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No contact between President Trump and PM Modi after 4th April: MEA refutes POTUS, says India and China directly in touch through diplomatic channels

OpIndia Staff -
Ministry of External Affairs has refuted the claims by President Donald Trump claiming that he had spoken to Prime Minister Modi about the 'conflict with China' and that he was not in a good mood about the conflict.
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News Reports

Given their record, Pakistan should be embarrassed to even mention ‘minorities’: India’s MEA slams Pakistan’s absurd rant over Ram Mandir in Ayodhya

OpIndia Staff -
Launching a blistering attack on Pakistan, the Indian Foreign Ministry advised the Imran Khan-led government to read their own country's constitution before commenting on India's minorities and secularism.
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News Reports

ISKCON files complaint against comedian Surleen Kaur and Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd for a video where ISKCON devotees were called ‘harami porn-waley’

OpIndia Staff -
Surleen Kaur had said in the video published by Shemaroo ‘no doubt we are from ISKCON, but from inside we are all harami porn lovers’.
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News Reports

After Bengaluru, another probable sonic boom creates panic among residents of Tirupur city

OpIndia Staff -
Tirupur District Majistrate K Vijaya Karthikeyan tweeted that the sound was a most probably a sonic boom caused by a supersonic aircraft
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News Reports

Key witness in Mumbai terror attack case who had identified Ajmal Kasab and survived his bullets dies in Thane

OpIndia Staff -
Harishchandra Shivardhankar had confronted Ajmal Kasab and Abu Ismail during Mumbai attacks and was hit by two bullets
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News Reports

After Chattisgarh, youth Congress leader in Indore files complaint against BJP leader Tajinder Bagga for calling Rajiv Gandhi “father of mob lynching”

OpIndia Staff -
Tajinder Bagga responds in his own unique style: "I apologies for saying Rajiv Gandhi is Murderer actually RAJIV GANDHI IS MASS MURDERER"
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Opinions

As West Bengal is ravaged by Cyclone Amphan, a long term sustainable plan is required to help South Bengal

Santanu Chakraborty -
South Bengal still stranded without food and shelter as West Bengal government messes up relief and rescue after Cyclone Amphan.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh government to sign MoUs with industry associations to generate 9.5 lakh jobs for migrant workers

OpIndia Staff -
The IIA will be arranging employment for 5 lakh workers and NAREDCO for 2.5 lakh workers in UP, while CII will generate 2 lakh jobs
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Media

While NDTV calls terrorist a mere ‘driver’, authorities suspect Pakistan’s JeM and LeT hand behind averted terror attack in Pulwama: Details

OpIndia Staff -
NDTV has referred to the terrorist driving the car in Pulwama as a mere 'driver' but authorities say Pakistani terrorists are involved.
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News Reports

‘Pakistan is ours and we are Pakistanis’: FIR registered against two AMU students Rasool and Arfat for their anti-India posts on social media

OpIndia Staff -
Aligarh police have registered a case under sections 153-A, 153-B, Information Technology Amendment Act 2008 and 66-D against the two AMU students.
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News Reports

FIR filed against Bangladeshi Singer Mainul Ahsan Noble for making derogatory remarks against PM Modi on social media

OpIndia Staff -
The Bangladeshi Singer is booked under sections 500, 504, 505, and section 153 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the IT Act .
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Media

How mainstream media is failing India during a pandemic: Fake news and the migrant crisis amidst Coronavirus lockdown

Priyanka Deo -
These days, mainstream media has been complaining about how it’s being treated. One can make the argument that Indian journalism is dominated by mainstream media via print and broadcast.
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Media

After Shekhar Gupta’s The Print asked the opposition to spread fake news, here are some instances when opposition followed the advice

OpIndia Staff -
A column published on Shekhar Gupta's The Print urged the opposition to spread lies against the BJP government at the centre
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News Reports

Rajyavardhan Rathore write to Rajasthan CM, demands CBI probe into SHO Vishnoi’s suicide case

OpIndia Staff -
It has been alleged that the SHO was under pressure from Congress MLA Krishna Poonia, which led to his suicide.
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Cricket

Cricket Australia releases dates for India’s tour of Australia in December-January

OpIndia Staff -
Amidst the pandemic of COVID-19, Cricket Australia has released the dates and venues for Australia-India Test series which will take place in December this year.
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Media

The Hindu’s ‘Readers Editor’ rebuffs a reader’s genuine concern because he interrupted the paper’s anti-India propaganda: Read how

S. Sudhir Kumar -
The current Readers Editor writes a weekly column that seldom addresses the concerns of the readers. His articles are a bore and have no relevance to the “terms of reference”.
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News Reports

Google deletes nearly 7 million negative reviews from Play Store in a week to improve the rating of TikTok

OpIndia Staff -
Last week, TikTok had 27 million reviews and its rating was 1.3, but now it has 20 million reviews and rating gone up to 4.4
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News Reports

‘Tere baap ke baap ke baap ko bhi baat karni padegi’: SP MLA Abu Azmi humiliates senior lady police officer, demands her suspension

OpIndia Staff -
Samajwadi party leader Abu Azmi has alleged that the officer insulted him when he questioned her about the police's apathy towards migrant workers.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Rs 2,000 fine for first time home quarantine violators, repeat offenders to be put under institutional quarantine

OpIndia Staff -
Migrant workers who have returned to Madhya Pradesh are put under quarantine, majority under home quarantine.
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Social Media

Zaira Wasim, who had left acting for Islam, now quotes the Quran to insinuate that locust infestation in Rajasthan is ‘Allah’s wrath’

OpIndia Staff -
Several areas in Eastern Africa, Pakistan, and India have seen attacks by massive swarms of locusts recently. However, it is not understood why the former actress is insinuating these locust attacks as some sort of Islamic curse upon a specific group of people whom she refers to as 'arrogant'.
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News Reports

Nehru was smitten with Jacqueline Kennedy, had her photograph on his bed stand: Watch what former CIA analyst had said

OpIndia Staff -
Bruce Riedel narrated an interesting incident that involved Jawaharlal Nehru and the JFK's wife, Jacqueline Kennedy.
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News Reports

BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra hospitalised in Gurgaon after displaying Coronavirus like symptoms

OpIndia Staff -
BJP National spokesperson Sambit Patra has been reportedly admitted to a Gurgaon hospital after displaying Coronavirus like symptoms.
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Media

Rana Ayyub shares Hindustan Times report to claim a child’s death in Bihar was due to ‘starvation’, gets fact-checked by Indian Railways

OpIndia Staff -
Hindustan Times had published an article dated May 27, 2020, titled: "Migrants’ kid dies as father hunts for milk at railway station", claiming that a four-and-a-half-year-old son of migrants from Bihar based in Delhi died of hunger at the railway station on arrival by a ‘Shramik Special’ train.
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Opinions

Here is how media’s war on Yogi Adityanath became a headache for Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

Abhishek Banerjee -
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is angry. There are dozens of trains full of migrant workers heading from Maharashtra towards West Bengal.
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News Reports

US lawmaker introduces a bill in Congress to declare Tibet as an independent country

OpIndia Staff -
In a decision which could escalate tensions between two countries, the US Representative Scott Perry introduced a bill to declare Tibet Autonomous Region as an independent country.
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News Reports

Uttarakhand forest department to file police case against those spreading fake photos of wildfire, Chief Conservator says such fires don’t occur in the state

OpIndia Staff -
Principal Chief Conservator of Forest, Jai Raj has clarified that such forest fire where the entire tree is burning does not happen in Uttarakhand
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Politics

Congress stoops to new low, makes perverse claim about PM Modi using old photograph of PM with Madame Tussauds’ female employee

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress party used a photograph of Narendra Modi in which measurements were being taken for his statue at the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum.
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News Reports

Crematoriums in Delhi sending back bodies of Coronavirus victims to hospitals due to high number of bodies and broken down furnaces

OpIndia Staff -
The Nigambodh Ghat CNG crematorium in Delhi sent eight bodies back to the Lok Nayak hospital on Tuesday
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News Reports

Amidst pandemic and untold suffering, the circle of life continues: 31 births in Shramik trains amidst Lockdown

Nupur J Sharma -
Lakhs of migrant labourers have been transported back to their home states in special Shramik Trains that have been started by the Government of India.
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News Reports

Andhra Pradesh: Contempt proceedings against YSRCP MP, 48 others for threatening judges over verdicts ‘against’ Jagan Mohan govt

OpIndia Staff -
A division bench of the AP High Court comprising of Chief Justice JK Maheshwari and Justice C Praveen Kumar issued orders to the state government to issue notices to all the individuals, including eight who are yet to be identified.
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News Reports

Major terror attack averted in Pulwama after police received credible information of explosive-laden car

OpIndia Staff -
The Pulwama Police and security forces have averted a major terrorist attack after an explosive-laden car was apprehended.
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News Reports

LAC standoff: Chinese ambassador, foreign ministry insist on ‘dialogues’, experts say de-escalation has begun

OpIndia Staff -
The aggressive posturing by India in response to Chinese decision to intimidate the country along the LAC, perhaps, made Chinese to seek for a de-escalation of matter.
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News Reports

Mumbai: BJP MLA files petition in HC, questions the constitutional validity of Uddhav government’s gag order on citizens

OpIndia Staff -
The 23c May order also indirectly bans all criticism of the Maharashtra government led by Uddhhav Thackeray as one of the clauses in the prohibitory order says that messages that incite “mistrust towards government functionaries and their actions taken to control Covid-19” will also be acted against.
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News Reports

Pakistan rants, issues statement ‘condemning’ the commencement of construction of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya

OpIndia Staff -
In the statement issued by Pakistan, the commencement of the construction of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya was 'condemned'
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News Reports

SC asks central govt to identify private hospitals which were given free land, directs those hospitals to treat Coronavirus patients for free

OpIndia Staff -
The Bench headed by CJI SA Bobde observed that the hospitals that were given free lands should treat Coronavirus patients for free
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News Reports

Maharashtra forest department mulls sterilizing tigers in Chandrapur district to control population: Report

OpIndia Staff -
The forest department in Maharashtra plans to sterilise 20 male tigers, apart from trans-locating 50 other tigers
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News Reports

Visakhapatnam doctor who was suspended for demanding PPE kits writes to medical superintendent, claims he is being given antipsychotics at the mental hospital

OpIndia Staff -
The videos of a police constable kicking and flooring the bare-chested Visakhapatnam doctor had gone viral on social media
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News Reports

US President Donald Trump threatens “big action” against Twitter after his tweets were labelled as ‘misleading’

OpIndia Staff -
Twitter had marked Donald Trump's tweets about mail-in ballot box with a fact-check warning label which read “Get the facts about mail-in ballots”
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News Reports

Old photos of wildfires all over the world used to falsely claim severe wildfire in Uttarakhand, police to file FIR against fake news peddlers

OpIndia Staff -
Images shared on social media sites soon drew traction and many media houses reported that Uttarakhand has been burning in a forest fire for the last four days
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News Reports

Christian group files complaint against Bharat Mata statue in Kanyakumari, advocate counters, sends notice to DC warning legal action if statue removed

OpIndia Staff -
All India Christian Development Army files complaint against Bharat Mata statue in Kanyakumari alleging disruption of communal harmony
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Mob pelt stone at police and free cow slaughter accused Afzal who was arrested, three policemen injured

OpIndia Staff -
As police officials arrested Afzal, a frenzied mob attacked the policemen and pelted stones at them, they also freed Afzal.
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News Reports

Karnataka govt decides to name newly built Yelahanka flyover after Veer Savarkar, opposition parties oppose the decision

OpIndia Staff -
The 400-metre long flyover will be inaugurated by Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Thursday, on the day of Veer Savarkar's birthday.
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News Reports

Union government amends Companies Act, PM CARES Fund now eligible to receive funds through CSR

OpIndia Staff -
The companies which have contributed in PMCARES till now will also be counted as a Corporate Social Responsibilty.
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Social Media Fact-Check

Journalist Rana Ayyub lies, shares a video on Instagram to claim a passenger on-board Shramik train had died of hunger

OpIndia Staff -
The Railways sources have clarified that the woman was suffering from a prolonged illness
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh govt to provide employment opportunities to 2.16 lakh migrants and unemployed youths

OpIndia Staff -
The Khadi board has outined 12 plans and programs and a target has been set up to provide employment to 1,45,528 people.
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News Reports

Himachal Pradesh: Mahila Congress leader Suman Chaudhary and others booked for trying to stop cremation of a Coronavirus patient

OpIndia Staff -
The Mahila Congress Leader obstructed the way of ambulance to cremation ground with her supporters.
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News Reports

1100-year-old monolithic sandstone Shivling unearthed in Vietnam’s Cham temple complex in My Son Sanctuary

OpIndia Staff -
The 9th-century fully intact Shivling is part of a complex of Hindu temples which were constructed by the Champa Empire between 4th century CE and 13th century CE.
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News Reports

Nepal PM faces setback as his proposed constitutional amendment to adopt new map incorporating Indian territories delayed by political parties

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier this month, Nepal PM KP Oli's cabinet had approved a new map, showing Indian areas of Limpiyadhura, Lipulekh and Kalapani as parts of Nepal
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Media

‘We are shocked at the brazen and desperate strong-arm tactics of the State Home Minister’, Republic TV accuses Maharashtra govt of vendetta

OpIndia Staff -
The Republic TV also accused the Maharashtra government of re-opening cases against the media houses for after it exposed fake claims made by the Maharashtra government regarding the unavailability of trains.
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News Reports

US President Trump offers to mediate between India and China in border standoff

OpIndia Staff -
Trump says USA is "ready, willing and able to mediate or arbitrate India and China's now raging border dispute".
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