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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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News Reports

India becomes the 5th nation in the world to successfully isolate COVID-19 virus strain

OpIndia Staff -
National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune isolates the strain of Covid-19 virus strain, India becomes the fifth country to do so
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Government and Policy

Hours after announcing ex-gratia for coronavirus victims, union govt revokes it, now SDRF fund will be used for quarantine, sample collection and screening

OpIndia Staff -
Govet takes U-turn on ex-gratia payment to coronavirus victims, now SDRF fund will be used for quarantine, sample collection and screening
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Editor's picks

Deoband: 43-day old infant dead in anti-CAA protests, mother says she carried her to protest site every day to ‘make her strong’

OpIndia Staff -
After an infant died due to exposure to harsh weather in Shaheen Bagh, the SC had taken sum motu cognisance of the issue and had issued notice to the centre over children being used in protests.
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News Reports

TADA court says there is enough evidence to prosecute JKLF chief Yasin Malik for killing unarmed IAF officers

OpIndia Staff -
TADA court in Jammu says there's enough prima facie evidence to prosecute terrorist Yasin Malik, to give sanction on Monday
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Crime

Anti-Hindu riots: Delhi police nabs five more accused in connection with Ankit Sharma’s murder

OpIndia Staff -
AAP leader Tahir Hussain, his brother Shah Alam, and another accused named Salman were already arrested in Ankit Sharma's murder case
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News Reports

Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi to table private member bill in Rajya Sabha to enforce two-child norm

OpIndia Staff -
Abhishek Manu Singhvi to float a private member bill calling for enforcement of a two-child norm through incentives and disincentives
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News Reports

Coronavirus in India: 7 more cases of recovery reported, patients discharged

OpIndia Staff -
Two persons have died so far due to coronavirus. A 76-year-old male and a 69-year-old female. However, the health ministry said that both the cases were underlying medical conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, asthma, etc. that worsened their condition.
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Politics

Madhya Pradesh: Jyotiraditya Scindia’s motorcade attacked by Congress workers, black flags shown

OpIndia Staff -
Yesterday, section 144 was imposed at Bhopal airport as the 22 MLAs of Scindia faction were scheduled to return
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News Reports

Indonesian NGO red-flagged by security agencies for sending fund for distribution during Delhi riots

OpIndia Staff -
Indonesian NGO Aksi Cepat Tanggap (ACT) raised funds using selective and malicious propaganda to allegedly help Muslims affected in the riots
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News Reports

Escaping quarantine, lying, and demanding luxury treatment: Amid Coronavirus outbreak, recklessness of individuals puts larger population at risk

Shashank Bharadwaj -
Two persons with suspected coronavirus infection, who had come from Italy to attend a wedding, refused to be quarantined in Nalagarh and fled to Zirakpur for the wedding. The officials had to engage security personnel to confine them in quarantine.
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News Reports

Controversial Cricket Commentator Sanjay Manjrekar removed from BCCI commentary panel

OpIndia Staff -
A petition with 545 signatures was earlier filed on Change.org urging the International Cricket Council to ban Manjrekar from the commentary box during the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup.
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Crime

Police arrest 7 more in Delhi anti-Hindu riots, arrests include Muslim rioters on charges of killing other Muslims: Details here

OpIndia Staff -
Video footage has reportedly revealed one Shahid being killed by Mohammad Firoze, Chand Mohammad and Rayees Khan, while another man named named Mehroom was killed by Shoaib and Imran.
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News Reports

Congress minister in Maharashtra attacks Brahmins in his anti-NPR speech, asks if ‘foreign-returned Brahmins’ will teach them about identity certificates

OpIndia Staff -
what about those who were not privileged enough to receive an education? These Brahmins, who themselves came from abroad, teach us about common sense? I will never let this happen," Raut stated.
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