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Uttar Pradesh: With no party office in Gorakhpur, Congress party working through WhatsApp, conducts meetings in marriage halls

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Congress party has vacated its office in Gorakhpur and is running the party through social media like Whatsapp
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Media

‘Journalist’ Ravish Kumar mocks another journalist for reporting on Deepotsav, says Hindi reporters work out of helplessness

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'Journalist' Ravish Kumar took to Facebook to write a caustic post on another journalist who reported on Deepotsav
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News Reports

Was Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant hacked by North Koreans? Read about the allegations and the denial by officials

OpIndia Staff -
A cyber-security expert had said that Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant came under cyber-attack
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News Reports

Ahead of US raid that killed Baghdadi, Syrian Kurd agent stole the ISIS leader’s underwear for DNA confirmation

OpIndia Staff -
US President Donald Trump, who announced the death of the ISIS leader Baghdadi on Sunday, thanked Syrian Kurdish forces "for certain support they were able to give us", but did not elaborate.
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News Reports

Event calling abrogation of Article 370 ‘assault on Democracy and Constitutionalism’ to be held in JNU, The Wire editor joins communists as speaker

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The event against the abrogation of Article 370 at JNU is being organized by JNUSU and some professors.
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Law

Here are the 5 judgements that CJI Gogoi is set to deliver in 10 days before he retires on November 17

OpIndia Staff -
The cases being heard by the CJI touch diverse topics such as defence, religion and politics.
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News Reports

Crime Branch raids in Bengaluru: 60 illegal Bangladeshi immigrants held

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The raids have been conducted in Ramamurthynagar, Bellandur and Marathahalli areas.
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News Reports

Reports of Russian President Vladimir Putin attending Jallikattu, the bull-taming festival, in Madurai next year false: Report

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Putin likely to attend Jallikattu, the bull-taming festival, in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, next year.
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News Reports

Rent-free bungalows in VVIP zone gone with Article 370, Ghulam Nabi Azad vacates his, other former CMs to follow

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On August 5, the government of India repealed Article 370, that granted separate status to Jammu and Kashmir and subsequently legislated the bifurcation of state into two union territories.
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News Reports

West Bengal: 3 TMC members die when bombs they were making to hurl at rival TMC group detonate accidently

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3 TMC members lost their lives in a bomb blast when they were allegedly making bombs in an abandoned house
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Opinions

Sarita, Caravan, Champak and the Delhi Press: A tighly controlled wide net that peddles Hinduphobia and propaganda

Nupur J Sharma -
Delhi Press and its historic anti-Hindu rhetoric: From Caravan, Sarita to Champak
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News Reports

Walayar Rape Case: Protests erupt against Kerala government over lapses in investigation after four accused gets acquittal

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Kerala govt faces protests after accused in Walayar rape and death case of two minor girls acquitted by the court
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News Reports

Read how Abdul Sattar and Shabana Bano framed Shashikant during 2002 riots over personal dispute and ruined lives of a family

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Shashikant was widely reported as key accused in the Naroda Patiya violence that broke out in Gujarat following Sabarmati Express carnage.
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News Reports

Justice SA Bobde will be the next Chief Justice of India, to take oath on November 18

OpIndia Staff -
Justice SA Bobde will be the 47th Chief Justice of India. His term will continue until April 23, 2021.
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News Reports

London: Pakistan supported Muslim mob displays its hatred on Diwali, drags and stomps on the head of Modi effigy

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The pro-Pakistani Muslim groups were severely condemned by British-Indians and politicians for planning their protests on the occasion of Diwali to show their hatred against India.
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News Reports

Left wing violence shows decline even as Naxalites killed almost 4,000 civilians in 9 years across ten states: MHA report

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Naxalites have killed 3,749 civilians in nine years across ten states with maximum casualties reported from Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. That means, the left-wing extremists...
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Farmer commits suicide allegedly after delay in crop-loss compensation

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A farmer named Kamal Chand Gwal, Madhya Pradesh committed suicide due to ingesting poison as he was upset with the soybean crop loss. 
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News Reports

Delhi Police arrests 261 people for possessing crackers on Diwali, two arrested for having two ‘sutli bombs’

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Delhi Police arrested two people in East Delhi for possessing two sutli bombs on Diwali
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Crime

Uttarakhand: Anuj and Ishu injured in clash over Diwali firecrackers, Mehruddin, Shahnawaz, Bhura and Salim arrested

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Argument over Diwali firecrackers resulted in massive stone-pelting between the two communities
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News Reports

A day ahead of EU delegation’s visit to Kashmir, terrorists lob grenades at bus stop injuring 20 civilians

OpIndia Staff -
20 persons were injured in a grenade attack by terrorists at a bus stand in Sopore in Kashmir
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News Reports

P Chidambaram taken to AIIMS after his health deteriorated in Tihar Jail, later discharged from hospital

OpIndia Staff -
P Chidambaram has been held up in Tihar Jail since September 5 for his alleged role in facilitating the INX Media scam
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News Reports

Left goons at JNU block way of ambulance in which Dean was being taken for health checkup

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JNU Vice-Chancellor M. Jagadesh Kumar slammed the 'students' and called their conduct 'highly condemnable and outrageous'.
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News Reports

Philippine Army shows interest to buy India’s BrahMos supersonic cruise missile to increase its costal security

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While several nations have expressed interest in the BrahMos, India has yet to secure an export deal for the weapon, which was first tested in 2001
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Opinions

The Left has a new enemy: Brahmin Sambar Powder

K Bhattacharjee -
Nandini Sundar says 'Brahmin Sambar Powder' should be 'banned for promoting casteism'.
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News Reports

Tensions continue between two Christian factions over possession of church in Kerala following Supreme Court verdict

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court had handed over all churches under Malankara Church belonging to Jacobite faction to Orthodox faction
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News Reports

British media personality Katie Hopkins heckled and attacked by Pakistanis in London on Diwali

OpIndia Staff -
Katie Hopkins was shouted down at by protesting Pakistanis in London on the day of Hindu festival of Diwali
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Media

WaPo’s sympathetic headline on Baghdadi shows how frightening modern ‘liberalism’ is

Abhishek Banerjee -
Washington Post seemed to be glorifying ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi who killed himself after detonating his suicide vest during US raids.
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News Reports

28-member delegation of European Parliament meet PM Modi in Delhi ahead of visiting Jammu and Kashmir on October 29

OpIndia Staff -
Delegation of the European Parliament will interact with Jammu & Kashmir administration and civil society
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Media

The Washington Post headline on Baghdadi’s death: Another progressive step in the long march of liberalism

K Bhattacharjee -
The Washington Post headline declared Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi an 'austere religious scholar'.
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News Reports

India takes up Pakistan’s denial to use its airspace for PM Modi’s flight with International Civil Aviation Organisation

OpIndia Staff -
India complaints about Pakistan refusing overflight right to VVIP flight with International Civil Aviation Organisation
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Cricket

Cricketer Zaheer Khan gets abused by radical fundamentalists for greeting on Diwali

OpIndia Staff -
Cricketer Zaheer Khan and his wife Sagarika Ghatge were abused by Islamists for wishing on Diwali
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News Reports

‘Let us see if he is killed in reality or not’: Pakistani senator Rehman Malik says he will believe that Al-Baghdadi is dead only...

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan leader Senator Rehman Malik claimed in a tweet that he would believe Baghdadi is dead only after ISIS issues a confirmation of the same
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News Reports

Kamlesh Tiwari murder: Investigation reveals murderers in touch with 72 radicals through WhatsApp

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The police investigating the case, suspects the kingpin to be somewhere in Bareilly, from where the Delhi-based lawyer Mohammad Naved Siddiqui had been arrested on Thursday
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News Reports

Odisha: Man hacked to death over bursting of crackers on Diwali

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A group of more than 20 youths attacked Amaresh Nayak with swords over a brawl over bursting of crackers
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Entertainment

Shah Rukh Khan’s Diwali greeting invites the wrath of rabid Islamists, gets called a “False Muslim” for sporting a tilak

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Shah Rukh Khan had shared a picture of his family wishing his followers and fans a "Happy Diwali" while donning a tilak.
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News Reports

Ayodhya’s grand Deepotsav finds spot in the Guinness Book of World Records

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UP CM Yogi Adityanath, who had earlier declared the ceremony as a state event, personally supervised the arrangements for days
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Media

Washington Post glorifies ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in its obituary, changes headline after public backlash

OpIndia Staff -
Washington Post, in its obituary to ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appeared to glorify the dreaded terrorist who killed himself by detonating his suicide vest during a raid by US troops.
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News Reports

Baghdadi held strategic meetings in moving minibus packed with vegetables to avoid detection. Read how ISIS head was killed in a raid by the...

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According to the US, Baghdadi's body will be disposed of 'properly'.
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News Reports

Mumbai man says he was stopped from celebrating Diwali in his Muslim dominated society, lodges police complaint

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Vishwa Bhanu, a resident of Malad West, Mumbai, who is associated with the movie industry as an actor, wrote on Facebook today about the ordeal he suffered on the occasion of Diwali as a consequence of the intolerance of his Muslim neighbours.
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News Reports

Punjab: Case registered against newly elected Congress MLA from Phagwara for violation of model code of conduct

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Punjab: Congress MLA Dhaliwal had allegedly wrapped a scarf with the party symbol around his neck inside polling booth 184 where he cast his vote.
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Crime

ISIS chief-terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed, detonated a suicide vest during raids: Reports

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The Reuters reported that US officials have confirmed that the operation took place but did not disclose details and did not say whether it was successful.
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Crime

England: Restaurant owner stored ISIS execution videos, kept terror manual on how to become a sleeper agent

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The 41-year-old restauranteur Abdul Hussain was arrested in Torquay, England in July appeared before the court last week in connection with storing ISIS handbooks including 'How to Survive in the West' and 'Miracles in Syria'.
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News Reports

US Senator writes to India, says pedophile pastor of NGO that wanted to ‘connect with savages’ imprisoned because he is Christian

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Republican Senator Charles Ernest Grassley, who represents Iowa, has written to India accusing the authorities of jailing Pastor Faiz Rehman of 'Good News' NGO as he is a Christian.
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News Reports

Reserve Bank of India clarifies that it has not sold any gold or trading in it, refutes the ET report categorically

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Tweaking its headline a bit, the ET had falsely reported that RBI has begun to sell some of its gold again despite their own reports suggested that RBI had bought more gold rather than selling from its reserves.
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Law

Karnataka High Court reprimands woman for filing false 498A case on husband, asks her to pay Rs.25,000 for harassment

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The Karnataka High Court has reprimanded a woman and directed her to pay Rs 25,000 as a cost to her ex-husband for filing false case under 498A
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Opinions

The legacy of Tipu Sultan: Here is why Mandyam Iyengars of Karnataka observe Diwali as a day of mourning

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It was on this day more than 2 centuries ago when Tipu Sultan massacred close to 800 Mandyam Iyengar men, women and children in cold blood in the town of Melkote.
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News Reports

HD Deve Gowda asked to vacate guest accommodation in Delhi, 25 other former MPs also asked to leave their bungalows

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The Union government has asked former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda to vacate his guest accommodation at Vithal Bhai Patel House in Lutyens' Delhi.
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News Reports

Laws will have no impact, Muslims will continue to have children: AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal on Assam two-child policy

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AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal added on the Assam law that their religion (Islam) and himself personally believe that those who want to come to the world will come and no one can stop it.
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News Reports

Have other options if BJP doesn’t agree to 50-50 formula: Shiv Sena ups its ante in Maharashtra, attempts to negotiate with BJP

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The BJP won 105 seats, and Shiv Sena 56 in the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly
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News Reports

After BJP refuses to take support from Gopal Kanda, Swamy asks Congress to expel Shashi Tharoor for ‘abetting wife’s unnatural death’

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After BJP' disclosure of not accepting support of Gopal Kanda, Subramanian Swamy asked Congress to drop its loyalist MP Shashi Tharoor
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