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Ruckus in parliament over Rahul Gandhi’s cheap comments over sexual crimes against women

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Launching a scathing attack on Rahul Gandhi, Rajnath Singh said people like Rahul Gandhi should not be elected to the House.
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News Reports

CAB protests: Curfew lifted for 5 hours in Dibrugarh, AASU calls for hunger strike in Guwahati

OpIndia Staff -
Following the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill and subsequent protests in the North-Eastern region, PM Narendra Modi on Thursday tried to assure people that the Citizenship Act will not hamper the spirit and interests of the region.
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News Reports

Sikh community in Kashmir agrees for demolition of 72-year-old Gurudwara to make way for National Highway

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The Gurudwara was one of four bottlenecks in the road project, most parts of which were completed in 2013. Besides the gurudwara, the three other bottlenecks were a power line, a petrol pump, and water supply lines.
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News Reports

UK elections: Labour Party that supported Pakistani narrative over 370 abrogation loses big, its chief Jeremy Corbyn resigns

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Many leaders and MPs of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party were found participating in anti-India protest marches organised by Pakistan-sponsored groups in Britain. On two occasions, such mobs had even attacked the Indian High Commission building in London.
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News Reports

Citizenship Amendment Act comes into force after President Kovind gives assent to the bill

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The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was passed by Rajya Sabha on Wednesday and by Lok Sabha on Monday.
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Government and Policy

Focus on protecting your own minorities rather than compulsively issue statements: MEA schools Imran Khan on CAB

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Pointing to Pakistan’s “draconian blasphemy laws”, MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar asked Imran Khan to pay more attention to this issue
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News Reports

From Hindu Rashtra to Nazi Germany: ‘Liberals’ continue their epic meltdown against Citizenship Amendment Bill

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Citizenship Amendment Bill was passed in the Upper House. With that ensued another round of the Great Liberal Meltdown.
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News Reports

Assam CAB protests: Angry mob sets BJP MLA Binod Hazarika’s house on fire, other property of BJP leaders vandalised

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Protests rage on in Assam for the fourth consecutive day against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019
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News Reports

Tarun Tejpal case: Bombay HC orders Mapusa court not to let defence lawyers pose irrelevant questions to the victim

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Tejpal is charged under several sections of the IPC for sexually assaulting his junior colleague inside a lift of a resort hotel in Goa during a media event in November 2013.
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Opinions

Congress allies with IUML and Shiv Sena: Lust for power dictates coalition politics now, not respect for constituent and ideology

Yogesh Attray -
The fall of one-party dominant system or what famous political scientist Rajni Kothari termed as ‘Congress System’ in the 1970s led to an era of coalition politics.
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh woman raped last year in Delhi threatened with fate ‘worse than Unnao’ if she appears in court

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This is the third such incidents reported in the last few days where the rape accused has used the Unnao incident to threaten the victim.
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News Reports

Partition imposed on minorities of Pakistan, temples, churches, gurdwaras vandalised: Here is what Modi said

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PM Modi asked the public not to be misled by the Congress, which he said had promised relief to persecuted minorities but had never done anything for them. 
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News Reports

Cancellation of the Bangladesh FM’s visit and the passage of the CAB should not be linked: Read MEA response

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The Ministry of External Affairs has refuted claims made by sections of media and clarified that cancellation of Bangladesh Foreign Minister's official trip to India is not connected to the ongoing events in India, especially Citizenship Amendment Bill.
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News Reports

5 instances in the latest Twitter rant by Imran Khan where he picked the ideas from the Congress party

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Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan continued with his nonsensical rants on Twitter on Thursday inspired by Congress
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Law

Win for Hindus as the Supreme Court dismisses all 18 petitions seeking review of the historic Ayodhya verdict

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SC was today conducting an in-chamber hearing of a bunch of review petitions filed against the Ayodhya ruling
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Crime

He holds me captive, tortures, threatens to kill: SP leader Aafaq Khan booked for sexually assaulting woman for 5 years

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Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Aafaq Khan has been booked for sexually exploiting a woman and blackmailing her.
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News Reports

Sanjiv Bhatt lied, told an imaginary ‘story’ about meeting the then Gujarat CM Modi, says Nanavati-Mehta Commission report

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The report concluded that the former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt had lied and made up stories of him attending a meeting at the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi's residence on February 27, 2002.
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News Reports

JDU to act against Prashant Kishor and Pavan Verma over their statements against Citizenship Amendment Bill: Reports

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Unhappy over the comments made by the senior leaders of the party - Prashant Kishor and Pavan Verma over the issue of party's support to the Citizenship Amendment Bill, the JDU has reportedly sent notices to both leaders
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Politics

‘Liberals’ who have suddenly discovered their love for Ahmadiyyas were silent when Asaduddin Owaisi was oppressing them

K Bhattacharjee -
The plight of Ahmadiyyas was mostly highlighted by 'Secular' people like Owaisi in opposition to Citizenship Amendment Bill
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Crime

Bhopal: Woman given triple talaq by husband, raped by ‘healer’ Anwar Khan on pretext of Halala

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Triple talaq is now a punishable offence carrying a three-year jail term. Still, numerous cases are being reported regularly.
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News Reports

‘Like a bird who has been freed from a cage’ says Hindu refugee from Majnu Ka Tila on CAB: OpIndia Exclusive

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The refugees said that they have come to India nearly a decade back with a valid visa issued by the Indian government. The refugees added that they had to leave their relatives in Pakistan and come to India because religious persecution in the Islamic nation had made their lives difficult.
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Opinions

BHU Dharma Vigyan students deserve an apology for being labelled as ‘bigots’

Abhishek Banerjee -
A few weeks ago, headlines went viral about protests at BHU against a newly appointed professor of Sanskrit who happened to be Muslim.
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Law

Indian Union Muslim League represented by Kapil Sibal move SC against Citizenship Amendment Bill, seek to declare it ‘illegal’

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The Indian Union Muslim League moved the Supreme Court to challenge the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019
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Crime

Ranchi: Lawyer who represented Richa Bharti against Quran distribution order shot dead, property dispute suspected

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Ram Pravesh Singh had represented Richa Bharti in her legal fight against the court order which had asked her to distribute the copies of Quran over a complaint against her Facebook post.
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News Reports

Asaduddin Owaisi denies persecution of Hindus and other minorities in Islamic nations in a shameful interview

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In an interview to The Logical Indian, AIMIM chief Asaddudin Owaisi denied persecution of Hindus and other minority groups in Pakistan and other neighbouring Islamic nations
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News Reports

Prime Minister Modi vows to safeguard Clause 6 of Assam Accord: Read its significance amidst CAB debate

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PM Modi assures that Clause 6 of the Assam Accord will be upheld. The BJP has been insisting that the CAB will not impact the state negatively.
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News Reports

Tihar starts preparing to hang Nirbhaya rapists, specials ropes ordered from Bihar’s jail, dummy execution done: Read details

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Arrangements for the execution of four rapists convicted in 2012 Nirbhaya case have begun at Tihar Jail
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Government and Policy

Maharashtra: Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway to be renamed after Balasaheb Thackeray, was earlier to be named after Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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The previous government, led by BJP had planned to name the Mumbai Nagpur expressway after late Atal Bihari Vajpayee and had even submitted the proposal for the same to then chief minister Devendra Fadnavis. 
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News Reports

Report claims US State Department had reprimanded Pakistan for F16 use against India: Read details

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Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman's Mig 21 Bison had shot down an F16. India had highlighted the usage of Pakistan's US-supplied F16s and AMRAM missiles against India in February this year, just after the Balakot airstrike.
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News Reports

IPS officer, who was accused of favouring Muslim candidates, resigns to protest against Govt favouring non-Muslims in CAB

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IPS officer from Maharashtra, Abdur Rahman had applied for VRS in August but is now saying he resigned to protest against Citizenship Amendment Bill
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News Reports

Citizenship Amendment Bill: Amit Shah lashes out at Congress, accuses it of singing the same tune as Pakistan PM Imran Khan

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Amit Shah blasted at Congress for inciting fear among the Muslim for Citizenship Amendment Bill
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Government and Policy

The historic Citizenship Amendment Bill passed by the Rajya Sabha with 125 Ayes and 105 Noes

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The Citizenship Amendment Bill has been passed in the Rajya Sabha after being passed in Lok Sabha yesterday
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Crime

Fatehpur gang-rape victim threatened with ‘Unnao-like’ fate by family members of accused if complaint not withdrawn

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The 16-year-old rape victim, who is being threatened with 'Unnao like' fate, was allegedly abducted and raped by four men in a village in Ghazipur
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News Reports

566 Muslims given Indian Citizenship under Modi government: Amit Shah informs Rajya Sabha during CAB debate

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Amit Shah revealed that the Modi-led govt has provided citizenship to 566 Muslims since it came to power in 2014.
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News Reports

Assam: Mobile Internet services suspended for 24 hours in certain districts as protest over CAB turn violent

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Protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) have taken an ugly turn in the Northeastern state of Assam
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Crime

Mumbai: 22-year-old man stalked via Instagram, kidnapped and raped by four men

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According to police officers from the VB Nagar police station, the four accused had stalked the 22-year-old victim on Instagram and had reached near a restaurant to approach him.
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Political History of India

Officially anti-Hindu party: How Congress is trying to blame the Islamic concept of two nations on Hindus

K Bhattacharjee -
Congress leader Kapil Sibal said in the Rajya Sabha that the Citizenship Amendment Bill will realize "Savarkar's two-nation theory".
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News Reports

Majnu Ka Tila: Hindu refugee family from Pakistan name their daughter ‘Nagrikta (Citizenship)’, father says she is ‘India’s daughter’

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Many residents of Majnu Ka Tila in the national capital said that the bill if cleared, will help them get Indian citizenship and finally bring an end to their life in exile.
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News Reports

IIT-B students support Citizenship Amendment Bill even as handful of students from leftist orgs try to protest in campus

Nupur J Sharma -
IIT B has been gripped with controversy as Leftist student groups try to protest against Citizenship Amendment Bill
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Politics

Kapil Sibal spreads lies about Savarkar and misquotes Ambedkar while trying to give clean chit to Congress on partition

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Kapil Sibal made erroneous assertions in his speech in the Rajya Sabha and misquoted Dr Ambedkar to malign Savarkar
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Politics

Ashok Gehlot says Rahul Gandhi the only leader who can counter Modi: Is Rahul camp laying groundwork to bring him back as President?

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Ashok Gehlot's statements in support of Rahul Gandhi seem to be a part of the power tussle in play within the party.
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Political History of India

Partition, Savarkar and Citizenship Amendment Bill: The lies, the conjectures and history whitewashed by Congress

Saket Suryesh -
Citizenship Amendment Bill of India is a historic decision for which PM Modi will forever be remembered as a defender of civilizational ethos
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Politics

CAB: Shiv Sena opposes voting rights for minorities from Islamic nations, says they are the ‘headmaster’ of the school BJP is studying in

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He added that the past headmasters of the school have been Balasaheb Thackeray, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee all of whom are respected by Shiv Sena.
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Social Media

Here’s why Amit Shah was right when he said Rohingyas will never be accepted in India and UNHRC cannot object

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Amit Shah made it clear that India will never accept Rohingyas in the country and said that the Rohingyas come to India through Bangladesh.
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Political History of India

The CPIM wanted citizenship rights for Bengali Hindus in 2012 before its U-Turn seven years later: Here is all you need to know

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CPIM has abandoned Bengali Hindus from Bangladesh and is opposing Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB)
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News Reports

In his quest to oppose CAB, TMC’s Derek O Brian ends up justifying CAB by giving an example of his own family: Read how

Jhankar Mohta -
Citizenship Amendment bill after passing in the Lok Sabha on December 9 has been tabled today in the Rajya Sabha
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News Reports

227 foreigners from Assam deported to their country of origin in 2019: Minister Nityanand Rai in Lok Sabha

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MoS Home Nityanand Rai responded to the question on detentions and deportations in the Zero Hour of Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
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Politics

Citizenship Amendment Bill debate: Opposition speaking the same language as Pakistan, says PM Modi

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Modi asserted that the proposed CAB will be written in “golden letters” in India's history.
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Government and Policy

Will legalise business, marriage and children of refugees staying in India: Amit Shah lists benefits under CAB

Jinit Jain -
Amit Shah tabled the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 in the upper house of the parliament today
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Government and Policy

Pakistani Hindu refugees staying across India cheer for Citizenship Bill, thank PM Modi, Amit Shah

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The proposed legislation applies to those who were forced to seek shelter in India due to persecution on the ground of religion. It aims to protect such people from proceedings of illegal migration.
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