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Amidst acute economic crisis, Pakistan federal minister daydreams sending first Pakistani to space by 2022

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistani Federal minister for Science and Technology Fawad Hussain made an outrageous claim that by 2022 Pakistan will send 25 people to Space
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News Reports

30 convicted illegal immigrants lodged in Assam jails deported to Bangladesh

OpIndia Staff -
Bangladeshi nationals convicted of illegal immigration were deported by Indian authorities through Kalibari ghat border in Assam.
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News Reports

Yoga teacher Ira Trivedi takes a u-turn after social media outrage over her anti-Hindu and beef promotion posts, says she loves Hindu Dharma

OpIndia Staff -
After social media backlash, a self-proclaimed yoga teacher, Ira Trivedi, who runs a show on national broadcaster Doordarshan, has taken to Twitter today to proclaim that she is a strict vegetarian and respects Hindu religion.
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News Reports

Pakistani cricketer Imam-ul-Haq lands in controversy after his obscene chats with multiple girls leaked on Twitter

OpIndia Staff -
This Tweet attracted mixed reactions from various Twitter users and the player's fans
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Politics

Why have most prominent Samajwadi Party leaders proven themselves to be sexist and creepy?

Nirwa Mehta -
What is it about Samajwadi Party leaders that makes them so naturally sexist? Perhaps it comes from the top.
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News Reports

Lieutenant Colonel MS Dhoni deployed for patrolling and guard duties for 15 days in Kashmir valley

OpIndia Staff -
Dhoni will be assuming the patrolling and guard duties along with the 106 TA Battalion Para troops in Kashmir Valley
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Politics

Shiv Sena scores big: NCP’s Mumbai chief joins Sena, more expected to follow

Jinit Jain -
Shunning NCP's Mumbai city chief position, Sachin Ahir joined the Shiv Sena in presence of party chief Uddhav Thackeray
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Politics

Azam Khan makes creepy, sexist remarks against female BJP MP in Parliament, Akhilesh Yadav calls it ‘poetry’

OpIndia Staff -
While under normal circumstances this could amount to harassment and sexual abuse, Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav, however, found nothing wrong with it.
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News Reports

‘Sex crimes committed on impulse, offenders deserve chance for reform’, Catholic priests oppose death penalty for paedophiles

OpIndia Staff -
The Catholic Church is against the death penalty for any crimes, Bishop Jose Chittooparampil said.
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Crime

Kerala CPM chief’s son Binoy tried to settle rape case filed against him, audio clip suggests: Report

OpIndia Staff -
The audio clip is of a phone conversation between the CPM chief's son and the complainant that allegedly took place on January 10 has been doing rounds in the media.
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News Reports

Hindus in a Bareilly village fear forced religious conversion by Muslims, contemplate exodus: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
"Better to leave a place where you can't even pray to your god," a villager reportedly said. The residents of this Bareilly village are living with fear facing persecution from the Muslim community.
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Politics

Samajwadi Party MP who compared actresses to ‘tawaif’ says triple talaq ‘better’ than setting your cheating wife on fire

OpIndia Staff -
ST Hasan is the same MP who had earlier stoked controversy by comparing actress to a 'tawaif'.
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News Reports

BJP MP from Tripura donates first month’s salary towards Assam flood relief efforts, flood continues to wreak devastation in the state

K Bhattacharjee -
Millions of people have been affected in the Assam floods across thousands of villages.
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Politics

After NIA and UAPA amendments, Amit Shah needs to go after conversion mafia

Abhishek Banerjee -
Who would believe that just 3 years ago, the government could barely get the opposition on board with the surgical strike?
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News Reports

Sadhguru was talking about the Kanakadhāra Stotram, but ‘liberals’ expected him to know of acts of sexual deviancy

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Sadhguru dubbed Hima Das a 'golden shower', meaning she was showering gold on India by winning repeated gold medals
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News Reports

West Bengal: 1.6 kg jewellery, 90 coins and a wrist watch removed from one Runi Khatun’s stomach

OpIndia Staff -
Runi Khatun, said to be mentally unstable by her family, has been swallowing coins, metals and jewellery for weeks.
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News Reports

Indian Mujahideen threatens to blow up Bareilly railway station if Kanwariyas pass through Muslim areas

OpIndia Staff -
A purported Indian Mujahideen area commander issued the threats in a letter sent to Bareilly railway station superintendent
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Crime

8 new cases of land grabbing lodged against ‘land mafia’ Azam Khan

OpIndia Staff -
Eight new cases of land grabbing in Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh have been filed against SP leader Azam Khan for forcefully grabbing the lands of farmers for his university.
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Crime

West Bengal: Bombs hurled, bullets fired at the residence of Barrackpore BJP MP Arjun Singh

OpIndia Staff -
The miscreants hurled two country-made bombs and fired bullets outside Arjun Singh's residence in North 24 Parganas.
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News Reports

‘Shoe shining box scam’: Twitter users, including actor Parineeti Chopra, fall for the ‘spirited’ Mumbai shoe shining boy

OpIndia Staff -
It started with a tweet on Tuesday, where twitter user @agentgreenglass put up a picture of a young boy, about 16-17 years of age.
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Politics

Mamata Banerjee Zindabad: TMC workers attack professor and students for not chanting pro-Mamata slogans

OpIndia Staff -
The shocking incident took place on a day the Trinamul rallied support behind a section of activists for writing an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging intolerance across the country.
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News Reports

Gautam Navlakha was in touch with Hizbul, Kashmiri separatists: Pune Police tells Bombay HC

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Gautam Navlakha is accused of having links with Maoists, Kashmiri separatists, Pakistan's ISI and banned terror organisation Hizbul
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News Reports

Alka Lamba does a Kejriwal on Kejriwal, says Delhi CM not allowing her to work for the people of her constituency

OpIndia Staff -
Chandni Chowk MLA Alka Lamba accused Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of interfering the developmental activities of the work as revenge for speaking out against him in the past.
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News Reports

Congress sends 2 BJP MLAs in Madhya Pradesh who cross-voted in their favour to an undisclosed location

OpIndia Staff -
Two BJP MLAs-Narayan Tripathi and Sharad Kaul went against the party command and voted in favour of the Congress party during the voting for criminal law (amendment)
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Crime

National Commission for Minorities member says no mob lynching case filed with them, Govt says no common pattern of mob lynching

OpIndia Staff -
Manjit Singh Rai assured the commission would initiate strict action against culprits for exploiting and ill-treating minorities when such cases are highlighted before the commission.
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Opinions

A dangerous turn: ‘Scholars’ and ‘celebrities’ cross the boundaries of mere hypocrisy and ally with a convicted naxalite

K Bhattacharjee -
A rag-tag bunch of 'intellectuals' and 'celebrities' have written to the Prime Minister on Tuesday claiming that atrocities against Muslims and Dalits have increased under the NDA regime and have deemed Jai Shri Ram a 'provocative war-cry'.
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News Reports

Arnab Goswami remotely ‘hacks’ into the press conference of ‘achievers and celebrities’, questions them on their hypocrisy

OpIndia Staff -
Arnab Goswami intervenes Aparna Sen’s press conference by remotely asking questions, Sen refuses to answer
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News Reports

Rajasthan Mahila Congress leader launches personal attack on PM Modi for sharing playful pics with his “special friend”

OpIndia Staff -
Reena Mimrot, State General Secretary of Rajasthan Mahila Congress targeted PM Modi for sharing playful pictures with his "special friend"
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News Reports

India jumps 5 places to Rank 52 on the list of Global Innovation Index 2019

OpIndia Staff -
India holds on its distinction of being the most innovative country in the Central and South Asian region
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News Reports

Russia unable to find any document on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in their archive: Government in Lok Sabha

OpIndia Staff -
India has requested Russia several times since 2014 seeking information on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
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Politics

Under-achiever Bhayanak Sen writes to PM Modi, talks about rising ‘achiever-thought-terrorism’

OpIndia Staff -
Referring to oneself as 'intellectual' does not make one 'intelligent' and above criticism.
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News Reports

“When will he learn to place country over politics?” Tejasvi Surya slams Rahul Gandhi for his attack on PM Modi over Trump’s comment

OpIndia Staff -
The regular hate mongers, which includes a section of trolls from the media and politics and the Congress, of course, jumped to this opportunity to train guns at PM Narendra Modi
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News Reports

Convicted Naxalite Binayak Sen signs ‘rising intolerance’ letter to PM Modi, calls self ‘peace loving proud Indian’

OpIndia Staff -
The letter written by prominent 'achievers and celebrities' to Prime Minister Modi claiming that atrocities against ‘Muslims and Dalits’ have increased in India was signed by convicted Naxalite Binayak Sen
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Opinions

‘Wax her testicles, transphobic bigot!’ Trans Activist who wants to force women to wax ‘her’ male genitalia in the dock for predatory behaviour

K Bhattacharjee -
Jessica Yaniv, a transgender activist, has brought into the fore the inherent inconsistencies within 21st century Feminism.
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News Reports

Was Gumnami Baba really Netaji Bose? Can’t say for sure, says Judicial Commission report

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The Justice Vishnu Sahai Commission was constituted in 2016 to probe the identity of Gumnami Baba.
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News Reports

AIMIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi repeats his ’15-minutes’ hate speech, says RSS yet to recover from his 2012 speech

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Akbaruddin Owaisi resorted to hate speech after he repeated his '15 minutes' infamous speech against Hindus which he had made in 2012.
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Crime

Man brutally murdered after altercation over public urination, one accused Amin Khan nabbed, four others absconding

OpIndia Staff -
Hitesh's dead body was found on the wee hours of Tuesday in an open ground in Pune.
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News Reports

ISIS linked group planned mass murder by mixing poison in temple prasad, Maharashtra ATS files charge sheet against 10

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10 members of ISIS-linked group charge-sheeted for planing murder by poisoning temple prasad
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Government and Policy

UP govt releases Rs 20 crore for completion of under-construction Mughal Museum in Agra

OpIndia Staff -
The work on Agra's Mughal Museum had started in June 2016 during Akhilesh Yadav's govt and was planned to be completed by the end of 2017
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News Reports

Homebuyers’ money diverted to MS Dhoni and his wife’s company, auditors tell Supreme Court

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The name of MS Dhoni has now been dragged in the Amrapali money laundering case.
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News Reports

Zakir Naik’s Peace TV banned in UK for saying ‘gay people worse than pigs’, ‘people who left Islam should be killed’ and more

OpIndia Staff -
Zakir Naik's Peace TV gets banned in the UK for describing gay people as worse than pigs and for airing several other problematic opinions
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Entertainment

Netflix launches Rs 199 mobile only India plan

OpIndia Staff -
To tap into the the growing mobile market, Netflix has introduced reduced plan for mobile users.
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News Reports

‘Aggressiveness shown by govt for Abhinandan was missing then’: Capt Kalia’s kin remembers the braveheart 20 years after Kargil

OpIndia Staff -
26th July 2019, will mark 20 years of the Kargil War. On this date, in 1999, India successfully took command of the high outposts which had been lost to Pakistan
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News Reports

Self-declared messiahs write a rambling letter to PM Modi citing fake data and same old rhetoric

OpIndia Staff -
The so-called celebrities and intellectuals have also not cared to note that many of the 'hate crimes' have turned out to be fake.
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Opinions

Imran Khan says Pulwama was an ‘indigenous job’: Did Indian ‘liberals’ and Congress help him come up with that delusion?

Shashank Bharadwaj -
Interestingly, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan seems to have taken the mantle from Indian liberals and Indian opposition parties, which had also coincidentally stuck to similar rhetorics of Pulwama being an inside job .
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News Reports

Home Ministry reviews CISF security cover for VVIPs, Kamal Nath, Acharya Pramod, Om Prakash Mathur amongst those downgraded

OpIndia Staff -
Also in the list are former BJP MP and now Congress leader Udit Raj, Punjab MLA Bikramjit Singh Mathijia, ISRO Chairman Dr K Sivan and Suresh Chavhanke of Sudarshan TV.
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Media

NDTV is under investigation for financial irregularities, not for their lies and shoddy journalism: Why the ‘press freedom’ defence then?

prashantsingh93 -
NDTV is in the news again after a serious indictment from the market regulator-SEBI for financial irregularities. On previous occasions as well, NDTV has been in the dock for cases of similar nature including serious tax evasion cases.
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Politics

Congress MLA had ordered 2000 kgs of namkeen before 2017 Gujarat assembly elections, didn’t pay the shopkeeper after party lost

OpIndia Staff -
The shopkeeper has threatened to sit on a fast outside the Congress MLA's house as a mark of protest till he clears his dues.
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Politics

No plan to give unemployment allowances: Kamal Nath government’s U-turn on election promise

OpIndia Staff -
Kamal Nath made the announcement as a reply to Congress MLA Munnalal Goyal's question in the assembly yesterday.
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Government and Policy

Railway official forced to retire early for being careless at duty, could have caused major accident

OpIndia Staff -
A station superintendent in Bihar was forcibly retired for allowing two trains on the same track.
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