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Delhi Durga Mandir desecration: Paramilitary and police to be deployed for 8 months at Hauz Qazi

OpIndia Staff -
Presently, 200 security forces have been deployed and they would be available 24/7 at Hauz Qazi
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Fact-Check

Congress mouthpiece shamelessly whitewashes the crimes of the Muslim mob in Hauz Qazi: Here is the truth

Nupur J Sharma -
Congress mouthpiece National Herald published an article by one Humra Quraishi which could only be called the most dishonest piece of reporting one has seen on the Hauz Qazi Durga Temple desecration incident
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News Reports

Kolkata: Banners with Amartya Sen’s recent comments on ‘Jai Shri Ram’ come up across the city

OpIndia Staff -
The banners are painted in Mamata Banerjee's favourite colours as well, Blue and White.
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News Reports

SC refuses to stay Bombay HC order on Maratha reservation, says there won’t be ‘retrospective effect’ of quota

OpIndia Staff -
The Act was passed by the State Legislative Assembly on 29th November 2018 granting 16% reservation to Marathas
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Politics

MLA Pranav Singh ‘Champion’ expelled from BJP after gun trotting video goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
In a viral video, the MLA was seen brandishing guns and dancing shirtless to the tunes of a popular Bollywood song.
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World Cup 2019

Video and stats highlight from Australia v England semi-final

OpIndia Staff -
After 9969 days, England reached the Cricket World Cup final.
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World Cup 2019

Jason Roy fined 30% match fees for showing dissent to the umpire

OpIndia Staff -
England opener, Jason Roy has been fined for showing dissent to the umpire after a controversial decision against Australia in the World Cup semi-final.
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Politics

Ruckus in Rajasthan assembly after RSS shakha was attacked in Boondi: Saddam, Shahid and Shafi Mohammad arrested for attack

OpIndia Staff -
BJP demands action from the Rajasthan government over the issue of attack on an RSS shakha in Boondi.
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News Reports

West Bengal: 7-year-old student attacked by teacher for chanting ‘Jai Shree Ram’, asked not to chant in school or outside

OpIndia Staff -
In a shocking incident from Howrah, West Bengal, a 7-year-old student has been brutally thrashed by his school teacher for chanting 'Jai Shree Ram'
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News Reports

Masjid Imam in Unnao warns of ‘unprecedented action’ after Friday prayers if Hindu boys are not arrested for a fight over cricket match

OpIndia Staff -
The fight escalated after an altercation over cricket turned violent and madarsa kids were allegedly beaten up.
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World Cup 2019

Maybe it’s time to say goodbye: Here is how MS Dhoni has slowed down in the past few years

Ritesh -
MS Dhoni has a career strike rate of 87.56, but in the last 3 years, he batted with a strike rate of 81.36, a difference of 6.
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News Reports

Tech-giant Apple Inc’s top-end iPhones assembled in India to hit stores next month

OpIndia Staff -
India-made iPhone XR and XS devices are expected to hit the market by August.
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News Reports

BSF jawan loses hand as Bangladeshi cattle smugglers armed with weapons attack him with bombs

OpIndia Staff -
On Wednesday, the border guarding force had thwarted an attack by about 200 Bangladeshi cattle smugglers and seized 107 buffaloes along the border.
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Entertainment

Case registered against Congress leader Shatrughan Sinha’s daughter and actress Sonakshi Sinha under section 420 of IPC

OpIndia Staff -
A case of cheating under section 420 of the IPC (Indian Penal Code) is registered against actor Sonakshi Sinha by Katghar Police. Daughter of...
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News Reports

Main gate of a Buddhist Monastery set ablaze by miscreants in Leh

OpIndia Staff -
The Ladakh Buddhist Association has demanded strict action against the culprits.
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News Reports

Opposition MPs in Rajya Sabha write to PM condemning searches at Indira Jaising’s residence, call it an act of coercion and intimidation

OpIndia Staff -
The searches were conducted by the CBI in connection with the alleged FCRA violations by Jaising's NGO Lawyers Collective.
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News Reports

Chennai: 15-year-old girl forced into prostitution by Sabeena, Mubeena Begum and Nisha, manages to escape

OpIndia Staff -
Sabeena and Mubeena Begum lured the teenager with the promise of getting her a lucrative job
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News Reports

Question raised on Entertainment Journalists Guild’s credibility as its logo found to be from a free image library

OpIndia Staff -
Entertainment Journalists Guild's logo made using an image from internet, it has no digital footprint
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News Reports

BJP MLA from Bareilly Rajesh Mishra’s daughter alleges threat to life for marrying a Dalit, MLA denies the allegations

OpIndia Staff -
An interesting turn in the case of BJP MLA from Bareilly Rajesh Mishra's daughter Sakshi, who has demanded security for herself and her husband
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News Reports

Christian priest with self-proclaimed supernatural powers to heal others admitted to hospital for viral fever

OpIndia Staff -
According to the director of the centre, the hospitalised father possesses supernatural powers. who can heal others
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Politics

Goa is almost Congress Mukt, but there is a problem

Giriraj Pai Vernekar -
Perhaps the worst part of this jamboree is the fact that some of the Congress MLAs imported into Goa BJP have extremely tainted pasts.
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Media

India Today preaches hate yet again, claims ‘Unity March’ in Delhi’s Hauz Qazi was ‘marred’ by Jai Shri Ram slogans

OpIndia Staff -
On 30th June, a Durga Mandir in the Lal Kuan area of Hauz Qazi, Old Delhi, was desecrated by a Muslim mob after a fight erupted over a parking lot.
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News Reports

Delhi MP sends list of illegally built Mosques, Muslim shrines, Madrasas and cemeteries on govt property to Lieutenant Governor

OpIndia Staff -
BJP MP Pravesh Verma has submitted a list of 54 government lands where illegally mosques, madrasas, cemeteries have been built
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News Reports

Another minor Hindu girl abducted and forcibly converted to Islam in Pakistan’s Hyderabad, accused identified as Syed Irshad Shah

OpIndia Staff -
Recently, a report released by the MEP threw light on the plight of religious minorities in Pakistan
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Entertainment

Batla House: The encounter where killing of two Indian Mujahideen terrorists made Sonia Gandhi ‘cry bitterly’

Nirwa Mehta -
Salman Khurshid, a senior Congress leader, in one of his rallies during 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, had said that Sonia Gandhi, the then Congress President cried bitterly after seeing the images of the slain terrorists of Batla house
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News Reports

Former TDP MLA Prabhakar Reddy says that Telugu Desam Party will merge into BJP

OpIndia Staff -
According to former TDP MLA PM Modi would greatly benefit from Chandrababu Naidu's ideas and experiences.
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Law

Filing PILs for the implementation of a Uniform Civil Code is a bad idea, here’s why

K Bhattacharjee -
Senior Advocate and spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Ashwini Upadhyay, has been waging a battle in the Courts for the implementation of a Uniform Civil Code.
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News Reports

TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee quoted MBA from unrecognised IIPM in election affidavit, summoned by Delhi court in fake degree case

OpIndia Staff -
TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee has mentioned MBA from IIPM in his elections affidavits, which is not a recognised degree as per laws
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News Reports

Congress data analytics head takes a dig at Congress for making him a scapegoat by referring to cricket world cup

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress has blamed Praveen Chakravarty for misleading Rahul Gandhi by feeding him wrong information that led to the poll debacle in 2019.
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News Reports

42 bonded labourers, including 16 children, rescued from two locations in Tamil Nadu

OpIndia Staff -
They were forced into bonded labour to repay the money that they had borrowed
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Media

If ‘Jai Shree Ram’ is a murder cry, dear BBC, what would you call ‘Allah Hu Akbar’

K Bhattacharjee -
The BBC recently published an article where it called 'Jai Shri Ram' a murder cry.
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Politics

Suspended BJP MLA Pravin Singh ‘Champion’ asks for security even as state unit recommends permanent suspension for him

OpIndia Staff -
A video of Pranav Singh Champion brandishing assault rifles and dancing to the tunes of Bollywood scores had recently gone viral
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World Cup 2019

World Cup Semi-final Preview – Australia v England: Clash of the Titans

Ritesh -
The oldest cricketing rivals will meet again in World Cup semi-final, but not for the first time in a World Cup knock out game.
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News Reports

Delhi DCP Madhur Verma transferred to Arunachal Pradesh

OpIndia Staff -
Madhur Verma, IPS, has been relieved from his service in Delhi with effect from today to join his new place of posting.
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Fact-Check

Fact Check: No, the government did not ‘fudge’ revenue numbers in the union budget

OpIndia Staff -
Provisional Actual in Economic has been compared with Revised Estimate in the budget to allege that govt fudged numbers in budget
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World Cup 2019

Disappointed but you can’t rely on Rohit And Kohli all the time, says Tendulkar

OpIndia Staff -
Tendulkar praised New Zealand's bowling display and tactical moves by Kane Williamson.
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Fact-Check

No lessons learnt: Rahul Gandhi lies profusely the first time he speaks in Parliament after 2019 elections

Jhankar Mohta -
This time again, Rahul Gandhi spread lies even as he delivered his first speech in the 17th Lok Sabha
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World Cup 2019

No, he hasn’t told us anything as of now, Kohli on Dhoni’s retirement plans

OpIndia Staff -
This was Dhoni's last world cup and many believed that Dhoni would retire once the World Cup is over.
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Government and Policy

Modi government’s bill to amend POCSO Act gets Cabinet nod, child rapists to be awarded the death penalty

OpIndia Staff -
the Centre had earlier introduced a bill to amend POCSO Act, 2012 in May earlier this year in an attempt to introduce the death penalty for child rapists, but the bill had lapsed following the dissolution of the Lok Sabha.
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Social Media

Mumbai Police blocks Payal Rohatgi on Twitter. Here is why is it in poor taste

Editorial Desk -
Rohatgi took to Twitter to voice out her grievances that with the 'biased behaviour' of Mumbai Police, she is scared of living in India.
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News Reports

Karnataka Crisis: SC allows rebel MLAs to appear before Speaker, directs Assembly Speaker to decide on resignations by today

OpIndia Staff -
The 15 rebel MLAs of the Congress-JD(S) coalition in Karnataka have been told by the Supreme Court today to meet the Assembly Speaker and submit their resignations.
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World Cup 2019

Video and stats highlights from India v New Zealand semi final

OpIndia Staff -
Shattered dreams, moist eyes, a shocker for every Indian fan as India lost to New Zealand in the semis of the World Cup.
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Politics

Here are the ten Goa Congress MLAs who switched to BJP and are set to leave for Delhi to meet Amit Shah

OpIndia Staff -
While Karnataka Congress remains on edge, the party also struggles for its existence in Goa
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Law

Ayodhya hearing: Supreme Court seeks interim report from the mediators

OpIndia Staff -
The Court has also said that if the matter is not resolved by mediation then the case would be heard from July 25 onwards on a day to day basis.
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Entertainment

An unapologetic Kangana Ranaut dares the ‘pseudo journalists’ to ban her, calls them ‘termites’

OpIndia Staff -
The spat between Kangana Ranaut and a 'journalist' began in a film’s song launch event on July 7, 2019. Kangana Ranaut had publically criticised PTI Journalist Justin Rao for his bias and his alleged propaganda against her movie 'Manikarnika'
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World Cup 2019

India vs New Zealand: Dhoni gambled, but Guptill pulled out an Ace at the end

Sandeep Singh -
India’s worst fears came true in the semi-final match.
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Opinions

Rahul Gandhi finds easy being in the Opposition, maybe that’s why he is where he is

Shashank Bharadwaj -
With Rahul Gandhi making his intentions clear in Amethi stating that he finds joy in being in opposition party as it easy, it is nothing but gloomy for the Congress party.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: 6 arrested after illegal weapons recovered from Madrasa, ferried weapons using car with ‘Shiv Sena’ sticker to hide identity

OpIndia Staff -
The car which reportedly smuggled weapons was also recovered from the madarsa. As per reports, the car had 'Shiv Sena' written on it.
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News Reports

CBI raids Indira Jaising and husband Anand Grover’s residences in connection with FCRA violations by Lawyers Collective

OpIndia Staff -
The residences of lawyer and activist Indira Jaising and husband Anand Grover are being raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with FCRA violations
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News Reports

Actress Swastika Dutta pulled out of the car and threatened by Uber driver Jamshed

OpIndia Staff -
In Kolkata, West Bengal, a Bengali serial actress, Swastika Dutta was pulled out of her Uber taxi and threatened by the driver, Jamshed. The actress took to Facebook to pen down her ordeal.
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