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Congratulations, finally someone in Congress could do arithmetic right

OpIndia Staff -
While the President of the Congress party could not ever be accused of possessing a high degree of intellect, it appears his creative ideas are rubbing off on other members of the party as well.
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Economy and Finance

Budget 2019: Piyush Goyal, PM Modi hail the contributions of the middle class in country’s economy, bring tax relief

OpIndia Staff -
Piyush Goyal showers praise for the middle class, as he announces major benefits and tax relief.
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Economy and Finance

Indiaspend’s faulty ‘FactChecker’ spreads fake news about Budget 2019 while ‘fact-checking’ Piyush Goyal’s speech

OpIndia Staff -
FactChecker.in decided to 'fact-check' the Budget 2019 speech, and in the process, ended up spreading fake news themselves
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Editor's picks

Budget 2019: Here is how people earning upto Rs. 75,000 per month can pay zero income tax

OpIndia Staff -
Taking into account various deductions along with enhanced income tax rebate, incomes upto ₹9,50,000 per year may not need to pay tax
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Economy and Finance

Fact-check: Congress lies profusely in an attempt to ‘fact-check’ Piyush Goyal’s Budget 2019 speech

OpIndia Staff -
With the various announcements that were made, it was natural for the Congress party to feel jittery about its electoral prospects ahead of General Elections later this year.
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Crime

West Bengal: CBI summons Derek O’Brien, grills Mamata Banerjee’s close aide over sale of her paintings to chit fund companies

OpIndia Staff -
West Bengal CM, Mamata Banerjee has been accused of selling her paintings at inflated prices to chit fund companies in dubious deals.
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Economy and Finance

Here is how the market reacted: Sensex and NIFTY rise sharply after Union Budget 2019

OpIndia Staff -
Stock market responds positively to Budget 2019
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Economy and Finance

Budget 2019: All the significant announcements made by acting Finance Minister Piyush Goyal

OpIndia Staff -
Here's a round-up of the key points of the acting Finance Minister Piyush Goyal's Budget 2019 speech
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News Reports

Don’t lie, P Chidambaram

OpIndia Staff -
Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh had said that Muslims have the first claim on resources
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Government and Policy

Budget 2019: Centre has released 35,000 crores for OROP scheme, Defence spending gets a boost with ₹3 lakh crore allocation

OpIndia Staff -
Finance Minister Piyush Goyal also said that the Centre has also enhanced the Defence spending to Rs 3 lakh crore. "The Defence Budget has crossed ₹3 lakh crores for the first time. Additional funds will be provided, if necessary," said Piyush Goyal.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Gehlot government blames BJP for not being able to implement loan waiver that Congress promised

OpIndia Staff -
Congress government in Rajasthan have now started playing politics over their incapability of fulfilling their pre-poll promise of farm loan waiver.
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Editor's picks

Budget 2019: individual taxpayers with annual income up to ₹5 lakh to get full income tax rebate

OpIndia Staff -
Budget 2019: Piyush Goyal announced significant reliefs to individual income taxpayers in the last budget of the current Modi government.
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News Reports

Budget 2019: Piyush Goyal underlines 10 important dimensions that will guide the government in ‘Vision 2030’

OpIndia Staff -
Finance Minister, Piyush Goyal is presenting Narendra Modi government's sixth and final budget 2019
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News Reports

Budget 2019: As Congress leaders laugh hysterically and create ruckus, Piyush Goyal remembers what Modi said about Ramayan

OpIndia Staff -
Last year, PM Modi took a jibe at Congress when Renuka Chowdhary was caught laughing hysterically in Parliament for reasons best known to her.
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Economy and Finance

Budget 2019: Government to identify nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes to include them in social welfare schemes

OpIndia Staff -
Union Minister Piyush Goyal declared that the government will identify and locate the nomadic groups to extend the benefits enjoyed by other Indians.
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News Reports

Budget 2019: Demonetization helped undisclosed income to light and over 3 lakh shell companies deregistered, says Piyush Goyal

OpIndia Staff -
Acting Finance Minister Piyush Goyal highlighted the steps undertaken by the Modi government in his Budget 2019 speech
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Government and Policy

Budget-2019: NDA government announces Mega Pension scheme for workers in the unorganised sector

OpIndia Staff -
Any worker working in the unorganised sector can avail the benefits of this scheme with workers between 18-28 age has to pay Rs 55 per month, while workers above 29 years will be paying Rs 100 per month.
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Editor's picks

Budget 2019: Numerous sops for farmers including interest subvention and welfare of Gau Mata features prominently

OpIndia Staff -
Budget 2019: The Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog will be set up to ensure the welfare of cows, including genetic improvement and sustainable development.
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Economy and Finance

Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code has helped recover Rs 3 lakh crores so far for banks and creditors: Piyush Goyal

OpIndia Staff -
Piyush Goyal lauds the Modi government's efforts towards the banking sector.
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News Reports

Budget 2019: Piyush Goyal changes Congress line of ‘Muslim have first right on resources’ to ‘poor have first right on resources’

OpIndia Staff -
In December 2006, former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh had said that Muslims have the first claim on resources
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Editor's picks

Budget 2019: Finance Minister announces assured income support for small and marginal farmers

OpIndia Staff -
Farmers with less than 2 hectares of land will be given ₹6,000 per annum
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Government and Policy

As extraditions continue, Vijay Mallya claims DRT has attached more than he owed, alleges harassments by banks’ UK lawyers

OpIndia Staff -
Mallya was declared a fugitives economic offender in early January.
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News Reports

‘India marching towards growth and prosperity’: Piyush Goyal

OpIndia Staff -
Piyush Goyal also remarked that the goal was to have a New India by 2022 where everyone had a house, where everyone has access to toilets and basic healthcare.
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Opinions

5 things Congress might say after the Modi government presents Budget 2019

OpIndia Staff -
Here are 5 things that Congress might say after the Budget 2019 speech has been delivered
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News Reports

Budget 2019: What can we expect?

K Bhattacharjee -
Let us have a look at what we can expect from the Budget
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Media

Rahul Gandhi eats dosa in a five star hotel, friendly media spins it as a humble move

OpIndia Staff -
Congress party president's meal is now national news. What next?
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News Reports

Manish Tewari makes an outlandish charge, alleges ‘parts of the budget has been leaked’

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader Manish Tewari has floated another charge: That the Budget 2019 has been leaked in parts to the media
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Crime

Cow meat smugglers speed away seeing police, 4 quintals of banned meat recovered from abandoned car: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
After the Bulanshahr incident, the Yogi government has ordered a crackdown on cattle and cow meat smugglers.
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News Reports

Karnataka crisis: Trouble mounts for Congress as Deve Gowda says he has been in pain over alliance with Congress

OpIndia Staff -
The unholy and opportunistic alliance of JD(S) and Congress in Karnataka has been a troubled one since the very beginning
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Economy and Finance

Leaked NSSO report on unemployment not finalised and verified, not correct to use it as final: NITI Aayog

Aditi -
The NITI Ayog said that the report is a draft report and the data is still being processed. The final report will be published after the data is finalised.
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News Reports

Martyred Army soldier Aurangzeb’s father Mohammad Haneef likely to join BJP

OpIndia Staff -
Aurangzeb's father Mohammad Haneef is likely to join the BJP during PM Modi's visit to J and K in February.
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Fact-Check

Congress says Modi govt should not bring full-fledged budget, here are some major changes they made in interim budget while in power

OpIndia Staff -
Congress government themselves made major changes in interim budgets in past
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Economy and Finance

SBI data breach: Bank forgets to password secure its server, ends up compromising customer details

OpIndia Staff -
State Bank of India (SBI) forgot to secure its server hosting sensitive information which resulted in a severe data breach
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News Reports

Congress resorts to vandalism after crushing defeat in Jind bypoll, raises the ‘EVM tampering’ bogey

OpIndia Staff -
Congress workers created ruckus after embarrassing results in the Jind by-polls, where senior Congress leader and close aide of Rahul Gandhi, Randeep Singh Surjewala was pushed to humiliating third position
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Opinions

A SWOT analysis of the BJP ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections

Divya -
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the party, and what opportunities and threats it faces.
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News Reports

RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat voices his support for traditions of Sabarimala Temple at Dharma Sansad in Kumbh

OpIndia Staff -
Significantly, RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat voiced his support for the traditions of the Sabarimala Temple
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News Reports

IT department orders confiscation of Rabri Devi and daughter Hema’s benami properties

OpIndia Staff -
The Adjudicating Authority of Income Tax Department has reportedly ordered the seizure of Benami properties of Rabri Devi and Hema Yadav.
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News Reports

Switzerland government to provide Vijay Mallya’s swiss bank account details to India

OpIndia Staff -
After the go ahead by Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, India will get Vijay Mallya’s swiss bank account details
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Crime

‘Love Commandos’ owner who appeared in Amir Khan’s show Satyamev Jayate arrested for extorting money from couples

OpIndia Staff -
The couples were allegedly made to pay Rs 15000-20,000 as a 'fee' to Sachdev to live in the shelter home of the NGO.
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Editor's picks

IndiaSpend’s faulty ‘fact-checker’ does it again, does not correct database even after their own ground report says otherwise

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, too, factchecker.in has fudged up data to show that more Muslims are victims of 'hate-crime' than Hindus
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News Reports

BJP leader thrashed in Assam, as protests over Citizenship Amendment Bill takes a violent turn

OpIndia Staff -
BJP leader thrashed by protestors over the citizenship Amendment Bill.
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Editor's picks

Read exclusive details of the Swiss bank accounts allegedly used by AgustaWestland accused Rajiv Saxena to receive kickbacks

Nupur J Sharma -
Rajiv Saxena is accused in a money laundering case connected with the AgustaWestland deal.
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News Reports

Complaint registered against Congress leader Shashi Tharoor for hurting Hindu religious sentiments

OpIndia Staff -
Shashi Tharoor had earlier denigrated Hindu demand of building Ram Temple in Ayodhya by claiming that no 'good Hindu' would want to build a temple there.
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Crime

‘Sexist man trapped in the body of a woke boy’, Miranda House students accuse JNU student of sexual misconduct

OpIndia Staff -
The Women's Development Cell (WDC) of Miranda House, Delhi University, has issued a statement on social media where it has accused a postgraduate student from JNU, Aman Sinha, of "targeting and preying on women across different colleges in DU"
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Economy and Finance

Interim Budget vs Full Budget: All you need to know

OpIndia Staff -
An interim budget in all practical sense is a full budget but made by the government during the last year of its term i.e. just before an election. 
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News Reports

Lucknow: ED conducts multiple raids in connection with Memorial Scam under Mayawati Govt in UP

OpIndia Staff -
The Mayawati government had constructed statues of Dalit leaders across the state between 2002 and 2007 and it was alleged that crores and crores of money was syphoned off as a consequence of corruption
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News Reports

West Bengal government obstructing investigations in Saradha Chit Fund Scam: CBI

OpIndia Staff -
CBI alleges Mamta Banerjee government of deliberately impeding the investigation into Chit Fund Scam.
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Fact-Check

Fact-Check: Is this image, shared even by Congress, of Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Indira Gandhi

OpIndia Staff -
Congress party's 2016 tweet labels some other girl as young India Gandhi with Ghaffar Khan
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Editor's picks

Fact-check: Was PM Modi wrong in claiming that culprits are being brought to justice within days?

OpIndia Staff -
The ones criticising this statement by PM Modi wanted to insinuate that the PM is incorrect in saying that justice in such heinous rape cases has not started being delivered swiftly
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News Reports

BJP wins Jind seat, senior Congress leader Randeep Surjewala finishes third

OpIndia Staff -
In Jind, the Congress party has fielded its senior leader Randeep Surjewala while the BJP has fielded Krishna Middha. The JJP's Digvijay Chautala and INLD's Yash Singh are the other candidates in the fray.
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