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Andhra Pradesh: YSR Congress MLA takes oath in party chief and CM Jagan Reddy’s name in assembly

OpIndia Staff -
The pro tem Speaker of Andhra assembly objected to YRSC MLA K S Reddy taking oath in Jagan Reddy's name
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News Reports

Dr Harsh Vardhan appeals to Mamata Banerjee not to make this a ‘prestige issue’ after doctors go on strike following violence against them

OpIndia Staff -
Union Minister for Health, Dr Harshvarshan has appealed to Mamata Banerjee not to turn the issue of Doctors going on strike following violence being unleashed on them as a matter of prestige.
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Politics

Video: Pak PM Imran Khan breaks diplomatic protocol at SCO summit, remains brazenly seated while welcoming other leaders

Shashank Bharadwaj -
Yet another oops! moment for Pakistan as their prime minister continues to embarrass them
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Politics

Mamata can sit on dharna for her chamcha police officer, but not for doctors? Protesting doctor questions Mamata

OpIndia Staff -
Doctors from all over India are now joining the protest expressing solidarity with their colleagues
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Culture and History

Raja Parba: Odisha’s unique festival celebrating the earth’s womanhood

OpIndia Staff -
As a mark of respect towards mother earth during her menstruation days, all agricultural works, like ploughing and sowing are suspended for the three days.
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World Cup 2019

Pakistani cricketer Sarfaraz must learn that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones

Ritesh -
Before taking a dig on Indian fans, Sarfaraz should have checked how the Pakistani fans behaved in front of their team.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Doctors across the country, including her own nephew, protest against Mamata Banerjee government in solidarity with the striking doctors

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee's nephew Dr Abesh Banerjee has also joined the protests against Mamata government in solidarity with the protesting doctors
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World Cup 2019

Michael Holding stumps ICC with his reply over his comments on umpires

OpIndia Staff -
Holding's response to the email shows that ICC cannot bully him. He furiously wrote in his response that he is ready to pack his bag and go back home.
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Fact-Check

AltNews exposes itself, accuses police officer of lying but won’t pull down ‘fact-check’ based on his quotes

Nupur J Sharma -
Self-proclaimed fact-check website, AltNews had recently tried to dilute the charges of brutality heaped on the 3-year-old victim in Aligarh.
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News Reports

Comrade Yechury inaugurates ‘EMS Smrithi’ as a tribute to caste system proponent EMS Namboodiripad

OpIndia Staff -
EMS Namboodiripad was a staunch proponent of caste system
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News Reports

Not just Priyanka, even Sonia Gandhi refuses to learn lessons after 2019 poll debacle, resumes attack on EC and EVM

OpIndia Staff -
"There can't be smoke without fire", Sonia Gandhi says there are doubts about the election process and EVMs
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News Reports

West Bengal: Protesting doctors defy Mamata’s ultimatum, to continue strike till demands are met

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee had warned strict action if doctors don't end the strike within 4 hours, but doctors have decided defy her
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News Reports

Woman in Tamil Nadu commits suicide after husband scolds her for spending too much time on Tik Tok

OpIndia Staff -
Tik Tok addict Anitha commits suicide after she was scolded for ignoring her children and remaining busy with the app
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Government and Policy

Massive push for healthcare benefits: Modi govt reduces contribution of employees and employers for Employee State Insurance scheme

Nupur J Sharma -
The Modi government has reduced the rate of contribution under the ESI Act from 6.5% to 4%
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News Reports

Isreali Prime Minister tweets a note of thanks to Modi for standing by Israel in UN

OpIndia Staff -
Israel thanks India for voting against a Palestinian organisation's entry into UN as observer
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Crime

Kerala govt transfers two police officers investigating rape case against Bishop Franco, nuns express shock and despair

OpIndia Staff -
Kottayam Superintendent of Police Harishankar and Vaikom Deputy SP Subash, who were the investigating officers in the Bishop Franco's rape case have been issued marching orders by the state government raising serious questions about possible attempts to sabotage the investigation. 
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Specials

Meet the controversial anti-Hindu evangelist, Bishop Ezra Sargunam, who wanted to punch Hindus in the face

ashwin -
The Bishop urges the group to take up the challenge and spread the word that there is no such thing as Hindu religion. If at all anyone does oppose to this, the Bishop without hesitation asked the group to punch them in the face and make sure they bleed.
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News Reports

ISRO aims at a giant leap, plans to have India’s own space station

OpIndia Staff -
A day after ISRO chief K Sivan announced Chandrayaan-2 launch date, today he said ISRO will build its own space station
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News Reports

Another shocker from Uttar Pradesh: 5-month-old baby raped by her own relative

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Under the pretext of playing with the child, the assailant Muktiyar Singh took her out in the woods and raped her
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News Reports

“Policemen die in the line of duty but the police don’t go on a strike”, Mamata Banerjee on doctors strike in West Bengal

OpIndia Staff -
The doctors' strike in West Bengal has been backed by the doctors in Hyderabad and Delhi who are demanding stringent action against the culprits and safety of doctors.
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Government and Policy

Modi govt to develop educational institutions and hospitals on Waqf properties, provide free UPSC coaching for Muslim girls

OpIndia Staff -
According to the latest schemes launched by the Modi government, Waqf properties across the country will be geo-tagged, digitised and 100% funding will be provided by the government to develop schools, colleges, hospital etc
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Government and Policy

SC rejects plea of disgraced ex-cop Sanjiv Bhatt seeking to examine 11 additional witnesses in 1989 custodial death case

OpIndia Staff -
Last year in September, the sacked ex-IPS officer, Sanjiv Bhatt was taken into custody by the Gujarat CID over a 1998 case of planting drugs
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News Reports

Mumbai Police finds no evidence against Nana Patekar in sexual harassment case filed by Tanushree Datta

OpIndia Staff -
Tanushree Datta had filed sexual harassment case against Nana Patekar in October 2018
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News Reports

Mamata Banerjee declines to go for the all party meeting called by West Bengal Governor, calls him a BJP mouthpiece

OpIndia Staff -
Welcoming the Governor's initiative, West Bengal BJP unit president Dilip Ghosh said the state government should have taken the initiative
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News Reports

Mamata blames ‘outsiders’, ‘BJP Conspiracy’ for Doctors’ protest; doctors and interns do not wish to work for ‘mad dictator’

K Bhattacharjee -
The chain of events that have been initiated in West Bengal since Monday night is truly unprecedented in the recent history of the state.
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Fact-Check

How media glossed over the fact that dancers were asked to strip at an Eid celebration and not just any ‘cultural event’

OpIndia Staff -
The reportage surrounding this horrific incident in Assam has been nothing short of shameful, to say the least.
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News Reports

Former ISRO chief Madhavan Nair says UPA government delayed Chandrayaan-2 mission

OpIndia Staff -
Madhavan Nair says UPA government delayed Chandrayaan-2 and gave priority to Mangalyaan mission
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Fact-Check

Here is how AltNews fabricated a police quote to downplay the brutality heaped on the Aligarh child victim

Nirwa Mehta -
OpIndia asked SSP Kulhary whether he gave any statement to AltNews where he denied that the victim's eyes were not gouged out and her arm was not amputated. SSP Kulhary categorically denied having given the statement
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World Cup 2019

Video and stats highlights from Australia v Pakistan match

OpIndia Staff -
Warner's first hundred for Australia after making his comeback into International cricket helped Australia to win the match against Pakistan.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Director of Madrasa arrested for giving triple talaq after his wife complained to CM Yogi Adityanath

OpIndia Staff -
The police arrested Agra's Rakabganj resident Chukru Rehman aka Zikru Rehman after his wife Tarannum Begum had approached CM Yogi Adityanath alleging that her husband had given her triple talaq.
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News Reports

Indian Air Force finds no survivors at the AN-32 crash site, families informed

OpIndia Staff -
The families of the 13 personnel have been informed that no survivors were found among the wreckage of the AN-32
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News Reports

TMC troll speaks in Bengali on English news channel in response to others speaking in Hindi, despite already knowing that it was a Hindi...

OpIndia Staff -
The debate on CNN News18 soon deviated from the main issue of political violence in West Bengal into a war of words between the anchor and Garga Chatterjee over the issue of whether CNN News18 was a Hindi or an English channel.
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Media

While West Bengal burns, Rahul Kanwal conducts a jolly interview with newly elected Trinamool MP Mimi Chakraborty

K Bhattacharjee -
Mimi Chakraborty, the newly elected Trinamool MP from the Jadavpur Lok Sabha Constituency, appeared on India Today on Wednesday.
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Opinions

Kerala villagers want to keep an elephant alive, media sees ‘rise of BJP’ in the state

Sanghamitra -
Kerala had loved and wept for its elephants much before BJP or the RSS became stakeholders in the state's politics.
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News Reports

Shiv Sena slams Mamata Banerjee, says the “sleeping Hindus of Bengal” have been “awakened by her excesses”

OpIndia Staff -
Shiv Sena attacked the Trinamool Congress chief saying that the state would turn into Gujarat and could even turn into ‘Ayodhya or Varanasi’.
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Crime

Sri Lanka blast accused Zahran Hashim’s Facebook friend among the arrested men in NIA’s Coimbatore ISIS module raid

OpIndia Staff -
Mohammed Azarudeen handled the Facebook page 'KhilafahGFX' through which he spread the Daish/ISIS ideology and radical contents attributed to Hashim.
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News Reports

CBI registers case against former Samajwadi Party MP Atiq Ahmed for kidnapping and assaulting realtor inside jail

OpIndia Staff -
Samajwadi Party leader, Atiq Ahmed had allegedly beaten up real estate businessman Mohit Jaiswal in Deoria Jail in Uttar Pradesh and had demanded extortion money from the businessman.
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Opinions

The fat tail of terrorism and why the graphs shared by Bill Gates mislead

Mayuresh Didolkar -
Recently, Bill Gates shared an infographic showing causes of death in the US, what people most commonly search for and what media reports on. Here is why he was wrong in the conclusion he drew
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News Reports

‘Modi hain to mumkin hain’, says US Secretary of State in his major policy speech

OpIndia Staff -
Narendra Modi’s consistent efforts in the last five years, India is now considered to be a global power and a major security partner by the United States.
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World Cup 2019

Match preview – India v New Zealand: A mouthwatering contest if the rains allow

OpIndia Staff -
India and New Zealand, the only two unbeaten teams in this World Cup so far, will face each other to continue with their winning streak.
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News Reports

Reach office on time, avoid working from home: PM Narendra Modi to council of ministers

OpIndia Staff -
In the first cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Modi has also talked about the five-year agenda and has asked every ministry to come up with their five-year agenda and to formulate an impactful decision, which needs to be taken in the first 100 days of the government. 
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Fact-Check

Fact check: Bhojpuri song didn’t rock the streets of London during the Cricket World Cup

OpIndia Staff -
Contrary to the Indian Express report, the dance was part of an event called "Carnival of Cultures" which was held in Berlin from 7-10 June 2019 to celebrate the cultural diversity.
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News Reports

Cyclone Vayu: Gujarat safe as the cyclone diverted towards Oman

OpIndia Staff -
As per the IMD, while the eye of the cyclone may or may not hit Gujarat, the system will hit along the coast of Porbandar, hence the preparedness shouldn't be relaxed
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News Reports

119 persons booked for posting derogatory remarks against the CM of Kerala since the Pinarayi Vijayan government came to power

OpIndia Staff -
Over 150 people in Kerala are facing either police cases or disciplinary actions for insulting CM Vijayan on social media.
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News Reports

“We are not sheep or buffaloes to be purchased”, former Telangana Congress MLAS that merged with TRS deny allegations of being lured

OpIndia Staff -
Congress MLAs that defected and joined TRS in Telangana deny they were lured by TRS
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News Reports

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra ‘warns’ Congress workers that she’ll find out which workers were not working wholeheartedly during the elections

OpIndia Staff -
Priyanka Vadra said that some workers worked from their heart during the elections, some didn't., and she will find out who didn't
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News Reports

West Bengal: After NRS hospital, students at Burdwan Medical College and Hospital attacked by mob, police again mute spectators

OpIndia Staff -
Stones were pelted at students and interns of the Burdwan Medical College and Hospital (BMCH) as a consequence of which four students have been injured.
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News Reports

Delhi police arrests one Imran for slaughtering a cow just to create communal tension on Holi

OpIndia Staff -
Imran, along with his friends Parvez, Lukmaan and Inshallahum had conspired to create communal disharmony on the day of Holi
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News Reports

West Bengal Governor calls for all party meet in view of the ongoing post-poll violence in the state

OpIndia Staff -
The West Bengal police have also been working hands in gloves with the ruling party to torment the BJP workers in Bengal
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News Reports

Trinidad and Tobago: Trespassers set idols ablaze in an attempt to burn the Shree Ram Dhaam temple

OpIndia Staff -
The CCTV cameras installed in the temples premises have caught 3 miscreants deliberately setting idols on fire to destroy the temple
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