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West Bengal: ABVP student severely injured in bomb blast done allegedly by TMC goons, hospitalised in critical condition

OpIndia Staff -
An ABVP activist was gravely injured after a bomb blast at Kalyani University allegedly perpetrated by goons associated with the Trinamool Congress (TMC)
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News Reports

Aurangabad: Eyewitnesses refute allegations of Muslim man who alleged that he was made to chant ‘Jai Shree Ram’

OpIndia Staff -
Contrary to Imran's claims that the scuffle broke out after the mob forced him to chant 'Jai Shri Ram', the eye-witnesses assert that the fight happened due to personal animosity
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News Reports

Thou shalt smite? Karnataka CM Kumaraswamy calls himself God, says BJP will face ‘judgement day’

OpIndia Staff -
Kumaraswamy said that his government was formed by God and God will punish BJP if they try to bring it down.
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Politics

Azam Khan says Muslims are paying the price of not joining Pakistan after the partition

OpIndia Staff -
Azam Khan has claimed that the 'mob lynching' incidents are Muslims getting punished for not going to Pakistan in 1947. Khan, however, does not mention anything about scores of Hindus who have been killed by Muslim mobs in the country.
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Crime

Delhi police bust Taliban controlled heroin racket, Afghan-Pakistani cartel worth 5000 crores discovered

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Delhi police's special cell has busted a sophisticated Afghan-Pakistani heroin cartel that used heroin-soaked jute bags carrying spices and dry fruits to smuggle the drug into India.
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News Reports

‘India cannot be refugee capital of the world’, central govt tells SC while seeking extension for final NRC publication

OpIndia Staff -
An affidavit was filed by the Centre seeking a direction for 20% re-verification of the final draft of the NRC in the districts bordering Bangladesh and 10% in the rest of Assam.
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News Reports

Crucial files vanish from Punjab govt ministry which was headed by Navjot Singh Sidhu before reshuffle in June

OpIndia Staff -
Navjot Singh Sidhu was divested of the Local Government Ministry citing “inept handling” by Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh
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News Reports

Devotees and volunteers reconstruct the destroyed Brindavana of Vyasaraja Swami in less than two days

OpIndia Staff -
Local devotees and volunteers had gathered to reconstruct the Brindavana of Shri Vyasaraja Swami after it was found destroyed yesterday.
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Crime

Chhattisgarh: Village tense after cow carcass discovered, case registered against unknown miscreants as villagers demand action

OpIndia Staff -
The villagers suspect that the crime was committed by people from the Muslim community.
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Crime

Hindu boy’s family forced out of village for marrying Muslim girl, police advices boy to convert as villagers threaten to kill

OpIndia Staff -
Newlywed Hindu boy and Muslim girl approach SSP for protection as villagers threaten to kill them and local police ask the boy to convert
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Politics

National Flag on Shashi Tharoor’s desk placed upside down as he extends support to disgraced cop Sanjiv Bhatt

OpIndia Staff -
In an embarrassment for Shashi Tharoor, the pictures he posted on Twitter show that the National Flag on his desk is upside down.
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Politics

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor extends support to disgraced cop Sanjiv Bhatt sentenced to life in custodial death case

OpIndia Staff -
Shashi Tharoor had tweeted today that he had met with the family of disgraced cop Sanjiv Bhatt
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News Reports

US security aid to Pakistan to remain suspended pending decisive action against terror groups

OpIndia Staff -
A US Congressional report has said that Pakistan is a haven for numerous Islamist extremist and terrorist groups.
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News Reports

ZEE Media files criminal defamation case against TMC MP Mahua Moitra for calling them Chor and paid news

OpIndia Staff -
Mahua Moitra had filed a criminal defamation case against Zee News journalist Sudhir Chaudhary on June 15 alleging that he claimed that her maiden speech in the Parliament was plagiarised.
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Law

Petition filed in Delhi High Court challenging the prohibition and criminalization of Marijuana, lists medical uses of cannabis

OpIndia Staff -
The petitioner is being represented by Senior Advocate Arvind Datar and advocate J Sai Deepak.
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News Reports

BJP doesn’t want Dalits becoming rich: Mayawati plays the caste card after brother’s benami property gets attached

OpIndia Staff -
Mayawati alleged that BJP and its ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) didn't want 'people from the backward castes to do better.'
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Social Media

Bengali Newspaper thinks Dustin and Lucas from Stranger Things are French footballers Griezmann and Umtiti in childhood

OpIndia Staff -
A Bengali newspaper has taken Griezmann's joking tweet seriously and published the image of Stranger Things actors as a photo from the football stars' childhood.
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News Reports

Personal Security Officer of Mehbooba Mufti’s cousin shot dead by unidentified assailant in Jammu and Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
The PSO named Farooq Ahmad was standing outside the mosque in Baba Mohalla area of Bijbehara when an unidentified gunman shot him dead.
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Opinions

BJP needs to urgently recalibrate its Gujarat strategy: The model delivered India to Modi, but it has now reached a saturation point

Abhishek Banerjee -
While the Gujarat model is delivering India to Modi, the model has hit saturation point in Gujarat.
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Crime

Jharkhand: Court rejects bail of baby-selling nun, Church portal calls it ‘sectarian hatred’

K Bhattacharjee -
Christian news portal UCAN claimed that the Missionaries of Charity nun was being denied bail due to sectarian hatred and political pressure from the BJP government.
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Law

Shia Waqf Board chief petitions court to ban ‘un-Islamic’ green flag, SC seeks Modi government’s response

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Syed Waseem Rizvi, chairman of Shia Waqf Board filed a petition in the Supreme Court asking to ban the green flag with a crescent moon and a star
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Crime

Bihar: 3 cattle thieves, Raju Nutt, Naushad Quereshi and Veeresh Nutt beaten to death by locals, one critical

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A group of 4 alleged cattle smugglers were stealing a buffalo when the villagers caught them and pounded them with sticks and rods
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Political Fact-Check

Rahul Gandhi lies, says Priyanka Vadra arrested in UP who was only taken away to a guest house

OpIndia Staff -
Priyanka Gandhi was taken to the guest house as a preventive measure, but Rahul Gandhi lies by terming it arrest
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News Reports

Haryana: Hindu organisations recite Hanuman Chalisa in protest alleging that two youths were arrested on false molestation charges

OpIndia Staff -
Hindus said that the Yamunanagar police never takes up the cases against the people of the minority community seriously
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News Reports

Supreme Court orders verdict in Babri Masjid demolition case to be delivered within 9 months

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court asks special judge to deliver verdict in Babri Masjid demolition case within nine months
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Crime

Mangaluru villagers caught Mohammad Ansari raping a calf, police arrests villagers for ‘hurting religious beliefs’

OpIndia Staff -
In the Kunjathbail village in Mangaluru, Mohammad Ansari was caught red-handed by the villagers while he was raping a calf.
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News Reports

Priyanka Vadra attempts to visit Sonbhadra massacre site despite section 144, detained by police at guest house

OpIndia Staff -
Priyanka Vadra detained by UP police on her way to Sonbhadra
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Cricket

Here are 15 famous quotes from Harsha Bhogle during his commentary stint

Ritesh -
The famous Indian commentator, Harsha Bhogle, born on July 19 in Hyderabad is celebrating his 58th birthday today.
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News Reports

United Muslim Forum asks Muslims not to kill cows on Bakr-Eid, asks state government to stop Gau Rakshaks

OpIndia Staff -
The United Muslim Forum reportedly said that the Muslim community must refrain from killing bovine animals on Bakr-Eid so the possibilities of mischief are reduced.
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News Reports

Amidst political drama in Karnataka, old video of Assembly speaker where he says he ‘felt like rape victim’ goes viral

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Karnataka assembly speaker Ramesh Kumar had created a controversy after he insensitively used an analogy to compare himself to a rape victim.
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Media

NCW takes note of women’s sexual harassment complaint against employee of Tiranga TV, Noida police ensures action

OpIndia Staff -
The National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken cognisance of the complaint of sexual harassment that was made by one Himanshi Gupta against a senior producer of Kapil Sibal backed Tiranga TV.
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Cricket

Sachin Tendulkar, Allan Donald and Fitzpatrick inducted in ICC Hall of Fame

OpIndia Staff -
Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar has been inducted into ICC Hall of Fame as soon he became eligible for this prestigious elite group
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Politics

AMU administration’s jolt to Mrs Ansari’s secularism pitch, says no to temple plan inside ‘Chacha Nehru Madarsa’

OpIndia Staff -
Salma Ansari, the wife of former vice president Hamid Ansari, had announced recently that she will have a temple built inside the 'Chacha Nehru Madarsa' that she runs in AMU campus.
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Cricket

ICC suspends Zimbabwe with immediate effect

OpIndia Staff -
The International Cricket Council suspends the Zimbabwe cricket due to political interference in the country.
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News Reports

IMA halal investment scam accused Mansoor Khan arrested by ED as he returns from Dubai

OpIndia Staff -
Mansoor Khan, the owner of I Monetary Advisory (IMA), which provided investment options keeping with Islamic laws, fled India in June. He had left behind an audio clip threatening to commit suicide.
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News Reports

Recent cases of Muslims forced to chant ‘Jai Shree Ram’ fake, elements trying to fan communal tension in UP: UP DGP

OpIndia Staff -
UP DGP OP Singh said that incidents that were reported from Aligarh, Unnao and Kanpur had nothing to do with anyone being forced to chant 'Jai Shree Ram'.
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News Reports

AltNews lies in its response but IFCN declares political activists ‘neutral’: Here is how IFCN is a threat to Indian sovereignty

K Bhattacharjee -
The 'International' in IFCN ought to have been replaced with the word Globalist since it captures their motives and objectives much more effectively.
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News Reports

Muslim man who was thrashed by other Muslims for reading Hindu texts wants to sell his house due to repeated harassment

OpIndia Staff -
Fed up with repeated harassment, Khan now wants to sell his two-room house in Mehfooz Nagar and move to his native village Kailora in Hathras District.
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News Reports

“Do a bigger agitation where at least 20 people are killed in police firing”, TMC leader Subrata Mukherjee mocks BJP’s protests

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Subrata Mukherjee trivialises deaths of political protestors in West Bengal saying BJP workers should mount bigger agitations where 20 people are killed
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News Reports

16th century Brindavana of Sri Vyasaraja near Hampi in Karnataka desecrated and vandalised by unidentified miscreants

OpIndia Staff -
Many Twitter users have condemned the act and called it a deliberate attempt to provoke and humiliate Hindus
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News Reports

Telangana home minister’s kin poses on DGP’s vehicle while threatening the police in Tik Tok video

OpIndia Staff -
Telangana Home Minister Mahmood Ali 's grandson, Furqan Ahmed's Tik Tok video goes viral
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News Reports

UAE troops to take part in training exercise at the Indian Military Academy

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A 20 member contingent of the UAE has already reached the Indian Military Academy as part of the programme on Wednesday.
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Crime

Dosa king to murder convict: All you need to know about the Saravana Bhavan owner who died today days after his surrender

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Rajagopal was convicted for the murder of his employee Shantakumar, husband of the girl he wanted to make his third wife.
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News Reports

Rebel AAP MLA Kapil Mishra seeks permission to examine PAC members to expose Arvind Kejriwal’s lies and corruption

OpIndia Staff -
Kapil Mishra has maintained that the evidence and documents showcased by AAP MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj to get him disqualified were concocted
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Opinions

Revisiting Sainbari, a blot on Indian Democracy: When Communists made a mother eat rice with her dead sons’ blood

K Bhattacharjee -
The Sainbari incident remains the most horrific instance of political violence in the country.
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News Reports

Government asks TikTok, Helo to answer queries on anti-national messages on the apps or face ban

OpIndia Staff -
TikTok and Helo have been ordered to answer a set of 21 questions regarding the various allegations raised by SJM, an affiliate of the RSS
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Politics

As Karnataka assembly descends into turmoil, CM’s brother HD Revanna naps peacefully inside the house

OpIndia Staff -
Amusingly, this is not the first time the Karnataka public works minister has been caught taking a nap in such assembly sessions or public gatherings.
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Cricket

Jason Roy included in squad for the one off test against Ireland

Ritesh -
England Cricket Board and selectors have announced the English squad for the one-off test against Ireland and included the star batsman of their World Cup campaign, Jason Roy in the squad.
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News Reports

Abusive actor Ajaz Khan arrested by Mumbai Police for instigating violence through social media

OpIndia Staff -
Mumbai Police arrests small-time actor Ajaz Khan after he mocked the police on TikTok
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News Reports

Blood and carcasses of illegally slaughtered animals flowing through river Varuna into Ganga in Varanasi: NGT

OpIndia Staff -
Varuna and Assi rivers, the tributaries of Ganga are extremely polluted due to untreated effluent in the form of animal carcasses, body and flesh being drained into the rivers
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