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Supreme Court to hear plea for safety, security of doctors at government hospitals on June 18

OpIndia Staff -
West Bengal doctors crisis began as a small protest which gradually took a nationwide dimension with doctors from all across the country raising voices of dissent against the WB government.
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World Cup 2019

Match Preview, Bangladesh vs West Indies: Both teams in a tight spot to keep hopes alive

OpIndia Staff -
Bangladesh certainly looks to be a better team than West Indies, as they have better batsmen (if not the hardest hitters of a cricketing ball), an excellent combination of pace and spin attack.
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News Reports

Watch: Giant slayer Smriti Irani takes oath as MP of Amethi, gets the longest applause by members of parliament

OpIndia Staff -
In Modi Cabinet 2.0, Smriti Irani has been appointed as the Union Minister of Women and Child Development.
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News Reports

Bihar: After 20 more children succumb to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome in the last 24 hours, death toll rises to 100

OpIndia Staff -
The death toll due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in Muzaffarpur and other districts of Bihar has risen to 100
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Media

That you have lost readership and your peers doubt you, is not our problem: Read our response to Swati Chaturvedi’s defamation notice

Nupur J Sharma -
Recently, OpIndia.com got a legal notice from abusive media troll Swati Chaturvedi. At the onset, we would like to reiterate that such intimidatory tactics won't work with OpIndia.
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News Reports

Here is how PM Modi mocked Congress and Rahul Gandhi while calling for an all-party meeting

OpIndia Staff -
Congress party doesn’t seem to mind sacrificing its electoral relevance as long as a member of the Gandhi Dynasty is spearheading the sinking ship.
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World Cup 2019

India-Pak match: Rohit credited success to newly born daughter while Sarfaraz refuses to blame the seniors for the defeat

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan Cricket team captain admitted how the team is out of form in batting, bowling as well as fielding
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Media

LokSatta and Karan Thapar scolded by Press Council of India for peddling fake news against the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

OpIndia Staff -
While Thapar maintained that his mistake of wrongly attributing quotes to Dr Mohan Bhagwat was bonafide, the PCI has taken a tough stand against Thapar.
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Opinions

Twitter diplomacy: Imran Khan made a thread on India-Pak world cup match but zero tweets by PM Modi

Editorial Desk -
Cricket has always been part of ‘track 2 diplomacy’ so off-field events can’t be ignored.
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Cricket

India refuses to be mediocre and docile, if that is ‘cold hearted’ for this Guardian writer, so be it

Sanghamitra -
Some people, who have clearly run out of issues to find faults, have come up with a brilliant demonstration of what Hindi Twitter knows as 'Naraaz Fufa'.
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Opinions

Priyanka blaming ordinary Congress workers for defeat is the lowest point for Congress and for Nehru-Gandhis

Abhishek Banerjee -
Passing the buck downwards won’t work any more. Because those at the bottom will leave in droves.
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World Cup 2019

Video and statistics highlight from Australia versus Sri Lanka match

OpIndia Staff -
As it was expected, Australia beat Sri Lanka the way comfortably by 85 runs.
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News Reports

Here is what you missed when the India-Pakistan match was on

OpIndia Staff -
News you may have missed due to the India-Pakistan match yesterday
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World Cup 2019

India vs Pakistan: With India registering a thundering victory, here are some video and statistics highlights

Ritesh -
Another comprehensive win for India against their arch-rivals in the World Cup. Twenty-seven years, seven games and no success for Pakistan against India.
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News Reports

West Bengal Doctor Crisis: Protesting doctors agree to meet Mamata Banerjee in presence of full media even as IMA goes on strike

OpIndia Staff -
The protesting junior doctors have now agreed to meet Mamata Banerjee at 3:00 PM today. However, the doctors have said that the meeting would have to be “in the full view of the media” and not “behind closed doors”.
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World Cup 2019

Pakistani Twitter erupts in self-deprecating humour as their cricket team stares at imminent defeat

OpIndia Staff -
India registered its 7th consecutive win against Pakistan in Cricket World Cup tournaments.
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News Reports

NIA nails top separatist leaders, Kashmiri separatist leaders admit their involvement in terror funding case

OpIndia Staff -
Masarat Alam told that Pakistan based agents channeled the funds through hawala operators which were transferred to the separatist leaders including Syed Shah Gilani.
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News Reports

PM Modi calls for a meeting of presidents of all parties to discuss “one nation, one election”

OpIndia Staff -
PM Mod has on several occasion reiterated the 'one Nation one poll' concept
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World Cup 2019

Imran Khan advised Sarfaraz Ahmed to bat first against India, the Pakistan captain did the opposite

OpIndia Staff -
Imran Khan said that Sarfaraz Ahmed must win the toss and bat first, but the Pakistan Cricket captain chose to field first
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News Reports

Pakistan fails to fulfil 25 of 27 action points given by terror finance watchdog FATF

OpIndia Staff -
IMF, the World Bank and the EU may continue downgrading Pakistan causing more financial woes for the already poorly performing economy.
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News Reports

Pakistan shares inputs of a possible terror attack in Kashmir with India

OpIndia Staff -
It is being said that Pakistan shared the inputs regarding the possible terror attack with India to avoid blame in future and save its face before the international community.
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News Reports

Obligated by the agreement with Modi, Swiss authorities to share details of 50 Indians nationals holding accounts in Swiss banks

OpIndia Staff -
Since Modi came to power, money parked by Indians in Swiss banks started reducing drastically
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News Reports

Indian army conducts ‘Operation Sunshine-2’ with Myanmar army, camps of northeast militants targeted

OpIndia Staff -
70-80 militants belonging to various terror groups have been detained by the Indian army
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News Reports

Western Railways drops proposal of providing massage services to passengers in train

OpIndia Staff -
There were other suggestions and representations made for improving passenger amenities which the Western Railway will now consider instead of the message proposal
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News Reports

West Bengal: Agitating doctors ready to hold talks with CM Mamata Banerjee after deciding the venue

OpIndia Staff -
The gridlock between the agitating doctors in West Bengal and the state authority reaches its sixth day
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World Cup 2019

India v Pakistan: The game in numbers

Ritesh -
Pakistan has dominated India in cricket in the 80s and 90s. But the fortunes have been in India's favour since 2003.
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Media Fact-Check

Times of India whitewashes Aligarh murder, downplays brutality, blames social media for ‘communal spin’

Nirwa Mehta -
Since AltNews' attempts to whitewash the crimes and downplay the brutality has failed, elements in mainstream media has taken it upon themselves to push the narrative.
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News Reports

In the biggest crackdown on terror funding, NIA registers cases against top separatist leaders, Hawala operators and stone pelters

OpIndia Staff -
The NIA investigation attempts to identify other key players in the nexus of the terror funding, stone-pelting at the forces and vandalization of government institutes
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News Reports

AAP MP Sanjay Singh exposes ignorance about symbolic protest, questions why protesting doctors have injury at the same place

OpIndia Staff -
AAP MP Sanjay Singh does not know doctors are wrapping symbolic bandages protesting against attacks on doctors in WB
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Cricket

India and Pakistan clash is not just a game, but a culture war between two hostile countries, bigger than even the Finals

Shashank Bharadwaj -
India v Pakistan, not just another sporting event
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Crime

Ajaz, a civil police officer, hacked to death his colleague Soumya Pushpakaran with a sword, set her on fire

OpIndia Staff -
The accused suffered burns while trying to set her ablaze and has been admitted to a hospital
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World Cup 2019

As India takes on Pakistan in Cricket World Cup, here is a trip down memory lane

Sandeep Singh -
While the World Cup matches between the 2 sides have been mostly one-sided, they have produced some really memorable events that stick long into the memory
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh: Pakistan Army gun recovered from Maoists, strengthens suspicion of their links with Pakistani terrorists

OpIndia Staff -
The NIA had tightened its investigation on an inter-state module involving Jharkhand and Telangana while also actively probing the Maoist trail in Telangana
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi got conned by his own men: Report says ‘Big Data’ head Praveen Chakravarty billed Congress 24 crores and is now absconding

OpIndia Staff -
A day prior to election results, Rahul Gandhi had reportedly even contacted UPA allies and offered to accommodate them in the cabinet.
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Opinions

Bengal doctors crisis: A state which has pulled out of Ayushman Bharat, the poor are the worst affected of Mamata’s apathy

Guest Author -
Further escalation of the crisis will be detrimental to the interests of the patient community at large.
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Crime

Hyderabad: Azam, a self-styled godman, arrested for raping a 19-year-old girl in a Dargah on the pretext of chasing away evils

OpIndia Staff -
On returning from the Dargah, the accused Azam, again allegedly raped the girl, said the police.
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Cricket

Unforgettable and controversial moments of India-Pak World Cup Cricket matches

Chandan Kumar -
India has been the daddy of Pakistan in previous six ODI World Cup encounters, so it's not surprising that ICC chose 'Father's Day' for this much awaited World Cup clash between India and Pakistan
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World Cup 2019

No single game is more important than the other, Kohli tells the fans

OpIndia Staff -
On the eve of India-Pakistan clash, Virat Kohli looked pretty relaxed and asked the fans to enjoy the match.
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World Cup 2019

World Cup preview – India v Pakistan: Let the party begin

Ritesh -
Sadly, it looks like the match will be washed out because of rain.
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World Cup 2019

Babar Azam wants to emulate Virat Kohli’s match-winning abilities

OpIndia Staff -
Baba Azam has often been compared to Kohli, and some Pakistani experts have even called him better than Virat Kohli.
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News Reports

Mamata Banerjee ‘accepts demands’ but claims ‘outsiders causing the stir’, hits out at media when asked if she will visit NRS Hospital

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee's appeal to the protesting doctors to end the strike and resume work has been declined by the junior doctors who said that there was no honest effort on the part of the Chief Minister to break the deadlock and that what she said in the press conference was not true.
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News Reports

Parody nation: Provincial govt of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa live streamed its press conference with cat filter on

OpIndia Staff -
While the press conference was being broadcast live on the Facebook page of the government, a cat filter on the video got accidentally turned on.
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Opinions

I am a single parent, and I have superpowers

Sanghamitra -
In India, or maybe everywhere else too, single parents are taboo. Single mothers even more so, because, our society, however classy, and advanced it might pretend to have become, still hasn't adjusted to the idea of a woman existing without being validated by a man.
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Opinions

Mamata didi, we upheld our Hippocratic oath during trying times, you failed the allegiance you swore to the Constitution

Guest Author -
The Bengal Health Crisis has escalated to immense proportions. With Doctors across the state submitting their resignations, Mamata Banerjee has a severe crisis on her hands.
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News Reports

Village officer issues order to demolish and remove crosses planted by Church on encroached land near Sabarimala

OpIndia Staff -
Crosses have been planted on the sacred lands of Panchalimedu, believed to be a place inhabited by Pandavas during the 12 years of exile.
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Opinions

The elite apathy of self-consumed Indians and self-identified ‘South Asians’

Guest Author -
The truth is that none of this lot feels a thing when the name Hindu is napalmed, no, irradiated like Chernobyl actually, because it doesn't affect them much.
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Opinions

Demographic impact of Christian Missionaries: India needs the equivalent of Russia’s Yarovaya law

Shashank Goyal -
Christian Missionaries are still aggressively targeting the economically deprived section of India’s population and rapidly converting them into Christianity with a mission to increase the number of “believers”.
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World Cup 2019

Video and stats highlight from England versus West Indies match

OpIndia Staff -
Fans around the world were expecting a thrilling contest between the two powerhouses of batting. However, the West Indies were disappointing again, and England completely dominated the match from the very first over.
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News Reports

Businessman with ties to Tarun Tejpal arrested by Delhi Police for fraud while trying to flee the country

OpIndia Staff -
Monty Chadha was arrested by the Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of the Delhi Police on Wednesday night from the Indira Gandhi International airport while he was leaving for Phuket.
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News Reports

Begusarai: Cop attempts to dilute charges against local Muslims, changes complaint by Dalit family, suspended

OpIndia Staff -
On June 13, the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) stepped in and sent a notice to Begusarai District Magistrate and SP informing that the Commission has taken suo moto cognisance of the case.
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