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High Level Committee recommends CSR expenditure to be made tax deductible, non-compliance to be made civil offence with no imprisonment

OpIndia Staff -
High Level Committee on CSR recommends non-compliance should attract only penalty, not jail term
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Politics

Priyanka Gandhi’s aide Sandeep Singh manhandles ABP Ganga news reporter, threatens him with “Thok ke baja dunga”

OpIndia Staff -
Journalist Pandey made repeated entreaties to Priyanka Gandhi to intervene as her aide manhandled him but she turned a blind eye to his predicament.
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News Reports

Ayodhya case day 5: SC asks for exact spot of Ram’s birth, Ram Lalla lawyer says it is below the Babri Masjid dome

OpIndia Staff -
The CJI clarifies that the counsels can take as much time as they want to put forth their submissions
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Politics

Arrest warrant issued against Shashi Tharoor for his Hindu-Pakistan comment

OpIndia Staff -
Last year, Shashi Tharoor had foreboded that India will become Hindu Pakistan if BJP comes back in power in 2019 Lok Sabha elections
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Media

BBC’s fake reportage on Kashmir did not start in 2013, it began in the 1990s

OpIndia Staff -
If things haven't gotten better since 1993, one tends to believe there's much more to BBC's propaganda than mere incompetence.
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News Reports

Former Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik shares old video claiming police atrocity in Kashmir, gets called out by J&K Police

OpIndia Staff -
Yesterday, a Pakistani journalist was exposed for purveying malicious lies about a rift between India's Armed Forces in Kashmir
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Social Media

Social media warfare: Pakistan and ISI use Twitter to spread fake and malicious news to spread fear after abrogation of Article 370

OpIndia Staff -
There has been a spurt in the spread of fake news and misinformation from both Pakistan and a certain section of Indian media after the historic decision of abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5.
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News Reports

Supreme Court refuses to interfere on the restrictions imposed in J&K, says government should get time

OpIndia Staff -
Refusing to interfere in the government’s imposed restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir, SC said it doesn’t want to go against local administration prematurely
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News Reports

Pakistani Minister urges Punjabis in Indian Army to refuse service in Kashmir, receives befitting reply from Indians

OpIndia Staff -
The bizarre appeal shows how clueless the Pakistani establishment is at the moment.
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News Reports

You are thieves, you have been guzzling money for 20 years: Pakistani national accuses their UN representative Maleeha Lodhi

OpIndia Staff -
"Shame on you. You have been eating money all these years", said the Pakistani national to Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan's permanent representative at the UN.
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Politics

I-T dept clarifies that no notice was sent to Durga Puja committees in West Bengal

OpIndia Staff -
The Income Tax Department has issued a notice to the Durga Puja committees in West Bengal asking them to pay taxes.
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News Reports

Big boost to BJP in Sikkim as 10 MLAs of Sikkim Democratic Front join the party

OpIndia Staff -
Sikkim was the only state in the northeast where BJP had no presence until today
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News Reports

Supreme Court refuses re-verification of NRC process in Assam, orders exclusion list to be published online on August 31

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier in July, the Supreme Court had extended its July 31 deadline to August 31 for publication of the final Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC).
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Politics

Rapper Hard Kaur joins hands with banned terror outfit ‘Sikhs for Justice’, threatens to hoist Khalistani flag on Independence day

OpIndia Staff -
In the video, one of the supporters standing next to Hard Kaur is the SFJ leader, Gurpatwant Singh Pannu who has been instrumental in providing financial and all other kinds of support to the separatist elements in India in order to advance his devious a
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Politics

Pakistan bets on Arundhati Roy, Mamata Banerjee, Congress and Communist parties to drive their agenda over Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, an ‘intellectual’ from Pakistan has endorsed genocide against Hindus in Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370.
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News Reports

Days after Article 370 was taken down, unknown miscreants vandalise Shyama Prasad Mukherjee’s statue in Rajasthan

OpIndia Staff -
According to the locals, the statue of Mukherjee had been demolished by some anti-social elements over the abrogation of Article 370.
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Media

Fabricated reports on Kashmir: Govt asks BBC and Al-Jazeera to produce raw footage of their reports

OpIndia Staff -
Government of India has asked Al-Jazeera and BBC to produce evidence of their claim of large scale protests and violence in Jammu and Kashmir.
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Politics

Kashmir will not be part of India on 100th Independence Day, says Congress ally MDMK chief Vaiko

OpIndia Staff -
MDMK Chief V Gopalaswamy or Vaiko had opposed the scrapping of Article 370 on the floor of Rajya Sabha. Vaiko, while speaking in Rajya Sabha on the same day, had called it a "day of sorrow".
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Media

Soft porn writer Shobhaa De calls herself “patriotic Indian” after writing about “plebiscite in Kashmir”, rejects Abdul Basit’s claims

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, in an interview with one Pakistani blogger, Farhan Virk who calls himself a part of ‘Team IK’ (Team Imran Khan), former Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit had revealed that he had managed to influence Shobhaa De.
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News Reports

Pakistanis in Bahrain face legal action for holding anti-India rally after Eid prayers on Kashmir issue

OpIndia Staff -
While most people have welcomed abrogation of Article 370, the separatists and the Pakistanis have been opposing the move.
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News Reports

Centre urges Twitter to block eight accounts for fear mongering by ‘spreading rumours’ on Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
The Union home secretary recommended the closure of a few Twitter accounts for spreading rumours and misinformation to disturb the peace and calm in the Valley
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News Reports

Split in Congress over Article 370 continues, now Salman Khurshid claims Congress too would have aspired to revoke it

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leaders Jyotiraditya Scindia, Janardan Dwivedi, and Deepender Hooda have already gone against the party stand applauding the government’s move to abrogate Article 370
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Fact-Check

Retired Air Marshal of Pakistan shares old mock drill video of Jharkhand police as army firing on Kashmiri protesters

OpIndia Staff -
2017 mock drill video shared as police firing on Kashmiri protesters after abrogation of Article 370
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News Reports

Following Pakistan’s decisions, India also cancels Samjhauta express and Delhi-Lahore bus service from its side

OpIndia Staff -
These decisions came after Pakistan decided to downgrade bilateral diplomatic ties with India
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Opinions

A desperate move by a beleaguered mafia: Pakistan offers Shobhaa De as Qurbani on Eid

K Bhattacharjee -
Abdul Basit revealed that he had influenced Shobhaa De into peddling the Pakistani narrative in an article, advocating for a plebiscite in Kashmir
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Books

The attack on Hinduism has uncanny resemblance to Christian annihilation of Paganism – A review of ‘The Darkening Age’

Saket Suryesh -
The current attack on Hinduism has uncanny resemblance to Christian Annihilation of Paganism
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Politics

Congress’ Mani Shankar Aiyar likens Kashmir to Palestine, calls Modi a ‘Zionist trampling on freedom of Kashmiris’

OpIndia Staff -
In his 2015 interview to a Pakistani news channel, Aiyar had famously asked for Pakistan's help to 'remove' PM Modi and bring a Congress government to power.
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News Reports

Pakistani journalist spreads lies claiming rift between forces in Kashmir, gets exposed by CRPF and police

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistani journalist peddles fake news of a rift between JK police and CRPF personnel, gets exposed out by CRPF and Kashmir police
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Economy and Finance

The skewed analysis must stop: We need to stop looking at just the repo rates and talk about real rates instead

Karan -
A recent article by a commentator in Hindustan Times mentions that the MPC had little ability to stimulate growth
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News Reports

Pakistan sulking: No traditional exchange of sweets on Eid at Wagah-Attari border between BSF and rangers

OpIndia Staff -
After India stripped Article 370 and bifurcated Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan has taken many steps in frustration that are bound to hurt itself more than India.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Vehicle carrying Kanwaris pelted with stones in front of Idgah during Eid Namaz, several injured

OpIndia Staff -
Tractor-trailer carrying Kanwaris passing near an Idgah during the Bakrid Namaz attacked by miscreants
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Media

Anti-Hindu bigoted American analyst calls Rana Ayyub an ‘ISI agent’, apologises and proceeds to insult Hindus instead

OpIndia Staff -
Fair's hatred for Hinduism can be inferred from the casual 'gaushala' and 'cow' jibe, which is something even the Pulwama terrorist who killed 40 CRPF soldiers in February this year, mentioned in his video which was released post the attack.
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Opinions

‘Liberals’ are working with Pakistan and undermining Indian interests, we can no longer ignore it

K Bhattacharjee -
The liberal narrative coincides with the narrative of the Pakistan establishment too often to be dismissed as mere coincidence.
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News Reports

Pakistan deploys fighter jets along forward bases in Skardu near Ladakh, India keeping close watch

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistani fighter jets have been moved to forward bases in Skardu near the Ladakh border.
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News Reports

Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti get in a nasty fight over BJP, authorities forced to house them separately: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Both the minister's had been detained by the Jammu and Kashmir police as a preventive measure on August 5
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Editor's picks

If Hindus try to settle in Kashmir, they should not be alive for a single moment: Pakistan endorses genocide on live TV

OpIndia Staff -
An 'intellectual' from Pakistan endorses genocide of Hindus in Kashmir because India abrogated Article 370
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News Reports

Bangladesh says cattle smuggling from India reduced by 96% in the last few years

OpIndia Staff -
Cattle smuggling has dropped almost by half since 2016, as per reports of the Indian authorities.
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News Reports

Mukesh Ambani announces India’s biggest FDI deal, free HD LED TV and 4K set-top boxes for Jio Fibre subscribers

OpIndia Staff -
Saudi Armco will buy 20% stack in the oil-to-chemical business of Reliance Industries at $15 billion
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Opinions

Does Pakistan realize they are also the laughing stock of the Muslim world?

Abhishek Banerjee -
The Saudis are going to invest in a 20% stake at an enterprise value of $75 billion and it’s going to be India’s biggest FDI deal
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News Reports

Wrestler Babita Phogat and father Mahavir Singh Phogat take plunge into politics, join BJP

OpIndia Staff -
Babita Phogat has often expressed her admiration for PM Modi and defended his policy decisions
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Media

Shobhaa De wrote article advocating ‘plebiscite in Kashmir’ under influence of Pakistani establishment, reveals Abdul Basit

OpIndia Staff -
The article Abdul Basit was referring to presumably was written by Shobhaa De in July 2016, after the encounter of Kashmiri terrorist Burhan Wani
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News Reports

Watch: Eid celebrated peacefully across Jammu and Kashmir even as vested interests continue to fearmonger

OpIndia Staff -
Many people, including political leaders, media portals and individuals with vested interests have been indulging in blatant fear-mongering and spreading of misinformation regarding the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
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Media

Former editor accidentally reveals how a reporter quit job after he was forced to do anti-Modi story

OpIndia Staff -
In one of the segments of The Media Rumble, Vinod Kapri, who was the former editor of TV9 Bharatvarsh accidentally admitted that one of his reporters had quit his job after he was forced to do anti-Modi stories.
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News Reports

After getting endorsement from Congress leader P Chidambaram, IAS-turned-politician Shah Faesal threatens ‘revenge’ against India

OpIndia Staff -
Interestingly, the violent statements of Shah Faesal come just after Former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram had praised him while trying to insinuate that the abolition of Article 370 was "the biggest betrayal".
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Politics

Be careful or we will lose Kashmir: Digvijay Singh toes Pakistan’s line yet again, threatens India

OpIndia Staff -
Congress seems to be determined to echo Pakistan's narrative over the issues of national security. Even after the Balakot airstrikes, Congress' statements had found endorsement from Pakistan.
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News Reports

On World Adivasi Day, Madhya Pradesh cops thrash five tribals, force them to drink urine

OpIndia Staff -
Families of the victims accuse the policemen were intoxicated and added that the they forced the five tribals to consume urine too.
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Cricket

Virat Kohli back to record breaking mode

OpIndia Staff -
No hundreds in 9 World Cup games and now he is back to the scoring hundreds again.
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Politics

Congress leader P Chidambaram plays the religion card, says BJP abrogated Article 370 because there is Muslim majority in Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
Last Monday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah abrogated Article 370 that gave special status to erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir and bifurcated the same into two union territories, Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.
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Media

An unknown company names NDTV as most trusted company, Twitterati point out it may be as shady as NDTV’s taxation dealings

OpIndia Staff -
Desperate times seem to have called for desperate measures for NDTV
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News Reports

It was really heartening to see such powerful men like Barack Obama and Narendra Modi stand up for environment: Man vs Wild host Bear...

OpIndia Staff -
In India, 'Man vs Wild' featuring Bear Grylls and Prime Minister Modi will premiere simultaneously on 12 Discovery channels in five languages - English, Bengali, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu on August 12 at 9 pm.
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