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On Delhi govt’s recommendation, Delhi LG Anil Baijal grants early release to Jessica Lal murderer Manu Sharma

OpIndia Staff -
Manu Sharma shot dead Jessica Lal on 30th April 1999.
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News Reports

Pakistan: 13-year-old Hindu girl kidnapped and raped by armed men in Sindh province

OpIndia Staff -
There have been many cases of abduction, rape, murder and forceful conversions of Hindu girls in Pakistan's Sindh region.
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News Reports

13 staffers at Delhi Lieutenant Governor secretariat test positive for Coronavirus, contacts being traced

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi Lieutenant Governor secretariat sanitised after 13 employees working there test positive for coronavirus
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Cricket

Cricketer Yuvraj Singh attacked over casteist remark on Yuzvendra Chahal, netizens demand apology

OpIndia Staff -
A couple of month old video clip has emerged on social media where cricketer Yuvraj Singh was seen using a derogatory term for fellow cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal.
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News Reports

OpIndia reports cited in fact-finding report on the Delhi anti-CAA riots submitted to Home Minister Amit Shah. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
The report by NGO Call for Justice was submitted to Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday.
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News Reports

Bihar government distributes free condoms to migrant workers returning home after quarantine

OpIndia Staff -
The Bihar government has announced that from June 2 (Tuesday), migrant workers returning to Bihar will not be registered for institutional quarantine as travel restrictions have been lifted across the country.
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News Reports

South Korea reports spike in Coronavirus cases after a cluster of cases linked to church emerge in Seoul

OpIndia Staff -
The origin of 23 cases out of 35 cases in South Korea was linked to 11 churches in Incheon and two churches in Gyeonggi province.
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News Reports

“Indians are unaware of their rights,” Vinod Dua takes inspiration from US riots and urges people in India to follow suit

Dibakar Dutta -
Vinod Dua says people in India failed to display their anger like the violent rioters in US did in the name of protests
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News Reports

BMC asks hospital incharges to coordinate with members of radical Islamist outfit PFI for burials of Muslim coronavirus patients

OpIndia Staff -
The BMC notice read that a 'task force' made by the radical Muslim organisation will oversee the burial of Muslim coronavirus patients.
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News Reports

Communists in Kolkata burn US President Donald Trump’s effigy, raise slogans against his govt over the killing of George Floyd

OpIndia Staff -
The Kolkata police confirmed that the protest which lasted for about 15 minutes did not disrupt traffic movement, as only a few vehicles were plying the streets at that hour.
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News Reports

Ex-AAP Councillor Tahir Hussain mastermind behind Delhi riots, funded the Chand-Bagh violence: Says charge sheet filed by Delhi Police

OpIndia Staff -
Two charge sheets filed in Delhi riots case, one names Tahir Hussain for financing Chand Bagh violence, other is for Jaffrabad riots
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News Reports

Relaxation fallout: Anti-CAA lobby to organise nationwide protests to demand the scrapping of UAPA, release of the anti-CAA rioters

OpIndia Staff -
The anti-CAA lobby has called to organise a mass protest movement titled 'Sab Yad Rakha Jaega' to mobilise support and corner government on the arrests of anti-CAA rioters
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News Reports

Cyclone Nisarga to intensify in next 24 hours, likely to hit western coast on Wednesday

OpIndia Staff -
The deep depression - 'Cyclone Nisarga', which is headed towards the coasts in Maharashtra and Gujarat, is likely to hit the western coast on Wednesday.
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News Reports

Bihar: No more government quarantine for returning migrants, thermal screening stopped as travelling restrictions lifted across the country

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, around 13 lakh migrants are currently in quarantine spread over more than 5000 centres in Bihar. The last batch of registered migrant labourers started quarantine on Monday and these centres will close down after 15th June 2020.
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Social Media

“Utna dimaag hota to comedian kyun banta”: Netizens roast comedian Vir Das for asking critics to not criticise comics unless they have written joke...

OpIndia Staff -
In what came across as the 'woke' version of asking people to walk a mile in someone's shoes before criticising them, Vir Das asked people who don't like jokes to not tell the comedians tha their jokes are lame unless they have written jokes themselves.
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News Reports

Meerut: Shakib posed as Hindu to trap Punjab girl who eloped with him with jewellery worth Rs 25 lakh, beheads her after revealing his...

OpIndia Staff -
Meerut police solves one-year old mysterious murder case, finds Muslim Shakib had eloped with Hindu girl pretending to be Hindu and then killed her
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News Reports

I have confidence in India’s growth story, want to make private sector our partner for growth: Prime Minister Narendra Modi at CII annual event

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi said he has confidence in India’s growth story and he was sure that Indian economy will revive on the back of entrepreneurs, frontline warriors and industrialists.
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News Reports

Jharkhand govt cancels permission to BRO for recruiting workers from the state for construction projects near LAC in Ladakh

OpIndia Staff -
Jharlhand govt had permitted BRO to hold a recruitment drive in Dumka to hire workers for projects in Ladakh, but now permission cancelled
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News Reports

‘40,000 coronavirus test reports still pending’: Bengal Governor accuses Mamata Banerjee government of administrative negligence

OpIndia Staff -
Speaking to India TV, the West Bengal governor also stated that the state government has not made adequate arrangements for migrant workers and the state police is working as TMC party workers.
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News Reports

US violence: Lawyers caught throwing Molotov cocktails on police vehicles arrested, released on USD 250,000 bail

OpIndia Staff -
Rahman and Mattis have been released on a 250,000 USD bond. They were allegedly driving around Brooklyn throwing Molotov cocktails.
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Entertainment

Hindustani Bhau files police complaint against Ekta Kapoor for ‘inappropriate sex scene’ in her erotic web series XXX 2

OpIndia Staff -
Hindustani Bhau took to Instagram on Monday to share a video from outside Mumbai's Khar Police station stating that he has filed the complaint against Ekta and Shobha Kapoor 'for disrespecting our Indian military, national emblem, colonel tag and defaming our country'.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: 19 arrested over killing of RSS worker in communal clash in argument over goat grazing

OpIndia Staff -
28-year-old RSS worker Ramesh Phoolmali was killed in communal clashes which broke out in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa district two weeks back.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Communal tensions in Balochistan as a mob of 400 lynch a man to death, protests erupt across Quetta

OpIndia Staff -
a young man named Bilal Khan was lynched at a hair dresser's shop in Hazara town area of Quetta on Friday night. Two other men, Nayaz and Khalil have been severely injured after a mob attacked the three in the city.
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Social Media Fact-Check

Fact-check: Did Antifa rioters break into a zoo and let loose giraffe, tiger and hippopotamus on the streets in America

OpIndia Staff -
On Monday, images of hippopotamus and giraffe roaming on the streets went viral on social media with various claims that these animals were spotted in various parts of America after the violence over African American man George Floyd's killing.
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Entertainment

After receiving flak for its Hinduphobic content, Zee5 Tamil suspends release of controversial web series ‘Godman’

OpIndia Staff -
In a statement released by Zee5, it said that they have decided to suspend the release of this show at this moment and claimed that the producers, show, ZEE5 had "no intent whatsoever of offending or hurting any community, religious or personal beliefs or sentiments".
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Social Media

Standup comedian apologises for insulting Hanuman Chalisa, says he is a Hindu too and will never repeat such acts

OpIndia Staff -
A video of Alokesh Sinha's performance had gone viral on social media recently, where he was seen using derogatory words for the Hanuman Chalisa.
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News Reports

Manipur Handloom calls for stopping mass production of Lierum Phee in UP to protect livelihood of traditional weavers

OpIndia Staff -
The method of product and name of Leirum Phee should not be changed, experts said.
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News Reports

George Floyd Case: After desecrating 142-year-old Cathedral in New York, rioters rip American flag, burn historic St. John’s church in Washington DC

OpIndia Staff -
Rioters have reportedly vandalised and set on fire an over 200-year-old historic St John’s church near the White House.
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News Reports

Smriti Irani gives befitting reply to the All India Mahila Congress after false claims were made saying Amethi is looking for its ‘lost’ MP

OpIndia Staff -
Smriti Irani slammed the All India Mahila Congress after they had tweeted photographs of posters attacking Smriti Irani.
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News Reports

As abrogation of Article 370 paves the way for pride march in Lal Chowk, Muslim fundamentalists calls PrideKashmir ‘fascist’ agents of Israel and RSS...

OpIndia Staff -
After PrideKashmir announced a pride march in Lal Chowk, they have been showered with abuses on Instagram.
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News Reports

Maharashtra govt tries to rope in 2nd, 3rd-year MBBS students to manage Coronavirus patients at Mumbai municipal hospitals

OpIndia Staff -
Similar circulars were also circulated by colleges attached to other municipal hospitals like Cooper, Nair and KEM recently
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News Reports

How Motilal Nehru pulled a few strings and Jawaharlal Nehru signed a bond to get out of Nabha jail in just two weeks of...

OpIndia Staff -
One here needs to ask, how many top leaders of the Congress had to suffer such harsh punishments as Veer Savarkar did?
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OpIndia Explains

As in US, so in India: Antifa in India glorifies Naxalism, advocates violence against Sanghis and engages in genocidal rhetoric

K Bhattacharjee -
India cannot afford to take the threat of Antifa India lightly. India has been waging a war against Red Terror for decades.
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News Reports

Rajdeep Sardesai claims man died of starvation in UP’s Banda, DM gives the list of foodgrains provided to the family in the last two...

OpIndia Staff -
The DM informed that the deceased person's wife has been provided with a total of 40 kgs of wheat, 40 kgs of rice and 1 kg of chana in the months of April and May under various schemes.
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News Reports

MHA withdraws order to de-list foreign products in paramilitary canteens, revised list to be released soon

OpIndia Staff -
Sources said that a revised order with an updated list of de-listed products would be released soon by the MHA.
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News Reports

Prashant Bhushan calls Delhi Police “Dalla police” for arresting Pinjra Tod activist for riots during anti-CAA protests

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi police arrested far-left group Pinjra Tod activist Devangana Kalita for the third time in a row, sends to three day police custody
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News Reports

Hyderabad: 20 year old Shaikh Mohammed murdered for smoking ganja and consuming alcohol during Ramzan

OpIndia Staff -
A youth was murdered allegedly for smoking ganja and consuming alcohol during Ramzan in Bahadurpura at Hyderabad.
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News Reports

Uttarakhand CM and all members of the State Cabinet home quarantined after Tourism Minister tests positive for Coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
A total of 22 people including tourism minister Maharaj's family members and house staff were diagnosed with Coronavirus on Sunday.
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News Reports

All Congress chief ministers concurred with PM Modi on measures taken by centre against coronavirus: Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma

OpIndia Staff -
Congress and Rahul Gandhi have been stridently attacking the Modi government over the handling the coronavirus outbreak in the country
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News Reports

Pakistan’s new terror outfit ‘TRF’ threatens to kill all Indians who plan to settle in Kashmir and ‘change demography’

OpIndia Staff -
The Resistance Front has openly declared that any non-Kashmiri who goes to Kashmir with an intention to settle there eventually will be treated as an 'RSS agent' and 'not a civilian' and be 'dealt with appropriately'.
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News Reports

Haryana’s Mewat has become a mini-Pakistan: Committee headed by former Justice Pawan Kumar on Muslim atrocities against Dalits

OpIndia Staff -
The press release of the committee's findings was shared by VHP's national spokesperson Vinod Bansal.
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News Reports

Southwest monsoon hits Kerala; Cyclone Nisarga to hit Gujarat, Maharashtra coasts on 3rd

OpIndia Staff -
Four-month long monsoon sets in Kerala, to progress in other parts of the country from June to September.
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News Reports

Maharashtra government has spent just Rs 23.82 crores of the CM’s Rs 342 crore coronavirus relief fund for COVID-19 related measures, RTI query reveals

OpIndia Staff -
A large chunk of the Maharashtra government's spending, about Rs 53.45 crore of the Rs 79.82 crore had been on sending the migrant labours back to their native villages.
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News Reports

‘Please enjoy your haircut’: Arvind Kejriwal tweets for Sagarika Ghose after opening salons in Delhi two days after she requested

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi CM Kejriwal had earlier allowed the opening of salons and barbershops in the city.
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Opinions

Halal certified products: Where the packaging industry go wrong and the way forward

Sunil Pachar -
Halal, as a word, owes its origin to the means to slaughter an animal. Different tribes or religions must be having their own ways to slaughter for the reasons best known to them and many of them are even continuing now
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News Reports

ISI spies used ‘for sale’ car of the Pakistani High Commission to carry out espionage activities, a trap was laid to catch them: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Two Pakistan High Commission officials caught spying using fake Indian identities for espionage activities, declared persona non grata by Indian government.
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News Reports

Harish Salve takes on Harsh Mandar, Prashant Bhushan and the cottage industry that attempts to defame the Judiciary and the Modi govt: Here are...

OpIndia Staff -
Harish Salve appeared on a webinar to discuss the attacks that are made to undermine the authority of the judiciary.
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OpIndia Explains

India must take a firm stand while holding dialogue over LAC: History of conflict, China’s devious motives and the fear behind the curtain

Lt Gen Abhay Krishna -
Under the prevailing geo political situation today, India, must adopt a firm stand drawing a red line at all levels while progressing with any dialogue over LAC with China
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News Reports

‘If we open borders, people from other states will come for free treatment,’: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal to keep borders sealed for one more...

OpIndia Staff -
Lamenting about the long queues of patients in Delhi hospitals, Arvind Kejriwal had earlier claimed that 'outsiders' came to Delhi for free treatment worth in lakhs
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News Reports

NGO, Islamic scholars initiate campaign to end Saudi Arabia’s control over mosques at Mecca and Medina

OpIndia Staff -
The organisation was established with the objective of preventing the politicisation of Islamic pilgrimages, ensuring proper management of the mosques at Mecca and Medina
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