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Tamil Nadu: Chennai’s Koyambedu market cluster emerges as the new hotspot with over 3000 cases traced, CM blames vendors

OpIndia Staff -
Over 3000 vendors, drivers, workers and those who visited the market on a daily basis, and their secondary contacts have been tested positive.
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News Reports

Nirav Modi defended in UK court by former Judge who had joined Congress after meeting Rahul Gandhi

OpIndia Staff -
Retired Bombay High Court judge and Congress leader Abhay Thipsay on Wednesday defended fugitive businessman Nirav Modi in a London court via video conference
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News Reports

At least 14 migrants killed and several injured in two separate road accidents

OpIndia Staff -
Two separate accidents in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh leave 14 migrant workers dead
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News Reports

Some countries busy in spreading other viruses such as terrorism, fake news, doctored videos during Coronavirus pandemic: MEA S Jaishankar

OpIndia Staff -
Some countries busy in spreading other viruses such as terrorism, fake news, doctored videos, S Jaishankar said in SCO meet
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News Reports

Supreme Court issues dress code for lawyers without coats and gowns for virtual court hearings, CJI says they make it easier to catch Coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
After CJI said that Judges and Lawyers should not wear coats and gowns for the time being, SC issued new dress code for lawyers
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News Reports

Pakistan: Minor Hindu girl abducted and forcibly converted to Islam, watch how influential Islamic cleric Mian Mithoo makes her embrace Islam

OpIndia Staff -
The Islamic cleric Mian Mithoo is feared by the Hindus in Ghotki, as they accuse him of kidnapping and forced conversions of Hindu girls
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News Reports

The sham of “Worli Model” exposed as Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray tells districts to embrace the Goa model to fight coronavirus outbreak

OpIndia Staff -
Districts in Maharashtra have been asked by the CM to imitate the Goa model and initiate house-to-house surveys to tackle coronavirus
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Economy and Finance

Atmanirbhar Bharat: Yogi govt to hold online loan fair for MSME sector, to disburse loan of around Rs 2,000 crore to 36,000 entrepreneurs

OpIndia Staff -
Yogi Adityanath further said that Uttar Pradesh is a hub for MSME sector and about 3 crore people in the state are directly or indirectly involved in the sector.
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News Reports

PM CARES Fund allocates Rs. 3100 Crore to fight coronavirus, will be used to purchase ventilators and support migrant movement

OpIndia Staff -
Amid rumour mongering about PM CARES fund by opposition, Rs 3100 crore allocated from the fund in the fight against Coronavirus
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News Reports

Islamic preacher Zakir Naik asks Muslim countries arrest non-Muslims Indians criticising Islam and try them under blasphemy laws

OpIndia Staff -
Zakir Naik is facing charges in India of indulging in unlawful activities that incited terror in the country
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News Reports

Gorakhpur: Man tries to commit suicide after wife asked him to not come home after he had travelled more than 1600 km to reach...

OpIndia Staff -
After travelling 1655 kms, from Pune, Deepak Patel was told by his wife to not come home due to Coronavirus, after that he tried to hang from a building
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News Reports

Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan: How Sterlite Copper plant closure was India’s loss and Pakistan’s gain making us dependent on import for copper

OpIndia Staff -
The closure of Sterlite Copper plant in Thoothukudi serves as an indicator of India's eager tendency to shun its self-reliance and inflict self-harm upon herself
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News Reports

Zee-News editor-in-Chief Sudhir Chaudhary receives threat calls from Kalistan supporting terrorist in UAE

OpIndia Staff -
The Zee News played the recording in which the Khalistani says that Punjab does not belong to someone's father.
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News Reports

“Our houses are getting destroyed, our women being raped and tortured every day”: Pashtun activist accuses Pakistan Army of human rights violation

OpIndia Staff -
The plight of the Pakistani Pashtun, runs deep in a series of unfortunate historical events that have led to their systematic discrimination
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News Reports

Cinemas and luxury leather goods in Malaysian shopping centres covered with moulds after over 50 days of Coronavirus lockdown

OpIndia Staff -
Malaysia has been under lockdown since March 18 and it has now bwwn extended until June 9 due to the coronavirus pandemic
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News Reports

Boost for MSMEs, EPF support and special help for financial institutions: Read the details of FM Sitharaman’s first address on Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan

OpIndia Staff -
In a major initiative, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced Rs 3 lakh crores Collateral-free Automatic Loans for Businesses, including Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).
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News Reports

They burnt down our houses and temples and police taking action against us instead: Telinipara Hindus in West Bengal recall the horror

OpIndia Staff -
Till now 56 people have been arrested in the Telinipara violence case in West Bengal and section-144 has been imposed
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Economy and Finance

Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan: FM Sitharaman announces economic relief packages, MSMEs to get collateral-free loans up to Rs 3 lakh crore

OpIndia Staff -
The definition of MSMEs have also been revised and the existing threshold of investment and turnover of Micro, Small and Medium MSMEs have been extended significantly
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News Reports

Indore: Suspecting coronavirus, 78-year old man with pneumonia and breathing problems commits suicide

OpIndia Staff -
The elderly patient was suffering from severe pneumonia in both lungs was not found to be infected with Wuhan coronavirus and possibly took the suicidal step by falling into depression.
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News Reports

India Post delivers Rs 1,000 crore in cash to account holders, 23 lakh new bank accounts created during the lockdown

OpIndia Staff -
Nearly Rs 1,051 crore have been delivered by India Post in as many as 59 lakh transactions during the lockdown period
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Culture and History

Madura Vijaya: The epic by female poet Gangadevi that narrates the glorious victory of the Vijayanagara empire over the Madurai Sultanate

pawanpandey -
Harihara was the first King of Vijayanagara (now Hampi). After him Bukka Raya’s reign started. His son Akampana was a great commander and expanded his kingdom over all of South India, parts of Odisha, and parts of Bahmani Empire. Gandadevi was his wife.
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Economy and Finance

Watch: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman briefs media on economic package

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi on Tuesday announced Rs 20 lakh crore economic package to boost economy.
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News Reports

Supreme Court refuses to grant bail to 1984 anti-Sikh genocide convict and Congress leader Sajjan Kumar

OpIndia Staff -
Former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar is currently serving life imprisonment for his involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh genocide
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News Reports

Pakistan lifts ban on import of Indian drugs fearing severe shortage of medicine in the country

OpIndia Staff -
Pharmaceutical industry of Pakistan had demanded that the ban on Indian medicines and medicinal raw material should be lifted
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News Reports

Saudi Arabia orders 24-hour curfew during the five-day Eid holidays, Mecca continues to remain under total curfew

OpIndia Staff -
Saudi Arabia had earlier imposed full curfews on most towns and cities but eased them for the start of Ramadan.
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News Reports

Bill Gates’ coronavirus vaccine will have nano trackers, will be controlled via 5G satellites to take Islam out of Muslims: Pakistani ‘expert’ Zaid Hamid

OpIndia Staff -
Coronavirus has been hyped because Bill Gates has conspired to make all coming generations in the world America's slave, said Zaid Hamid
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News Reports

Coronavirus: Maharashtra govt requests for 20 companies of paramilitary forces to maintain law and order ahead of Ramzan Eid

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh has cited rampant infection and fatigue among police personnel as reasons for seeking the deployment of central police forces
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News Reports

Chennai’s ‘No Muslim Staff’ bakery appears ‘permanently closed’ on Google after allegations of religious discrimination led to social media outrage

OpIndia Staff -
According to Google business, Jain Bakeries and Confectioneries, a bakery in the T Nagar, Chennai, which has been at the receiving end of the hate across the social media has been permanently closed.
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News Reports

Afghanistan: 40 people including babies and women killed in twin terror attack on hospital and funeral in Kabul

OpIndia Staff -
In two separate attacks on a hospital and a funeral, terrorists of Islamic State killed 40 people in Afghanistan capital Kabul
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News Reports

Atmanirbhar Bharat: CAPF canteens to sell only made in India products from 1st June

OpIndia Staff -
Union Home Minister Amit Shah today took to Twitter to inform that all the CAPF (Central Armed Police Force) canteens across India will sell only made in India products going forward as a move to make India self-sufficient.
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News Reports

Growth rate of active coronavirus cases in the country slows down to 4.5%, death rate remains one of the lowest

OpIndia Staff -
The coronavirus death rate per million in May has been lowest in the country with just 1.79 deaths per million people
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Social Media

Atmanirbhar: PM Modi’s call for India’s self-reliance makes netizens unleash their creativity

OpIndia Staff -
Actually meme-verse is so 'Nirbhar' on the Marvel Cinematic Universe that no meme-fest can go without some Avengers memes. And when it comes to Avengers, no one is as Aatmanirbhar as Iron Man.
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News Reports

Trading platform Zerodha crashes as stock market gains in early trade after PM Modi’s Rs 20 lakh crore stimulus package announcement

OpIndia Staff -
Zerodha Kite platform's server crashed yet another on Wednesday due to some technical glitch and stock traders could not able to access the platform.
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News Reports

Debris from China’s Long March 5B rocket fall on West Africa, minutes after soaring over New York City: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
According to Spaceflight, the re-entry occurred less than 15 minutes after the rocket body soared almost directly over New York City. The rocket’s core stage measured around 100 feet (30 meters) long and 16 feet (5 meters) wide, with a mass of approximately 20 metric tons.
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Economy and Finance

One-time emergency measures for Atmanirbhar Bharat to make India a self-reliant global superpower

Santanu Chakraborty -
As India tries to open up the economy post-coronavirus lockdown, a few measures that could boost country's economy to become a global superpower.
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Crime

33 years after killing his mother, Delhi man kills own son over the same issue

OpIndia Staff -
ompal, a property dealer, had reportedly killed his own mother in 1987 after she tried to stop him from drinking.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Horrifying visuals of Hooghly up in flames emerge after communal clashes rock Telinipara, section 144 imposed

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Shocking visuals of Telinipara where communal clashes took place after Hindu houses were set on fire have gone viral on social media.
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News Reports

After demanding 5-6% of GDP as economic package, Congress claims 10% of GDP announced by PM is not enough, says package should be 50%...

OpIndia Staff -
MP Congress said that the package announced by PM Modi worth 10% of GDP not enough, it should be 50% of GDP
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News Reports

2 Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists who killed CRPF jawans in Handwara encounter identified, one is a Pakistani national

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Five personnel including Colonel Ashutosh Sharma and Major Anuj Sood were martyred in an encounter near Handwara in Kashmir
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News Reports

Gujarat High Court declares BJP leader and Gujarat minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasma’s 2017 assembly election win as void

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Gujarat High Court declares BJP leader Bhupendrasinh Chudasama's 2017 election as void on grounds of malpractice and manipulation
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News Reports

Coronavirus fallout: Maharashtra to grant temporary parole to 17,000 prisoners as COVID-19 spreads in jails

OpIndia Staff -
A high-powered committee has decided to grant temporary parole to 17,000 prisoners from jails across Maharashtra.
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News Reports

Liberals suffer a meltdown after PM Modi announces Rs 20 lakh crore economic relief package to restart the economy

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi announced a economic stimulus package of Rs 20 trillion to revive the economy battered by coronavirus outbreak
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Politics

Congress Spokesperson Randeep Surjewala scores self-goal, shares Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh migrant’s image to attack Modi govt

OpIndia Staff -
The desire of Randeep Surjewala to change political opinion through 'poverty porn' did not last long.
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News Reports

PM Modi announces economic package worth Rs 20 lakh crore to build a self-reliant India in the post-Coronavirus world

OpIndia Staff -
We have to change disasters into opportunities, said PM Modi while announcing revised economic packages for self- reliant India.
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Opinions

Is Congress trying to help China by making racist comments?

Abhishek Banerjee -
So what do you make of it when someone like Congress leader Adhir Chowdhury puts out an offensive and racist tweet against China? Who really benefits from this?
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News Reports

‘Ten Day Battle’: Wuhan in China decides to test its entire population in 10 days for the Coronavirus after new cases emerge

OpIndia Staff -
Wuhan has decided to test its entire population, a total of 11 million citizens, within a span of 10 days.
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Crime

Maharashtra CID arrests 24 more people in the Palghar lynching case, 133 arrests made so far

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra Crime Investigation Department (CID) has arrested at least 24 more accused who were reportedly absconding after the Palghar Lynching incident
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News Reports

Telangana CM’s son KT Rama Rao creates panic by sneezing and coughing during public function, clarifies he is perfectly well

OpIndia Staff -
KT Rama Rao clarified that he was perfectly well and apologised for any inconvenience he may have caused by sneezing and coughing in public
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Media

Swati Chaturvedi and her imaginary friends: An analysis of her predictions and ‘source’-based rumours

Nirwa Mehta -
And while she is not mocking PM Modi's security threat and the NSA Ajit Doval, she is busy making 'predictions' based on the inputs given by her sources, whom one suspects to be imaginary.
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News Reports

Alert in North-east after African Swine Fever kills more than 14,000 pigs in Assam

OpIndia Staff -
The Assam government has announced that the deadly epidemic of African Swine Fever has killed more than 14,000 pigs in the state
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