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Crime

Stolen idol of goddess Ugratara recovered from Assam village, thieves arrested

OpIndia Staff -
The Ashtadhadu idol of goddess Ugratara was stolen and the temple was vandalised on November 15.
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Politics

Arvind Kejriwal ignores EC notice, repeats ‘accept money offered by other parties but vote for AAP’ remark

OpIndia Staff -
Hours after Arvind Kejriwal for EC notice for putting 'accept money offered by other parties but vote for AAP' comment on pamphlets, he repeats the remark
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Politics

Child rights body writes to EC over video clip where Priyanka Gandhi giggled as children abused Modi

OpIndia Staff -
The NCPCR has observed that the children were making derogatory remarks and using abusive languages in the presence Priyanka Gandhi
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Politics

Star TV confirms that they have not given Congress the permission to use their logo and tagline in political campaigning

OpIndia Staff -
The poster promoting Rahul Gandhi clearly uses the Star TV logo and the tagline used by Star TV, 'rishta wahi soch nahi'.
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi gets EC notice for his ‘Modi made law which allows shooting down tribals’ lie

OpIndia Staff -
Gandhi scion had made a libellous remark claiming that Narendra Modi has legislated a law allowing ‘shooting down’ of tribals
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News Reports

Sadhvi Pragya barred from campaigning for three days by the Election Commission for her Babri demolition remark

OpIndia Staff -
Sadhvi had acknowledged that she had played an instrumental role in the demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, and that she was proud of it.
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News Reports

Masood Azhar’s designation as global terrorist draws contradictory reactions from the usual suspects

OpIndia Staff -
Masood Azhar was designated as a global terrorist on the UN Sanctions List
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News Reports

“People who vote for secular parties get better academic results”, says Karnataka minister referring to SSLC results

OpIndia Staff -
Karnataka PWD Minister HD Revanna said that as Dakshina Kannada district voted for BJP, SSLC results in the region declined
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Fact-Check

India’s dossier to the UN on Masood Azhar mentioned Kashmir and Pulwama categorically, any suggestion to the contrary is a lie

Nupur J Sharma -
While India rejoiced the listing of Masood Azhar as a global terrorist, several vested interested proceeded to spread lies and canards about this historic diplomatic win for India, in their unbridled hatred for PM Modi.
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu: Stolen idol returned after 100 years by grandson of former priest who had stolen it

OpIndia Staff -
A 700 hundred-year-old idol of Dhroupathi Amman has been retrieved
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News Reports

Karnataka Minister GT Deve Gowda says “JDS workers might have voted for BJP”, irks Congress

OpIndia Staff -
Karnataka JDS minister says that in some areas JDS voters may have voted for BJP instead of coalition candidates from Congress
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Politics

Priyanka Gandhi encourages Congress workers to shout down Rajdeep after he asks about work done by Gandhis in Amethi

OpIndia Staff -
Priyanka Gandhi was in Amethi to address election rallies when she urged her supporters to heckle Rajdeep Sardesai as he tried to ask her why Amethi has shown no progress over the years.
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Government and Policy

Another feather in PM Narendra Modi’s cap: Masood Azhar designated as terrorist in UN sanctions list

OpIndia Staff -
The mastermind of the Pathankot terrorist attack and head of Jaish-e-Mohammed, Masood Azhar, has been designated as a global terrorist in the United Nations Sanctions List
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Opinions

True Indology speaks out, hits out on the horde of perpetrators who violated his religious beliefs

Guest Author -
Popular Twitter user True Indology, who prefers to stay anonymous, hits out on those who got his account suspended
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Opinions

Paddy Upton calling Gautam Gambhir ‘mentally insecure’ in his book exposes corruption within mental healthcare services and threat it poses

K Bhattacharjee -
Former mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton has described former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir as “mentally the most insecure”. However, it didn't deter him from becoming one of India's most accomplished batsmen, he added.
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Government and Policy

Modi ministers in five years – Road Transport and Shipping minister Nitin Gadkari

Keshav -
A look at the achievements of ministries under Nitin Gadkari
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Opinions

The voter turnout in the first phases of 2019 elections shows which way the political wind may be blowing

Karan -
There has been a lot of discussion regarding voter turnouts in the current 2019 elections. During the initial phases, it was argued that the voter turn-out, in general, was lower than the 2014 levels.
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Economy and Finance

GST collection registers a record high of Rs 1.13 lakh crores in April 2019

OpIndia Staff -
GST collection for the month of April 2019 is highest since its rollout.
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Opinions

Will the real ‘feku’ please stand up

Saket Suryesh -
With the litany of lies that Rahul Gandhi peddles, one wonders if Rahul Gandhi is the REAL 'feku'
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Politics

West Bengal: CPM polling agent Sheikh Khilafat’s house torched in Birbhum by TMC goons

OpIndia Staff -
The TMC goons under the protection of Mamata Banerjee have been unleashing their unbridled brutality converting West Bengal into a battle zone.
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News Reports

Dastardly IED blast carried out by Naxals claims lives of 16 security personnel in Maharashtra

OpIndia Staff -
After torching 27 vehicles of a construction company, Naxals attacked a convoy of security personnel in Maharashtra
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Politics

AAP failed to fulfill 67 promises it made in its assembly elections manifesto and 3 were misleading: PPRC Manifesto Review

OpIndia Staff -
Public Policy Research Centre (PPRC) has published a comprehensive evaluation of the Aam Aadmi Party's manifesto for the 2015 Assembly Elections.
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Politics

I am more concerned for Hindus than Modi is. Modi kills Muslims: Arvind Kejriwal loses all sense of morality

OpIndia Staff -
Drawing parallels between Modi and Hitler, Kejriwal said Modi will also change constitution after coming back to power, just like Hitler did
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Politics

Lanco debacle : A perfect example of the banking sector mess Congress created

Jain Amitanshu -
Example of what the Narendra Modi led NDA government inherited. Example of what the Modi government cleaned up.
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi addresses empty chairs in an election rally in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh

OpIndia Staff -
A small number of people attended Rahul Gandhi's rally in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur, and most chairs were empty
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Politics

Appeasement politics had endangered India’s cultural and spiritual glory, we got it admired at the global level: PM Modi in Ayodhya

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi today addressed an election rally at Gosainganj in Sri Ayodhya district which votes under the Ambedkar Nagar constituency.
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Political History of India

Nehru at Kumbh, 1954: When Congress govt burnt bodies, lied about casualties and called a journalist collecting evidence ‘ba***rd’

OpIndia Staff -
Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking at Ayodhya today spoke about the ghastly stampede of 1954 where a 1000 devotees lost their lives.
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Opinions

Here is how Indian ‘liberal’ propaganda over ‘intolerance’ might have caused 100s of deaths in Sri Lanka

Abhishek Banerjee -
Hundreds of innocents have lost their lives in bombings in Sri Lanka. And the global slander campaign against India could have led Sri Lankan officials to view Indian intelligence reports with suspicion.
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News Reports

Nomination of mahagathbandhan candidate Tej Bahadur Yadav, who was jailed and sacked from BSF, cancelled

OpIndia Staff -
As Tej Bahadur was dismissed from BSF in 2017, his candidature was invalid as per Representation of the People Act, 1951
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Social Media

Ex-NDTV CEO Vikram Chandra poses with a Modi lookalike in Varanasi, gets roasted

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier Congress President Rahul Gandhi and Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani were seen posing with Modi lookalikes
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Politics

BJP MP sends Rahul Gandhi a legal notice over his lie that ‘Modi govt passed law allowing shooting down of Adivasis’

OpIndia Staff -
BJP has served Rahul Gandhi with a legal notice for saying that Narendra Modi has passed a law in which a provision has been added that allows shooting down of Tribals
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Crime

After India and Bangladesh’ crackdown, Sri Lankan cable operators block Islamist preacher Zakir Naik’s Peace TV

OpIndia Staff -
The controversial Islamic preacher, Naik is being probed by Indian agencies since 2016.
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Politics

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra admits that Congress has put up candidates to ‘cut votes’ of BJP in Uttar Pradesh

OpIndia Staff -
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that in those seats where Congress is strong, Congress will win, and in others where Congress is weak, the candidates have been selected to ensure that they 'cut votes' of BJP.
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News Reports

Congress’ Ajay Maken already accepts defeat, says without AAP alliance, Congress cannot win ‘all seven seats’ in Delhi

OpIndia Staff -
Congress seems to have already conceded defeat and has even stopped pretending that it believes it will win
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News Reports

Pakistan glorifies Burhan Wani: Imran Khan’s party leader to play the terrorist in a movie based on his life

OpIndia Staff -
Imran Khan led PTI's legislator from Karachi is to play the role of slain terrorist Burhan Wani in the upcoming Pakistani movie.
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News Reports

Sri Lanka ignored Indian intel on suicide attacks as they thought it was a ‘bogey’ to create rift with Pakistan: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Sri Lanka did not heed the alert from India about the possibility of Jihadist attacks as it feared India was trying to create a rift between them and Islamabad
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Politics

Is AAP conceding to Congress’ Ajay Maken in the ‘New Delhi’ constituency? That’s what some BJP karyakartas think

Nupur J Sharma -
One would image that AAP and Congress would be in a fierce battle to defeat BJP in Delhi, but is that really the case?
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Politics

Sharad Pawar takes EVM hacking fantasy to a new level, says they can be ‘controlled’ via towers outside the polling booth

OpIndia Staff -
The theories of EVM hacking are wide and colourful. During the Gujarat assembly polls, 'journalist' Sagarika Ghose had attempted to peddle the theory that EVMs are picking up 'Bluetooth signals' and that can lead to 'network hacking'.
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News Reports

West Bengal: 100% cover by central forces in the 5th phase of polling after rampant violence and rigging in first 4 phases

OpIndia Staff -
Election Commission, as a preventive measure, has decided to deploy 100 per cent cover by central forces in all the polling booths in the fifth phase of polls.
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News Reports

Vishal Dadlani, Tehseen Poonawalla asked to pay Rs 10 lakh fine for mocking Jain monk Tarun Sagar

OpIndia Staff -
Dadlani and Tehseen Poonawalla had mocked the Jain monk who belonged to the Digambar sect and did not wear clothes
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Politics

Election Commission gives clean chit to Narendra Modi, says his Wardha speech does not violate poll code

OpIndia Staff -
EC dismissed Congress allegation that PM's Wardha speech had violated the model code of conduct
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News Reports

TMC’s ‘goondaraj’: Booth level BJP workers assaulted in Siliguri, FIR registered

OpIndia Staff -
This election season has witnessed several incidents of violence under Mamata’s regime in the state.
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Specials

Curious case of Rahul Gandhi’s nationality: Congress’ ‘explanation’ opens a pandora’s box, raises more questions than answers

Nirwa Mehta -
Congress' 'proof' of Rahul Gandhi's Indian nationality has opened a can of worms, raising more doubts than it cleared
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News Reports

“If Hemant Karkare’s role as a police officer was not correct, we will say it was not correct”: Sumitra Mahajan

OpIndia Staff -
Sumitra Mahajan said that there are two aspects to Hemant Karkare, becoming a martyr and role as a police officer
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Politics

Congress leaders and Congress-friendly journalists see conspiracy in fire at Shastri Bhavan which burnt waste material

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi insinuated that the fire at Shastri Bhavan was caused to burn important government files
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News Reports

“Do not take his (Babul Supriyo) name else you have no idea what I will do with the camera”: Moon Moon Sen to journalist

OpIndia Staff -
TMC candidate Moon Moon Sen verbally attacks and threatens to break the camera of journalist for bringing the name of her opponent Babul Supriyo in front of her. 
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Law

SC issues notice to EC on plea seeking action against PM Modi and Amit Shah, says EC has liberty to pass order as it...

OpIndia Staff -
Congress MP Sushmita Dev had yesterday filed a plea in SC seeking urgent and necessary directions to EC to act against alleged poll code violation by PM Modi and Amit Shah
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Politics

Watch: Congress makes kids abuse Narendra Modi in presence of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

OpIndia Staff -
Even with the Supreme Court bringing Congress down to its knees, the arrogance of the Congress party has not been diminished
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Economy and Finance

Eight Core Industries grew by 4.3% in 2018-19, the growth rate for March 2019 was 4.7%

OpIndia Staff -
In the eight sectors, only crude oil production declined, all other seven sectors saw positive growth in March 2019.
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Crime

Sri Lanka receives intelligence inputs of attacks planned on Buddhist temples by female bombers posing as devotees

OpIndia Staff -
The Muslim women members of a terror organisation had purchased nine sets of white cloths, which is worn by female Buddhist devotees
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