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Air strikes by India: Pakistan’s ‘all-weather friend’ China urges to observe ‘restraint’

OpIndia Staff -
China has urged India and Pakistan to defuse the tension after the Indian Air Force had conducted air strikes deep inside Pakistan.
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News Reports

Arvind Kejriwal calls off his ‘indefinite fast’ in view of ‘prevailing Indo Pak situation’

OpIndia Staff -
'Prevailing India Pak situation' did not come in the way when Kejriwal had announced 'indefinite fast' after the Pulwama attack
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News Reports

Ayodhya Dispute: Hearing delayed again as Muslim side say translation not examined, SC proposes mediation

OpIndia Staff -
The hearing was adjourned for six weeks to enable the parties to examine the translations of records prepared by the UP Government
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News Reports

Yusuf Azhar, brother-in-law of Masood Azhar, and many more top JeM terrorists believed to be killed, key ammunition dump destroyed

OpIndia Staff -
The intelligence sources suggest that an ammunition dump with more than 200 AK rifles, uncountable rounds hand grenades, explosives, and detonators has also been destroyed in the air strike.
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News Reports

Pakistan must take urgent and meaningful action against terrorist groups in its territory: Australia

OpIndia Staff -
Australia has said that Pakitan must implement its decision to ban terror organisations operating from the country
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News Reports

DRDO successfully test fires indigenously developed QRSAM off Odisha coast

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The QRSAM was developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in cooperation with Bharat Electronics Limited and Bharat Dynamics Limited for the Indian Armed Forces.
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Fact-Check

Media spreads lie the Mirage 2000 jets used in India’s air strike on terror camps in Pakistan are made by HAL

OpIndia Staff -
Several media houses falsely claim that the MIrage 2000 jets used in air strike on terror camps in Pakistan are made by HAL.
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Media

Bombs were dropped in Pakistan, some ‘liberal’ cinders are burning here

OpIndia Staff -
As more and more details of the Indian air strike over terror camps in Pakistan and PoK have been emerging, so are the opinions of Modi haters whose hatred for one man trumps everything else.
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News Reports

Residents in Balakot, Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa, confirm Indian Air Force air strikes inside Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
The IAF Mirage 2000 fighter jets dropped bombs weighing 1000kgs each on the terror camps in Balakot, Muzaffarabad and Chikuti in Pakistan
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Editor's picks

Here is the list of Indian Air Force equipment used to conduct air strikes on Jaish terror camps inside Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
India had employed seven equipment to pound 1000 kilograms of bombs in a 21-minute operation inside the Pakistan territory.
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Editor's picks

Pakistan’s nightmare: India’s nuclear capable aircraft conducted strikes within their territory, close to where Osama bin Laden was killed

K Bhattacharjee -
Abbottabad, where India conducted airstrikes in Pakistan, as readers may be aware, is the same place where Osama bin Laden was found to be hiding by the United States of America.
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News Reports

EAM Sushma Swaraj calls for an all-party meet to brief them about the IAF air strikes

Jinit Jain -
Jaish-e-Muhammad terror camps across the border were pounded with 1000 kg bombs by the Indian Air Force
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News Reports

‘Saugandh mujhe is mitti ki, main desh nahi mine doonga’, PM Modi speaks in Rajasthan rally as India strikes Pakistan in their territory

OpIndia Staff -
Latest updates from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Churu, Rajasthan. Rally is happening on a day India struck Pakistan inside their territory.
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Editor's picks

Pakistan Twitter has a meltdown after IAF conducts strikes inside Pakistan’s territory, turns against Govt and Army

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan has resorted to abusing their government and the Army after India avenged the Pulwama attack
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News Reports

MEA: Strikes carried out in Balakot, Pakistan, terror camp levelled headed by Masood Azhar’s brother in law

OpIndia Staff -
MEA further added that strike by India took place on a hilltop in a forested location in Pakistan far from civilian areas and the JeM camp was run by Maulana Yusuf Azhar alias Ustad Ghauri, brother in law of JeM Chief Masood Azhar.
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News Reports

We are kind and humble, not weak: Indian Army quotes Dinkar’s legendary poem in a quiet acknowledgement of today’s air strikes

OpIndia Staff -
Twelve Mirage 2000 fighter jets struck and destroyed terror camps by dropping 1000 kg payloads across the Line of Control.
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Editor's picks

Minutes before MEA briefing, deleted Tweet from Pakistani handle confirms that IAF penetrated Pakistani territory

OpIndia Staff -
The initial tweet was made at 7.24 a.m., then in an act of apparent damage control, it was deleted and then the Pakistani establishment version of events was tweeted from the same handle.
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News Reports

Born again journalist Ashutosh provides comical relief amidst tension of Indo-Pak war

OpIndia Staff -
Not so long ago, Man Booker prize winner and well-known Naxal sympathiser Arundhati Roy had claimed that the Rafale fighter jets are aircraft carriers.
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News Reports

Pakistan drone shot down at Kutch border in Gujarat

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The drone was reportedly shot down at 6:30 am at Kutch border in Gujarat
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Editor's picks

Reports indicate that IAF hit JeM camps in Balakot, Pakistan: Here is all you need to know about the area

OpIndia Staff -
The Indian Air Force reaching Balakot indicates that the IAF went beyond Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir and entered Pakistani territory to carry air strikes. It is located in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
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Editor's picks

Pakistan tried to retaliate to Indian Airforce strike, turned back because of India’s size of formation: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
In the wee hours of the morning, news trickled in that India had struck terror camps in Pakistan.
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Editor's picks

Rahul Gandhi reacts on IAF strikes in Pakistan: 7 words flanked by 2 emojis, Rahul was more excited while lying

OpIndia Staff -
Congress spokesperson Surjewala has even gone to the extent of calling the suicide bomber a 'homegrown so-called terrorist'.
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News Reports

Indian Air Force conducts three airstrikes at joint terror camps of Jaish, Lashkar and Hizbul Mujahideen at Balakot, Muzaffarabad, Chakoti

OpIndia Staff -
Air strikes reportedly took place in this region for as many as 21 minutes
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News Reports

As news of IAF strikes in Pakistan trickles in, NIA raids separatist Yasin Malik’s house in Srinagar

OpIndia Staff -
In a major crackdown on the separatists in the valley, Yasin Malik was arrested last Friday
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Editor's picks

India uses 1000 Kg bombs to flatten terror camps in Pakistan, destroy JeM control rooms and camps: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Reportedly, 12 Mirage jets took part in the Operation and 1000 Kg of bombs were dropped on terror camps across the Line of Control, destroying them utterly.
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Editor's picks

IAF to make a comment shortly on Pakistan’s claims that Indian Air Force crossed LoC, dropped payload in Balakot

OpIndia Staff -
At 7:06 AM, the Pakistan Army spokesperson tweeted that Indian aircrafts intruded from Muzaffarabad sector. He claimed that IAF "released payload" in haste "which fell near Balakot".
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Crime

‘Mamata Banerjee humiliated, harassed my husband in all possible ways’, wife of Bengal IPS officer who committed suicide

OpIndia Staff -
IPS officer Gaurav Dutt's wife may move Supreme Court seeking justice for her husband who had committed suicide blaming Mamata Banerjee
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Crime

‘People of J&K will pick up different flag instead of tricolour’, Mehbooba Mufti warns against scrapping Article 35A

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court likely to hear the petition challenging the validity of Article 35A of the constitution this week from February 26-28th
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News Reports

‘Remembering martyrs was not profitable, hence they didn’t build it’, PM Modi while inaugurating the National War Memorial

OpIndia Staff -
Modi said that people had made armed forces and defence the means of income for themselves, and didn't build the war memorial as there was no money to be made.
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Editor's picks

Not just Rahul Gandhi’s leadership, Congress also believes in magic mushrooms that can make you fair

Sanghamitra -
Considering that PM Modi began using the diamond facials after he assumed office. The total cost of facials for the entire term should be Rs 146 billion. Wonder how many Rafales could that have bought.
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Crime

Kashmiri youths arrested by UP ATS confess to their links with Pulwama attack mastermind

OpIndia Staff -
The two youths arrested by Uttar Pradesh ATS were possibly planning another terror attack
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Law

Court refuses to stay Robert Vadra’s interrogation, directs him to appear before ED tomorrow

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, Vadra's interim bail was extended will March 2.
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News Reports

As Kejriwal rants against ‘actress’ Kirron Kher, Gul Panag comes out in her support

OpIndia Staff -
Kirron Kher slammed the Arvind Kejriwal for his words and accused him of being a habitual liar.
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Economy and Finance

Gujarat Samachar creates panic by spreading lies about Unregulated Deposit Schemes Ordinance

OpIndia Staff -
Claims by section of media that Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Ordinance will harm regular businesses is wrong and baseless, govt has clarified
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Editor's picks

Ravish Kumar warns of attempts at ‘sowing religious discord’ within Army, praises Caravan which divided Pulwama martyrs along caste lines

K Bhattacharjee -
In a recently organized event by Leftist Propaganda outlet, The Wire, 'Eminent Intellectual' Ravish Kumar spouted numerous inanities that only goes on to highlight the extent to which liberals have a delusional sense of their own selves.
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News Reports

The EU asks Pakistan to take stern action against the terrorists

OpIndia Staff -
The EU has called for diffusion of tensions between the nuclear-armed states of India and Pakistan by asking the latter to act against the Terrorists.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Digvijay Singh says ‘Murdabad’ for his own party workers in a constituency where Congress lost

OpIndia Staff -
Congress candidate Naresh Gyanchandani had lost the Bairagarh constituency to the BJP's Rameshwar Sharma. Rameshwar Sharma had secured 1,05,000 votes while Naresh Gyanchandani got just over 91,000 votes.
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Editor's picks

ABP and Kapil Sibal’s Tiranga TV get showcause notice for airing Pakistan Army spokesperson’s press conference, 11 others being examined

Nupur J Sharma -
Congress backed Tiranga TV and ABP News get showcause notice, 11 other channels being examine, confirmed sources in MIB
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Crime

Here is how JeM orchestrated the Pulwama attack with the support of the Pakistani army

OpIndia Staff -
Though Pakistan has been in a constant denial mode, on conditions of anonymity, officials have confirmed that there were clear Pakistani footprints in the Pulwama attack
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News Reports

An accidental injury of Altaf Shah passed off as an attack on JKDF chairman Shabir Shah in Tihar Jail

OpIndia Staff -
Hurriyat leader Altaf Shah was injured in an accident in Tihar Jail. However, assault on Shabir Shah was promulgated
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News Reports

‘I was denied the post of CM thrice as I am Dalit’, says Congress leader and Karnataka Deputy CM G Parameshwara

OpIndia Staff -
Expressing his disappointment over the reluctance of the Congress party to accommodate Dalits into higher posts, Parameshwara said that Dalit leaders are not being given a chance to be the Chief Minister.
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Editor's picks

Congress leader Saifuddin Soz rabble-rouses, says will join separatist Geelani, Mufti, Abdullah in protesting if Article 35A touched

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader Saifuddin Soz made a controversial statement asserting that he will join hands with Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti and even separatist Geelani to protest if Article 35A is scrapped or altered.
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News Reports

NIA is close to solving the Pulwama case, finds clear link of Pakistan in the terror attack

OpIndia Staff -
The NIA has found a clear link of Jaish‑e‑Mohammed (JeM) terrorists with the Pulwama attack
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Law

SC to hear pleas challenging validity of Article 35A this week from 26th to 28th February

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court will hear the pleas challenging the validity of Article 35A this week from February 26-28th.
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Law

Government is not responsible for delay in appointments of judges, it is due to Collegium: CJI Ranjan Gogoi

OpIndia Staff -
Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi said that if at all any delay exists in the appointment of the judges is because of the collegium and not because of Government of India, vindicating the stand of the NDA government regarding non-interference in the judicial process. 
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Editor's picks

CNN News 18 spreads half truth about Indigo not allowing Kashmiri family to board flight on ‘flimsy pretext’

OpIndia Staff -
CNN News 18 reported this morning that a Kashmiri family was not allowed to board a flight by Indigo Airlines on 'flimsy pretext' of their surname not being mentioned.
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Media

Road rage or hate crime? Journalist withdraws complaint after claiming he was attacked for being a Kashmiri

OpIndia Staff -
There have been a lot of rumours floating around that Kashmiris are being attacked
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Government and Policy

As Pakistan Airforce grandstands about war preparedness, its foreign minister asked by Japan to cancel scheduled visit

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan's air chief marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan reportedly visited the forward airforce bases and interacted with the combat crew. He said, "We are a peace-loving nation but if war is imposed on us we will defend the aerial frontiers of our motherland at every cost."
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News Reports

Robert Vadra hints at joining politics, posters come up urging him to contest from Moradabad, UP

OpIndia Staff -
In his post, he further claims that he has always adhered to the rules and understood that he was not above the law. He said he was a person who learnt from every event he has gone through while referring to his visits to Enforcement Directorate in Delhi and Rajasthan.
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News Reports

Arvind Kejriwal winds up his Chandigarh rally within seven minutes owing to poor turnout

OpIndia Staff -
Despite being a Sunday, Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party failed to attract a decent audience for the rally
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