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NIA busts Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh terror module in Bengaluru, seizes live IEDs and components

OpIndia Staff -
The NIA busted the terror ring based on the revelations made by key JMB operative Habibur Rehman, who was arrested by the security agencies last month
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Opinions

Majnu Ka Tilla: A Tilla of hope, dreams and aspirations for Pakistani Hindu refugees

nandini -
Minki with the blue eyes was one of the first refugees brought to the Majnu ka Tilla camp.
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Politics

Inefficient, dishonest, and lack of coordination: Urmila’s letter slams two of Sanjay Nirupam’s aides for her ‘disastrous campaign’

OpIndia Staff -
Urmila Matondkar, who had unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha elections from the Mumbai North constituency, had written a letter dated May 16 to Mumbai Congress chief Milind Deora criticising the conduct of two close associates of Sanjay Nirupam.
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News Reports

IndiaSpend’s ‘FactChecker’ twists facts again, portrays Muslims as victims in the Hauz Qazi temple desecration case

OpIndia Staff -
FactChecker claims tensions flared between two the communities on 2nd of July after bike rallies by Bajrang Dal and VHP.
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Entertainment

Here is the song for which rapper Honey Singh has been booked by Punjab police

OpIndia Staff -
Rapper Honey Singh had unveiled, what he called his come back song, in December 2018
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Opinions

Toxic Femininity in Indian Politics: A phenomenon ignored entirely by Feminists

K Bhattacharjee -
Mehbooba Mufti, the former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, is one of many Muslim women who present a unique rebuttal to the dogma of feminism.
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News Reports

IMA scam: IAS officer arrested on charges of receiving Rs 1.5 crore bribe from ‘halal’ investment group owner

OpIndia Staff -
Moreover, as the ED, which is probing the case simultaneously, tightened its noose on the IMA Ponzi scheme, Congress' involvement in the scam started surfacing
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News Reports

Ranchi: Probe launched to investigate bus burning attempt by Muslim mob protesting over Tabrez’s death

OpIndia Staff -
Multiple incidences of violence have been reported from Ranchi where Muslim groups were protesting over Tabrez Ansari's death.
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Politics

Kamal Nath asks his MLAs to prepare for floor tests as BJP predicts collapse of govt in MP following Karnataka crisis

OpIndia Staff -
Congress, as it continues to fight for its relevance and existence at the national level, is struggling to keep the power in the states it had recently formed coalition governments in.
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World Cup 2019

As India takes on New Zealand, here is a look at how India and New Zealand have fared in semi-final matches till now

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India and New Zealand will take on each other in the World Cup semi-final on Tuesday. Let's look into the five most significant semis played by these two teams in the World Cup history.
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Crime

Sadiq, Aziz, Yunus, Naushad arrested and 4 other accused on the run as teak smugglers attack police personnel

OpIndia Staff -
In a sensational incident, teak smugglers in Brahmanwada Thadi village of Maharashtra launched an attack on the local crime branch of the police that had come to arrest them.
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News Reports

They were ‘cow smugglers’, not just ’25 men’ who were tied up and made to chant Gau Mata ki Jai, dear ‘seculars’

OpIndia Staff -
Journalists turn cow smugglers into innocent men to create narrative of mob lynching
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News Reports

Watch: Amarnath Yatris chant “ITBP Zindabad” as soldiers form a human wall to shield pilgrims from shooting stones

OpIndia Staff -
In the video, the ITBP forces can be seen standing steadfast, shielding Amarnath Yatra pilgrims as they encounter a shower of stones and water.
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Politics

Prashant Kishor: Here is why this one man has India’s political class enslaved

Ashish Shukla -
Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has put Prashant Kishor on her burning deck.
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Cricket

BCCI appoints Rahul Dravid as the head of National Cricket Academy (NCA)

OpIndia Staff -
The 46 years old Rahul Dravid, who worked as a head coach of under 19 and India 'A' teams, had played 164 Tests and 344 ODIs for India.
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News Reports

New idols to be consecrated at Lal Kuan Durga Mandir, temple committee to bear all expenses for renovations

OpIndia Staff -
The Durga Mandir was vandalized by a Muslim mob on the night of 30th of June, leading to communal tension in the area.
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News Reports

[Pictures]: Chants of Jai Shree Ram echo in the bylanes of Chandni Chowk as Hauz Qazi gets saffronised

OpIndia Staff -
Following the temple desecration temple in the heart of Delhi in Chandni Chowk, the Hindu organisations have come together to install the temple at the Gali Durga Temple in Hauz Qazi.
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News Reports

Ayodhya land dispute: As mediation process gets delayed, petition seeks early hearings in Supreme Court

OpIndia Staff -
On March 8, a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court had referred the long-standing Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid dispute for mediation. The mediation panel is chaired by former Supreme Court judge Justice FMI Kalifulla, along with spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and senior Advocate Sriram Panchu.
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News Reports

VHP releases list of hate crimes against Hindus, says politicians and media conspiring to instigate riots against Hindus

OpIndia Staff -
"The way 5-6 incidents, all half-truths, were falsely used as a propaganda material to fuel anti-Hindu and an anti-national atmosphere, seems to be a part of a larger anti-national conspiracy," said VHP in a statement.
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Government and Policy

Congress opposes Modi govt’s Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (Amendment) Bill that seeks to end automatic nomination of Congress President

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The Bill amends the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Act, 1951
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Crime

Jharkhand: Abdul, Maijan arrested for gang raping a minor girl in a moving car in Sahibganj, two more absconding

OpIndia Staff -
A police complaint has been registered in this case and two accused have been arrested.
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News Reports

Pakistan claims Russia invited Imran Khan to the EEF in September. No we did not, says Russia

OpIndia Staff -
The Eastern Economic forum has been meeting since 2015 to discuss business and investments in Russia's far east region. Putin had also mentioned in his recent address to Kremlin that PM Modi and Japan's Shinzo Abe will be attending the EEF this year.
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News Reports

After blaming Praveen Chakravarty for 2019 poll debacle, Congress all set to disband the Data Analytics department

OpIndia Staff -
Praveen Chakravarty made Rahul Gandhi believe that Congress will be securing somewhere between 164 and 184 seats in the elections.
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News Reports

Mumbai Police registers complaint against TikTok ‘celebrities’ for inciting violence through social media

OpIndia Staff -
In a video, a group of TikTok 'influencers' had instigated hate and propagated revenge over Tabrez Ansari's death
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World Cup 2019

Cricket World Cup Preview – India v New Zealand semi-finals

Sandeep Singh -
After nearly 6 weeks of the Cricket World Cup, we are finally in the endgame now with India taking on New Zealand in the first of the two semifinals at Old Trafford.
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World Cup 2019

Virat Kohli says he will remind Kane Williamson of U19 World Cup semi-final played in 2008

OpIndia Staff -
Eleven years later, Virat Kohli and Kane Williamson will be playing against each other in another World Cup semi-final, on a different venue
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News Reports

Serial abuser Ajaz Khan responds to Payal Rahtogi saying Muslims will explode like volcano and entire world will become Islamic

OpIndia Staff -
Ajaz Khan stated that when Muslims will explode like a seething volcano, the entire world will turn Muslim
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News Reports

Raj Thackeray demands the EC to conduct upcoming Maharashtra Assembly polls using ballot papers, meets Sonia Gandhi

OpIndia Staff -
Expressing a lack of trust on the EC, Thackeray said that he had zero expectations from the Election Commission.
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News Reports

Railway sources deny reports that production of Vande Bharat Express has stopped

OpIndia Staff -
Contrary to a report by The Hindu, the production of Vande Bharat train sets is right on track
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News Reports

Legal activist group writes to media houses asking to be careful in reporting lynching incidents as many cases found to be fake

OpIndia Staff -
Legal Rights Observatory has written to media houses saying that many cases of lynching have been proved fake and fabricated
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News Reports

Karnataka BJP calls for legislative party meet, demands HD Kumaraswamy’s immediate resignation

OpIndia Staff -
BJP workers would be organizing a protest tomorrow demanding the CM's resignation as the coalition has already lost its majority
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Opinions

Here is what the Indian State wants Hindus to learn from Muslims

K Bhattacharjee -
The lessons the Indian State is teaching Hindus are pretty clear.
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News Reports

Trinamool Congress calls its senior leader and MLA Sabyasachi Dutta ‘Mir Jafar’, strips him off his powers as Bidhannagar mayor

OpIndia Staff -
TMC leader and WB minister Firhad Hakim said it would be good if MLA Sabyasachi Dutta leaves the party
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News Reports

Pakistan joins hands with Break-India forces to glorify Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani on his third death anniversary

OpIndia Staff -
In a fierce gunfight, the Indian Armed Forces eliminated Burhan Wani on July 8, 2016, in Kokernag area of Anantnag
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News Reports

Rajya Sabha passes resolution imposing 200% customs duty on Pakistani goods

OpIndia Staff -
In February 2019, Government of India had decided to impose a 200% customs duty on all the goods imported from Pakistan.
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News Reports

Karnataka: One more Congress MLA, wife of IPS officer who gave clean chit to IMA scam accused, likely to resign tomorrow

OpIndia Staff -
This news of the resignation by Karnataka IPS officer' wife, somehow reestablishes the IMA link to Karnataka political crisis
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Media

Media organisations deviously call ‘cow smugglers’ as ‘cow movers’ to lessen the gravity of their crime

OpIndia Staff -
Yesterday, the citizens of Sawlikheda village in Madhya Pradesh, about 60 KMs away from the Khandwa town caught 25 cow smugglers and were tied with a rope and paraded to the nearby police station.
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News Reports

Aligarh: RSS member attacked with a burning stick, case registered against Faizan and Nazir, the latter arrested

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, the men first passed comments on his RSS uniform and hurled abuses at him before beating him up with a burning stick.
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Muslim mob attacks Hindu temple, damages the structure with weapons in Lakhimpur Kheri

OpIndia Staff -
The villagers claimed that the main accused Wasim is a history-sheeter with past criminal records. Wasim had allegedly mobilised Muslims in the area to remove the Hindu temple.
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News Reports

Rajkot: Salim sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment for cow slaughter, fined with Rs 1 lakh

OpIndia Staff -
The Gujarat court sentenced the accused in cow slaughter, Salim Chadar, a 10 years rigorous imprisonment, along with a fine of Rs 1 lakh
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Politics

Rajiv Chandrasekhar hits back at Congress over chartered plane remark, says even Congress ministers have hired it in the past

OpIndia Staff -
Senior Congress leader and deputy CM G Parameswara had alleged that BJP is trying to destabilise the government after media reports stated that the chartered plane that flew the rebel MLAs to Mumbai belonged to Jupiter Capital, a firm founded by BJP MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
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News Reports

Cow smugglers tied and made to chant ‘Gau mata ki jai’ in MP village, police file case against both smugglers and villagers

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The cow smugglers were reportedly transporting cattle to the nearby Maharashtra state for slaughter
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News Reports

Karnataka crisis deepens as 21 Congress MLAs ‘voluntarily’ resign from the cabinet

OpIndia Staff -
If these resignations are accepted by the speaker, the BJP, which has 105 MLAs, will then be just one legislator short of a majority.
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News Reports

Hindu temple in the UK attacked twice in June, statues outside Shree Ram temple near Birmingham smashed

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Three custom made statues were vandalised at the Shree Ram Mandir in Walsall, Birmingham.
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Crime

Telangana forest officer booked under SC-ST act a week after she was thrashed by a mob led by TRS leader

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A resident of the village had filed a complaint alleging that the forest officer had abused tribals by taking up their caste names
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News Reports

“Seeing our saffron flags, a Muslim mob attacked us with saws, knives and sticks,” Dehradun protests against temple desecration turned violent

आशीष नौटियाल -
Such vexing incidents are often smoke-screened by a selective section of the media.
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Opinions

Faith under siege: What is behind the recent spate of attacks on Hindu religious sites?

Abhishek Banerjee -
The temple vandalism in Hauz Qazi, Chandni Chowk is still totally fresh in our memories, still very much a topic of discussion on social media. There have since then been a spate of attack on Hindu religious sites
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News Reports

Zee Music removes music video of Tik Tok ‘influencers’ who had posted hate-mongering video propagating revenge for Tabrez death

OpIndia Staff -
Zee Music removes music video "tere bin kive" from all platforms for hatemongering message by artists
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Law

In stark contrast to Sabarimala case, SC rejects PIL demanding Muslim women entry into Mosques, ban purdah system

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court upheld the Kerala High Court's orders questioning the locus standi of the petitioner while dismissing the petition demanding entry for women into mosques for praying
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News Reports

Bajrang Dal to hold nationwide protest against growing Jihadist attack on Hindus

OpIndia Staff -
Bajrang Dal workers will also submit their memorandum to the President of India through the DMs of their respective area
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