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Former RBI governor Urjit Patel says before 2014, RBI and government was slow in tackling bank crisis

OpIndia Staff -
Urjit Patel held dilatory tactics adopted by the regulator, government and the banks till 2014 responsible for the looming NPA crisis
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News Reports

Kerala custodial death: Mother conducts protest march, HC orders probe against magistrate for sending a weak Rajkumar to judicial custody

OpIndia Staff -
Rajkumar, who was arrested by the Nedumkandam police, died while he was in custody.
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News Reports

Stone pelted at Hanuman temple in Muzaffarnagar to desecrate idol, one person named Musa arrested

OpIndia Staff -
On Thursday morning, Musa pelted stones at the Hanuman temple situated in Khatauli police station area and broke the glass frame set up around the idol
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News Reports

International Court of Justice likely to pronounce judgment in Kulbhushan Jadhav case later this month

OpIndia Staff -
In February 2019, advocate Harish Salve had presented a strong case for Kulbhushan Jadhav at ICJ
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Opinions

No Washington Post, the Nehru Gandhi family is not the Founding Dynasty of India

K Bhattacharjee -
Washington Post referred to the Nehru Gandhi dynasty as India's 'Founding Dynasty' in a report that highlighted the leadership crisis in the Congress party.
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Politics

‘Early signs of fascism’ poster was displayed at the gift shop, not at the American Holocaust Memorial Museum

OpIndia Staff -
The list was originally created by Laurence Britt in 2003, for an article published by Free Inquiry magazine. Britt had created this list during George W. Bush’s tenure as president of the United States with highlighting "Fourteen Defining Characteristics of Fascism".
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Crime

Indrani Mukerjea volunteers to become an approver in INX Media case, CBI court approves

OpIndia Staff -
The next date of hearing in the matter is July 11
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Opinions

Fanatics at the front door: The case of Hauz Qazi

Saket Suryesh -
Democracy is all about giving a voice to the voiceless and representation to the faceless. This is what went missing in the initial period of the incident of Hauz Qazi in Old Delhi where a Hindu temple was vandalized.
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Opinions

Dear Mahua Moitra, it’s not the Right-wing that is the same everywhere, it’s the Left

K Bhattacharjee -
Mahua Moitra, is the new darling of the Left.
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Politics

‘Kejriwal Chor Hai’ posters emerge in Delhi amidst allegations of corruption in construction of govt schools

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier this month, the Delhi Unit of the BJP has accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia of being involved in a scam relating to the construction of classrooms in the schools of Delhi. 
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News Reports

Irish human rights lawyer, who abused and spat on Air India crew for being refused extra drinks, commits suicide

OpIndia Staff -
In November last year, a video of hers went viral where she demanded extra wine as she ‘worked for Human Rights of f**king Asians’ and referred to Air India crew as ‘f**king, stupid, c*nts
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News Reports

Economic Survey 2018-19 : $5 trillion economy by 2024-25, emphasis is on “Virtuous Cycle” of investment, jobs and exports

OpIndia Staff -
The Economic Survey 2018-19 in its theme speaks about enabling to "shifting of gears" to achieve the objective of becoming India a $5 trillion economy by 2024-25. 
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Crime

AAP MLA Som Dutt sentenced to 6 months jail term and 2 lakh fine by Delhi court in assault case

OpIndia Staff -
A few days ago, another AAP MLA Manoj Kumar was convicted and sentenced to three months in jail for obstructing the election process at a polling booth in Kalyan Puri area of East Delhi during 2013 Assembly elections.
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Politics

[Video] Congress MLA Nitesh Narayan Rane and his supporters caught on camera assaulting, throwing mud at an engineer

OpIndia Staff -
Rane who is a Member of Maharashtra Legistlative Assembly from Kankavli Assembly constituency, inspecting the potholes on the highway.
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Politics

TMC MP Mahua Moitra tries to bully Zee News Editor Sudhir Chaudhary with her parliamentary privilege

OpIndia Staff -
However, the Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla did not accept the breach of privilege motion submitted by the Trinamool MP.
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Crime

Delhi temple attack: Nine persons have been arrested in connection with the vandalism of Durga Mandir

OpIndia Staff -
Out of the nine arrested, four of them have been identified as juveniles
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World Cup 2019

World Cup Preview – Afghanistan v West Indies: Can Afghanistan pull off a win?

Ritesh -
Afghanistan has a chance to win a match in the World Cup if they don't panic again as they did against India and Pakistan.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Woman and male patient forced to share a stretcher in the largest state-run hospital

OpIndia Staff -
This is not the first incident throwing light on the government hospital’s apathy towards its patients
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News Reports

After Home ministry rejects proposal to rename West Bengal as ‘Bangla’, Mamata writes to Modi urging for a Constitutional amendment

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee's efforts to rename the state as 'Bangla' have earlier too faced obstacle from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)
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Law

Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi pleads ‘not guilty’ in the RSS defamation case

OpIndia Staff -
Addressing the media after the court hearing, Gandhi said that this is a fight for ideology and he is standing with the poor and farmers. "Attacks are happening, I am having fun," he said.
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Politics

Gujarat Congress herds up its MLAs in a resort ahead of RS polls, Rajasthan Tourism flaunts Mount Abu and says ‘Padharo Mhare Desh’

Sanghamitra -
After all, Rajasthan is a Congress-ruled state now too, the party has no need to send the Gujarat MLAs in a long drive all the way to Karnataka to find another congress ruled state.
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Crime

Hzar khan poses as doctor, marries woman, converts her, then forces her to file rape cases against people so he can extort money

OpIndia Staff -
A complaint was registered against Hzar Khan for extortion, unnatural sex, fabrication of evidence and criminal intimidation following his wife's complaint.
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Entertainment

Kangana Ranaut’s sister calls Taapsee a ‘sasti copy’ of Kangana, asks Anurag Kashyap to back off after he takes Taapsee’s side

OpIndia Staff -
Rangoli said she is on Twitter to expose the duality of everyone in Bollywood.
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Politics

After resignation drama, Rahul Gandhi set to start his ‘court appearances’ tour across the country

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi will appear before an Ahmedabad court on July 9 for his “murder accused” reference to BJP chief Amit Shah. On July 12, he will appear before another Gujarat court in criminal defamation suits filed by the Ahmedabad District Co-operative bank and its chairman. 
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World Cup 2019

Video and Stats highlight from England v New Zealand game

OpIndia Staff -
Finally, England has confirmed its place in the World Cup Semi Final in their last group game.
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Crime

Bahraich: Muslim mob attacks family over argument, injures six, pelts stones at intervening police team

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, when the police arrived to calm the situation, the mob even attacked the policemen and pelted stoned at them.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Two teenage girls Poonam and Pinky go missing from a Dargah in Jaunpur, family suspects Maulvi’s hand

OpIndia Staff -
After offering prayers at the dargah, both the girls suddenly went missing
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News Reports

Bhima Koregaon case accused Varavara Rao arrested by police in connection with a 2005 Maoist attack

OpIndia Staff -
On February 10, 2005, an alleged Maoist attack in Pavagada under Thirumani police station jurisdiction had claimed the lives of six Karnataka State Reserve Police Force, a cook, and a civilian.
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News Reports

Fired employees of Tiranga TV stage protest outside Kapil Sibal’s house, demand six months salary as compensation

OpIndia Staff -
Tiranga TV employees alleged they have been abruptly sacked from their jobs without being served any prior notice
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Media

Group of activists who were maligned by Indian Express speak up, call out their one-sided reportage

Guest Author -
Reporting those who celebrated Pulwama attacks appear to be a bigger crime than the ones who actually celebrated those attacks
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu: Woman finds estranged husband on Tik Tok after 3 years, reunites with him

OpIndia Staff -
Tik Tok helps estranged couple reunite after wife sees a video of her missing husband on the app
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News Reports

Complaint against Mehbooba Mufti for making inflammatory remarks over Article 35A forwarded to SSP Jammu

OpIndia Staff -
Suresh C Kahjuria, a social activist had filed a complaint with District Magistrate seeking action against Mufti for her remarks.
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News Reports

Award wapsi gang returns, writes to EC alleging ‘serious irregularities’ in conduct of 2019 general elections

OpIndia Staff -
In the letter, ex-babus, 'concerned citizens' and veterans have cited media reports claiming 'irregularities' in the conduct of the elections.
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News Reports

Kangana Ranaut in her statement to police alleges Aditya Pancholi had spiked her drink and raped her when she was 17

OpIndia Staff -
Kangana Ranaut alleges that apart from assaulting her, Aditya Pancholi also demanded money from her
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News Reports

Minor Hindu boy who had gone missing from Hauz Qazi returns, says Muslim youths assaulted him after they got to know he was Hindu

OpIndia Staff -
Keshav says that he was attacked specifically after the Muslims who attacked him came to know he was Hindu.
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News Reports

Supreme Court to make its judgements available in regional languages soon

OpIndia Staff -
In the first phase, judgements would be translated to Assamese, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Odia and Telugu.
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Opinions

The mainstream media is almost like the propaganda wing of Islamic Extremists. Here is how

K Bhattacharjee -
The entire effort and the huge resources in possession of the mainstream media is directed towards deflecting attention from the extremist elements of Islamic society.
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News Reports

Dawood Ibrahim is in Pakistan, US government tells London court

OpIndia Staff -
The FBI in London court said that Dawood is running his international crime syndicate from Karachi in Pakistan.
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Politics

Motilal Vora says Rahul still our leader, expresses ignorance about himself being appointed as interim chief

OpIndia Staff -
Vora, who is a co-accused in the National Herald scam, said that Rahul Gandhi took steps to strengthen the party and continues to be their leader.
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News Reports

Bengal: BJYM again recites Hanuman Chalisa on road to oppose Friday Namaz offerings which block traffic

OpIndia Staff -
These protests are being organised in a bid to put pressure on the state administration to prevent the Friday Namaz on roads which block traffic.
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Opinions

Meet Tucker Carlson: The Fox News host who potentially prevented a US-Iran War

K Bhattacharjee -
Tucker Carlson is the solitary voice of the Trumpian Right in the mainstream media.
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Mob attacks Bareilly police after they arrest cow smuggler Anees

OpIndia Staff -
The Izzatnagar police had launched an operation on Monday (July 1) to catch the smuggler. The police succeeded in nabbing the culprit but a mob assembled at the spot soon and launched an assault on the police team. 
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World Cup 2019

Video and stats highlight from India v Bangladesh match

Ritesh -
Indian team officially secured the semi-final spot of the World Cup 2019 after beating Bangladesh by 28 runs at Edgbaston.
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Politics

Nitish Kumar govt draws flak for distributing mangoes in the state Assembly just days after hundreds of children died in AES outbreak

OpIndia Staff -
Bihar assembly distributed mangoes as a gift to members on presentation of the agriculture budget of the state.
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Editor's picks

Rahul Gandhi posts his resignation letter on Twitter, makes contradictory claims

Editorial Desk -
Rahul Gandhi sticks to his position, posts his resignation letter on Twitter
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Politics

West Bengal: TMC leader who had allegedly taken ‘cut money’ from MGNREGA workers thrashed by locals

OpIndia Staff -
Locals allege that TMC leaders, at the grassroots, have been taking 'cut money', or 'illegal commissions' to facilitate the grant of Central and State government schemes.
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Sports

Ignored by the BCCI, Ambati Rayudu announces his retirement from International cricket, gets offer from Iceland cricket

OpIndia Staff -
Ambati Rayudu was an official stand-by for the Indian team in its World Cup campaign
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Politics

If Halala is allowed why not acting? Congress’ Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Zaira Wasim controversy

OpIndia Staff -
Abhishek Manu Singhvi also tweets his concern on what would happen if every Muslims adopted the same line of reasoning
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News Reports

Gujarat: Congress shifting all its MLAs to Mount Abu ahead of Rajya Sabha elections to avoid cross voting

OpIndia Staff -
During 2017 Rajya Sabha elections in Gujarat, the Congress MLAs were taken to a resort in Bengaluru owned by Karnataka Congress MLA DK Shivakumar to stop them from defecting
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World Cup 2019

Cricket World Cup Preview – England v New Zealand: Whoever wins will be in the semis

Ritesh -
England has 10 points, and they would be more eager to win the match as if they lose, it will be clear cut that Pakistan would need to beat Bangladesh to win the 4th spot for semi-final
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