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More than 100 employees of Southern Railway asked to undergo medical tests after many Jamaatis travelled on 13 trains: Details here

OpIndia Staff -
As hundreds of the attendees have now tested positive for the Chinese virus, the Southern Railway has now warned that ticket examiners and RPF personnel may also have been contracted with the virus and hence asked its staff to undergo a medical test.
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Media

Congress’ Hinduphobia: National Herald whitewashes vile conduct of Tablighi Jamaat while taking jibes at Hindus

K Bhattacharjee -
National Herald, The Congress mouthpiece, published an opinion piece that absolved the Tablighi Jamaat of all its crimes and instead accused political parties and the media of 'scapegoating' them.
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News Reports

Amidst worsening coronavirus crisis in Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray government denies Army intervention in the state: Report

OpIndia Staff -
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government in the state has refused the central government's move to deploy the Armed Forces and stem the inexorable spread of the virus in the country's financial capital, say reports.
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News Reports

Frontrunner for Democratic nominee in 2020 US Presidential Election Joe Biden accused of sexual harassment by former staffer

OpIndia Staff -
Tara Reade, who had briefly worked as a staff assistant in Biden’s Senate office said that in 1993, Biden had pinned her to a wall in a Senate building, reached under her clothing and penetrated her with his fingers.
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News Reports

Delhi police closes in on Tablighi Jamaat chief Maulana Saad, expects to arrest soon: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Maulana Saad has been absconding since March 28 after the Nizamuddin Markaz emerged as the hotspot for coronavirus.
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News Reports

Coronavirus: Mumbai’s Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum reports 19 news cases on Sunday, 47 cases and 5 deaths till now

OpIndia Staff -
The Mumbai police on Monday barricaded the area amid the rising number of COVID-19 cases from the locality. The policemen have maintained a strict vigil to check the movement of the people.
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Social Media

‘Liberals’ and Islamists attack cricketer Ravindrasinh Jadeja, mock Rajput community after he shares a video of his swordsmanship

OpIndia Staff -
Islamists and liberals mocked Rajput community after Jadeja shared a video of himself displaying his swordsmanship.
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News Reports

Mangaluru: Minor was ‘bored’, so packed friend inside suitcase to bring him home, case registered

OpIndia Staff -
The Mangaluru police will now produce the minors before the Juvenile Justice Board.
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Social Media

Watch: Pakistani doctors dance inside hospital wards in the middle of coronavirus pandemic

OpIndia Staff -
The global death toll due to the Chinese pandemic coronavirus has crossed 1,14,000-mark with more than 1.8 million people being tested positive for the Chinese virus.
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News Reports

Delhi Police registers case against a firm for allegedly issuing fake ration cards, company cries foul

Dibakar Dutta -
A First Information Report (FIR) was filed under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 420 and Information Technology (IT) Act Section 66D after a complaint was filed by the Food and Civil Supplies Department.
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Fact-Check

Assorted fake news peddlers come together to spread lies that woman drowned her five children in river ‘due to lockdown’

OpIndia Staff -
While the country has come together to fight Chinese coronavirus, a certain section of propagandists are rooting for the government's efforts to fail.
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Government and Policy

Central govt rejects Sonia Gandhi’s demand to transfer PM-CARES fund to PMNRF, to allow FCRA-exempted foreign donation

OpIndia Staff -
The PM-CARES Fund will also receive exemptions from the operation of all provisions of the FCRA Act and can now accept donations from individuals and organisations based in foreign countries through foreign credit/debit cards and through wire transfer/SWIFT. Receipts can be downloaded directly from the portal.
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News Reports

Punjab: Doctors successfully reattach hand of police officer which was amputated in an attack by Nihangs in Patiala

OpIndia Staff -
Doctors at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research in Chandigarh managed this feat after a 7.5 hours long surgery
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News Reports

Uttarakhand: Muslim mob comes out onto the streets in hotspot Balbhoonpoora to prevent authorities from quarantining an Imam

OpIndia Staff -
A Muslim mob came out onto the streets at Balbhoonpura in Haldwani, Uttarakhand after a team of the health department had visited the area in order to quarantine an Imam.
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News Reports

Enterprising Gujarati man uses drone to deliver ‘paan masala’ during coronavirus lockdown, police books two

OpIndia Staff -
A young man named Hiren Patel managed to fly a drone with packets of tobacco in Morbi near Rajkot using a drone owned by friend Ravi
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News Reports

Mumbai Police takes cognizance of hateful tweets made by a Communist genocidal maniac after outrage by netizens, Mumbai based company to terminate his employment

OpIndia Staff -
Mumbai police to take action against Arun Nambiar who had earlier called for genocide of 'Sanghis' and people from 'upper castes'.
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News Reports

Sri Lanka: Government makes cremation of those who die of coronavirus compulsory, rejects objections by Muslim groups

OpIndia Staff -
Sri Lanka govt issues official gazette notifying that the bodies of coronavirus victims will be cremated.
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News Reports

Inquiry initiated against Delhi Police Head Constable Pankaj Khan for helping Madrassa members to cross the border during the lockdown

OpIndia Staff -
The inquiry has revealed that the Delhi Police Head Constable used his police ID to ferry those people in his vehicle.
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News Reports

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson discharged from hospital after receiving treatment for the coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has been discharged from the hospital after having been admitted due to the Wuhan Coronavirus. However, he will not immediately return to work.
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News Reports

Netizens joke about end of world as an earthquake hits Delhi-NCR amidst coronavirus lockdown

OpIndia Staff -
The internet was flooded with dark humour about doomsday prophecies and end of world jokes as a 3.5 magnitude earthquake hit the Delhi-NCR region on Sunday.
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Social Media

BookMyShow under fire from netizens for promoting Hinduphobes and those who wished death upon PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
On Sunday, BookMyShow had shared a tweet promoting an event of ultra-left wing troll Harnidh Kaur
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News Reports

2 Fraudsters who duped people to the tune of ₹52 lacs by creating fake website of PM Cares Fund arrested

OpIndia Staff -
The fake website pmcarerelieffund.com was used to defraud people who were making donations to the PM Cares Fund
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: 17 Foreign Tablighi Jamaat members sent to jail in Bahraich after the end of quarantine period

OpIndia Staff -
17 foreign nationals sent to jail include 10 from Indonesia and 7 from Thailand, who were hiding after returning from Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi
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Media

Mamata Banerjee to extend the lockdown till April 40th? AajTak journo’s slip of tongue pulls at funny chords of netizens

OpIndia Staff -
Netizens took a swipe at Mamata Banerjee after an AajTak report claimed that she had extended the lockdown in West Bengal till "April 40th"
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News Reports

Coronavirus scare: Villagers near Aligarh panic after 2 Bikers throw five ₹100 currency notes on the road after spitting on them

OpIndia Staff -
The miscreants had covered their faces with cloths who stopped on the road, spat on the currency notes and threw them away before leaving the spot
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Entertainment

Kangana Ranaut’s sister comes up with innovative idea to save resources during the Coronavirus crisis, suggests dismissing 2024 General Elections

OpIndia Staff -
Instead of spending crores on elections in 2024, Rangoli suggested, PM Modi should continue for 3rd term uncontested.
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News Reports

Sharp decline in infiltration, smuggling of cattle, fake Indian currency, marijuana through Indo-Bangladesh Border amidst Coronavirus outbreak: BSF

OpIndia Staff -
BSF officials said infiltration and smuggling across the South Bengal frontier region had reached "a rock bottom level."
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News Reports

Coronavirus: China engages in racism against Africans even as it accuses the USA of being racist towards them

OpIndia Staff -
Racism against Africans has been reported in the Guangzhou city of China. The allegations surfaced after a recent spark in the number of Wuhan Coronavirus cases in the country which were allegedly imported by Nigerians.
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News Reports

Covidiots: Uruguayan diplomat defies lockdown rules in Delhi, fights with Delhi police

OpIndia Staff -
When the cops asked why was she not following the mandate issued by the MEA, the diplomat said she has not received any such notices.
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Media

ABP News spreads fake news, exaggerates coronavirus cases in Haryana while understating cases in Maharashtra and Kerala

OpIndia Staff -
The fake news spread by the mainstream media cannot be attributed to incompetence alone because if it were only incompetence, they would have erred on equal parts against all sides of the political spectrum.
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News Reports

Coronavirus fight: The UK will receive 3 million packets of Paracetamol and its stranded citizens from India on April 12

OpIndia Staff -
On Sunday, thousands of UK nationals stranded in various parts of India will be ferried to their home country via charter flights.
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News Reports

Pressurised by Delhi Minority Commission, Kejriwal govt drops reference to Nizamuddin Markaz super-spreader in daily coronavirus bulletin

OpIndia Staff -
A new tab 'Special Operation' now comprises the Markaz Nizamuddin related coronavirus cases in the national capital
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News Reports

Coronavirus scare: 250 hotspots in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh linked to Tablighi Jamaat

OpIndia Staff -
around 130 hotspots in Telangana and 120 hotspots in Andhra Pradesh for Coronavirus are linked to the Tablighi Jamaat
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Media

Global liberal elite moves to ‘criminalize’ the word Bharat

Abhishek Banerjee -
Facing the brunt this time is the word “Bharat,” which is sought to be declared “exclusionary.” The reasons given include Bharat being a Sanskrit term and Bharat being the word used for India in Indian languages.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Mob violates lockdown, attacks police personnel with lathis, rods and pelt stones

OpIndia Staff -
When police team asked the people to obey lockdown, they became violent and attacked the cops with lathis, rods and stones
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News Reports

Uttar Police police to reward people providing information about hiding Tablighi Jamaat members

OpIndia Staff -
Those informing the UP police about hiding Tablighi Jamaat members will be given cash rewards and their identity will be kept confidential
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News Reports

Coronavirus lockdown: Tamil Nadu man dies after drinking sanitiser as an alternative for alcohol

OpIndia Staff -
It was suspected that someone told to Bernard that the sanitizer had an alcohol content equivalent to liquor.
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News Reports

Punjab: Seven Nihangs who had attacked Punjab policemen and chopped off hand of a cop nabbed from Gurudwara

OpIndia Staff -
The 'Nihangs', who had attacked the Punjab policemen and chopped-off hands of ASI Harjeet Singh have been arrested at a local Gurdwara Khichri Sahib near Patiala.
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News Reports

Coronavirus lockdown: Indian Railways, IPS officer come to rescue by delivering 20 litres camel milk after mother of autistic child tweets for help

OpIndia Staff -
The Indian Railway transported 20 litres of camel milk to a family in Mumbai from Rajasthan after a mother from Mumbai tweeted about the non-availability of camel milk in Mumbai.
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News Reports

Watch: Nihangs chop off Punjab Policeman’s hand after cops stopped them from Patiala market amidst coronavirus lockdown

OpIndia Staff -
A group of five 'Nihangs', armed with swords and iron rods, were travelling in a vehicle and they were asked to stop at a vegetable market at 6.15 am by Mandi board officials.
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News Reports

Chennai: Indigo employee succumbs to coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
According to reports, the Indigo employee was an aircraft maintenance engineer in his mid-50s and was employed since 2006.
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News Reports

Coronavirus: The ‘scientists’ who have given clean chit to Tablighi Jamaatis for being super spreaders in India had also demanded withdrawal of CAA

OpIndia Staff -
On 8th April, a group identifying itself as 'Indian Scientists' Response to COVID-19' (ISRC) issued a public statement giving a clean chit to the Tablighi Jamaat attendees in their role of being super spreaders for Chinese coronavirus in India.
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News Reports

Coronavirus: Medical team held hostage, rescue team attacked in Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
The J&K police official said that a person from the village was to be taken for screening but his family members refused and kept the medical team hostage inside their house.
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News Reports

United States may extend the H1B Visa for Indians who are stranded in the United States amid the Coronavirus pandemic

OpIndia Staff -
India had requested the US to extend validity of H1B and other visas for Indians who are stuck due to coronavirus outbreak
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News Reports

‘You belong in the dustbin of journalism’: Communists outrage as India Today journalist Rahul Kanwal exposes Islamists spreading Coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
"You are a hate monger and history will remember you", Rahul Kanwal faces the ire on Twitter for report on coronavirus and madrasas
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News Reports

Trichy: Coronavirus positive Tablighi Jamaat members hurl their masks towards healthcare workers inside hospital

OpIndia Staff -
Coronavirus positive Tablighi Jamaat members got involved in a heated altercation with hospital staff and threw their masks towards nurses
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Opinions

Haryana under Manohar Lal Khattar held its fort strongly in fight against Coronavirus: The silent but effective fight

Shivam -
Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar does not believe in PR campaigns but is an able administrator who knows the ins and outs of public policy
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News Reports

India could have 8.2 lakhs Coronavirus positive cases by April 15 if lockdown and containment were not implemented: Union Health Ministry

OpIndia Staff -
Health ministry analysis says India would have 8.2 lakh Coronavirus cases without lockdown and containment, and 1.2 with containment only
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News Reports

West Bengal Doctors Forum writes to Mamata Banerjee asking that Coronavirus data should be genuine, transparent and verifiable

OpIndia Staff -
The WB Doctors Forum called for transparency in Coronavirus data when the numbers published by WB govt have come under scanner
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News Reports

Meerut: Police attacked as they seal area where Coronavirus patients were hiding in mosque, 4 including Imam arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Police personnel were attacked by locals in Meerut's Jali Kothi when they reached there to seal a part of the area where Coronavirus patients were hiding in a mosque
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