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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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Crime

West Bengal: Makhan Bibi force fed acid by husband and in-laws for voting against Trinamool, claims son

OpIndia Staff -
In a gruesome incident of political violence, a woman in Murshidabad, West Bengal was fed acid by her Trinamool supporting husband and in-laws for voting for Congress in the Lok Sabha elections
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Media Fact-Check

Tripura CM Biplab Deb’s wife denies reports that she has accused her husband of domestic violence, calls them highly paid dirty rumours

OpIndia Staff -
Biplab Deb's wife Niti Deb says that dirty rumours are being spread to gain political advantage against influential people
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Politics

A day before Rahul Gandhi’s rally in Ahmednagar, Congress district unit dissolves as leaders refuse to support NCP

OpIndia Staff -
On Thursday, senior Maharashtra Congress leader Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, whose son joined the BJP last month, has resigned as the Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly.
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Politics

Mamata’s grand plan to defeat BJP: Will put pebbles in mitti ke laddu to break Modi’s teeth

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi, in interaction with Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, had revealed that Mamata Banerjee sends him Bengali sweets and personally selected Kurtas.
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi camp and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra camp at odds: Sibling rivalry taking an ugly turn?

OpIndia Staff -
Sibling rivalry appears to have taken an ugly turn within the Nehru-Gandhi Parivar after Priyanka Gandhi Vadra chickened out from contesting from Varanasi against PM Modi
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Politics

A day after Priyanka Gandhi chickened out from contesting against PM Modi, Congress ecosystem launches a rescue operation

OpIndia Staff -
The anguish of the ecosystem seems to have toned down as they have now launched a rescue mission to protect Priyanka Gandhi from further more ridicule and criticism.
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Politics

Havan and Puja in UP, promoting man who butchered a calf in Kerala: The Rahul-Priyanka brand of ‘secularism’

Jinit Jain -
In 2017, Rijil Makkutty had brutally butchered a calf in protest against the Centre's move enforcing anti-cow slaughter laws.
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Opinions

The hypocrisy and delusions: Raj Thackeray as the saviour for India’s liberals is both sad and hilarious

Abhishek Banerjee -
A man like Raj Thackeray, who cannot win a single MP has emerged as the grand hope of India’s ‘secular’ liberals to stop the Modi juggernaut. Let that sink in.
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News Reports

Supreme Court upholds the Election Commission’s decision to ban the release of Modi biopic during elections

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court refused to interfere with the decision of the Election Commission to ban Modi's biopic during elections
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Editor's picks

‘Anti-communist’ Javed Akhtar campaigns for proud communist and CPI candidate Kanhaiya Kumar

OpIndia Staff -
Javed Akhtar had once said, "If Communism is your faith, then you are as bad as a religious person."
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Law

PepsiCo sues potato farmers for growing the variety used for Lays Chips

OpIndia Staff -
In a letter sent to Ministry, the activists have said that the farmers have every right to produce and sell a protected variety of seeds and that Pepsico can't claim intellectual property right on it.
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Opinions

Why I think Prime Minister Modi will win 2019 and why some people won’t believe in it

Saket Suryesh -
As the Elections 2019 draw to an end, the desperation rises among the intellectual gang which has even till yesterday considered Narendra Modi in the government as an aberration.
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Politics

Congress manages to insult the memory of Pulwama martyrs and make fun of Nehru in one stroke

OpIndia Staff -
In one swift motion, with one edited picture, Congress not only insulted the martyrs of the dastardly Pulwama terror attack but also mocked former PM Jawaharlal Nehru.
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Opinions

The Prime Minister’s roadshow at Varanasi was a reflection of the liberals’ worst nightmare

K Bhattacharjee -
On the 25th of April, 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party organized a roadshow in Varanasi where Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the centre of attention.
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Crime

Fugitive Nirav Modi’s bail rejected for the third time, next hearing set on May 30

OpIndia Staff -
The hearing this week takes place as per the four-week time frame for judicial remand in such cases
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Social Media

Watch: Propagandist Nikhil Wagle calls Hafiz Saeed ‘Hamara Apna’ in a rant video against PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
Wagle seems to think that the dozen or so interviews of the PM mean nothing unless the person asking questions is Raveesh 'Koun Jaat Ho' Kumar or Abhisar 'headlights' Sharma.
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Politics

“If BJP comes back to power, only Rahul Gandhi will be responsible”: Arvind Kejriwal shows frustration of failed alliance talks

OpIndia Staff -
Kejriwal's desperation to form an alliance with the Congress has left him completely flustered
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Opinions

How a born communist Atishi Marlena, who is today being hailed as a ‘revolutionary’, ruined Delhi’s education system

Shashank Bharadwaj -
The left-liberals amaze us now with propping up Atishi Marlena as some sort of youth icon who revolutionised Delhi's education. But, as usual, the left propaganda always turns out to be another myth.
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News Reports

PM Narendra Modi files his nomination from the Holy City of Varanasi, top NDA leaders join him in a show of strength

Shashank Bharadwaj -
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA), a 20-party coalition is fighting the 2019 Lok Sabha elections under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Social Media

Legal complaint filed against photoshop artist day after PM Modi and Akshay Kumar appreciated his work

OpIndia Staff -
A day after the PM himself appreciated Krishna's work, a legal complaint has been filed against the photoshop artist.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Missing election official in charge of EVMs found in Howrah after a week

OpIndia Staff -
The 30-year old election officer Arnab Roy had gone suspiciously missing from duty on April 18th from Bipradas Choudhury Polytechnic College of Nadia, West Bengal. Interestingly, Roy was the in charge of the EVMs and VVPATs.
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Social Media

Gujarat Congress’ official Twitter handle uses an image from Congress era to criticise Modi govt’s Ganga cleaning project

OpIndia Staff -
Using fake images and older images to spread their malicious propaganda is something the Congress has been doing repeatedly.
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Media

‘Mea culpa’: Rajdeep Sardesai finally admits Modi wasn’t responsible for 2002 and that media sensationalised the riots

OpIndia Staff -
Responding to a question asking whether Narendra Modi the then Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2002 was anyway responsible for the incident, Rajdeep Sardesai admitted that he personally believed that Modi was not responsible for the riots that followed after Godhra massacre.
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News Reports

Clerics from WB write 10,000 letters, tell Muslims to vote as a block for ‘secular parties’ and keep ‘fascist forces’ out

OpIndia Staff -
Imams and clerics of West Bengal under the banner of All India Milli Council have written 10,000 letters to Muslim voters of West Bengal to vote unitedly as a bloc and choose a 'secular government' over 'communal forces'. 
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News Reports

BJP is like Ramleela’s Sita, who smokes behind the screen: RLSP supremo Upendra Kushwaha

OpIndia Staff -
RLSP supremo Upendra Kushwaha was addressing an election rally in Darbhanga
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Crime

‘Tumhari beti ko kaat ke fenk doonga,’ Ola driver Md. Azhardeen snaps at the father of the passenger after an argument over payment

OpIndia Staff -
The safety and well being of our near and dear ones, using Ola and Uber as a frequent mode of communication, is becoming an honest cause of concern
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News Reports

Kerala records highest voting turnout in 30 years, all parties hopeful for victory

OpIndia Staff -
Kerala has recorded a voter turnout of 77.68% this year, highest in last 30 years
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News Reports

PM Modi arrives in Varanasi to a grand ‘saffron’ welcome with a sea of people turning up for his roadshow

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi showered with rose petals, given a grand welcome in Varanasi ahead of filing his nominations
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Opinions

Deeply disappointed with the Congress’ decision of not fielding Priyanka Gandhi from Varanasi: Arun Jaitley

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress party has decided to field Ajay Rai against Narendra Modi from his constituency, Varanasi where Rai lost to Modi with a difference of almost 4 lakh votes
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Opinions

There is no difference between Leftist terrorism and Islamic Jihad, none at all

अजीत भारती -
The word 'proletariat' is a shield for these Communists. Mass revolution is a mere means for them to get power for their own selfish interests.
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Politics

Arvind Kejriwal wants AAP workers to abandon whatever they’re doing and come to Delhi to help ‘BJP lose’

OpIndia Staff -
As the talks of a coalition with Congress failed, AAP is going to be contesting on all the 7 seats of Delhi.
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Fact-Check

Fact-Check: Does RSS really want the BJP to remove Sadhvi Pragya as its candidate from Bhopal?

OpIndia Staff -
A day after RSS had clarified that the letter purportedly written by an RSS leader is fake, a website publishes the same
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News Reports

Netizens play Jagga Jasoos as Arvind Kejriwal resurfaces days after rumours of him beaten up by AAP MLAs went viral

OpIndia Staff -
From 'scratch marks' on nose to 'new frame of glasses', Twitterati had a field day on Kejriwal's first public appearance after a long time
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Politics

TMC goons allegedly burn down BJP worker’s poultry farm in Birbhum

OpIndia Staff -
Unnerved by BJP making successful inroads in WB, Mamata Banerjee and her squad have been resorting to all sorts of techniques to hold on to their slithering position.
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News Reports

Facepalm: Congress’ latest poll promise of returning money to victims of PACL fraud is already being fulfilled under Modi govt

OpIndia Staff -
SEBI has already started receiving applications from PACL investors for refund of their money
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Politics

We had an alliance with the Congress, but found that their ego is too big: Akhilesh Yadav

OpIndia Staff -
Likening Congress with the BJP, Yadav said that Congress believes in threatening political parties like the BJP.
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News Reports

Tenders floated for India’s first undersea tunnel for Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project

OpIndia Staff -
The bullet train project is expected to be completed by August 2022
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News Reports

Supreme Court directs probe into allegations of conspiracy against CJI Ranjan Gogoi

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court initiated a suo moto case in the issue related to allegations of conspiracy against CJI Gogoi.
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Media

Coward, gutless, visionless, losers: ‘Neutral’ media has a meltdown after Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is not fielded as Congress candidate against PM Modi

Nupur J Sharma -
The media first put its eggs in the Rahul Gandhi basket, and when that appeared to have holes big enough to fit chickens, they decided to pin their hopes on Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
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