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Controversial Twitter historian who regularly lies about Hindus now says she is getting threats from Muslims for talking about Hijab, may not talk about...

Anurag -
Ruchika Sharma faces harsh backlash for anti-hijab comments.
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News Reports

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the Donald Trump administration

ANI -
"Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies - Essential to the "Save America" Movement. This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!," the statement by Trump read.
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Crime

Firoz kidnapped tribal girl from Kondagaon in Chhattisgarh, took her to Dharavi and raped her for over a year, burnt her private part with...

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The tribal girl has been admitted to the district hospital of Kondagaon after escaping Firoz.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Siraj Ahmed booked for misusing 12 people’s bank accounts and making illegal transactions worth Rs 90 crores. Read FIR details

OpIndia Staff -
Around 12 bank account holders identified as Rahul Kale, Manoj Misal, Pratik Jadhav, Pavan Jadhav, Lalit More, Rajendra Giri, Dhanraj Bacchav, Bhavesh Ghumre, Divakar Ghumre, and Dattatray Kailas were alarmed when they discovered the large sums of money transacted through their accounts.
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News Reports

‘Be grateful to Muslims, or else Pakistan would have extended not just to Lahore but to Lucknow’: Ex-MP Mohammad Adeeb’s comment sparks a row

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Adeeb lamented that during his college days, leaders used to be scared of Muslim backlash but things have changed now.
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News Reports

Muslim cleric allegedly spits into water bottles held by his followers, video goes viral: Read about the significance of spitting in Islam and how...

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An undated video of a Muslim cleric spitting in bottles of water held by eager devotees has gone viral on the internet.
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News Reports

Himachal Pradesh: Decorated officer Baddi SP Ilma Afroj vacates her bungalow, sent on a 15-day leave after rift with Congress MLA

OpIndia Staff -
The matter transpired in August of this year when a dispute arose between the official and a Congress MLA.
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Politics

Maharashtra polls: Netizens fear censorship and arbitrary arrests if Maha Vikas Aghadi comes to power again

OpIndia Staff -
Netizens indicated that if MVA returns to power in Maharashtra, a series of targeted attacks and deliberate assaults would continue against people raising their voices against the government.
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News Reports

‘We will not let Bangladeshis come here’: How rampant settlement of illegal immigrants has become as a key poll issue for locals in Jharkhand

OpIndia Staff -
The locals in Sahibganj also conveyed their happiness over Ram Mandir's construction and credited the BJP for the same.
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News Reports

Students protest against UPPSC over multiple shifts, normalisation policy and more: Read what they want, and what the commission said

Shraddha Pandey -
The protest against the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) was a week after multiple shifts for a single exam were scheduled. Notably, the RO-ARO preliminary exams will take place in three shifts on December 22 and 23, while the UPPCS PCS preliminary exams will be held in two shifts on 7 and 8 December.
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Opinions

Halal meat won’t be forced upon non-Muslims on Air India flights – How this decision is a step in the right direction

Anurag -
Air India respects religious diversity by making Halal an option, not a mandate, allowing non-Muslims the choice of non-Halal meals in line with India’s pluralistic values.
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World

Pro-India and hawkish on China and Pakistan: Mike Waltz, Donald Trump’s pick for National Security Advisor

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President-elect Trump reportedly picked Mike Waltz as National Security Adviser, who has strong stances on China, Pakistan, NATO, and alliances with democratic partners like India.
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Editor's picks

‘Check my urine pot too’: Uddhav Thackeray loses his cool over ECI checking his bags in Wani, had earlier asked PM Modi to campaign...

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As Maharashtra polls draw closer, Thackeray seems to have lost his mental balance, going on bizarre rants like targeting the PM for not campaigning for the MVA.
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News Reports

FCRA license of NGOs to be revoked for being involved in religious conversions, anti-development activities: MHA announces stricter FCRA regulations

OpIndia Staff -
MHA released the notice to present the "consolidated reasons" after many NGOs sough clarity on the issue.
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News Reports

Congress ‘Nyay Patra’: Karnataka govt led by CM Siddaramaiah may bring Muslim quota in govt tenders for contractors, says report

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The Siddaramaiah administration is considering a proposal to give Muslims preference in public contracts for building (civil) projects worth up to Rs 1 crore. If the plan is approved, Karnataka will receive a 47% quota in government bids.
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News Reports

Oxford Union invites ‘activist’, with ties to Pakistan’s ISI and terror funding to speak on ‘independence’ of Kashmir, was earlier thrashed for anti-India propaganda

Dibakar Dutta -
Muzzammil Ayyub Thakur will speak for the motion 'This House Believes in the Independent State of Kashmir' at the Oxford Union.
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News Reports

Rajasthan police arrests Rafiq for sexually exploiting women by scaring them with ghosts, media defames Hindus by calling him ‘Tantrik’

OpIndia Staff -
Notably, while our report mentions that the man accused of violating women is Rafiq alias Ali Khan, the media, in reporting on this case, refers to him as a 'Tantrik' and uses terms like tantra-mantra. Apart from that, it has written Bengali Baba in the headline leaving the readers in the impression that the arrested accused is a Hindu 'baba' and conveniently covering up his Muslim identity.
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News Reports

Karnataka: Congress minister Zameer Khan uses racist slur against Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy, refers to him as a ‘K*aliya’

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Karnataka Minorities Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan sparked controversy by using a racist slur against Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy.
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News Reports

Bhopal: Hindu girls in Barkatullah University forced to write apology for attending Sunderkand, warden Ayesha Rais tells them to take permission to visit temple

OpIndia Staff -
ABVP staged a protest on the issue in Bhopal and warned that such incidents would not be tolerated under the rule of CM Mohan Yadav.
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News Reports

‘Was asked to blame PM Modi for 2019 Surat coaching fire tragedy’: Journalist Shubhankar Mishra reveals in his podcast with Vikrant Massey

OpIndia Staff -
Notably, while Mishra did not explicitly name editor or news channel he was talking about, his LinkedIn profile reveals he was working at TV9 Bharatvarsh in 2019.
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News Reports

Jabalpur: Muslims convert a stepwell built during Queen Durgavati’s reign into a shrine, had earlier built an illegal mosque on Gayatri Mandir land

OpIndia Staff -
Hindu activists have given a memorandum to the district authorities and asked them to address the issue of a stepwell being converted into a mazar.
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Cricket

Former Indian all-rounder Sanjay Bangar’s son Aryan transitions to Anaya, wants to play international cricket: Read about ICC regulations about transgenders

OpIndia Staff -
Anaya Bangar, formerly Aryan Bangar, is child of Sanjay Bangar. After becoming trans woman, she can no longer play tier-1 and tier-2 domestic cricket and professional international cricket as per rules of ECB and ICC.
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News Reports

Nephew of judge who stood up to Indira Gandhi, ruled in favour of abrogation of Article 370 and more: Meet Sanjiv Khanna, the new...

Dibakar Dutta -
Justice Sanjiv Khanna has ruled in favour of the Modi government over the abrogation of Article 370 and against it in the electoral bond case.
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News Reports

Rs 5,000 crore loss to taxpayers, 47 FIRs against Jharkhand officials in past 2 years; major corruption and scam cases under Hemant Soren govt

Siddhi Somani -
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed an election rally for the Jharkhand Assembly polls in Bokaro on Sunday, November 10th, and promised the addresses that the BJP would ensure corruption-free government in the state.
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News Reports

Raigarh sees uproar over alleged Christian conversion, 10 detained, 2 arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Several Hindu organisations' activists accused the organisers of the event of luring Hindu men and women to convert to Christianity with promises of financial and health benefits. Over 100 people, including women and children, were present at the event where alleged forced conversion was taking place in Raigarh.
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News Reports

Karnataka: Vendor Abdul Razzak caught spitting on vegetables by locals, apprehended by police

OpIndia Staff -
A vegetable vendor Abdul Razzak was apprehended after locals in Karnataka's Karwar accused him of spitting on his produce.
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News Reports

Haridwar: Muslim MLAs invited for Deepotsav event at Har Ki Pauri where entry of non-Hindus is banned, invitation revoked after Hindu advocacy groups outrage

OpIndia Staff -
The Haridwar district administration has also invited MLAs to the Deepotsav program including Congress MLA from Piran Kaliyar Furqan Ahmed, BSP MLA from Laksar Mohammad Shahzad, and Congress MLA from Mangalore Qazi Nizamuddin.
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News Reports

Karnataka: 52-year-old Hindu man allegedly murdered for opposing conversion to Christianity, police claims it was a property dispute

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A 52-year-old man identified as Basavaraj Narasappa was brutally murdered by his wife and three children for allegedly refusing to convert to Christianity and questioning non-adherence of Hindu rituals at home.
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World

Iraq set to legalise men marrying little girls: Country’s amendment to marriage law, that will allow men to marry even 9-year-old girls, passes first...

OpIndia Staff -
The proposed amendment also deprives women in Iraq of rights to divorce, child custody, and inheritance.
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News Reports

Now, Congress and AIMIM’s Owaisi are on the same page: How both ally with SDPI during elections

OpIndia Staff -
Similarly, the SDPI has also supported AIMIM candidate from Aurangabad constituency Imtiaz Jaleel to make sure that the votes of the Muslim community does not get divided.
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Crime

UP Police arrests five cow smugglers in Muzaffarnagar, including one linked to Azad Samaj Party

OpIndia Staff -
Reportedly, one of the accused, Lokesh, had earlier served as a district vice president for Chandrashekhar Azad's Azad Samaj Party in Muzaffarnagar.
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News Reports

Congress leader Kamru Zzaman Choudhury objects to Maha Kumbh arrangements and spending, says gold from Hindu temples should be sold

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader Kamru Zzaman Choudhury's suggestion to sell temple gold for clearing India's debt during a debate has triggered controversy, prompting sharp criticism.
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News Reports

Congress-led MVA makes several promises for LGBTQIA+ community in manifesto for Maharashtra elections, including quota in govt jobs

OpIndia Staff -
Apart from devoting an entire section on LGBTQIA+, the MVA manifesto for Maharashtra polls also mentions it in several other sections, making it read like a woke manifesto.
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News Reports

After Saket Gokhale stopped Mata Jagran, devotees conduct aarti without bhajans in fear of losing jobs: Victims tell OpIndia, if they keep quiet today,...

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OpIndia visited the MP flats area in Lutyens Delhi where Saket Gokhale stopped Mata Jagran event, the house-helps of MPs are afraid of losing their jobs and accommodation
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Crime

US: Minnesota man kills wife, ex-partner, two sons and himself, was afraid of ‘being burned at the stake or being crucified on a burning...

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An apparently mentally disturbed man in the USA killed his family, ex-family and himself fearing that the Trump regime will crucify them on a burning cross or burn them at the stake.
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News Reports

In Jharkhand, where Hindus are suffering due to the rapid demographic change, people say these newcomers are not Muslims of our country but infiltrators

OpIndia Staff -
The BJP is loudly raising the issue of illegal immigration in Jharkhand, due to which uncontrolled settlements built illegally are changing the demography of the area.
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News Reports

Union government earns ₹2,364 crore by selling scrap from offices in three years, PM Modi calls it commendable

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Government of India has earned Rs 2,364 crore in just three years through the sale of scrap from various government offices.
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Politics

“Sitting with those who opposed Ram Mandir, insulted Savarkar”: Home Minister Amit Shah lashes out at Uddhav Thackeray

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The Home Minister Amit Shah further challenged Uddhav Thackeray to ask Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition, Rahul Gandhi to speak "good" about Savarkar.
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News Reports

‘Mistake’ by Pointsman Mohammed Suleman costs the life of railway worker Amar Kumar, Rahul Gandhi calls it result of ‘negligence and deliberate low recruitment’

OpIndia Staff -
Indian Railways employee Amar Kumar Raut’s tragic death at Barauni Junction due to a signalling error by Mohammed Suleman led to political controversy as Congress leader Rahul Gandhi tried to frame it as negligence and deliberate low recruitment.
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News Reports

Following outrage, Karnataka govt writes to commissioners to withdraw Waqf notices served to farmers

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Karnataka Government's Principal Secretary, Revenue Department has written to all Regional Commissioners and District Commissioners related to the Waqf issue.
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News Reports

Aaditya Thackeray claims ‘no lynching in Maharashtra during MVA rule’, netizens remind him of the Palghar lynching of Hindu saints

OpIndia Staff -
Aaditya Thackeray’s claim of no mob lynching in Maharashtra faced backlash, with netizens citing the Palghar lynching. The interview raised questions about leadership and credibility.
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World

Amid economic struggles in China, police freezes assets of several private business owners, demands money for releasing funds

ANI -
Posts circulating on social media reveal that police across China have been targeting private business owners, freezing assets, and demanding money in return for releasing funds as per a report in the Voice of America.
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Opinions

Rahul Gandhi wrote an article to convince people that he is not ‘anti-business’, but ‘anti-monopoly’: Here is how he is fooling everyone

Ganesh R -
Rahul Gandhi has recently written an article for a newspaper about his “new deal” for business and also a video about how he is not “anti-business” but only anti-monopoly".
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Crime

Odisha horror: Samir Mansoor befriends Hindu girl through online game, rapes her in hotel, pressures her to convert to Islam; arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Samir Mansoor, accused of Love Jihad, rape, and blackmailing a woman in Odisha, was arrested after police investigation. He pressured her to convert and extorted Rs 5,00,000.
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News Reports

The rise and fall of DY Chandrachud as a ‘liberal hero’: Hit pieces by Caravan and Indira Jaising, ‘liberal’ whining and a scathing counter...

Dibakar Dutta -
Given the overwhelming public support for the Modi govt, left-liberals had been hoping to exploit the verdict of the Supreme Court to their advantage and paint a 'doomsday image' of the state of affairs in India.
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News Reports

Amid debate over demography change in poll-bound Jharkhand, 35 Hindu families surrounded by 11,000 Muslim families face challenges of existence in Santhal Pargana

OpIndia Staff -
Hindus in Santhal Pargana and other regions in Jharkhand face cultural and demographic challenges as they uphold traditions amid regional tensions and a rapidly changing demographic landscape.
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News Reports

Maharashtra polls: Ulema Board extends conditional support to MVA candidates, demands ban on RSS, ₹1,000 crore for Waqf, 10% reservation for Muslims and more

OpIndia Staff -
All India Ulema Board has extended its support to the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance led by the Congress party in the Maharashtra assembly elections
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News Reports

Bihar: Chhath Puja Ghat vandalised in Purnia, Tajimul and 5 minors arrested

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Five persons have been arrested in connection with vandalism of Chhath Puja ghat in Purnia on 7th November
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News Reports

‘We love Jammu and Kashmir, they love Article 370’: PM Modi slams Congress over Article 370 resolution, says no power in the world can...

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The remarks of PM Modi came days after a resolution was passed in the Legislative Assembly demanding to restore the special status of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370.
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News Reports

Democrats in turmoil: Blame game erupts in the party after Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump, many accuse President Biden of leaving the race...

OpIndia Staff -
After the defeat of Kamala Harris in the presidential elections, blame game has started in the party, with her camp blaming President Biden
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