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French Embassy denies reports of Pakistan pilots training in Rafale jets delivered to Qatar, call it ‘fake news’

OpIndia Staff -
The French Embassy has clarified that this is "fake news" and that no Pakistani pilots have been trained in the Rafales delivered to Qatar.
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Opinions

In 2019, West Bengal is all set to throw up the greatest surprise of the election season and Mamata Banerjee won’t be happy

Editorial Desk -
With a massive upswing in 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, BJP is poised to pull off a political coup in West Bengal. The only question now is: How would Mamata Banerjee react?
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News Reports

Mischief mongers: Journalists share images of ‘NaMo’ food package being distributed in Noida, insinuate MCC violation

OpIndia Staff -
Food ordered from a local store for policemen on election duty, 'Namo Foods' creates a storm on social media as 'journalists' insinuate involvement of BJP and Modi
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Politics

Bihar lawyer files complaint against Mehbooba Mufti and Farooq Abdullah for their anti-India rants

OpIndia Staff -
In his petition, Advocate Sharma has said that he felt hurt by the statements of Abdullah and Mufti and alleged that their remarks could fan unrest and mutiny in the country.
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Politics

Congress does not respond to request for interview with Rahul Gandhi for a week after accusing Doordarshan of bias

OpIndia Staff -
On the 4th of April, chief executive officer of Prasar Bharti, which runs Doordarshan, Shashi Shekhar Vempati had written to the Congress requesting an interview with Rahul Gandhi.
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Politics

West Bengal: Voters of Cooch Behar wary of voting, fear rampant violence by TMC goons like panchayat elections last year

OpIndia Staff -
Polling in two parliamentary constituencies of West Bengal, Cooch Behar, and Alipurduar, is being held in the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections on April 11.
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Politics

Congress is ‘hero’ in Muslim areas but ‘zero’ in Hindu dominated areas: AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal

OpIndia Staff -
Ajmal had fielded only 3 candidates declaring that he has left the other seats for the Congress because he doesn't want the division of 'secular' votes. There were also reports of a rift within the Congress over support to Ajmal's party.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Rampant polling malpractice, TMC accused of violence

OpIndia Staff -
Violence has been reported in West Bengal in the two constituencies, Cooch Behar and Alipurduar, that has gone to polls in the first phase of the elections.
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Politics

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind directs Muslims to vote for SP-BSP-RLD alliance in Uttar Pradesh

OpIndia Staff -
Similar kind of open polarisation of votes was seen even a few days earlier when BSP Supremo Mayawati had openly appealed for consolidation of Muslims votes.
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh: ITBP and Chhattisgarh Police joint party come under Naxal ambush while on their way to polling booth

OpIndia Staff -
Two days back, BJP MLA Bhima Mandavi had lost his life when Naxal terrorists ambushed his convoy in Dantewada, Bastar
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News Reports

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s chopper loses way near Bangladesh border, rally delayed

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee's rally got delayed as a helicopter ride which was to take 22 minutes took 55 minutes
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Editor's picks

Live Updates: West Bengal registers 69.96% voting till 3 pm, Mizoram shows voter turnout of 55.2%

OpIndia Staff -
Voting for the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections has begun today with people of 91 out of 543 seats will cast their votes to choose their representative in the parliament
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Politics

Andhra Pradesh: Janasena MLA candidate smashes EVM inside polling booth, arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Janasena MLA candidate Madhusudan Gupta has been arrested for smashing an EVM inside a polling booth in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district.
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News Reports

Lok Sabha elections 2019: 91 constituencies to vote today, fates of Nitin Gadkari, Kiren Rijiju to be decided

OpIndia Staff -
AIMIM's Asadudding Owaisi and Congress' Renuka Chowdhary will also fight it out today
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News Reports

‘Unemployed’ Kanhaiya Kumar had a cumulative income of Rs 8,58,650 in last two years

OpIndia Staff -
Despite earning over 8 lakh rupees in the past two years, Kanhaiya Kumar had claimed he could not afford cooking gas cylinder
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Editor's picks

All you need to know about the first phase of the 2019 General Elections

OpIndia Staff -
The BJP had won 32 seats from these 91 constituencies, the TDP had won 16, YSRC had won 9, the TRS had won 11 and the Congress had won 7.
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Opinions

Lok Sabha elections 2019: May we get the leader we deserve

Nirwa Mehta -
Here's a toast to the democracy that India is
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Politics

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra skips visit to Jain temple during Saharanpur roadshow on instruction of Imran Masood, Jain community angry: Report

OpIndia Staff -
The deeply hurt Jain community in Saharanpur has vowed to teach a lesson to Congress in the Lok Sabha elections by voting for Modi.
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News Reports

British PM Theresa May expresses deep regrets for Jallianwala Bagh massacre, says it is a despicable scar on the British Indian history

OpIndia Staff -
General Dyer ordered his troops to open fire at the people gathered to celebrate Baisakhi on April 13, 1919
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News Reports

I wanted respect, but all I got was insult. Congress has backstabbed me: Alpesh Thakor resigns from the party

OpIndia Staff -
Thakor Sena, headed by Alpesh Thakor had decided to withdraw support from Congress
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News Reports

Stone sculpture damaged during shooting of Dabangg 3 in Maheshwar Fort, ASI issues notice

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, a controversy had erupted when photos of a Shivling covered with a plank on the sets of Dabangg 3 surfaced on Social Media.
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News Reports

‘Continuance of Modi government is the need of the hour’, more than 900 artists issue statement in support of PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
Over 900 personalities from the fields of art and literature have come forward in the support of prime minister Narendra Modi
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Politics

Who are you to conduct ‘one-sided’ raids: Chandrababu Naidu asks I-T department

OpIndia Staff -
Naidu alleged that Prime Minister Modi wants to demolish democracy and therefore he was launching 'Save India Save Democracy' campaign.
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Law

Election Commission stalls release of Vivek Oberoi’s Modi biopic, claims threat to ‘level playing field’ and ‘free and fair elections’

OpIndia Staff -
Apart from the PM Narendra Modi, 'NTR Laxmi' and 'Udyama Simham' has also been mentioned in the order.
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Politics

1 family sticking to power for 60 years is not ‘NYAY’: Ranvir Shorey slams artists who appealed against PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
Ranvir Shorey slammed Congress and Gandhi dynasty claiming those who tethered on to power for 60 years are now talking about 'NYAY'.
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Government and Policy

Petitioners using ‘stolen’ documents with an intention to present selective and incomplete picture of Rafale Deal: Defence Ministry

OpIndia Staff -
In March, the controversial left-wing lawyer Prashant Bhushan wanted to file an eight-page note, which was allegedly "stolen" from the defence ministry and later published by N Ram of the Hindu.
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Politics

Ulhasnagar: NCP supremo Sharad Pawar address a half-empty ground at his rally

OpIndia Staff -
BJP and it's ally, Shiv Sena sorting out their internal rifts have come together once again to take on the Congress-NCP alliance in Maharastra.
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Opinions

The Left may lie, obfuscate, peddle half truth and whole lies, but here is why you should vote for Narendra Modi

Karan -
There are multiple things that this government got right and there are multiple errors too that it has made but one has to compare a political party with other political parties. For all that the Modi government gets wrong, it gets at least twice as many things right.
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Crime

Delhi court frames charges against Priya Ramani in defamation case filed by MJ Akbar, the journalist pleads ‘not guilty’

OpIndia Staff -
Priya Ramani was one of the first among a number of women who accused MJ Akbar of sexual misconduct during his time as a media personality
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Politics

Out-on-bail Rahul Gandhi campaigns with out-on-bail Robert Vadra, questions PM Modi on corruption

K Bhattacharjee -
Robert Vadra, husband of Priyanka Gandhi and accused in multiple scams, participated in Rahul Gandhi's roadshow in Amethi as the Congress President filed his nomination papers from the constituency.
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Editor's picks

Sex and cheap thrills: When ‘The Print’ struggles, Shekhar Gupta pulls a ‘coup’ on journalistic integrity

अजीत भारती -
Shekhar Gupta's 'The Print' has now come up with an article that is asking the readers a question 'if Narendra Modi is a sex symbol for village women?'
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Crime

NIA gets custody of Yasin Malik for 12 days in the terror funding case, Farooq Abdullah calls it ‘zulm’

OpIndia Staff -
Yasin Malik was booked under Public Safety Act and shifted to Jammu's Kot Balwal jail last month.
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Politics

Gurjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla and Vijay Bainsla join BJP

OpIndia Staff -
KS Bainsla is a retired colonel and is associated with the Gurjar reservation movement from the last 14 years.
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News Reports

NSAB chairperson PS Raghavan alleges Lt General DS Hooda had revealed details of a secret report, Hooda denies

OpIndia Staff -
As a part of the largest reform programme of the defence forces, the Modi government has been trying ways to "optimise" the size of the military forces
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Media

Rajya Sabha TV accuses The Wire of stealing, illegally possessing and using copyrighted material

OpIndia Staff -
Rajya Sabha TV, in its legal notice, has alleged that since the clip used by The Wire had no logo of RSTV, it is bound to be the original clip that Rajya Sabha TV has in its possession.
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Politics

As Kamal Nath finds himself amidst I-T raids, son Nakul Nath declares assets worth over 600 crores in election affidavit

OpIndia Staff -
Nakul Nath, son of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, is the Congress candidate from the Chhindwara Constituency in MP.
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Entertainment

Director Vivek Agnihotri says ‘Congress top family’ behind the legal notice sent against the movie ‘The Tashkent Files’

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader and Lal Bahadur Shastri’s grandson sends legal notice to stop the release of ‘The Tashkent Files’, Vivek Agnihotri says ‘Congress top family’ behind it
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Politics

Legitimate action against corruption is not vendetta: Arun Jaitley on I-T raids

OpIndia Staff -
Revenue Departments act objectively on the basis of material available and take action when they are satisfied that a case of the search operation is made out, says Arun Jaitley.
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News Reports

Tughlaq Road Chunavi Ghotala: PM Modi said Congress is looting the money designated for pregnant women

OpIndia Staff -
Prime Minister Modi said that Congress has snatched away food from poor and children and filled the stomach of their own leaders
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Opinions

Is Imran Khan the undeclared Mahagathbandhan ally for Congress? His statements are proof

Jinit Jain -
Pakistan PM Imran Khan's latest comments on Twitter against PM Modi and BJP just before the elections reveal their desperation and fear of a second-term by PM Modi.
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Law

‘There is no danger except that you are convicted’: Supreme Court rejects Lalu Prasad Yadav’s bail plea in multi-crore fodder scam

OpIndia Staff -
Convict Lalu Prasad Yadav was represented in the Court by senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal.
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Law

SC to allow the admissibility of three ‘stolen’ documents of Rafale deal as evidence in examining review petitions

OpIndia Staff -
The Union government represented by Attorney General KK Venugopal had argued that the review petition should be dismissed at the preliminary stage itself because they were based on "stolen" documents published in newspapers like The Hindu.
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News Reports

Canadian Islamic Centre spokesperson refers to Hindu Gods Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu as ‘rapists’

Tarek Fatah -
In Canada, Muslim speaker Sanobar Umar accused the ‘Hindu Right’ of being in cahoots with American White Supremacists and then demanded Prime Minister Modi be sent to prison for abandoning his wife. 
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News Reports

Leaked Google documents reveal aggressive ‘news blacklist’ and manual manipulation of right wing sites

OpIndia Staff -
Google has denied the allegations of manually manipulating the search results.
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Fact-Check

Times of India spreads fake news, says Meerut student Umam Khanam was “harassed” for “not wearing a BJP cap”

OpIndia Staff -
Times of India journalist Piyush Rai has resorted to false propaganda to target the BJP by reporting that the 22-year old Meerut Law College student, Umam Khanam, was suspended after she refused to wear a BJP cap.
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Politics

Rahul can do ‘ILU ILU’ with terrorists, but the BJP government will give a befitting reply to them: Amit Shah

OpIndia Staff -
Accusing Rahul Gandhi of defaming Hindus, BJP President Shah demanded the Congress President to apologise for the Hindu community, especially to the Hindus of India before the elections. 
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Opinions

BJP MLA Bhima Mandavi assassinated by leftists, dehumanized by liberals

Abhishek Banerjee -
It is time for Indians, cutting across party lines, to speak in one voice against the Great Evil of left-wing terror
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News Reports

Notes recovered from I-T raids in MP mention Excise, Transport, Mining, PWD under receipts, AICC, PCC, Election Bond, MLAs, Candidates under expenses

OpIndia Staff -
Notes recovered by I-T show funds were being diverted from MP govt to Congress party
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News Reports

Gujarat Congress MLA and Bihar Congress Secretary Alpesh Thakor likely to resign from all posts of Congress party: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, Alpesh Thakor is likely to join the BJP tomorrow in presence of BJP President Amit Shah
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Politics

‘If Congress, SP and BSP trust Ali we trust Bajrangbali’: Yogi Adityanath takes a jibe at Mayawati’s appeal to Muslim voters

OpIndia Staff -
Yogi Adityanath has on several occasions been extremely critical about Congress' inclination for the minority community
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