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West Bengal: Left wing protest against unemployment, pelt stones at Police, Police use water cannons, tear gas to disperse crowd

OpIndia Staff -
The youth-wing of the West Bengal Left parties planned a mega rally from Howrah to the Secretariat over the issue of employment.
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News Reports

ED suspects hawala transactions between DK Shivakumar and Congress headquarters, has documents proving link: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
The ED suspects that DK Shivakumar deposited hawala money at the All India Congress Committee office in Akbar Road in 2017. It is alleged that this money came through hawala, which was deposited in the Congress office by the associates of DK Shivkumar. 
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News Reports

‘Everyone makes mistakes,’ Union Minister Piyush Goyal on his slip of tongue crediting Einstein for discovery of gravity

OpIndia Staff -
Union Minister for Railways, Piyush Goyal today acknowledged his 'Einstein' goof up and said that it was a slip of tongue.
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Muslim man forcefully converts, then rapes and forces girl into prostitution, case registered

Guest Author -
A case was registered against the accused on the 7th of September. The victim had reportedly escaped from Azhar's captivity and had sought her sister's help to approach the police.
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News Reports

YSR Congress MLA Vundavalli Sridevi registers a complaint with NCW after TDP leaders allegedly made casteist and sexist remarks on Ganesh Chaturthi

OpIndia Staff -
On September 3, YSR Congress MLA Vundavalli Sridevi had alleged that casteist remarks and hurtful comments were used against her by some TDP leaders when she attempted to visit a Ganesh Puja pandal.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Local police refuse to register rape case due to Muharram, victim forced to approach Superintendent of Police

OpIndia Staff -
Rape victim in WB had to approach SP after local police refuse to take complaint due to Muharram
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Government and Policy

Delhi: AAP government re-introduces ‘Odd-Even rule’ in the capital for the third time

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi government led by Arvind Kejriwal on Friday has announced to reintroduce the controversial 'Odd-Even rule' in Delhi from November 4 to 15.
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Media

Cow has become cause of terror for some: Abhisar Sharma’s deranged rant on cows is also factually incorrect

OpIndia Staff -
Purveyor of fake news, Abhisar Sharma, who likes to identify himself as a 'journalist', through the propaganda website NewsClick's YouTube channel has gone on a deranged rant against cows.
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Opinions

After eating away billion dollars of US money and arms in the name of Jihad, Pakistan blames USA for making them a ‘dangerous country’

Shashank Bharadwaj -
Speaking to Russia Today, Imran Khan on Thursday blamed the USA for the current state of Pakistan and for its policies adopted during the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s and the 'War on Terror' post 9/11 terror attacks
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Government and Policy

India to grant visa to Sikhs who had left the country during the 80s’ militancy, ‘adverse list’ cut down to just 2 names

OpIndia Staff -
The government of India has directed all its missions abroad to provide appropriate visas to all categories of asylees of Indian origin in respective countries whose name does not appear in the central adverse list.
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News Reports

Zakir Naik spews hate yet again, says abrogation of Article 370 is act of war by the the BJP govt against the biggest Muslim...

OpIndia Staff -
Zakir Naik is wanted in India for serious charges related to terrorism after his name cropped in connection with a ghastly terror attack at Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka on July 2016.
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Government and Policy

India exporting bulletproof jackets to over 100 countries, 4th nation to have a national manufacturing standard

OpIndia Staff -
India has been manufacturing bulletproof jackets since long but the manufacturers did not follow a specific standard and often the quality varied as per customer demands.
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Politics

Maharashtra: Congress MLA threatens to beat up people in his constituency if he sees BJP flags

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra Congress MLA Sunil Kedar was found threatening people of his constituency that if he sees any BJP flag outside house of anyone, he will beat them to pulp.
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Entertainment

Shah Rukh Khan wishes everyone on Ganesh Visarjan, fundamentalists ask him whether he is really a Muslim

OpIndia Staff -
Film star Shah Rukh Khan was on the receiving end of abuses from Islamists after he posted pictures ahead of Ganesh Visarjan.
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News Reports

China and Pakistan only countries to raise Kashmir at UNHRC, Indian delegation meets UNHRC chief to apprise of the situation

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan has been trying its level best to convince the entire world that India indulges in Human Rights violations in Kashmir, sadly it has not been able to convince its own ministers about the same
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News Reports

Indian Army officer on UN peacekeeping mission found dead in Congo, had gone missing on Saturday while kayaking in Lake Kivu

OpIndia Staff -
Lieutenant Colonel on UN peacekeeping deputation found dead, had gone missing on Saturday
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News Reports

Chidambaram has company: AAP MLA Som Dutt to spend 6 months in Tihar for beating up and assaulting a man

OpIndia Staff -
AAP MLA Som Dutt was convicted of beating up a man during the assembly elections campaign in 2015
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News Reports

Bihar: Man cuts his own neck while swinging sword in Muharram procession, dies

OpIndia Staff -
Sayum was a part of the Muharram procession from the Thawai Mohalla where he used to swing a sword.
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Media

The Wire falls off a cliff: New article on the propaganda site claims Dalits will be next victims of ‘Shah’s lethal strategies’

K Bhattacharjee -
The Wire article desperately tries to connect the abrogation of Article 370 with the issue of reservations.
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Crime

29 years later, Bengal court acquits Lalu Alam, the man who had cracked Mamata Banerjee’s skull

OpIndia Staff -
The Alipore court acquitted the prime accused Lalu Alam stating that there is no evidence against him and no chance that witnesses would turn up in the case.
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News Reports

After The Hindu joins hands with BBC to combat fake news, its journalists spreads fake news about OpIndia

OpIndia Staff -
The Hindu journalist Vijaita Singh spreads fake news about OpIndia report
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Opinions

After being subjected to genocide, Kashmiri Pandits are being called ‘vicious’ and are the new villains for the woke-folk

kabirpandit -
Abrogation of Article 370 has unleashed the bleeding hearts both on social media and TV channels.
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Politics

After buffaloes, Samajwadi Party leader and land mafia Azam Khan now booked for stealing goats

OpIndia Staff -
Samajwadi Party senior leader Azam Khan is embroiled in over 80 criminal cases slapped on him under various offences
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News Reports

Pakistan denies second consular access to India in Kulbhushan Jadhav case

OpIndia Staff -
Hours after the first consular access, the Indian government has said that Kulbhushan Jadhav appears to be “under extreme pressure” to parrot a false narrative
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News Reports

Everyone eats the same food in Tihar: Delhi HC says no to home-cooked food for Chidambaram

OpIndia Staff -
Responding to the court's remark, senior Congress leader and Supreme Court advocate Sibal said, "My Lords, he is 74 years old."
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News Reports

NRC should be implemented all over the country, Kashmir an integral part of India: Jamiat Ulema e-Hind

OpIndia Staff -
"Our enemy(Pakistan) is trying to send a wrong message that Muslims in India are unhappy. This is not true. We are citizens of this country and we are very happy here," said Madani.
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News Reports

600-year-old stolen Nataraja idol being brought back to India, idol wing head reveals TN govt refused fund to bring it back

OpIndia Staff -
About 1200 ancient idols are believed to have been stolen from Tamil Nadu between 1992 and 2017
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Economy and Finance

The Economy has slowed down but to say there is a ‘recession’ ahead, is an exaggeration: Here is the way out

Shishu Ranjan -
The recent release of quarterly data on GDP growth rate has created panic among citizens of India and that too for the right reasons.
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Politics

Congress to draw inspiration from RSS, to get ‘preraks’ to spread the message of the party

OpIndia Staff -
After demonising RSS for almost 70 years for offering an alternative brand of politics to the country, the Congress party seems inclined to take a leaf out of RSS’ book in enacting structural reforms.
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News Reports

Hindustan Times journalist accuses the media outlet of transferring her after Capt. Amrinder Singh’s complaint

OpIndia Staff -
One of the reports by Sukhdeep from August speaks of an amendment to a bill that would have made the Punjab state government bear the tax burden of Captain Amrinder Singh's perks.
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Media

If Western ‘liberals’ can whitewash 9/11, imagine what they did to our history

Abhishek Banerjee -
One can imagine the New York Times newsroom, the eggheads sitting around, racking their brains, trying to come up with a way to mention 9/11 without any reference to Islamism. Language is a funny thing.
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News Reports

Pakistan minister admits international community trusts India on Kashmir, blames its ‘ruling elite’ for destroying country’s image

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"It is not one person's role. Everyone has played a role. Pakistan should now do a soul searching," said Brig. Ijaz Ahmed Shah, Pakistan's interior minister.
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News Reports

Meet Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, one of the most deranged men in parody country Pakistan

Shashank Bharadwaj -
Fawad Chaudhary has time and again displayed that his IQ level is beyond redemption as for more than once now he has turned out to be the favourite bunny of Indian social media activists.
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News Reports

Muslim man becomes Hindu to marry a girl, becomes Muslim again after marriage, SC asks him to file affidavit

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Muslim man converted to Hinduism to marry Hindu girl, reverts to Islam after marriage
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Media

Faulty Factchecker shuts down hate crime database possibly due to lack of funds: Consequences of a new political order?

K Bhattacharjee -
IndiaSpend’s faulty FactChecker.in, which has a track record of manipulating facts to suit their preconceived agenda, has finally decided to pull down the ‘Hate Crime Watch’ (HCW) after being exposed several times for Hinduphobia and bias.
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Opinions

Radio Holocaust: Here is how NPR normalises genocidal Hinduphobia

Vamsee K Juluri -
The problem is not simply one of reckless individual's abuse of Hindus but also one of the systemic exclusion of Hindu voices and lives from the news.
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News Reports

Kathua: Three terrorists carrying arms and ammunition in truck arrested, six AK-47 rifles recovered

OpIndia Staff -
As per initial reports, three terrorists have been arrested and six AK-47 rifles along with Rs 4.5 lakh cash have been recovered from them. 
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Government and Policy

Mumbai Metro: Trees can and should be replaced, but what happens to the cost of stalled infrastructure projects?

Anagha Paranjape-Purohit -
Mumbai Metro: Cutting a tree has gained such an emotional repulse that just the thought of it sends ripples down the power corridor, threatening to unseat governments.
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News Reports

Aviation scam: Deepak Talwar’s close aide Yasmin Kapoor arrested in 2017 FCRA violation case

OpIndia Staff -
The CBI last night arrested Yasmin Kapoor, a close aide of lobbyist Deepak Talwar in the FCRA (Foreign Contribution Regulation Act) violation case.
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News Reports

Committed to holding transparent recruitment: Railways rubbishes Ravish Kumar’s claims on RRB Group D exams

Nupur J Sharma -
In the post addressed to Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, Ravish Kumar claimed that many students have been left behind and have not ben able to fill the forms of RRB Group D exams.
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News Reports

American Indic author says missionaries yelled at her when she questioned them about forced religious conversions in Coimbatore

OpIndia Staff -
The group of people, who belonged to a Canadian Christian missionary in Canada, said to Lynn that they were on their mission to spread the good news about Jesus Christ.
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News Reports

Indian forces intercept coded messages in Pakistani anthem being used to communicate with terrorists in Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
The radio stations along the LoC are reportedly being used to play the Qaumi Tarana or the National Anthem of Pakistan with coded messages.
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Media

IndiaSpend’s faulty ‘factchecker’ shuts down its heavily biased and dubious ‘hate crime watch’

OpIndia Staff -
The 'Hate Crime Watch' had gone to the extent of giving a clean chit to Islamic terrorist who was responsible for the Pulwama terror attack.
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Opinions

As Narendra Modi’s remarks on Hinduphobia show, liberals must get used to being shown the mirror

K Bhattacharjee -
Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally in Mathura remarked upon the blatant Hinduphobia that is rife in the Liberal world.
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News Reports

‘Gilgit-Baltistan is a part of India’: Gilgit-Baltistani activist H. Sering adds insult to Pakistan’s injury

OpIndia Staff -
Gilgit-Baltistan activist adds insult to Pakistan's injury by calling the region a "part of India"
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News Reports

Kolkata: Violence erupts at BJYM’s protest over high power tariffs, party worker severely injured by police high-handedness

OpIndia Staff -
BJYM protesting against the CESC which distributes power in Kolkata and adjoining areas.
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Media

NPR producer Furkan Khan ‘resigns’ after tweets expose her Hinduphobia

OpIndia Staff -
NPR producer Furkan Khan, who uses the language used by Pulwama terrorist against Hindus, has 'resigned' from NPR.
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News Reports

New York Times blames aeroplanes while downplaying the 9/11 terror attacks, updates article after backlash on social media

OpIndia Staff -
“Airplanes took aim at the World Trade Center and brought them down”, NYT said on 18th anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks
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News Reports

Milk costlier than petrol in Pakistan, after tomatoes, milk prices through the roof

OpIndia Staff -
Recently, impoverished Pakistan had to deal with similar predicaments over the rising price of tomatoes
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News Reports

‘India did not influence our players to boycott Pakistan tour’: Sri Lanka rubbishes Pakistani Minister’s claim

OpIndia Staff -
Fernando’s statement came in response to Pakistan’s low IQ Minister Fawad Hussain Chaudhry’s claim, who fell for a prank yet again.
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