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After Pakistan quotes Rahul Gandhi at UN to peddle its agenda, Rahul does a U-turn on Kashmir issue

OpIndia Staff -
After India's decision to strip Article 370 and bifurcate the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two separate UTs, Pakistan had repeatedly used the statements of Congress leaders to further its anti-India narrative.
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News Reports

Pakistan writes to the UN again, takes Rahul Gandhi quotes, Kavita Krishnan’s ‘fact-finding mission’ as base for anti-India propaganda

OpIndia Staff -
Shireen Mazari is the same person who wrote to the UNICEF and whined to remove Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra as goodwill ambassador in wake of her 'Jai Hind' tweet after the Balakot Air Strikes.
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News Reports

Shah Faesal detained under court order, he was travelling to USA on tourist visa, didn’t have student visa: J&K govt tells court

OpIndia Staff -
J&K govt told Delhi HC that Shah Faesal’s detention is not unauthorised
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News Reports

Pakistani Twitter handle issues ‘beheading’ threat to India Today journalist Nida Ahmad for supporting abrogation of Article 370

OpIndia Staff -
Nida Ahmad filed a case in the Sector-20 police station after receiving threats on Twitter
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News Reports

Pakistani federal minister says PM Imran Khan is considering complete closure of Pakistani airspace to India and land routes to Afghanistan

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan PM is considering the closure of its airspace to India, and land routes for India-Afghanistan trade
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News Reports

If China breached the “grey zone” at the border 100 times, we did it 200 times: Indian Army Vice Chief designate Lt Gen M...

OpIndia Staff -
India Army’s strong position during the Doklam standoff indicated that Indian Armed forces are no pushovers
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Opinions

The Global Ummah speaketh on Kashmir: US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, her sketchy past, and her Islamist views

K Bhattacharjee -
Controversial US Congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, has spoken out on Kashmir this time.
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News Reports

No, Rahul Gandhi, the govt is not ‘stealing RBI money’: Here are the facts

OpIndia Staff -
The RBI act, 1934, mandates the central bank to transfer surplus amount it profited to the centre
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Opinions

A turning point for The Lancet: The medical journal is using Healthcare as an instrument of politics

Dr Satish P -
Very interestingly, both these publications in British Journals came barely hours after related events in the UN Security Council on August 16th.
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Politics

Bilawal Bhutto rants how under Imran Khan Pakistan, which once wanted to claim Srinagar, now struggles to ‘keep Muzaffarabad’

Nirwa Mehta -
Bilawal Bhutto takes on Imran Khan, but the joke is still on both of them.
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Media

Mumbai: Israeli consulate organises discussion on ‘Zionism and Hindutva’, the left has a meltdown

K Bhattacharjee -
The event was attended by Rajya Sabha MP from the BJP, Subramanian Swamy.
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News Reports

Supreme Court grants P Chidambaram interim protection from arrest by ED till Wednesday

OpIndia Staff -
Abhishek Singhvi also alleged that the Delhi high court judge, who declined the senior Congress leader’s anticipatory bail plea, was biased.
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News Reports

The Wire to face trial in defamation case filed by Jay Shah, withdraws plea filed in SC to quash the case

OpIndia Staff -
The Wire and Rohini Singh decides to face trial in a defamation case filed by Amit Shah's son Jay Shah
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Law

P Chidambaram has properties spread across 12 countries: ED to court

OpIndia Staff -
According to the charges made against P Chidambaram by CBI and ED, he had granted illegal FIPB approval to six companies in return for kickbacks.
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Politics

Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in Delhi to be renamed ‘Arun Jaitley Stadium’, ground will continue to be named Feroz Shah Kotla

OpIndia Staff -
Former Union Minister served as the President of DDCA from 1999 to 2013.
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Opinions

India’s strategic conundrum and Balochistan

jnbaloch -
The new geopolitical reality demands a new strategy from Indian political and military elite. The strategy needs to be a pro-active and mere reaction against Pakistani actions will not protect Indian national interests.
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Social Media Fact-Check

Fact check: No, the rich Saudi man did not accidentally buy two Airbus A350s for his son

OpIndia Staff -
Numerous people on social media shared the article of rich Saudi businessman buying two Airbus A350s for his son believing it to be true.
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Opinions

After Article 370, we need a surgical strike against leftist terrorism, a scourge that has gone on for far too long

Abhishek Banerjee -
The scourge of left-wing terrorism somehow still manages to fly slightly under the radar of our national consciousness.
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Politics

Kerala Congress president M Ramachandran to seek explanation from Shashi Tharoor for his pro-Modi remarks

OpIndia Staff -
Shashi Tharoor had come out in support of Congress leader Jairam Ramesh’s statement that PM Modi shouldn’t be demonised blindly.
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Opinions

Maridhas and the DMK: A Tamil David against the Dravidian Goliath

Suren -
Young Tamils of today need no introduction to the Youtube channel Maridhas Answers. A young gentleman, in impeccable simple Tamil, uses calm argumentation, facts and logic to demolish the prevailing narrative in Tamil Nadu
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News Reports

Kargil war hero fakes email to get a chance to fly the aircraft of Home Minister Amit Shah, BSF begins probe

OpIndia Staff -
Retired IAF pilot impersonates senior to get chance to fly L&T flight to clock flying hours so that he can fly BSF's Embraer used by Amit Shah
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News Reports

ISI-backed JeM cadres training Rohingya Muslims to carry out terror attacks in India, reveals BSF

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan's ISI and JeM have planned to lure and indoctrinate Rohingya Muslims housed in Bangladesh's Cox Bazar
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News Reports

Parody country Pakistan’s politician gets fooled again, this time Fawad Hussain falls prey to the Indian right-wing meme team

OpIndia Staff -
Ironically, Fawad Hussain is the Minister for Science & Technology of Pakistan.
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News Reports

Hyderabad man joins ISIS, takes wife and children to Syria on the pretext of a vacation and gets killed; wife and four children stranded

OpIndia Staff -
The wife and four kids of a Hyderabad based ISIS terrorist have reportedly been stuck at a rescue camp in war-torn Syria and want to return home after her husband was killed during an airstrike
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News Reports

Tickets to ‘Howdy, Modi’ community event in Houston sold out, over 50,000 people register

OpIndia Staff -
The Howdy event will be Prime Minister Modi's third major address to the Indian-American community after he became PM in 2014 and the first after his re-election in May.
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Law

Blot on Muslims for being beaten up, get the pistol, I will take care of rest: Haryana judge Fakhruddin incites Muslims to shoot Hindu...

OpIndia Staff -
The copy of the letter has been sent to the CJI, Union law minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Chairman of Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana and to the Chairman of Bar Council India
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Cricket

Facts and Figure about Sir Don Bradman on his birthday

Ritesh -
On Sir Don Bradman's 111st birth anniversary, remembering his days as cricketing legend.
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Politics

Tamil Nadu: DMK files police complaint against pro-Modi blogger Maridhas over DMK’s stand on abrogation of Article 370

OpIndia Staff -
The DMK says that Maridhas has made the above statements due to its critical stand on abrogation of Article 370.
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News Reports

Terrorists abduct and kill two civilians in Tral, Pakistan continues ceasefire violations along the LoC

OpIndia Staff -
2 Bhakerwals were abducted from the Tral region yesterday. The bullet-ridden body of one Abdul Qadeer Kohli was found today while the other person named Manzoor Ahmed remains missing.
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Politics

Amazon Fire: DYFI ‘protests’ against Brazilian government in front of closed embassy, trolled on social media

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, DYFI was also trolled on social media for 'protesting' against the abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir in front of the Malappuram post office.
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News Reports

Kerala: Orthodox-Jacobite Church fight over burial ritual, family donates body to Ayurveda medical college

OpIndia Staff -
The family, which didn't want to part of the fight decided to donate the body to Ayurveda medical college instead. 
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Politics

Karnataka: Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa orders probe against irregularities in Indira Canteen and Nagarothana scheme

OpIndia Staff -
Chief Minister Yediyurappa on Monday, directed Karnataka Additional Chief Secretary of Urban Development Department, BH Anil Kumar, to initiate a probe into the matter.
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Politics

Delhi’s AAP government promised 30,000 new beds in hospitals, delivered only 394 new beds in hospitals between 2015-2018

OpIndia Staff -
In 2019-20 budget, the Delhi government had allocated Rs 7,485 crore (about 14% of the budget) to medical and public health. 
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News Reports

Tongpang Ozukum, PWD Minister of Nagaland roots for Hindi in breaking barriers and enabling Nagas to converse with the rest of India

OpIndia Staff -
The Nagaland PWD minister said that he will suggest the lower-level administration in his state to ensure learning Hindi becomes compulsory.
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News Reports

Srinagar: District Admin and Drug Controller Office deny report of shortage of medicine, hospital says no doctor talked to the reporter

OpIndia Staff -
Government says News18 report about the shortage of medicine in J&K false, no doctor quoted in hospital in the story talked to the hospital
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News Reports

Terrorists threaten apple orchard owner in Shopian, offload consignment in a bid to wage economic warfare in the valley

OpIndia Staff -
Terrorists threaten apple orchard owner in Shopian, offload consignment in a a bid to wage economic warfare in the valley
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News Reports

RBI to transfer surplus of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the government as per Bimal Jalan Committee recommendation

OpIndia Staff -
RBI found that it has more capital than required, and decided to transfer the excess amount to the government
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News Reports

Preparing military action for the last 20 days, Pakistan quietly gathers supplies in PoK and near LoC: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan has been strategizing a military response to India's decision to revoke Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir.
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News Reports

ED files chargesheet against Gandhi family controlled Associated Journals, Congress leaders ML Vora and BS Hooda in land allotment case

OpIndia Staff -
Bhupinder Singh Hooda is accused of illegal land grant to Associated Journals owned by the Gandhi family
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News Reports

Imran Khan nominates himself as the ambassador of Kashmir, Indians nominate themselves as Jedi, Captain America and more

OpIndia Staff -
Imran Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, has now decided to seek attention by nominating himself as aa ambassador of Kashmir.
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Opinions

The other side of Mother Teresa: The not so pious history of the Catholic Church’s saint

K Bhattacharjee -
Mother Teresa was a friend of dictators, her clinics were in a state of utter decrepit and the 'miracles' performed in her name were not so miraculous after all.
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Politics

Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt refutes media reports, says he has no plans of joining politics

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier in the day, reports of Sanjay Dutt campaigning for the RSP in the upcoming Maharashtra elections had emerged.
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Opinions

Arun Jaitley: An inclusive politician, and a lawyer who was a symbol of humility and acceptability

Siddharth Acharya -
Arun Jaitley had a wide contribution to Indian Politics and Bar. Not only Arun Jaitley was successful in Political life and Legal career but the fact is that he also represented the aspirations of young urban Lawyers from the middle class
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Fact-Check

Youth Congress peddles lies, claims Z-category security to Mukesh Ambani was given by BJP govt

OpIndia Staff -
Congress' UPA government had granted Mukesh Ambani Z-category security in 2013 for which it drew criticism from the Supreme Court.
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Opinions

A tribute to the man who brought ‘Nationalism’ to our drawing rooms

Guest Author -
For all his faults, Arun Jaitley was a man who loved his country more than anything else and his country benefitted greatly from his hard work and commitment.
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News Reports

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav dissolves the party’s Delhi state unit with immediate effect

OpIndia Staff -
Akhilesh Yadav's party had to face severe humiliation in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls as its tally remained stuck at five
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News Reports

P Chidambaram’s CBI custody extended till August 30, CBI to confront him with others accused in the INX Media case

OpIndia Staff -
P Chidambaram's CBI custody extended by 4 more days
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News Reports

Pakistan President gets notice for tweeting fake news, ‘human rights minister’ calls Twitter a ‘Modi mouthpiece’

OpIndia Staff -
Shireen Mazari, Human Rights Minister of Pakistan took to micro-blogging site to vent out her anger against Twitter for sending a notice to Arif Alvi, claimed that Twitter has gone too far and blamed them for being a mouthpiece of the 'rogue Modi government'
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News Reports

All issues between India and Pakistan are bilateral: PM Modi’s firm statement before US President Trump at G7

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi has stated firmly before Donald trump that all issues between India and Pakistan are bilateral in nature, indirectly dismissing his 'proposals' to mediate.
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News Reports

Supreme Court extends interim protection to P Chidambaram from arrest by ED till Tuesday

OpIndia Staff -
SC will hear the ED's counter-argument on Tuesday, extends interim protection to P Chidambaram by a day
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