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Crime

Gujarat: Illegal slaughterhouse behind Rani Roopmati mosque raided in Shahpur, 12 smugglers arrested, cattle rescued

OpIndia Staff -
The illegal slaughterhouse that was raided by the police was located behind Rani Roopmati Mosque in Ahmedabad.
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Government and Policy

UP: Yogi Adityanath allows demolition of over 100 shops inside Gorakhnath temple for road widening, orders alternate shops be given to those affected

OpIndia Staff -
Yogi Adityanath, who is also the Mahant of Gorakhnath temple in Gorakhpur has allowed authorities to demolish a part of the temple boundary to necessitate road-widening work
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Crime

Maharashtra ATS nabs one Kamran Amin Khan for threatening to kill Yogi Adityanath ‘with a bomb’: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Kamran who had issues death threat to Yogi Adityanath would be produced before a court on Sunday and would be handed over to the Uttar Pradesh STF.
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News Reports

Pinjra Tod ‘activist’ arrested for inciting Delhi riots was a columnist with The Wire and Newslaundry

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi police arrested two women, Natasha Narwal, who was also a columnist with The Wire and Devangna Kalita for inciting the anti-Hindu Delhi riots
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News Reports

World War-II veteran, Indian Army’s oldest artilleryman Major Gurdial Singh Jallanwalia passes away

OpIndia Staff -
Major Gurdial Singh Jallanwalia was a pioneer in developing surveillance and target acquisition in Indian Artillery after India's independence
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News Reports

Two women activists of Far-left group ‘Pinjra Tod’ arrested in North-East Delhi riots case

OpIndia Staff -
It was found that on February 22 Pinjra Tod members had mobilised local residents for protesting against the CAA
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News Reports

‘Eid has the potential of becoming a super-spreader of Coronavirus’: South-African Muslim body urges Muslims to avoid Eid ceremonies and prayers

OpIndia Staff -
Muslim Judicial Council of South Africa urged Muslims to avoid gatherings and ceremonies on Eid as it can become Coronavirus super-spreader
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News Reports

“I am fully hopeful that we will restart international flights before August or September”, says Civil Aviation Minister

OpIndia Staff -
Hardeep Singh Puri said that international flights will resume by August or September, or even before depending in situation
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News Reports

FIR filed against Daati Maharaj for offering prayers at Delhi temple during the lockdown

OpIndia Staff -
The FIR has been filed under Sections 188, 34 and relevant sections of Disaster management act and epidemic diseases act.
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News Reports

Artisans from West Bengal borrowed money and pledged family jewellery to return from Kota as administration refused to help

OpIndia Staff -
The 200 artisans with their family collectively booked 7 buses using the money the borrowed and left for their homes.
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Government and Policy

Delhi recruitment advertisement controversy: Senior officer of Directorate of Civil Defence suspended for incorrectly referring to Sikkim as an independent country

OpIndia Staff -
The LG added that there is no tolerance for such gross misconduct and directives have been issued to withdraw the advertisement.
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News Reports

One Mohammad Ajruddin arrested for impersonating army officers to cheat victims on Olx

OpIndia Staff -
The accused Mohammad Ajruddin and his gang had created various fake IDs of the army and paramilitary personnel on e-commerce platforms to lure victims on OLX.
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News Reports

Italian resistance song ‘Bella Ciao’ played from Turkey’s mosques ahead of Ramzan, probe ordered

OpIndia Staff -
the Italian resistance song "Bella Ciao" was broadcast from several mosque minarets in Turkey’s western province of İzmir on May 20
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News Reports

Mumbai coronavirus outbreak: 3rd doctor dies of COVID-19, wife claims it took 5 hours to get a bed for her sick husband

OpIndia Staff -
As per the account of the wife of the deceased doctor, the couple struggled from 3-8 PM to get him admitted
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News Reports

Chickens at poultry farm in Kerala lay eggs with green yolk, KVASU launches study

OpIndia Staff -
Ak Shihabudheen is a native of Othukkungal in Malappuram. About nine months back, a chicken, who was little smaller than the other chicken, laid an egg with green yolk.
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News Reports

United States blacklists dozens of Chinese entities on the allegations of human right violations and military offences

OpIndia Staff -
US said that organizations which are blacklisted represent a significant risk of supporting the procurement of items for military end-use in China.
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Opinions

23 May 2019 – more than just a counting day – when one won over innermost fears

Rahul Roushan -
It was not just Modi returning to power with a bigger mandate, it was a day when the ghosts of 2004 were buried.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Complaint filed against quarantined members of the Muslim community in Mau for threatening and misbehaving with ASHA workers

OpIndia Staff -
The quarantine members reportedly threatened ASHA workers with death when the latter advised them to follow lockdown and quarantine guidelines
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News Reports

Sikkim govt asks Delhi govt to remove the offensive ad where it stated Sikkim as an independent country

OpIndia Staff -
Sikkim Government has asked Delhi government to remove the offensive advertisement for recruiting civil defence volunteers where Sikkim was mentioned as a separate country along with Bhutan and Nepal.
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Opinions

People like Rajdeep Sardesai – you are English media, not National media, stop blowing up your ego so much

S. Sudhir Kumar -
People like Rajdeep Sardesai continue to live under the distinct impression that they represent “national media”
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News Reports

Complaint filed against street vendors, shops in Bengaluru for putting up saffron flags

OpIndia Staff -
A lawyer named Maitreyi Krishnan has registered a complaint on May 18 against a Facebook post by 'Uttara Kannada Mandi' and claimed that the Facebook had allegedly put out photos of people putting up saffron flags.
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News Reports

Yogendra Yadav’s 7-point action plan to revive economy post coronavirus pandemic has more twists and turns than an Abbas-Mustan movie

OpIndia Staff -
When the plan was unveiled on Friday evening, most people, including some of the people who had endorsed the action plan which even 14-year-olds could've written, were appalled.
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Opinions

21st Century belongs to Atmanirbhar Bharat: The new reforms will gear us to enter phase two of the rise of Indian economy after 1991...

Guest Author -
Modi govt has laid a foundation for the new economic reforms and came out with an ambitious plan of self-reliance: The Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan.
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News Reports

Bengal BJP President Dilip Ghosh stopped from visiting cyclone-hit areas, police claims he did not have permission

OpIndia Staff -
The West Bengal police claimed that Bengal BJP President Dilip Ghosh did not have permission to travel in the region according to lockdown and disaster management rules
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Politics

Mayawati blames Congress for migrant crisis, says the videos shared by the party is less empathy and more drama

OpIndia Staff -
Bahujan Samaj Party supremo and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati today took to Twitter to call out Congress for its stand on the migrant crisis amid coronavirus outbreak.
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News Reports

Yogendra Yadav and other intellectuals suggest taking over private property in war against Coronavirus, amend it after backlash saying they didn’t mean it

OpIndia Staff -
So-called ‘Mission Jai Hind’ published by Yogendra Yadav had called for the government to take over all properties of private citizens and treat them as national resources
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News Reports

Shiv Sena puts Hindutva on a back-burner, says Ram Mandir in Ayodhya can wait

OpIndia Staff -
Shiv Sena spokesperson Sanjay Raut refused to comment on the recent discoveries of Shiv Ling and ancient pillars found at the site of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya
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News Reports

Army Chief General Naravane visits Ladakh amid raising tensions with China along LAC

OpIndia Staff -
The security review by the Army Chief in the sensitive region comes a day after there were reports that China had deployed excessive troops and set up temporary tents across the Galwan river in Ladakh after a face-off near Pangong Tso on May 5-6.
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News Reports

Intellectual dishonesty sorted with a little help from Shekhar Gupta: Professor Varshney endorses clause 7.1 by ‘intellectuals’, leaves door open for uturn after Shekhar...

OpIndia Staff -
The juvenile “7-point action plan” propounded by Yogendra Yadav contains a controversial 7.1 clause that terms all private property, which included bonds, gold, property etc ‘must be treated as a national resource’ to fight the pandemic
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News Reports

DMK Rajya Sabha MP RS Bharathi arrested under SC/ST Act for his controversial remark on appointment of Dalit judges, gets bail

OpIndia Staff -
DMK Rajya Sabha MP RS Bharathi was booked under section 3 of the Scheduled caste and Schedule tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
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Media

Rajdeep’s obsession with ‘Gujarat model’ reflects the biggest fear of ‘liberals’ – Modi winning Delhi the same way he won Gujarat multiple times

Nupur J Sharma -
Through the years, almost with surgical precision, Rajdeep Sardesai has obsessed over the 'Gujarat model' and now Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Opinions

Coronavirus: Aircrafts returning to service after 2 months of lockdown; should we be worried

Sambit Nayak -
India is resuming limited domestic air services. Let's examine how safe it's for aircraft to take to skies after 2 months of prolonged parking
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News Reports

Delhi government ad on civil defence recruitment refers to Sikkim as an independent country

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi government in its ad to recruit nearly 200 volunteers referred the state of Sikkim to be a separate entity and placed alongside sovereign nations like Bhutan and Nepal.
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Media

Newslaundry pressurises Zee News journalist affected with coronavirus to do a hitjob on channel’s Editor-in-Chief Sudhir Chaudhary

OpIndia Staff -
The Zee News journalist said that if Newslaundry was willing to know his side of truth, then they must publish his video.
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News Reports

“Those who have installed hatred amongst Muslims against RSS should be ashamed of themselves”, Bengal NGO thanks RSS for help to Bengali Muslims in...

Sandeep K Patil -
Chairman of Orchid Foundation of India, Sohel Rana Alam’s story completely demolishes filthy narratives against RSS
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News Reports

Even as coronavirus cases increase in Kerala again, Pinarayi Vijayan govt eases restrictions ahead of Eid

OpIndia Staff -
The ease of restrictions, especially ahead of the Islamic festival of Eid, comes at a time when the state has seen a rise in coronavirus cases again.
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News Reports

After being mocked, Ram Guha distances himself from the “action plan” that suggested all private property be considered ‘national resource’

OpIndia Staff -
One of the intellectuals who endorsed this 'action plan' was Ramchandra Guha but after much mockery, he has distanced himself from the action plan.
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News Reports

Self-declared Intellectuals and Economists come up with suggestions for govt that my nephew’s high school group could also have come up with

Nirwa Mehta -
Looks like the 'intellectuals' and 'economists' of our country have now taken inspiration from 14-year-olds and come up with a 7-point agenda to deal with the economic crisis post-coronavirus pandemic.
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News Reports

Stone-pelting on policemen by Muslim mobs reported in Bokaro and Bahraich during Friday Namaz, social distancing norms violated in Moradabad

OpIndia Staff -
More than 200 people gathered at a Mosque to offer 'namaaz' at Narayanpur under Pindrajora police station in Bokaro district on Friday despite there is a ban on religious congregations.
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News Reports

Maldives calls out Pakistan’s anti-India propaganda, says Islamophobia allegations against India factually incorrect

OpIndia Staff -
Maldives has come out in defence of India at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meet and called out Pakistan's 'rising Islamophobia' propaganda against India.
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News Reports

DRI alerts Custom departments across country to check smuggling of infrared thermometres

OpIndia Staff -
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence(DRI) is a federal economic intelligence unit that reports to Finance ministry that keeps a check on commercial frauds such as smuggling etc.
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Media Fact-Check

Fact Check: The Wire’s Rohini Singh lies about ventilators received in donation by Gujarat government

OpIndia Staff -
The Press Information Bureau claimed that the ventilators were in accordance with the required quality standards and were received as donation by Gujarat government
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News Reports

PIA plane crash: Crashed Pakistani aircraft came from China after 10 years of use

OpIndia Staff -
The records of Airbus A-320 shows that the passenger plane was used by China Eastern Airlines for 10 years before it became a part of PIA.
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News Reports

Pune: Massive fire breaks out after explosion in chemical factory in Kurkumbh

OpIndia Staff -
The incident took place on Friday morning after explosions were heard around 10:30 am. The fire tenders reached at spot and controlled the situation.
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News Reports

Andhra HC orders CBI investigation in suspended doctor assault case, directs to file case against cops

Shashank Bharadwaj -
The court had on Wednesday directed the Visakhapatnam sessions judge to personally visit the government Hospital for mental health where Sudhakar Rao is admitted and record his statement.
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News Reports

Stone pelting on police in Bahraich as they try to disperse namaaz gathering, two cops severely injured

OpIndia Staff -
Police went on for dialogue to avoid the gathering, in return stones were pelted on them. Both the police officers were admitted in the hospital.
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Crime

Pakistan Army forcefully ‘harvesting organs’ from ethnic minorities in Balochistan: Report

OpIndia Staff -
The report claims that the army covers the bodies such that the stitch marks are not visible to the family. Interestingly, the army also does not allow post-mortem to be conducted on such dead bodies.
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Media

For Rajdeep Sardesai, Congress calling Yogi Adityanath ‘Ajay Bisht’ is fine, but he sees red when Sonia is called Antonia Maino

OpIndia Staff -
'Journalist' Rajdeep Sardesai has time and again proved how loyal he is to the Congress party and to the first family of the party.
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Political Fact-Check

PM Modi announces Rs 1,000 crore ‘advance assistance’ to West Bengal in Mamata Banerjee’s presence, CM lies, says ‘no clarity’

Jinit Jain -
PM Modi unequivocally announced that the central government will provide an "advance assistance" of Rs 1000 crore to the cyclone-hit West Bengal
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Government and Policy

As Priyanka Gandhi writes to UP CM asking to waiver electricity bill, Congress govt in Rajasthan charges penalty for late payment

OpIndia Staff -
As compared to February, consumers in Congress ruled Rajasthan are having to pay at least 25 per cent more for electricity in April and May
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