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Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers’ Movements welcomes India not joining RCEP, calls for withdrawal from all negotiations and FTAs

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ICCFM welcomes India's withdrawal from RCEP, calls for withdrawal from all FTAs
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News Reports

Chennai wakes up to smog, did Delhi do it? IMD says no, weather bloggers say maybe

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While weather bloggers believe that pulled air from north India is responsible for increased pollution levels in Chennai, the IMD asserts that it is impossible
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Law

SC questions the logic of odd-even rule in Delhi, asks Kejriwal government to furnish data of its actual impact

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The Supreme Court directed the Delhi Government to produce data or records to prove that the odd-even scheme has reduced pollution in Delhi by November 8, even as autos and taxis continue to ply the roads.
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Economy and Finance

How realistic is Prime Minister Modi’s target of making India a $5 trillion economy by 2024

Shashank Goyal -
India’s Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi has declared his vision of making India a $5 trillion economy by 2024.
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News Reports

Watch: The moment when terrorists threw grenade in Srinagar market which claimed one life, injured 22

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A grenade was hurled by terrorists at Maulana Azad Road market in Srinagar earlier today.
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News Reports

Hooliganism of Delhi lawyers continues, now an on-duty policeman assaulted near Saket District Court

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Yesterday, lawyers in Delhi had roughed up journalists and thrashed Delhi police personnel in two separate incidents.
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Economy and Finance

All you wanted to know about the RCEP, the trade deal forming the world’s largest economic block

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The RCEP will provide the Indian industry with a large market with low trade barriers
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Mansoori community in Kaushambi villages protest against construction at cemetery land, claim forceful occupation by land mafia

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This cemetery, which is believed to be the ancestral graveyard of the Mansoori community was allegedly forcefully occupied by the land mafias a while ago.
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Opinions

Road to Ram Janmabhoomi, Ayodhya: How Hindus fought for Shri Ram

Rahul Kaushik -
As we stand at the cusp of the Ram Janmabhoomi verdict, it is important to recall what happened 29 years back and how Hindus fought for Lord Shri Ram.
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News Reports

Ayodhya police issue circular, dismiss snooping, call recording rumours ahead of Ram Janmabhoomi verdict

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The Supreme Court is expected to pass judgment on Ayodhya land dispute before November 17.
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News Reports

We should have imposed President’s rule and protected Babri Masjid, says Madhav Godbole, Union Home Secy during Babri demolition

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Madhav Godbole, the Union Home Secretary in 1992, has labeled former Primer Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi 'The Second Karsevak'.
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Crime

Chinmayanand case: SIT recovers laptop and pen drive reportedly containing video evidence

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Swamy Chinmayanand, a former BJP leader, has been in judicial custody since his arrest on September 20. A law student had alleged that Chinmayanand had been sexually exploiting her.
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News Reports

Will beat pollution like we beat dengue: says Kejriwal even as Delhi reports 230 new dengue cases last week

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Arvind Kejriwal has claimed that his government will 'beat' air pollution in Delhi like they 'beat Dengue'.
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News Reports

Which state is responsible for turning Delhi into a gas chamber, Haryana or Punjab? This NASA image has the answer

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Delhi continues to choke as state governments play blame game over stubble burning.
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News Reports

Pakistan court acquits 3 policemen accused of custodial murder after intervention of LeT chief Hafiz Saeed

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Hafiz Saeed helps to release 3 policemen accused of custodial murder by securing the victim's family’s forgiveness
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Opinions

Images show Congress-ruled Punjab mainly responsible for stubble burning, media continues to question Haryana and Modi

Abhishek Banerjee -
The media keeps saying that Punjab, Delhi and Haryana should resolve the stubble burning issue mutually. This sounds nice and ‘neutral’ because that would mean one Chief Minister each from Congress, AAP and BJP.
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News Reports

RTI reply reveals AAP government in Delhi has not spent almost 80% of the Green Tax collected in last four years

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi government is sitting almost 80% of the green tax collected in the last four years
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Crime

Delhi: Girl murdered for wanting to end relationship, Arman, Samsad and Noman arrested, prime accused Lukman absconding

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The Delhi Police have arrested three men for allegedly killing a woman and dumping her body after stuffing it in a suitcase in Outer North Delhi's Bawana area.
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Politics

Kerala: CM Vijayan says UAPA charges against his party workers arrested over Maoist links will be scrutinised

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The Kerala police had earlier claimed that during the investigation it had solid evidence against two Communist party workers. The police had asserted that the duo had maintained contact with Maoist functionaries.
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Social Media

Columnist with Shekhar Gupta’s ThePrint bullies his way to ‘blue tick’ by accusing Twitter of being casteist, then demands the blue tick be taken...

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After bullying Twitter into giving him blue tick and accusing it of being casteist while doing so, ThePrint columnist has urged Twitter to take it back
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Shani Dev idol inside temple premises vandalised in Bulandshahr village

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According to SDM Singh, some people regularly visited the place to consume alcohol and they suspect that these intoxicated men may have vandalised the temple and desecrated the Shani Dev idol.
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News Reports

Actor-cum-cocktail politician, Swara Bhasker, refers to a four-year-old child actor as ‘chu**ya’ in a ‘comedy’ show

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When the child called her 'aunty', Swara Bhasker, in her head, called the child 'chu**ya' even as the audience in the show 'Son of Abish' erupted in laughter.
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Crime

Kerala: 91-year-old Jacobite woman denied burial as Orthodox faction refuses funeral rites by Jacobite priest

OpIndia Staff -
District collector Adeela Abdulla said that though she held discussions with both Jacobite and Orthodox factions. However, the administration said that no arbitration was possible as both the factions remained adamant on their stance. 
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Law

Read full details: CJI Ranjan Gogoi bats for NRC, slams media and ‘arm-chair commentators’ for their skewed reportage

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CJI Ranjan Gogoi said, "the NRC as it will finally emerge is not a document of the moment – 19 lakhs or 40 lakhs is not the point. It is a base document for the future – kind of a reference document to determine future claims".
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News Reports

Kamlesh Tiwari murder: Yusuf carried out recce of Kanpur on behalf of killers, sold them pistol two years back

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More links emerge with Kanpur in the Kamlesh Tiwari murder case following the arrest of the 24-year-old accused Yusuf Khan who allegedly provided the pistol to the shooters.
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Government and Policy

Indian Army to construct high-altitude airfields in Uttarakhand along China border: COAS Bipin Rawat

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General Bipin Rawat said the Army and the Air Force will give all support to the Uttarakhand government in its efforts to boost connectivity, infrastructure and telecom facilities in areas close to the border with China. 
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News Reports

Do not make defamatory remarks on deities on social media: Ayodhya DM ahead of Ram Janmabhoomi verdict

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UP administration gears up to maintain law and order ahead of Ram Janmabhoomi verdict.
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News Reports

Terror camps and terrorist training facilities setup near Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara in Pakistan: Intelligence Reports

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Intelligence alert has been received less than a week from the opening of the Kartarpur corridor for Indian pilgrims.
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Social Media

Accusing Twitter of being an agent of ‘Brahmanvad’ shows the hollowness of leftist Dalit activism

K Bhattacharjee -
Dilip Mandal has gone on to urge people to trend 'Brahmanvadi Twitter' on the social media platform.
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News Reports

Watch: Delhi lawyers spat with journalists, push and shove a woman journalist when questioned about yesterday’s scuffle with Delhi Police

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Delhi lawyers got into a verbal spat with ANI news agency journalist Aiman at St Stephen's hospital where lawyers who were injured in Tis Hazari court clashes were being treated.
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News Reports

Why stubble burning suddenly became such a huge problem in recent years around Delhi, a few reasons

OpIndia Staff -
Stubble burning has become a very grave issue causing air pollution in the last few years.
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News Reports

Quizmaster turned politician Derek O’Brien posts two graphs in 24 hours to show Bengal doing better than national average, gets both of them wrong

OpIndia Staff -
Derek O’Brien posts two wrong graphs to compare healthcare spends of India and Bengal
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News Reports

Sibling rivalry: Congress aide insinuates Rahul Gandhi is stopping Priyanka Gandhi from becoming party president

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Pankaj Shankar said that Sonia Gandhi had ruined the Congress party through her 'putra moh'.
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News Reports

Watch: Lawyers at Delhi’s Tis Hazari court take law into their own hands, beat up Delhi Policemen

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Fight between lawyers and policemen erupt in Tis Hazari court following a dispute over parking
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News Reports

Delhi reels under horrific levels of pollution, AQI levels cross 900 in some places, flights affected

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The Delhi-NCR region is suffering from an extremely high level of pollution for the past few days.
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News Reports

Don’t criticise stubble burning, hold ‘Yagna’ to please Lord Indra instead: UP Minister Sunil Bharala

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Uttar Pradesh Minister Sunil Bharala today urged people not to criticise those who are burning stubble.
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News Reports

Fact check: Viral WhatsApp message claiming terrorists are injecting people with AIDS virus is fake

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UP police deny WhatsApp message claiming that terrorists are spreading AIDS
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News Reports

Piyush Goyal slams Sonia Gandhi over her remarks on RCEP and FTAs, reminds her of UPA’s record on the issue

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Union Minister for Railways and Commerce & Industry Piyush Goyal came down heavily upon Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
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News Reports

Intelligence reports say Jaish-e-Mohammad, Lashkar planning large-scale terror attacks in winter

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The inputs also say that Pakistan-sponsored terror groups will attempt to send their cadres across the Line of Control (LoC) after October 26 - the day that Jammu and Kashmir’s erstwhile ruler signed the instrument of accession that made the former princely state a part of India.
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News Reports

Pakistan Army wants to ‘get rid’ of Imran Khan and may replace him with Bilawal Bhutto Zardari: Reports

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Another source to Sunday Guardian said that not only has Imran Khan failed to set the economy right, he has also not been able to sell to the US as well as the other Western countries Pakistan’s fake narrative of the Kashmir issue.
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Social Media

Columnist working for ‘blue tick Baniya’ Shekhar Gupta attacks Twitter for not giving blue ticks to Dalits

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The blue tick is now being referred to as 'neeli janeu' because ThePrint columnist Dilip Mondal thinks he deserves a blue tick but Twitter is casteist in not giving him one.
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News Reports

Bihar: People object to ‘Muslim community’ named as mischief makers in Chhath Puja notification, DM says, we say it as it is

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Madhepura district magistrate had issued an alert ahead of Chhath Puja, warning local administration and police against attempts made by 'mischievous elements of Muslim community' to breach communal harmony.
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News Reports

Mamata Banerjee says the Modi govt is ‘tapping her phone and getting information’, asks PM Modi to ‘take care of it’

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Mamata Banerjee who is always in a lookout for opportunities to malign PM Modi and his government
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Fact-Check

‘Meditating’ Rahul Gandhi shares same old story about Jay Shah, same old contradictions and insinuations

Nupur J Sharma -
The now-a-vacation-now-a-tweet, part-time politician took to Twitter to tweet a Caravan article that aims to cast aspersions yet again on Amit Shah's son Jay Shah.
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: One Nasir Qureshi hacks wife to death with an axe and threatens to set village on fire, gets killed by angry villagers

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Uttar Pradesh: The wife's sister and mother who rushed to her rescue were also injured in the ensuing scuffle
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News Reports

Kartarpur corridor inauguration: Navjot Singh Sidhu writes to Punjab CM and MEA seeking permission to visit Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
Navjot Singh Sidhu has received an invitation from his ‘friend’ and an ‘angel‘, Pakistan PM for the inauguration of Kartarpur Corridor on November 9
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Government and Policy

New map demarcating Union Territories Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh released by the Centre

OpIndia Staff -
The new political map of India shows the newly carved out Union Territories Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, that came into effect on October 30.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Railway Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad says gas cylinders burst after the ‘eggs exploded’ in Lahore train

OpIndia Staff -
A video of Ahmad has been doing rounds in the social media, where he blamed breakfast made of eggs as the reason by the Pakistan train disaster which killed 73 people.
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News Reports

Kerala: Alan Shuhaib and Thaha Fasal arrested for distributing pro-Maoist brochures and shouting pro-Maoist slogans

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Earlier in the week, Congress and CPI(M) had protested against Kerala police’s Thunderbolt team for neutralising 3 maoists
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Crime

2008 CRPF camp attack: 4 accused, including 2 Pakistanis sentenced to death, 2 others get jail-term

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The four LeT terrorists had attacked a CRPF camp in Rampur on January 1, 2008. 7 CRPF personnel and a civilian were killed in the attack.
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