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‘Kashmiriyat is a scam, it is used to abuse religious minorities’: Sikh youth narrates ordeal of persecution in Muslim-majority Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
A Sikh youth named Amaan on Friday took to Twitter to share his experience of facing persecution in Muslim-majority Kashmir. Narrating his ordeal, Amaan said that 'Kashmiriyat' is just a scam and revealed how religious minorities are abused by Muslims in Kashmir.
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Politics

A ghar wapsi of another kind – Yogi Adityanath is on a mission to shine in this too

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Ghar wapsi of non-Hindus made Yogi an icon of Hindutva, now the ghar wapsi of migrant laborers can catapult him to a new status.
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News Reports

I need practice so I will enjoy suing UN official: Here is why Subramanian Swamy is all set to sue UN official for defamation

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"I need practice so I will enjoy suing in court a United Nation official for defamatory lies", said Subramanian Swamy
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News Reports

Cyclone Amphan Vs Cyclone Aila: In 2009, when she was not ruling Bengal, Mamata Banerjee had asked centre not to give a relief package...

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Mamata Banerjee had justified the opposition to the central govt assistance in 2009 by claiming that the money would be transferred to CPM cadres.
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Government and Policy

Government of India tweaks guidelines, here are the categories of OCI cardholders who can now travel to India

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Minor children born to Indian nationals abroad who hold OCI cards; students stranded abroad with OCI cards and OCI cardholders wanting to travel to India on account of family emergencies are permitted by the government of India's latest order
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News Reports

SP and BSP skip the all-party meeting by called by Sonia Gandhi, AAP claims they didn’t get an invite

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SP and BSP will not attend the grand meeting of 18 Opposition parties called by the Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi
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Economy and Finance

RBI cuts interest rates, extends loan moratorium for three more months as it expects negative growth rate in FY21: Here are details

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RBI Governor announced various measures, like extending loan moratorium to cutting down interest rates to boost the economy that has slowed down due to the ongoing coronavirus-induced lock
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News Reports

Cyclone Amphan: PM conducts aerial survey in West Bengal, announces Rs 1000 crore relief package

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi and Mamata Banerjee conducted an aerial survey across the state.
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News Reports

Are you working for India or China?: Read Maneka Gandhi’s scathing response to TikTok for refusing to delete videos of animal cruelty

OpIndia Staff -
Gandhi has also directed TikTok to reveal the names and addresses of such users to the law enforcement authorities.
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News Reports

Congress leader Sanjay Jha tests positive for Coronavirus, says was asymptomatic and will be under home quarantine

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress spokesperson and President of All India Professional Congress - Sanjay Jha has tested positive for coronavirus.
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News Reports

Delhi riots: Arrested Jamia student Asif Tanha charged with UAPA, sent on further police remand

OpIndia Staff -
Besides Tanha, Jamia Coordination Committee Members- Safoora Zagar. Meera haider, President of Jamia Alumni Association Shifa-Ur-Rehman and suspended AAP councillor Tahir Hussain have also been charged under UAPA in the Delhi riots case
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News Reports

Karachi plane crash: 91 passengers, including 31 women and 9 children were on board the PK-8303, read details

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The PIA flight PK-303 travelling from Lahore was about to land in Karachi international airport when it crashed at the Jinnah Garden area near Model Colony in Malir.
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News Reports

India-Nepal border: Communist group tries to march to Lipulekh to plant a Nepali flag, stopped by Nepali villagers

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A couple of days back, Nepali PM KP Oli had launched an offensive against India and laid claims to Indian territories of areas of Lipulekh and Kalapani
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News Reports

Round 2: Leftists and Naxal sympathisers start casting doubts on the excavation at Ram Janmabhoomi temple site, call it “of little use”

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A day after various remains of a temple was unearthed from Ram Mandir site at Ayodhya, Nandini Sundar a known Naxal sympathiser, took to Twitter to peddle a new narrative to discredit the findings.
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News Reports

Threat to kill CM Yogi Adityanath ‘with a bomb’: Police lodges FIR in Lucknow

OpIndia Staff -
Uttar Pradesh police confirmed that the threat message was sent at UP-112 WhatsApp number at 12.32 am on Thursday.
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News Reports

Congress leader DK Shivakumar wants an FIR to be registered against the cop who filed an FIR against Sonia Gandhi: Here are details

OpIndia Staff -
The state Congress chief DK Shivakumar also sought suspension of the cop who registered the FIR in the matter. Shockingly, Shivkumar also demanded registration of an FIR against the cop for registering the complaint against Sonia Gandhi.
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News Reports

From lack of domestic manufacturers to becoming 2nd largest producer of PPE suits, India shows the way

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On May 18, Union Textile Minister Smriti Irani had tweeted that the production of PPE body coveralls had crossed 4.5 lacs per day.
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News Reports

Did CPR India delete video where Shekhar Gupta admitted that media chose to ignore positive effects of Modi govt’s welfare schemes

OpIndia Staff -
The discussion was uploaded on CPR India YouTube page and was extensively viewed and reported in May 2019
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Crime

Ajmer minor rape: Accused Habibullah found positive for coronavirus, policemen, court officials, pregnant victim to be tested

OpIndia Staff -
One of the three accused in the Ajmer minor rape case - Mohammad Habibullah, was tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday. The accused was arrested along with another accused identified as Mohammad Rafiq.
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News Reports

Rajasthan govt is showing its bankruptcy, inhumanity: Mayawati slams Congress for demanding money for student buses, exploiting migrant issue

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Accusing the Congress government of inhumanity, Mayawati tweeted, "Two neighbouring States must not indulge in such despicable politics."
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News Reports

Maharashtra: No ambulance, 26-year-old coronavirus patient walks to the hospital accompanied by social workers, video goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
The patient walked all the way to Shastrinagar civic hospital in Dombivli on Thursday after the hospital staff allegedly asked him to walk to the hospital, a distance of 3km away, as an ambulance was not available.
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News Reports

Mumbai: Thousands gather at Bhiwandi over rumours of Salman Khan distributing free food and money ahead of Ramzan Eid

OpIndia Staff -
The incident took place on Wednesday evening in Khandupada locality of Bhiwandi. Police had to disperse the crowd.
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Opinions

The spread of Covid-19 pandemic has added a unique dimension to the ‘Great Game’ between the two economic giants of Asia

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Relations between India and China soured even more when India rejected the Chinese Covid-19 test kits,
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News Reports

Ashok Gehlot government in Rajasthan sends a bill of Rs 36.36 lakh to UP government for the buses used to ferry students from Kota

OpIndia Staff -
Rajasthan govt is asking UP govt to pay Rs 36,36,664/- for 70 buses that they had provided to transport students from Kota to UP last month.
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News Reports

US deports Telangana engineer Ibrahim Zubair Mohammad to India who was convicted for financing Al Qaeda leader

OpIndia Staff -
Terror finance convict Ibrahim Zubair Mohammad was deported to India at the end of his five year jail term in the USA
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News Reports

Migrant bus row: Uttar Pradesh Congress Chief Ajay Lallu sent to 14-day judicial custody

OpIndia Staff -
Ajay Lallu and Priyanka Gandhi's private secretary Sandeep Singh were charged for forgery.
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Government and Policy

Uttar Pradesh government takes control of Shia and Sunni Waqf Boards in the state: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
UP Minister for Minority Affairs Mohsin Raza said that CEOs will be appointed by the government to look after work of the 2 waqf boards.
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Opinions

How Sikkim, once a different country like Nepal, became a state of India

OpIndia Staff -
The communist government in Nepal, alleged to be a 'puppet' of China, seems to be losing confidence of its own people
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News Reports

Is Pakistan govt website really showing the entire Kashmir as part of India, a fact check

OpIndia Staff -
Kashmir is seen in India on Pakistan govt's Covid portal because they have embeded Bing map, which shows different maps based on user location
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News Reports

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi recalls ‘buses’ sent to Uttar Pradesh for migrants

OpIndia Staff -
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi has now recalled the 'buses' she had sent for migrants in Uttar Pradesh after blaming Yogi Adityanath government of 'playing politics'.
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News Reports

Terrorists attack patrol party of Jammu and Kashmir police in Pulwama, one cop martyred

OpIndia Staff -
This is the second attack within two days on security personnel. Yesterday, two BSF jawans were martyred in a terrorist attack.
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News Reports

Gujarat: Woman gives birth in ambulance in Gir Somnath as the road was blocked by lions

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After noticing the lions blocking the way, the ambulance stopped at the spot and the woman delivered her baby inside the ambulance.
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News Reports

Delhi Waqf Board trying to encroach a public park to convert it into coronavirus graveyard for Muslims, alleges VHP, writes to Lt Governor

OpIndia Staff -
In March, the Delhi Waqf Board had declared that it will make the 'Jadeed Qurustan' near Millennium Park a dedicated burial ground for Muslim coronavirus patients. However, the VHP has alleged that the area they had demarcated for the graveyard belongs to the park and not the Waqf Board.
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News Reports

Hyderabad: Woman claims her husband, a coronavirus patient, is missing, hospital says he was cremated and family was informed

OpIndia Staff -
The hospital clarified that the family was duly informed about the patient's death and municipal authorities had performed the cremation as per due procedure.
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Opinions

Ayodhya: Museum needed to preserve memory of oppressed generations

Abhishek Banerjee -
Victory is not simply in building a grand Ram Temple at Ayodhya. Real victory lies in establishing a full documented history of what happened to generations of oppressed Hindus in India.
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News Reports

Wuhan: City authorities officially ban eating, hunting wild animals, certain aquatic animals for 5 years

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The new policy was released on May 13. The current ban on the consumption and hunting of the wild animals is to stay for 5 years as of now.
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Interviews

Ultimately, we are all in this together: Psephologist Pradeep Bhandari talks about his month long ground reporting on coronavirus and migrant crisis

OpIndia Staff -
Psephologist Pradeep Bhandari traveled for over a month to understand and get to the bottom of the ground realities of the migrant crisis. In conversation with OpIndia, Bhandari talks about how the governments fared and what more they could do to mitigate the crisis.
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News Reports

“Young cobras inside my house and coronavirus outside. Where do I go?” Madhya Pradesh villager asks as over 100 baby cobras slither inside his...

Ruchika Chaubey -
Villagers have caught fifty-one snakes so far but every day five-six more baby cobras are coming out of nests under the house
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News Reports

US Senator Kamala Harris and other Democrats introduce resolution against terms ‘Chinese Virus’ and ‘Wuhan Virus’ to describe coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
Democratic senators say use of terms like "Chinese Virus" or "Wuhan Virus" to describe Novel Coronavirus is racist.
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News Reports

Renowned Folk Singer Malini Awasthi sends defamation notice to Congress IT cell worker for slandering her and family, demands unconditional apology

OpIndia Staff -
Malini Awasthi shared the defamation notice being sent to Congress IT cell worker Gaurav Pandhi.
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News Reports

Karnataka: FIR filed against Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi for misleading tweet by party on PM-CARES Fund

OpIndia Staff -
The FIR for a tweet by Congress identifies Sonia Gandhi as the handler of the social media account of the Congress Party
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News Reports

India and Bangladesh start five new ports of call and two more protocol routes to enhance connectivity and trade between the two countries

OpIndia Staff -
The number of Indo-Bangladesh Protocol (IBP) routes are being increased from 8 to 10 after an agreement between the two countries
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News Reports

Imran Khan’s tweets reveal that Pakistan has been trying a terror attack in Kashmir since 9 months, but security forces have frustrated them

OpIndia Staff -
The Union Government on August 5, 2019, abrogated Article 370 and made the erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state an integral part of India without any riders attached. Pakistan, obviously hasn't been too thrilled about the step.
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News Reports

Sorbonaash hoye gachhe: Mamata Banerjee says several districts are totally devastated as cyclone Amphan batters Odisha and WB

OpIndia Staff -
The cyclone has killed 12 people in West Bengal, while seven others have reportedly died in neighbouring Bangladesh. At least three people have lost their lives due to Cyclone Amphan in Odisha.
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News Reports

Ayodhya: Carved stone pillars, Hindu sculptures, broken idols and a Shivling excavated during Ram Mandir construction work

OpIndia Staff -
Stone pillars with carvings, artefacts like kalash, aamalak etc, broken idols of Hindu deities and a 5-foot tall Shivling has been found at the Ram Janmabhoomi site beneath the debris.
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News Reports

Indian Railways announces resumption of 200 trains from June 1, bookings to start from May 21

OpIndia Staff -
These trains will be fully reserved trains having both AC & Non AC classes. The general coaches will also be reserved seats for sitting. Most importantly, there will be no unreserved coach on the train.
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News Reports

Haryana Congress leader Pankaj Punia arrested by police over abusive, Hinduphobic tweet

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Multiple FIRs have been filed against Punia for his vile remarks targeting religion and beliefs. The FIR in Lucknow was filed by UP Police's cyber cell.
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News Reports

NIA arrests Hizbul terrorist accused of murdering BJP leader and brother in Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Rustam Ali arrested by NIA in the case of murder of BJP leader Anil Parihar and his brother Ajeet Parihar.
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News Reports

“Boom” in Bengaluru: Indian Air Force says it may have been an IAF jet going supersonic causing the loud noise

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier today, Bengaluru was rocked with a thunderous sound after which many people took to social media to attribute the sound to jets going supersonic
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News Reports

Kolkata: Rebuked by mother for spending too much time on mobile phone, 13-year-old girl commits suicide

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The mother of the 13-year-old Kolkata girl had allegedly rebuked the child for spending too much time chatting on her mobile phone
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