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Defence Minister Rajnath warns about non-traditional threats in the sea, commissions three new coast guard vessels

OpIndia Staff -
Defence minister Rajnath Singh said that all the agencies related to maritime security must work mutual coordination.
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Media

FIR No. 59: Delhi Police slams The Wire for ‘dull-witted’ fake news report, says journalist was in a ‘frenzy’ to allege ‘bias and discrimination’

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi Police has slammed The Wire for a report where the far-left propagandists had accused the Police and the Judiciary of bigotry against the Muslim community.
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News Reports

General Secretary of Congress student wing NSUI makes Hinduphobic remarks on Facebook, deactivates account on being called out

OpIndia Staff -
Shokit Ali Shaheen, General Secretary of NSUI posted derogatory comments about Hindus on his Facebook page
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News Reports

Hooghly violence: 125 people arrested and explosives recovered, prohibitory orders revoked

OpIndia Staff -
Communal clashes ensued in West Bengal's Hooghly district after Muslims in the locality allegedly refused to follow coronavirus lockdown orders
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News Reports

Visakhapatnam espionage case: NIA arrests key conspirator Mohammed Haroon in Mumbai

OpIndia Staff -
On December 30, 2019, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had taken over the Visakhapatnam espionage case
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News Reports

US President Donald Trump threatens to cut ties with China, says he has lost interest in speaking to Xi Jinping

OpIndia Staff -
US President Donald Trump said he was very disappointed with China's failure to contain the Wuhan Coronavirus.
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Government and Policy

Myanmar hands over 22 militants to India after being persuaded by NSA Ajit Doval, reflecting deepening ties between the two countries

OpIndia Staff -
The decision of the Myanmar Government to hand over insurgents is the result of enhanced defence and intelligence co-operation.
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News Reports

Meerut: Massive lockdown violation in Coronavirus hotspot Jali Kothi, five including Yusuf Badshah arrested

OpIndia Staff -
13 individuals have tested positive for Coronavirus thus far in Jali Kothi, Meerut and the area has been declared a hotspot.
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News Reports

World Bank praises Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan announced by PM Modi in the fight against Coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
World Bank's India Director Junaid Ahmad appreciated India's efforts in providing social assistance to poor and vulnerable
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News Reports

Coronavirus lockdown: When flights resume, airlines may mandate the usage of full PPEs, including face shields for cabin crew members, say reports

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, it will be mandatory for each crew member of Indigo to wear a surgical mask, gloves, face shields along with a gown or a bodysuit. Vistara is planning to have its cabin crew wear a lap gown, face mask and face shield.
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News Reports

UP government to monitor people buying cold, cough and fever medicines, asks medical stores to collect information of buyers and send to govt

OpIndia Staff -
Medical stores will have keep details of people buying fever, cough and cold medicines and send to the health department on daily basis
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News Reports

As she left hospital after treating Coronavirus patients, a pregnant nurse was raped by an illegal migrant in Italy: Her 45-minute horror

OpIndia Staff -
The illegal migrant continued to assault the Italian nurse for almost 45 minutes until a bus arrived and the driver noticed and screamed
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News Reports

145 Shramik Special Trains moved 2.10 lakh people to their native places in one day: Indian Railways

OpIndia Staff -
On Thursday, 145 Shramik trains were operated by Indian Railways and nearly 2.10 lakh passengers were ferried home
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Social Media

Did Munnawar Rana steal the lines of his famous poem ‘Maa’ from a couplet by poet Alok Srivastava? All you need to know

OpIndia Staff -
Recently, Munawwar Rana's controversial tweet alluding Hindus as animals had kicked up a storm in the social media.
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News Reports

Shekhar Gupta’s The Print urges opposition parties to spread fake news to defeat Prime Minister Narendra Modi

OpIndia Staff -
An article on The Print argues that liberals should spread fake news in their war on Prime Minister Modi.
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News Reports

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announces third tranche of economic revival package focussing on agriculture, major reforms announced

OpIndia Staff -
Finance minister announced 11 measures for agriculture, 8 on strengthening infrastructure, the rest 3 on governance and administrative reforms.
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Law

Allahabad High Court rules that reciting Azaan over loudspeaker not necessary part of Islam: Here are the details

OpIndia Staff -
The Court observed that use of loudspeakers for Azaan is subject to public order, health and morality.
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News Reports

Supreme Court judge, family put under quarantine after cook tested positive for coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
As a preventive measure, the judge and his family have been advised to stay quarantined for the next 10 days. Reportedly, the family members had no contact with the cook for the last seven days.
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News Reports

US Senate passes Uyghur Bill to sanction China amidst deteriorating diplomatic relations

OpIndia Staff -
As the diplomatic relation between Beijing and Washington sour, the US Senate has passed a legislation to sanction China for its inhuman and discriminatory treatment of its Uyghur minority population
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Baba who dreamt about ‘1000 tons gold’ passes away, 4000 disciples booked for violating lockdown orders

OpIndia Staff -
Baba Shobhan Sarkar alias Suryabhan Tiwari had risen to fame during the UPA era when the Manmohan Singh-led government had started excavation in the area indicated by the baba, hoping for a massive gold reserve.
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News Reports

Times They Are a-Changin’: INOX meltdown, drive-through strip clubs, PPE stores in airports and the way businesses adapt to the Age of Coronavirus

Editorial Desk -
The Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic will change the world as we know it.
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Law

Relief for Gujarat minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama as SC stays Gujarat HC order cancelling his 2017 election victory

OpIndia Staff -
The apex court was hearing the appeal filed by Gujarat minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama against the Gujarat High Court order of May 12.
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News Reports

‘How do you stop people who want to keep walking?’ Supreme Court refuses to entertain plea over Aurangabad rail incident

OpIndia Staff -
A Bench of the Supreme Court comprising of Justice L Nageswara Rao, Justice BR Gavai and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul noted that it was impossible for the apex court to track who was walking and who was not.
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News Reports

Mumbai: BJP leader Nitesh Rane makes a startling claim, says BMC stopped identifying patients as ‘suspected Coronavirus’ cases to downplay numbers

OpIndia Staff -
Yesterday, Mumbai witnessed highest-ever single-day surge in the coronavirus cases, as 998 people were reported to have contracted the deadly contagion.
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OpIndia Explains

Economic Imperialism: This is how China is trying to bully countries into submission using its economic prowess

OpIndia Staff -
China has now decided to use its economic clout to threaten the world into submission.
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News Reports

Supreme Court fines a petitioner who sought closure of liquor shops, says such frivolous petitions stem from lack of work

OpIndia Staff -
The judges noted that multiple petitions seeking the closure of liquor shops are being filed with an intent to gain publicity.
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News Reports

UP govt to demarcate places notorious for illegal cow slaughter and declare them as hotspots as done for coronavirus cases

OpIndia Staff -
Since Yogi Adityanath assumed office, he has attempted to address the menace of cattle smuggling and illegal cow slaughter in the state
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News Reports

West Bengal: BJP MP Arjun Singh alleges Barrackpore Joint Commissioner of Police attempted to assassinate him on the order of Mamata Banerjee

OpIndia Staff -
Arjun Singh alleged that Mamata Banerjee had sent Ajay Thakur and other non-uniformed police officers at his house to assassinate him.
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News Reports

Violence after Delhi govt declared MCD schools acting as ration distribution centres shut for one day, stone-pelting reported

OpIndia Staff -
Mob gathered outside MCD school in Delhi and pelted stones, tried to break open the gates after finding that ration distribution was closed for the day
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News Reports

US President Donald Trump pulls out American pension fund investments worth billions of Dollars from China

OpIndia Staff -
Donald Trump confirmed that his govt has withdrawn billions of dollars of American pension fund investments in China
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News Reports

Youth commits suicide after Dalits thrash and force him to drink urine, Brahmin community delegation demands Rs 1 crore compensation

OpIndia Staff -
After the shocking death of the youth Vikas Sharma, a delegation from the Brahmin community has submitted a memorandum to Shivpuri district administration addressed to the Madhya Pradesh CM, demanding Rs 1 crore as compensation to the bereaved family.
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News Reports

Website claims Maharashtra Governor arranged Army helicopter to send a Mumbai model home amidst lockdown, complaint filed: All you need to know

OpIndia Staff -
A case was registered under IPC Sections 500 and 501 following a complaint by the Maharashtra Governor, Bhagat Singh Koshyari against the portal named 'News Uttarakhand'.
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News Reports

Forced conversion of tribals, orphan children, FCRA and visa rules violations: LRPF files complaint against Christian evangelical organisation

OpIndia Staff -
The NGO has received over Rs 1 crore in FCRA funds each year but has not displayed data regarding receipts/utilisation of the same in the public domain, which is a clear violation of FCRA Rule -13.
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News Reports

Gopalganj Rohit Jaiswal murder case and the curious ‘u-turn’: The recording of two conversations with the victim’s father

OpIndia Staff -
Rajesh and his family had also alleged earlier that Kataiya SI Ashwini Tiwari had supressed Rohit's post-mortem report for over 22 days. In a video, they had also alleged that Tiwari had misbehaved with Rohit's mother.
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News Reports

Two more cases of police officers getting attacked in Maharashtra, 218 cases of cops being assaulted registered so far

OpIndia Staff -
The two attacks against Maharashtra police personnel have been reported from Antop Hill in Mumbai and Mumbra while trying to enforce Coronavirus lockdown
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Fact-Check

Javed Akhtar fear-mongers about migrant labourers being stranded as Railways cancels train tickets up to June 30th: Here is the truth

OpIndia Staff -
Indian Railways has cancelled all train tickets booked during or before the lockdown for travel up to June 30th in view of the Coronavirus pandemic and Javed Akhtar cannot stop lying about it
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News Reports

Coronavirus: India gets first automated COVID-19 testing machine ‘COBAS 6800’ that can test 1200 samples in 24-hours

OpIndia Staff -
COBAS 6800 developed by Roche Diagnostics can perform real-time PCR testing to detect coronavirus in blood samples
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News Reports

Bihar: Imported liquor bottles seized from Congress MLA’s car, four arrested and vehicle impounded

OpIndia Staff -
Eight bottles of imported liquor from the vehicle of Congress legislator Sanjay Tiwari was found during a routine checking in dry state Bihar
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News Reports

Bengaluru: More than 50 people refuse mandatory quarantine after coming from Delhi on special train, sent back to Delhi by attaching extra coach

OpIndia Staff -
Around 50 people were sent back to Delhi as they refused to go for mandatory institutional quarantine after arriving in Bengaluru from Delhi
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Opinions

Largest Communist cover up of recent times: China must be investigated for its role in spreading the Coronavirus, WHO and its Director General should...

Rajeev Raman -
China should be investigated based on the revised adoption 2005, by International Health Regulations (IHR) of World Health Assembly.
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News Reports

Hindu priests slam Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan for suggesting govt to borrow gold from temples, say take money from Congress leaders instead

OpIndia Staff -
Hindu priests alleged that the Congress leaders are anti-national and questioned why they are not asking anything from Mosque-churches.
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News Reports

Congress leader CM Ibrahim writes to Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa urging to allow Muslims to gather for public prayer on Eid

OpIndia Staff -
The request by the Congress leader received flak from various quarters as it was largely seen as an attempt to appease the Muslims
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News Reports

Face-offs between the Indian troops and Chinese troops are not co-related with any other global or local activity: Army Chief

OpIndia Staff -
The Army Chief confirmed aggressive behaviour by both Indian and Chinese sides at Eastern Ladakh and North Sikkim
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News Reports

‘Activist’ Rehana Fathima, who had tried to desecrate Sabarimala temple, sacked from her job at BSNL

OpIndia Staff -
For 18 months, Rehana Fathima was under suspension after BSNL had received complaints from the public about her abusive posts
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News Reports

Nirmala Sitharaman announces relief measures for farmers, liquidity support and 25 lakh new Kisan Credit Cards on the menu

OpIndia Staff -
Nirmala Sitharaman announced that three crore marginal farmers have already availed agricultural loans worth Rs 4.22 lakh crore.
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News Reports

As per Bengal police, Muslims in Telinipara attacked Hindus with swords, bombs, gas cylinders and burned their houses down because of a ‘taunt’

OpIndia Staff -
“The recovery of explosives points to the fact that one particular community stockpiles weapons and explosives. Why is that so?" asked BJP's Rahul Sinha.
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News Reports

Political uncertainty in Maharashtra ends as CM Uddhav Thackeray elected unopposed to the Legislative Council

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray and eight others declared elected unopposed to the state Legislative Council
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News Reports

Finance Minister announces second tranche of “Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan” focusing on migrants, vendors, farmers, housing etc: Detail report

OpIndia Staff -
Finance Minister Sitharaman said that the second tranche will be relating to migrant workers, street vendors, housing, employment generation for tribals and small farmers.
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News Reports

Affordable Housing, free food grain supply to migrants for two months, FM Nirmala Sitharaman announces relief measures for migrant workers

OpIndia Staff -
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the second tranche of relief measures under the Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan.
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OpIndia Explains

The Kaluchak Massacre: Does India remember this brutality, 18 years on

Deepika Sharma -
In the early hours of 14 May 2002, three Pakistani terrorists managed to sneak into Indian territory from Samba region - And thus began the Kalachak Massacre
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