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5-year-old boy driving an SUV on Highway stopped by police in Utah, was going to California to buy a Lamborghini with $3 in pocket

OpIndia Staff -
When his mother refused to buy him a Lamborghini, he decided he will take the car and go to California from Utah to buy the car himself
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News Reports

Ahmedabad: All shops, including those selling fruits, vegetables and groceries shut down from 7th May till 15th, milk and medicine shops to remain open

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All shops except those providing milk and medicines have been ordered to shut down in Ahmedabad in the wake of the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic.
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News Reports

Yogi Adityanath govt refutes Samajwadi Party’s allegations of caste bias for martyrs, reiterates it does not differentiate

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CM's office clarified that it has already been announced that in case of the army and paramilitary forces a financial assistance will be provided to the martyr's spouse and surviving parents.
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News Reports

Kerala: Despite showing no symptoms, 2 patients remained coronavirus positive for over 40 days

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Kerala extended the 14-day incubation period for coronavirus to 28 days to ensure that an asymptomatic person is disinfected completely
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News Reports

Web journalist Safiqul Islam threatened for reporting on Mamata govt’s grant to fake clubs, wife decides to stop the news venture

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Sheikh Safiqul Islam, the journalist of Arambagh TV who regularly reports on the misconduct of the local administration has allegedly been threatened in West Bengal.
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News Reports

Angry drunk man in Karnataka bites snake into pieces after it crossed his path. Watch video

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Karnataka man, angry at snake for crossing his path, bites it into pieces.
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News Reports

3.17 crore food packets, 50 lakh ration kits, 3.42 lakh volunteers: RSS stands tall in coronavirus relief measures

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The RSS has stepped in to help provide various relief measures amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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News Reports

BJP MP alleges that stranded migrant workers from Rajasthan stopped at Congress-ruled Chattisgarh border despite permission

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Patel has urged Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot to either facilitate their return home or stop the drama of being concerned about stranded migrants.
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Opinions

The MPLADS funds were a tool to appease MPs and keep a coalition government intact, read details

Anant Chetan -
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Parliament and Planning Commission had termed MPLADS useless and corruption-generating.
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News Reports

Delhi police arrests the class 12 admin of the controversial ‘Bois Locker Room’ Instagram group which glorified rape

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So far, 27 members of the Bois locker room Instagram group case have been identified by the Cyber Cell Branch of the Delhi Police
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News Reports

Karnataka: Two youths Haneef and Irshad arrested for poisoning Phalguni river in Belthangady, thousands of fish die

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Phalguni river is not only the source of fresh water for the residents of the village but also used by several animals and birds.
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Opinions

Bois Locker Room: Society and family are part of the solution to protect and safeguard women from predators and not the problem

K Bhattacharjee -
The existence of such a 'boys locker room' only proves that such conduct is not tolerated in any sane society.
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News Reports

Watch: Security forces personnel ask Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Tanveer Malik if he wants to go to ‘Jannat’

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Terrorist Tanvir is an associate of two active terrorists in Kashmir. One of his earlier terror associates was killed by security forces at the start of this year.
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Opinions

Hindus need to defend and promote their faith, even if that sounds ‘controversial’ to others

Maria Wirth -
The insights of the Vedic Rishis need not be pushed; they only need to be known.
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News Reports

Jammu and Kashmir Top cop tweets photo of a martyred cop’s daughter, asks “Any award for this photograph?”

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The picture Imtiyaz Hussain tweeted is of Zohra who was 5 years old when her father Assistant sub-inspector Abdul Rashid was killed in 2017.
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Crime

Left-wing terrorists have indoctrinated tribals against Hinduism: Report reveals ‘Ultra left’ connection to Palghar Sadhus’ lynching case

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The report by Times Now claimed that Tribal inhabitants were brainwashed and seeds of animosity towards Hindus were sown by the supporters of leftists ideology.
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News Reports

Singapore court sends Indian-origin man to jail for verbally abusing policemen and health workers

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Deputy Public Prosecutor Timotheus Koh informed the Court that he had even threatened to attack his brother with chopper and boiling water.
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News Reports

Aarogya Setu replies to French ethical hacker who flagged privacy issues, clarifies no personal data compromised

OpIndia Staff -
Aarogya Setu determines the location of the person and informs whether he is in proximity to a Coronavirus positive patient.
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News Reports

Rajasthan HC stays FIR against BJP leader Amit Malviya for allegedly mocking Raul Gandhi

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Amit Malviya was accused of mocking the Congress leaders, in response to a comment made by Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi where she had credited her son Rahul for the successful handling of coronavirus crisis in Bhilwara district.
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News Reports

Delhi Commission for Women asks Delhi Police to take action against online trolls for “outraging modesty” of Safoora Zargar

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Arrested for violence during anti-CAA protests in Delhi, Jamia Millia student Safoora Zafar has been a target of online trolls who had made disparaging remarks against the legitimacy of her marriage and her pregnancy
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News Reports

After Jadavpur University students, members of the Youth Theatre circuit of Kolkata call out sexual harassment

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Youth Theatre circuit of Kolkata has come under scanner for allegedly shielding serial abuser and harasser for years
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Crime

Mumbai: Sikh man brutally stabbed in Chembur, Akali leader seeks swift action against main accused Salim and his associates

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While the main accused Salim has been arrested by the Tilak Nagar Police, the other 4 accused are still on the run from law enforcement.
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News Reports

Mumbai: BJP worker to approach the Supreme Court against the Maharashtra government’s use of goons and state machinery to intimidate dissidents

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Prakash Ghade, a Maharashtra BJP worker, has alleged that Maharashtra government is sending goons to browbeat dissenters who are raising voices against government failures
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Opinions

After taking life of a baby at Shaheen Bagh, liberals using unborn child for propaganda

Abhishek Banerjee -
The rhetoric of victimhood got turbocharged when some internet trolls got into discussing Safoora Zargar's marital status.
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News Reports

West Bengal reports as many as 98 deaths in a single day due to coronavirus, accounts for 55 per cent of country’s tally for...

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West Bengal also reported its highest single-day increase in coronavirus cases thus far, at 296.
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News Reports

Bihar: Auto driver loses Rs 20,000, gets them back because no one touched it out of fear of coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
The auto-driver carried a sum of 20,500 rupees in cash to buy a tin-shed from Mahua Bazaar. While on the way he realized that cash is missing.
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News Reports

Joseph Pulitzer – the story of the founder of the Pulitzer Prizes, and the Father of Yellow Journalism

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The term Yellow Journalism originated during a competition between two major newspaper publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.
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News Reports

One Mohammad Salauddin arrested in Delhi for kidnapping minor girl from West Bengal and trying to sell her to traffickers in Rajasthan, gets bail

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The minor girl was brought to New Delhi in March by the kidnapper to sell her to a trafficker in Rajasthan, but got stuck due to lockdown
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News Reports

After Bois Locker Room controversy, Jadavpur University students accused of sharing nudes of women through Google Drive

OpIndia Staff -
Hours after the controversial 'Bois Locker Room' Instagram group came to light, similar allegations were levelled on a group of men from Kolkata who are former students of Jadavpur University.
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News Reports

Islamic terrorist and Hizbul Mujahideen commander Riyaz Naikoo killed in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir

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The dreaded terrorist Riyaz Naikoo was a top Hizbul Mujahideen commander. He had carried a reward of Rs 12 lakh on his head.
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Social Media

Islamists attack Indian-origin man in Canada over his social media posts, bully authorities to terminate him from job

OpIndia Staff -
Responding to the Mayor's tweet, Ravi Hooda questioned the decision of allowing Mosques to play Azan on loudspeakers.
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News Reports

Fact Check: The truth behind Indian cops dancing while carrying a corpse

Dibakar Dutta -
According to Fact Hunt, the video is from Koppal in Karnataka where cops enacted the dance moves to raise awareness about the Chinese virus. The corpse was fake.
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News Reports

Odisha: Health workers, police team pelted with stones, abused by Coronavirus hotspot residents in Rourkela, ASHA workers demand security

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The team of health workers in Rourkela came under a volley of stones. The ASHA workers have alleged that the Nala Road locals threatened to burn them with kerosene.
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Fact-Check

Yogendra Yadav spreads fake news over MPs’ salary, claims decreased allowance as increased: Read details

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As per a government order, the Members of Parliament, who had taken a 30% cut in their salary recently, will now also have to forfeit a total of Rs 21,000 per month from their constituency allowance and office allowance.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Severed head of calf found amidst reports of stray cows going ‘missing’ from roads

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Tension prevailed in Mimlana Road in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, after a severed head of a calf was found in a drain
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News Reports

Bois Locker Room: Class 12 boy in Gurugram commits suicide, police probe his alleged connection to controversial Instagram group

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A class 12 boy in Gurugram's upscale residential area, DLF Phase 5, jumped from the balcony of his flat on 11th floor at around 11 PM on Tuesday.
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News Reports

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi congratulates AP photojournalists for winning Pulitzer Prize which says that India revoked Kashmir’s independence

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While the AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt claimed the armed struggle in Kashmir as "fight for independence", the Pulitzer described the Indian Union Territory of JK as "contested territory"
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News Reports

Meet Corona warrior Kapil Agarwal from Haryana who has managed to feed thousands across India amidst lockdown

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And while our fight against the coronavirus continues, corona warrior like these give us hope that we will emerge stronger
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Editor's picks

All you need to know about Shramik trains for migrant workers, and the answer to the burning question: Who pays for it all?

OpIndia Staff -
Central govt has now 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

Bangladesh quarantines Rohingya refugees rescued from sea in Bhashan Char island’s refugee camp built to relocate Rohingyas from mainland

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From now, all newly arrived Rohingyas will be sent to Bhashan Char, where Bangladesh has built a facility to relocate 1 lakh Rohingyas from mainland
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News Reports

Iran: Instagram couple sentenced to 16 years prison, 74 lashes and three months of unpaid labour in absentia for “propaganda against the regime”

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The state of Iran has been inherently regressive and obstructive whereas social media is concerned and has banned its use it the country
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News Reports

Tesla Chief Elon Musk has a baby, shares the first picture of the baby boy on Twitter with a cryptic name

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Technology billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter that he and his girlfriend Grimes have given birth to a baby boy
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The Locker Room Controversy: After ‘Bois Locker Room’, chats of ‘Girls Locker Room’ leaked

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Following the 'Bois Locker Room' expose, incriminating screenshots of an alleged women-only groups talking trash about men and objectifying them have surfaced on the Internet
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News Reports

16 new cases of coronavirus emerge in Nepal, 15 of then contacts of a Tablighi Jamaat member

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15 family members and relatives of a Tablighi Jamaat member test positive for Coronavirus in Nepal in a single day
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India to operate 64 flights to bring back Indians stranded in 12 countries, passengers to bear the cost

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The Ministry of External Affairs has prepared a chart for the evacuation of 14,800 Indian nationals who are stranded in 12 foreign countries by 64 flights
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News Reports

Not more than 50 people in weddings, no more than 20 in funerals: MHA issues national directives for public gatherings and offices during lockdown

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The MHA Joint Secretary has made it clear that the congregation of more than 5 people is not allowed in shops or in any public space.
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu: Madras HC intervenes, govt withdraws order asking only Hindu temples to pay Rs 10 crores to CM’s Coronavirus relief fund

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Earlier the Madras HC had refused to interfere with the Tamil Nadu govt's order to distribute free rice to Mosques in the month of Ramzan.
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News Reports

Arnab Goswami approaches SC to quash fresh FIR against him by Mumbai police, seeks restraint against the “servant and agents” of the State of...

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While the vendetta against Arnab Goswami continues unabated the senior journalist is also resolute to pay back his oppressors in the same coin
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Congress brings Coronavirus to green zone Amethi, one of the migrants illegally moved from Rajasthan to UP by Priyanka Gandhi tests positive

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Green zone Amethi reported first Coronavirus case after a migrant woman illegally brought from Rajasthan to UP by Priyanka Gandhi tested positive
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Coronavirus cases in Mumbai: Shiv Sena leader mocks former MP Kirit Somaiya for his lisping, later brazens it out

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Shiv Sena leader Rahul Kanal mocked BJP's Kirit Somaiya for his lisping when the latter questioned the sham of 'Worli Model'.
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