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PM CARES fund to have up to 13 eminent experts to undertake relief and assistance during emergencies: Report

OpIndia Staff -
The PM-CARES will be headed by the prime minister, who will be the chairperson of the Trust. He will have the power to nominate three people to the board of trustees who shall be eminent persons in the field of research, health, science, social work, law, public administration and philanthropy.
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News Reports

Nepal detains 18 returning from Nizamuddin Markaz, sends them to quarantine to stop COVID-19 spread

OpIndia Staff -
In another incident, 13 Indonesians who had arrived in Kathmandu in Nepal from Saptari were sent to quarantine at Godavari Village Resort.
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Crime

Maharashtra: Tablighi Jamaat attendees attack and assault fellow villager for informing the authorities about their presence

OpIndia Staff -
Angered by the man's attempt to alert the authorities, the Tablighi Jamaat attendees had reportedly attacked their fellow villager. However, they were tested and their reports are all negative.
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News Reports

In video message, PM Modi asks citizens for 9 minutes on 5th April at 9 PM: Here is what he wants us to do

OpIndia Staff -
Prime Minister Modi in a video message announced that on 5th April, the nation has to come together to show their grit and collective strength.
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News Reports

FIR registered against 6 Tablighi Jamaat members for roaming naked in isolation ward, making lewd gestures toward female staff

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The members of Tablighi Jamaat were found roaming naked in their ward and making lewd gestures for female staff at a Ghaziabad Hospital
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News Reports

Chinese student from the UK brings coronavirus back to epicentre Wuhan just a week the declaration of the conquer over the outbreak in the...

OpIndia Staff -
The student named Zhou had no symptoms but was tested positive on arrival in Beijing and was later transported to Wuhan.
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News Reports

56-year old Dharavi resident who died due to Coronavirus had visited the Nizamuddin Markaz of Tablighi Jamaat

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The Dharavi victim is reportedly a resident of Dr Baliga Nagar SRA society that has around 300 flats. All the flats and 90 shops nearby have been sealed.
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News Reports

Nasik police arrest Muslim man after video of him wiping his face with currency note and saying “Coronavirus is Allah’s punishment to you” went...

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The man was seen saying that the coronavirus has no treatment because it is sent by ‘Allah’, while licking the notes
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Media

Congress linked ‘Real Report’ claims ‘thousands of devotees’ defied lockdown on Ram Navami using old image, deletes tweet later and backtracks

OpIndia Staff -
Real Report, a 'news platform' linked closely to the Congress party, posted a tweet on Thursday claiming that 'thousands' of devotees had gathered across temples in West Bengal on the occasion of Ram Navami.
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News Reports

Tablighi Jamaat members kept in Ghaziabad hospital roam naked in the ward, make lewd gestures toward female staff

OpIndia Staff -
The Chief Medical Officer of the District MMG Hospital in Ghaziabad has written a letter to the Ghaziabad police informing about criminal behaviour of the Jamaatis
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: FIR registered against cleric for inviting Muslims for Namaz at Mosque amidst Coronavirus lockdown

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The Madhya Pradesh police Wednesday have registered an FIR against a Muslim cleric for urging people to gather to offer Namaz at a Mosque in Ujjain, amidst Coronavirus lockdown
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News Reports

“May Allah send a virus that kills 50 crores Indians”: Bengal Maulvi roared from the stage, video goes viral

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May Allah send such a terrible virus to India that ten to twenty to fifty crore people die in India, the Maulvi said to an applauding crowd
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News Reports

China stockpiled more than 2 billion face masks and 25 million essential medical items in February

OpIndia Staff -
Chine used its companies in other countries to buy face masks, gloves and other items on a massive scale and ship them to China
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News Reports

AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan calls Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Arif Mohammad Khan “pimps” while defending Tablighi Jamaat chief Maulana Saad

OpIndia Staff -
The AAP MLA insinuated that people like Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Arif Mohammad Khan have given a communal colour to Coronavirus
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News Reports

Almost 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their primary contacts tracked down and placed in quarantine: MHA

OpIndia Staff -
Nizamuddin Markaz has emerged as Coronavirus hotspot with Tablighi Jamaat attendees being tested positive for the Wuhan Coronavirus
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Media

Former senior executive editor of Kapil Sibal’s Tiranga TV spreads crazy conspiracy theory to shield Tablighi Jamaat

OpIndia Staff -
Seemi Pasha said on Twitter that it 'feels' like the governments were scapegoating Tablighi Jamaat to "release data about positive cases that it had been holding back".
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Politics

Home Minister Amit Shah calls out Congress’ petty politics, asks the grand old party to not mislead people

OpIndia Staff -
Home Minister Shah said that the Congress was playing politics at a time when India under the leadership of PM Modi is being praised both domestically and globally for the efforts to fight the Chinese coronavirus.
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Opinions

Will Wuhan Coronavirus finally end the urban legend of the famous healthcare of Kerala?

Abhishek Banerjee -
Will the situation with Coronavirus finally blow the lid off the Kerala government’s propaganda on its ‘famous’ healthcare? Let us hope so.
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News Reports

Identify the coronavirus hotspots, encircle and ensure that it does not spread further: PM Modi to state CMs during the video conference

OpIndia Staff -
Prime minister Modi said that in the next few weeks testing, tracing, isolation and quarantine areas should remain in focus.
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News Reports

Here is how to use the Internet of Things to combat global pandemics like Novel Coronavirus outbreak

Krishna Kant -
Internet of Things could be used as a major tool to fight the spread of such pandemics and contain it with minimal economic loss
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Opinions

Coronavirus and the Chinese conundrum: How the virus spread, China’s bio-warfare and deception

Rucha Dhakras -
First instance of anyone being affected by Coronavirus virus dates back to 17th November 2019 which was reported by South China Morning Post
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News Reports

Malaysia govt apologises after suggesting women should talk to their husbands in Doraemon-like voice during the lockdown

OpIndia Staff -
The weirdest of all advises was to cajole the husbands by speaking to them in the voice of Doraemon.
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News Reports

Meet Maulana Saad Kandhalvi: The Chief of Coronavirus super spreader Tablighi Jamaat who incited Muslims to defy lockdown

OpIndia Staff -
Maulana Saad Kandhalvi is a deluded bigot who urged Muslims to defy the nationwide lockdown imposed to arrest spread of Coronavirus
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News Reports

Telangana: Disregarding social distancing norms, quarantined men in hospital perform group Namaz standing close to each other

OpIndia Staff -
Quarantined persons in a hospital in Telangana were seen offering mass Namaz standing close to each other
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Media

‘Will cough at you and spread Coronavirus’: JNU student threatens security, creates ruckus outside the campus

OpIndia Staff -
Following the incident, the security personnel filed a complaint against the JNU student and the matter has been escalated to the Delhi Police
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Fact-Check

No, India is not accepting ‘foreign aid’ to fight Coronavirus pandemic: Debunking misinformation​ spread​ by Suhasini Haider and Shashi Tharoor

OpIndia Staff -
No sooner was the PM CARES fund launched, did conspiracy theories and blatant lies started filling the internet, especially, Twitter.
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Social Media

Islamists on TikTok refer to coronavirus as NRC of ‘God’, ‘welcome’ the contagion to India

OpIndia Staff -
Islamists on TikTok have 'welcomed' the Chinese coronavirus to India referred to the contagion as 'NRC' of God.
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News Reports

Kerala HC orders opening state border at the highway near Kasaragod, a coronavirus hotspot, Karnataka govt objects

OpIndia Staff -
Karnataka had ignored requests from Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to open the border for people in Kasaragod who need urgent medical help at the nearest hospitals Mangaluru and Manipal.
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News Reports

3-day-old baby becomes youngest coronavirus patient: Father alleges mother and baby were given a bed vacated by COVID-19 patient

OpIndia Staff -
The father of the newborn alleged that his wife and child were given a bed that was vacated by a covid-19 patient.
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News Reports

Covid-19 positive patient from Tablighi Jamaat reveals he had visited the Shaheen Bagh protest site

OpIndia Staff -
It is being believed that this Andaman and Nicobar Tablighi Jamaat attendee might have infected the Shaheen Bagh protesters too
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News Reports

Tablighi Jamaat’s Maulana Saad gets into damage control mode, informs attendees that ‘listening to doctors’ is not against ‘Sharia’

OpIndia Staff -
Three days after being 'untraceable', Tablighi Jamaat chief Maulana Saad has released an audio recording, presumably shot in a studio without anyone coughing in the audience, appealing to attendees to follow authorities and cooperate with the doctors.
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News Reports

Pakistani court overturns murder conviction and death sentence of man convicted of murdering journalist Daniel Pearl, acquits 3 others

OpIndia Staff -
A court in Pakistan has overturned the death sentence and murder conviction of a British-born terrorist for the murder of Daniel Pearl, the South Asia Chief of Wall Street Journal, in 2002.
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News Reports

Police deployed at Delhi hospital after Tablighi Jamaat members refuse to get tested

OpIndia Staff -
The Tablighi Jamaat members who were evacuated from the Nizamuddin Markaz on 1 April 2020 are refusing to getting themselves tested and saying that they need not be admitted in the hospital.
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Media

Coronavirus reporting: A section of the media appears to be infected with the ​virus of misinformation and propaganda

Priyanka Deo -
Today, the world is affected by the coronavirus pandemic. And today, the means used to consume news are vastly different than college.
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News Reports

Bengaluru: ASHA workers, nurse attacked by mob for collecting Coronavirus related health details, instructions to attack came from Mosque

OpIndia Staff -
The Muslim mob allegedly tore the report prepared by ASHA workers and attacked them. Reports say that the instructions had come from a Mosque
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News Reports

Prophet’s perfume in the nose, Flower oil suppository: Read how ‘Islamic remedies’ peddled by religious leaders aggravated the Chinese Coronavirus crisis in Iran

OpIndia Staff -
For many years, religious hardliners in Iran have criticised modern medical science, instead, they have claimed of ability to cure any illness through Islamic remedies.
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News Reports

Tablighi Jamaat now infects North East India: Arunachal Pradesh and Assam report first cases of coronavirus, 1 more in Manipur

OpIndia Staff -
7 persons from Arunachal Pradesh had stayed at the Nizamuddin Markaz from December 12-14 and on March 14-16, before returning to the state.
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News Reports

Tablighi Jamaat’s Maulana Saad had mocked calls to close mosques amidst coronavirus lockdown, said mosque gathering would rather help Muslims

OpIndia Staff -
A shocking audio clip from the Nizamuddin Markaz has emerged where the Tablighi Jamaat chief Maulana Saad can be heard mocking the government's call to close mosques and other religious places in a bid to contain the spread of the virus.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Two families name their newborns ‘Lockdown’ and ‘Corona’

OpIndia Staff -
The babies were named 'Corona' and 'Lockdown' with the hope that they would remind people about taking precautions
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News Reports

China deliberately glossed over the magnitude of Wuhan coronavirus outbreak: US Intelligence report

OpIndia Staff -
According to the report, heaps of thousands of urns outside funeral homes in Hubei province have seeded doubts about China's real tally of those who have perished from the virus.
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News Reports

Not a single Railway passenger lost their life due to train accidents in the last 12 months: Railway Minister

OpIndia Staff -
In 2019-20, the railways have recorded zero deaths, while the last year 2018-19, the railways recorded 16 deaths
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News Reports

Coronavirus pandemic: Worst may be over for Italy as the number of deaths show a declining trend

OpIndia Staff -
The number of new coronavirus cases, serious cases and Covid-19 deaths in Italy suggest that the pandemic is on the wane
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News Reports

Coronavirus: Gita Ramjee, an eminent South African virologist of Indian origin succumbs to the infection taking the death toll in the country to 5

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Gita Ramjee had returned from London a week ago but reportedly showed no symptoms of COVID-19
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News Reports

Over one-third of total coronavirus positive cases in India linked to the Tablighi Jamaat

OpIndia Staff -
Number of Novel coronavirus cases spiked yesterday mainly because of the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi's Nizamuddin area
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Social Media Fact-Check

Journalist Sakshi Joshi claims that Tirumala Tirupati temple was quietly shut after the Tablighi Jamaat congregation was caught: Here is how she is wrong

OpIndia Staff -
Sakshi's claims that Tirumala Tirupati temple had slyly shut in the backdrop of the Nizamuddin clampdown is a complete fabrication of facts
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News Reports

Coronavirus outbreak: After spitting on the road, Tablighi Jamaat members kept in quarantine centres throw tantrums, abuse officials and spit on doctors

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier yesterday, these members of Tablighi Jamaat were found spitting out on road while being transported to quarantine centres
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News Reports

FIRs filed against The Wire Founder-Editor Siddharth Varadarajan for spreading fake news about Yogi Adityanath

OpIndia Staff -
UP govt said that as Varadarajan neither deleted the false article and nor apologised, actions are being taken against him and FIR filed
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News Reports

Scientists identify at least eight strains of coronavirus from over 2,000 genetic sequences

OpIndia Staff -
The Coronavirus samples from all over the world showed that the virus is taking on an average of 15 days for mutation
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News Reports

When Congress tried to use Ramayana’s popularity on Doordarshan to win elections: Watch video

OpIndia Staff -
Congress party had tried to cash in on the huge popularity of Ramayana star Arun Govil to win elections in 1980s
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Crime

Indore: Medical team that had gone to check a coronavirus suspect assaulted, pelted with stones, police team attacked too

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A medical team that had gone to check on a patient with suspected coronavirus symptoms was attacked and pelted with stones in Indore's Tatpatti Bhakhal.
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