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Christians in Indonesian province attempt to drive away Muslim tourists by having ‘pork festival’

OpIndia Staff -
Peppa Pig, the long-running British television show for children, has now become the chosen mascot in some areas to represent the fight of non-Muslim Indonesians against attempts to establish halal-based tourism.
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Politics

Muslims who voted for Modi are ‘Chhakkas’, if there were Muslims in power, we could have saved Yakub Memon: Asaduddin Owaisi in Nanded

OpIndia Staff -
Owaisi claimed that the only reason Yakum Memon could be hanged was that Muslims were not in power.
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Media

Ready to dance on dead bodies of Hindus: How Raghav Bahl’s website whitewashed Islamist attack on Durga visarjan

Nupur J Sharma -
Durga Puja Visarjan procession in Balrampur came under attack by a strong Muslim mob and The Quint is ready to dance on the dead bodies of Hindus in an attempt to whitewash the Islamist attack
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu: Man beats up wife after being accused of adultery, goes to Saudi Arabia, comes back and marries a minor

OpIndia Staff -
In her complaint, the woman said her husband returned from Saudi. While the woman was expecting a compromise from her husband, she was informed that her husband had married a 17-year-old-girl.
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News Reports

Bihar: Stones pelted on Durga Visarjan procession in Gaya when passing by Jama Masjid, police beat up the devotees in pandal

OpIndia Staff -
The videos which have gone viral on social media show stones being pelted at the Durga Visarjan procession in Gaya
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Crime

West Bengal: RSS worker, his pregnant wife, 8-year old son brutally murdered in Murshidabad, police clueless

OpIndia Staff -
As the family did not make it to the Durga puja pandal on Vijayadashami, the neighbours visited the Bandhu Pal's residence and later alerted the police.
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Social Media

Pakistan claims that it has reached a ‘verbal agreement’ with twitter to not suspend a pre-approved list of twitter accounts unilaterally

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan government has claimed that they have reached a 'verbal agreement' with micro-blogging company Twitter that the latter shall not suspend pre-approved accounts on Twitter.
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News Reports

Members of Muslim community demand a ban on Shia Waqf Board chairman Wasim Rizvi’s movie ‘Aisha- The mother of believers’

OpIndia Staff -
A protest march was carried out by agitated Muslims demanding a ban on the screening of Wasim Rizvi’s movie ‘Aisha- The mother of believers’
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News Reports

The Wire journalist Arfa Khanum Sherwani gets attacked on Twitter by Islamists for uploading Durga Puja picture

OpIndia Staff -
Dussehra greetings of Arfa Khanum did not sit well with Muslim fundamentalists who abused her
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News Reports

Displaced families from PoK and Chhamb who had moved elsewhere but settled in J&K later included in Rehabilitation Package

OpIndia Staff -
5300 migrant families from PoK and Chhamb who had left J&K but returned later included in Rehabilitation Package
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News Reports

Assam: Muslim man caught vandalising, looting and torching Lakshmi Temple in Barpeta

OpIndia Staff -
Rafiqul Ali vandalises, loots and torches Lakshmi Temple in Barpeta in Assam
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News Reports

Devotee who was a part of Durga Puja procession attacked in Balrampur alleges conspiracy and chants of ‘Pakistan Zindabad’

Nupur J Sharma -
A Durga Puja visarjan procession in the bylanes of Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh came under siege by the Muslim residents of the area. Stones were pelted, Hindus were attacked and injured, some, allegedly even with swords.
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Media

Habitual offender BBC, who had falsely claimed ‘Nationalism drives fake news’ now mocks Shastra Puja

K Bhattacharjee -
The BBC is back again with its overt display of Hinduphobia.
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Crime

Arunachal Pradesh: Idols of Maa Durga vandalized by miscreants, three people arrested so far

OpIndia Staff -
Several idols of Maa Durga were vandalized in Doimukh, Arunachal Pradesh, by miscreants.
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News Reports

Shastra Puja is old tradition and can’t be called a tamasha, but problem is Mallikarjun Kharge is an atheist: Sanjay Nirupam

OpIndia Staff -
Sanjay Nirupam hits back at own party leader Mallikarjun Kharge for criticising Rafale Shastra Puja
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Editor's picks

Maharashtra development: The result of seamless coordination between the centre and state governments

Dhaval Patel -
An example of the state government and the central government working together to fulfil the mandate they have been given by the people is seen in Maharashtra and how the state has developed
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News Reports

The Vrushti Kothari Case: A missing daughter, a mysterious email that speaks of spiritual experiences, two worried families and clueless cops

OpIndia Staff -
Vrushti Kothari (24) went missing on the 1st of October along with her friend Shivam Patel (25). Vrushti is a fashion designer who lives with her family in Ahmedabad.
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Government and Policy

Indo-Russian joint venture to soon produce 6.7 lakh AK-203 assault rifles in Amethi factory

OpIndia Staff -
A complete technology transfer with all components of the assault rifles produced in India will happen after the production of the first 1 lakh assault rifles in the Amethi factory.
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Politics

Congress’ self goal: Mallikarjun Kharge terms Rajnath Singh performing Shastra Puja of Rafale as ‘tamasha’, invokes Bofors

OpIndia Staff -
Calling Shastra Puja as a 'tamasha', Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge further said that the previous Congress government bought weapons like the Bofors guns, but no one went and brought them by showing off.
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Media

Progressives against Hinduism: Far-Left propaganda rag The Telegraph campaigns against ‘Putran Dehi’

OpIndia Staff -
The Telegraph is asking its readers to chant 'Santanan Dehi' instead of 'Putran Dehi' during Durga Puja prayers.
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Economy and Finance

Amazon, Flipkart festival sales generate Rs 19,000 crores In 6 days, expected to touch Rs 39,000 crore in October alone

OpIndia Staff -
The year-on-year (YoY) growth during the festive sale period was 30 per cent, with significant share coming from customers in tier II and III cities. 
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News Reports

Al-Qaeda India chief Asim Omar killed in Afghanistan in a joint US-Afghan operation

OpIndia Staff -
India-born head of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) was killed along with six other Al-Qaeda members
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News Reports

Alleged ‘Urban Naxal’ among 180 people condemning court ordered FIR against 49 ’eminent people’ which included a convicted Naxal

OpIndia Staff -
Over 180 'eminent personalities' have endorsed the original letter to PM Modi and condemned the charges it attracted
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi walking away was the biggest problem, Congress unlikely to win Haryana and Maharashtra elections: Congress leader Salman Khurshid

OpIndia Staff -
Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid also said the struggles of the Congress party are such that it is unlikely to win the upcoming assembly elections in Haryana and Maharashtra.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: VHP office-bearer shot dead by unknown assailants in Mandsaur

OpIndia Staff -
VHP functionary Yuvraj Singh was assassinated by three bike-borne youth while he was having tea at a tea stall in Mandsaur
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Government and Policy

From Fani, Titli, Gaja, Kerala floods to Karnataka: Here is how the Modi government has responded to natural disasters

S. Sudhir Kumar -
Every time a natural calamity strikes, the Modi government is blamed for not giving enough money for disaster relief - how true is this?
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Opinions

The Pashtuns in Pakistan continue to fight for their rights, while the military labels them as traitors

User -
The movement of Pashtuns for their rights has been brutally crushed by Pakistani military
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News Reports

Gwalior ADG’s Gita awareness campaign: Muslim murder convict in jail takes up Gita reading, believes religion unites

OpIndia Staff -
Akeel has stated that he believes that religions always teach good things. He has been reading books in jail and being a Muslim, he has been reading books on his religion. He has expressed a desire to read Gita too.
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Opinions

Rafale Shastra Puja: A new India is now confident about Hindu assertion

Abhishek Banerjee -
It’s a small gesture, but a strong assertion of identity. India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh performed Shastra Puja right before taking ownership of Rafale fighter jet. 
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News Reports

With $230 million deficit, United Nations could run out of money by October end, warns UN chief Antonio Guterres

OpIndia Staff -
The UN Secretary-General Guterres said member states of the international body have only paid 70 per cent of the total amount needed for regular budget operations in 2019.
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Crime

Rajasthan: Dussehra procession attacked with stones, curfew imposed in Tonk as Hindus demand arrest of stone pelters

OpIndia Staff -
The burning of the Ravana effigy was delayed after severe protests by the Hindu communities. Later, the police officials accompanied by some municipal workers burnt the Ravana effigy early today morning.
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Media

DNA shuts down its Mumbai and Ahmedabad print edition, takes the digital route

OpIndia Staff -
DNA has announced that it would be taking the digital route and shutting down its print version in Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
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News Reports

USA starts imposing visa bans on Chinese officials tied to mass detention of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang

OpIndia Staff -
The Donald Trump administration has started imposing Visa ban on the Chinese officials who are involved in the mass detention and repression of Uighur Muslims and other minority Muslim groups in China and especially, in Xinjiang
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News Reports

China snubs Pakistan’s rhetoric on Kashmir, urges both countries to resolve issue bilaterally

OpIndia Staff -
To make it worse for Pakistan, the Chinese Foreign Ministry made these comments in presence of visiting Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief of the Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa.
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Crime

Balrampur, UP: Stone pelting at Durga Puja Visarjan procession as music was not stopped while crossing mosque, 8 arrested

Nupur J Sharma -
In a viral video from Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh, that has sparked outrage, a procession for Durga Puja visarjan can be seen getting attacked by heavy stone-pelting
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Cricket

Rohit Sharma – Is he the right choice as a Test opener?

Ritesh -
Rohit Sharma became the first batsman in history to hit twin hundreds in the very first test as an opener.
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News Reports

China calls the video of shackled and blindfolded Uighur Muslims ‘normal’, defends repression of its Muslim population

OpIndia Staff -
China has been facing criticism from the entire world for its inhuman treatment of the Uighur Muslim population
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Media

TMC MP Nusrat Jahan gets death threats and a fatwa for celebrating Durga Puja, Rajdeep Sardesai rues hidden ‘Islamophobia’

OpIndia Staff -
Rajdeep Sardesai likened the calling out of rampant bigotry displayed by Darul Uloom Deoband cleric against TMC MP Nusrat Jahan as 'Islamophobic'
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Politics

UK Labour MP Barry Gardiner who had taken NDTV’s Nidhi Razdan to task over her Modi-hate comes out in support of revocation of Article...

OpIndia Staff -
Gardiner had in 2013 invited the then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi to address the UK house of commons. He has penned an op-ed highlighting how the abrogation of Article 370 will bring justice and equality for the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Media

The dangers of random ‘bigot-baby-secular-baby’ Goebbels propaganda being peddled by the ‘Liberals’

Nupur J Sharma -
Fake news peddler and propagandist who masquerades as a journalist, Rohini Singh, tweeted an entire thread where apparently, at a 5-year-old's birthday party, some 'little Zoya' was asked to 'go back to her country' to which she said she 'is not Pakistani'.
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Crime

Honour killing in UP: Brother Sannawar kills his 20-year old sister Shabina for marrying against her family’s wishes

OpIndia Staff -
In a horrific case of honour killing, brother Sannawar killed his 20-year-old sister Shabina for marrying against the wishes of her family
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News Reports

A year after the Amritsar train tragedy, family members of victims stage protest, demand justice from Punjab government

OpIndia Staff -
Last year on Dussehra, Jalandhar-Amritsar DMU had run over people gathered to watch celebrations, killing about 60 people and leaving scores of others injured near the Dhobi Ghat grounds.
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Crime

Rajasthan: Cow smugglers in Mewat region break past police barricade, escape after opening fire at police

OpIndia Staff -
The cattle smugglers fired at police to help their accomplices who were stuck in overturned vehicle in escaping
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News Reports

Watch: Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman flies MiG Bison aircraft during Air Force Day parade at Hindon Air Base

OpIndia Staff -
Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman flew MiG Bison in a flypast formation during the 87th Indian Air Force Day
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Politics

RSS foundation day: Here are the major takeaways from Mohan Bhagwat’s address on Vijayadashami

OpIndia Staff -
"The forces creating hurdles are yet to be defeated, there are some problems that need to be overcome and some questions that need answers," said Mohan Bhagwat.
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Entertainment

Justin Bieber shares stunning wedding pics with his wife Hailey Baldwin

OpIndia Staff -
Justin Bieber took to Instagram to share his wedding pics
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Opinions

Shashi Tharoor wants PM Modi to condemn a Court order and a citizen’s right to approach law enforcement agencies

Editorial Desk -
Shashi Tharoor has written another open letter to the Prime Minister asking him to condemn the filing of the FIR against the 'eminent personalities' on the direction of the Court, in the name of protection of 'dissent'
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Culture and History

The Mysuru Dasara: A grand celebration of traditions, heritage and glory

Shashank Bharadwaj -
As the legend goes, Vijayadashami denotes the victory of good over evil and was the day when the Goddess Chamundeshwari killed the demon Mahishasura.
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Opinions

Garga Chatterjee and the ‘Gutkha Pill’: A reaction to the rise of Hindutva in West Bengal

K Bhattacharjee -
Garga Chatterjee, a self-proclaimed 'Bengali Nationalist' and allegedly a Brain Scientist, is a peddler of the 'Gutkha Pill'.
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News Reports

Pakistani infiltrators continue their ‘sit-in’ near the LoC, determined to cross the border and march toward Srinagar

OpIndia Staff -
Thousands of Pakistanis had announced that they will infiltrate India by crossing the LoC en masse to ‘liberate Kashmir’. However, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan had warned them not to do so lest it upset the narrative Pakistan is building against India.
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