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Lies, deceit and threat: Read how Indira and Sanjay Gandhi pulled off the Maruti scam

pranavjain -
Indira Gandhi and her government had gone out of the way to facilitate Sanjay's Maruti scam. At every stage, rules were bent, officials were threatened and coerced into catering to Sanjay Gandhi's whims.
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Media Fact-Check

From ridiculous conspiracy theories to incredulous lies: 12 lies spread by The New Yorker in its anti-Modi propaganda piece

Editorial Desk -
Dexter Filkins' report for The New Yorker requires the reader to engage in a suspension of disbelief in an attempt to malign PM Modi
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Media Fact-Check

The New Yorker lies about 2002 Gujarat riots and former Gujarat minister Haren Pandya to defame PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
The New Yorker publishes a report glorifying 'journalist' Rana Ayyub by lying blatantly about 2002 Gujarat riots.
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Politics

Food subsidy in Parliament canteen ends, MPs to now pay full price for food

OpIndia Staff -
The Northen Railway runs canteens at Parliament House, Parliament House Annexe, Parliament House Reception and Parliament House Library Building. The food at canteens inside Parliament premises is provided at lower rates to MPs, officials and visitors. 
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Media

AltNews’ Pratik Sinha helps New Yorker water down Pulwama attack, cast aspersions that Balakot airstrike was fabricated

OpIndia Staff -
Dexter Filkins was assisted by none other than the founder of AltNews, Pratik Sinha, in his efforts to malign India.
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Politics

Chidambaram violated bail conditions by claiming clear record as a minister: Prakash Javadekar

OpIndia Staff -
Chidambaram's bail condition set by the SC included that he is not to give media statements related to the case.
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Social Media

Cropped video circulated out of context to mock FM Nirmala Sitharaman over onion prices: Here is the truth

OpIndia Staff -
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday stated that her replies on the floor of the Lok Sabha are being quoted out of the context to mislead the public. 
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Rape survivor set on fire by her out-on-bail rapists in Unnao, victim suffers 90% burn

OpIndia Staff -
DS Negi, the chief medical officer of Civil Hospital in Lucknow, said that the victim has sustained 90 per cent burns.
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News Reports

Mumbai Metro: Stand-up comic Vir Das is upset people are making jokes on him while exposing his hypocrisy

OpIndia Staff -
Standup comic Vir Das is upset. Because people are making jokes on him. And this is not a joke.
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Government and Policy

Explained: How Citizenship Amendment Bill embraces the history of India

Abhishek Banerjee -
The Union Cabinet has now approved the Citizenship Amendment Bill. We can now expect the Bill to be placed before both houses of Parliament shortly.
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Politics

From Lalu to Manmohan: Here is how opposition leaders were promising bullet trains during UPA regime

OpIndia Staff -
Lalu Prasad Yadav in 2009 was very excited about Bullet Trains in 2009 and Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister had given the nod to one between Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi unfollowed 69 accounts on Twitter in a single day: What could be the possible reasons?

OpIndia Staff -
In an interesting development, Rahul Gandhi, the erstwhile President of Congress party and the 'crowned prince' of Indian politics has unfollowed 69 Twitter accounts on a single day.
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Politics

As Congress opposes CAB, here is what Manmohan Singh had said in support of the bill in 2003

OpIndia Staff -
This 2003 reply by Dr Manmohan Singh as leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha has spoken in favour of Citizenship Amendment Bill
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Politics

Trouble for Shiv Sena in Maharashtra: Party sees mass resignations after it turned ‘secular’, 400 workers quit to join BJP

OpIndia Staff -
Ramesh Nadesan, Special Executive officer of the Shiv Sena said that four hundred supporters of the party had joined BJP as they felt cheated when the Shiv Sena shook hands with corrupt and anti-Hindu parties. 
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Politics

Maharashtra: Maha Vikas Aghadi’s unholy alliance continues its vendetta as it mulls scrapping Mumbai-Pune hyperloop project

OpIndia Staff -
After putting brakes on Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train, Maharashtra government may pull the plug on Mumbai-Pune hyperloop project.
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News Reports

Islamist organisation PFI that hosted Hamid Ansari opposes Citizenship Amendment Bill, gives away PoK to Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
PFI that has in the past been embroiled in several cases of Islamic extremism has issued a press note opposing Citizenship Amendment Bill
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Social Media

Daniel Shravan’s mother says she is ashamed of her son’s comments, he should apologise to all women with folded hands

OpIndia Staff -
Daniel had written on a Facebook post that rapes happen only due to unsatisfied sexual desires of men and women 'should cooperate with their rapists' to ensure that rapists do not have to murder them afterwards.
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Politics

Former PM Dr Manmohan Singh trivialises 1984 Sikh genocide as a ‘sad event’, blames PV Narasimha Rao to shield Gandhis

OpIndia Staff -
Dr Manmohan Singh waters down 1984 anti-Sikh riots as 'sad event'.
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Politics

A day after his release from Tihar, INX scam accused former union minister P Chidambaram to address media

OpIndia Staff -
The Court has barred Chidambaram from speaking on INX Media case to the media.
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Media

Showing complete disregard for law of the land, ‘journalist’ Rana Ayyub illegally smuggles a foreign journalist in Kashmir for New Yorker article

OpIndia Staff -
Controversial journalist Rana Ayyub aided a foreign journalist for illegally entering the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir
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Government and Policy

Implementation of 7th Pay Commission increased costs for Indian Railways, explains Union Minister Piyush Goyal

OpIndia Staff -
The CAG report on Railway Finances tabled in the Parliament on Monday raised questions on the operations of the Indian Railways.
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News Reports

Former Mayor and Labour leader Neeraj Patil expresses concern over terror organisation JKLF endorsing Labour Party

OpIndia Staff -
Labour Party leader of Indian descent has expressed concern over JKLF extending support to the party in upcoming elections in UK.
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Crime

Mumbai: 60-year-old shopkeeper Abdul Hamid Ansari rapes a 6-year-old girl for days, arrested

OpIndia Staff -
The accused Abdul Hamid Bahadur Ansari reportedly lured the 6-year-old girl inside his shop on the pretext of offering chocolates and allegedly raped her.
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News Reports

629 Pakistani girls ‘sold’ as brides to Chinese men: AP news report

OpIndia Staff -
There is a growing demand for foreign brides in China owing to its draconian one-child policy that skewed the country's population with 34 million more men than women
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Cricket

Abdul Razzaq says that Bumrah is a ‘baby bowler’ and he would have dominated him

OpIndia Staff -
Former Pakistani all-rounder Abdul Razzaq called Bumrah 'baby bowler' and said he could have dominated him.
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News Reports

Tihar Jail executioner crisis: Ravi Kumar from Shimla writes to President Kovind to appoint him to hang convicts in Nirbhaya case

OpIndia Staff -
As execution date for Nirbhaya case convicts near, Tihar faced with a dilemma as they don't have a hangman.
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Specials

Navy Day: When Indian Navy ships bombed Karachi harbour and turned the tides in the 1971 Indo-Pak war

OpIndia Staff -
Every year on December 4, the Indian Navy organises a Beating Retreat ceremony at the Gateway of India in Mumbai to commemorate the audacious attack carried out by the Indian missile boats on the Pakistani Navy headquarters, Karachi on December 4, 1971.
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Crime

Chhattisgarh: ITBP constable Masudul Rahman shoots and kills 6 colleagues, injures 2 and commits suicide

OpIndia Staff -
The incident took place at around 9.30 am at an ITBP camp in the insurgency-hit Narayanpur district, around 350 km from state capital Raipur, said Inspector General of Police (Bastar range) Sundarraj P.
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Politics

Will support BJP when it comes to National Interest: NCP chief Sharad Pawar

OpIndia Staff -
NCP chief Sharad Pawar said that during the Maharashtra Assembly elections in 2014, he supported BJP because he did not want Shiv Sena and BJP to come together.
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi caught sleeping in Lok Sabha during discussion on Chinese threat to India’s security

OpIndia Staff -
Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi was seen sleeping while Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was speaking on the issue of the Chinese threat to Indian border security.
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“Mountbatten gave away India, and his wife. Cuckolded by Nehru”: Netflix’s British series The Crown tips the hat to first Prime Minister of India

OpIndia Staff -
The Crown is a historical drama that chronicles life of Queen Elizabeth from her younger days to her reign and gives a glimpse into the personal life of the royals.
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News Reports

Rajkot: Two Muslim men booked for thrashing a Dalit man for ‘daring’ to wear a Pathani suit

OpIndia Staff -
Two men have been booked for attacking a Dalit man for wearing a 'daring to wear a Pathani suit in Gandhidham town of Kutch district.
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News Reports

Citizenship Amendment Bill to be tabled this session, HM Amit Shah holds last round of meetings

OpIndia Staff -
The BJP on Tuesday has informed all its MPs to be present in the house in the coming days and said the Bill is as important as the law that abrogated controversial Article 370.
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News Reports

The story behind viral picture of Piyush Goyal running towards parliament building

OpIndia Staff -
Couple of pictures of Union Minister Piyush Goyal running towards the parliament building has gone viral.
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News Reports

Kamlesh Tiwari murder case: Maulana Kaifi Ali Rizvi who gave refuge to killers gets bail, to be released today

OpIndia Staff -
Maulana who had reportedly met Kamlesh Tiwari's murderers in Bareilly has been granted bail.
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News Reports

Chidambaram gets bail, to walk out after 106 days but can not talk to media

OpIndia Staff -
Former Union Minister P Chidambaram granted bail in the INX Media case by SC. May get released today after over 106 days in custody.
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News Reports

Cases against ‘Dalit activists’ arrested during Bhima Koregaon violence will be dropped: Uddhav Thackeray assures NCP leaders

OpIndia Staff -
52 cases were registered and 152 people were arrested for vandalism and riots in the streets during the Bhima-Koregaon violence.
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News Reports

UP: DM appeals for peace, clarifying that junior official who organised Islamic ritual at court premises has not been punished

OpIndia Staff -
Video of Maulanas reciting Quran in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya's government building had gone viral on social media.
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Government and Policy

Modi government declassifies all documents related to Netaji Subhash Bose and Azad Hind Fauj

OpIndia Staff -
A total of 304 declassified records and files have been transferred to the National Archives of India by the Prime Minister’s Office, Cabinet Secretariat, Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of External Affairs for permanent retention.
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News Reports

See you at your trial: US Senator Kamala Harris tells Donald Trump after he mocks her withdrawal of US President campaign

OpIndia Staff -
US Senator Kamala Harris has withdrawn from the race to the White House
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News Reports

Hyderabad rape and murder case: 22-year-old arrested for making vulgar comments on Facebook about the victim

OpIndia Staff -
Chavan Sriram had allegedly made obscene comments about the rape and murder victim on Facebook.
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News Reports

Filmmaker Daniel Shravan says rape victims should carry condoms and cooperate in rape to avoid their murder afterwards

OpIndia Staff -
Filmmaker Daniel Shravan advocated that "Rapes without violence" should be legalised to prevent killing the victims
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Crime

Indian Sikh girl who went missing in Kartarpur in Pakistan traced and sent back, Akali Dal leader Manjinder Sirsa cautions visitors of honeytrap

OpIndia Staff -
The Sikh girl who had gone missing after visiting Kartarpur found, Pakistan arrests 4 men
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News Reports

Swami Nithyananda sets up private island nation named Kailaasa near Ecuador, request UN to recognise it

OpIndia Staff -
Swami Nithyananda fled the country on November 20, 2019 after he was booked on allegations of rape and child abuse
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Crime

Bihar: Burnt body of girl recovered with bullet wound on head, police suspect rape

OpIndia Staff -
The post mortem report hints that the girl was raped before being shot dead and burnt by the perpetrators.
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News Reports

After years of silence, US govt finally tells Afghan allies to act against institutionalized pedophilia: Read what ‘Bacha Bazi’ is

K Bhattacharjee -
Bacha Bazi is a custom in Afghanistan and is extremely normalized. The US has, thus far, ignored the rampant pedophilia among its allies.
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News Reports

‘Security can’t be status symbol’, says home minister Amit Shah as Rajya Sabha passes SPG Amendment Bill

OpIndia Staff -
The SPG (Amendment) Bill, 2019 proposes to provide security to only the PM and immediate family
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News Reports

Bajaj sugar mills owe crores of rupees to sugarcane farmers. Is this why Rahul Bajaj ‘afraid’?

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Bajaj, in a recent media event, expressed his 'fears' to HM Amit Shah that people are afraid to criticise the government.
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Media

Are Bloomberg and Quint set to part ways after Raghav Bahl failed to get a TV license?

OpIndia Staff -
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is all set to break the news and data partnership with Quint which is run by Raghav Bahl. 
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News Reports

Ahmedabad: Congress MLA’s speeding car kills man, he claims it was his driver behind the wheels

OpIndia Staff -
The family members of the deceased alleged that Parmar's son was driving the car. However, the MLA has stated that it was his driver who was behind the wheels when the accident happened.
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