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GST Council reduces tax on Electric Vehicles and their chargers in a view to curb pollution

OpIndia Staff -
The GST council Saturday proposed to reduce the GST rates of all-electric vehicles from 12 to 5 percent.
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News Reports

Home Ministry approves deployment of 10,000 additional troops in Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
The additional deployment of forces will help in strengthening the Counter Insurgent (CI) grid as well as maintaining law and order situation in Kashmir
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News Reports

Hanuman statue found broken in Aligarh, Bajrang Dal leader says Muslims did it

OpIndia Staff -
Bajrang Dal leader says night guard of Gandhi Park in Aligarh has said that Muslims broke the Hanuman statue in the park in Aligarh
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News Reports

India receives its first batch of four AH-64E Apache attack helicopters from Boeing

OpIndia Staff -
One of the deadliest attack choppers, Apache AH-64E is equipped with a cannon, rockets and missules
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News Reports

A dangerous development: Oxfam India CEO invites Congress to form an ‘alliance’ with civil society

K Bhattacharjee -
The CEO of Oxfam also argues that the Congress party should work closely with "civil society".
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News Reports

Gujarat: Muslim youth beaten to death by family members and relatives of a tribal girl for having an affair with the girl

OpIndia Staff -
The tribal girl's family objected to her relationship and pressurized her to end her relationship with the Muslim youth
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Media

Sagarika Ghose calls the most decorated officer of Territorial Army an ‘idiot’ because he respectfully disagreed with her assessment of ‘war’

OpIndia Staff -
Sagarika Ghose assumed that she knows far more than Major Navdeep Singh, a man who trains with the Indian Army every year and has pledged to fight for his country when the need arises.
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News Reports

AgustaWestland case: Kamal Nath’s nephew escapes from ED office during questioning, gets interim relief from arrest till Monday

OpIndia Staff -
Kamal Nath's nephew Ratul Puri gets interim relief from arrest after escaping from ED office
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Opinions

Mob Lynching activism by celebrities: It stems from a lot of narcissism and even more stupidity

K Bhattacharjee -
Anurag Kashyap tweeted that the country needs a law against mob lynching
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News Reports

Naliya gang-rape case: Panel gives clean chit to probe authorities as victim turned hostile, no evidence of rape and sex-racket

OpIndia Staff -
The complainant in her FIR had alleged that 8 men including 4 BJP workers had gang-raped and blackmailed her for over a year and that they ran a sex racket involving other victims
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Opinions

I served in the Indian Army for 20 years, and ‘liberal’ Sagarika Ghose is wrong – War is not ‘elite bloodlust’

rohitagarwal -
This is in response to an extract from a book by Sagarika Ghose (socialite, daughter of the former Director-General of Doordarshan, wife of television personality Rajdeep Sardesai, and part-time columnist) published in The Wire
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh: Muslim man issues triple talaq to wife over the phone and marries another woman, father-in-law wants nikah halala

OpIndia Staff -
The husband had an affair with another woman, as a result, of which he phoned up he issued a triple talaq to his first wife.
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Fact-Check

Media uses maliciously edited video to spread fake news, allege that BJP minister forced Muslim MLA to chant Jai Shri Ram

OpIndia Staff -
Congress MLA says Jai Shri Ram belongs to everyone, BJP minister asks him to chant it, media shows only BJP minister's comment
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News Reports

CBI summons TMC leader Derek O’ Brien over party income issues and Saradha Chit Fund scam

OpIndia Staff -
The Center Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had summoned the quizmaster-turned-politician Derek O’Brien on Thursday in regard to a probe into Trinamool Congress’ income and expenditure.
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Opinions

Fight for ideology of the nation is the responsibility of its citizens, we have to take control and not wait upon the Indian State

Saket Suryesh -
Ever since the Narendra Modi government came into power, the left felt a sense of absolute despondency and the Right felt a sense of absolute emancipation. Both are wrong.
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News Reports

Kerala: Daughter blackmailed to join Orthodox Church to ensure decent burial ground for Jacobite Christian mother

OpIndia Staff -
The daughter of a deceased octogenarian woman in Kerala had to consent to join the Orthodox Church to ensure that the St. Thomas Orthodox Church allows her Jacobite mother to be buried in their cemetery
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Opinions

RTI Amendment Bill 2019 and the fake charade of Shashi Tharoor

Ashish Shukla -
All this outrage by Shashi Tharoor and his likes for defining the terms and salaries of Information Commissioners as per the RTI Act?
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Media

By providing platform to anti-social elements like Mahmood Paracha, John Dayal and others, media is playing a dangerous game

K Bhattacharjee -
Mahmood Paracha is a regular feature at news channels where his opinion is sought in debates. It appears to be a pattern across news channels where hoodlums and uncouth individuals are provided platforms that provides them with an opportunity to augment their credibility.
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Crime

Kirti stabbed multiple times by Mohammad Munasir, succumbs to injuries in hospital

OpIndia Staff -
In another horrific incident, 21-year-old Kirti was brutally stabbed multiple times by one Mohammad Munasir in south-east Delhi’s Bhogal on Friday, the police said.
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Crime

Kerala: Five CPI(M) workers sentenced to life imprisonment for murder of BJP activist in 2008

K Bhattacharjee -
A sessions court in Kerala has sentenced five CPI(M) workers to life imprisonment for hacking a BJP karyakarta to death in 2008.
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Specials

The legend of BS Yediyurappa: The many ironies, setbacks, struggles and successes

Abhishek Banerjee -
Faced with losing odds, BS Yediyurappa decided to turn it into his "Vajpayee moment." He resigned on the floor of the House, with a promise to come back and sweep the Lok Sabha election next year.
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News Reports

Even after an FIR for inciting hate, Mehmood Paracha teaches Muslims how to acquire firearms, conducts training camp inside mosque

OpIndia Staff -
Mahmood Paracha was seen holding that training camp inside a Lucknow Mosque where he was training Muslims about how to fill our licences and acquire firearms.
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News Reports

Mumbai Police warns heavy rain in the city tonight, issue advisory not to venture in water-logged areas and near sea

OpIndia Staff -
Mumbai will receive heavy rain through the whole night
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News Reports

Abusive actor Ajaz Khan heaps praise on PM Modi and Amit Shah, questions Muslim politicians who didn’t come to his rescue

OpIndia Staff -
Ajaz Khan was arrested by the Mumbai Poice for sharing provocative and instigating videos on social media, promoting enmity between different religious communities
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Politics

Holy f*ck! Rahul Gandhi follows Congress-friendly troll who had declared that only her and the former Amethi MP’s voices matter

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi's follow comes just days after Sanjukta had announced on social media that only her and Rahul Gandhi's voices 'somewhat matter' on the micro-blogging platform.
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News Reports

Rajasthan government orders religious categorisation of patients for creating “database of population-specific diseases”

OpIndia Staff -
The principal of the college Sudhir Bhandari claimed that they are only following protocols by seeking religious and caste details of the patients
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Government and Policy

The opposition and activists are wrong when the stir hysteria over the RTI Amendment Bill. Here is how

K Bhattacharjee -
The RTI Amendment Bill, 2019, was passed by the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
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News Reports

Divided by parties, united against sexism: Women MPs across party lines condemn Azam Khan’s sexist comments

OpIndia Staff -
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has asked for exemplary action against Azam Khan for his sexist remarks
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News Reports

BS Yeddyurappa takes oath as Chief Minister of the new BJP government in Karnataka

OpIndia Staff -
BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa took oath as the new chief minister of Karnataka on Friday
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Opinions

The NEP provides a way for Leftists to get back at the Hindus by controlling and changing the education system

drshilpitiwari1 -
The New Educational Policy (NEP) is seriously flawed and downright dangerous
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Media Fact-Check

Desperate to shield the failed Congress-JDS alliance in Karnataka, NDTV’s Sreenivasan Jain misrepresents basic facts

Raju Das -
Sreenivasan Jain wrongly thinks halfway mark in Karnataka assembly will go up because rebel MLAs not disqualified and their resignations not accepted yet
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News Reports

NC chief Omar Abdullah calls Tral as ‘land of Musa and Burhan Wani’, warns locals against voting for BJP

OpIndia Staff -
Abdullah questioned the saffron's party's footing in an area such as Tral which according to him is "Land of Musa and Burhan Wani", the terrorists who were both neutralised by the Indian Armed Forces.
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Politics

Following her fallout with Arvind Kejriwal, AAP MLA Alka Lamba reportedly being harassed by AAP leader Udham Singh

OpIndia Staff -
The number Alka Lamba shared appears to be belonging to AAP leader Udham Singh Tomar. He fought the MCD elections in Delhi in 2017 on an AAP ticket.
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News Reports

Deepak Talwar handed over to the CBI as court rejects anticipatory bail plea

OpIndia Staff -
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had earlier found dubious deposits alleged to be the kickbacks paid by the international airlines into several accounts of extradited Congress era lobbyist Deepak Talwar.
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Opinions

Unlike BJP, Congress has a laser sharp focus on its core voter

Abhishek Banerjee -
Congress stands by its core voters no matter what the cost, BJP promises that things won't be as bad as earlier
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News Reports

After Hindu organisations held ‘Maha Arti’ as a protest, Aligarh authorities forbid all religious events, including Namaz, on roads

OpIndia Staff -
Aligarh DM issued an order to ban all religious events from on roads after a group started organising “Maha Aarti” on Tuesdays and Saturdays as a protest against road-blocking on Friday Namaz.
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Politics

Dear Congress, ‘Italy ki kathputli’ is a political jibe, ‘I want to keep looking into your eyes till you plead me to stop’ is...

Nirwa Mehta -
"Italy ki kathputli" may be as distasteful as "Maut ka saudagar" but it is definitely not an insult to her as a woman.
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News Reports

Surat man gives Triple Talaq to wife after her parents could not give dowry to buy auto rickshaw

OpIndia Staff -
The victim woman said that her husband gave her Triple Talaq orally in front of his family, 40 days after her mother died.
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Media

Outlook and The Leaflet columnist Fahad Zuberi says ISRO Chief should be ‘sacked and penalised’ for violating ‘secular ethos’

K Bhattacharjee -
Fahad Zuberi says that ISRO chief K Sivan should 'at least be ridiculed'
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Muslim clerics object to Lucknow University’s decision of including Triple Talaq in curriculum, demand it to be dropped

OpIndia Staff -
The senior varsity officials have rejected the contention that such controversial issues should not be made part of the syllabus.
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Media

NBF formed to take on the Lutyens media hegemony of NBA: Is Editors Guild next?

Nupur J Sharma -
Over 50 channels have now formed a National Broadcaster's Federation (NBF) to challenge the hegemony of National Broadcaster's Association (NBA).
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News Reports

After a week of the passing away of Sheila Dikshit, Rahul Gandhi finally appears to meet her family

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi visits the family of Sheila Dikshit after coming from vacationing in USA
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Entertainment

‘Jo na bole Jai Shri Ram, bhej do unko Kabristan’ singer arrested by UP police

OpIndia Staff -
Singer Varun Bahar had shot into fame after he posted a song on YouTube which translates to "Those who do not chant Lord Ram's name should be sent to the cemetery."
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Media

Arnab takes dig at ‘unemployed journalist of Radia fame’ without naming anyone, Barkha hits back

OpIndia Staff -
Arnab Goswami of Republic TV threw an arrow at unemployable Radia type journalists, Barkha Dutt took the arrow to heart
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Politics

62 celebrities write an open letter to point out hypocrisy of the ‘achievers’ who wrote an open letter on ‘rising intolerance’

OpIndia Staff -
The celebrities assert that they are confident that India shall continue to develop and progress without paying heed to the ones with those who want to destabilise the country.
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Politics

BJP stakes claim to form government in Karnataka, Yeddyurappa to take oath as CM at 6 PM

OpIndia Staff -
The BJP will have to prove their majority within a week.
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Politics

Azam Khan should be appreciated: NCP’s Majeed Memon endorses sexist ‘poetry’ on BJP MP Rama Devi

OpIndia Staff -
During the debate of Triple Talaq Bill, Speaker Rama Devi had asked Azam Khan to speak looking at the chair and address the house through the presiding officer.
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News Reports

Bangladeshi cow smugglers tie explosives to cows neck, throw them in river to discourage the BSF from intercepting at West Bengal border

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier this month, a BSF jawan had lost his hand after Bangladeshi cattle smugglers hurled bombs at him.
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News Reports

Exclusive: DD National instructed to discontinue re-run of series by Yoga instructor Ira Trivedi, other DD channels issued advisory

Nupur J Sharma -
The series that was hosted by Ira Trivedi was produced by Doordarshan Delhi as part of a series of different yoga programmes produced to highlight yoga prior to the International day of yoga in 2017
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News Reports

Former Indian diplomat says Referendum 2020 movement backed by Pakistan’s ISI lacks mass support

OpIndia Staff -
Former Indian diplomat said despite Pakistan's backing, "Referendum 2020" has failed to gain mass support.
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