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Swara Bhaskar shares stage with Shaheen Bagh mastermind Sharjeel Imam who called for cutting North East from India

OpIndia Staff -
In December, Bollywood entertainer Swara Bhaskar had been to Shaheen Bagh protests where she shared stage with Sharjeel Imam, accused of sedition.
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Economy and Finance

A Wishlist for Budget 2020: An opportunity to create history

Karan -
On 20th, Halwa Ceremony was conducted marking the start of the final leg of Budget 2020 process
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News Reports

Delhi Assembly Election: EC orders BJP to remove Anurag Thakur and Pravesh Verma from star campaigners list after their controversial comments

OpIndia Staff -
EC orders BJP to remove Anurag Thakur, Pravesh Verma from the star campaigners list for Delhi election
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Politics

From Dengue to Coronavirus: Five instances when Indian politicians called their rivals toxic pathogens

OpIndia Staff -
Former JDU spokesman Ajay Alok had recently called party member Prashant Kishor as "coronavirus", claiming he is kept in isolation.
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Opinions

CAA, NRC and Lessons for the Government of India from the Rohingya crisis

Bhaskar Mukherjee -
The Rohingya refugee crisis is the largest refugee crisis in the world today and India has a lot to learn
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi’s faux pas at his re-launch rally, says Indian youth is dreaming of ‘berozgari’

Jhankar Mohta -
This is not the first time that the former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has entertained the public with his unintended humour.
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News Reports

‘Comedian’ Kunal Kamra tries to heckle Arnab Goswami again on return GoAir flight, later gets banned from that airline too

OpIndia Staff -
Today, while returning in a GoAir flight from Lucknow to Mumbai, Kamra has reportedly repeated his behaviour. Arnab Goswami was travelling in that flight too, and Kamra heckled him again.
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Social Media Fact-Check

Viral video claiming to show forceful conversion of Hindu woman actually shows Hindu Jinn in Muslim woman’s body converted to Islam in Bangladesh

OpIndia Staff -
Video of a peer converting a Hindu Jinn in a Muslim woman’s body falsely circulated as conversion of Hindu woman to Islam
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News Reports

Shifting the car shed site from Aarey will not be viable, Uddhav Thackeray appointed committee recommends Maharashtra govt to lift ban on construction

OpIndia Staff -
The committee has now recommended to the government that shifting the car shed site from Aarey would not be viable.
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Politics

Ace badminton player and Padma Bhushan recipient Saina Nehwal and her elder sister join BJP

OpIndia Staff -
Nehwal has been very vocal about her support to PM Narendra Modi which has often irked the so-called 'secular-liberals'
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Sports

Roger Federer’s triumph against Tennys Sandgren: A life lesson

Sambit Nayak -
Federer came out of medical timeout not to win the match but to hang on there and keep doing what he does best. Play Tennis. Losing is perfectly fine. But giving up isn’t an option.
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News Reports

Woman alleges ‘comedians’ Kunal Kamra and Utsav Chakraborty used to make fake Twitter accounts to harass women comedians

OpIndia Staff -
A woman by the name Anubha Sinha has alleged that 'comedians' Kunal Kamra and #MeToo accused Utsav Chakraborty used to make fake Twitter IDs to harass other fellow women comedians.
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Politics

Prashant Kishor vs Nitish Kumar: PK calls JDU chief a liar over Amit Shah comment, JDU leader calls Kishor ‘coronavirus’

OpIndia Staff -
Prashant Kishor's meltdown comes hours after Bihar CM Nitish Kumar had made a sensational revelation that he was inducted into the JD(U) on the recommendations of Amit Shah.
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Social Media

Pistol brandished at Shaheen Bagh belonged to local property dealer Mohammad Luqman, report claims AAP link while ‘liberals’ blame BJP

OpIndia Staff -
'Liberals' claimed that the gun-wielding incident has happened because MoS Anurag Thakur was allegedly 'inciting people to shoot traitors'.
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News Reports

Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri exposes how Kunal Kamra binned an interview because his and Congress’ lies on Rohith Vemula got exposed

OpIndia Staff -
Vivek Agnihotri exposed how Kunal Kamra binned an interview because it exposed his and Congress' lies on Rohith Vemula.
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Social Media

Watch: Eminent lawyer Bhanu Pratap Singh calls for economic Jihad, says Baba Ramdev is supplying weapons for RSS

OpIndia Staff -
The man in the viral video urges Muslims to boycott Reliance products, including Jio and petroleum. He also claims that Baba Ramdev uses the profits of Patanjali to 'buy weapons for RSS'.
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News Reports

Please come fast or my wife will die: Man pleads, but Shaheen Bagh ‘protestors’ don’t let an ambulance pass

OpIndia Staff -
A woman's health deteriorated when Shaheen Bagh 'protestors' didn't let an ambulance pass during the road blockade.
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News Reports

Indigo, Air India and SpiceJet bar propagandist Kunal Kamra from flying for his unruly behaviour onboard Mumbai-Lucknow flight

OpIndia Staff -
After Indigo, Air India and SpiceJet suspend 'comedian' Kunal Kamra from flying with their airlines for his unruly behaviour.
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News Reports

Andhra Pradesh government abolishes legislative council after the 3-capital bills rejected by the upper house

OpIndia Staff -
Andhra Pradesh government adopts statutory resolution for abolishing its upper house
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News Reports

JNU Students’ Union condemns Shaheen Bagh protest mastermind Sharjeel Imam’s arrest, labels it ‘Islamophobia’

OpIndia Staff -
JNUSU condemns Shaheen Bagh mastermind Sharjeel Imam’s arrest, claims that BJP wants to 'criminalize' Muslims.
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News Reports

Congress leaders and other assorted ‘liberals’ endorse propagandist Kunal Kamra’s unruly behaviour toward Arnab Goswami on Indigo flight

OpIndia Staff -
Kunal Kamra gets support from left-liberal after abusing and heckling Arnab Goswami on an Indigo flight
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News Reports

Indian summons Pakistan High Commission official, registers strong protest over abduction of Hindu woman from her wedding ceremony

OpIndia Staff -
India summons Pakistan's official, registered protest over the abduction of Hindu girl.
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News Reports

IndiGo bans Kunal Kamra for unruly behaviour, Union Minister asks other airlines to extend the ban on the bully

OpIndia Staff -
In a video uploaded by 'comedian' Kunal Kamra, he was seen accosting journalist Arnab Goswami and heckling him while onboard an Indigo flight 6E 5317 from Mumbai to Lucknow
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Opinions

Rahul Gandhi relaunch: The familiar move that may spell a bigger doom for the Congress party

Jinit Jain -
Congress party is contemplating to reinstate Rahul Gandhi, who resigned in July 2019, as the president of the party
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News Reports

Into the Islamist’s mind: The role of educated Muslims in Sharjeel Imam’s ‘Plan of Action’

K Bhattacharjee -
Sharjeel Imam, the mastermind of the Shaheen Bagh protest, has been arrested from Bihar's Jehanabad by the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police.
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News Reports

Nitish Kumar reveals that Prashant Kishor was inducted into JD(U) on the recommendation of Amit Shah

OpIndia Staff -
Prashant Kishor time and again targeted the Modi government over the contentious Citizenship Act and other issues
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News Reports

Months after “quitting” active politics, musician Vishal Dadlani campaigns for Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi

OpIndia Staff -
Vishal Dadlani was recently fined Rs 10 lakh for hurting religious sentiments of the Jain community by his tweets on monk Tarun Sagar
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Social Media

#ReleaseSharjeelImam trends on Twitter as radicals demand Shaheen Bagh mastermind be released after he was arrested for his seditious speech

OpIndia Staff -
Radicals took to Twitter to trend '#ReleaseSharjeelImam' to extend their support to Shaheen Bagh mastermind over his seditious speech.
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Crime

Neeraj Prajapati’s death: Family alleges administration is trying to cover up the iron rod attack on him by the Muslim mob

OpIndia Staff -
Neeraj Prajapati's family has alleged that police and local administration trying to suppress facts. They claim that administration is trying to hide that he was attacked with a rod by the Muslim mob in Lohardaga, Jharkhand.
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News Reports

Will clear Shaheen Bagh within one hour if BJP forms govt in Delhi, all illegal mosques on govt land will be removed: BJP MP...

OpIndia Staff -
BJP MP Pravesh Verma promises to remove Shaheen Bagh protests, illegal mosques on govt land if BJP wins Delhi election
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Media

‘Mentally unstable’ Kunal Kamra abuses and heckles Arnab Goswami on a flight to Lucknow: Here is what actually happened

Nupur J Sharma -
In what appears to be a massive security breach, 'mentally unstable' 'comedian' Kunal Kamra abused and heckled senior journalist Arnab Goswami on a flight
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Opinions

Billion dollars vs billion people: Why we should be scared of Soros and the global left

Abhishek Banerjee -
Do you have what it takes to defend our democracy? Our sovereignty?
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Media

The Quint defends Sharjeel Imam’s ‘cut off Assam’ speech, claims he meant only a ‘Chakka Jam’, compares it to imaginary ‘blockade’ of 2008 during...

Jinit Jain -
Aditya Menon of The Quint draws a false equivalence between Amarnath agitation in 2008 with Sharjeel Imam's seditious statements inciting Muslims for a war against India.
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News Reports

Shaheen Bagh’s ‘organic’ protests: Viral video shows protestor talking about following strict instructions from ‘uparwala’

OpIndia Staff -
Shaheen Bagh protester reveals that they are working as per strict instructions of someone from above.
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News Reports

Propagandist Kunal Kamra heckles Arnab Goswami on a flight, here is how he can be banned from flying

OpIndia Staff -
'Comedian' Kunal Kamra resorted to unruly behaviour to harass his fellow passenger, Arnab Goswami, on an Indigo flight
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News Reports

Inspired by Shaheen Bagh protests, women in Mumbai start sit-in dharna against CAA, NRC and NPR

OpIndia Staff -
Hundreds of women have been on a sit-in protest on a road in south Mumbai against the CAA-NRC-NPR
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News Reports

Complaint filed against former Bombay High Court judge B. G. Kolse Patil for defaming Veer Savarkar

Shriya Gune -
Pune Police register case against former Bombay High Court judge B. G. Kolse Patil for defaming Savarkar
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Law

Was forced to have sex with another convict: Nirbhaya case convict Mukesh seeks review of rejection of mercy petition

OpIndia Staff -
Mukesh' plea in court has claimed that there was 'non-application of mind' by the President of India in rejecting his mercy petition.
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Opinions

No such thing as free lunch: Read how foreign ‘donations’ are a serious danger to our national security

M Nageswara Rao -
As a nation we have failed to ask ourselves an elementary question: Why should foreigners ‘donate’ such humongous amounts to certain Indians, unless they have an agenda?
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Entertainment

After PM Modi, Superstar Rajinikanth to appear in Bear Grylls’ Man vs Wild, both arrive in Bandipur forest for shooting

OpIndia Staff -
Bear Grylls and superstar Rajinikanth have arrived in Karnataka's Bandipur National Park to shoot a special episode of the popular show Man vs Wild.
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News Reports

Shaheen Bagh mastermind Sharjeel Imam arrested for calling for cutting off the North East from rest of India

OpIndia Staff -
Sharjeel Imam, the mastermind of the Shaheen Bagh protests, has been arrested by the Police from Bihar's Jehanabad.
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News Reports

‘When Indian Army captured 90,000 Pakistani soldiers, Kartarpur Sahib could have been taken back’: PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
PM Narendra Modi said that his government had taken steps to have the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor opened after Sikhs pilgrims had to wait to visit the shrine for decades.
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News Reports

Not our official position, India key partner to address global challenges: EU distances itself from anti-CAA draft resolution

OpIndia Staff -
Sources revealed that India has the support of France that happens to be a founding member of the EU.
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Crime

Maharashtra: Teen raped after she fell unconscious, brutalised with iron rod in Nagpur

OpIndia Staff -
When the victim tried to resist, the accused reportedly stuffed a piece of cloth in her mouth, after which she fell unconscious
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Media

Psephologist Pradeep Bhandari assaulted for calling people like Shaheen Bagh mastermind Sharjeel Imam a traitor

OpIndia Staff -
Last week, a video had come to fore in which mastermind of Shaheen Bagh protests, Sharjeel Imam was seen making a clarion call for Muslims to cut-off Assam from the rest of India
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Media

Media Coordinator of Shaheen Bagh protests calls fellow panelist ‘tawaif ka bachha’ on Arnab Goswami’s debate

OpIndia Staff -
Shoaib Jamei, president of the Indian Muslim Foundation and the media coordinator of the Shaheen Bagh 'movement', lashed out at a fellow panelist during Arnab Goswami's debate on Republic TV and called him 'taw*if ke bachche' (son of a 'wh*re').
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Crime

Lohardaga violence: Neeraj Prajapati, man injured in the Muslim mob attack on pro-CAA rally dies in hospital

OpIndia Staff -
Neeraj was initially treated at Orchid Hospital but was later transferred to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS).
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Entertainment

Watch: Dia Mirza cries uncontrollably during discussion on climate crisis, insists ‘it is not a performance’

OpIndia Staff -
Dia Mirza declined to use a tissue paper offered to her, saying "I don't need a paper", and also refused when a fellow panellist offered her a handkerchief to wipe her tears.
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Politics

From ‘where is BJP’ to Kejriwal panicking – How Amit Shah changed Delhi assembly elections in a week

OpIndia Staff -
Responding to Kejriwal's challenge, HM Shah today tweeted a video where 8 BJP MPs had visited Delhi schools to check up on the tall claims made by Delhi government.
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Media

Fearmongering beyond CAA: Now The Wire employee Arfa and Bollywood entertainer Swara Bhaskar paint Bollywood as threat

OpIndia Staff -
Bollywood entertainer Swara Bhaskar while interacting with The Wire employee Arfa Khanum Sherwani expressed unhappiness over showing Mughal invaders as barbaric.
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