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West Bengal: Two BJP offices set on fire in a span of 5 days, party blames ruling TMC led by Mamata Banerjee

OpIndia Staff -
A BJP office in West Bengal's Bankura district was set on fire late on January 15, the second in 5 days
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News Reports

Congress corporator seen creating ruckus at metro station, hits female journalist trying to make video

OpIndia Staff -
Vikrant Chavan, a Congress corporator from Thane was seen creating a ruckus at a metro station.
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Politics

VP of India tweets picture of Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar in saffron robes on his birth anniversary, deletes after ‘secular’ outrage

OpIndia Staff -
Vice President of India, Venkaiah Naidu greeted the nation on the birth anniversary of Tamil poet, philosopher and saint, Thiruvalluvar.
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Media Fact-Check

IMA issues statement asking PM Modi to ‘prove or apologise’ over The Print’s fake claim, Pharmaceutical Alliance bust their bubble

OpIndia Staff -
Not stopping at ordering the PM to 'prove or apologise' over an unfounded claim, the IMA also went ahead to preach that the government is doing this to divert attention from the failure of Ayushman Bharat, which, they claimed, is a 'non-starter.'
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Politics

Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut now compares underworld don Karim Lala with Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan in an attempt to please Congress

OpIndia Staff -
Shiv Sena motormouth Sanjay Raut has now issued clarification on his comments that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi used to come to Mumbai to meet underworld don Karim Lala.
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News Reports

Latest poster from Shaheen Bagh confirms that CAA ‘protests’ is about Islamist supremacy and Hinduphobia: Here is why

Editorial Desk -
Poster from Shaheen Bagh, flooded with anti-Hindu imagery has been shared by bigoted journalist Saba Naqvi.
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News Reports

UNSC members snub China’s attempt at raking up Kashmir issue, maintain that Kashmir remains a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
Once again in a span of five months, China, nudged by Pakistan, held an informal consultation on the Kashmir issue at United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in New York.
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Media

The Quint deletes Muslim cab driver sob story video after being accused of paying him for acting in it: Here is what they need...

Editorial Desk -
The Quint has deleted the sob-story video of an alleged Muslim cab driver it had published earlier
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News Reports

Digvijaya Singh who once shared stage with Zakir Naik is demanding answers from BJP over Naik’s recent remarks

Dibakar Dutta -
The controversial Islamic preacher, Zakir Naik, and Congress leader Digvijaya Singh are back in the news again.
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Law

Delhi court grants bail to Chandrashekhar Azad, orders him to stay away from Delhi till elections, not to join Shaheen Bagh protest

OpIndia Staff -
An additional sessions court in Delhi has today granted bail to Bhim Army Chief Chandrashekhar Azad in a case registered against him related to anti-CAA riots
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News Reports

The masks are off? JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh rakes up Kashmir during the Jamia protests against CAA

OpIndia Staff -
JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh said that the government's move to trample upon the Indian constitution started with their decision to abrogate Article 370, stripping Jammu and Kashmir of its separate status
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News Reports

Nirbhaya case: Delhi High Court dismisses convict Mukesh Singh’s plea challenging death warrant, says nothing wrong with trial court’s January 7 order

OpIndia Staff -
Nirbhaya rape case convict Mukesh Singh filed a mercy petition today, one week ahead of scheduled hanging.
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News Reports

20 years ago, Narendra Modi called out the mentality behind Islamic terrorism on NDTV, and Rajdeep Sardesai was ‘upset’

OpIndia Staff -
The Narendra Modi government has demonstrated great ideological clarity since it came to power in 2014.
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Politics

“Met Dawood Ibrahim several times over, Indira Gandhi used to visit Mumbai to meet Karim Lala”: Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut

OpIndia Staff -
Sanjay Raut claimed that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi came to Mumbai to visit gangster Karim Lala
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Culture and History

The Imperial Cholas, Part I: An Introduction to the longest ruling Dynasty in India

Monidipa Bose Dey -
From a study of the annals of Indic studies, it is quite clear that the Imperial Cholas of south India claim the record for being the longest ruling dynasty in Indian history.
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Politics

Former AAP leader Kumar Vishwas refutes the rumours of him joining BJP

OpIndia Staff -
Former AAP leader Kumar Vishwas has clarified whether he is joining the BJP ahead of Delhi Assembly Elections.
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Politics

Congress’ Mani Shankar Aiyar goes to Pakistan and lies about PM Modi and HM Shah, says NRC has created rift between them

OpIndia Staff -
Mani Shankar Aiyar had in November 2015 sparked off a controversy when he had allegedly asked Pakistani media to help Congress to remove PM Modi
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News Reports

Mumbai consultant Vikas Sachdeva convicted by special POCSO court for molesting former Bollywood actress on a flight in 2017

OpIndia Staff -
Mumbai-based consultant Vikas Sachdeva has been fined ₹25,000 and sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment.
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Opinions

The make-believe world of Shaheen Bagh protests will come down crashing: Here is why

Saket Suryesh -
There are people camping in Shaheen Bagh, ostensibly to oppose the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019.
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News Reports

We are recommending his termination: J&K DGP Dilbag Singh on DSP Davinder Singh who was caught with Hizbul terrorists

OpIndia Staff -
Investigations are underway to find out why the terrorists were going to Delhi with the help of the police officer
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News Reports

Chalo Jamia: Jamia students hold protest march against Delhi Police’s retaliatory action on rioters in December

OpIndia Staff -
'The Jamia Coordination Committee' had called for a protest in opposition to the Delhi Police's retaliatory action on December 15, 2019, against the rampaging anti-CAA mob at Jamia Nagar.
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Politics

IPS officer with shady past who claimed to have resigned over CAA offered Waqf Board post by Maharashtra government

OpIndia Staff -
The Maharashtra government has offered CEO post of Waqf Board to IPS Abdur Rehman, whose integrity and conduct has been questioned several times in the past including allegations against him for supporting his community i.e Muslims over others.
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Cricket

ICC Awards 2019: Here is the complete list of the Awardees

Ritesh -
The ICC Awards have been announced and England's all-rounder has been declared as the Best Cricketer of the Year 2019
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News Reports

JNU violence: DU student Komal Sharma says she was framed by media, registers complaint with NCW

OpIndia Staff -
The National Commission for Women has written to the media houses as well as to Delhi Police to look into the matter
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Opinions

Liberalism and Fascism: 5 ways in which ‘liberals’ are exactly the same as Nazis

K Bhattacharjee -
Liberalism and Nazism have several similarities, here are some
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Politics

Congress-supporting Bharatiya Kisan Union leaders join the anti-CAA protests at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh

OpIndia Staff -
Congress supporting Bharatiya Kisan Union leaders and members have now joined the 'organic and apolitical' anti-CAA protests at Shaheen Bagh in national capital.
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News Reports

Christian girls are being targeted, killed or being used in Islamic terrorist activities: Syro-Malabar Church in Kerala

OpIndia Staff -
The Synod of the Syra-Malabar Church has said that Christian girls in Kerala are being targeted by Islamic radicals under Love Jihad.
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Crime

Nirbhaya convicts cannot be hanged on January 22: Delhi government tells HC as one convict’s mercy plea is pending

OpIndia Staff -
The four convicts were to be hanged on January 22 at 7 am in Tihar jail. Soon after the Supreme court rejected the curative petitions, Mukesh had filed his mercy plea before the President.
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News Reports

“Proud of our Army“: PM Modi hails the Indian Army for saving life of a pregnant lady Shamima and her child stuck in snow...

OpIndia Staff -
It is the nature of the Indian armed forces to step in any time when there is a need and the defence forces have been involved in several daring rescue acts.
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Media

Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri says ‘sobbing’ Muslim cabbie in The Quint’s video is a part-time actor who was hired for the video

OpIndia Staff -
A controversy has erupted over a video shared by The Quint where a Muslim cab driver is seen hyperventilating over the proposed National Register of Citizens.
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News Reports

Exclusive: After Minister Piyush Goyal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to meet Amazon and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos

OpIndia Staff -
After Piyush Goyal, OpIndia has learnt that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not be meeting Jeff Bezos as well
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Media Fact-Check

Fact check: Did Central govt ‘ignore Left-ruled Kerala’ in releasing flood relief fund, as claimed by India Today

NR Nigam -
IndiaToday article claimed that the Centre has not allocated any funds for Kerala flood relief.
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Politics

Congress govt in Chhattisgarh move SC seeking declaration of UPA-I legislated NIA Act of 2008 as unconstitutional

OpIndia Staff -
Congress government in Chhattisgarh wants to declare a law brought in by UPA itself, NIA, be declared unconstitutional.
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Politics

Kejriwal and Sisodia sold MLA ticket for 21 crores: Sitting AAP MLA alleges as many new faces emerge as AAP candidates

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, AAP is repeating only 46 MLAs. In the list of candidates shared by AAP, 24 seats are getting 'new faces'.
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Social Media

Muslim cab drivers collect and share info of pro-BJP riders over WhatsApp group, give them low ratings, viral Facebook post suggests

OpIndia Staff -
According to the post, the protestor overheard the cab driver, one Aslam, talk to someone and managed to catch 'Sanghi saale' being spoken from other end.
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News Reports

Sabarimala: Notice to close meat shops during Thiruvabharanam procession angers ‘seculars’, meat and animal carcasses found on path later

OpIndia Staff -
Meat and animal carcasses were reportedly found thrown on the road where the annual Thiruvabharanam procession for Sabarimala temple was set to pass through.
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Government and Policy

Minister Piyush Goyal not to meet Jeff Bezos during his India visit: Washington Post anti-India stand showing effect?

OpIndia Staff -
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon Inc and the owner of Washington Post is in India for a 3-day tour
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News Reports

Aligarh Muslim University to file FIR against police for ‘crossing the mandate’ and entering hostel without permission

OpIndia Staff -
Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Vice-Chancellor Prof Tariq Mansoor on Tuesday said that the varsity will file an FIR against the Uttar Pradesh Police for entering the hostel without permission.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: 6 tribal infants dead in 12 hours at Shahdol district hospital, probe ordered

OpIndia Staff -
The hospital administration has stated that all the children were very ill and some of them were brought to the hospital in a critical condition.
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Media

Present intelligent and logical arguments before public: PM Modi reminds media of its duty to present credible news

OpIndia Staff -
Prime Minister Modi while addressing an event held by Tamil magazine reminded media of its duty of presenting credible news to public.
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Politics

Delhi elections: AAP leader Abdul Rehman, an accused in anti-CAA riots, to contest from Seelampur

OpIndia Staff -
AAP leader Abdul Rehman, along with ex-Congress MLA Mateen Ahmed, have been named in an FIR by Delhi Police for 'provoking the crowd' to join the protests.
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News Reports

Marxist Kavita Krishnan lies about Karl Marx, says the son of a lawyer came from an extremely poor family

OpIndia Staff -
Karl Marx was born into a wealthy family and his father was lawyer, but Kavita Krishnan says he came from an extremely poor family
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News Reports

Nirbhaya convict’s delay tactics: After SC rejects curative plea of 2, convict Mukesh files mercy petition

OpIndia Staff -
Nirbhaya case convict Mukesh Kumar files mercy petition with the president a week ahead of his execution
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News Reports

Three days after attending event in Pakistan, Mani Shankar Aiyar joins anti-CAA protests in Delhi where ‘Jinnah Wali Azadi’ slogans were raised

OpIndia Staff -
Mani Shankar Aiyar, in the past, had sought Pakistan's help to remove Narendra Modi from the Prime Minister's chair.
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News Reports

Tennis player Andy Murray’s comment on his mom’s Instagram shows how he’s just one of us

OpIndia Staff -
Judy Murray and Andy Murray share a very strong relationship and the Tennis player has always credited his mother greatly for his success in the courts.
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News Reports

Watch: Crowd in Wankhede stadium chants ‘Modi, Modi’ as some individuals try to break into anti-CAA-NRC-NPR formation

OpIndia Staff -
CAA detractors in Wankhede stadium were sitting in a “No CAA-No NRC-No-NPR” formation when a group of people chanted pro-Modi slogans
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News Reports

Lawyer sends notice to historian Irfan Habib for his ‘venomous speech’ at AMU targeting Narendra Modi and Amit Shah

OpIndia Staff -
Advocate Sandeep Kumar Gupta sent a legal notice to Irfan Habib asking him to respond with an apology within 7 days
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News Reports

Delhi Police begins efforts to clear Shaheen Bagh of protesters by consulting religious leaders after Delhi HC order

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi Police has initiated efforts to clear Shaheen Bagh of protesters after the Delhi High Court directed the Police to handle the protests as per their wisdom.
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Politics

Shashi Tharoor to Kanhaiya Kumar: How these ‘progressive men’ are men first, ‘progressive’ later

Nirwa Mehta -
'Progressive' men who talk about feminism and smashing patriarchy are men first, progressive later.
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News Reports

Watch: SP chief Akhilesh Yadav calls Emergency Medical Officer a ‘chhota aadmi’, asks him to get out from hospital ward

OpIndia Staff -
The Yogi government has announced to provide ex-gratia of Rs 2 Lakh each to families of the deceased and Rs 50,000 to those injured in the Kannauj bus fire incident.
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