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Naamdar chor hai: Rahul Gandhi steals cartoon, crops out watermark and denies credit to a startup

OpIndia Staff -
Former Congress President who ran the 2019 general election campaign on 'Chowkidar Chor Hai' slogan on Sunday ended up stealing a cartoon from a startup which makes quirky cartoons on news.
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Crime

Lucknow: Healthcare workers attacked, abused in Kasaibara area where several COVID-19 positive patients were found hiding in a Mosque

OpIndia Staff -
The health workers have complained that the mob even tried to tear their survey reports. Reports say that the attack came from a locality near the Mosque where the covid-19 patients were found.
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Politics

40 years ago, after losing its political identity for a national cause, this is how BJP was born

Shantanu Gupta -
Deep dive into how the Bharatiya Janata Party was formed on its 40th foundation day.
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News Reports

Tablighi Jamaat chief Maulana Saad using quarantine as an excuse to evade arrest, hiding in a populated area and mobilising support: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Tablighi Jamaat members account for 30% of total COVID-19 cases in India and a staggering 50% cases in Uttar Pradesh. Some Muslim clerics have stated that Maulana Saad had ignored warnings and went ahead with the congregation.
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News Reports

Coronavirus: Delhi Police tracks phones, makes surprise visits to those under home quarantine, registers 198 FIRs against offenders

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi Police have phone numbers of over 25,000 people under home quarantine.
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News Reports

Coronavirus: India enforces an absolute ban on the export of hydroxychloroquine, several nations send requests for supply as global demand rises

OpIndia Staff -
India is the largest producer of hydroxychloroquine in the world. The Commerce Ministry, in a notification dated 4 April, has enforced an absolute ban on the export of the drug.
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News Reports

#9baje9minute: These heartwarming pictures from Sunday night show that we are in this fight against coronavirus together

OpIndia Staff -
On Sunday night at 9 PM, Indians came out on their roofs and balconies and lit up lamps, torches and candles to show solidarity in this fight against Chinese coronavirus.
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News Reports

Cricketer Mohammad Kaif gets attacked by Islamists for lighting lamp on 5th April in solidarity for fight against coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
Islamists on social media weren't too happy with cricketer Mohammad Kaif for lighting lamp to thank healthcare workers, urged him to offer namaz instead.
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News Reports

Criminal cases to be filed against entire villages if found hiding people returned from Tablighi Jamaat in Nizamuddin Markaz: Assam Health Minister

OpIndia Staff -
Assam health minister set a deadline of 6 PM on Sunday for people who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat to come forward for quarantine
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News Reports

Here are 15 incidents in the past two weeks where Muslim mobs attacked health workers and police personnel trying to control Coronavirus spread

OpIndia Staff -
In addition to the nuisance created by Muslim mobs, the Tablighi Jamaat members are turning out to be quite a headache for the authorities in fight against coronavirus
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Social Media Fact-Check

Viral message on WhatsApp claiming Maulana Saad of Tablighi Jamaat donated to Rs 1 crore to PM’s Relief fund is fake, here is how

OpIndia Staff -
An image of Irish newspaper News Letter was used to create the fake news claiming Maulana Saad donated 1 crore to govt of India
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News Reports

HRD Minister Ramesh Pokriyal assures students of no academic loss in case of an extension of the nationwide Coronavirus lockdown

OpIndia Staff -
HRD Minister said, "The Government will make a decision on April 14 whether to reopen schools, colleges after reviewing COVID-19 situation."
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News Reports

Odisha: Muslim mob attacks Police during lockdown in Cuttack, case registered against miscreants

OpIndia Staff -
Stones were pelted at the Police while they were patrolling the area during the complete shutdown imposed till 8 pm in Cuttack.
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News Reports

Nizamuddin Markaz of Tablighi Jamaat, hotspot of Wuhan Coronavirus, set to be demolished: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Only two floors of the Nizamuddin Markaz are authorised, therefore the rest 7 floors may be demolished
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News Reports

Coronavirus: 522 out of 571 COVID-19 positive cases in Tamil Nadu linked to Tablighi Jamaat

OpIndia Staff -
Out of the 86 cases reported today, 85 had attended the Nizamuddin event in Delhi.
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Opinions

Jñanagaman: The Coronavirus Lockdown is an opportunity to move inwards, to know one’s true self

Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar -
Lockdown is an opportunity to facilitate Jñanagaman - the advent of true knowledge, or, in modern parlance, the awakening of the Force
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Media

Shekhar Gupta’s website comes up with the silliest apologia of Islamism and Tablighi Jamaat, even the Jamaatis’ bullsh*t sounds better

K Bhattacharjee -
In this moment of crisis contributed to greatly by the Tablighi Jamaat, The Print decided to run apologia for it.
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Politics

Did discontent within the Congress-led Rajasthan Govt lead to false narratives being peddled regarding a pregnant Muslim woman who lost the 7th child

OpIndia Staff -
Many on social media also speculated that the story was shared by Congress MLA to settle political scores with RLD MLA Dr Subhash Garg
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News Reports

Old video of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi goes viral on social media falsely claiming they defied lockdown rules

OpIndia Staff -
The video was shot in December 2019 during CAA protests when Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were stopped in Meerut.
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News Reports

30-year-old man shot dead in Prayagraj over remarks on Tablighi Jamaat’s role in spreading coronavirus, accused Md Sona nabbed

OpIndia Staff -
Mohammad Sona shot Lotan Nishad dead because Nishad had accused the Tablighi Jamaat members of spreading coronavirus in the country
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News Reports

‘Govt wants to kill us’: Tablighi Jamaat attendees create ruckus at Ahmedabad hospital, Muslim doctor had to intervene to explain

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The Jamaatis accused that they were being held against their will and gathered around in a corner, refusing to cooperate
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News Reports

Days after attacking medical team to prevent the screening of residents, Tatpatti Bhakhal area in Indore reports 12 confirmed Coronavirus cases

OpIndia Staff -
On Saturday, Indore had reported 16 cases of COVID-19. Three people who died of the pandemic were from the Tatpatti Bakhal area.
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News Reports

Alt News waters down man spitting on fruits he was selling, claims since the video is from February the ‘mentally unstable’ man is not...

OpIndia Staff -
Just because the video is six weeks old, 'fact-checker' Alt News concluded that it was the single incident
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News Reports

Diplomacy fail: China sells back PPEs to Italy which the European country had donated it when the coronavirus was at its peak

OpIndia Staff -
After faulty testing kits, China asks Italy to buy back the PPEs Italy had donated to the Communist country at peak of coronavirus outbreak
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Media

The Guardian’s biased coverage: Calls India’s lockdown ‘brutal’ but deems Britain’s ‘necessary hardship’, urged Trump to impose a lockdown and gives Australia a free...

OpIndia Staff -
The Western media's agenda against India was most prominent during The Guardian's coverage of India's lockdown.
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News Reports

FIR filed against former Tripura Congress president for using the National Emblem on his letterhead

OpIndia Staff -
Under the State Emblem of India Act, 2005, individuals and private organisations are restricted from using the National Emblem.
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News Reports

TMC supporter issues threat of “marking the houses” of those who would comply with PM Modi’s blackout call, reminds of Nazi’s yellow star markings

Dibakar Dutta -
Like Nazis were involved in racial profiling, a TMC sympathiser now wants to politically profile people and list their addresses.
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News Reports

Rajasthan Muslim woman, who was referred to another hospital, was 7th time pregnant with complicated anaemia case

OpIndia Staff -
Congress MLA in Rajasthan took to social media to inform that a Muslim pregnant woman in Bharatpur was refused admission because of her religion.
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News Reports

Delhi Police constable Imran suspended for helping Tablighi Jamaat members cross Delhi-UP border

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi Police constable Imran was illegally crossing the Delhi-UP border on Thursday in his car along with 8 members of Tablighi Jamaat.
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News Reports

“We don’t believe in coronavirus, we believe in Allah”: Mosques remain open in Pakistan despite Chinese coronavirus outbreak

OpIndia Staff -
Even as the Chinese pandemic COVID-19 has spread across the country in Pakistan shutting down most of the country, several mosques have remained opened across Pakistan.
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News Reports

Vadodara: 35-year-old Abrar Shaikh arrested for sharing fake news amidst coronavirus outbreak

OpIndia Staff -
A 35-year-old Muhammad Abrar Hussain Shaikh was arrested by Vadodara Police for sharing fake news on social networking site Facebook claiming 145 out of 400 people stuck in Vaishnodevi temple tested positive for Chinese Coronavirus.
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News Reports

Gujarat: Two cops who skipped duty to offer group namaz in madarsa suspended and arrested

OpIndia Staff -
On Saturday, the Gujarat Police suspended and arrested two cops for skipping duty and offering prayers at a mosque in Dang district of the state amidst lockdown due to coronavirus spread in the country.
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News Reports

Donald Trump requests PM Narendra Modi to supply hydroxychloroquine tablets to treat COVID-19 US patients

OpIndia Staff -
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said that he has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to supply hydroxychloroquine tablets that can be used to treat COVID-19 patients.
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News Reports

COVID-19 brought under Ayushman Bharat Scheme, testing and treatment to be available for free at private labs and hospitals

OpIndia Staff -
Testing and treatment of Covid-19 will be available for free at private labs and hospitals under Ayushman Bharat
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News Reports

Coronavirus: Tablighi Jamaat members continue to endanger public health in different states in India

OpIndia Staff -
Helth ministry informed that about 647 confirmed cases of Wuhan Coronavirus in 14 States, in the past 2 days, are linked to the Tablighi Jamaat.
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News Reports

Two new COVID-19 positive cases detected in Mumbai’s Dharavi

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier 3 cases had been reported in Dharavi out of them one succumbed to the disease, who was linked with Tablighi Jamaat
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News Reports

BJP MP shares video accusing Arvind Kejriwal government of providing worm-infested food to the poor during the lockdown

OpIndia Staff -
Tt is being alleged that the food provided to poor by the AAP government in Delhi is worm-infested and unfit for human consumption.
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News Reports

101 people crammed in Mumbai shelter house amidst lockdown, cancer patients living in close quarters with migrant workers: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Amidst Coronavirus lockdown, with non-existent provisions for isolation and a common toilet, life has been difficult for the residents of the Mumbai shelter house.
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Fact-Check

145 Hindus test Coronavirus positive after visiting​ Vaishno Devi: Islamist Ali Sohrab, who was once arrested, spreads fake news again

OpIndia Staff -
Fake news peddler Ali Sohrab was in November last year arrested by UP Police over his provocative tweets on Supreme Court judgement of Ram Janmabhoomi verdict
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News Reports

Entire colony in Madhya Pradesh sealed after a Dubai returned man hosted feast for 1500 people and later tested positive along with 11 members...

OpIndia Staff -
The man hosted a feast after returning from Dubai in honour of his dead mother, which was attended by near 1500 people
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News Reports

Coronavirus: Mother nature heals as Ganga flows cleaner, mountain ranges become visible as air quality improve

OpIndia Staff -
Ajay Pujari informed that earlier the priests would refrain from taking a dip in Ganga. Due to the lockdown, they can now bath in the river.
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News Reports

22,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their contacts have been quarantined: MHA

OpIndia Staff -
22,000 Tablighi jamaat workers and their contacts have been traced and kept under quarantine, says Joint secretary, MHA.
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News Reports

Odisha imposes 48-hour curfew in 3 cities after clerics who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi’s Nizamuddin test positive for Coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
Odisha Government has announced a complete shut down in Bhubaneswar, Bhadrak and Cuttack for 48 hours to knockdown COVID-19
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News Reports

NDTV claims it ‘won’ the undisclosed income case in Supreme Court, but troubles are not over for them: Here is how

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court quashed the case against NDTV on technical grounds, allowing I-T dept to proceed under proper sections of I-T Act
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Media Fact-Check

Habitual fake-news peddler Saba Naqvi shares old video of Hindu devotees visiting temples to shield Tablighi Jamaat super-spreaders

OpIndia Staff -
Habitual fake news peddler Saba Naqvi shared an old video to assert that Hindu devotees breached the lockdown restrictions
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Opinions

It is not prejudiced to suspect the Tablighi Jamaat of sabotage through the Coronavirus pandemic

Abhishek Banerjee -
It is not bigoted to point fingers at the Tablighi Jamaat for the Coronavirus spread. Their irresponsible behavior is a matter of public record.
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News Reports

Maulana threatens media for coverage of Tablighi Jamaat as they spread Coronavirus, says ‘India will be in trouble if we show our true colours’

OpIndia Staff -
The video of the Tablighi Jamaat member where he threatens the media was released by Maulana Mahfooz Ur Rahman, the Tahaffuz-E-Deen India.
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News Reports

Muslim mob pelt-stones, attack police personnel for trying to enforce Coronavirus lockdown in Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone

OpIndia Staff -
Amidst the Coronavirus lockdown, the attack on police personnel, healthcare workers continues unabated in the country
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Government and Policy

Singapore declares lockdown: Here is why the Wuhan Coronavirus is so deadly and why it is not ‘just the flu’

K Bhattacharjee -
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong declared a near-total lockdown of the country on Friday to curb the spread of the Wuhan Coronavirus.
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News Reports

After MMG Hospital, now Tabilighi Jamaat members isolated at Sunderdeep Ayurvedic college at Ghaziabad misbehave with female staff

OpIndia Staff -
Some Jamaat members were heard saying to female employees, "come to Hyderabad with us, will show you heaven."
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