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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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Crime

Bihar police detain the brother of Shaheen Bagh mastermind Sharjeel Imam for questioning

OpIndia Staff -
The Jehanabad police have detained Imam's brother, and two more family members for interrogation.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Colleges arrange for buses of students, cancel classes to help NSUI in arranging ‘crowd’ for Rahul Gandhi’s rally

OpIndia Staff -
Rajasthan government colleges have sent out notices to students to attend Rahul Gandhi's rally in Jaipur today.
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News Reports

Chennai mall justifies azaan calls, 5 times a day, on mall speakers, because they also celebrate Diwali once a year

OpIndia Staff -
A mall in Chennai has justified playing azaan, call to pray for Muslims, five times a day because it also "celebrates Christmas, Diwali and Pongal".
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Government and Policy

10 Chairs in Universities in the names of noteworthy women approved by MWCD, Devi Ahilyabai Holkar and M.S. Subbulakshmi among them

OpIndia Staff -
The initiative is called the 'Establishment of Chairs in the University in the Name of Eminent Women Administrators/Artists/Scientists/Social Reformers'.
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Politics

AAP says they are with Shaheen Bagh, does Arvind Kejriwal support Sharjeel Imam: Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi rally

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Amit Shah asked whether Arvind Kejriwal supports action against Shaheen Bagh mastermind Sharjeel Imam
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Crime

Asansol, West Bengal: One Gaurav Thakur sent to jail after communal tension following him and a Muslim girl eloping

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Communal tensions in Asansol spiked after a Hindu boy, Gaurav allegedly eloped away with his girlfriend, a Muslim girl
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News Reports

Kapil Sibal threatens media, warns against linking him to revelations regarding PFI funding anti-CAA riots and payments made to him

OpIndia Staff -
Kapil Sibal has issued a clarification claiming that the payments made by PFI were the lawyer fees owed to him in the Hadiya case.
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Media

Mumbai: News Nation video journalist attacked by ‘Shaheen Bagh’ inspired anti-CAA protest in Nagpada, camera broken

OpIndia Staff -
The camera was broken and the cameraman assaulted. An FIR was lodged against 3 unidentified men at Nagpada police station.
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News Reports

FIR filed against Pro-Congress fake news peddler Flynn Remedios by former Miss India Natasha Suri for uploading objectionable pictures of her

OpIndia Staff -
Natasha accused Remedios of putting up adult content tagging her name on his portals Indiascoops.com and Indiaspeaks.live, and also sent the same to various other websites for publication. 
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News Reports

Kolkata Mayor’s R-Day message from municipal corporation’s official page shares distorted map of India, faces criticism

OpIndia Staff -
Netizens have accused Firhad Hakim of furthering the cause of Islamisation in India, appeasing his community members and being a closet Pakistan supporter.
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News Reports

‘This is how the Christoislamist lobby behaves’, says journalist abused on social media for speaking out against Azaan in Chennai’s Marina Mall

Editorial Desk -
Sanjay Pandey shared a short video on Twitter where the Azaan can be heard playing in Marina Mall
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Politics

Kejriwal activates damage-control mode, asks BJP to negotiate with seditious organisers of the Shaheen Bagh protests

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal wants BJP to negotiate with Shaheen Bagh protesters, who have been making inflammatory, communal and seditious statements
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Politics

Is Arvind Kejriwal beginning to panic about Shaheen Bagh?

Abhishek Banerjee -
Arvind Kejriwal has finally mentioned Shaheen Bagh in a tweet and it seems like he is panicking
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Politics

Brace yourself: Rahul Gandhi will ‘come of age’ yet again as Congress plans his ‘one more return’

Dibakar Dutta -
Despite promising ₹72000 per year under NYAY and weaving the imaginary tale of Rafale scam, the Congress Party failed to hold its ground in 2019 elections.
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Opinions

Why are comedy ideologues abusing Sadhguru and what is at stake for us all

drishtikone -
Quite simply, Kamra is churning out bigoted and profane abuse packaged as comic fodder against Sadhguru
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News Reports

Pakistan believes BJP government is the ‘biggest threat’ to Pakistan, claims ‘Muslims feel unsafe in India’

OpIndia Staff -
If reports are to be believed, Pakistan believes that the Narendra Modi led BJP government of India is the biggest threat to their nation.
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Government and Policy

Home Minister Amit Shah secures peace agreement with Bodo groups amidst plans to ‘cut off Assam’ by Shaheen Bagh mastermind

OpIndia Staff -
Union Home Minister Amit Shah assured that the agreement signed between Assam government, Centre and the Bodo representatives will herald a golden future for Assam and the Bodo people.
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu: BJP leader hacked to death by sickles, party says his pro-CAA views may have led to his gruesome murder

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A 40-year-old BJP leader Vijaya Raghu was reportedly hacked to death in Trichy, Tamil Nadu early morning on Monday.
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Opinions

Delhi Elections: Errant, recalcitrant, spoilt Delhi needs a tough disciplinarian government

Mahesh Jagga -
Would Delhi in these elections choose an opportunist cum obstructionist who is prone to flout rules?
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Law

Based on Quran, cannot be challenged over laws based on Constitution: Here is how AIMPLB is batting for Nikah Halala and Polygamy

OpIndia Staff -
The AIMPLB's submission was in response to a PIL filed by BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay in the Supreme Court.
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Politics

There were always ‘red flags’ about Arvind Kejriwal: Munish Raizada to OpIndia while talking about his web-series exposing AAP

Editorial Desk -
Web series by Munish Raizada, titled 'Transparency', documents progressive deterioration of AAP
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News Reports

#ScientistSisodia Manish Sisodia saying it is ‘scientifically impossible’ for supply pipes to provide clean water makes him a Twitter hashtag

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia donned the hats of a scientist to explain how it is impossible to provide clean water in Delhi.
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News Reports

Nexus between Congress and Islamists in stoking anti-CAA riots? PFI spent over 120 crores, transferred huge sums to Kapil Sibal and Indira Jaising: Read...

OpIndia Staff -
SC lawyer and Congress leader Kapil Sibal, lawyers Indira Jaising and Dushyant Dave have also been reportedly named as PFI beneficiaries in the explosive report.
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Media

Deepak Chaurasia, who was assaulted at Shaheen Bagh, gives befitting reply to The Wire employee who downplayed attack

OpIndia Staff -
Rohini Singh justified attack on Deepak Chaurasia by saying that he really is not a "journalist" as per her
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News Reports

As students from IIT Bombay take out Tiranga march, Left group paints posters in support of Shaheen Bagh mastermind Sharjeel Imam

OpIndia Staff -
Left students of IIT-B organising "Reclaim the Republic" held posters that read "Support Sharjeel Imam"
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News Reports

Kerala: Catholic priest says govt ignoring Love Jihad cases, missing women and children is ‘silent sanction’

OpIndia Staff -
Fr Varghese Vallikkatt, the spokesperson of the Catholic Church Bishops Council, has stated that the cases of women from South India being used as sex slaves in war-torn nations like Syria and Afghanistan are a reality.
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News Reports

Pak-origin MEP moves anti-CAA resolution in EU Parliament, India slams the move calling it internal matter

OpIndia Staff -
Shaffaq Mohammed, Pakistan-origin Member of European Parliament, is the lead mover of the European Parliament Resolution on Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
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Crime

Chennai: Plan to attack on economist and Thuglak editor S Gurumurthy’s house foiled, 2 arrested

OpIndia Staff -
The Thuglak magazine had recently decided to re-publish its articles dating back to Periyar's Salem rally in 1971 where he had paraded naked idols of Sri Rama and Sita with garlands of shoes.
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Entertainment

Javed Akhtar’s daughter Zoya Akhtar promotes Jamia ‘shero’ Aysha Renna, who condemned Yakub Memon hanging, through her production ‘Tiger Baby Films’ Instagram

OpIndia Staff -
In an Instagram picture posted on 13th January, 2019, Tiger Baby Films glorifies Renna as "Tigress Aysha Renna".
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Crime

Pakistan: Muslim man abducts Hindu girl while her wedding was in progress, forces her to marry him and convert to Islam

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan: Hindu woman was abducted from wedding venue, married off to a Muslim man and forcefully converted to Islam
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Crime

Another Hindu temple attacked in Pakistan’s Sindh, goddess statue desecrated, scriptures damaged

OpIndia Staff -
Mata Rani Bhatiyani Devi temple in Chachro, Tharparkar in Sindh has been brutally attacked by an Islamist mob on Sunday.
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News Reports

Barkha Dutt’s ‘Sheroes’ come out in support of Shaheen Bagh mastermind Sharjeel Imam, call crackdown against his seditious speech “Islamophobia”

OpIndia Staff -
Aysha Renna and Ladeeda Sakaloon alias Ladeeda Farzana, Jamia Millia Islamia students who was hailed by controversial journalist Barkha Dutt as 'sheroes', have now come out in support of Shaheen Bagh mastermind Sharjeel Imam.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Polio vaccination team held hostage, beaten up after locals mistook them for NPR data collection team

OpIndia Staff -
A polio vaccination team was reportedly kept hostage and beaten up in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, after the locals mistook that the team was collecting data for National Population Register (NPR).
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Opinions

Subhas Chandra Bose’s struggle within Congress was a statement against the highly personalised high-command structure and dictatorial grip of Gandhi-Nehru

Saket Suryesh -
Stifled and crippled as a notional president of the Congress party, Subhas Bose had resigned within a year
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News Reports

Mumbai police issue notice to Christian families of a colony for harassing Hindu families, not allowing them to perform puja

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5 Hindu families in a Juhu building say Christians families are harassing them, not allowing to perform puja
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News Reports

Jharkhand: Apart from mosques, stones pelted from Congress office at Lohardaga pro-CAA rally, rioters shouted ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans, says VHP leader

OpIndia Staff -
VHP leader Vinod Bansal said that there was a lot of stone pelting from local congress office as at pro-CAA rally
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Media

The Wire journalist Arfa Khanum Sherwani advices protesting Muslims to appear inclusive ‘as part of strategy’

OpIndia Staff -
Journalist associated with leftist propaganda website, The Wire, Arfa Khanum Sherwani, while addressing a gathering at Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh suggested the protesting Muslims should appear inclusive 'as part of strategy'. 
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News Reports

West Bengal: Students block road demanding resumption of Saraswati Puja in Basirhat school

OpIndia Staff -
Despite repeated requests in the past, the school authorities have turned a blind eye to demands of organising Saraswati Puja
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News Reports

Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam targets Adnan Sami over Padma Shri award, says despite Indian citizenship, he’s still a Pakistani

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam says Adnan Sami is still a Pakistani despite Indian citizenship
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News Reports

Republic Day 2020 parade in pictures: A show of India’s strength, rich culture and heritage

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Pictures from the Republic Day Parade 2020 on the Rajpath, New Delhi
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Media

Pakistanis trend ‘BlackRepublicDay’ on 71st Indian Republic Day, Radio Pakistan uses CPI’s Brinda Karat’s column in NDTV to target India

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan, which is always looking for opportunities to rebuke India, laps up such hate-filled articles to advance their vile anti-India propaganda
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News Reports

Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur Police register FIR against Shaheen Bagh mastermind Sharjeel Imam, police raids his ancestral home in Bihar, detains 3

OpIndia Staff -
After Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh Police also file FIR against Shaheen Bagh mastermind and The Wire columnist Sharjeel Imam for his seditious statement.
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News Reports

Watch: Madhya Pradesh Congress leaders slap each other at Republic Day event in Indore

OpIndia Staff -
In an embarrassing incident, two Congress leaders in Madhya Pradesh were found slapping and hitting each other at Republic Day event.
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Opinions

“You are a liar Mr George Soros”: Savio Rodrigues hits out on billionaire who committed USD 1 billion to ‘fight nationalism’ in India

OpIndia Staff -
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Goa Chronicle, Savio Rodrigues, in an open letter, hit out on Sores for insulting India.
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News Reports

West Bengal: State police clashes with BJP Yuva Morcha workers performing ‘Bharat Mata Puja’ in Howrah

OpIndia Staff -
Last year also, BJP's effort to organise a similar puja in the state to mark the 73rd Independence Day was throttled by the West Bengal police
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News Reports

Delhi Police files an FIR, UP Police dispatches two teams to nab Sharjeel Imam, mastermind of Shaheen Bagh and The Wire columnist

OpIndia Staff -
The FIR comes after the Wire columnist and Shaheen Bagh roadblock mastermind Sharjeel Imam's video went viral where he had asked Muslims of the country to break India by cutting of North-east from the rest of the country.
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News Reports

Watch: Indian Air Force wows crowd at 71st Republic Day parade by performing gravity defying manoeuvres

OpIndia Staff -
This is 1st time that a “Tri-service Formation” took part in the Republic Day celebrations.
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Social Media

National Geographic Traveller ‘likes’ tweet by ex-JNU student Umar Khalid where he is mocking Amit Shah’s challenge on CAA debate

OpIndia Staff -
National Geographic Traveller India's Twitter handle today 'liked' a tweet by ex-JNU student and activist Umar Khalid where he was mocking Home Minister Amit Shah's challenge to opposition leaders to debate with him on Citizenship Amendment Act. 
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News Reports

Shaheen Bagh protesters desperately try to prove their patriotism a day after mastermind called to cut off Assam

OpIndia Staff -
As reported by news agency ANI, the protestors had gathered at Shaheen Bagh to celebrate the 71st Republic Day.
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