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Violence in West Bengal: While voters boycott polls in Asansol over non-deployment of central forces, crude bombs found elsewhere

OpIndia Staff -
The fourth phases of Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal have been mired in controversy as sporadic instances of violence have been reported throughout the state just as the first three phases of elections.
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News Reports

TMC Birbhum district president kept on tight EC leash till April 30th after poll workers express fear of him threatening them if let loose

OpIndia Staff -
The Election Commission (EC) has decided to keep controversial TMC leader and Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal on a tight leash until the morning of April 30th as two seats from Birbhum district poll in the 4th phase of 2019 elections
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Editor's picks

Allegations against the CJI appears to be an attempt to undermine the court, but also raises questions about the judiciary

India Legal Team -
According to conspiracy theories, corporate houses, lawyer activists are behind the allegations against CJI Gogoi
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Crime

NIA conducts raids in Kerala over Islamic State links, three youths arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Three youths detained after receiving intelligence reports that they in contact with terror leader of the Sri Lanka bombings
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi knew that Rajasthan Congress leader had printed and distributed 50,000 fake NYAY forms

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader from Kota in Rajasthan, Rakhi Gautam had shown 'prototype NYAY form' to Rahul Gandhi on April 25.
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Opinions

Online ‘Right Wing’ makes unknown idiots famous, but it might not be that bad a deed

Rahul Roushan -
Left-liberalism is getting mediocre each day, and it is getting lazier too. Thanks to the Right Wing.
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News Reports

Exclusive: Victims reveal how an allegedly drunk Kanhaiya Kumar and his supporters brutally beat up BJP supporters

OpIndia Staff -
Incidentally, the CPI candidate, who has been in news lately, for his huff, also has an equally interesting past
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News Reports

India had warned Sri Lanka about Easter bombings in advance on the basis of raids on ISIS modules in India

OpIndia Staff -
Terror leader of Sri Lanka bombings had visited India and radicalised several persons
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News Reports

‘Hindustan zindabad tha, hai aur rahega,’ PM Modi tweets after meeting actor-turned-politician Sunny Deol

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi goes filmy, welcomes Sunny Deol with his popular dialogue
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Opinions

Modi is here to stay, whether the 600 members of ‘intolerant gang’ like it or not

ashokepandit -
#BharatBoleNaMoNaMo despite the efforts put in by the 'intolerant gang'
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News Reports

Leave Kashmir if Article 370 is bad, no need to take the burden of Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti tells PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi has said that Article 370 and 35A have done the maximum damage to the state.
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Social Media

Mumbai restaurant asks people to ‘think about spicy beef roast’ before voting, deletes Facebook post after public backlash

OpIndia Staff -
Imbiss has since apologised for hurting the religious sentiments of the patrons
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News Reports

Delhi: Nadeem Khan arrested for posing as CRPF constable at a Delhi metro station, two Aadhaar cards recovered

OpIndia Staff -
Caught posing as CRPF jawan, Nadeem Khan even carried two Aadhaar cards
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Fact-Check

Fact check: Mayawati lied that Narendra Modi included his caste in OBC list when he was Gujarat CM

OpIndia Staff -
Mayawati is lying by saying that Modi made his caste OBC when he was Gujarat CM
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News Reports

AAP’s Atishi Marlena appeals to people to vote for goons if it helps to defeat BJP

OpIndia Staff -
Defeating BJP is more important, so vote for anyone else even if he is a goon, Atishi Marlena's advice to voters
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Media Fact-Check

‘Historian’ Ram Guha gets it wrong, attempts to carry out ‘surgical strike’ on our intellect

OpIndia Staff -
Guha seems to have graduated from distorting history to creating facts
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News Reports

‘Unemployed’ Kanhaiya Kumar publishes front page ads in newspapers, plagiarises BJP leader’s tagline

OpIndia Staff -
'Neta Nahin Beta' is being used by BJP leader Devender Kadyan since over a year now.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Poll officials go to CEO over TMC leader’s threats, seek his house arrest for free and fair elections

OpIndia Staff -
TMC Birbhum District Chief Anubrata Mondal seems to be having very little regard for the law
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News Reports

Congress President Rahul Gandhi halts his speech during Azaan

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi has also contested from Wayanad, which is considered a 'safe seat' because Hindus are in a minority there
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Politics

Salman Khurshid loses ground, argues with Amethi Panchayat Head over Farrukhabad development

OpIndia Staff -
In the video, the Panchayat Head is asking Salman Khurshid what work he did for Farrukhabad during the time of Congres government.
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Opinions

Congress spreads shady article that names an ‘unknown UK company’ claiming a Congress sweep in 2019 elections

K Bhattacharjee -
In what appears to be a matter of concern, the figures regarding Congress prospects in 2019 elections cited by Whitehead are uncannily similar to the ones shared by Congress supporter Sumit Kashyap recently on Twitter.
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News Reports

Yogi Adityanath says, ‘under our govt, terrorists either die or go to jail, SP dropped cases against terrorists’

OpIndia Staff -
He had also said that terrorist attacks in Ayodhya and Kashi took place during the rule of Samajwadi Party and that Sp, BSP & Congress are working on agenda to save terrorists.
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Media

Fake news channel NDTV hires fake news peddler Dhruv Rathee, to bust fake news this election

Sanghamitra -
Perhaps the union of Dhruv Rathee and NDTV is destiny after all, like a river eventually merging with the sea, individual fake news peddlers probably have to merge one day with the ocean of lies and fake news that is NDTV.
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News Reports

ISIS poster in Bengali that says ‘Coming Soon’ gives rise to chilling suspicion about probable attack in West Bengal or Bangladesh: Report

OpIndia Staff -
ISIS already has a strong presence in Bangladesh and have used West Bengal for the recruitment.
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Law

Patna court issues summons to Rahul Gandhi in defamation case filed by BJP leader Sushil Modi

Aditi -
Rahul Gandhi, who often lies in his speeches, is also facing another defamation case for calling BJP National President Amit Shah a 'murder accused'.
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Law

Petition filed in HC to restrict media from reporting sexual harassment allegations against CJI Gogoi

Jinit Jain -
A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking restrictions on media to report charges of harassment against Chief Justice of India (CJI) Gogoi
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Opinions

Congress-NCP alliance: An opportunistic alliance that spelt doom for its own partners

Jinit Jain -
Congress and NCP have formed an alliance in Maharashtra to fight the Lok Sabha elections jointly
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Opinions

Indians and our short memory: Why we remember Hemant Karkare, not Tukaram Omble and how it puts our lives at risk

Ashish Shukla -
They ensure you remember “Hemant Karkare” because Pragya Sadhvi has taken his name—and never Tukaram Omble.
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News Reports

Election Commission busts media propaganda: Malfunctioning EVM in Goa mock poll was favouring Congress, not BJP

OpIndia Staff -
According to the story, in a mock poll ahead of the actual elections in Goa, the BJP had received 17 votes through the EVM machine instead of its allotted 9.
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Politics

Gujarat Court orders inquiry into Rahul Gandhi’s ‘murder accused’ comment against Amit Shah after complaint

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi had recently called BJP President Amit Shah 'murder accused' during an election rally at Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. A defamation complaint was filed against the Congress President for his ostensibly false remark
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi stitches an alliance with Babu Singh Kushwaha, out on bail in NHRM scam, whose corruption he had himself condemned

OpIndia Staff -
Babu Singh Kushwaha was involved in the National Rural Health Mission Scam. Rahul Gandhi had said in 2012 that he will go to jail.
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Media

The Quint’s biased and wayward journalism may hurt Bloomberg’s global brand

Amit Kelkar -
There are way too many controversies related with The Quint. Does Bloomberg not care about its brand image?
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Politics

Villagers in Rajasthan given ‘forms’ of ‘Nyay Yojana’ to receive 72,000 rupees, BJP says people are being fooled

OpIndia Staff -
Political activists in Rajasthan's Kota were found distributing fake forms of NYAY Yojana, asking people to fill the forms to get Rs 72000
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News Reports

Watch: Filmmaker Ashoke Pandit slams journalist who called URI a ‘propaganda movie’

OpIndia Staff -
Pandit said that a lot of hard work goes into the making of movies and to brand them as politically motivated or as propaganda is wrong.
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Politics

Congress leader Raj Babbar’s cheap sexual innuendo, says that Mamta Banerjee has figured out the size of Modi’s kurta

OpIndia Staff -
Senior Congress leader, Raj Babbar, on Saturday, made a despicable jibe at Mamata Banerjee over recent remark of Prime Minister Modi that he receives Kurtas and sweets from the West Bengal Chief Minister
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Politics

The Congress party supports ‘Mr’ Yasin Malik, calls him brave for refusing to surrender

OpIndia Staff -
In latest Congress news, senior Congress party leader PC Chacko has called Yasin Malik brave for refusing to surrender.
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News Reports

Ajai Shukla’s lie that was furthered by ‘journalists’ like Abhisar Sharma slammed by the Indian Air Force

OpIndia Staff -
The official Twitter handle of Indian Air Force said that Ajai Shukla had incorrectly speculated in his blog that the IAF Court of Inquiry constituted to investigate the Mi-17 V5 crash at Srinagar on 27th February has been put on hold till elections.
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Politics

Why is Indian intelligentsia silent on AAP’s promise to throw non-Delhi students out of Delhi University?

Abhishek Banerjee -
Arvind Kejriwal of AAP wants an 80% quota in Delhi University for kids who have done their schooling from Delhi. The stated objective: to make sure that Delhi kids who score a mere 50% in their Board Exams are assured a place in Delhi University
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Politics

Days after joining Congress, Shatrughan sees light, says Jinnah and Rahul Gandhi contributed to independence and development

OpIndia Staff -
Shatrughan Sinha further added that he has come to the Congress party because of these leaders and he will never go to any other party in the future. He also asserted that it is his last party jump.
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News Reports

PM Modi says ‘people are creating an impression that Modi has already won so it’s ok if you don’t vote, don’t believe them’

OpIndia Staff -
Right after PM Modi filed his nomination after a massive and quintessential Modi roadshow the day before, speaking to the Media, the Prime Minister had a message for the people
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Crime

Rape of tribal girls in Christian institution’s hostel: MoS Hansraj Ahir writes to Maharashtra CM Fadnavis over delay in police probe

OpIndia Staff -
In his letter to the Maharastra CM, MoS has alleged that minor girls were drugged and sexually assaulted by the hostel staff. He asserted that people in his constituency were disgruntled with the ongoing probe and there was a growing demand for CBI inquiry.
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Crime

Madras Christian College professors held guilty of sexual misconduct by the Internal Complaints Committee

OpIndia Staff -
When the incident came to light, students from the 1997-2000 zoology batch shared similar instances of harassment
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi’s outrageous lie, says Modi made a law under which adivasis could be shot down

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi said in an election rally that the Modi government had introduced a provision in the Tribal law that enables them to snatch Adivasi land and shot bullets at them with impunity
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News Reports

Worker putting up Rahul Gandhi’s posters while wearing a Modi T-shirt removed from Congress office

OpIndia Staff -
As soon as the Congress leaders came to know about this, they removed the worker from the party office immediately.
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News Reports

Mayawati says that stray animal’s entry in SP-BSP-RLD rally in Kannauj was part of a BJP conspiracy

OpIndia Staff -
Yesterday, a stray bull had entered the helipad area and created ruckus ahead of a joint SP-BSP-RLD election rally in Kannauj.
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Crime

Islamist terror leader wanted for Sri Lanka bombings was one of the suicide bombers, died in a hotel bombing

ashwin -
Zahran Hashim was confirmed to have led the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka
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News Reports

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan under scanner for allegedly using public money for ‘personal’ trips

OpIndia Staff -
The writ petition was filed by one D Francis, who claims to be a member of an anti-corruption organisation
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Economy and Finance

India is poised to uplift 2.5 crore households out of poverty by 2030, reports the World Economic Forum

OpIndia Staff -
According to a World Economic Forum report, share of households below poverty line will reduce from 15% today to 5% by 2030
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News Reports

West Bengal BJP Chief Dilip Ghosh claims that TMC will not win a single seat in first 3 phases of Lok Sabha election

OpIndia Staff -
He said that seeing the huge turn out of people at the BJP rallies, Mamata Banerjee has stopped  flying across the State in helicopter and has started going for unscheduled roadshows
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News Reports

BSE files a formal complaint against propagandist Kunal Kamra for unauthorised modification and misuse of their brand

OpIndia Staff -
Kunal Kamra had posted a morphed image of BSE woth its ticker reading ‘Don’t vote for Modi’
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