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Priyanka’s blank Twitter account with 1.5 lakh followers is the metaphor for the connection between The Family and India

Abhishek Banerjee -
This empty Twitter page of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra with 1.5 lakh followers already is the perfect metaphor for our relationship with the Congress Dynasty
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News Reports

Chandrababu Naidu spends whopping Rs 11 crore tax money to sponsor his 12-hour political protest in Delhi

OpIndia Staff -
The TDP government in Andhra Pradesh spent Rs 1.2 crore from the state exchequer to hire two special trains with 20 compartments each
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News Reports

Female journalist, crew of Republic TV heckled at Aligarh Muslim University, camera and equipment broken

OpIndia Staff -
The violent mob at AMU tried to lynch the Republic TV reporters and the Wire journalist normalises such hooliganism
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News Reports

Naveen Patnaik says Modi government has failed to create and augment rail and highway infrastructure in Odisha, facts say otherwise

Sambit Nayak -
Development of Railways and Highways infrastructure in Odisha at a glance Under Modi Government
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News Reports

Another U-turn by Rahul Gandhi: Terms the same CAG report worthless which he desperately wanted to see

Jhankar Mohta -
In the present scenario, one is forced to believe that this is the only card in the hands of the Congress, which it's President has been using over and over again to target the NDA government.
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News Reports

BJP accuses Rahul Gandhi of being a defence lobbyist

OpIndia Staff -
The BJP claimed that the possession of internal emails of Airbus who is under scrutiny for its shady UPA era deals suggests that Rahul Gandhi is a defence lobbyist.
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Law

Contempt of Court: CJI orders Rs 1 lakh fine and “sitting in a corner” for former CBI interim chief Nageshwar Rao

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court sentences former interim CBI chief and the additional legal advisor to a day's confinement in the courtroom.
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News Reports

Twitter users complain about mysterious reduction in number of retweets of their tweets, allege foul play

OpIndia Staff -
Retweets on tweets of many right-wing Twitter users seen coming down rapidaly
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News Reports

Akhilesh Yadav was stopped as per request by the University: CM Yogi defends action after Yadav’s ‘detention’ allegations

OpIndia Staff -
UP CM Yogi Adityanath defended his government’s move to stop Akhilesh Yadav from addressing a political event at the Allahabad University.
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News Reports

He left NDA for his own political survival, now blaming NDA to cover his own failures : Amit Shah slams Chandrababu Naidu in open...

OpIndia Staff -
Shah accused Naidu of spreading false propaganda and joining hands with a party (Congress) which had dismissed his father-in-law N T Rama Rao, the founder of TDP.
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Editor's picks

Chhattisgarh: Congress government removes Pt Deendayal Upadhyay, puts Rajiv Gandhi and Indira Gandhi names in schemes

OpIndia Staff -
The Chattisgarh Congress government has renamed four out of five schemes introduced by the previous BJP regime with either Indira Gandhi or Rajiv Gandhi, while one scheme has been renamed in the honour of architect of the Indian Constitution Dr B.R.Ambedkar.
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News Reports

JNU Ph.D Scholar claims professor forced him to project Hindi as a ‘Communal Language’

OpIndia Staff -
Justice C Hari Shankar of the Delhi High Court heard the petition, issued a notice to the JNU and the associate professor in question while directing them to file their responses by April 23.
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Editor's picks

Deccan Aviation owner GR Gopinath in CBI’s radar for his alleged role in Mallya loan fraud case

OpIndia Staff -
Gopinath joined the board of Kingfisher Airlines after selling Air Deccan to Mallya in 2007
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News Reports

Karnataka: Speaker asks Kumaraswamy govt to form an SIT to probe alleged ‘poaching’ tapes

OpIndia Staff -
Karnataka assembly orders to form a SIT to probe audio tape allegations of poaching.
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Editor's picks

Fact check: Has Bhupen Hazarika’s family ‘rejected’ the Bharat Ratna?

OpIndia Staff -
All Assam based family members of Bhupen Hazarika has welcomed the decision to confer Bharat Ratna upon Dr Bhupen Hazarika.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: 79 fresh cases of Swine Flu detected in a single day, death toll at 112

OpIndia Staff -
Swine Flu has claimed more than 250 lives this year alone. However, Rajasthan has been the worst hit in terms of deaths and the number of cases reported. Gujarat has seen 54 deaths and 1,187 cases reported.
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Crime

Chhattisgarh: With Congress in power, Nandini Sundar gets clean chit by police in murder case

OpIndia Staff -
Jitendra Shukla, SP, Sukma, was quoted by Hindustan Times as saying that the police have found no evidence against the above-mentioned people in the murder case registered in Tongpal police station.
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Government and Policy

World’s largest container shipping company Maersk to move 16 containers on River Ganga from Varanasi to Kolkata

OpIndia Staff -
Maersk will be operating on inland waterways in India for the first time
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Media

Parliamentary panel on IT gives 15 days deadline to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to appear before them

OpIndia Staff -
The parliamentary panel refused to hear the team sent by Twitter, and said that the CEO must come for the hearing
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News Reports

Fact-Check: Congress spokesperson shares image from Telangana claiming to be from Priyanka Gandhi’s Lucknow roadshow

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress party has been working overtime to project the arrival of Priyanka Gandhi as the second coming of Indira Gandhi. In their desperation, it appears they are tweeting images without bothering to care where it came from.
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News Reports

Head of Rafale negotiation team Air Marshal SBP Sinha smells malice in the recent attempts to scuttle the Deal

OpIndia Staff -
Air Marshal Sinha has questioned the selective appearance of such dubious notes and has asserted that its singular aim is to malign the Rafale Deal
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News Reports

Cow is an important part of our culture and tradition: Modi in Vrindavan

OpIndia Staff -
Modi said that the government is planning to set up a Rashtriya Kamdhenu Ayog under the recent budget.
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Crime

Bihar police finds AK-47 Riffles, grenade launchers, huge cache of live cartridges in a car searched in suspect of liquor smuggling

OpIndia Staff -
It is being suspected that these weapons were to be used to carry out violent acts before the upcoming 2019 Lok Sabha elections
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Fact-Check

N Ram competes with Rahul Gandhi in spreading lies about the Rafale deal

OpIndia Staff -
N Ram publishes more lies about the Rafale deal in The Hindu
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Media

Twitter sends Mahima Kaul, its director, policy for South Asia to appear before the parliamentary committee

OpIndia Staff -
Twitter's director, policy, for South Asia, Mahima Kaul, and other officials are to represent the social media giant before the parliamentary committee today.
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News Reports

Congress leader who threatened to “chop Narendra Modi into pieces” accompanies Priyanka Vadra in her roadshow: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Despite Congress President Rahul Gandhi yearning tales of the 'politics of love' that he envisions, he has shown remarkable tolerance for those who make extremely distasteful remarks against Narendra Modi.
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Law

Supreme Courts refuses to monitor CBI probe into Saradha Scam

OpIndia Staff -
The 2013 verdict by the Supreme Court already directs the CBI to investigate into details about the people involved and the murky money trail.
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Government and Policy

Supreme Court directs National Commission for Minorities to define ‘minorities’, form guidelines for ‘minority’ status

OpIndia Staff -
A bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi hearing the petition has now asked Upadhyay to re-file his representation to the minority panel and directed the commission to take a decision within three months from Monday.
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News Reports

Under attack from ‘civil society’, Akshaya Patra receives a warm endorsement from PM Narendra Modi

OpIndia Staff -
Narendra Modi, through his actions on foreign funded NGOs and endorsement of Akshaya Patra, has made it clear that clipping the wings of 'civil society' is among its long list of priorities.
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News Reports

Rahul’s flip flop: on one hand lends support to Mamata, on the other approves tie up with the CPI(M) in West Bengal

OpIndia Staff -
The Gandhi scion is ready to muddle through the most outrageous things possible under the deep blue sky to get through the upcoming Lok Sabha polls
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News Reports

From secret meetings with Chinese ministers to hosting lunch for foreign envoys: Whats on Rahul Gandhi’s plate?

OpIndia Staff -
Many from the foreign diplomatic corps intend to meet Gandhi to get an assessment about his “foreign policy approach”.
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Government and Policy

‘India’s energy demand to be more than doubled by 2040’: PM Modi at Petrotech 2019

OpIndia Staff -
Energy demand in India is growing at more than 5% annually.
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Editor's picks

My Name Is RaGa trailer review: We get the balconies and the chiffon saree, but where are the mobile factories?

Sanghamitra -
In what is very unfair treatment of brave journalism, it is Rahul Kanwal's voice and not Pallavi Ghosh's or Sagarika Ghose's that announces RaGa's rise to great power in India's politics.
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News Reports

You don’t have a son. You don’t have a family. You don’t have relations: Chandrababu Naidu on Modi

OpIndia Staff -
"People, do you know Narendra Modi has a wife? Her name is Jashodaben," Chandrababu Naidu's personal attack on Modi
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Editor's picks

Used chai-cups should have been given instead of the country: Derogatory ‘Chaiwala’ posters at Chandrababu Naidu dharna

OpIndia Staff -
TDP has distanced itself from the derogatory 'Chaiwala' posters at dharna venue
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News Reports

Congress era lobbyist Deepak Talwar received nearly Rs 360 crore to influence UPA minister and top bureaucrats to favour international airlines: ED

OpIndia Staff -
The ED had found dubious deposits in several accounts of extradited lobbyist Deepak Talwar, which is alleged to kickbacks by various international airlines.
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Editor's picks

Meet the Director of the movie ‘My Name Is RaGa’, teaser of which is winning the internet

OpIndia Staff -
The movie is written and directed by Rupesh Paul, a Malayali filmmaker who has a very interesting repository of movies to his credit.
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Government and Policy

Election Commission hits back at AAP’s misleading phone calls on voter name deletion, asks police to investigate

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi election officer has asked to police to phone calls about voter name deletion in Delhi, and asked people not to trust such calls
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Editor's picks

OpIndia Evening Dispatch: Sunday, 10th February, 2019

OpIndia Staff -
A quick round up of things that made it to news today.
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News Reports

There is a ‘family pack’ for bail and no prizes to guess who are the beneficiaries of this pack, PM Modi in Tamil Nadu

OpIndia Staff -
Taunting on the bail of Gandhi family and Chidambaram family, Modi said that now there is now a family pack in bail too.
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Editor's picks

Anticipating CAG clean chit to govt on Rafale deal, Congress party now points it gun at the CAG

OpIndia Staff -
Just a day before CAG report on Rafale to be tabled in Parliament, Congress raises conflict of interest allegations against CAG
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Editor's picks

Kapil Sibal gives a veiled threat to bureaucrats, says Congress keeping an eye on officers showing loyalty to PM

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, Congress President Rahul Gandhi had threatened to purge the RSS workers from government offices
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Government and Policy

How Buniyaad reeling machines are helping tribal women involved in silk production

OpIndia Staff -
A woman through Buniyaad Reeling Machine can produce 200 gms of silk yarn per day, increasing her income to up to Rs 350 per day
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Crime

Communal violence between Dalits and Muslims in Uttar Pradesh leaves several people injured

OpIndia Staff -
The communal violence which involved stone pelting and heavy firing has left a number of people injured.
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Editor's picks

Rahul Gandhi interfered as an ‘extra-constitutional’ authority during Manmohan Singh’s UPA: Former Union Minister S M Krishna

OpIndia Staff -
SM Krishna said he had to resign after being associated for 46 years because of constant interference from Rahul Gandhi
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News Reports

India receives first batch of 4 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters from USA

OpIndia Staff -
First batch of 4 Chinook transport helicopters arrived at Mundra port in Gujarat
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Editor's picks

Union Minister Arun Jaitley tears into ‘Institutions are under attack’ narrative

OpIndia Staff -
Union Minister Arun Jaitley analyses the 'Institutions are under attack' argument and clears the air.
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Editor's picks

Modi nails lies on Citizenship Amendment Bill; Assam roars in approval

Ashish Shukla -
English mainstream media of the Sunday morning have given a slanted view to Modi’s speech
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News Reports

I thank Telugu Desam Party for ‘Modi Go Back’ posters, I will go back to Delhi and sit on PM’s chair: PM Modi in...

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi said that he has faith in crores of Indians that they will fulfill TDP's wishes of sending back Modi to Delhi to occupy PM's chair again
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Crime

Cow smugglers clamp on a police official in illegal Rohingya influenced Mewat region of Haryana

OpIndia Staff -
Mujib, a cow smuggler from Mewat region in Haryana was arrested and an FIR has been lodged
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