Archives of OpIndia

News Reports

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

OpIndia Staff -
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.
Read more
Social Media

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

OpIndia Staff -
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.
Read more
News Reports

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

OpIndia Staff -
India Today publishes a fake report about Dalits converting to Islam which was already debunked two months ago
Read more
News Reports

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

OpIndia Staff -
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.
Read more
Politics

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

OpIndia Staff -
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'.
Read more
Social Media

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

OpIndia Staff -
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.
Read more
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 -
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.
Read more
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 -
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'.
Read more
Politics

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

Abhishek Banerjee -
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.
Read more
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 -
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.
Read more
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 -
Unprecedented delay in the execution of the four gangrape convicts has left Nirbhaya's mother and her family shattered
Read more
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 -
CIA spied on several countries for decades using rigged encoding devices made by its secretly owned company.
Read more
News Reports

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

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress-led administration in Madhya Pradesh used a JCB to remove Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s bust
Read more
News Reports

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

OpIndia Staff -
J&K government will soon allocate 100 acres of land to build a replica of the famous Tirupati temple near Jammu
Read more
News Reports

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

OpIndia Staff -
The ED discovered a software system used d the DHFL to make fake accounts to siphon money.
Read more
News Reports

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

OpIndia Staff -
India Today trolled on Twitter for saying that badminton coach Pullela Gopichand is little known
Read more
News Reports

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

OpIndia Staff -
CISF caught Murad Alam from Delhi Airport who had stuffed foreign currency in peanuts, meatballs, biscuit packets
Read more
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 -
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.
Read more
News Reports

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

OpIndia Staff -
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.
Read more
News Reports

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

OpIndia Staff -
We do not have a leader to project. This is the issue within the party: Kapil Sibal
Read more
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 -
Assam government has decided to shut all state-run Madrassas and Sanskrit Tols in the state
Read more
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 -
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.
Read more
News Reports

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

OpIndia Staff -
PC Chacko, the Delhi Congress chief resigned from his post after passing the buck of the embarrassing defeat in Delhi polls on Sheila Dikshit
Read more
Government and Policy

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

OpIndia Staff -
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.
Read more
Economy and Finance

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

OpIndia Staff -
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.
Read more
News Reports

Congress spokesperson Sharmishtha Mukherjee slams P Chidambaram for ‘gloating over AAP victory’, asks if Congress state units should ‘shut shop’

OpIndia Staff -
Sharmishtha Mukherjee says Congress state units should shut shop if party has outsourced job of defeating BJP to regional parties
Read more
News Reports

Two men from West Bengal loot 1.34 crore from Merit-cum-Means Scholarship in Jammu and Kashmir by creating fake beneficiary accounts

OpIndia Staff -
Jammu and Kashmir Crime Branch probes fraud of Rs 1,34,21,168 in merit-cum-means scholarship scam
Read more
Social Media

Pakistan Minister celebrates AAP victory in Delhi elections, tries to mock PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
The dull-witted Pakistani Minister has a strange habit of poking his face into India’s internal matters and deliberately getting mocked and embarrassed for his deranged acts, especially on social media. 
Read more
News Reports

Shiv Sena MP introduces a Constitution Amendment Bill to check population growth

OpIndia Staff -
The Shiv Sena MP has introduced a Constitutional Amendment Bill to introduce a new provision - Article 47A into Part IV of the Constitution of India to incentivise people who keep their family limited to two children and seeks to withdraw every concession from people who fail to adhere to the small family norm. 
Read more
News Reports

NRC: Centre says excluded children won’t be sent to detention camps, provided their parents feature in the list

OpIndia Staff -
The Minister of State clarified that there are approved standard operating procedures in place to deal with cases of children who have been excluded from the NRC while their parents feature in the list.
Read more
Crime

Delhi: Shots fired at AAP MLA Naresh Yadav’s convoy, 1 party volunteer dead

OpIndia Staff -
Naresh Yadav, who was accompanied by volunteers, was returning from a temple visit from Mehrauli when the incident happened. Naresh Yadav had won from Mehrauli assembly seat.
Read more
News Reports

Dalit man converted to Christianity alleges girlfriend’s family made him convert to Islam and undergo circumcision as a precondition for marriage, later disown him

OpIndia Staff -
25-year-old Dalit man who had embraced Christianity, Bobbili Bhaskar, has alleged that his girlfriend's family made him convert to Islam, undergo circumcision and changed dietary habits only to have his marriage proposal turned down by girl's father.
Read more
News Reports

Pictures of ‘Baby Kejriwal’ donning AAP’s white cap and muffler take internet by the storm

OpIndia Staff -
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) tweeted a photo of a toddler dressed as Party chief, Arvind Kejriwal describing him as 'Mufflerman'
Read more
News Reports

Indian Railways launches “wake-up call” facility to alert passengers 30 minutes before reaching destination

OpIndia Staff -
Indian Railways will now alert passengers 30 minutes before scheduled arrival at destination so that they don't miss their stop.
Read more
News Reports

Despite losing, BJP candidate from Hari Nagar Tajinder Bagga pledges to fulfil his poll promises to voters

OpIndia Staff -
Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga had promised to open a free self-defence coaching centre for girls in Hari Nagar constituency.
Read more
Politics

Delhi Elections 2020: The BJP’s vote-share has increased and so has its number of seats, the results cannot be extrapolated to fit larger anti-BJP...

OpIndia Staff -
Some intellectuals, however, have lost their sense of proportions and are attempting to portray a completely different picture from what the results actually represent.
Read more
News Reports

Matthew Cherry’s prophesy about winning Oscars came true 8 years later, through ‘Hair Love’

OpIndia Staff -
Cherry won his first Oscar on Sunday for the animated short film 'Hair Love', which narrates a story of a black father learning to style his daughter’s hair.
Read more
Politics

The Metamorphosis of Arvind Kejriwal: From calling Narendra Modi a psychopath, he hasn’t attacked the PM once on Twitter since 2019 results

OpIndia Staff -
Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal has undergone a huge transformation since he was elected as the Chief Minister of Delhi in 2016.
Read more
Media

Rajdeep Sardesai dances with psephologist Pradeep Gupta on air as AAP wins Delhi elections

OpIndia Staff -
Axis My India's Pradeep Gupta broke into a jig as his prediction of AAP's landslide came through. Rajdeep Sardesai joined him in his happy dance.
Read more
Politics

Maharashtra: Congress magazine ‘Shidori’ mocks Veer Savarkar, calls him ‘maafiveer’

OpIndia Staff -
In the February edition of the Congress' Marathi newspaper, Shidori, the party had published two articles belittling freedom fighter Veer Savarkar.
Read more
Crime

Muzaffarpur shelter home case: Delhi court sentences convicted NGO owner Brajesh Thakur, others to life imprisonment

OpIndia Staff -
Brijesh Thakur was moved from Bihar's Bhagalpur jail to Patiala high-security jail in Punjab following the violation of jail norms.
Read more
Politics

As early trends started pouring in, Delhi BJP put up poster accepting defeat gracefully

OpIndia Staff -
BJP accepts defeat graciously as early trends showed AAP's sweeping victory in Delhi.
Read more
News Reports

“Seedhi baat hai, Muslim poora polarise hua, Hindu ghanta hua”: Parliamentarians discuss Delhi elections and AAP’s victory

OpIndia Staff -
With Delhi Assembly election results still coming in, the secular gang and the anti-Modi brigade have already started to celebrate
Read more
Politics

Amanatullah Khan: The Okhla MLA whose contribution to AAP’s victory which cannot be ignored

K Bhattacharjee -
Amanatullah Khan had the single most important job, to establish beyond all doubt the AAP's loyalty towards the Muslim vote base.
Read more
Politics

Delhi Elections: NOTA polls more than Communist parties, manages to get only 0.03 percent of votes

OpIndia Staff -
As per Election Commission data, the CPI is getting a vote share of 0.02 per cent and the CPM is getting a vote share of 0.01 per cent. 
Read more
Social Media

Islamists on Twitter ‘feel betrayed’, attack Arvind Kejriwal for not supporting Shaheen Bagh, Jamia rioters

OpIndia Staff -
Many Islamists on Twitter are aggrieved that Arvind Kejriwal has remained ostensibly silent on issues concerning them such as Shaheen Bagh and police action on Jamia rioters.
Read more
Politics

Delhi Election Results: While ‘secular’ camp celebrates today, they will be naive to think PM Modi’s national agenda would change

K Bhattacharjee -
Delhi Election Results will not change how PM Modi or his govt takes decisions on civilisational issues
Read more
Politics

Delhi Election Results: Congress can never regain what it has lost between 2014 and 2019, it is now the last option even for Muslims

Editorial Desk -
Delhi Election results are pouring in and one thing is pretty clear - Congress cannot recover
Read more
Politics

Delhi Elections 2020: Muslim consolidation has won, here’s why Hindus should be concerned

K Bhattacharjee -
Minority communalism has won while Hindu consolidation was nowhere near to those levels and the effects of that will become evident in the near future.
Read more
News Reports

Watch: Eyewitness narrates how leftist goons trampled Bhagavad Gita under their feet while attacking VHP stall at Kolkata Book Fair

OpIndia Staff -
The 44th Kolkata International Book Fair on Sunday saw tensed situation after leftist goons attacked VHP stall.
Read more
1...1,1261,1271,128...1,517Page 1,127 of 1,517