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Crime

Punjab: ISI network operating near Kartarpur corridor busted, Pakistani spy arrested

OpIndia Staff -
The accused informed the intelligence officers that his Pakistani handlers had asked him to supply some other secret information besides the Kartarpur corridor.
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Political History of India

54 years ago on this day, Pakistan killed an Indian Chief Minister because his plane was flying ‘too close’ to Indo-Pak border

OpIndia Staff -
On 19th September 1965, we were in middle of the 1965 India-Pakistan war. The then Chief Minister of Gujarat, Balwant Rai Mehta, a tall Congress leader died after the civilian aircraft he was travelling with seven others was shot down by a Pakistani airforce pilot near Indo-Pak border in the Rann of Kutch.
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News Reports

Watch: Rajnath Singh flies in Light Combat Aircraft Tejas, becomes first ever Defence Minister to fly the indigenous aircraft

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Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today flew in the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Airport in Bengaluru.
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News Reports

Watch: US Army band plays Indian National Anthem for Indian soldiers during ‘Yudh Abhyas’

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A joint military exercise between India and the US began on Friday in Washington as part of the ongoing defence co-operation between the two nations. It is being conducted at the Joint Base Lewis McChord, Washington.
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News Reports

American Airlines mechanic who had sabotaged Miami plane had ISIS material, wanted to harm non-Muslims

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The prosecutors said Alani was an Iraqi born naturalized US citizen, had made statements wishing Allah would use "divine powers" to harm non-Muslims.
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News Reports

Justin Trudeau says sorry for racist ‘brownface’ makeup and turban, says he is sometimes too “enthusiastic” about costumes

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who started his reelection campaign for upcoming polls in Canada on September 11, wore a racist 'brownface' make up at a party in the private school he worked at as a teacher back in 2001.
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Opinions

E-cigarettes: What are they, why they were banned, and why it is difficult to ban traditional cigarettes

Raju Das -
Ban on e-cigarette is a welcome decision, but government will have a tough time explaining not banning cigarettes
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News Reports

Watch: MoS Defence and Ayush Minister Shripad Naik sing and jump into the river for Ganesh visarjan

OpIndia Staff -
MoS Defence and AYUSH Shripad Naik was captured in videos singing religious songs and immersing Ganesh idol in his village Adpai in Goa
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News Reports

Home Minister Amit Shah slams those indulging in language politics, says ‘never asked for imposing Hindi over other regional languages’

OpIndia Staff -
Amit Shah' statement was, however, distorted and used to stir controversy
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu police detains a Muslim man loitering around a dargah disguised as a Hindu saint

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Last month Tamil Nadu was put on high alert following intel that members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba had infiltrated into the state
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Economy and Finance

Verdict in 2G and coal allocation reasons: Senior advocate Harish Salve holds SC responsible for current slowdown

OpIndia Staff -
Eminent lawyer Harish Salve believes SC’s decision of blanket cancellation of licenses in 2G spectrum case and Coal allocation had triggered the economic slowdown
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News Reports

Farm loan waiver not possible, Rahul Gandhi should not have promised it: Digvijay Singh’s brother Lakshman Singh

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Kamal Nath had also earlier conceded that Congress' ex-president's promise was nothing but a sham
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News Reports

Go back to Southall slum: Hijabi woman goes on a racist rant at an Indian co-passenger in a over-crowded London bound bus

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A Hijabi woman is seen launching a racist attack on an Indian co-passenger travelling in a crowded 195 bus from Romney Highway in Brentford, West London
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News Reports

Aligarh: Muslim family beaten up by unidentified men at railway station, AMU gives the incident communal colour

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Though AMU has termed the incident a case of communal violence, the Aligarh police have not confirmed any such angle yet
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Law

‘Methodology perfunctory, at the best, only an opinion,’ SC junks report by ‘Eminent Historians’ on Ram Janmabhoomi

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Rajeev Dhavan, arguing for the Sunni Waqf Board, presented the report in the Court as material in favour of Babri Masjid in the ongoing day-to-day hearings in the Ayodhya Dispute.
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News Reports

Cigarette stocks rally about 5.5 per cent after cabinet’s decision to ban e-cigarettes

OpIndia Staff -
The Cabinet on Wednesday approved an ordinance making the production, import, distribution and sale of electronic cigarettes a cognizable offence.
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Opinions

On the third anniversary of the Uri attack, it is important that we place it in its proper civilizational context

K Bhattacharjee -
On the 18th of September, 2016, terrorists sponsored by Pakistan would attack an Indian Army Brigade Headquarters in Uri which would lead India and Pakistan down a path that leads us to where we are today.
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News Reports

Pakistani parliament rocked by one Hindu lawmaker exposing the brutalities heaped against Hindus in the Islamic state

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A Pakistani Hindu girl Namrita Chandani, a BDS student was found dead under suspicious circumstances in Chandika Medical College Hostel, Larkana.
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Media

Two articles, one dangerous agenda: Shekhar Gupta led The Print furthers the ‘righteous Jihad’ narrative

Saket Suryesh -
Chitralekha Zutshi begins her article in The Print in a sombre and sad tone, stating Kashmiriyat is dead, while Zainab Sikander lamented the loss of voice of Muslims because of Jinnah
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Opinions

Sharad Pawar faces existential crisis ahead of Maharashtra elections as NCP leaders make a beeline for BJP and Shiv Sena

mandarsawant -
Sharad Pawar is in for more tough times in the coming years
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Social Media

Pakistan’s fake news gang busted, Twitter suspends 50 fake handles impersonating top Indian Army personnel

OpIndia Staff -
These accounts were created in the name of senior Army officers including Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat and Northern Army Commander Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh to peddle Pakistan's manufactured lies about Kashmir.
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News Reports

In a big setback to China, its ‘Belt and Road’ project dropped from UNSC resolution on Afghanistan

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The resolutions passed in earlier years, the Belt and Road project was mentioned
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Politics

Criminal defamation case filed against Congress’ Digvijay Singh for accusing Bajrang Dal and BJP of taking money from ISI

OpIndia Staff -
The court will consider the matter on 9th October.
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Government and Policy

Uttarakhand to make Sanskrit a mandatory subject in all schools from class 3 to 8

OpIndia Staff -
Sanskrit is the second official language of the state and according to the government, the step will help promote the language's popularity.
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News Reports

Terrorists did not land from the moon, they came from Pakistan, we should support India: European Conservatives and Reformists

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Ryszard Czarnecki of the ECR hailed India as the greatest democracy, said that terrorists in India didn’t land from the moon but from Pakistan
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News Reports

Photographs of PoK monuments displayed at ‘National Unity through Monuments’ exhibition organised on PM Modi’s 69th birthday

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The photographs of the Shankracharya temple overlooking the Dal lake in Kashmir, the Raghunath Temple built by the first Dogra ruler Maharaja Ghulab Singh in 1835, now in PoK were displayed in the exhibition.
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Media

Sun TV fined Rs 2.5 lakh for telecasting a violent rape sequence in its prime time serial Kalyana Veedu

OpIndia Staff -
Sun TV and producers, Thiru Pictures in the hearing which was held last month, defended the serial and argued that they had taken precautions to make sure that the dialogues were not vulgar and obscene.
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News Reports

Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s advisor Firdaus Ashiq Awan caught sharing stage with US-designated terrorist Fazlur Rehman

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Pakistani leaders share the stage with HuM founder and terrorist Fazlur Rehman Khalil weeks before FATF's assessment of the action plan implemented by Pakistan, failing which it fears blacklisting
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Social Media

Digital Marketing company that used to pay Professional Congress troll says he won’t be assigning any ‘work’ to the ‘low-level influencer’

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‘Professional Congress’ member, Andria D’souza, found herself in an embarrassing situation after it was revealed that she charges Rs 500 for tweeting promotional tweets.
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News Reports

Kejriwal Govt has not approved request to prosecute Kanhaiya Kumar yet, Delhi Police tells Court

OpIndia Staff -
The request is still pending before the Home Ministry of the Delhi government, the police informed the Court.
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News Reports

Delhi HC transfers Aircel-Maxis and 2G cases from Judge OP Saini’s court to Judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar’s court

OpIndia Staff -
Judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar will hear Aircel-Maxis and 2G cases along with INX-Media case the court is already hearing
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Economy and Finance

China’s industrial production growth at lowest in 17.5 years amidst trade war woes

OpIndia Staff -
China is set to reduce some key interest rates soon to prevent a sharper slump in activities. The interest cuts, if they happen, will be for the first time in over 3 years.
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Entertainment

Bollywood singers Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Kumar Sanu asked to cancel event organised by Pakistani national in the US

OpIndia Staff -
The Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) has written to singers Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik and Kumar Sanu to delink themselves from participating in an event organised by a Pakistani national.
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Politics

After Congress steals all BSP MLAs in Rajasthan, Mayawati accuses Congress of strengthening ‘communal forces’

OpIndia Staff -
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati today took to Twitter to accuse Congress of encouraging 'communal forces' within the country by weakening the voices which are speaking out against the said 'communal forces'.
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News Reports

After London, pro-Khalistan outfits and Pakistanis plan to disrupt PM Modi mega event ‘Howdy Modi’ in Houston

OpIndia Staff -
Khalistani supporters in the USA, joining hands with Pakistan ISI, are now planning to protest against the 'Howdy, Modi' event on September 22.
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Law

Ram Mandir Case: Chief Justice Gogoi instructs petitioners to finish their argument by October 18, early decision expected

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court of India on Wednesday ordered the completion of all arguments related to the case by October 18. 
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Media

Tulsi Gabbard punctures fake news spread by ‘journalist’ Rana Ayyub and others about Howdy Modi event

OpIndia Staff -
The US Presidential candidate for 2020, Tulsi Gabbard, today took to Twitter to call out the lies being spread by a shady organisation 'Organisation for minorities in India (OFMI)'
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Crime

Kidnapping of a minor Hindu girl in a village near Agra triggers violence, shops torched

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About 15 shops in a street were torched by a mob late in the evening. In retaliation, the people from the opposite side also reportedly attacked the houses and families of the former community. 
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News Reports

Italy: Man screaming “Allahu Akbar” stabs soldier, investigation has been launched to determine if attack was terror-related

OpIndia Staff -
It is no secret that the Islamic terror groups are now resorting to such 'Lone wolf' attacks in western societies, which they refer to as a 'far-enemy'.
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Social Media

Twitter account of Kolkata girl hacked hours after PM Modi followed her among others

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Embarrassed that Indians got their goat (figuratively, not literally) for having Ch Fawad Hussain as a minister, Pakistani hackers hacked into Bose's account to embarrass PM Modi and Twitter user @pokershash
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News Reports

Delhi court sends Congress leader DK Shivkumar in judicial custody till October 1, to be shifted to Tihar once medical condition improves

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Karnataka Congress MLA DK Shivakumar was arrested by ED for 'not cooperating’
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News Reports

Days after international shooter Vartika Singh’s squabble with Ayodhya litigant Iqbal Ansari, case to be registered against him

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Days after international shooter Vartika Singh's squabble with Ayodhya litigant Iqbal Ansari, case to be registered against him
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News Reports

Muslim student in Pakistan confesses he cooked up blasphemy charges against Hindu principal which led to violence on Hindus

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Muslim mob unleashed violence against Hindu's in Ghotki, Pakistan, following the Muslim students false complaint against his Hindu principal
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News Reports

PoK is part of India and one day we will have physical jurisdiction over it: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar

OpIndia Staff -
EAM S Jaishankar stated that Pakistan occupied Kashmir will one day be under India’s jurisdiction
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News Reports

West Bengal: BJP to organise Pind Daan for 80 party workers who fell prey to TMC’s wrath

OpIndia Staff -
TMC has not been able to assimilate the glissade and has been unleashing atrocities on BJP karyakartas in Bengal, taking the toll to 82
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News Reports

‘We want Zakir Naik back’, Foreign Minister rebuts Malaysian PM’s claim that Modi didn’t request the radical Islamic preacher’s extradition

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The Malaysian PM had stoked a controversy on Monday by claiming that Modi did not request him to hand over Radical Islamic preacher Zakir Naik
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News Reports

Shivraj Chauhan slams MP govt for sending electricity bills to flood victims, demands faster relief and compensation

OpIndia Staff -
Shivraj Singh Chauhan visited the flood-affected regions in Madhya Pradesh and assured the victims that he will fight for adequate compensation for them.
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Opinions

The Rebel and The King: The similarities and fundamental differences between Narendra Modi and Donald Trump

K Bhattacharjee -
All the similarities and fundamental differences between Donald Trump and Narendra Modi can be summed up under the paradigm of The Rebel and The King.
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Politics

BJP to return to power in 2022 in Uttar Pradesh: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath

OpIndia Staff -
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in an interview with Dainik Jagran said that the BJP will return to power in the state in 2022.
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Crime

Chennai: Corporation official heckled and thrashed by MDMK cadres for trying to remove banners welcoming Vaiko

OpIndia Staff -
The public in Chennai outraged against illegal banners and flex hoardings after an illegal hoarding recently claimed the life of a 23-year-old techie in Chennai.
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