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5 Muslim men lied, spread fake news, TOI carried it: The truth about ‘Muslims organising last rites of Hindu man ostracised by neighbours

OpIndia Staff -
A report published in the Times of India claimed that five Muslim men organised last rites of Hindu man after the neighbours shunned his family
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News Reports

Trying to hoodwink FATF? Report says Pakistan has quietly removed names of 4000 terrorists from watchlist including Mumbai attack mastermind

OpIndia Staff -
FATF retained the Pakistan in the Grey list in February, will review the progress in June 2020.
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Opinions

The role of Muslim leadership in the times of Coronavirus crisis

Desh Ratan Nigam -
The Maulvis of the kind of Tablighi Jamaat have taken over the leadership of the Muslim community even much prior to the independence and wearing a mask to hide their true identity
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News Reports

Bihar: Communal tension in Warisaliganj after 60 goons attack Maha Dalit colony leaving one dead and several injured

OpIndia Staff -
The fight which started as a minor scuffle quickly escalated in a shootout after which a 55-year-old Dalit man named Ravidas was shot dead by the main accused Mohammad Irfan.
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News Reports

Palghar mob lynching: Relatives of those arrested threaten to kill BJP sarpanch on the suspicion of colluding with the police

OpIndia Staff -
The relatives of those arrested in the gruesome mob lynching of three men, including 2 sadhus, have threatened BJP sarpanch of Gadchinchle village with life threats on the suspicion of leaking the identities of attackers to the police
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News Reports

Amidst coronavirus, Donald Trump to ‘temporarily’ suspend immigration into the United States

OpIndia Staff -
Donald Trump has, however, not clarified on the duration of the order or the date from which it will be enforced in the US.
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News Reports

Malegaon: Over 500 people gather at Noorani Masjid area for a funeral procession despite lockdown orders, dispersed after police intervention

OpIndia Staff -
The funeral procession took place in Malegaon's Noorani Masjid area. Police had to intervene and finally, only 20-25 people were allowed to proceed.
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Political History of India

Liberals always talk about ‘Sare Jahaan Se Achcha’ composed by Muhammad Iqbal but never ‘Tarana-e-Milli’: Here is why

K Bhattacharjee -
The 21st of April marks the death anniversary of Muhammad Iqbal, one of the most significant proponents of the two-nation theory and the creation of Pakistan in the first half of the 20th Century.
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News Reports

After 53 journalists in Mumbai, 27 employees of a Chennai-based channel test positive for coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has agreed to get journalists in national capital who are on the field to get tested for coronavirus
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Media

Rana Ayyub declares victory for Ummah, claims PM Modi appealed for communal harmony due to ‘pressure from Islamic countries’

OpIndia Staff -
Professional Fake News Peddler Rana Ayyub appears to be hallucinating in broad daylight. She in labouring under the belief that pressure from Islamic countries is forcing Prime Minister Modi to appeal for communal harmony.
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Entertainment

Singer Sonu Nigam deactivates Twitter account after Islamists attack him for his 2017 tweet on loudspeakers at religious places

OpIndia Staff -
Owing to coronavirus pandemic, Sonu Nigam is currently stuck in Dubai as he was in the gulf country when the worldwide travel restrictions were put in place.
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Opinions

No Congress, Dr Tedros saying the same thing as Rahul Gandhi is nothing to celebrate: Here’s why

Nupur J Sharma -
The "testing testing testing" trope might not be entirely accurate or even factually correct when it comes to India.
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News Reports

66 foreign Tablighi Jamaat attendees sent to jail in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur after the completion of quarantine, for flouting visa norms

OpIndia Staff -
Prior to the arrest, these foreign Tablighi Jamaat attendees were quarantined for two weeks in a guest house in Kareli, Uttar Pradesh.
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News Reports

Mumbai coronavirus outbreak: A 25-year-old with no underlying medical conditions dies after 3 days in the hospital

OpIndia Staff -
Pradip Mali, 25, died on April 19, 3 days after he was admitted to Kasturba hospital and tested positive for coronavirus.
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News Reports

After Rashtrapati Bhawan, Lok Sabha staffer tested positive for novel coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
The concerned staffer was reportedly not posted in the parliament complex but at the Lok Sabha secretariat at 36 GRG Road.
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News Reports

No suspicious activity detected in North Korea, says South Korea amidst rumours that Kim Jong Un is brain-dead post-surgery

OpIndia Staff -
Kim Jong-un had recently missed the celebration of his grandfather's birthday on 15 April raising speculations and rumours about his health conditions.
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OpIndia Explains

Crude Oil price turned negative yesterday but it won’t affect Indian prices, six questions about the price crash explained

OpIndia Staff -
Prices of May Contracts for WTI crude oil in USA turned negative, but it won't effect Indian prices as India is not major buyer of WTI
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News Reports

Suspected Coronavirus patients kept in close proximity to dead bodies: Babul Supriyo tweets shocking video of apathy in West Bengal, demands inquiry

OpIndia Staff -
The man cited example of two suspected Coronavirus patients who were in close proximity to a dead body in the isolation ward in West Bengal
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: 30 Tablighi Jamaat attendees including Allahabad University Professor arrested in Prayagraj for hiding travel history

OpIndia Staff -
30 Tablighi Jamaat attended from Prayagraj arrested. They were found living in mosques while hiding their travel history earlier this month.
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News Reports

Coronavirus scare: 125 families asked to self- isolate after a relative of a female staffer in Rashtrapati Bhavan tests positive

OpIndia Staff -
125 families in the Rashtrapati Bhavan were asked to self-isolate after the daughter-in-law of a sanitation worker was diagnosed with Coronavirus.
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News Reports

Profiteering from a pandemic: White House official accuses China of hoarding PPEs and selling them at exorbitant prices

OpIndia Staff -
“First of all, the virus was spawned in China. Second of all, they hid the virus behind the shield of the WHO. The third thing they did was basically hoard PPEs and now they’re profiteering from it", Navarro said to Fox News.
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Politics

“An honest Chief Minister son, is my life’s only precious earning”: Late Anand Singh Bisht told Yogi Adityanath’s biographer

Shantanu Gupta -
Yogi Adityanath's biographer, Shantanu Gupta, writes what his parents feel when they see their son Ajay as UP Chief Minister
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Media Fact-Check

Scroll shares fake claim that children in Bihar are eating frogs due to lack of food, lies busted by DM

OpIndia Staff -
The authorities have revealed that the children had enough food in their homes and the video was deliberately made by some malicious individuals to defame the district administration.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: 30-year-old Wajid kills his 2-year-old daughter after black magic healer named Irfan suggested it for maintaining domestic peace

OpIndia Staff -
30-year-old labourer in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, killed his two-year-old daughter as human sacrifice after his fellow labourer and part-time black magic healer Irfan suggested the same to maintain peace at home.
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News Reports

‘Shekhar Gupta has been leading the compromise of Indian journalism’: Arnab Goswami resigns from Editors’ Guild on live TV

OpIndia Staff -
Arnab Goswami called out Shekhar Gupta for sheer silence on the Palghar lynching case and for leading the "compromise on Indian journalism."
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Politics

NCP works with Maoists, Shiv Sena stigmatising Hindus: Ex-Shiv Sena leader slams the Thackerays for treating party as private property

OpIndia Staff -
Ex-Shiv Sena leader Vijay Krishna slammed Shiv Sena over the Palghar lynching and even demanded that the NCP be banned
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News Reports

Coronavirus fallout: 1000 foreign firms plan production in India as concerns grow about China, claim reports

OpIndia Staff -
Around a thousand foreign companies are contemplating shifting their manufacturing base to India as the geopolitical and economic repercussions of the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic become imminent.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: IMA tells doctors to not criticize state govt in WhatsApp groups following state cyber cell instructions

OpIndia Staff -
The Maharashtra Unit of the Indian Medical Association has informed doctors in the state that no 'derogatory' comments should be passed against the state government's decisions in WhatsApp groups
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News Reports

Former BJD leader Tathagata Satpathy passes a debased remark against UP CM Yogi Adityanath for prioritizing public health over attending his father’s funeral

OpIndia Staff -
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath today announced that he will not be attending his father's funeral due to the lockdown and the responsibility of fighting the Coronavirus pandemic
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News Reports

Locals claim the suspected man in Palghar mob lynching video is a member of Sharad Pawar’s NCP: BJP leader Sunil Deodhar

OpIndia Staff -
Palghar lynching: BJP leader Sunil Deodhar claims that the man wearing white and yellow stripes t-shirt is Kashinath Chaudhary, an NCP functionary.
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News Reports

Palghar mob lynching: Complaint filed against journalists for peddling fake news about BJP sarpanch being arrested for lynching of 2 sadhus

OpIndia Staff -
A frenzied mob of more than 100 people lynched 2 sadhus and their driver in Palghar, Mumbai on April 16, 20
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Media

The Wire declares that two Sadhus of Juna Akhara, victims of Palghar lynching, were not Hindus at all: Here is the truth

OpIndia Staff -
The Wire spread propaganda even in the wake of heinous mob lynching of two Sadhus associated with the Juna Akhara at Palghar in Maharashtra
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu: Chennai doctor who died of COVID-19 denied burial as angry mob attacks family, corporation staff amidst coronavirus fear

OpIndia Staff -
On Sunday, family members, friends and corporation workers became the victims of mob violence when they tried to bury the dead body of a 55-year-old neurosurgeon in Chennai
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Government and Policy

Arunachal Pradesh: Govt releases cash aid of Rs 3500 each for over 14,000 residents stranded in other states due to lockdown

OpIndia Staff -
The financial aid has been provided from the CM's relief fund. Each of the 14,859 Arunachalis stranded in other states will receive Rs 3500.
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Media

‘Arrest was necessary to prevent him from indulging in similar activity’: Read scathing comments of Court in fake news case against ABP journalist

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Kulkarni, ‘journalist’ with ABP Majha was arrested by Mumbai Police for misleading people with fake news that led to the migrant crisis in Bandra
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News Reports

Coronavirus: Mamata stays defiant, says will not follow IMCT directions amidst COVID-19 crisis

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee today questioned the formation of the Inter-Ministerial Central Teams (IMCT) constituted by the Central Government for quick redressal of coronavirus crisis in states claiming that it is 'not consistent with the spirit of federalism'.
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News Reports

NDTV publishes report claiming Arunachal tribals are hunting snakes due to rice scarcity, gets called out by minister and state govt

OpIndia Staff -
The government of Arunachal Pradesh has also refuted the claims made by NDTV. It said that there is no rice scarcity in the state and people struggling for livelihoods are being provided free rations by the government.
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News Reports

Following Arunachal Pradesh and Goa, Manipur becomes third Indian state to become coronavirus-free

OpIndia Staff -
Manipur CM N Biren Singh posted a tweet Sunday evening saying both the coronavirus patients in the state have recovered from the illness
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News Reports

MEA trashes Imran Khan’s rant of religious discrimination in India, says Pakistan should instead focus on its own dwindling minorities

OpIndia Staff -
MEA stated that Pakistan must instead focus on its own dwindling minorities who are subjected to discrimination.
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News Reports

London: Vijay Mallya’s plea against extradition to India rejected by UK High Court

OpIndia Staff -
After the UK High Court's verdict, the case will now go to Home Secretary Preeti Patel for a final decision on this regard.
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Media

Here’s the difference in how media reported lynching of Muslim victims and the Palghar lynching of innocent Hindu Sadhus

OpIndia Staff -
The duplicitous manner in which the media reports on cases of mob lynching became evident in the wake of the murder of the Sadhus at Palghar.
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News Reports

Islamists express their glee over UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s father’s death

OpIndia Staff -
Scores of Islamists react with joy and elation over the news of death of UP CM Yogi Adityanath's father
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Opinions

Why defending Tablighi Jamaat is the biggest disservice to the Indian Muslim

manasdoon -
If whereabouts of Tablighi Jamaat members are not shared with the relevant Authority and the Jamatis do not come forward by themselves, the first victim of this infection will be Muslims themselves.
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News Reports

BJP MP Tejasvi Surya attacked by Islamists for an out of context tweet. Here is the truth

OpIndia Staff -
Arabic Islamists joined hands with Indian Islamists to launch an organised smear campaign against BJP MP Tejasvi Surya for his tweet quoting Canadian journalist Tarek Fatah
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News Reports

Supply chain disrupted, livelihoods affected, Haldia in West Bengal facing a shortage of medicines: Report

OpIndia Staff -
The livelihood of shopkeepers in the micro-spots of West Bengal are threatened due to restrictions in procuring supplies. A report In India Today says that Haldia district has been facing the shortage of medicines.
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News Reports

Yogi Adityanath will not be attending the last rites of his father: Read the heartfelt letter where he explains why

OpIndia Staff -
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has written a heartfelt letter expressing anguish at the death of his father and also, apologised for not being able to attend his funeral.
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News Reports

Palghar Sadhu lynching: Home Minister Amit Shah speaks to Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray, seeks report

OpIndia Staff -
Union Home Minister Amit Shah today spoke to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray over the lynching of two sadhus in Palghar on April 16.
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News Reports

Germany: Newspaper asks China to pay £130 billion in Coronavirus damages, says it owes 1500£ to every German person

OpIndia Staff -
Julian called out China for curbing freedom of speech by shutting down newspapers that are critical of his government.
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News Reports

Coronavirus positive man Javed who is accused of attacking cops in Indore and had fled quarantine, arrested again

OpIndia Staff -
Javed Khan who was lodged at the Indore Central Jail was brought to the Jabalpur hospital on April 9. The local SP had announced a reward of ₹10,000 for his arrest.
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News Reports

UP CM Yogi Adityanath’s father passes away, was admitted in AIIMS

OpIndia Staff -
The UP CM's family is from Uttarakhand. His father Anand Singh Bisht was a retired government employee.
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