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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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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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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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