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News Reports

India’s second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 to be launched on 15th July, ISRO releases first pictures

OpIndia Staff -
Chandrayaan 2 will be launched on GSLV MK-III rocket at 2.51 AM on 15th July
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Opinions

No Deepika, you have no right to talk about the Kathua victim, you should hang your head in shame and shut up

Nirwa Mehta -
The day Kathua verdict was pronounced, convicting six and acquitting one accused, Deepika Rajawat took to Twitter to make a little announcement for herself
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News Reports

Massive ‘surprise’! Rahul Gandhi to remain Congress president and not take responsibility for the 2019 Election debacle

OpIndia Staff -
In a massive "surprise", Rahul Gandhi is set to continue as the Congress President and not take any responsibility for the 2019 Election debacle that saw Congress being wiped out in the Modi wave that gave BJP 303 seats.
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Crime

CBI raids 22 locations connected to mining scam, Ex-UP minister Gayatri Prajapati, SP MLC raided

OpIndia Staff -
Gayatri Prajapati is lodged in prison since March 2017 under charges of gang rape.
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News Reports

Kolkata: Police uses water cannons and tear gas on BJP workers protesting peacefully against political violence in the state

OpIndia Staff -
The BJP workers were marching peacefully towards the Kolkata police headquarters in Lal Bazar before they were stopped by the police
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Opinions

Here is how Arvind Kejriwal is lying about Delhi having uninterrupted electricity supply and lowest power rate

Shwetank Bhushan -
If we believe in the personal account of the Delhi residents on social media, the claim of 24x7 power supply is exaggerated.
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Crime

RJD MLA’s son beats up a food vendor because he did not like the food prepared by him

OpIndia Staff -
A case has been registered against all the accused on the basis of the statement given by the victim vendor to the police. All the accused are absconding.
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News Reports

Govt of India decides that PM Modi’s aircraft won’t use Pakistan airspace to fly to Kyrgyzstan for the SCO meet

OpIndia Staff -
After Pakistan approved Indian request to fly over Pakistan, India decides that PM Modi’s aircraft won’t fly over Pakistan for going to Kyrgyzstan
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Crime

Radicalization in three high security UK prisons on the rise as Muslim gangs force inmates to embrace Islam

OpIndia Staff -
Of all the prisoners lodged in UK's three high-security jails on terror charges, 90 per cent of them are Muslims
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Crime

NIA raids 7 locations in Coimbatore over suspected link between city’s ISIS module and Sri Lanka blasts

OpIndia Staff -
The individuals who were raided allegedly had interactions with the NTJ and its head Zahran Hashim over social media.
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News Reports

Commerce and Industry minister Piyush Goyal urges China to clamp down on unfair trade practices by Chinese exporters

OpIndia Staff -
Piyush Goyal asked China to stop unfair trade practices, and increase import of Indian services to correct trade balance
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News Reports

Oxfam Sex Abuse: Victims of sex abuse were sent back to conflict zones to protect sexual predators, ‘poor behaviour’ tolerated

OpIndia Staff -
The report by the Charity Commission claims that Oxfam "tolerated poor behaviour" and it approached allegations with the desire "to protect its reputation and donor relationships”.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Missing BJP worker from Malda brutally murdered, charred remains found

OpIndia Staff -
The BJP also alleged that the communal disharmony is linked with "illegal Rohingyas in West Bengal" and demanded a National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the matter
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News Reports

Kolkata: Junior doctors protest against state govt’s apathy after mob attack following Mohd Sayeed’s death in hospital

K Bhattacharjee -
Medical Colleges from across Kolkata have joined the protests over the mob attack on doctors at the NRS Hospital on Monday night.
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Media

Senior journalist with The Hindu blames ‘Hindutva culture’ for Muslim men harassing dancers during an Eid festival in Assam

OpIndia Staff -
The crime and the humiliation heaped on the dance crew was carried out at an Eid function by Muslim men, however, a journalist from The Hindu deemed it fit to blame 'Hindutva culture' for the crime.
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Opinions

If protein is all that matters then dog meat has served as the nutritional needs of the terribly downtrodden since the times of the Gita

Lakshmi Prasad Jonnalagadda -
Instead of cow meat why not eat insects, containing the maximum amount of protein?
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News Reports

Karnataka: Loan waiver deposits vanish from the accounts of 14,000 farmers, farmers say Congress-JDS lied to them for votes

OpIndia Staff -
Nearly 13,988 farmers across Karnataka were shocked after they found out that the money which was earlier deposited in their accounts towards the loan waiver has been withdrawn
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News Reports

Modi govt decides to connect Madrasas to mainstream education, Azam Khan says ‘Madrasas don’t produce people like Godse and Sadhvi’

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi's decision to connect Madrasas to mainstream education seems to have angered SP leader Azam Khan
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World Cup 2019

Match Preview – Australia v Pakistan: All hopeful for a full game

Ritesh -
The last time these two teams played against each other in a World Cup encounter was turned out to be an epic battle between Wahab Riaz and Shane Watson (Sydney 2015).
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Politics

Kailash Vijayvargiya says he was approached by Digvijay, Scindia to topple Kamal Nath government in MP

OpIndia Staff -
Vijayvargiya went on to say that Madhya Pradesh has witnessed the maximum number of police transfers. He alleged that the posts are being sold.
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Fact-Check

Fact check: Viral video of ‘robbery attempt’ in Noida was a stunt being performed for a YouTube channel

OpIndia Staff -
Noida police have clarified that the video was shot by a group of friends for their Youtube channel
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Politics

AAP leaders fight amongst themselves over which is best way to protest against child sexual abuse

Nirwa Mehta -
Delhi Commission for Women Chairperson and AAP Haryana chief Pandit Naveen Jaihind's wife Swati Maliwal took an offence at AAP leader Alok Agarwal calling her husband's 'Tapasya' as protest against child abuse as 'nautanki'
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Crime

Local Muslims attack Hindu family in Begusarai and force them to sell their house, say ‘even Bajrang Dal won’t be able to save you’

OpIndia Staff -
Victim Munni Kumari in her complaint stated that of the three men entered her house at 1 am, two were masked and one was completely naked. The naked man began to rape her mother, while one of the masked men turned towards her and tore off her kurta.
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News Reports

Church aided by Kerala’s communist govt now accused of sponsoring land-grabbing in sacred forestland around Sabarimala

OpIndia Staff -
Four decades ago, the Christian organisations had made a similar attempt to grab the Sabarimala lands in Nilakkal by claiming that they had unearthed a stone cross established by Jesus' apostle Saint Thomas in 57 A.D.
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Cricket

Forbes releases list of world’s highest paid athletes, only Kohli finds a place

OpIndia Staff -
Virat Kohli might be having some stress due to Dhawan's injury in the World Cup, but on the personal front, he has some good news.
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World Cup 2019

Is it a World Cup of cricket or World Cup of rains?

Ritesh -
The world cup is held every four years, and the ICC has been very unprofessional in terms of scheduling it without reserve days.
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News Reports

Delhi govt didn’t give legal, financial assistance, no compensation. I am broken: Ankit Saxena’s father

OpIndia Staff -
Ankit Saxena was murdered by his Muslim girlfriend's family who did not approve of the inter-religious love affair between the two.
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News Reports

BJP leader Mukul Roy says attacks on BJP workers in WB done by TMC members on the instructions of Mamata Banerjee

OpIndia Staff -
Roy claimed that TMC workers are following Banerjee's instructions wherein she had threatened to take revenge from BJP workers 'inch by inch'.
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News Reports

Telangana: Congress leaders stage protest against arrest of Congress legislature party leader on hunger strike

OpIndia Staff -
As many as 12 out of 18 MLAs of the Congress party met Telangana Assembly Speaker to join CM K Chandrashekhar Rao's Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS)
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News Reports

UP CM Yogi Adityanath asks police officials to revive anti-Romeo squads after multiple assaults on minor girls in the state

OpIndia Staff -
UP CM Yogi Adityanath has asked police officials to identify 10 crimes against minor children in every range and solve them as soon as possible
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Economy and Finance

GDP calculation system revised in line with international standards: govt clarifies Arvind Subramanian’s allegations of overstating growth numbers

OpIndia Staff -
Govt says GDP numbers calculated as System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA) adopted by United Nations Statistical Commission
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News Reports

Aligarh child murder case: Woman who discovered the body says local Muslim community is threatening and pressurising her

OpIndia Staff -
A woman who had first discovered the body of the 3-year-old girl who was brutally murdered in Aligarh has said that that the local Muslim community has now started threatening her
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News Reports

Man who wrote ‘Flight is covered by hijackers, land in PoK, Allah is great’ awarded life term for creating hijack scare in 2017

OpIndia Staff -
Businessman creates hijack scare on board Jet Airways plane, awarded life imprisonment and heavy fine
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Social Media

Petty lies: Times of India presents a conversation selectively just to convince its readers that Anurag Kashyap ‘slammed’ a Twitter user

OpIndia Staff -
A Twitter user Divya outed Anurag Kashyap's hypocrisy over the latter's unfounded accusations regarding the devolving situation in Aligarh
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Law

‘Order not an approval of Kanojia’s posts on social media’: Supreme Court verdict on Prashant Kanojia’s release

K Bhattacharjee -
Prashant Kanojia's release was ordered by the Supreme Court earlier today.
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News Reports

Cyclonic storm Vayu is to intensify further, likely to hit Gujarat coast by Thursday

OpIndia Staff -
Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a high-level meeting to assess the situation.
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Opinions

The Judiciary and its inconsistencies when it comes to the principles of Freedom of Expression

K Bhattacharjee -
The Supreme Court's judgments and comments in matters of free speech highlights the urgent necessity for its complete overhaul.
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Politics

Congress leadership does not consult us, they are responsible for election loss, says party leader from UP

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader K K Sharma held the higher leadership of the party responsible for the election results alleging that they take decisions without consulting party workers and local leaders.
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Social Media

Congress leader Hardik Patel claims China has abducted the crashed AN-32 plane, urges PM Modi to do surgical strike to bring back the soldiers

OpIndia Staff -
Hardik Patel demands surgical strike against China for the crash of IAF AN-32 in Arunachal
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News Reports

Kolkata: Mob violently attacks doctors at NRS Hospital after Mohammed Sayeed’s death, police mute spectators, allege students

K Bhattacharjee -
NRS Medical College and Hospital was attacked by a violent mob on Monday night following the death of Mohammed Sayeed.
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Social Media

Adnan Sami’s Twitter account hacked by pro-Pakistan Turkish hackers

OpIndia Staff -
The hacker tweeted that whoever betrays the 'brother' country Pakistan will see Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's photo as profile picture.
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News Reports

CPI-M refuses to learn lessons after political annihilation, shifts blame to NDA, just like 2014, after ‘analysing’ 2019 electoral loss

OpIndia Staff -
Yechury also indicated that the opposition alliance or mahagathbandan narrative of "saving India" from communal forces and protecting the country’s Constitution and institutions had gained little traction on the ground.
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News Reports

Wreckage of the missing IAF AN-32 found in Arunachal, no clarity yet on 13 persons on board

OpIndia Staff -
The wreckage of the missing AN32 aircraft has been spotted at 15-20Km north of the flight path in Arunachal Pradesh.
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Opinions

Was Editors Guild more upset about arrest of Prashant Kanojia than murder of DD cameraman?

Abhishek Banerjee -
An unequivocal, no holds barred, stinging statement spanning four full paragraphs and 291 words for Kanojia. All governments in power need to read this. But for the DD cameraman who was killed by Naxals?
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News Reports

I-T Department files four charge sheets against VVIP Chopper Scam co-accused Gautam Khaitan

OpIndia Staff -
With 4 more charge sheet, total 13 charge sheets have been filed against VVIP chopper scam accused Gautam Khaitan
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News Reports

Owner of ‘halal’ investment group flees leaving investors in lurch, blames Congress MLA for taking 400 crores

OpIndia Staff -
Founder and managing director of a Sharia-compliant investment firm, Mohammad Mansoor Khan went viral where he claimed he is ending his life due to financial distress
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Crime

Radical Islamist preacher Zakir Naik willing to come back to India only if Supreme Court ‘ensures his safety’

OpIndia Staff -
The Malaysian government has stated that it is their right to not extradite Zakir Naik if he feels that he wouldn't be facing a fair trial.
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Government and Policy

PM Modi seeks 5-year roadmap with well-defined targets for each ministry

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi has asked top bureaucrats to draw ambitious 5-year plans for each Ministry to propel India in the $5+ trillion economy group.
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Cricket

World Cup 2019: Shikhar Dhawan ruled out for 3 weeks due to thumb injury

OpIndia Staff -
Dhawan had injured his left thumb while playing against Australia on Sunday.
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Crime

Aligarh child murder case: Locals find it hard to believe that serial sexual predator Aslam did not rape the child

OpIndia Staff -
Aslam, one of the main accused in the case of Tina's murder, is a repeat offender. He had been arrested multiple times for rape and assault on minors.
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