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Shaheen Bagh ‘protestors’ to defy coronavirus advisory, circumvent Delhi govt prohibitions by using loopholes: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
The Shaheen Bagh 'protestors' have refused to follow the containment orders and decided not to curl off their protest even after the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has ordered that the protestors must comply with the ban on gatherings of over 50 people.
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News Reports

Bihar: FIR filed against Chinese President Xi Jinping and Chinese Ambassador to India for the spread of coronavirus, court to hear the matter on...

OpIndia Staff -
Serial litigator Sudhir Kumar Ojha has so far filed about 740 PILs in the courts, out of which more than 100 have been dismissed by them
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News Reports

Why Coronavirus suspects ‘escaping’ hospitals is a worry. Here is how just 1 person caused massive spread in South Korea

OpIndia Staff -
Escaping patients who tested positive for coronavirus pose a grave threat of touching off a spiralling public health crisis in the country
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News Reports

TADA court frames charges against Yasin Malik and 6 others in the murder of IAF officials

OpIndia Staff -
Wife of slain IAF officer Ravi Khanna, Shalini Khanna, says that Yasin Malik not only killed her husband but also her father-in-law, mother-in-law and her mother.
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News Reports

Delhi anti-Hindu riots: AAP Councillor Tahir Hussain sent to 4-day police custody in Ankit Sharma murder case

OpIndia Staff -
Tahir Hussain has emerged as one of the main kingpins in the anti-Hindu riots that erupted in North East Delhi
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News Reports

Nirbhaya case: Ahead of hanging, 3 convicts approach International Court of Justice, family members of convicts demand euthanasia

OpIndia Staff -
The twists and turns in the Nirbhaya case are far from over as three of the convicts have now approached the International Court of Justice seeking stay on execution.
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News Reports

Coronavirus: Case registered against 79 people for gathering to welcome Bigg Boss Malayalam contestant at Cochin airport

OpIndia Staff -
With the addition of two fresh cases reported March 15, Kerala's active coronavirus cases have touched 21
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Opinions

Sports, shorts and women empowerment: Perception of the RSS from a female sportsperson

Priyanka Deo -
An accomplished sportswoman talks about the mainstream perspective of the RSS towards women, especially a sportswoman.
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Politics

Madhya Pradesh crisis: Guv writes to Kamal Nath, orders floor test on 17th March to prove majority

OpIndia Staff -
Madhya Pradesh Governor Lalji Tandon today wrote the Chief Minister Kamal Nath ordering a floor test to prove majority on 17th March, 2020.
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Government and Policy

Ministry of Health changes its website homepage to show the latest updates on Coronavirus, here is what you can find

OpIndia Staff -
The Health Ministry homepage has detailed information, including the number of total confirmed Covid-19 cases across India, state/UT wise list of coronavirus cases across India, the total number of people screened at airports, the updated travel advisory, and much more.
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Politics

BJP’s plea seeking floor test in Madhya Pradesh Assembly gets nod from Supreme Court, petition to be heard on March 17

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court of India will hear the petition filed by the BJP seeking a floor test in the Madhya Pradesh State Assembly on March 17.
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News Reports

Enforcement Directorate summons Anil Ambani who had borrowed ₹14,000 crores from Yes Bank

OpIndia Staff -
The ED had sought information regarding terms and conditions, side agreements of the loans disbursed by Yes Bank to Anil Ambani for his construction company.
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News Reports

Coronavirus: Delhi government clamps down on large gatherings, Shaheen Bagh ‘protests’ may end

OpIndia Staff -
In the wake of the Novel Coronavirus outbreak, the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday invoked the Epidemic Diseases Act of 1897 and declared a new set of bans to limit the spread of the highly contagious disease.
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Opinions

Fighting the curve: Seven days to save India

Abhishek Banerjee -
The next seven days are crucial. And each one of us is a soldier in this fight against coronavirus.
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News Reports

Bizarre coronavirus remedies: Western televangelists make outlandish claims to cure Covid-19

OpIndia Staff -
From selling toothpaste to peddling mysterious silver solution, western televangelists exploit the global health crisis to make profits
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News Reports

Jammu and Kashmir: Within days of lifting social media curb, Hizbul Mujahideen releases audio, says Kashmiris do not need roads and water

OpIndia Staff -
This audio came two days before the Jammu and Kashmir authorities are to evaluate the use or misuse of social media in the valley
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News Reports

#IndiaFightsCorona: PM Modi takes to Twitter to share how Indians are doing their bit to fight the pandemic

OpIndia Staff -
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today took to Twitter to share how Indians are taking small steps in their everyday lives to combat the deadly virus and contain the spreading of highly contagious virus.
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News Reports

Watch: Jawaharlal Nehru’s interview where he says all Muslims in India are descendants of Hindus

OpIndia Staff -
The first Prime Minister of independent India Jawaharlal Nehru believed that all Indian Muslims are descendants of Hindus.
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Crime

Disappointed with life in Afghanistan: Two ISIS jihadi women from Kerala say they want to return to India ‘provided there is no jail sentence’

OpIndia Staff -
Sonia said that she was "disappointed" with her life in Afghanistan and wanted to return to her husband's family. Sonia and her husband Abdul Rashid were accused of recruiting and radicalising youth in Kerala to join ISIS
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Politics

With Scindia gone, is this the beginning of an end for Congress in Madhya Pradesh?

Abhinav Khare -
Jyotiraditya Scindia has quit Congress putting the Kamal Nath government in deep crisis, bringing an irreversible change to Madhya Pradesh politics.
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News Reports

Saved by coronavirus? Madhya Pradesh assembly session adjourned for ten days, no floor test for Kamal Nath

OpIndia Staff -
The Madhya Pradesh assembly has been adjourned till March 26. Earlier today, governor Lalji Tandon had addressed the assembly and stated, "All must follow the rules under the Constitution so that dignity of Madhya Pradesh remains protected."
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News Reports

Anti-CAA riots: Uttar Pradesh govt to set up a tribunal to claim damages from riot-accused

OpIndia Staff -
The decision to promulgate an ordinance was taken after the Supreme Court refused to stay the Allahabad High Court's March 9 order for removing the state government's posters displaying photographs and names of the rioters involved in damaging properties during the anti-CAA protests in December last year.
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Crime

Bangladesh: Court orders death penalty to 4 radical Islamists, including one ‘Rajib Gandhi’, for murdering Hindu priest in 2016

OpIndia Staff -
The victim's throat was slit and was hacked to death with sharp weapons while conducting religious rites in the temple on February 21, 2016. A devotee, Gopal Chandra Roy, was also shot and wounded during the attack.
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News Reports

Iran goes from threatening ‘isolation from Islam world’ to requesting India’s help to fight Coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
Iran has emerged as the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic in West Asia, with more than 12,700 confirmed infections and over 600 deaths, including several senior government officials testing positive.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: 11 coronavirus suspects flee from Navi Mumbai hospital, had returned from Dubai

OpIndia Staff -
As per a report in Times Now, the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation and the local police have swung into action and have launched a search operation for the 11 persons.
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News Reports

Malaysia: 190 people who attended Islamic evangelical event in mosque tested positive for Coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
On Sunday, nearly 190 new cases of coronavirus were reported in Malaysia, most linked to Tablighi Ijtema, an Islamic evangelical event at a mosque that was attended by more than 16,000 people from several countries.
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News Reports

Pak representative who raked up Kashmir issue at SAARC COVID-19 meet is accused of smuggling 20 million face masks

OpIndia Staff -
Dr Zafar Mirza who represented Pakistan at the SAARC video-conference on COVID-19 on Sunday is being probed for his involvement in the smuggling 20 million face masks out of Pakistan
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Opinions

History has always been unkind to Veer Savarkar, and we all need to correct this

Abhinav Khare -
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was always a misunderstood rebel who skipped the pages of History due to nasty propaganda
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News Reports

Police control room had received 4000 distress calls in one day during Delhi riots, police probing involvement of outsiders: Delhi Police

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi Police informed Ministry of Home Affairs that its control room received 4,000 SOS calls on February 25 during Delhi riots
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News Reports

First and second confirmatory tests for COVID-19 are free for all citizens, only 10% capacity utilised yet: Health Ministry

OpIndia Staff -
The country has enough testing capacities for Covid-19 as only 10% of the total capacity has been utilised per day so far
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Opinions

ISIS issues advisory on dealing with epidemic, asks to avoid travelling to and from countries hit by the coronavirus outbreak

OpIndia Staff -
Without mentioning coronavirus, the ISIS newsletter published Shariah guidelines on dealing with epidemics and urged its members to follow them
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News Reports

Trouble for Congress in Gujarat as five MLAs resign ahead of Rajya Sabha elections

OpIndia Staff -
At first four Gujarat Congress MLAs had resigned, Later, Praveen Maroo also confirmed that he has also resigned, taking the total to five.
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News Reports

Watch: ‘You are 20-25 crores, you should not fear police, Modi, Shah’, Retd. Judge Kolse Patil incites Muslims for violence at anti-CAA rally

OpIndia Staff -
Kolse Patil slammed Muslims for fearing police and not coming out in streets to protest against the Modi govt
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News Reports

Anti-CAA rioters involved in violence, loot and setting 2 police outposts in Lucknow on fire slapped with “Gangster Act”

OpIndia Staff -
Justifying the Gangster Act, UP police said that the violent rioters worked as a "gang" and deliberately targeted the police.
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News Reports

Covid-19: PM Modi proposes G20 link up to deal with the crisis, to lead video conference of SAARC leaders today

Raju Das -
Australian prime minister Scott Morrison informed that PM Modi is keen to organise a link up between all the G20 leaders on Covid-19 outbreak
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News Reports

Lucknow police nab one fraudster Ahmed Siddiqui for duping people under the pretext of curing coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
Wazirganj police nabbed Ahmed Siddiqui for extorting money from people under the pretext of curing coronavirus by selling tabiz
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News Reports

Islam does not approve: Four Muslims who returned from Dubai threaten health officials in Karnataka, refuse to undergo Coronavirus test

OpIndia Staff -
The Muslim youths objected to carrying out any medical test for Coronavirus citing that Islam does not permit such tests.
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News Reports

Bengaluru techie’s wife who was accused of spreading the coronavirus is yet to test positive: Here is their version of what happened

OpIndia Staff -
TOI reported that Bengaluru techie tested covid-19 positive on 7th, but result came on 12th, & wife had left on 8th from airport itself
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News Reports

Chinese real estate tycoon goes missing after he had criticised the Xi Jinping government for mishandling the coronavirus outbreak

OpIndia Staff -
Former Real estate tycoon Ren Zhiqiang became incommunicado after he wrote a scathing article criticising the Chinese government
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Government and Policy

Maharastra government suspects 3431 people of being illegal immigrants, 603 deported to Bangladesh in the last 4 years

OpIndia Staff -
Last month, at least 22 Bangladeshis (12 women) illegally staying in the state were apprehended in Maharastra's Arnala area in Palghar district, roughly 60 kilometres away from Mumbai.
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News Reports

Arrested Maoist leader Srimathi came out of her hideout in forest to establish connection with Anti-CAA groups: Intelligence reports

OpIndia Staff -
It has also come to light that Anti-CAA protestors had been planning to storm government-run offices and go on an indefinite strike. Keeping in mind the suspicious link between Maoists and such protestors, security has been beefed up at several vantage points in the state.
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Politics

Rajasthan Mahila Congress Secretary Reena Mimrot wishes HM Amit Shah gets infected with coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
Taking to Twitter, Congress leader vented her frustration out by sharing news that Australian Home Minister was tested positive for the Coronavirus and lamented that India was still lagging at it. The Congress leader indirectly hoped that Home Minister soon be affected with the coronavirus similar to his Australian counterpart.
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News Reports

As wife of Spain’s PM tests positive for Coronavirus, here are some other celebrities and World leaders affected

OpIndia Staff -
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau had self-isolated after his wife developed symptoms for the deadly virus which has claimed lives of thousands across the globe.
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News Reports

Anti-Hindu riots: Arrested PFI secretary Mohammad Iliyas contested 2020 Delhi elections from riot-hit area on SDPI ticket

Shashank Bharadwaj -
Delhi riots and PFI: Police revealed that one of the accused - Mohammad Iliyas, who was the secretary of the PFI had also contested in the 2020 Delhi Assembly polls from Karawal Nagar on a ticket from SDPI
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News Reports

NGOs, Environmentalist silent as ‘secular’ Shiv Sena allows axing of 300 trees for metro construction in Mumbai

OpIndia Staff -
After creating a ruckus over the felling of trees in Aarey forest, the Congress alliance partner - Shiv Sena has now decided to cut and transplant more than 300 for the elevated Metro-2A corridor between Dahisar and DN Nagar in Mumbai
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Government and Policy

UP govt invokes Epidemic Diseases Act Sec 3 to tackle the spread of coronavirus, action against people refusing quarantine, hiding symptoms

OpIndia Staff -
The Uttar Pradesh government has put the state on high alert in the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak. Preventive restrictions have been put in place across the country
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News Reports

Despite ICMR saying that India has reached local transmission stage of coronavirus, Caravan publishes fake news claiming govt of India and ICMR denied it

OpIndia Staff -
Caravan writes that Indian govt & ICMR denied that coronavirus local transmission happening in the country after ICMR had accepted the same
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News Reports

GST council meeting: GST on mobile phones increased from 12% to 18% to correct inverted duty structure

OpIndia Staff -
GST on mobile phones increased from 12% to 18%, reduction in GST on MRO services of aircraft from 18% to 5%.
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News Reports

Centre slams Kerala Govt over contentious resolution passed by state assembly against requirement of Covid-19 negative certificates for evacuations

OpIndia Staff -
Centre says Covid-19 negative certificate is existing pre-requisite for all evacuations, slams Kerala govt for resolution against it
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News Reports

Congress leader parrots Islamists to mock Hindus with the gau-mutra jibe, reinforces party’s contempt for Hindus

OpIndia Staff -
Lavanya Ballal, the social media coordinator of the Mahila Congress made a gau-mutra jibe on Twitter, quoting a tweet related to coronavirus
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