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After being checkmated, Shiv Sena files a writ petition in SC against the swearing in of Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar

OpIndia Staff -
Shiv Sena has approached SC against the swearing-in of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar. 
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News Reports

BHU protests: Students of SVDV submit their demand to the PMO, want Firoz Khan’s appointment rescinded

OpIndia Staff -
The BHU has been grappling with protests ever since Dr. Firzo Khan was appointed to teach Hindu Theology at the Univeristy.
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Politics

BJP’s votes helped Sena win seats, we have ‘electoral and moral’ mandate to form govt in Maharashtra: RS Prasad

OpIndia Staff -
Attacking the Shiv Sena-Congress alliance, Prasad said that there was an attempt to take over the financial capital of the country through unfair means.
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News Reports

BJP and Ajit Pawar acted as Duryodhan and Shakuni of Maharashtra politics: Randeep Surjewala after being checkmated

OpIndia Staff -
Randeep Surjewala addressed a press conference on the matter as a spokesperson of the Congress party.
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News Reports

Pakistan wants to incite Khalistani terrorism through Kartarpur corridor: says PoK activist

OpIndia Staff -
The PoK activist Amjad Mirza stated that Pakistan Army has allowed the Kartarpur Corridor now because they are losing the plot in Kashmir and want to keep inciting terrorism in India.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: SBI assigns same account number to men with same names, one deposited while other withdrew thinking PM Modi sent him money

OpIndia Staff -
A delighted Hukum Singh thought that it was the work of Prime Minister Modi, who deposited money to his account regularly.
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Politics

Ajit Pawar removed as Legislative Party leader after NCP admits he went ‘rogue’ to ally with BJP

OpIndia Staff -
Ajit Pawar, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader took oath as Maharashtra's deputy CM under Devendra Fadnavis earlier today.
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News Reports

Here is the timeline of the midnight coup that led to BJP and Ajit Pawar forming the Maharashtra government

OpIndia Staff -
Until this morning, Congress, Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders probably felt they had the Maharashtra govt formation in their bag
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Congress decides MLAs will be safer in Jaipur rather than Bhopal, Shiv Sena and NCP to ship off their MLAs too

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra: Congress has decided to shift its MLAs to Madhya Pradesh till the 30th of November
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News Reports

Anti-Islam rally in Norway turns violent after SIAN leader is attacked by Muslim man for burning the Quran

OpIndia Staff -
Lars Thorsen, the leader of an organisation named Stop Islamization of Norway (SIAN) burnt a copy of the Quran while two copies of the religious text (The Holy Quran) were thrown in a trash can during the rally.
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Politics

Ajit Pawar’s decision is an act of indiscipline, no NCP worker will support alliance with BJP: Sharad Pawar

OpIndia Staff -
NCP chief Sharad Pawar also added that they cannot rule out a possibility of 'cheating by the governor'. "Ajit Pawar may have submitted 'ready-made' list of NCP MLAs," he added.
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Politics

Vindicated: Sanjay Nirupam slams Ahmed Patel, Mallikarjuna Khadge and CWC, blames senior Congress leadership

OpIndia Staff -
Sanjay Nirupam has been apprehensive about the party's proposed alliance with the Shiv Sena from the very beginning.
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Opinions

Here are the five biggest losers of the Maharashtra Tragicomedy

Editorial Desk -
The Maharashtra Tragicomedy finally appears to have come to a close today.
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News Reports

The ‘entitled prince’ Rahul Gandhi does it again, skips Winter Session of Parliament for five consecutive days

OpIndia Staff -
Five days into the Winter Session of the Parliament, Rahul Gandhi has remained absent
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News Reports

After BHU SVDV controversy, Dr Firoz Khan applies for Ayurveda Department, interview on 29th November: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Dr Firoz Khan has now applied to the Ayurveda Department of BHU
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Social Media

Liberal meltdown begins as Ajit Pawar joins hands with BJP to form government in Maharashtra

OpIndia Staff -
With BJP ditching its former alliance partner Shiv Sena to join hands with a faction from former Congress ally NCP, the meltdown of the ecosystem has already begun.
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Satire

An analysis of Maharashtra politics in the last few weeks through Sanjay Raut’s poetry

Sanghamitra -
While the entire media, political parties and the public were busy following the blurring developments of Maha politics, it was Raut's poetry that showed the true the emotions, hopes, dreams and dramas of the Shiv Sena flowing through his tweets.
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News Reports

‘Party and family split’: Whatsapp status of Supriya Sule reveals split within NCP after alliance with BJP

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra: Sharad Pawar's daughter and senior NCP leader Supriya Sule has confirmed that NCP has split in the middle of a political war
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Media

Maharashtra: Rajdeep Sardesai is accused of being frustrated, he displays frustration to prove he is not frustrated

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra politics just catapulted itself to national politics with a night-long coup and Rajdeep Sardesai is extremely unhappy
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News Reports

With Devendra Fadnavis being sworn in as CM of Maharashtra, is Shiv Sena on the path to a party split?

OpIndia Staff -
While Sanjay Raut was the motormouth making several statements disparaging BJP, all was not well in Shiv Sena.
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Politics

Maharashtra politics takes Internet by a storm as BJP joins hands with NCP to form government in the state

OpIndia Staff -
Meme war heats up as Maharashtra Politics takes a new turn as BJP joins hands with NCP to form government.
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Politics

Shiv Sena shocked: Sanjay Raut calls Ajit Pawar ‘backstabber’, says ‘woh zindagi bhar tadapte rahenge’

OpIndia Staff -
Sanjay Raut calls BJP's government formation in Maharashtra as 'andhere main paap', calls Ajit Pawar a backstabber and a thief.
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News Reports

President Rule revoked at 5.47 AM, Devendra Fadnavis, Ajit Pawar to prove majority by 30th November

OpIndia Staff -
The BJP-NCP government took charge in Maharashtra on Saturday after President Rule, imposed in the state a fortnight ago, was revoked at 5.47 am.
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Politics

Uddhav’s dream shatters even as Sanjay Raut ends up as being the biggest joke

Editorial Desk -
Raut thought he is finally victorious as Maharashtra will see a Shiv Sena chief minister with Uddhav Thackeray forming the government.
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News Reports

Did BJP manage to break NCP? Sharad Pawar says the alliance with BJP was Ajit Pawar’s ‘personal decision’. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Sharad Pawar has come out in the open to denounce the alliance between Ajit Pawar and BJP.
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News Reports

In a massive political coup, Devendra Fadnavis sworn in as Maharashtra CM, Ajit Pawar as the Deputy CM

OpIndia Staff -
It was being reported that NCP, Congress and the Shiv Sena were close to forming a government in Maharashtra
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Specials

Investigation: The lies and the nexus of foreign organisations behind vilification of Rafale deal and Electoral Bonds

K Bhattacharjee -
Foreign governments, foreign funded NGOs, a dubious Indian NGO and the Congress party are at the heart of the current controversy of Electoral Bonds.
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News Reports

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari calls Shiv Sena, NCP, Congress alliance ‘opportunistic’, predicts fall within 6 to 8 months

OpIndia Staff -
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said, that Shiv Sena claim on rotational CM was found untrue when he enquired
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News Reports

‘Go way, people like you maligned us’: JNU goons stop Dr Anand Ranganathan from entering his lab, hurl insults at the scientist

OpIndia Staff -
JNU goons stopped Dr Anand Ranganathan from entering his laboratory. In a video, they were seen being rude and indecent with the Professor
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Modi govt puts stay on Congress govt’s order to deport persecuted Hindu family back to Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
The Rajasthan CID and FRO had termed the 6 Hindus from Pakistan as a security threat to the country and its people
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Interviews

BHU researcher’s detailed interview: 26 OBC Hindus disqualified to favour Firoze Khan, corruption should be investigated

OpIndia Staff -
Dwivedi alleged that a nexus has worked in tandem to appoint Firoze Khan in the faculty. He also alleged that the main interviewers were all known to Khan and other short-listed candidates were deliberately asked questions that they could not answer.
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News Reports

SVDV BHU students end their protest temporarily, to boycott classes till admin gives answers, to meet PMO tomorrow

OpIndia Staff -
The PMO has asked for a report from the BHU administration
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Crime

Tamil Nadu: Catholic priest, who was also a school correspondent, arrested for forcing schoolgirls to watch porn

OpIndia Staff -
Catholic priest Raj forced at least five girls of the school to open lewd content on his mobile phone on multiple occasions. The affected girl students were the students of class 9.
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Crime

Wife of Kamlesh Tiwari receives death threat written in Urdu from Maharashtra, police launch probe

OpIndia Staff -
Kamlesh Tiwari wife received a sealed envelope at her residence on the afternoon of November 14
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Opinions

BJP is beginning to sputter at the state level and the party needs to urgently pay attention

Abhishek Banerjee -
There is a slight trend reversal in progress. It is not strong enough to be called blowback yet, especially with the BJP having just stormed back with 303 Lok Sabha seats. But glitches are happening. And more regularly than expected.
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News Reports

Shiv Sena will not join hands with BJP even it offers Indra’s throne: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut

OpIndia Staff -
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut has fired a fresh salvo at its former alliance partner BJP stating that Shiv Sena will not side with the BJP even if offered Lord Indra's throne.
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News Reports

As students burn VC’s effigies, Shankacharya writes to PM Modi on the BHU protests, PMO asks BHU admin for report

OpIndia Staff -
The PMO asked for a report from the BHU administration and Divisional Officer Deepak Aggarwal sent the report to the PMO despite being on a foreign tour.
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News Reports

Maharashtra’s bullet train funds to be given away as farm-loan waivers by Sena-NCP-Congress government

OpIndia Staff -
The share of Maharashtra in the cost of building the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail line will reportedly be given to farmers in the form of loan waivers.
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News Reports

If we get into it legally, you’ll also derail movement: Mahima Kukreja allegedly to Utsav Chakraborty in second part of viral audio

OpIndia Staff -
#MeToo : A second part of the alleged conversation between Mahima Kukreja, her sister and Utsav Chakraborty was released after the initial audio showed her sister allegedly threatening Utsav.
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Crime

Minor girl raped and burnt alive in Uttar Pradesh, police arrests one Zeeshan who was the girl’s neighbour

OpIndia Staff -
The accused has been arrested and an FIR was lodged on the complaint of the family members.
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Politics

Shiv Sena MLA threatens to ‘break legs’ and ‘smash their heads’ if anybody tries to poach MLAs

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier this month, Shiv Sena and the Congress had moved their MLAs away from the public eye over concerns of them being "poached" by the BJP
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Politics

Congress ‘Old Guard’ shunning Priyanka? Out of 350 invitees, only 40 tuned up

OpIndia Staff -
Out of over 350 former MPs, MLAs, MLCs and 2017 Vidhan Sabha and 2019 Lok Sabha election candidates of Congress invited, only 40 persons showed up to meet Priyanka Vadhra.
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Opinions

All Huff and No Puff: Huffington Post contradicts itself on Electoral Bonds, simply to vilify the government it so hates

sushilkedia -
Huffington Post is huffing in desperation, yet again - this time, over Electoral Bonds
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News Reports

BHU protests: While administration pressurises students to withdraw protests and media runs fake news, the students persist

OpIndia Staff -
Protests by students continued for the 16th day on the appointment of Dr Feroz Khan in the Dharma Vigyan faculty of BHU
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Crime

‘Pakistan Zindabad’ poster in Hajipur threatens bomb blasts in station and Sonepur Mela, demands release of radical Maulana

OpIndia Staff -
Security checks were initiated and metal detectors were used to scan every corner of the busy railway station. The police have also requested citizens to immediately alert the forces if they see any suspicious object or person.
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Opinions

The other side of the Fathima Latheef news story: The tragedy, the claims, the contradictions and the real injustice

Guest Author -
In the last few days, we have witnessed the unfolding of an event that is, in equal parts, tragic, destructive and perplexing. Fathima Latheef- a talented, promising 19-year-old of IIT Madras- was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her hostel room
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Politics

AAP minister says ‘no proof Ram, Krishna existed, Periyar’s ideology based on reason’, deletes tweet, claims ‘hackers did it to hurt party’

OpIndia Staff -
Commenting on the tweet of Yoga Guru Swami Ramdev Baba, AAP leader Rajendra Gautam made anti-Hindu remarks by stating that Lord Krishna and Lord Ram found no mention in history textbooks, but only in mythology.
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News Reports

London: Imran Khan gets ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ by pro-Khalistan Sikh groups in Britain for Kartarpur corridor

OpIndia Staff -
Among the speakers at the event were Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, Labour party leader Preet Kaur Gill, and Debbie Weekes-Bernard, the Deputy Mayor for Social Integration and Mobility.
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Crime

West Bengal: Two men, Bablu Milan and Prakash Das, lynched in Coochbehar over cattle smuggling suspicions

OpIndia Staff -
Two people have succumbed to their injuries in the Coochbehar district of West Bengal after they were lynched by a mob of people on the suspicion of cattle smuggling
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News Reports

Anita Anand becomes Canada’s first Hindu minister, three Sikh ministers retained in Trudeau cabinet

OpIndia Staff -
Canada: Hindu woman has been inducted as a minister as PM Justin Trudeau unveiled his new team of ministers
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