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Aarey activist from NGO Vanashakti threatens woman with ‘dire consequences’ for a Facebook post that supported Mumbai Metro

OpIndia Staff -
A woman from Marol woman was threatened by an Aarey 'activist' from NGO Vanashakti for writing a Facebook post that supported the Mumbai Metro Construction project.
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News Reports

India receives its first ‘acceptance’ Rafale jet from Dassault Aviation in France

OpIndia Staff -
The formal hand over ceremony for the first Rafale jet is scheduled on October 8
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News Reports

15-year-old boy from Bihar duped by fake Kaun Banega Crorepati call, loses Rs 3 lakh

OpIndia Staff -
'Kaun Banega Crorepati', is a popular TV show streaming on Sony Entertainment television since the year 2000
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News Reports

Shocking CCTV footage show domestic violence allegedly by retired HC Judge, his wife and son against daughter-in-law

OpIndia Staff -
The victim of domestic violence, Sindhu Sharma had alleged that her father-in-law retired judge Nooty Ramamohana Rao, his wife and his son had been physically assaulting her for dowry
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News Reports

Shahid Afridi in denial mode, shields Pakistan’s terrorism while blaming India and IPL for cricketers refusing to tour Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
Shahid Afridi makes a ludicrous claim that IPL and Indian exerted pressure responsible for cricketers refusing to play in Pakistan
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Media

Find your spine in Mamata’s purse, Telegraph

Editorial Desk -
The Telegraph, in a report on the Battle of Jadavpur, concluded that Babul Supriyo was equally responsible for the violence despite the fact that he was a victim of unprovoked violence.
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News Reports

A day after ‘Howdy, Modi’, Imran Khan likely to meet Donald Trump in New York on the side-lines of UNGA

OpIndia Staff -
Imran Khan though being snubbed repeatedly has once again vowed to raise the Kashmir issue at the upcoming UNGA session
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News Reports

Twitter shuts down thousands of fake news accounts across the world

OpIndia Staff -
Twitter has suspended 4,258 accounts which employed fake names tweeting mostly about Yemen and Qatar.
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Politics

Padma Bhushan awardee and ex BBC Delhi chief slams Congress for alienating Hindus through its brand of ‘secularism’

OpIndia Staff -
Mark Tully, who worked as the Chief of the Delhi bureau of BBC for two decades, has come out harshly against Congress
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News Reports

Haryana: Girls from adjoining villages take a stand against eve-teasers, say none of the girls will go to school unless miscreants are rusticated

OpIndia Staff -
Girls belonging to Atta and Barota village, studying in Government senior secondary school, were being constantly harassed by eve-teasers from the Udaka village
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News Reports

Kerala: 68-year-old Christian priest from Syro Malabar Church booked for sexually assaulting three 9-year old girls

OpIndia Staff -
The crime came to light after one of the three children reported the incident to her school teacher.
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News Reports

Jadavpur University has Fallen: Bhagwa storms the Left bastion, Babul Supriyo emerges from the episode a hero

K Bhattacharjee -
In the fiasco at Jadavpur University, the moment in the episode when Babul Supriyo shines through is when he addresses the 'protesters' in front of the media.
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Politics

Congress stages protest outside the residence of FM Nirmala Sitharaman while she attends GST council meeting in Goa

OpIndia Staff -
So confounded are the Congress leaders by this decision that they decided to stage a protest outside residence of Nirmala Sitharaman while she is away for an important meeting of GST council in Goa.
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Crime

Swami Chinmayanand admits to almost every allegation levelled against him, says he’s ashamed: SIT chief

OpIndia Staff -
Swami Chinmayanand was arrested by the SIT from his Mumuksha Ashram in Shahjahanpur.
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Crime

Victim’s friend who had made ransom calls to Chinmayanand arrested, to be produced in court

OpIndia Staff -
As Chinmayanand was arrested today SIT today, a man named Sanjay Singh, with who she was found in Rajasthan, has also been arrested on charges of extortion.
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Crime

Hyderabad: NIA registers first human trafficking case, arrests three on accusation of sexually exploiting Bangladeshi women

OpIndia Staff -
The three are accused of being involved in illegal trafficking of Bangladeshi women to Hyderabad and sexually exploiting them.
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News Reports

Jadavpur University: ABVP ransacks Arts faculty Union room after Communists thrash Babul Supriyo and Agnimitra Paul

OpIndia Staff -
After Babul Supriyo heckled by communists at Jadavpur University, ABVP ransacks Arts faculty union room
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Law

Report from Jammu and Kashmir HC does not support allegations made by ‘activists’ about people not having access to HC

OpIndia Staff -
SC on Friday said it has received a report from the Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court refuting claims of some people that they were unable to access the J&K High Court.
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Economy and Finance

Biggest ever gain in Sensex and Nifty in a decade after Modi govt’s announcements slashing tax rates for corporates

OpIndia Staff -
The Sensex and Nifty saw a historic biggest gain in a single day in a decade following the announcement made by FM Nirmala Sitharaman
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News Reports

Hampi vandalized again: Tourist booked for ‘accidentally’ damaging two pillars while taking photographs

OpIndia Staff -
In July this year, the 16th-century Brindavana (samadhi) of Saint Vyasaraja Swamy, Rajaguru of Vijayanagara Emperor Krishnadevaraya was desecrated and vandalised in Anegundi near Hampi. 
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News Reports

Activist Gulalai Ismail escapes to US after being hunted for exposing how Pakistan Army rapes and enforces disappearances

OpIndia Staff -
Gulalai Ismail, since she was 16, has been speaking out about human rights abuses, focusing on the condition of women in Pakistan and girls who suffer worst forms of violence in the country. 
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Crime

Odisha: POCSO court awards death penalty to Mohammad Mustaq, who had raped and brutally killed a 6-year-old girl last year

OpIndia Staff -
This is the fourth death penalty awarded in Odisha after the central government amended the POCSO Act to include the death penalty for rapists of children under 12 years.
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Economy and Finance

Tax rates slashed for corporates, Sensex soars by 1300 points after big announcements by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

OpIndia Staff -
FM Sitharaman made these announcements while addressing the media ahead of GST council meet in Goa.
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Culture and History

Findings at Keeladi site trace back to 6th century BCE, graffiti symbols found bear resemblance to Indus Valley Civilisation

OpIndia Staff -
Cultural deposits unearthed at the Keeladi Vaigai excavation site in Tamil Nadu can be dated back to 6th century BCE, at least 3 century earlier than previously thought.
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News Reports

Rape accused BJP leader Chinmayanand arrested by SIT, taken for medical examination

OpIndia Staff -
The rape victim's father told reporters that Chinmayanand had raped his daughter after blackmailing her with the recorded videos.
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Crime

Madhya Pradesh: High profile honey-trapping network busted, Congress IT cell state coordinator involved

OpIndia Staff -
Five women, including the wife of a former Congress IT cell vice-president, have been arrested in connection with the honey-trapping case
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Politics

Fashion designer Agnimitra Paul who was accompanying Babul Supriyo heckled too, saree torn by pro-Naxal supporters in JU

OpIndia Staff -
Last night Agnimitra Paul had narrated the ordeal on how the Jadavpur University chancellor allegedly remained a mute spectator.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Police arrests two classmates in connection with the mysterious death of Hindu student Namrita Chandani

OpIndia Staff -
Two classmates of Namrita Chandani, the Hindu girl whose dead body was found mysteriously in the hostel room, have been detained by the police Pakistan
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Politics

Tulsi Gabbard welcomes Modi to the United States, apologises for not being able to attend ‘Howdy, Modi!’ event

OpIndia Staff -
Tulsi Gabbard, in her video message to PM Modi talked about how both the nations could work together to realise the idea of 'Vasudhaiva kutumbakam', the world is one family.
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News Reports

Karnataka woman receives triple talaq on WhatsApp from husband in Dubai, says ‘not accepted’ and files complaint

OpIndia Staff -
Notably, UAE is amongst the many Muslim countries which have abolished the practice of Triple Talaq or Talaq-e-biddat
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News Reports

Punjab CM Amarinder Singh likens Pakistan’s proposed service charge on Kartarpur corridor to ‘Jizya’, says against Sikh ideology

OpIndia Staff -
On September 4, India rejected Pakistan’s proposal of charging a service fee for visiting the Gurudwara
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News Reports

AAP leader Alka Lamba disqualified from Delhi Assembly on the ground of defection to Congress

OpIndia Staff -
Alka Lamba had been complaining since over a year that she is being shunned by party leadership and has been time and again saying that she would leave the party
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News Reports

‘Motormouths, please have respect for the Supreme Court’, PM Modi slams leaders for comments on Ayodhya Ram Janambhoomi issue

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi asked the blowhards and blabbermouths to keep faith in the country’s judiciary in the Ram Janmbhoomi case
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News Reports

Posters demanding ban on Digvijay Singh’s entry into temples appear in Bhopal after his slanderous remark on Hindus

OpIndia Staff -
The posters called Digvijay Singh an anti-Hindu
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Hindu Charter to organise National Conference on Equal Rights for Hindus, to seek amendment of constitution

OpIndia Staff -
A National Conference on Equal Rights for Hindus will be organized by the Hindu Charter on the 21st of September.
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News Reports

After Kannada media outrage over a joke on GI tag of ‘Mysore Pak’, its inventors to seek GI tag for the sweet

OpIndia Staff -
Dr Anand Ranganathan' Tweet on Mysore Pak steered a huge controversy, unnecessarily dragging FM Nirmala Sitharam into it.
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News Reports

Union Minister Babul Supriyo heckled, pushed by pro-Naxal activists at Jadavpur University, preventing him from entering the campus

OpIndia Staff -
Union Minister Babul Supriyo was heckled by left-wing and TMC activists at Jadavpur University in Kolkata
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News Reports

CBI searches for ex-Kolkata top cop Rajeev Kumar, files non-bailable warrant petition in court

OpIndia Staff -
Rajeev Kumar is untraceable and five teams of the CBI are conducting searches at places across Kolkata.
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Politics

Expectations soar as President Trump hints at a possible announcement to be made at ‘Howdy Modi’ event

OpIndia Staff -
A mutually beneficial commercial deal may be announced by President Trump at PM Modi on September 22 at the ‘Howdy Modi’ event
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Law

DK Shivakumar moved to Tihar jail after being discharged from RML hospital

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, DK Shivakumar was admitted to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital after the special judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar had directed the ED to take him for a check-up.
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News Reports

Read details: P Chidambaram to be lodged in Tihar till October 3rd, complains of chairs and pillows being taken away

OpIndia Staff -
P Chidambaram was sent to a 14-day judicial custody on September 5
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‘If a war is necessary to protect a woman’s honour, it must be fought’: Home Minister Amit Shah

OpIndia Staff -
Home Minister Amit Shah made the statement at the fifth International Ramayana Festival.
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Crime

CBI tells court that Unnao rape survivor faces ‘highest level of threat’, UP govt ordered to explore safe relocation options

OpIndia Staff -
The teenager has been in the hospital since July 28, when the car in which she was travelling in was hit by a truck while on the way to Raebareli.
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News Reports

16 Mosques and a Gurudwara to be used as ‘pickup points’ to gather anti-Modi protestors for ‘Howdy, Modi’ event in Houston

OpIndia Staff -
Kashmiri and Khalistani Separatist messages were seen during the rehearsal of the protests
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Opinions

Concerns of Hindus anywhere should be concern of Hindus everywhere

Abhishek Banerjee -
Namrita’s death kicked off a Twitter trend in India that lasted for about 2 hours. Then, everything was forgotten.
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News Reports

New low by Imran Khan: Says Ghotki attack on Pakistani Hindus was done to sabotage his UNGA speech

OpIndia Staff -
Hindus living in the Sindh region of Pakistan have been suffering under the atrocities of radical Islamic leaders in the local area. The Pakistan government under Imran Khan has been protective of the Islamist goons.
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News Reports

Indian Navy’s aircraft carrier INS Vikrant vandalised, hard disk, multi-function control processor stolen

OpIndia Staff -
Indian Navy's under-construction aircraft carrier INS Vikrant was vandalized at Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL).
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News Reports

Jharkhand Police reinstates murder charges in Tabrez Ansari death case

OpIndia Staff -
Tabrez Ansari died in police custody 4 days after he was thrashed by a group of man on the allegation of stealing a bike
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News Reports

Haryana government to cancel license granted to Robert Vadra’s firm Sky Light Hospitality

OpIndia Staff -
The Haryana government has decided to cancel the license given to Vadra's firm due to irregularities. The license was granted when the Congress party was in Haryana.
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Politics

Odisha: BJD’s ‘election weapon’ KALIA scheme wasted 170 crores on lakhs of ineligible beneficiaries

Sanghamitra -
Odisha's BJD government identified 3.41 lakh ineligible beneficiaries in the KALIA scheme that has ensured their 2019 election victory.
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