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Opinions

One year since Pulwama attack, here is how Pakistan’s position internationally has weakened and is unlikely to improve

Editorial Desk - 14 February, 2020

Pakistan's position at the moment is far worse than it was before the Pulwama Terror Attack.

Politics

Blame game erupts, rift between Shiv Sena and NCP deepens over Centre’s decision to transfer Bhima Koregaon case to NIA: Read how

OpIndia Staff - 14 February, 2020

State Home Minister and member of the NCP, Anil Deshmukh, hit out at the Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray over the use of his discretionary powers as CM to overrule his objections.

Politics

Meet Anand Singh: The new Forest Minister of Karnataka, an accused in illegal mining cases

OpIndia Staff - 14 February, 2020

According to Singh’s election affidavit, the MLA has listed 15 pending cases against him. He was reportedly arrested twice in 2013 and 2015 on charges of illegal transportation of iron ore.

Government and Policy

Ignore fear-mongers: Here is how private players lining up to run railway trains is real reform

Abhishek Banerjee - 14 February, 2020

Tata, Adani and Hyundai queue up to run private trains and this is how Indian Railways is set to reform.

Opinions

One year of Pulwama attack: Here is how the Media played vulture while our martyrs’ funeral pyres burnt

Editorial Desk - 14 February, 2020

The conduct of the mainstream media in the aftermath of the Pulwama Attack was deplorable

News Reports

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to visit India on February 24

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella is planning to visit India between the 24th of February and the 26th

News Reports

‘There must be huge mass movement if Muslims are sent to detention camps due to CAA’: P Chidambaram instigates students in JNU

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

CAA must be repealed and there should be a political struggle so that NPR is pushed beyond 2024: P Chidambaram

News Reports

Intelligence agencies alert UP police about possible attack on Yogi Adityanath at Gorakhnath temple by assailants disguised as journalists

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

UP Policealerted by Intelligence agencies about a possible terror attack on Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath

News Reports

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh bats for vegetarianism, calls beef a “huge culprit” in global warming

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

"I have always held this view that if you want to do something on global warming, become a vegetarian," Jairam Ramesh said

News Reports

We don’t fight elections only for the results, our objective is to spread our party’s ideology to maximum people: Home Minister Amit Shah

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

"BJP is an ideology based party, for us elections are also elections to enhance our ideology": Amit Shah.

News Reports

‘Sharjeel Imam spoke of bringing Assam to a halt, so we locked him up in jail’: Amit Shah

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

Amit Shah said that people should not make extremist statements and that it is dangerous for the country.

News Reports

Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra and Foreign Service Institute renamed after Sushma Swaraj on the eve of her birth anniversary

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra renamed as Sushma Swaraj Bhawan, Foreign Service Institute as Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service

News Reports

Home Minister Amit Shah says ready to meet Shaheen Bagh ‘protestors’ to talk on CAA and NRC

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

Home Minister Amit Shah while speaking at Times Now summit said that he is willing to talk to those opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register for Citizenship (NRC).

Crime

Srinagar: Ahle Hadees cleric and former terror organisation chief found murdered in Mosque, allegedly by another Maulvi

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

Abdul Gani Dar was hit with by the perpetrator in the first floor of the Mosque after he had completed his mid-day prayer.

News Reports

Saba Naqvi continues to fear-monger, conjures up a story of Hindi speaking Afghan refugee moving to Australia ‘because of CAA’

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

The incorrigible fake news peddler Saba Naqvi has many times in the past attempted to pull off similar antics

News Reports

Islamic terror group Jaish creates ‘Ghaznavi Force’ to carry out Pulwama-style terror attacks in India: Intel reports

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

The newly-created armed group, which is being called the "Ghaznavi Force" comprises fighters from other banned terror outfits like LeT, Hizbul Mujahideen, AuGH and Al Badr.

News Reports

Income Tax Department clarifies that PM Narendra Modi was correct when he said only 1.5 crore people pay income tax

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

To dispel false allegations against PM, the Income Tax department has clarified that only 1.5 crore people paid income tax

News Reports

Remembering Pulwama bravehearts: Soil collected from each martyr’s house to be placed at CRPF’s Lethpora camp, memorial to be inaugurated

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist Adil Dhar had rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a CRPF convoy on February 14 last year.

Social Media

Muslims force Hindu women to apologise for dancing on ‘choli ke peechhe kya hai’ while wearing a burqa in viral TikTok video

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

Two women, dancing while wearing a burqa, were forced to apologise for 'insulting' burqa.

Law

Missionaries of Charity baby selling case: Child Rights body moves to Supreme Court, seeks SIT probe into all such charity-run shelter homes

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

The NCPCR plea, filed through lawyer Swarupama mentioned cases of child trafficking and child rights violation in Jharkhand and alleged that authorities neglected to protect these children.

News Reports

Gujarat: 25-year-old man booked under Parents and Senior Citizen Act for forcing grandmother to beg on street

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

Ahmedabad police books man with charges of forcing his 70-year-old grandmother to beg on streets every day

Fact-Check

Yogendra Yadav’s ‘five finger’ fearmongering video on NPR-NRC-CAA calling to not give data during census is full of lies

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

Yogendra Yadav peddles lies about Census, NPR, NRC, CAA, asks people to not give census data

News Reports

Late Sheila Dikshit’s daughter Latika slams Congress’ PC Chacko for blaming the party’s election loss on the former CM

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

Congress had based its 2020 assembly election campaign on Sheila Dikshit's legacy of developing the national capital.

Law

Specify reasons for selecting candidate with pending criminal cases against them: SC tells political parties

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

Supreme Court directs political parties to justify their selection of a criminal candidate on their website.

News Reports

Cricket bookie Sanjeev Chawla, accused in 2000 match fixing scandal, extradited to India from UK

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

Both Chawla and Cronje were named in a 70-page charge sheet by the Crime Branch for "fixing matches played between India and South Africa from February 16, 2000, to March 20, 2000, in India".

News Reports

Kashmir: Hurriyat issues notice from Pakistan, asks to prepare for SAS Geelani’s funeral, internet snapped in valley

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

Syed Ali Shah Geelani is the chairman of the All-Party Hurriyat Conference. The 90-year-old has reportedly been struggling with a chest infection and has not been responding well to treatment.

Social Media

EAM Jaishankar gives befitting reply to ‘historian’ Ram Guha as Nehru-Gandhi loyalist goes bonkers over Nehru’s criticism

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

Ramachandra Guha, the ultra-left self-proclaimed historian, seems to have not learnt any lesson despite being getting fact-check on social media every single day.

News Reports

India Today peddles fake news about 3,000 Dalits converting to Islam after wall collapse, here is the truth

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

India Today publishes a fake report about Dalits converting to Islam which was already debunked two months ago

News Reports

Uttar Pradesh police denies attack on AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan’s relatives, says permission was denied earlier

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

After the announcement of the result of Delhi polls on Tuesday evening, AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan's relatives celebrated his victory which was allegedly stopped by the police.

Politics

Mamata Banerjee fear-mongers, spreads lies to scare people against NRC and NPR

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

the West Bengal CM claimed that the central government is using organisations like banks, and post offices to 'collect data for the NPR and NRC'.

Social Media

Maths for Dummies: Former AAP leader and journalist Ashutosh’s mathematical equations leave netizens in splits

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

Former AAP core member and now a journalist again, Ashutosh took to Twitter to send out cryptic mathematical equations as his analysis of recently concluded Delhi assembly elections.

Social Media Fact-Check

Did PM Modi actually claim only 2200 people declared income over 1 crore? Or some people just did not listen properly?

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

PM Modi mentioned that in a country of more than 130 crore people, only 1.5 crore people pay Income Tax. Even from the 1.5 crore people, the number of people announcing income of over 50 lakhs is just 3 lakhs.

Media

Is APJ Abdul Kalam ‘acceptable Muslim’ hero for right wing because he gave great phallic symbols to nation? Outlook India calls former President a...

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

In its 17th February 2020 print edition, Outlook magazine has given space to one Omair Ahmed who has declared that former President APJ Abdul Kalam was no 'hero' of the country as he 'merely obeyed his political masters'.

Politics

Why every Indian must know about Round 23 in Mustafabad seat in Delhi

Abhishek Banerjee - 13 February, 2020

Every Indian needs to know what happened in Round 23 in Mustafabad in Delhi. Because it tells us what really lurks under the surface of Indian secularism.

News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Police officer charged with kidnapping and rape after he assaults his wife when she confronts him about illicit affair

OpIndia Staff - 13 February, 2020

A case of kidnapping and rape has been registered against Madhya Pradesh's Gadhwani Police station in charge Narendra Suryawanshi after a video of him assaulting his wife went viral on social media.

News Reports

Nirbhaya’s mother breaks down in court, says convict will continue to use delay tactics after court offer legal aid to one of the convicts

OpIndia Staff - 12 February, 2020

Unprecedented delay in the execution of the four gangrape convicts has left Nirbhaya's mother and her family shattered

News Reports

CIA spied on more than 100 countries including India and Pakistan for decades through its company that supplied rigged encoding devices

OpIndia Staff - 12 February, 2020

CIA spied on several countries for decades using rigged encoding devices made by its secretly owned company.

News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Removal of Shivaji’s bust in Sausar by administration causes outrage, protesters block highway

OpIndia Staff - 12 February, 2020

The Congress-led administration in Madhya Pradesh used a JCB to remove Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s bust

News Reports

Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanams to construct Sri Venkateswara Temple in Jammu and Kashmir

OpIndia Staff - 12 February, 2020

J&K government will soon allocate 100 acres of land to build a replica of the famous Tirupati temple near Jammu

News Reports

DHFL Scam: ED finds customised software used to create fake accounts for money laundering

OpIndia Staff - 12 February, 2020

The ED discovered a software system used d the DHFL to make fake accounts to siphon money.

News Reports

India Today refers to country’s ace badminton coach Pullela Gopichand as “little known”, social media schools the media group

OpIndia Staff - 12 February, 2020

India Today trolled on Twitter for saying that badminton coach Pullela Gopichand is little known

News Reports

Delhi Airport: Foreign currency worth Rs 45 lakhs stuffed in peanuts, meatballs seized by CISF

OpIndia Staff - 12 February, 2020

CISF caught Murad Alam from Delhi Airport who had stuffed foreign currency in peanuts, meatballs, biscuit packets

News Reports

Ahead of the FATF plenary meet, Pakistan court convicts 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed, orders jail term in two terror funding cases

OpIndia Staff - 12 February, 2020

Saeed was arrested by the Pakistan government in July last year, following immense pressure from global powers and facing the prospect of a FATF blacklist.

News Reports

Assam may consider ‘ethnic tribe’ nomenclature to 40 lakh Assamese-speaking Muslims of Brahmaputra valley: Report

OpIndia Staff - 12 February, 2020

The new proposal is yet to receive the approval of Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal. The nomenclature is expected to be approved before the start of the socio-economic census.

News Reports

Congress does not have a leader to project: Kapil Sibal on the party’s poor performance in Delhi assembly election

OpIndia Staff - 12 February, 2020

We do not have a leader to project. This is the issue within the party: Kapil Sibal

News Reports

“No state funding for religious education”: Assam govt to shut all govt-run Madrassas and Sanskrit Tols, to be converted to regular schools

OpIndia Staff - 12 February, 2020

Assam government has decided to shut all state-run Madrassas and Sanskrit Tols in the state

Crime

Karnataka: Congress MLA’s out on bail son Mohammad Nalapad rams his luxury car on Bengaluru road, flees the spot leaving four injured

OpIndia Staff - 12 February, 2020

Mohammad Nalapad, son of Congress MLA NA Harris, was the general secretary of the Bengaluru District Youth Congress in 2018. He was expelled from the party for 6 years following his involvement in an assault case.

News Reports

Congress leader Milind Deora slams Delhi Congress chief PC Chacko for blaming late Sheila Dikshit for Delhi debacle

OpIndia Staff - 12 February, 2020

PC Chacko, the Delhi Congress chief resigned from his post after passing the buck of the embarrassing defeat in Delhi polls on Sheila Dikshit

Government and Policy

Mudra Yojna: Over 15 crore loans have been distributed to women borrowers, totalling 4.78 lakh crores

OpIndia Staff - 12 February, 2020

15 crore Mudra Loans, totalling over Rs 4.78 lakh crores, have been issued so far to women borrowers, said Anurag Thakur in the parliament.

Economy and Finance

RummyCircle’s online social card game dominates the million-dollar market

OpIndia Staff - 12 February, 2020

One of the main genres fueling the mobile gaming industry is the online card games. Many Indian gaming companies have transferred the traditional and social card games to mobile.

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