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Crime

Kashmir: Viral video shows teacher holding an axe on a child’s neck, threatening to slaughter him

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, the child being terrorised in the video is ten years old. Other students in the room watch helplessly as the child is held down and is threatened with an axe.
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Cricket

‘Match-winning lady’, Businessman Anand Mahindra cheers for India, offers to sponsor tickets of the elderly ‘lucky lady’ for India matches

OpIndia Staff -
The 87-year-old lady was cheering for India and the men in blue later went to take her blessings for rest of the tournament in a heart-touching moment.
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News Reports

Only criteria for appointment of judges in Collegium system are casteism and nepotism: Allahabad HC judge writes to PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
Justice Rang Nath Pandey says that appointments under the Collegium system are made on the basis of favouritism and lobbying
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News Reports

Supreme Court seeks response of the Centre and the EC on a petition seeking ban on announcement cash transfer schemes before elections

OpIndia Staff -
The petitioner Dr. Pentapati Pulla Rao contended in the petition that such schemes provide an unfair advantage to the ruling party
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News Reports

Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt demands strict action against miscreants who attacked temple in Delhi, says India is a Hindu Rashtra

OpIndia Staff -
Dutt tweeted to assert that India is a Hindu Rashtra and attack on our religion is unacceptable.
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Media

Uttar Pradesh: Muslim man gives Triple Talaq to his wife for being fat

OpIndia Staff -
Muslim man in UP divorces wife through triple talaq for being fat
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Crime

MHA reveals Madrasas are being used to radicalise and recruit terrorists in West Bengal

OpIndia Staff -
The MHA has informed in the Lok Sabha that Madrasas in several West Bengal districts are being used as radicalisation and recruitment centres for JMB.
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News Reports

Sunny Deol clarifies on appointment of representative, says it is to ensure smooth flow of work when he is out of the constituency

OpIndia Staff -
Clarifying on his appointment as Deol's representative Palheri told that Deol wanted to be available to the people of Gurdaspur round the clock, therefore, he made the appointment.
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News Reports

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut says wall collapse deaths are not BMC’s fault, tweets poetry on raindrops

OpIndia Staff -
As Mumbai reels under torrential rains and people die, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut tweets monsoon poetry.
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News Reports

Congress leader whitewashes Chandni Chowk temple vandalism, says the attack was not on temple

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader and Delhi municipal councillor Yasmin Kidwai says that Durga temple in Delhi was not attacked
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News Reports

Twitter users claiming to be employees of Kapil Sibal backed Tiranga TV allege they are being fired with just one month’s salary

OpIndia Staff -
Several Tiranga TV employees tweeted that they have been fired, and demanded to meet Kapil Sibal
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi supporter attempts to commit suicide in front of Congress office, sympathisers chant Rahul Gandhi zindabad as police whisks him away

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi has been insistent on resigning from the position of Congress Presidency after a humiliating defeat in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
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News Reports

Shahi Imam of Fatehpuri Masjid calls temple desecration ‘chhota sa waqia’, invokes his community’s ‘tolerance’ during L K Advani’s Rath Yatra

OpIndia Staff -
The Imam says that the facts regarding the incident, whether the temple was attacked, who attacked it and how much damage was caused will be clear only after a detailed inquiry.
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News Reports

ISKCON invites Nusrat Jahan as special guest for Rathayatra, the TMC MP accepts invitation

OpIndia Staff -
The 48th edition of the Ratha yatra organised by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) since 1971, will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
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Opinions

I am a Hindu: Breaking of temples brings back the worst of my civilizational memories

Abhishek Banerjee -
The incident in Chandni Chowk, in the heart of Delhi, in today’s India, causes a deep pain. It reminds us of the humiliation that our ancestors suffered for being Hindus in India.
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News Reports

Sonia Gandhi indulges in fearmongering, opposes corporatisation of Railway production units by terming it as ‘privatisation’ in parliament

OpIndia Staff -
Sonia Gandhi lies in Parliament, says corporatisation of Railway production units mean privatisation
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Crime

Ahmednagar: Muzaffar Patel, Gulshan Sheikh arrested for keeping a woman captive, raping her for not embracing Islam

OpIndia Staff -
According to the complaint filed by the victim, Muzaffar Patel had threatened to kill her and her father and forced her to embrace Islam
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World Cup 2019

World Cup Preview – India v Bangladesh: A must win game for Bangladesh

Ritesh -
Bangladesh plays against India to keep its hopes for entering the semi-finals alive.
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News Reports

PNB Scam: Singapore High Court orders attachment of properties of fugitive Nirav Modi worth Rs 44 crore

OpIndia Staff -
The Singapore High Court ordered the freezing of balance of $ 6.122 million (Rs.44 crores) crore in the bank account maintained in Singapore by Pavilion Point Corporation, British Virgin Island, a company beneficially owned by Mayank Mehta and Purvi Modi brother-in-law and sister of Nirav Modi.
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Media Fact-Check

TV9 Bharatvarsh deletes its video after Twitter users expose the fake video claiming PM Modi met former PM Manmohan Singh to discuss Indian economy

OpIndia Staff -
In fact, no formal meeting between the present and former PM has taken place in recent days. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman had met the former PM Singh last week. Though no official details of the meeting were available, it was cited as a 'courtesy visit'.
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Crime

Chandni Chowk MP Dr Harshvardhan directs police to take strict action against the miscreants who desecrated the Durga temple

OpIndia Staff -
Though the tension prevailing over the temple vandalisation moves into its third day, the Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal is yet to come out and make any statement
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi to choose a Dalit to follow his orders? Reports suggest Shinde might become Congress President

OpIndia Staff -
Sitaram Kesri was the last non-Gandhi, who served as Congress’ party president between 1996-1998.
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News Reports

Muslim groups carry out violent protests over alleged bike thief Tabrez’s death, stone pelting, clashes with police reported from Agra and Meerut

OpIndia Staff -
Both in Mawana and Agra, hundreds of Muslims had first gathered at Mosques and had then carried out violent protests and stone pelting.
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Crime

Delhi temple attack: Witness says AAP MLA Imran Hussain joined the mob and did not stop attacks on temple

OpIndia Staff -
Union Minister and Chandni Chowk MP Dr Harsh Vardhan visited the site this morning and condemned the incident while appealing for peace.
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News Reports

Mumbai rains: Wall collapse leaves 16 dead, trains suspended, flights diverted, schools closed as city reels under a torrential downpour

OpIndia Staff -
The rainwater has drained into Mithi river, which has now crossed dangerous levels. At least 1000 people have been evacuated from Kranti Nagar area of Kurla in Mumbai to safer places to avoid any untoward incident due to the overflow of Mithi river.
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Media

He knowingly violated CARA guideline and JJ Act: Journalist who accused filmmaker Vinod Kapri of faking an adoption story for self promotion

OpIndia Staff -
Despite warning from CARA CEO, the couple continued to post pictures of the child on social media. Kapri had even put up the child's photo as his profile picture on Twitter.
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News Reports

Make your train journey delicious: How to get food from your favourite restaurant delivered at your seat on Indian Railway

OpIndia Staff -
Passengers can either use the phone, mobile app or even log on to the website to order their food from IRCTC eCatering service
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News Reports

Lok Sabha passes bill reversing court order which had effectively ended reservation in college and university teacher posts

OpIndia Staff -
Lok Sabha passes bill overturning Allahabad High Court order which had reduced the number of reserved posts in college-universities by up to 95%
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News Reports

Amit Shah in Rajya Sabha: Those endeavouring to break India will be responded back in the same coin

OpIndia Staff -
Amit Shah tabled Jammu and Kashmir reservation bill in Rajya Sabha that provides reservation to the children living along the International Border
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News Reports

Odisha: IAS officer accused of spending 70 lakh in six months for renovation of her official residential quarters

OpIndia Staff -
The Odisha Government has transferred the District Collector of Sundargarh for defrauding the government
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News Reports

After TRS leader arrested for assaulting forest officer, his brother and TRS MLA Koneru Konappa caught teaching villagers to blame the officers

OpIndia Staff -
TRS MLA Koneru Konappa teaches villagers to say that his brother had assaulted female forest officer because the officials had come to grab land
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News Reports

Congress Chief Ministers meet Rahul Gandhi to persuade him to continue as party president, Kamal Nath offers to resign

OpIndia Staff -
In a Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting following the Lok Sabha election results, Rahul Gandhi had lashed out senior Congress leaders Kamal Nath, Ashok Gehlot and P Chidambaram for putting their sons above the party.
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News Reports

USA: Violent Communist group Antifa, celebrated by Democrats and mainstream media, attacks gay journalist

OpIndia Staff -
Gay Journalist Andy Ngo was attacked by members of the Far-Left terrorist group Antifa in Portland, USA while he was covering one of their rallies.
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Politics

Delhi BJP accuses AAP government of Rs 2000 crore scam in the construction of classrooms

OpIndia Staff -
Manoj Tiwari alleged these classrooms could be constructed at a cost of Rs 800 crore only which shows that there was a scam of Rs 2000 crore.
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Crime

RSS worker Rudresh murder case: Supreme Court rejects accused PFI leader’s plea against framing charges

OpIndia Staff -
The NIA had made serious charges against PFI member Asim Sharif for his alleged involvement in the killing of RSS activist Rudresh. Rudresh, the RSS worker, was hacked to death in the Shivajinagar area of Bengaluru in October 2016.
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Opinions

Lower corporate tax and cost of capital to river interlinking: My wishlist for Budget 2019

Karan -
Low cost of capital is critical to help bring in requisite investments and give a major boost to our growth
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Entertainment

Zaira Wasim’s manager flip-flops: After claiming her SM accounts were hacked, now says Zaira herself made those posts

OpIndia Staff -
Zaira Wasim has earlier posted on her Social Media account page her decision to quit from the Bollywood claiming that her chosen line of career impacted her relationship with Islam.
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Opinions

The not-so-syncretic Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb and the false wails of how ‘Sanghis’ turned Urdu into a ‘Muslim language’

kabirpandit -
Often one sees 'liberals invoking Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb or the Syncretic Hindu Muslim culture of North India every time they hear the idea of New India. In reality, they see it as an attack on anything Muslim by the BJP.
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Entertainment

Earlier they were called ‘tawaif’ now they are called ‘actresses’: Samajwadi Party MP ST Hassan’s sexist jibe on Zaira Wasim

OpIndia Staff -
Samajwadi Party MP ST Hassan suggested Zaira Wasim could go for 'pure' acting.
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Opinions

The Fault in our Stars: The tale of Nusrat Jahan and Zaira Wasim, a clash of personal choice and religion

K Bhattacharjee -
Nusrat Jahan and Zaira Wasim created quite the storm on social media with their 'personal decisions'.
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News Reports

‘If Article 370 is temporary then J&K’s ties with India also temporary’, Farooq Abdullah on Amit Shah’s Lok Sabha comments

OpIndia Staff -
This is not the first time dynasts Muftis and Abdullah's have spewed venom in the wake of BJP’s resolve to abrogate Article 370 and Article 35A
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News Reports

Doctors of Delhi’s Hindu Rao Hospital allege assault by a patient’s attendants, declare strike

OpIndia Staff -
Doctors at the Hindu Rao Hospital have allegedly been attacked after a patient with chronic renal failure succumbed to illness in the hospital.
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Politics

DMK snubs Congress, rejects its request to allot a Rajya Sabha seat for Manmohan Singh

OpIndia Staff -
Former PM Manmohan Singh’s Rajya Sabha term from Assam is nearing its end and Congress had sought an RS seat from DMK for the former PM
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News Reports

Durga Mandir in Delhi’s Chandi Chowk vandalised, local residents post videos on social media blaming Muslim mob

OpIndia Staff -
Muslims vandalise Hindu temple in Old Delhi
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Law

SC issues contempt notice to West Bengal govt over delay in release of activist who posted Mamata Banerjee’s meme

OpIndia Staff -
Priyanka Sharma, a BJP Yuva Morcha leader, was arrested on May 10 by the West Bengal Police under section 500 (defamation) of the Indian Penal Code and under provisions of the Information Technology Act for posting a meme of CM Mamata Banerjee
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World Cup 2019

Statistics and Video Highlights from India v England Game

OpIndia Staff -
India lost the match by 31 runs, Bairstow received the man of the match award for his hundred.
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World Cup 2019

World Cup Preview, Sri Lanka v West Indies: Nothing to lose, nothing to gain

Ritesh -
Sri Lanka lost to South Africa gave England a chance to go through, and they did it by beating India in Birmingham, shutting the doors for Sri Lanka of reaching the semis.
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Entertainment

Zaira Wasim’s manager says her account was ‘hacked’, she didn’t put up post about quitting Bollywood because it took her away from Islam

OpIndia Staff -
Talking about the difficulties that she had faced, Zaira Wasim had said that she has found solace in Allah and Quran.
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News Reports

BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya breaks his silence, calls his son and the civic officer “kache khiladi”

OpIndia Staff -
Akash had maintained that he was not embarrassed or guilty as he could not think of anything else when women were being mistreated
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Opinions

Two years of GST: The GST Council Miracle and how Modi sarkar became the first to survive GST

Abhishek Banerjee -
The fact that people stuck by Modi is a historic masterclass in leadership.
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