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Opposition parties choose politics over human life, states run by them have approved far less Shramik Special Trains compared to NDA run states

OpIndia Staff -
Compared to NDA run states, opposition run states have given approval for a very small number of Shramik Special Trains
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News Reports

Kent RO apologises, takes down ad after it received backlash for insensitive advertisement portraying domestic helps as infection carriers

OpIndia Staff -
Kent RO Systems was found promoting its new Bread and Atta maker machine with an insensitive ad campaign that insinuated that domestic helps are infection carriers.
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Editor's picks

Ancient Roman mosaic of a villa unearthed at a Vineyard in Northern Italy

OpIndia Staff -
The surveyors in the commune of Negrar di Valpolicella, which is in the north of Verona, have unearthed mosaic floor recently and also published images of the well-preserved tiles buried beneath the earth.
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Media Fact-Check

India Today report claims ‘exclusive’ details of Lockdown 5.0, MHA calls it speculations, denies quoted ‘sources’

OpIndia Staff -
The MHA tweet added that attributing imaginary statements to the MHA is incorrect and irresponsible.
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News Reports

Radical Islamists attack journalist Rubika Liyaquat for wishing Eid wearing yellow dress, trolls her by calling her “Godi media”

OpIndia Staff -
Rubika Liyaqaut donning a yellow dress irked the Islamic fundamentalists, who descended on her timeline to abuse the journalist
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Sadhu accused of rape commits suicide, declares himself innocent and a victim of blackmail in video message

OpIndia Staff -
In the video, Sant Premadas declares himself innocent and accuses the couple, a member of women's commission and others of blackmailing him for an amount of Rs 15 lakhs.
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Politics

How Congress is insulting voters of Maharashtra

Abhishek Banerjee -
As with many other things, Rahul Gandhi needs a lesson in basic civics. In this case, it happens to be the principle of collective responsibility.
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News Reports

Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamana claims lockdown restrictions in minority-dominated Mumbra were eased on account of Eid festivities

OpIndia Staff -
The Saamana editorial claims that the Maharashtra government pampered minorities and eased restrictions in Mumbra owing to the Eid celebrations
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News Reports

Brother-in-law of Blasphemy victim Asia Bibi killed in Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
Younus, brother in law of Asia Bibi, was murdered with his throat slit, whose body was found in the farm on Monday morning.
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Books

Nightmare of Nehruism – a ‘tribute’ to Jawahar Lal Nehru by Sita Ram Goel

OpIndia Staff -
Excerpts from the book "How I became a Hindu" by Sita Ram Goel in which he talks about how he felt about independent India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Nehruism.
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Social Media

‘Yeh bhaiya bataiye ki vaccine kab aayegi’, Rahul Gandhi’s question to public health expert triggers another joke fest on Twitter

OpIndia Staff -
Twitter users speculated whether Rahul Gandhi was asking for vegetable or grocery items to a local vendor.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Rift within TMC over Cyclone Amphan response, senior Minister blames Kolkata Mayor for lack of planning to deal the disaster

OpIndia Staff -
Asking for the resignation, Pandey said anybody who fails to perform should resign from his post. "The chairman of KMC did not call any meeting of the MLAs of the city. Firhad Hakim should have consulted his predecessor Sovan Chatterjee," he alleged.
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News Reports

China says its step to evacuate citizens from India is not linked to border standoff, terms Indian media ‘irresponsible’

OpIndia Staff -
Chinese government mouthpiece Global Times says linking the evacuation of citizens to the border standoff at Ladakh will lead to 'domestic hostility' towards China, calls media reports 'far-fetched and misguided'.
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Media

Railways calls out misinformation again, 3 new cases of prior ailments misreported as deaths due to negligence

OpIndia Staff -
On Wednesday, May 27, 2020, Jagran published a news claiming that four people died on Shramik Express due to negligence.
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News Reports

Maharashtra mess: Rahul Gandhi shares a video clip of press conference, edits the controversial part out and claims there is no controversy

OpIndia Staff -
Though Rahul Gandhi telling blatant lies is quite usual, Rahul Gandhi denying the statements made in his own press conference is rather amusing.
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Entertainment

Paatal Lok changes the morphed image with BJP leader where he is shown next to corrupt character after he files a complaint against Anushka...

OpIndia Staff -
Days after BJP MLA Nandkishore Gurjar filed a complaint against Amazon Prime series Paatal Lok producer Anushka Sharma for using a morphed image of himself without his permission, the producers have changed the image.
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Social Media

Donald Trump hits out on Twitter, accuses it of interfering in presidential elections after it labels his tweet as ‘misleading’

OpIndia Staff -
Hours after Twitter flagged tweet of US President Donald Trump as 'misleading', he hit out on the platform and accused it of interfering in US Presidential elections slated for later this year.
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News Reports

Activist writes to the health ministry and AIIMS Delhi asking to probe blood donation by Bhim Army chief who suffers from a serious blood...

OpIndia Staff -
In the letter, the activist has urged the authorities to probe whether Chandrashekhar Azad and his doctor hid his medical condition from AIIMS before donating blood
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News Reports

The UK: Man and son have a lucky escape after a turtle they found on the ground turn out to be live grenade from...

OpIndia Staff -
Man grabs his son moments before he was about to pick up a live World War 1 grenade thinking it to be a turtle on the ground
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Salon operator resumes work after giving samples for Coronavirus test, attended 18 customers before confirmed positive

OpIndia Staff -
Hairdresser found coronavirus positive when his report came late at night, after he had attended 18 customers in his saloon during the day
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News Reports

Maharashtra government goes all out against Republic TV, orders CID probe against Arnab Goswami and his channel in a two-year-old suicide case

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CID investigation ordered against Arnab Goswami by Maharashtra Home Minister in a case which was already closed by court
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News Reports

“We don’t have electricity and water for 6 days” Locals in Kolkata suffer, amidst no administrative help from West Bengal Government

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"A person who is suffering can only understand what we are going through. There has been no help from the administration," a local sighed.
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News Reports

Minor girl gang-raped by army constable Shahnawaz Sheikh and his friends in Jharkhand town, one arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Minor girl gang-raped by three man in Shahebganj district in Jharkhand when she had gone to an orchard to pick up fallen mangoes
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News Reports

Rourkela: Clashes erupt between locals and police personnel over lifting of coronavirus containment order

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier this month, health workers, police team and ASHA workers were attacked by the minority community residents of the containment zone in Rourkela
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News Reports

Yogi Adityanath government forms Commission for employment and welfare of migrants returned to the state

OpIndia Staff -
The Kaamgar, Shramik (Seva Ayojan and Rojgaar) Kalyan Ayog in UP will look after the employment and welfare of the returned migrants.
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Media Fact-Check

Caravan India journalist spreads lies that 10 migrants have died due to hunger while going back in Shramik Express

OpIndia Staff -
On Tuesday, Caravan India journalist Vidya Krishnan took to Twitter to claim that 40 Shramik Express trains got lost and that the government 'forgot' to feed the passengers which led to death of at least 10 people.
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Editor's picks

As Ram Mandir construction begins, communist leader, National Herald editor share 2018 report to peddle ‘Buddhist site’ narrative

OpIndia Staff -
The recent claims by the leftists are nothing but another round of the false claims to derail the Ram Janmabhoomi temple project and deny Hindus their right.
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News Reports

Two people criticise Uddhav Thackeray, Rahul Gandhi and Sharad Pawar, not only is an FIR filed, but their shop is vandalised by Shiv Sainiks...

OpIndia Staff -
An FIR has been filed against two individuals in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra for making offensive remarks against chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
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News Reports

India’s coronavirus fatality rate among the lowest in the world: Union Health Ministry

OpIndia Staff -
Union Health Ministry Joint Secretary Luv Agarwal said that India's 0.3 per cent deaths per lakh population is the lowest fatality rate in the world
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Opinions

Serving the people of Bharat when they need it the most: Here is why the Left is left behind

Ganesh Turerao -
RSS and Left, over the past two months, have shown what they can do in testing times, it is for India to choose, either selfless service for all or propaganda for some.
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News Reports

Chinese army came armed with stick, stones, clubs with barbed wires to the stand-off with India in eastern Ladakh

OpIndia Staff -
Contrary to the behaviour expected from a professional army, the Chinese Army acted like 'typical bullies.'
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Social Media

Loksatta deletes its Twitter poll after people vote in favour of BJP’s demand to impose President rule in Maharashtra

OpIndia Staff -
Within 5 hours of the 24-hour Twitter poll, the LokSatta deleted its tweet after 51 per cent of voters voted in favour of the BJP's demand.
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News Reports

WHO warns that Countries seeing a decline in COVID-19 cases can witness a ‘second peak’

OpIndia Staff -
The WHO has warned the countries which are reporting a decline in coronavirus cases that they can witness a 'second peak'.
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News Reports

Locusts attack crops in North Indian states, governments issue alert

OpIndia Staff -
The swarms of locust, which entered the country from Pakistan have now become a headache to farmers as the pests are spreading like wildfire in states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
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Politics

Congress gets into damage control mode, after Rahul Gandhi distances Congress from Maharashtra mess, state chief debunks him

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier today, Rahul Gandhi had stated that though the Congress is supporting the Uddhav Thackeray government, they are not in a decision making role.
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News Reports

Several Shramik trains from Maharashtra cancelled again due to lack of passengers, state govt still requesting trains for cyclone-hit West Bengal and Odisha

OpIndia Staff -
After only 39 trains were run yesterday from Maharashtra against the planned 125 trains, the same incident is repeating today
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News Reports

Delhi Police Crime branch files 20 charge sheets against 83 foreign nationals who attended the Tablighi Jamaat event in Nizamuddin Markaz

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi Police Crime Branch filed 20 charge sheets against Tablighi Jamaat members including foreign nationals who attended the Nizamuddin Markaz event.
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News Reports

Sharjeel Imam approaches Supreme Court seeking clubbing of all the FIRs against him, SG Tushar Mehta asks all the states to be notified first

OpIndia Staff -
Tushar Mehta said that all other States, where cases had been filed against Sharjeel Imam, must be made a party in the petition and asked that the SC should send notices to all the states, not just the NCT of Delhi.
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News Reports

Complaint filed against NGO, ‘Serve India Ministries’ for indulging in illegal conversions, anti-Hindu hate speech, FCRA violations

OpIndia Staff -
Legal Rights Protection Forum (LRPF) has flagged a web of illegal activities of Christian organisation 'Serve India Ministries', including nefarious activities of illegal conversions of poor Hindus using deceit, hate speech, enticements and FCRA violations
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News Reports

Companies, organisations prefer donating to PM CARES Fund, NGOs are ‘starving’, says report

OpIndia Staff -
The 100% tax exemption provided for donations to the PM CARES Fund is attracting many organisations, small and big, to divert their contribution away from NGOs, the report says.
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News Reports

Maharashtra crisis: Health workers Mumbai’s KEM hospital go on a strike, corpses in body bags seen lying in the corridors

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, videos of the KEM hospital showing dead bodies of corona patients lying unattended among with those undergoing treatment had gone viral on social media.
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi declares Lockdown a failure in containing Coronavirus, then criticises Modi government for lifting it

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi claimed that the nationwide lockdown was supposed to eradicate the Coronavirus infection in the country, but that didn’t happen
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News Reports

Christian missionaries use money to carry out large scale conversions in Andhra Pradesh, admits YSRCP MP Raghu Ramkrishna Raju

OpIndia Staff -
Ever since YS Jagan Mohan Reddy became the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, he has been accused of promoting activities that encourage conversions into Christianity
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi distances Congress from the Coronavirus mess in Maharashtra, shifts blame squarely to Uddhav Thackeray: Read how

OpIndia Staff -
Today, during a press conference held by Rahul Gandhi, he was asked about the Coronavirus pandemic and its spread in Maharashtra and he squarely shifted the blame to Uddhav Thackeray
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News Reports

Andhra Government stalls the auction of 50 properties owned by Tirupati Tirumala Temple board

OpIndia Staff -
The State Government had asked Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanam (TTD) to reconsider their decision in light of the sentiments of the devotees.
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Media Fact-Check

Dainik Bhaskar’s report on deaths due to lack of food and water on Shramik Express misleading, Indian Railways reveals

OpIndia Staff -
The Indian Railways today called out the Dainik Bhaskar report which claimed that Shramik Express trains run by the Railways were were delayed by a week because of which as many as seven people lost their lives.
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News Reports

Ram Mandir: Mahant Nritya Gopal Das visits Ram Lalla after 28-years, inspects temple construction work at Ram Janmabhoomi

OpIndia Staff -
Mahant Nritya Gopal Das is the chairman of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra, the trust that will oversee the construction and management of the temple at Ram Janmabhoomi, Ayodhya
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News Reports

Kerala: Man buys a cobra, watches while it bites his wife to kill her so he can marry again

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, Sooraj had attempted to kill Uthra earlier in March when she was bitten by a viper. Uthra had to spend a month in the hospital.
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Crime

Nine murders to cover up one: Sanjay Yadav killed his live-in partner Rafiqa, read how 9 people had to die next

OpIndia Staff -
Sanjay Yadav had purchased sleeping pills and laced the family's and the 3 other migrant workers' food. He had then dragged them one by one and had dumped them in a nearby well.
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News Reports

‘Rajiv Gandhi was a murderer’: BJP leader Tajinder Bagga’s tweet irks Punjab Youth Congress, invites threats of FIR and physical assault

OpIndia Staff -
While accepting the challenge posed by the Punjab Youth Congress, Tajinder Bagga said that he would meet them in-person, post the lockdown.
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