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US military F-16 fighter jet crashed in a building in California, it was carrying live ammunition

OpIndia Staff -
F-16 fighter jets were recently in the news after Pakistan used the jet in its aggression against India after the Balakot air strikes
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Social Media

Farhan Akhtar asks people not to vote for Sadhvi Pragya a week after polls, uses Bhopal Gas Tragedy as a cheap pun

OpIndia Staff -
Farhan Akhtar tweeted asking the people of Bhopal not to vote for Sadhvi Pragya, used the Gas Tragedy as a cheap pun and also forgot that Bhopal has already voted last week.
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World Cup 2019

Nasser Hussain believes that India has the best team to win the World Cup

OpIndia Staff -
Nasser Hussain says that India has every base covered for the World Cup
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News Reports

Here is what PM Modi said after his Kedarnath visit when asked if he prayed for victory in 2019 polls

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi had started meditation in a holy cave in Kedarnath late last evening
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News Reports

TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu on a meeting spree with all prospective ‘mahagathbandhan’ Prime Ministerial candidates

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Chandrababu Naidu has met NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Congress president Rahul Gandhi, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and BSP supremo Mayawati
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Specials

In pictures: After a gruelling election campaign, PM Modi visits the abode of Lord Shiva in Kedarnath

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi is on a two-day visit to the Hindu shrines of Kedarnath and Badrinath
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Social Media

PM Modi visits Kedarnath for prayer and meditation, ‘secular intellectuals’ rush to mock his faith

OpIndia Staff -
The visceral reaction that liberals have whenever Prime Minister Narendra Modi practices his Hindu faith reveals the deep insecurity they suffer from.
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Politics

Delhi Police rubbish Arvind Kejriwal’s outlandish claims that he can be murdered because PSOs answer to Modi

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The Delhi Chief Minister had claimed on Saturday that he might be assassinated by his PSOs like former PM Indira Gandhi.
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Politics

Congress’ Lucknow candidate Acharya Pramod slams Shatrughan Sinha for not following ‘party dharma’

OpIndia Staff -
Taking a dig at Sinha's line of work, Krishnam said that politics is not a scripted drama, where you play various characters at different hours.
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Fact-Check

Kamal Haasan claims that the word ‘Hindu’ didn’t exist before the Mughals: Here is the truth

OpIndia Staff -
In a statement in Tamil posted on Twitter, he claimed that the word 'Hindu' is not native to India and that Hindus have to identify themselves as only Indians
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Law

After sandals and reasons behind extra-marital affairs, judiciary turns focus on ‘Chur Chur Naan’

OpIndia Staff -
After Sandals and extra-marital affairs, the Indian Judiciary shows its culinary wisdom and declares that no vendor can have a monopoly over Chur Chur Naan.
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Media

MK Venu calls ‘aggressive’ chants of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ provocative in The Wire, justifies Mamata Banerjee’s reign of violence

Editorial Desk -
Propagandist MK Venu, in his recent article for The Wire, has defended, even justified, the great violence that Mamata Banerjee has unleashed in West Bengal in her bid to retain power in the state.
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News Reports

CRPF Jawan deployed for Rabri Devi’s security commits suicide

OpIndia Staff -
The cause of suicide by the deceased CRPF soldier is reported to be a family dispute.
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Opinions

The Congress ecosystem is investing full scale in discrediting the Indian election

Abhishek Banerjee -
While BJP has been raked over the coals by the Election Commission, nearly getting banned, you wouldn’t be surprised to hear who get VVIP privileges from the same EC.
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Opinions

Election Commissioners are not clones of each other, CEC Arora slams controversy over Lavasa letter

OpIndia Staff -
The CEC has asserted that the election commissioners are not expected to be template or clones of each other and they do have a dissenting view in many instances.
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A dystopian future where Hindu nationalists take over: Social media reacts to Netflix’s latest Hinduphobic show ‘Leila’

OpIndia Staff -
After Ghoul and Sacred Games, Leila is the third show on Netflix that demonizes Hindus.
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Fact-Check

Of Nationalism and Hindu history: When fiction writer Romila Thapar writes for racist NYT, the result is bound to be poppycock

K Bhattacharjee -
In an article for the 'failing' New York Times (as POTUS Trump calls it), Romila Thapar, academia and approved fake news peddler, spreads rather dubious canards about Hindu Nationalism and Hindu history
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Culture and History

The side of Rabindranath Tagore that ‘Liberal Intellectuals’ don’t want you to see: Here is what he thought of Islam

K Bhattacharjee -
Rabindranath Tagore was an extremely complicated man born into an extremely complicated era. Unfortunately enough, he became a victim of the newly minted artificially secular regime's revisionist project
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Politics

Out, damned liar: The Quint crawls in its interview of Rahul Gandhi. Here is what Raghav Bahl never bothered to ask

Nupur J Sharma -
Propaganda website The Quint, which is often caught lying and pandering to Rahul Gandhi, got the opportunity to interview Congress President Rahul Gandhi and they went out of their way to crawl
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News Reports

The Tashkent Files conquers: Vivek Agnihotri’s movie secures an invitation for screening at the Rashtrapati Bhavan

OpIndia Staff -
The Tashkent Files has been invited to be screened at the Rashtrapati Bhavan and the film division of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry.
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Politics

ED attaches property worth 1.94 crore of Haryana’s former CM Om Prakash Chautala in disproportionate assets case

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Chautala was convicted in the infamous teachers’ recruitment scam and is currently serving a 10-year jail term in Tihar jail.
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Politics

Naveen Patnaik’s BJD changes tunes, says open for alliance with either BJP or Congress

Sanghamitra -
Throughout its election campaign in the state, BJD had maintained that it will retain its 2014 clean sweep of Lok Sabha seats in the state and will play a decisive role in forming the next government at the centre.
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Political History of India

Gandhi letters auction: Gandhi’s son did not rape his daughter, but his sister-in-law, Tushar Gandhi had clarified in 2014

OpIndia Staff -
When these letters surfaced in 2014, Tushar Gandhi, the lineage of MK Gandhi had written a letter to the Media saying that the letter had been mistranslated
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Politics

Muslims and EVMs: Arvind Kejriwal ready with excuses if AAP performs badly in Lok Sabha elections

OpIndia Staff -
Kejriwal while talking to Indian Express said that the Muslim vote "shifted" to the Congress at the last minute during the Lok Sabha polls in the capital.
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News Reports

MHA warns West Bengal police of a possible suicide bombing attack in the state on Buddha Purnima

OpIndia Staff -
IB report states that a woman bomber posing as a pregnant devotee might commit suicide bombings in West Bengal on Buddha Purnima.
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News Reports

Arvind Kejriwal terms the attacks on him a BJP conspiracy, says might be killed by the BJP

OpIndia Staff -
Kejriwal said that the BJP might even get him killed and then justify it by giving the reason that some AAP supporter who was unhappy with Kejriwal did this.
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi reiterates Congress’ relegated role as vote-cutter in UP, says defeating BJP is party’s first priority

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi stated that defeating Narendra Modi is the primary aim of the Congress party in Uttar Pradesh
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News Reports

‘After a long time, a government will come to power with majority for consecutive terms,’ says PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was present at a press conference by BJP President Amit Shah at BJP Headquarters in Delhi.
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Opinions

How Congress created the ‘Hindu terror’ theory: A saga that started not with Malegaon blasts, but Sikh massacre of 1984

Shashank Goyal -
Perpetrating the theory of “Hindu extremism” is a ploy that yields political dividend for Congress
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Fact-Check

Incompetence or malice? Journalists mistake BJP press conference to the PM’s, attack PM Modi for not taking questions

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi was present in BJP president's press conference, but media thought it was PM's press conference and wondered why PM didn't take questions
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Politics

Congress-NCP leader celebrates his birthday with ‘Desh Ka Chowkidar Hi Chor Hai’ cake

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi's obsession with the Chowkidar Chor Hai slogan had caused him a massive embarrassment recently where he had to tender an unconditional apology to the SC for falsely attributing the slogan to them. Rahul had submitted that he had made the attribution in the 'heat of campaigning'.
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Media

Rahul Gandhi admits having ‘journalists’ on his side doing Congress’ bidding

OpIndia Staff -
Congress President admits having journalists on roll who could perhaps run errands on the party's behalf
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Law

Special NIA Court directs the accused in the Malegaon blast case, including Sadhvi Pragya, to remain present before the court

OpIndia Staff -
Last month the NIA court had refused to restrain Sadhvi Pragya's candidature in the Lok Sabha elections citing the lack of jurisdiction.
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News Reports

In 2012, UPA government had declared that ‘Father of the Nation’ title cannot be accorded to Mahatma Gandhi

OpIndia Staff -
UPA government in 2012 had clarified that there are no records in the government archives that declare Gandhi as the 'Father of the Nation'.
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News Reports

She apologised, but I can never forgive her: PM Modi condemns Sadhvi Pragya for her Godse comment

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Even if the person has apologised, I will not forgive, PM Modi said referring to Pragya Thakur's comments on Godse
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Editor's picks

‘If Ram and Krishna can be criticized, then so can Modi and Rajiv Gandhi,’ PM Modi slams Rahul Gandhi

OpIndia Staff -
I have no right to criticise your parents and neither does anyone. But they can criticise the former Prime Minister of India: PM Modi confronts Rahul Gandhi
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Politics

Congress in-fighting: Captain Amarinder Singh and Navjot Kaur Sidhu at loggerheads over Amritsar Lok Sabha seat

OpIndia Staff -
Captain Amarinder has said Navjor Kaur Sidhu was offered Bhatinda or Amritsar but she wanted neither
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Government and Policy

Modi ministers in five years – Jagat Prakash Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare

Keshav -
A look at the performance of health ministry under the Modi government
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Politics

Priyanka Gandhi’s Modi-Amitabh Bachchan jibe is a massive self goal, read why

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Priyanka Gandhi attempts to mock PM Modi with a 'biggest actor' jibe, scores a self-goal citing Amitabh Bachchan's name.
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Media

AltNews fact-checks BJP’s claims about violence at Vidyasagar College, spreads fake news instead

OpIndia Staff -
AltNews appears to have watched too many episodes of CID and were deeply inspired by ACP Pradyuman and his motley crew.
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Politics

Godse row: BJP issues clarification, disciplinary committee to seek explanation for controversial statements

OpIndia Staff -
BJP has distanced itself from the controversial statements from its leaders, saying they were their personal views, not party’s stand
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Politics

“If they arrest me, tensions will escalate,” Kamal Haasan stands by his Godse remarks, says not afraid of being arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Kamal Haasan was also attacked by eggs and stones in a rally in Karur
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Politics

Congress’ U-turn: A day after saying they’re okay with Rahul Gandhi not being the PM, Congress says ‘we want to’

OpIndia Staff -
At the time when Congress had actually decided that Rahul would be their PM candidate, Rahul had himself flip-flopped saying he was 'open to options'.
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News Reports

‘Request you to rename Khan Market as Valmiki Market,’ Man writes to Rajnath Singh

OpIndia Staff -
Interestingly enough, Deepak Tanwar has no association with the popular retail location.
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Politics

Jyotiraditya Scindia beats Rahul Gandhi, goes off on a foreign vacation in the middle of campaigning

OpIndia Staff -
More indication that the Congress party has abandoned all hope?
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Government and Policy

Modi ministers in five years – Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship

Keshav -
A look into achievements of Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship
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Social Media

Bureaucrat turned politician Shah Faesal peddles victimhood on his birthday, Twitter gifts him a reality check

OpIndia Staff -
On behalf of team OpIndia, we wish Shah Faesal a very happy birthday and pray to god that he lives a long life, as most people in Jammu and Kashmir do.
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News Reports

Kashmir on high alert as intelligence inputs warn of unprecedented terror attack in Ramzan

OpIndia Staff -
Possible attack planned on 23rd May, which is also the 17th day of Ramzan, the day when Battle of Badr was fought.
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Politics

Haryana Minister Anil Vij calls West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ‘mentally unstable’

OpIndia Staff -
Anil Vij had earlier compared Mamata Banerjee to the mythological character of 'Tadaka', a princess-turned-demoness in the epic Ramayana
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Politics

BJP leader Anantkumar Hegde calls Rahul Gandhi ‘moron’ and ‘international idiotic skill master’ over ‘Modilie’ bluff

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Addressing him as a moron, Hegde said Rahul Gandhi's horizons have extended beyond the boundaries
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