admin arrested

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Cyberdome, a wing of the Kerala police have joined hands with Interpol to curb the menace of cybercrime involving child pornography
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News Reports

Delhi: Security increased and police deployed at Shaheen Bagh, Jamia Nagar as anti-CAA lobby plan protests against CAA, UAPA

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The police officials said that there were already few women had assembled the spot, however, after a painstaking effort by the police present at the spot, the women were sent back from the protest site.
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Media

Scientist Anand Ranganathan exposes hate, selectivity, lies, and propaganda of ‘kitty party journalist’ Saba Naqvi. Watch video

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Saba Naqvi, a troll masquerading as a 'journalist' had an embarrassing moment on TV on Tuesday as her propaganda and lies got exposed on national television.
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Culture and History

Comparing African Americans to Indian Muslims in India is like reading history upside down

Abhishek Banerjee -
In other words, Indian ‘secularism’ has been a yoke on nearly everyone’s shoulders. On the shoulders of Hindus, backward castes, women, LGBTQ, the poor. Indian ‘secularism’ has only ever helped Islamist patriarchy.
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Social Media

Here’s how liberals in USA were celebrating, justifying and inciting riots after George Floyd’s death

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The murder of George Floyd in the USA has led to a wave of riots in the United States.
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Entertainment

“Chacha hai, aisa kabhi nahin kar sakte,” Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s niece alleges torture, sexual assault by his brother, says the actor did not support her

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She further alleged that when she told Nawazuddin about the childhood trauma she went through, even he did not believe her.
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News Reports

George Floyd case: Solidarity posts by social media users backfire as crucial information gets lost under the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag

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Social Media users on Instagram shared black images with #BlackLivesMatter and #BLM to express their solidarity with Black victims of racial discrimination
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News Reports

Masood Azhar’s nephew Ismail Alvi alias Fauji Bhai, IED expert behind the 2019 Pulwama attack, killed by security forces in J&K

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Ismail Alvi is an IED expert who helped in assembling the Pulwama attack bomb and the bomb recovered last week
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Social Media

Netizens challenge Vir Das to mock Islam and its prophet as he mocks Hinduism after he asks people to pay for his jokes

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Political activist Ramesh Solanki has set in motion an interesting turn of events involving comedian Vir Das.
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News Reports

AAP leader Tahir Hussain transferred Rs. 1.1 crores to shell companies, anti-CAA protesters told to be prepared for ‘big action’ during Trump visit: Reports

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The charges-sheet says that Tahir Hussain transferred Rs. 1.1 crores to shell companies and later received the money in cash.
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News Reports

Searching porn in incognito? Google is possibly recording you, and now it has been sued for $5 billion

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Google has been slapped with a lawsuit seeking $5 billion, accusing the search giant of privacy infringements by tracking internet activity of users using browser in the 'private or incognito' mode
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News Reports

Modi 2.0 government asserts its commitment to uproot corruption from India, warns the ‘high and mighty’

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P Chidambaram, the former union minister, considered 'untouchable' for a long time, was arrested by the CBI last year and had spent over 106 days in custody before managing to get released under strict bail conditions.
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Media Fact-Check

CNN News 18 withdraws fake news misquoting Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Ladakh standoff

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Ajai Shukla, a known conspiracy theorist of the Congress era, brazened out to peddle the same misinformation to claim that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh publicly admitted that Chinese soldiers had crossed into India's side of the LAC in large numbers.
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News Reports

Jamia students want to ‘blow up’ proctor’s office, carry out Minneapolis style ‘protests’ over slapping of UAPA on Delhi rioters

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As America burns in flames after protests over George Floyd killing went violent, those in India drawing false equivalence between those riots and anti-CAA riots now want to ape the violence in India again.
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News Reports

Google removes ‘Mitron’ and ‘Remove China Apps’ from Google Play store on all Android devices over ‘policy violation’

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The apps had gained popularity in the country at a time when there is a rising anti-China sentiment among many citizens as tensions between two countries has escalated in recent days over the border stand-off.
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News Reports

Kerala: Pregnant wild elephant dies after pineapple stuffed with crackers fed by locals exploded in her mouth

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The incident took place in Malappuram district of Kerala when the elephant had wandered into village in search for food.
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Entertainment

Pre independence slavery genes? Kangana Ranaut questions Bollywood’s silence on Palghar Sadhu lynching as they voice solidarity over #BlackLivesMatter

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Even as celebrities voice their solidarity and put up social media campaign on #BlackLivesMatter, Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut has questioned their silence on the Palghar Sadhu lynching.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee government quarantines five migrant workers in an abandoned public toilet in Kolkata

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An abandoned public toilet in Taratala, Kolkata used as quarantine center to house migrants by West Bengal government
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News Reports

Death of woman at Muzaffarpur station: Railway affidavit filed in Patna HC states she died 4 hours ago in train, brother-in-law said she had...

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Indian Railways files affidavit in Patna High Court in the case of death of woman at Muzaffarpur station, says train was not delayed
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News Reports

Concerns raised over nuclear and chemical plants in Maharashtra as cyclone Nisarga heads towards the state

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Maharashtra has several chemical and nuclear plants which are a matter of concern due to the cyclone Nisarga.
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News Reports

Religious conversions of Dalit Hindus in Uttarakhand prevalent since ages becomes more rampant during coronavirus pandemic

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Coronavirus pandemic gave the Christian's an opportunity to lure the affected backward Hindus in Uttarakhand via monetary inducements
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News Reports

Pakistan: Christian couple, convicted for blasphemy, gets an appeal hearing against death penalty after 6 years

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The duo was handed the death sentence for blasphemy by an additional district and sessions judge of Toba Tek Singh on April 4, 2014,
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News Reports

Delhi riot charge-sheet: Tahir Hussain met Umar Khalid, Pinjra Tod activists sent messages asking Muslims to keep acid, petrol, hot water, stones ready

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The Delhi riot charge-sheet prove beyond doubt that the violence was well planed and organised by Islamist and leftist activists
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News Reports

Intelligence report says terrorists and anti-social elements planning attacks in Delhi, CRPF steps up security in the national capital

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Alert issued by intelligence agencies say Terrorists of the various groups as well as anti-social elements might be planning terror attacks in Delhi
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Opinions

The fake equivalence communists are trying to manufacture between Blacks of America and Muslims of India

Saket Suryesh -
The killing og Geoge Floyd in the USA by the cops and the subsequent riots have got the Communists in India to draw a false equivalence between blacks in USA and Muslims in India
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News Reports

Adesh Kumar Gupta replaces Manoj Tiwari as Delhi BJP president

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The position of Delhi BJP Chief which was being handled by Manoj Tiwari has been handed over to Adesh Kumar Gupta
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Sadanand Dhume and Omar Abdullah like a disparaging tweet to Republic TV from Pakistani lawyer who had earlier glorified terrorists attacking India

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Asad Khan, the Pakistani lawyer, had earlier posted tweets glorifying terrorist Riyaz Naikoo as 'resister' and accusing the Indian government of brutalising Kashmiris through coronavirus
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News Reports

Advocate sends a legal notice against media outlet ‘Dabang Dunia’ for claiming Kunti committed adultery and hurting religious sentiments

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The advocate, Ashutosh Dubey, had sent a legal notice to Dabangduniya News Service for its report wherein it claimed Kunti from Mahabharata had an illicit affair after marriage, resulting in the birth of her sons
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Union govt unveils three schemes worth Rs 50,000 crore to make India self-reliant in electronics manufacturing

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Union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad releases detailed guidelines about the three new initiatives to promote electronics manufacturing
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