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Phase 5 of Lok Sabha Elections: Constituencies with high profile candidates

OpIndia Staff -
Amethi, Rae Bareli, Lucknow, Jaipur to go to polls in the fifth phase of polling today
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Politics

All you need to know about phase 5 of Lok Sabha Elections 2019

OpIndia Staff -
The 5th phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections are set to take place on the 6th of May. 51 Lok Sabha Constituencies across 7 states will go to polls in the 5th phase.
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News Reports

Top Naxal leaders named in the Gadchiroli attack FIR, including brother of Urban Naxal Anand Teltumbde

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Activist Anand Teltumbde's brother Milind Teltumbde, a top CPI (Maoist) leader, has been named in Gadchiroli attack FIR
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Fact-Check

Times of India publishes old photograph as image of cyclone Fani hit Bhubaneshwar Airport

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The image of Cyclone Hudhud hit Visakhapatnam airport used as photo of Cyclone Fani hit Bhubaneshwar airport by Times of India
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News Reports

PM Modi called Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee over Cyclone Fani, latter did not return calls: Officials

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The West Bengal CM said that while Modi spoke to Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik over the phone, he did not bother calling her.
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Editor's picks

“Was your party working with a crony capitalist by awarding projects over Rs 100,000 crore?” – Reliance Group hits back at Rahul Gandhi

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The Reliance Group asked Rahul Gandhi to clarify whether his Congress government was supporting an alleged crony capitalist and dishonest businessman for 10 years.
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Crime

Yunus harasses and assaults girls going to attend Bhagwat Geeta recital in Agra

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A boy who had come to help the girls being assaulted was also reportedly beaten up.
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News Reports

Akali Dal leader Manjinder Sirsa says Rajiv Gandhi was also ‘India’s biggest mob lyncher’

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Not just a corrupt politician but also a murderer who killed thousands of innocent Sikhs by putting burning tyres around their necks: SAD leader Manjinder Sirsa
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Political History of India

‘Bofors ka dalal kaun hai? Rajiv Gandhi,’ How the Opposition back in the late 80s chanted ‘Rajiv Gandhi Chor Hai’

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Congress workers had abused and beaten up Sagar University journalism department head for a question asked in an examination
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News Reports

Two Indian diplomats locked up and harassed at Gurudwara in Pakistan: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
There have been several incidents in the past where Indian diplomats have been harassed
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Politics

Celebrities get together to show support for PM Modi, Boney Kapoor, Sapna Chaudhary, The Great Khali present

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Recently famous Bollywood actor Sunny Deol had joined the BJP and is contesting from Gurdaspur Lok Sabha constituency against Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh.
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News Reports

PM Modi attacks Rahul Gandhi saying “Your father’s life ended as Bhrashtachari No. 1”, rattles Congress leaders

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He accused Rahul Gandhi of having only one objective of tarnishing his image
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News Reports

Amethi: Man dies after being turned away for holding Ayushman Bharat card; hospital said “Yeh Yogi aur Modi ka hospital nahin”

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Union Minister Smriti Irani shared a video on Twitter where a man alleged that Sanjay Gandhi Hospital turned them away for holding Ayushman Bharat card
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News Reports

Supreme Court says that Indian Express report on judges meeting SC panel probing charges against CJI is fake

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Supreme Court denied Indian Express report on the probe into the allegations against CJI Gogoi
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Social Media

Hey Tejashwi, there’s a Chowkidar on your boat

OpIndia Staff -
The logic-defying cartoon shared by Tejashwi Yadav kept Twitter users entertained on a Sunday
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News Reports

FIR lodged against CPM Leader Sitaram Yechury for remarks on Ramayana and Mahabharata

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Baba Ramdev and the others of the seer community lodged a complaint with the Haridwar SSP demanding strict action
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News Reports

“I have no solution”: Former Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit’s insensitive remark on women safety shocks all

OpIndia Staff -
Sheila Dikshit said that she has no solution for women safety in Delhi
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News Reports

Sri Lankan suicide bomber’s wife was a devout Hindu who was converted and radicalised, reveals a report by Tamil media

OpIndia Staff -
Pulasthini was born in a middle-class Hindu family in Sri Lanka and was allegedly abducted, converted to Islam and radicalised by Islamists groups
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Politics

Media finally asks Rahul Gandhi to explain his ’30k cr to Ambani’ lie, he says ‘Chidambaram has calculations’

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Rahul Gandhi has accepted that he has no idea where the Rs 30,000 crore figure he keeps throwing around as 'Rafale scam' has come from
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News Reports

Terrorists kill a BJP leader in Kashmir the day Mehbooba Mufti appeals to terrorists to not carry out terror attacks during Ramzan

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Despite threats from militants, Gul Mohammad Mir's security was withdrawn by the government.
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News Reports

The man who slapped Arvind Kejriwal has identified himself as an AAP supporter: Report

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Delhi CM and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal was assaulted again today by a person in Delhi’s Moti Nagar area during his election roadshow for the Lok Sabha 2019 elections.
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News Reports

Lt Gen DS Hooda claims that surgical strikes did take place during Congress regime, however, he had a different take earlier

OpIndia Staff -
Lt. Gen Hooda, who headed the surgical strikes and has been associated with the Congress party in recent times, has claimed that cross border operations were carried out during the UPA regime.
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Crime

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal slapped in public during roadshow, again

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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has been slapped by a man during a roadshow.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Singur farmers express regret over their ‘mistake’ of forcing Tata out, feel used by political parties

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Following the protest by farmers in Singur, Ratan Tata shifted the NanoManufacturing plant from West Bengal's Singur to Gujarat's Sanand
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Crime

Easter Sunday suicide bombers visited Kerala, Kashmir and Bengaluru: Sri Lanka’s army chief

OpIndia Staff -
Sri Lanka's army chief has stated that some of the Easter Sunday suicide bombers had visited India earlier.
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News Reports

UN agency praises India for achieving minimal loss of life during Cyclone Fani

OpIndia Staff -
UN credits IMD's pinpoint accuracy early warning system for successfully achieving this feat
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News Reports

Mamata Banerjee climbs out of her car to confront people chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’, claims abuses were hurled at her

OpIndia Staff -
A video has gone viral on social media where Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal, could be seen getting down from her vehicle after hearing chants of 'Jai Shri Ram' and confronting the people who shouted the slogan as her vehicle was passing by.
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Fact-Check

Fact Check: Former Congress minister lies about the railways tariff hike under 5 years of the Modi government

OpIndia Staff -
Former Congress MP Subodh Kant Sahai lied that under Modi government there has been 60 per cent hike in the Indian Railways fare.
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Politics

Priyanka Gandhi in trouble over snake video, animal rights activist seeks her immediate arrest for violating wildlife protection rules

OpIndia Staff -
In her election campaign in Rae Bareilly, Priyanka Gandhi was seen playing with Snakes of protected species under the Wildlife Protection Act 1972.
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Opinions

Chairman of Editors Guild justifies TMC’s violence in West Bengal, showers praise for fighting ‘fire with fire, venom with venom’

K Bhattacharjee -
Shekhar Gupta has this to say: "Fight fire with fire, venom with venom... Mamata in Bengal shows how offence is the best defence to stop the Modi-Shah cavalry..."
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Specials

Ulrik McKnight, Gautam Makkar, Sonia Faleiro, Congress, a defence deal and how it all relates to Rahul Gandhi

OpIndia Staff -
Gautam Makker, whose company got the defence contracts is related to Ulrik McKnight, who was a director in a company with Congress President Rahul Gandhi.
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Opinions

Sitaram Yechury calls Hindus violent and we must all thank him

Ashish Shukla -
Both Yechury and Akhtar lose no opportunity to insult Hindus. It’s for the Hindus to stand up to such inimical forces.
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Politics

PM Modi takes a dig at Congress’ ‘vote-cutter’ admission, mention Rahul’s Backops links in his UP rally

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PM Modi mocked Congress in his speech saying from a party dreaming of having its PM, after the first phase of elections, got reduced to a party that merely cuts vote shares.
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Opinions

The Economist is trying to charge Indians Rs 3799 per head to tell them how to save their democracy

Abhishek Banerjee -
The Economist had recently published an article against PM Narendra Modi and endorsed the 'corrupt' Congress for 2019 Lok Sabha elections
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Politics

Comedian who made fun of PM Modi’s apolitical interview to Akshay Kumar says “aayenge toh Modi ji hi”

OpIndia Staff -
Comedian Shyam Rangeela's comedy spoof on PM Modi and Akshay Kumar's apolitical interview went viral, now he says 'aayega to Modi hi'
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Politics

3 former Army Chief’s deny Congress claims of having conducted Surgical Strikes during their regime

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General VK Singh, the former COAS has stated that he is not aware of any surgical strike done by India in his tenure.
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Fact-Check

“We will not be cowed down by propaganda”, Lt Gen Sangha of Grenadiers Regiment calls out malicious video against soldiers

OpIndia Staff -
The video was shot in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh where army personnel and their families were taken in Army vehicles to cast their votes at the assigned booth where some miscreants had allegedly objected to the soldiers exercising their democratic right.
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Opinions

When Rahul flew over the cuckoo’s nest: Metaphysics of fruit flavours and Rahul Gandhi’s desperate attempt to appear smart

K Bhattacharjee -
Rahul Gandhi interview with India Today was a hoot and a half, and these excerpts are a must read
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Law

Rafale deal: Modi govt files fresh affidavit in SC, says clean chit given by Court is correct, media quoted documents selectively

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In the affidavit, the Centre said, Monitoring of progress of the Rafale deal by the PMO cannot be construed as interference or parallel negotiations.
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Fact-Check

Journalist invents new arithmetic to defend Rahul, asks others to get calculators while needing one herself

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Author Sujata Anandan, in her desperation to defend the lies of Rahul Gandhi on the NYAY yojana, made a fool of herself
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Politics

Sam Pitroda shatters the sham of Congress and BSP-SP fighting alone in UP, says ‘Gathbandhan will come together at the right time’

OpIndia Staff -
Pitroda has just confirmed what was being speculated in the political circles since long, that the Congress is, in fact, always in the alliance or 'Gathbandhan' mode and is willing to compromise with regional parties to any level.
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi accuses EC of bias and threatens them with ‘consequences’, hours after the same EC gave him clean chit for a lie

OpIndia Staff -
Continuing to attack the EC and the Modi government, Rahul Gandhi said that these people will have 'consequences in the future' and that he 'won't allow Indian institutions to be crushed'.
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi’s former partner in British company Backops, got defence offset contracts during Congress regime, reveals report

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Reports now reveal that Rahul Gandhi's former partner in the British company Backops, who owned 35% shares, got defence offset contracts during the Congress regime. 
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News Reports

Punjab CM Amarinder Singh shocks all, demands proof of Balakot air strike

OpIndia Staff -
The Punjab CM insisted that demanding proof from the government was no way an unpatriotic gesture.
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News Reports

Congress Lucknow candidate Acharya Parmod calls Shatrughan Sinha an RSS man for campaigning for wife and SP candidate

OpIndia Staff -
Shatrughan Sinha should fulfil Party Dharma, not Patni Dharma, Congress Lucknow candidates calls Sinha RSS man for campaigning for wife and SP candidate in Lucknow
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News Reports

“Ask him to first change his name from Sitaram”, Subramanian Swamy reprimands Yechury for citing Ramayana-Mahabharata as proofs of Hindu violence

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Swami said Communist believe in 'revolutionary violence' meanwhile Hindu's believe in 'retaliatory violence'
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Media

On press freedom day, meet the ‘fearless’ journalist who interviewed Rahul Gandhi and said ‘Rafale has entered people’s blood’

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Now, as if the India Today interview fiasco wasn't bad enough, another pliant journalist has got the "once in a lifetime" opportunity to interview Rahul Gandhi.
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News Reports

Former CIA acting director Michael Morell says Pakistan is using terrorism as a tool against India

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Former CIA acting director Michael Morell says that Pakistan is the most dangerous country in the world.
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Politics

Hans Raj Hans rubbishes allegations that he converted to Islam, says will file defamation and SC/ST act case against Kejriwal

OpIndia Staff -
Hans Raj Hans has been fielded as a BJP candidate from the North-West Delhi constituency.
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Media

India Today says the Rahul Gandhi interview was recorded by Congress, and party has not given recording to the channel

OpIndia Staff -
India Today has tweeted a clarification regarding the entire fiasco by asserting that there was never a video interview that was recorded.
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