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Is unemployment in India really at 45 years high: Explaining the NSSO report

Shashank Goyal -
The unemployment is at a “45 years high” is a meaningless exaggeration without any basis in facts or data.
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News Reports

Easter bombing links: Two Muslim governors in Sri Lanka resign amidst huge protests

OpIndia Staff -
Sri Lankan parliamentarian and Buddhist monk Athuraliye Rathana was on a hunger strike demanding the sacking of the two governors and a minister who have alleged links to Easter bombings.
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News Reports

Kerala Congress expels former MP AP Abdulkutty for praising PM Narendra Modi in Facebook post

OpIndia Staff -
AP Abdulkutty has been expelled from the party after the party president found his explanation unsatisfactory
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Opinions

I am a Delhi resident and I do not want a ‘free metro ride’

Nirwa Mehta -
Women aren't special snowflakes who need 'free metro and bus rides'.
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News Reports

AN-32 transport plane of IAF with 13 people on board goes missing near China border, search operation launched

OpIndia Staff -
The missing IAF AN-32 Aircraft was bound for Menchuka Airfield in Arunachal Pradesh from Assam's Jorhat
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Fact-Check

Surat fire tragedy: Claims of victim’s father rejecting compensation are fake news

OpIndia Staff -
The viral Facebook post was lapped up by many social media users and even mainstream media reports had peddled the claim. But the claims turned out to be fake.
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News Reports

Ajit Doval stays as NSA, elevated to cabinet rank with five years term

OpIndia Staff -
Ajit Doval retained as NSA by Modi government, promoted to cabinet rank
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News Reports

Mizoram govt determined to complete repatriation of Bru refugees, final repatriation process likely to begin in October

OpIndia Staff -
Mizoram govt wants to bring back the Bru people living in Tripura as refugees, but the Brus want their demands to be met for returning
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Crime

Leader of ISIS Kerala module believed to be killed by US bombings in Afghanistan

OpIndia Staff -
Abdulla Rashid actively spread the IS ideology over social media and had himself led a group 21 people to migrate to Afghanistan to join the ISIS.
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Opinions

Remaking the idea of India: My suggestions for the “right”

Abhishek Banerjee -
The elections may be over, but we have to seize the moment and run with it as fast as possible, get a big lead when the other side is still in the dust and struggling to get up
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News Reports

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal announces free travel for women so that they can have ‘safe travel’

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal announces free travel for women on DTC buses and Delhi metro
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News Reports

Robert Vadra can travel abroad except London for medical treatment: Court

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi CBI court has allowed Robert Vadra to travel abroad except to London
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Crime

Former Chief Justice RM Lodha falls victim to online scam, gets cheated of Rs 1 lakh

OpIndia Staff -
Former CJI RM Lodha has stated in his police complaint that he had deposited Rs 1 lakh in an account number provided in an email from his friend's hacked account.
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Politics

Name of Sitaram Kesri, not a favourite of Sonia Gandhi, missing from Congress’ official website as former party president

OpIndia Staff -
Sitaram Kesri was reportedly locked up in the bathroom at Congress headquarters in Akbar Road so he could not stop Sonia from entering the office with her supporters to take over as party president.
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu government brings in strict dress code for employees

OpIndia Staff -
The new order advises the government employees to wear “Neat, clean, formal attire that is appropriate to the workplace setting so as to maintain the decorum of the office while on duty. "
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Samajwadi Party MLA sent to jail in 2007 gang rape case

OpIndia Staff -
After the UP government passed an order to transfer all cases against MPs and MLAs to special courts in 2017, Paras' case was transferred from the local court.
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Opinions

Arvind Kejriwal should refund Rs 5,700 crore ‘extra tax’ to the exchequer

Ravi Kiran -
Delhi government should explain why they are extorting Rs 38,000 more in form of fees from the exchequer
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World Cup 2019

Azhar Mahmood is hopeful of a Pakistan victory after the team has lost 12 matches in a row

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan has been conceding too many runs in their recent matches, all of which they have lost.
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World Cup 2019

Preview – Match 6: England v Pakistan – Favourites against the unpredictable

Ritesh -
England will be playing against Pakistan at Trent Bridge, where they have scored the highest ODI total.
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World Cup 2019

World Cup: Match 5 – Bangladesh v South Africa in Numbers

Ritesh -
The first upset of the tournament has happened with Bangladesh defeating South Africa.
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News Reports

Congress IT cell member and sexual harassment accused Chirag Patnaik deletes his Twitter account

OpIndia Staff -
After Congress IT cell head Divya Spandana, IT cell member and arrested in sexual harassment case Chirag Patnaik has also deleted his Twitter account
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Politics

Mamata Banerjee says she will continue to oppose Jai Shri Ram to save the secular character of the country

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata says she will continue to oppose 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans as they are a deliberate attempt 'to sell hatred ideology'.
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Editor's picks

Official website of Congress party says Rajiv Gandhi was PM of India when he was assassinated

OpIndia Staff -
Congress website says Rajiv Gandhi was PM of India when he was killed
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News Reports

Sikh groups run campaign in Canada urging the government to declare Sikh Genocide Remembrance Day for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots

OpIndia Staff -
Sikh groups in Canada are campaigning to mount pressure on the Trudeau government to declare nationwide Sikh Genocide Remembrance Day
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Crime

Jaipur: Fake IPS officer who attended public events and gave awards to real police officers arrested on extortion charges

OpIndia Staff -
Fake police officer attended public events, gave awards to real police officers
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Crime

Kerala: 61 year old madarsa teacher arrested for sexually assaulting over 19 minors

OpIndia Staff -
The teacher is a serial sexual offender who would lure children into his private room and sexually abuse them
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Politics

Watch: Imran Khan speaks to the Saudi King and walks away casually before the interpreter can translate it for King Salman

OpIndia Staff -
Imran Khan said something to the Saudi king and before the interpreter could interpret it for the king, Khan just walked away
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Politics

Rajasthan: Congress MLA sits on hunger strike against his own government, alleges inaction from state government

OpIndia Staff -
The MLA is sitting on dharna with the protestors and the family members of the deceased in Nagarfort village along with the body of Bhajanlal
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News Reports

Railway Ministry confirms OpIndia report, hawker arrested for being a repeat offender of illegal hawking, not mocking politicians

OpIndia Staff -
The Railways Ministry also confirmed that Dubey himself admitted to the Magistrate that he was hawking illegally since 2005.
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News Reports

Chief EVM conspiracy theorist of AAP now has a new conspiracy theory against Election Commission

OpIndia Staff -
AAP MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj claims EC will curtail the term of Delhi assembly, Arvind Kejriwal retweets the same
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Law

FIR filed against Samajwadi Party’s Azam Khan in land grab case and for obstructing government work

OpIndia Staff -
In the survey conducted by district officials, it was found that about five hectares of public land had been usurped for the university.
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Politics

YSRCP chief Jagan Mohan Reddy says Naidu was not confident of numbers, he was ‘putting up an act’

OpIndia Staff -
Chandra Babu Naidu's TDP was reduced to 3 seats out of 25 in the Lok Sabha polls and 23 seats in the 175-member assembly in Andhra Pradesh
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World Cup 2019

World Cup: Match 3 – New Zealand v Sri Lanka in Numbers

OpIndia Staff -
Yet another low-scoring match of the world cup
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World Cup 2019

Preview – Match 5: Bangladesh v South Africa – Will the ball dominate the bat again?

OpIndia Staff -
South Africa will be playing their second match of the tournament.
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Politics

Pakistani officials harass, intimidate guests at Iftar party hosted by Indian envoy in Islamabad

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistani officials stopped and turned away guests who were invited for the Iftar party hosted by Indian High Commission in Islamabad last night
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Politics

Speculations rife as Congress social media head Divya Spandana deactivates her Twitter account

OpIndia Staff -
Ramya was handpicked by Rahul Gandhi to handle Congress’ social and digital media. 
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Social Media Fact-Check

Fake news: Majlis Bachao Tehreek leader spreads fake news of a Muslim man being beaten up by BJP/RSS workers for not chanting ‘Jai Shree...

OpIndia Staff -
Suddenly a barrage of fake 'hate crimes' against Muslims asked to chant 'Jai Shree Ram' are being reported
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News Reports

Ayodhya: Thief returns idol of Lord Ram after he is rattled by nightmares

OpIndia Staff -
The thief said he suffered from severe body ache after stealing the idol of Lord Ram
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Fact-Check

Media spreads fake news: Hawker arrested for being a repeat offender, not for mocking politicians ‘especially PM Modi’

OpIndia Staff -
Awadhesh Dubey was arrested by RPF Surat on the charges of illegal hawking, but could get bail on Monday.
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Politics

‘I would like to hold those who voted for Modi by their collar and say, you idiots’: Yogendra Yadav has a meltdown before introspecting

OpIndia Staff -
Though Yogendra Yadav acknowledged that there have been monumental errors in reading the voter psyche but it didn’t deter him from prophesying doom after PM Modi’s re-election.
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Politics

BJP to send 10 lakh postcards with Jai Shri Ram written on them to Mamata Banerjee’s residence

OpIndia Staff -
Recently Mamata Banerjee had threatened to take action against people chanting Jai Shri Ram and had even called them outsiders.
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Crime

Three men including Goa Congress MLA Atanasio Monserratte booked for molesting a woman during an anti-encroachment protest

OpIndia Staff -
The complainant woman has also alleged in her complaint that all the three accused threatened to kill her.
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World Cup 2019

South African speedster Rabada thinks Virat Kohli is immature on field

OpIndia Staff -
The mind game has started, South African speedster Kagiso Rabada has called Kohli immature just ahead of their clash on Wednesday in Southampton.
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Crime

Couple missing after Muslim man introduces himself as Brahmin to marry a Hindu girl in the presence of his fake parents

OpIndia Staff -
Imran Bhati introduced himself as Kabeer Sharma, was already married and was a father to three children
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News Reports

MoS Home Ministry bats against illegal Bangladeshis and Rohingyas staying in Hyderabad, says city safe zone for terrorists

OpIndia Staff -
G Kishan Reddy asserted that terror activities across the country invariably has links to the Hyderabad city
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Crime

BJP worker chanting ‘Jai Shree Ram’ stabbed to death in West Bengal, wife of victim lodges FIR against TMC workers

OpIndia Staff -
The victim Sushil Mondal was BJP supporter and was shouting the slogans of 'Jai Shri Ram' while preparing for a victory procession on the day of the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Modi
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Crime

Local Muslims attack Dalit wedding procession in Dewas district of MP, Section 144 imposed after 1 killed in the attack

OpIndia Staff -
One person was killed and several were injured by the mob that had attacked them
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News Reports

Congress cannot decide if they won Bengaluru Urban Body polls because ‘EVMs were not hacked’ or because ‘paper ballots were used’

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress party has registered a victory in the Karnataka Urban Local Body polls, winning 509 of the total 1,221 wards while the BJP secured 366 wards. The JD(S) came third with victory in 174 wards.
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Opinions

The redundant ‘Liberal’ World Order is crumbling to dust and a new solution-based World Order is emerging out of its ashes

vigoe -
The second world war had a huge impact on the mindset of the then ruling heads of powerful countries. When the public outrage started shaking the thrones of the powerful, the 'great' ones decided to usher in a new 'liberal' world order.
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News Reports

ECI explains in detail why reported ‘mismatch’ of data and allegations of ‘ghost votes’ being polled is fake news

OpIndia Staff -
The Election Commission of India has now released a detailed note explaining why the reported mismatch of data is alarmist and nothing but malicious rumour mongering.
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