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Mathura Police debunks anti-RSS propaganda being peddled on social media claiming attack on Christians

OpIndia Staff -
The incident pertains to August 28, 2019, when a Hindu couple had tried to immolate themselves to mark their protest against police inaction on their complaint.
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Government and Policy

Endurance and courage: Tribal children from Chandrapur district scale Mt Everest in a unique initiative by Maharashtra govt

rpssingh -
Five students from Chandrapur tribal ashram school did something, which is an ultimate example of endurance, hard work, patience and above all courage - they scaled Mt Everest
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News Reports

UN faces severe cash crunch: Austerity measures in places, restricts heating and AC, stops hiring

OpIndia Staff -
The UN's cash crisis is mainly due to member nations not paying their annual assessment bills.
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Politics

Sandeep Dikshit writes letter to PC Chacko blaming him for Sheila Dikshit’s sudden demise, Sonia Gandhi refers matter to Congress panel

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit has written a letter to Delhi Congress in-charge PC Chacko blaming him for the sudden demise of Sheila Dikshit. Sandeep has also demanded an apology from Chacko, reports said.
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Politics

Desperate times? Sonia asks West Bengal Congress to campaign with the Left, laments BJP’s rise in the state

OpIndia Staff -
"Sonia Gandhiji asked us to conduct joint movements with Left Front against Trinamool Congress and BJP in the state," said WB Congress leader Abdul Mannan.
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News Reports

Watch: PM Narendra Modi goes ‘plogging’ in Mamallapuram beach and picks up trash, promotes fitness and Swachh Bharat

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi goes 'plogging': Prime Minister Modi took a leisurely walk on a Mamallapuram beach and picked up trash that was strewn on the picturesque locale.
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News Reports

Accident involving Unnao victim was not planned, finds CBI: Drops murder charges against suspended BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar

OpIndia Staff -
CBI has found that the accident involving Unnao rape victim was not planned by suspended BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar but was a result of rash and negligent driving by the truck driver
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Crime

Punjab: Ailing Sikh man made to read Kalma then thrashed by Muslim neighbour for resisting forced conversion to Islam

OpIndia Staff -
Muslim men beat up an ailing Sikh man for refusing conversion to Islam in Patiala in Punjab
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News Reports

Raj Thackeray concedes defeat, asks voters to make MNS a ‘strong and powerful’ opposition

OpIndia Staff -
MNS chief Raj Thackeray says he can't win Maharashtra elections, wants to be opposition leader
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News Reports

Mumbai: Indian Railways deploy RPF personnel to dissuade people from defecating and throwing garbage on railway tracks

OpIndia Staff -
Open defecation is an unceasing problem at a number of suburban stations and railway tracks in Mumbai
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News Reports

No locus standi: Appeal by intellectuals to surrender Ayodhya land as ‘goodwill gesture’ categorically rejected by Muslim Law Board

OpIndia Staff -
‘Indian Muslims for peace’ group had offered the suggestion to Muslim Law Board of surrendering the disputed land in Ayodhya
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News Reports

Congress comes back with farm loan waiver promise- A comprehensive report on how they fared at implementing it in Congress ruled states

OpIndia Staff -
Congress has repeatedly targeted the BJP and conflated the meaning of farm loan waiver and loan write off
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News Reports

Pakistanis join Congress in trending ‘#GoBackModi’ as Chinese President Xi Jinping visits India

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistanis and Congress join hands to criticise PM Modi and trend #GoBackModi on Twitter on the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping
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News Reports

The Prince Estate slams Donald Trump for playing Purple Rain at campaign event despite promising not to do so

OpIndia Staff -
Prince Estate released a letter from the campaign team of Donald Trump where it assured that his music will not be used
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Law

Jilting a lover, abhorrent as it may seem, not a punishable offence under IPC: Delhi High Court

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi High Court was hearing an appeal against an order of acquittal passed by an Additional Sessions Judge in a rape case.
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Opinions

‘Fascist Modi’ or ‘Over Tolerant Modi’: When Modi pardoned Muslim men for sending him threatening letters

GujaratRiots.com -
Is the Modi Government intolerant or is it too over tolerant?
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News Reports

Case filed against actress Payal Rohatgi for allegedly insulting Nehru family: Read details of what she had said about Motilal Nehru

OpIndia Staff -
Case under IT Act filed against Payal Rohatgi on a complaint by a Youth Congress leader
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News Reports

Read about Abiy Ahmed, the Ethiopian PM who just won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize

OpIndia Staff -
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed signed a peace deal with Eritrea in July last year, which ended a nearly 20-year military stalemate with its neighbouring country following their 1998-2000 border war.
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Politics

Indians protesting against PM Modi in front of Chinese President is disgraceful behavior aimed at making India look bad

Abhishek Banerjee -
#GoBackModi is not about dissent at all. It is about making India look bad. The whole of India and every Indian: from Kashmir to Kanyakumari.
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News Reports

Chinese President Xi Jinping and cartoon character Winnie the Pooh: Here’s why the fictional teddy bear was banned in China

OpIndia Staff -
President Xi Jinping does bear some uncanny resemblance to Winne the Pooh.
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Opinions

Mohan Bhagwat was right when he said ‘Lynching’ is a Western concept and here is why the Left is so outraged

Saket Suryesh -
Here is why Mohan Bhagwat was right: The term ‘Lynching’ originated in the US, during the American Revolution, and as a part of Racist, anti-negro pogrom.
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News Reports

Pakistani leaders express solidarity with infiltrators who have gathered across LoC to cross over and march toward Srinagar

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistani ministers meet JKLF separatists to express solidarity with the 'peace march' towards Srinagar
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News Reports

Desperate to escape FATF blacklisting, Pakistan arrests two leaders each from JuD and LeT in token gesture

OpIndia Staff -
The leaders of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) arrested on Thursday have been identified as Professor Zafar Iqbal, Yahya Aziz, Muhammad Ashraf and Abdul Salam.
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Politics

Controversial actor Ajaz Khan to contest Maharashtra Assembly elections as independent candidate after Owaisi’s party denied him ticket

OpIndia Staff -
Actor Ajaz Khan, who said he would choose Quran over constitution, will fight Maharashtra elections from Byculla as independent candidate
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Opinions

From ‘Devi’ to ‘Chup Chudail’: Devdutt Pattanaik’s fall from grace with obnoxious tweets involving women

K Bhattacharjee -
Devdutt Pattanaik had a good run on social media until now.
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News Reports

West Bengal: BJP worker seriously injured after being shot by TMC goons for chanting Jai Shri Ram

OpIndia Staff -
Ramprasad Mondal was shot by TMC workers near his house for chanting Jai Shri Ram during Durga Puja
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Social Media

This is nothing but lynching my right to expression: Twitter India forces journalist to delete tweet about Murshidabad murder

OpIndia Staff -
ABP News journalist Vikas Bhadauria in a tweet accused the microblogging site Twitter of 'muzzling his pen and journalistic freedom' after it forced him to delete the tweet on Murshidabad murders
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Media

Karnataka: Assembly Speaker imposes temporary ban on media coverage of proceedings, journalists protests

OpIndia Staff -
In 2014, during the Congress government, the then Speaker Kagodu Thimmappa had also proposed a ban on television cameras from broadcasting Assembly proceedings inside the house.
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Opinions

When a few Hindu boys bought Beer in ‘Islamic’ Kashmir: What it meant for this small Kashmiri Hindu township

Ashish Tickoo -
The conclusion of the meeting was that the Kashmiri Hindu is here to work but they should remember that they are being watched and not indulge in any “Un-Islamic” acts.
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News Reports

Tonk: 3 days after stone pelting on Dussehra procession, curfew relaxed for 2 hours, no internet till Sunday night

OpIndia Staff -
The curfew is expected to remain in place for another few days. Internet services in Malpura have been restricted too.
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News Reports

Rs 4.52 crore cash seized by Income Tax department following raids at Congress leader G Parameshwara’s premises

OpIndia Staff -
Income Tax department carried out raids at several locations linked to Karnataka Congress leader G Parameshwara
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News Reports

Tripura villagers detain 3 Bangladeshi soldiers allegedly trying to kidnap Indian man: Report

OpIndia Staff -
India shares over 4156 km of border with Bangladesh and Tripura shares over 800 km of it.
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Politics

‘Congress should introspect’: UP leader who once worked closely with Rahul Gandhi refuses to be Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s adviser

OpIndia Staff -
Expressing unhappiness over the selection of Ajay Kumar Lallu as Uttar Pradesh state Congress chief, Mishra refused to be the adviser to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
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News Reports

Vrushti Kothari case: Police trace location of Vrushti and Shivam to foothills of Himalayas, duo wanted to ‘escape’ their old lives

OpIndia Staff -
Vrushti Kothari and Shivam Patel had gone missing mysteriously on 1st October and were untraceable since.
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News Reports

Chinese President Xi Jinping to arrive in India for informal summit: Here is the significance of summit being held at Mamallapuram

OpIndia Staff -
Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit India for his second informal summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi since they had met in China's Wuhan in April last year.
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News Reports

8 attacks on Durga Puja and Dussehra processions in just 2 days, Durga idol vandalisation reported across India

OpIndia Staff -
Miscreants vandalise idols, break into temples during the Navratri festival
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News Reports

West Bengal: Temple purohit and BJP worker murdered while returning from Durga Puja, locals protest police inaction

OpIndia Staff -
The body of Supriyo Banerjee, a temple purohit (priest) by profession, was discovered on Thursday
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News Reports

Resurrected Pakistani Taliban surfaces, issues threat to women and children

OpIndia Staff -
After being inactive for almost 5 years, Pakistani Taliban announces its return by issuing threats
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News Reports

Congress meets anti-India, antisemite Jeremy Corbyn who supports terror groups and Islamists: All you need to know about him

K Bhattacharjee -
The United Kingdom representatives of the Indian National Congress party (INC) met with Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour party, and "discussed the human rights situation in Kashmir."
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Crime

Bihar: Stones pelted from mosque during Durga idol immersion in Jehanabad, 14 people injured

OpIndia Staff -
Meanwhile, the immersion of all Goddess Durga idols has been halted at Panchmahala in the area. District administration officials are in talks with locals to let the idols be immersed at Sangam Ghat.
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Variety

Mental Health Day: The community of Mental Health Professionals need to introspect and reconsider the prevailing dogmas

K Bhattacharjee -
The world celebrates Mental Health Day every year on the 10th of October.
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Opinions

The reason behind the repulsion of world towards Pakistan is its own paranoia

User -
Except for Turkey and China, no major global player is keen on stopping by the ideological gate of Pakistan
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Law

Tainted ex-cop Sanjiv Bhatt has ‘scant regard for the truth’, observes HC as it rejects his sentence suspension plea. Read full order

OpIndia Staff -
Gujarat HC last month rejected sentence suspension plea of disgraced ex-cop Sanjiv Bhatt.
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Crime

Gurugram: Cow smugglers shoot and injure a Gau Rakshak, break police barricades and escape

OpIndia Staff -
The cow smugglers were reportedly transporting cows from Gurugram to Mewat. The police have identified 5 of the 6 accused and have recovered the vehicle in Nuh.
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Opinions

Dear ‘Climate Activists’, I am 80 and you blame my generation, but do you know our work and the solutions we evolved?

D V Sridharan -
Let me try and tell Greta Thunberg what elders -my contemporaries- did in our past and see if she is exorcised.
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Politics

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi mocks Hindus for the Nimbu-Mirchi ritual in Nanded public meeting

OpIndia Staff -
Asaduddin Owaisi openly asked the Muslims in Nanded to shun secularism and vote for Muslim candidates in the upcoming Maharashtra state elections.
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Opinions

The NBA fiasco: The Chinese threat to the Liberal World Order and the opportunities it presents to India

K Bhattacharjee -
Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey tweeted in support of the Hong Kong protesters, China lashed out, NBA distanced itself and Morey issued a grovelling apology
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi pleads not guilty in defamation case in Surat court for saying that all Modis are thieves

OpIndia Staff -
Chief Judicial Magistrate B H Kapadia had in May issued summons to Rahul Gandhi after admitting a complaint filed by a BJP leader.
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Media

Are stories of bigot babies ‘safe’ option for media which failed to assess public mood?

Abhishek Banerjee -
There are even books out there now, with guidance on how to protect babies from communal rhetoric spewed by other babies.
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News Reports

Satellite images show that China is building car parks, commercial complexes and playgrounds over Uighur Muslim graveyards

OpIndia Staff -
China’s persecution of Uighur Muslims continues, now graveyards turned into car parks and amusement parks
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