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Politics

Maharashtra: Congress MLA Aslam Shaikh who opposed Yakub Memon’s hanging is now minister in Uddhav Thackeray cabinet

OpIndia Staff -
Congress MLA Aslam Shaikh who had written a letter to the then President of India Pranab Mukherjee appealing for mercy for 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon swore in as Maharashtra minister
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News Reports

Despite Priyanka Gandhi Vadra breaching security protocol, appropriate security cover was provided: CRPF calls out the Congress scion

OpIndia Staff -
CRPF said due to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra unscheduled movement without intimation, the advance security liaison (ASL) protocol could not be conducted.
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News Reports

India Today publishes report with misleading headline implying that UP govt took blankets back after distribution by CM: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
India Today headline is misleading as it implies that UP govt took blankets back after distributed by CM
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News Reports

Iranian national arrested in Bihar for living in India as Buddhist monk for 11 years without visa

OpIndia Staff -
Iranian Hamed Akbari living in India without a visa as a Buddhist monk, caught while trying to go to Nepal
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Law

The Judiciary in 2019: Six significant verdicts that either created a storm or brought an end to one

Editorial Desk -
The Judiciary in 2019 issued quite a few historic verdicts on various matters of import.
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu: Dalit villagers deny media reports of converting to Islam after wall collapse incident which left 17 dead

OpIndia Staff -
Days after media had reported that 3,000 Dalits in Mettupalayam, Tamil Nadu, converted to Islam, the villagers have denied these reports.
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News Reports

Five Big Bang decisions of Modi Govt in 2019, how it laid the foundation for New India and marked The Dawn of a New...

Editorial Desk -
When history books are written in the future, they will say that it was in 2019 that India was changed was forever, thanks to the Modi govt
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Social Media

Facebook blocks Radio Pakistan for spreading fake news on Kashmir and violating community standards on dangerous individuals and organisation

OpIndia Staff -
Facebook also removed problematic posts by Radio Pakistan after blocking its live streaming
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News Reports

After Marxist Irfan Habib heckled Arif Mohammad Khan, Aligarh Society plays victim, claims ‘democratic dissent’ being stifled

OpIndia Staff -
Aligarh Society has issued a statement in support of Irfan Habib and against Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan
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News Reports

Aligarh: Jamia Urdu registrar and OSD accused of threatening to kill an employee if he does not convert to Islam, case registered

OpIndia Staff -
Kamal Singh, who works as gardener supervisor at Jamia Urdu Aligarh, has accused the educational institute's registrar and officer on special duty (OSD) of trying to forcefully convert his religion to Islam.
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Politics

Jharkhand: Chief Minister Hemant Soren withdraws sedition cases against Pathalgadi armed separatists

OpIndia Staff -
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has decided to withdraw sedition cases registered against the supporters of Pathalgadi movement, an armed struggle which dismissed the authority of state and central government
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Crime

France: 19-year-old abused by Church priest charged for ramming a crucifix down the pedophile’s throat and murdering him

OpIndia Staff -
A 19-year-old teen charged with the murder of the Church priest who had subject him to sexual abuse
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News Reports

La ilaha illallah: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor attacked by radical Muslims for cautioning against Islamist extremism

OpIndia Staff -
Shashi Tharoor called bigot by Muslims for objecting to use of La ilaha illallah in anti-CAA protests
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News Reports

Jharkhand: Pieces of meat thrown near Shiv temple causes outrage among devotees, road blocked for 6 hours

OpIndia Staff -
Miscreants throw pieces of prohibited meat in Temple in Jharkhand, same area witnessed tensions due to beef last year
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News Reports

Delhi: Muslim Uber driver Naseem asks Pakistani Hindus to get off his cab, flees without taking them to Majnu Ka Tila camp

OpIndia Staff -
BJP Delhi spokesperson Tajinder Bagga today took to Twitter to share that one Uber driver Naseem asked Pakistani Hindu refugees living in Majnu Ka Tila camp to get off his car and drove away.
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News Reports

Sexist protest by Congress: Youth Wing attempts to burn Yogi Adityanath’s effigies clad in Saree and bangles, detained by Police

OpIndia Staff -
Youth Congress staged a protest against CAA in Mumbai where they crossed all boundaries of decency and civility.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Congress worker who drove Priyanka Gandhi Vadra without wearing helmet challaned for Rs 6100

OpIndia Staff -
Congress worker has been penalised as neither him nor Priyanka Gandhi were wearing a helmet while riding a two wheeler.
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Politics

When petrol-bombs replace placards, it is no more a student protest. It is by all means a political conspiracy

Ankit Jain -
The current protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is perfect example of youth being misled in the name of revolution by vested political interest.
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News Reports

Andhra Pradesh: Four arrested in Temple Town of Srisailam for ‘actively propagating Christianity’

OpIndia Staff -
The accused were found holding bibles and conspicuously reading out passages at Rudra Park in Srisailam on Friday.
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News Reports

Not happy that I can’t buy land in Kashmir, Kashmir Pandits and Buddhists in Ladakh are discriminated against: Indira Gandhi in 1981 letter

OpIndia Staff -
Indira Gandhi revealed that she could not take up the issue of Kashmir pandits due to negative press coverage of her
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Satire

Diary of a Delhi Liberal: Our comrades try to beat up Sanghi goons even as fascism rises in India

Liberals of Delhi -
We are well and truly in the Nazi era now. Our voices are getting suppressed, we are being shut down.
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Social Media

From mobilizing people for blood donation to crowdfunding for a humanitarian cause to a selfless prayer for a daughter battling life: The real face...

Ravi Ranjan -
The Right on social media—which is a unified group of serious thinking people—are using this free space for popularizing the ideas that are in the national interest.
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News Reports

NPR manual does not list Islamic festivals for a specific and valid reason, not for imaginary anti-Muslim bias of Modi govt: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
The NPR Manual does not list Islamic festivals as they don't help in guessing the month of birth if that is not known
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News Reports

Kerala: Jamia ‘Shero’ Aysha Renna heckled by Communists, forced to apologize for comments against CM Pinarayi Vijayan

OpIndia Staff -
Jamia 'Shero' Aysha Renna, during her visit to Kerala, made comments against the state Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
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News Reports

TTD to construct temples of Lord Venkateswara at Jammu and the Prime Minister’s constituency at Varanasi

OpIndia Staff -
The TTD has also sanctioned an amount of Rs. 30 crore for the construction of the Sri Venkateswara temple and information centre at Bandra in Mumbai.
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News Reports

Jharkhand: Month after snubbing Uddhav Thackeray, Rahul Gandhi attends Hemant Soren’s swearing in ceremony

OpIndia Staff -
Swearing-in ceremony of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren was held today.
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News Reports

I pray you do as good in life as she did: Sushma Swaraj’s husband’s tweets are all things warm, fuzzy and inspiring

OpIndia Staff -
Former external affairs minister and BJP stalwart Sushma Swaraj breathed her last on the night of August 6 after suffering a cardiac arrest.
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News Reports

Pakistanis accuse Twitter user of blasphemy for questioning polygamy of the Prophet, call for her public execution

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistani Twitter users are tagging PM Imran Khan asking for execution of a woman accusing her of blasphemy
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News Reports

UP police officer Dr Archana Singh rejects Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s manhandling allegations, says her car had diverted from scheduled route

OpIndia Staff -
Dr Archana Singh wanted to know the tour detail of Priyanka to arrange security, and manhandling charges are baseless
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News Reports

“Kids die, nothing new in it,” Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot after 77 children die in Kota in December

OpIndia Staff -
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot while speaking to media on the death of children in the state said that children die, there is nothing new in it.
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News Reports

Jagan govt decisions in Andhra Pradesh are anti-Hindu and freebies encourage conversion to Christianity, report suggests

OpIndia Staff -
Experts have expressed their concerns regarding the spree of freebies doled out to the Christian communities by the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy-led Andhra Pradesh government.
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News Reports

Karnataka: Pejavara Matha Seer Sri Sri Vishwesha Teertha Swamiji passes away in Udupi

OpIndia Staff -
The chief of Pejavara Matha Sri Sri Vishwesha Teertha Swamiji passed away due to multiple organ failure on Sunday at Udupi.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Cracks in Maha Vikas Aghadi emerge as NCP, Congress upset over Shiv Sena taking credit for farm loan waiver

OpIndia Staff -
The NCP and Congress are upset at the Shiv Sena for taking all the credit over the farmer loan waiver announced by Maharashtra govt led by Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance earlier this month.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Yogi Adityanath govt to build India’s first transgender university in Kushinagar

OpIndia Staff -
In the university, the transgender community will be able to study right from class one to PG and even do research and get PhD degree.
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News Reports

NDTV journalist defends the shameless heckling of Kerala governor Arif Mohmmad Khan by leftist historian Irfan Habib, calls Khan “opportunistic”

OpIndia Staff -
NDTV journalist Gargi Rawat brazened out the heckling of Kerala Governor, calling him an opportunistic alliance.
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Political Fact-Check

Congress releases video to show how police manhandled Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, proves it was her goons that heckled lady police officer

OpIndia Staff -
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra alleged that UP police manhandled her. However, video proves that she was spreading fake news
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News Reports

Journalists call out the bias of Editors Guild as it fumes over a Twitter poll about Rajdeep Sardesai

OpIndia Staff -
Journalists have joined the criticism against Editors Guild, accusing it of being biased
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News Reports

Not Abul Kalam Azad, quote Godse: Leftist historian Irfan Habib tries to physically heckle Kerala Guv Arif Mohammad Khan over CAA

OpIndia Staff -
As Kerala governor was countering points on CAA, Irfan Habib rose from his seat and tried to stop him
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Politics

Who is Andrea D’Souza aka ‘Ria Revealed’, the panelist in viral Times Now clip embarrassing herself

Jhankar Mohta -
Claiming to be a proud Congress member, Andria aka Ria Revealed has said that she stands by Rahul Gandhi's visions
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Media

Should Rajdeep Sardesai handle PR for ISIS: Here is how Editors Guild fuming over a Twitter poll only exposes its hypocrisy

Jinit Jain -
Editors Guild of India is infamous for exercising discretion in condemning the attack against the journalists
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News Reports

‘Aapki ungli karneki aadat gayi nai’: Vinod Kambli slams Javed Miandad for his ‘India is unsafe’ comment

OpIndia Staff -
Vinod Kambli reminds Javed Miandad that India has always provided the best security to the visiting teams
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi is back and how: After ranting against CAA, NPR and NRC, calls RSS ‘chaddi walas’ in Assam

OpIndia Staff -
Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi today launched an attack on the RSS in an anti-CAA rally in Guwahati.
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News Reports

Muslims in Bulandshahr pay over Rs 6 Lakh to the UP govt for damage caused to public property during anti-CAA riots

OpIndia Staff -
Muslims in Bulandshahr hand over cheque of Rs 6,27,507 as compensation for public property damaged by anti-CAA rioters
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News Reports

Viral video: Pakistan cricketer Shahid Afridi says he smashed his TV set when he saw his child doing ‘aarti’ while watching a show

OpIndia Staff -
Shahid Afridi revealed how he had smashed his television set at home when he saw his child enacting an 'aarti' scene
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi embarks on his deranged rant against NPR, NRC and CAA again: Here are 10 questions that he must answer

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi made an absurd comparison linking the NPR exercise to the demonetisation
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News Reports

CAA necessary to provide justice to people like Danish Kaneria facing discrimination in Pakistan: UP minister Mohsin Raza

OpIndia Staff -
Former Pakistani cricketers Danish Kaneria and Mohammad Yousuf can come to India under CAA, says UP minister Mohsin Raza
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Opinions

Dear liberals, don’t communalize a metaphor like “Go To Pakistan”

Abhishek Banerjee -
Social media has been in turmoil today over a video that supposedly shows a Meerut police officer told a group of persons to “Go to Pakistan.”
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Media Fact-Check

Anti-CAA riots: Meerut SP warns Muslim mob against shouting ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans, ‘secular’ media takes offence, peddles lies

OpIndia Staff -
UP: The SP was not telling the Muslims to go to Pakistan but warning individuals who shouted pro-Pakistan slogans
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Crime

Pakistan: Minor boy raped over 100 times and tortured by Madarsa teacher, victim rushed to hospital as blood starting oozing out of his eyes

OpIndia Staff -
The Madarsa teacher, identified as Shamsuddin sexually assaulted a 10-year-old minor boy for over a hundred times
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News Reports

Mamata Banerjee ‘swears’ there won’t be any detention camps in West Bengal: Here is how she is lying

OpIndia Staff -
West Bengal govt had decided to build two detention centres at Salt Lake and North 24 Pargama district
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