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Three Russian doctors mysteriously fall from hospital windows after speaking against government on Coronavirus, two of them dead

OpIndia Staff -
Russian doctors are under immense pressure due to increase workload and lack of protective gear in fight against Coronavirus
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News Reports

Vizag gas leak: Styrene gas leak from LG Polymers caused due to technical glitch in refrigeration unit

OpIndia Staff -
The VIzag Styrene Gas leak happened after liquid Styrene kept in tanks gasified due to failure of refrigeration unit and escaped to atmosphere
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News Reports

The security forces faced law and order problem for the first time at the encounter site yesterday after August 5, says IGP Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
A massive violence had erupted after encounter of Hijbul commander Riyaz Naikoo yesterday in Kashmir, first such incident after 5 August
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News Reports

After being caught charging money for medical certificates, Maharashtra decides to send migrant labours packing to home states without check up

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra Health Minister announced that going forward only a thermal screening will be conducted before the journey.
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News Reports

On the day PM Modi holds a meeting of NDMA with Amit Shah present, rumours of Shah’s ill health peddled by vested interests

OpIndia Staff -
The allegations that Amit Shah is unwell and he is missing from action are not true, vested interests spreading baseless rumours
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News Reports

Union Home Secretary writes to West Bengal govt twice in 24 hrs, warns to ensure “specific groups” from flouting lockdown norms

OpIndia Staff -
This is the second letter that has been addressed to the West Bengal government by the Union Home Ministry in the last 24 hours
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News Reports

West Bengal: Health Services Association claims WHO and Indian Govt guidelines not being followed while sample collection, will lead to under reporting of Corona...

OpIndia Staff -
The Health Services Association, West Bengal has spoken out against the manner in which the state administration is collecting the samples for the Coronavirus tests.
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News Reports

RJD leader Tejashvi Yadav loses his cool during an interview with ABP journalist Sumit Awasthi: Watch video

OpIndia Staff -
Tejashvi Yadav seems to be so agitated that he keeps cutting the anchor short and repeats the same argument several times during the interview
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu: Boiler Explosion at NLC thermal power station in Cuddalore District, at least seven injured

OpIndia Staff -
At least seven were injured after a blast in a boiler at the thermal power station (TPS) II of Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited in Cuddalore district.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan announces changes in the labour laws of the state to boost economy effected due to coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
Industry body FICCI welcomed the long-awaited reforms saying that FICCI lauds Shivraj Singh Chouhan's labour reforms
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News Reports

Online learning platform Unacademy hacked, details of 22 million users available for sale: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Reportedly, the records include usernames, hashed passwords (SHA-256), date joined, last login date, email addresses, first and last names, account profile (staff member/a superuser), account status etc.
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News Reports

SCBA Secretary calls for removal of Dushyant Dave as President over resolution condemning Justice Mishra for speech praising PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
Dushyant Dave has called the move demanding his ouster "illegal and improper".
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News Reports

Even after 40 days of strict lockdown, India has not seen a declining trend, crisis may hit peak in June-July: AIIMS director

OpIndia Staff -
Dr Randeep Guleria said that even after imposing 40 days strict lockdown in the country, India has not seen a declining trend in new novel coronavirus cases.
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News Reports

Coronavirus: Life imprisonment for those who purposefully infect and kill someone in Uttar Pradesh

OpIndia Staff -
Yogi Adityanath led Uttar Pradesh government has cleared an ordinance on Wednesday levying heavier fines and punishment, including life imprisonment, for harassing the frontline workers in the coronavirus pandemic.
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News Reports

Karnataka government takes corrective actions following public feedback, Shramik Special trains resume and notices over salaries put on hold

OpIndia Staff -
After stopping trains for migrants, and deciding to send notices to pvt sector for non-payment of salaries, Karnataka govt reverts the decisions
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Opinions

Coronavirus crisis gives us a unique opportunity to evaluate the path between Socialism and Capitalism – The Third Way

Desh Ratan Nigam -
The present Coronavirus pandemic and the resultant crisis has given us a unique opportunity to review and reassess the existing system
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Crime

Karnataka: 31-year old Sahul Hameed absconding after murdering his 19-year-old pregnant wife Bhagyashree in Madikeri

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31-year-old Hameed had married 19-year-old Bhagyashree in August last year.
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News Reports

Ayush ministry starts clinical trials for traditional medicine like Ashwagandha, Guduchi Pippali etc for coronavirus treatment

OpIndia Staff -
Union Health Ministry Dr Harshvardhan informed earlier today that the trials will be conducted on health workers and persons working in high rise areas. He stated that the health ministry and CSIR will be conducting these trials under the guidance of ICMR.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Kolkata lab sealed, owner arrested for conducting coronavirus test without mandatory ICMR approval

Jhankar Mohta -
The West Bengal government has also slapped a fine of Rs 10 lakhs on Tribeni Lab the ground that it was conducting Covid-19 tests without approval.
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Opinions

Anatomy of the communal riots in Delhi: Anti-CAA protestors who provoked violence must be held accountable

Monika Arora -
Communal riots engulfed North-East Delhi between the 23rd and the 26th of February 2020. Fifty-four people from both communities, Hindu and Muslim, lost their lives
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News Reports

FIR registered against Sudhir Chaudhary of Zee News in Kerala for explaining different types of Jihad through a flow chart in his TV show

OpIndia Staff -
Zee News' Editor-in-chief Sudhir Chaudhary, shared an FIR filed against him in Kerala over his March 11 report, in which he had exposed the idea behind 'Jihad' with a flowchart. The show had triggered the 'secular-liberal' media, who had attacked the Zee News editor for his reportage.
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News Reports

Vishakapatnam gas leak tragedy: NDRF evacuates 1500 people, 800 admitted in hospitals, says Director-General

OpIndia Staff -
the police and the local administration came into action after locals reported throat and skin irritation and some toxic smell following the leak from the polymer plant.
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News Reports

Low wage migrants in Qatar forced to beg for food amid the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Many of the low wage migrant workers in Qatar have been left without a job and they have no means to earn a living.
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News Reports

After Vizag, gas leak reported in Chhattisgarh paper mill, 7 hospitalised

OpIndia Staff -
As the factory was set to open soon after the lockdown, then workers were cleaning a chlorine tank, as per reports.
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News Reports

Mumbai: Coronavirus infected dead bodies left lying next to patients under treatment in Sion hospital, Milind Deora slams BMC

OpIndia Staff -
The BMC is held responsible for not issuing clear guidance on the handling of dead bodies.
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Politics

Congress uses 2018 FIR in suicide case, dismissed by court, to target Arnab Goswami: All you need to know

OpIndia Staff -
When the attack by goons and the relentless haranguing by the state machinery did not help silence Arnab Goswami, Congress raked up an old suicide case, in which an FIR was filed against Arnab Goswami, in an attempt to cower him down.
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News Reports

Don’t spoil good work for political benefits, Railways employees union writes to Sonia Gandhi over Shramik trains

OpIndia Staff -
Central govt has started 'shramik' special trains which are facilitating the return of migrant labourers back to their home states from the various states where they might be stranded due to the Coronavirus lockdown.
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News Reports

Taliban-backed Haqqani network joined hands with Islamic State for Kabul Gurudwara attack: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
The two Pakistan proxies in Afghanistan - Aslam Farooqui led ISKP and the Taliban deputy leader Sirajuddin Haqqani-led Haqqani network - which had often targeted each other in the past had taken some steps to work together recently. The two groups had jointly carried out attacks on Gurudwara in Kabul in March, as per reports.
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News Reports

Indian Meteorological Department includes Gilgit, Baltistan in its weather forecasts

OpIndia Staff -
The Indian Meteorological Department showed weather conditions in towns such as Muzaffarabad, Skardu, Nilam regions located in Gilgit-Baltistan.
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News Reports

Madras High Court allows sale of liquor, shops ordered to record name, address and Aadhar Card Number of the buyer

OpIndia Staff -
Liquor Shops in Tamil Nadu are set to reopen after the Madras High Court refused to stay their reopening.
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News Reports

Gujarat Principal Health Secretary Dr Jayanti Ravi, sidelined now, was once handpicked by Sonia Gandhi for NAC under UPA 1

Nirwa Mehta -
Dr Jayanti S Ravi is a scientist with a master's degree in nuclear physics from University of Madras. The 1991 Gujarat cadre IAS officer was the District Collector of Godhra when the 2002 carnage took place.
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News Reports

Ten people dead, more than 5,000 fall ill due to styrene gas leak at LG Polymers plant in Vishakapatnam, gas contained and FIR filed

OpIndia Staff -
The gas leaked from a tank containing around 2000 metric ton of styrene in LG Polymers factory in Vishakapatnam
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Media

After relentlessly repeating the lie that lynched Sadhus were not Hindus, The Wire silently updates its report to admit they were Hindus

OpIndia Staff -
Journalist Swati Goel Sharma has pointed out that The Wire's founder Siddharth Varadrajan, speaking to Newslaundry, had also claimed that sadhus as 'people belonging to nomadic tribes', in an attempt to peddle the narrative that they were not Hindus.
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Crime

Hyderabad: AIMIM worker Shakeel Khan arrested for raping a minor Dalit girl

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, Shakeel Khan is a member of Asaduddin Owaisi's party All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) in the Malakpet constituency area.
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News Reports

Assam: Muslim neighbours abuse, threaten to kill a Hindu woman in Nazira district for watching TV during Ramzan

OpIndia Staff -
Reports stated that the woman's attacker Sameeruddin is originally a Bangladeshi and his name was not mentioned in the NRC.
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Media

Raghav Bahl’s promoted company, which has now bought Raghav Bahl’s website TheQuint, was bought by Raghav Bahl 2 years ago

OpIndia Staff -
Past few hours, the Internet was abuzz with claims that Raghav Bhal had sold off his website to Haldiram's. However, this is what has actually happened.
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Media Fact-Check

An NGO writes to govt asking for study into the use of Ganga water in treating Coronavirus, Shekhar Gupta’s The Print makes it Modi...

OpIndia Staff -
The Print claimed that Modi govt wants study on use of Ganga water for Coronavirus, while it was a request by NGO Atulya Ganga
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Social Media Fact-Check

Journalist Punya Prasun Bajpai posts Pakistani image, claims it is ‘mother India’s feet’

OpIndia Staff -
Yesterday, former Aaj Tak and ABP News journalist Punya Prasun Bajpai had posted an image which showed the chapped, rough feet of some children. He added the text, "Mother India ke panv dekhe hain kabhi"? which means, 'have you ever seen the feet of mother India?
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News Reports

Andhra Pradesh: Three including one child die after gas leak at chemical plant in Visakhapatnam

OpIndia Staff -
A chemical gas leakage was reported early morning on Thursday at LG Polymers factory in Visakhapatnam
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Media

From Hinduphobic ‘gaumutra’ to Homophobic ‘gays of srk’: Meet the journalist who operates the Times of India Twitter handle

OpIndia Staff -
Samina Shaikh was caught handling the Times of India’s twitter account after same content was tweeted by TOI which was earlier shared from her own account
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News Reports

“He was not a rapist, stop calling him that,” brother of the Class 12 boy who committed suicide says that social media made him...

OpIndia Staff -
A class 12 boy in an upscale residential area of Gurugram jumped from the balcony of his flat on 11th floor at around 11 PM on Tuesday
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Government and Policy

West Bengal has the highest rate of coronavirus fatalities and lowest rate of testing: Union Home ministry to Mamata Banerjee government

OpIndia Staff -
Union Home Secretary wrote the West Bengal govt raising concerns over Coronavirus management in the state
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News Reports

Journalist with The Wire calls terrorists as martyrs, seen operating close to security forces in Jammu and Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
'The Wire' photojournalist Junaid Bhat's social media feed is replete with intimate details of Army movements and operations
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News Reports

Five Tablighi Jamaat members, who had misbehaved with nurses in Ghaziabad hospital, arrested after the end of the quarantine period

OpIndia Staff -
Ghaziabad police arrested the 5 Tablighi Jamaat members on Wednesday after their quarantine period was over
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News Reports

Jamia student Shadab Najar who was shot during anti-CAA protests bats for Islamic terrorism in Kashmir, glorifies terrorist eliminated by Army

OpIndia Staff -
Shadab Najar has in the past made several incendiary remarks against the Indian Army.
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Media

Following the elimination of Hizbul commander Riyaz Naikoo, here is how liberals are humanising him and singing dirges to the Islamic terrorist

Jinit Jain -
As per typical modus operandi adopted by the liberal cabal, insignificant details of terrorists like their characteristic traits, areas of interest, family background, educational qualifications etc. are highlighted to humanise them and whitewash their criminal tendencies
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News Reports

West Bengal CM informs that 91,515 cases of Influenza-like Illness and 872 cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Illness found during door-to-door surveillance in the...

OpIndia Staff -
During the period of 7th April to 3rd May, 5.57 crore total household visits have been conducted. 872 cases of persons with SARI and 91,515 cases of persons with ILI have been identified and given necessary health advice, informed WB Chief Minister.
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News Reports

Delhi Police cyber cell team visits Delhi Minorities Commission chief Zafar-ul-Islam’s house, carries out searches

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi Police cyber cell team has reached Delhi Minorities Panel chief Zafar-ul-Islam's residence in Delhi to carry out searches.
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News Reports

Kashmir: Violence erupts in Pulwama after Hizbul Mujahideen commander Riyaz Naikoo killed in encounter by security forces

OpIndia Staff -
Several locals, instigated by the Pakistani elements, stormed the encounter site soon after news spread that Riyaz Naikoo was eliminated
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News Reports

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un might have faked his death to identify traitors in inner circle: Report

OpIndia Staff -
On May 1, Kim Jong Un made his first public appearance since April 11 when he was seen inaugurating a company on Labour Day
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