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Crocodiles roam on Vadodara roads after the city receives 20 inches rainfall in 6 hours, Vishwamitri river overflows

OpIndia Staff -
Hence whenever the water levels in the river increase, the crocodiles come to the residential areas of the city.
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News Reports

ISIS terrorist from Kerala killed in US drone strike in Afghanistan, was ‘missing’ since 2017

OpIndia Staff -
The family of Mohammad Muhasin were reportedly informed about his death through a WhatsApp message.
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News Reports

Zomato promises to send ‘Hindu delivery boy’ after PR stunt backfired, claims customer

OpIndia Staff -
In the screenshot that was posted, Zomato customer care can be seen apologizing profusely to the customer and promising to send Hindu delivery person only
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News Reports

Despite no complaint, MP Police to act against Zomato user for refusing a non-Hindu delivery boy and ‘hurting religious sentiments’

OpIndia Staff -
OpIndia spoke to the Superindentent of Police who confirmed to us that he has taken suo motu cognisance and is initiating preventive measure against Amit Shukla in the Zomato case
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News Reports

Pakistan grants consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav on Friday as per ICJ order, India is evaluating the proposal

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan has said that Indian officials can meet Kulbhushan Jadhav on Friday.
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Opinions

Murder of Gopal, the Gaurakshak, is a tragedy, a gruesome crime, unfortunately, one that ‘elites’ couldn’t care less about

K Bhattacharjee -
On Monday evening, Gopal from Haryana was shot dead by cattle smugglers. Gopal is survived by three daughters.
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Politics

Azam Khan’s son and SP MLA from Suar Abdullah Azam detained again for clashing with police amidst Section 144

OpIndia Staff -
Abdullah Azam Khan was detained yesterday too for obstructing the police from carrying out raids in the Mohammad Ali Jauhar University, whose chancellor is his father Azam Khan.
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Law

Unnao rape case: SC orders CBI to conclude the accident probe within 7 days, trial court to hear the case daily

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court has also directed the CRPF to provide the security to the victim's family and the lawyer of the victim. The Supreme Court ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to provide an interim compensation of Rs.25 lakh to the victim and her family.
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Crime

Bijnor: Muslim youths break Goddess Bhavani idol after entering temple pretending to be Hindus

OpIndia Staff -
Rashid and Yasin have been detained by the police and further investigation is underway.
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News Reports

Even as Delhi govt’s subsidy payments to power companies rise every year, Arvind Kejriwal makes electricity free for residents

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi CM Kejriwal announces free electricity upto 200 units, RTI reveals Delhi govt’s rising subsidy payment to power companies
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News Reports

Kerala cop death: Family alleges conspiracy, claims seniors harassed him because he was an Adivasi, was regularly abused

OpIndia Staff -
The suicide note recovered divulged similar details which Kumar's wife had shared
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News Reports

Haryana: Women harassed by Muslim youths during Kanwar yatra, protesting companions beaten up

OpIndia Staff -
Israel, Asif, Hussain, Nauman, Zubair, Subbe, Naeem and Hashim harras girls during kanwar yatra in Haryana, beats up companions who had protested it
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News Reports

Unnao Rape Case: Rape accused MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar expelled from BJP

OpIndia Staff -
Unnao rape accused MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar has been expelled from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
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Law

SC to expedite hearing in the Unnao rape case, set to transfer all 5 cases out of Uttar Pradesh

OpIndia Staff -
Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi has sought full information on the investigations both in the rape case as well as on the accident that took place on Sunday.
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News Reports

INX scam case: ED asks Congress MP Karti Chidambaram to vacate Jor Bagh residence within 10 days

OpIndia Staff -
Along with his Jor Bagh residence, the ED had also attached properties and bank deposits of Karti Chidambaram worth around Rs.54 crores in connection with the case in October last year.
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Social Media

CPI (Marxist) leader spreads photoshopped image attributing fake quote to Smriti Irani on Unnao rape case

OpIndia Staff -
The morphed image with the logo of ABP News has attributed a fake quote to Smriti Irani over the Unnao rape accused Kuldeep Sengar.
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Politics

Former SP leader Amar Singh calls out ‘old friend’ Jaya Bachchan for her ‘selective outrage’ after her laughing pics at Unnao protests go viral

OpIndia Staff -
Twitter users also took a dig at how the actress brought out the politician within her when the cameras were on.
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Opinions

BODMAS rule, Cafe Coffee Day founder V G Siddhartha suicide and simplifying the ‘tax code’

Abhishek Banerjee -
Cafe Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha has left behind a letter, which has gone viral as well. In that, he explains that he had problems paying back loans and had faced harassment from the Income Tax Department.
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Law

President Ram Nath Kovind gives his assent to landmark Triple Talaq bill, law to be enforced retrospectively

OpIndia Staff -
The NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi championing the social cause of Muslim women had initiated the process of legislation to ban "Triple Talaq" after the historic Supreme Court judgement declaring the barbaric Islamic practise as unconstitutional.
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Editor's picks

Dear Uber, why didn’t you tweet “cars have no religion” when ‘liberals’ were complaining about angry Hanuman sticker

Jinit Jain -
Last year, one Resmi Nair had outraged that posters of Hanuman on cabs symbolised militant Hindutva
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News Reports

China orders halal restaurants and food stalls to remove Arabic script and symbols associated with Islam from their signages

OpIndia Staff -
As the ruling Communist Party tries to “Sinicise religion,” Islamic decor and Arabic signs are being taken off the streets of China
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News Reports

ISI backed Khalistani separatists are trying to make United Kingdom its hub: Former Punjab DGP

OpIndia Staff -
Former DGP Punjab has alleged that Pakistan-based pro-Khalistani Sikhs are cementing a strong foothold in the United Kingdom, especially Birmingham city.
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Sports

I never said that I urge IOA not to shun CWG, Nation comes first: PV Sindhu slams TOI journalist for attributing wrong statement to...

OpIndia Staff -
The Indian Olympic Association has proposed to boycott the Commonweath Games 2020 after shooting was dropped from the list of sports
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News Reports

IAF launches combat simulator mobile game ‘Indian Air Force: A Cut Above’, WC Abhinandan features in trailer

OpIndia Staff -
The combat simulator game will be available both in Android and iOS platforms.
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News Reports

Zomato takes cognizance of Halal-Jhatka debate, says will provide Jhatka tag if customers demand it

OpIndia Staff -
Zomato has issued a statement over the Halal controversy.
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News Reports

Mystery over CCD owner Siddhartha’s suicide deepens as details of alleged Hawala links with Congress leader DK Shivakumar emerges

OpIndia Staff -
Sensational details have emerged related to the tax probe carried out by the Income Tax department against Siddhartha, the same investigation that he had dubbed as 'harassment' in his letter to the board dated July 27.
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Opinions

History could remember Modi as one who freed Indian Muslim women

Ashish Shukla -
Empowering Muslim women could transform the community. It frees them up to express an opinion and seek financial security, gain education and pass on the good word to their kids.
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News Reports

Azam Khan’s son and Suar MLA Abdullah detained by UP Police for obstructing raids at University

OpIndia Staff -
Abdullah Azam Khan, son of SP leader Azam Khan and MLA of Suar was detained by UP Police for obstructing the raids at Maulana Ali Jauhar University.
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News Reports

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan calls for a cabinet meeting over increased prices of ‘Roti’ and ‘Naan’

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan government also shared a video of the above cabinet meeting deciding prices of roti and naan on Twitter. 
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News Reports

CJI denies not taking action on Unnao rape victim’s letter, asks secretary-general why the letter wasn’t placed before him

OpIndia Staff -
The CJI has sought a report from the Supreme Court registry as to why the letter by the Unnao rape victim was not placed before him
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Crime

Jamshedpur: 3-years-old girl beheaded, mother’s illicit lover being probed with criminal conspiracy, two others arrested

OpIndia Staff -
A decapitated body of a three-year-old girl who went missing from the Tatanagar railway station was found in the bushes in a lane adjoining Ramamdhin Bagan in Jamshedpur
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News Reports

“Male passengers, driver, conductors sat as mute spectator,” woman narrates harrowing experience on Mumbai bus

OpIndia Staff -
Nakhua was taking a public bus in Mumbai when one Amit Sanse allegedly took her picture and video recorded her without her permission.
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Crime

Alwar: Cattle smugglers fire bullets and injure villagers, one accused Salim Khan arrested

OpIndia Staff -
After a group of villagers tried to confront the cattle smugglers in Kathumar village, they allegedly fired at them to run away.
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Opinions

Triple Talaq Bill a shining example of the Indian state standing up to votebank politics

Abhishek Banerjee -
The Triple Talaq Bill is among the first examples of the Government of India standing up to the power of Islamist mobs.
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Opinions

Dear Zomato, you cannot make concessions for Halal meat and then claim ‘food has no religion’

K Bhattacharjee -
Twitter is Ground Zero for another culture war today due to Zomato.
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Crime

Haryana: Cattle smugglers escape after shooting Gau Rakshak dead

OpIndia Staff -
35-year-old Gopal was a member of a local cattle protection group and he had been involved in several cases where smuggling of stolen cattle was stopped by locals.
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News Reports

Former Jammu and Kashmir CM Farooq Abdullah grilled by ED in J&K Cricket Association scam

OpIndia Staff -
After chargesheeted by CBI, Farooq Abdullah questioned by ED in JKCA scam
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Opinions

Mehbooba Mufti warns India would burn: It is time to call her bluff

Ashish Shukla -
If push comes to shove, Modi government is within its Constitutional right to scrap Article 370 and 35A.
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News Reports

“We are Indians”, residents of ‘Pakistan Wali Gali’ in Greater Noida write to PM Modi and CM Yogi urging name change of their colony

OpIndia Staff -
The area comprising of about 70 houses got its name after some people came and settled down there from Pakistan during partition
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Economy and Finance

Finance Ministry needs to move away from Socialist policies: Surcharge on rich was wonky enough, new CSR norms are beyond ridiculous

Karan -
Across the globe there are discussions regarding CSR norms and their implications for social responsibility, governments, public policy and society in general. There are many arguments for and against CSR norms and most of these arguments are valid.
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News Reports

Fugitive Nirav Modi and Vijay Mallya’s extradition pushed to next year, both trials in the UK pushed to 2020

OpIndia Staff -
Nirav Modi and Vijaya Mallya are amongst the several high-value Indian extradition requests
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Politics

Do not dare to touch us Didi, we are atom bombs: AIMIM warns Mamata and TMC as Owaisi’s party hints entry into Bengal assembly...

OpIndia Staff -
AIMIM's national spokesperson has teased recently that the party is entering Bengal politics and it is up to Mamata whether she will take them as friends or foes.
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Crime

CBI registers case against suspended BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in Unnao rape victim accident case

OpIndia Staff -
On Sunday, the victim of the Unnao rape case was travelling to Rae Bareli with her two aunts, and her lawyer Mahendra Singh when their vehicle was hit by a truck, rendering them critically injured.
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News Reports

Cafe Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha dead, body recovered from the banks of Nethravati river near Mangaluru

OpIndia Staff -
His body has been kept at Wenlock Hospital in Mangaluru, from where it will be taken to Chettanahalli estate near Mudigere. The cremation is likely to be held today.
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi wants to get rid of his name. Here is why

OpIndia Staff -
The curse of being Rahul Gandhi.
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News Reports

SP leader Azam Khan’s university in Rampur raided by police, hundreds of books and manuscripts stolen from madrasa recovered

OpIndia Staff -
More than 9000 books from Madrasa Aliya in Rampur stolen, some of them found in Azam Khan's University
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News Reports

Saddam Qureshi, admin of ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ WhatsApp group, arrested for spreading anti-India messages

OpIndia Staff -
Bihar Police arrested admin Saddam Qureshi of WhatsApp group called 'Pakistan Zindabad' for anti-national activities and inciting religious hatred.
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News Reports

VVIP chopper scam: I-T dept attaches MP CM Kamal Nath’s nephew Ratul Puri’s benami equities worth Rs 254 crores

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, Kamal Nath’s nephew Ratul Puri fled ED’s investigation on the pretext of going to the bathroom
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Fact-Check

Congress leader Siddaramaiah spreads fake news, shares unrelated photos to allege BS Yediyurappa participated in Tipu Jayanti

OpIndia Staff -
In fact, a simple google reverse search reveals that none of the pictures relate to any celebration of Tippu Jayanti attended by the senior BJP leaders. 
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News Reports

Rajya Sabha passes the historic Triple Talaq Bill, practice will now carry 3-year jail term

OpIndia Staff -
The Triple Talaq Bill will be Law once Presidential assent is given.
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