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CBI issues lookout notice against ex-Kolkata top cop Rajeev Kumar in Saradha Chit Fund scam

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court on Friday, May 24, rejected Kumar’s request for extending protection to him from being arrested
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Opinions

PM Modi, I am a Charvaka Indian liberal, and this is my wish list

Kushal Mehra -
An atheist Indian liberal writes to PM Modi on what he wishes for in the next five years
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News Reports

Smriti Irani’s emotional farewell to the aide who was killed last night in Amethi, gives her shoulder to the mortal remains

OpIndia Staff -
Family members and BJP workers claim that BJP worker and Smriti Irani's aide Surendra Singh was killed by Congress supporters
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Opinions

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Congress faltered in building a narrative, Modi-Shah worked towards ground reality

Aarti -
Narendra Modi’s aggressive campaigning and Amit Shah’s strategic abilities have given BJP the unprecedented victory
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Media

PM Modi wishes ‘abhinandan’ to party workers, Pakistani media thinks he was talking about Wing Commander Abhinandan

OpIndia Staff -
Prime Minister was delivering a speech to the newly appointed members at the Parliament Central Hall on Saturday
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Government and Policy

Few central government schemes that helped BJP in coming back to power with a greater mandate

OpIndia Staff -
UP CM Yogi Adityanath said that development projects had broken the caste barriers giving them a winning edge in the elections
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Crime

Angry at not being invited to an iftar party, three Muslim men shoot dead three kids of the host family

OpIndia Staff -
Recently in another incidence communal tensions had erupted in Meerut after a video showing Muslim men beating up shopkeepers went viral
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Opinions

Scratch a ‘feminist’, find a sexist ‘poet’ who passes off his sexism under the garb of artistic liberty

Nirwa Mehta -
An image of a rotten orange was used by a journalist on Instagram to depict a 'woman' who has had 'many lovers'
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Crime

New Delhi residents live in perpetual fear of the immigrant Muslims in their neighbourhood

OpIndia Staff -
With the increase in the number of Muslim immigrants in Delhi, the attacks on Hindus have also increased
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Media

Rajdeep Sardesai thinks Narendra Modi should thank Masood Azhar, among others, for BJP’s victory

OpIndia Staff -
As a long term Congress loyalist media person, Rajdeep Sardesai is yet to come to terms that Modi won a second term with thumping majority
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World Cup 2019

Jadeja shines in India vs New Zealand warm-up game, creates selection dilemma for team management

Sandeep Singh -
Although India lost badly to New Zealand in the warm-up game, Ravindra Jadeja performed well.
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Crime

Meerut: Communal tension after a video showing Muslim men beating up shopkeepers goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
A viral video where Muslim men are beating up a shopkeeper has triggered communal tensions in Meerut
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News Reports

YSRCP chief Jagan Mohan Reddy meets PM Modi in New Delhi ahead of taking oath as Andhra Pradesh CM

OpIndia Staff -
Jagan Mohan Reddy's meeting with PM Modi is hailed as one of the biggest meets after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections
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Politics

AAP breaking up: Alka Lamba announces she is quitting the party in 2020, insists Arvind Kejriwal steps down as party chief

OpIndia Staff -
Lamba suggested that Kejriwal should now stop listening to just himself and hear what his party workers and MLAs have to say
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi upset that senior Congress leaders didn’t shout ‘Chowkidar Chor Hai’ enough, lashes out on them for party’s defeat

OpIndia Staff -
Amusingly, though Rahul Gandhi had indeed offered to resign, the CWC, that is chaired by himself, had unanimously rejected the resignation and asked him to reconstruct the party
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Politics

Mamata Banerjee’s meltdown, alleges involvement of ‘foreign hand’ in BJP winning Lok Sabha elections

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee had 'offered' to resign as West Bengal chief minister to concentrate on reviving the party but her TMC colleagues begged her not to
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Politics

Smriti Irani’s aide in Amethi shot dead, his son says some Congress workers were not happy with BJP’s ‘Vijay Yatra’

OpIndia Staff -
Smriti Irani had defeated Rahul Gandhi on his home turf of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh by a margin of 55,120 votes
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Politics

The Clown Prince is completely naked but the CWC does not have the courage to tell him

OpIndia Staff -
CWC, where Rahul Gandhi is the chairman, rejected Rahul's resignation, asked him to reconstruct the party.
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Crime

Another BJP worker shot dead in West Bengal, party blames TMC

OpIndia Staff -
The victim, 25-year-old Shantu Ghosh had defected from the Trinamool Congress recently and had joined the BJP.
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Politics

Riding high on 2019 win, BJP MP claims the TMC will be reduced to 60 seats in West Bengal assembly polls

OpIndia Staff -
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP gave the TMC a tough fight by managing to win 18 seats, a massive improvement from the 2014 polls where they won only 2 seats.
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Media

Congress-friendly journalist Pallavi Ghosh calls out her own channel for reporting ‘wrong news’ about the Gandhis

OpIndia Staff -
Senior journalist Pallavi Ghosh just accused her own channel of spreading fake news
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News Reports

17th Lok Sabha election witnesses 78 women representatives in the parliament, highest so far

OpIndia Staff -
The women representatives have improved from 5 per cent in 1st Lok Sabha to 14.36 per cent in the 17th Lok Sabha
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Editor's picks

Congress is now reduced to a ‘vote cutter’ party, costing its allies as many as 9 seats in UP

Nirwa Mehta -
The grand old party has reduced itself to a fringe party which cuts into votes costing their own former ally as many as 9 seats in UP
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Politics

Election 2019 Results: 21 seats where NOTA polled more votes than the winning margin

Aditya (reviewero) -
We look at data on NOTA in the 2019 Lok Sabha Election. In which seats did NOTA really make a difference?
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Opinions

The failure of Mahagathbandhan in UP: Have voters finally discarded caste-based politics?

Sanghamitra -
Congress ecosystem kept saying that while Mayawati will take Muslim and Dalit votes, Akhilesh will take Yadav votes, and Congress will help defeat BJP by stealing away 'upper caste' votes.
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Media

The Wire traces and ‘hunts down’ Muslim women who support Modi, call them ‘RSS-backed’

Nirwa Mehta -
The Wire insinuates that the voices of these Muslim women are not valid only because they are part of an organisation that is 'RSS-backed'
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Specials

A tribute to OpIndia’s fallen star

Nupur J Sharma -
On 13th May 2019, Devandhu Rajput succumbed to cancer.
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Politics

Congress keeps sinking, but shows no sign of detaching itself from the deadweight of Nehru-Gandhi dynasty

Sanghamitra -
In Western UP, 21 of the 22 Congress candidates have lost deposits, meaning they could not even get 1/6th of the total votes polled. Congress stalwarts like Salman Khurshid and Raj Babbar have lost their deposits.
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Opinions

The difference lies in what holds BJP and Congress ecosystems together

Abhishek Banerjee -
What keeps the BJP juggernaut together and drives it? Ideology.
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Crime

Govt of India bans Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh for its terror activities aimed at establishing Caliphate in the subcontinent

OpIndia Staff -
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh banned under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 35 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 with immediate effect.
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News Reports

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav dismisses party’s TV panellists, asks media houses not to invite any party leader for debates

OpIndia Staff -
After the humiliating defeat in Lok Sabha elections, Samajwadi Party not to participate in TV debates, Akhilesh Yadav fires all party panellists
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Opinions

Shivam Vij is the ‘Kachcha Nimbu’ of ThePrint that gets to bat from both sides

Jinit Jain -
Shivam Vij’s flagrantly contradictory articles claim all possible outcomes of an event, maybe so he could later claim that he was right in 50% of the instances.
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi should not fire his data analysis chief, but promote him. Here is why

Nirwa Mehta -
The divine vision of Praveen Chakravarty, "Big Data" head of Congress, is too precious
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Opinions

Why Modi Matters: Sadhvi Pragya and the definitive shift in the Overton Window of the Country

K Bhattacharjee -
Sadhvi Pragya's victory over Digvijay Singh is particularly symbolic of the cultural shift in the country.
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Politics

Every BJP vote in Bengal is owed to the ground level workers who have given their lifeblood for the saffron surge

Jhankar Mohta -
BJP has lost many of its workers to TMC's violence and bloodshed in West Bengal.
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Social Media

No AltNews, Zakir Musa was not a ‘separatist’, he was a terrorist who wanted to establish an Islamic Caliphate in Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
AltNews founder whitewashes terrorism, calls dreaded terrorist Zakir Musa a 'separatist'
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Opinions

The Left has lost its deposit. It is time for the Right to fight Modi

Anand Ranganathan -
Modi 2.0 heralds a new beginning for India and her people. It must not be allowed to cultivate the habits of Modi 1.0.
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Government and Policy

No bilateral talks with Pakistan till it keeps supporting terrorism: India’s envoy to the USA

OpIndia Staff -
Shringla asserted that Pakistan is supporting terrorism on Indian soil on one hand and is trying to 'talk' peace on the other. He made it clear that India cannot deal with the double-handed policy anymore.
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Opinions

The story of BJP’s rise and rise in West Bengal: The story starts not in 2019 but 2017 Ram Navami

K Bhattacharjee -
History may remember the 23rd of May, 2019 as the day when the future of Bengal Politics changed forever. However, it was on the 5th of April, 2017, on the auspicious day of Ram Navami that the seeds of it were sown.
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Politics

2019 Elections: Which exit polls pollster predicted the election result best?

Aditya (reviewero) -
Spoiler: If you have been tracking, the best exit poll predictors since 2014 hasn't changed.
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Crime

Supreme Court dismisses plea filed by former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar in Sharada Chit Fund scam

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier last week the Election Commission had relieved from his duty following the wide-spread violence in Amit Shah’s rally in West Bengal
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Politics

Congress’ Amethi District Committee President steps down taking responsibility even as Rahul Gandhi continues to be party president

OpIndia Staff -
Congress cadres resign en masse, taking responsibility of the party's loss in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections
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Opinions

Not every Hindu hero ends up like Prithviraj Chauhan

Abhishek Banerjee -
But now, on May 23, 2019, we have buried the ghost of 2004. It’s a pity that Atalji is not here to see this. He has become immortal.
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News Reports

UP Congress Chief Raj Babbar sends his resignation to Rahul Gandhi after the disastrous Lok Sabha performance

OpIndia Staff -
Raj Babbar offers to resign from the post of UP Congress chief after the party won just one seat in the state
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Opinions

The decimation of dynasties: The Modi tsunami has swept away kings and their clans

Sanghamitra -
There are no laws against the son or daughter of a politician joining politics and seeking election. But the nepotism and feudal power play, the repugnant elitism and entitlement that makes the same son and daughter assume that they are above scrutiny and accountability has to go.
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Crime

ED moves Delhi high court seeking cancellation of anticipatory bail granted to Robert Vadra

OpIndia Staff -
ED wants to arrest Robert Vadra, seeks his anticipatory bail cancelled
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Opinions

‘Chup Chaap Kamal Chhaap’: The slogan that changed Bengal politics forever

Nupur J Sharma -
While Bengal is the land of Maa Durga and Maa Saraswati, 'Jai Shree Ram' soon became a symbol of political protest.
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Opinions

Smriti… who? Smriti, the one who gave your brother a run for his money

Nirwa Mehta -
In a major upset for Congress, BJP's Smriti Irani won the Congress 'family seat' Amethi defeating Congress President Rahul Gandhi by over 50,000 votes
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News Reports

Wanted terrorist Zakir Musa killed in encounter with security forces, protests and clashes erupt in Kashmir valley

OpIndia Staff -
Musa was given an opportunity to surrender by the security forces but he opened fire at the joint team, forcing the security forces to neutralise him
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News Reports

BJP’s Kolkata Dakshin candidate alleges more votes counted than actually polled, ECI revises numbers citing human error

OpIndia Staff -
Total votes counted in Kolkata Dakshin was reduced by around 3 lakhs, ECI says mistake due to human error
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