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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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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Editor's picks

Rahul Gandhi: The evil mind that works behind the dimpled face

Saket Suryesh -
All Rahul Gandhi is concerned about is bombarding the masses with fake news, hoping some of it will stick someplace, as evidenced by his meeting with Manohar Parrikar
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Editor's picks

Union Minister Smriti Irani calls Rahul Gandhi a congenital liar, says it is dangerous to even maintain social contact with him

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There is no place for merit, commitment and ability to deliver in a dynastic democracy: Smriti Irani
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Government and Policy

Piyush Goyal awarded The prestigious Carnot Prize by the Kleinman Centre for Energy Policy

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Accepting the award Goyal stated that it was “Both a personal honour and a tribute to the efforts of all involved in this great work throughout India to be recognised with the Carnot Prize by the University of Pennsylvania.”
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Editor's picks

Rahul Gandhi has shown that if at all he is the clown, he is perhaps ‘Pennywise’

Nirwa Mehta -
While Pennywise fed on children's deepest fears, Rahul Gandhi and Congress feeds on emotions of people, as evidenced by his drama following his meeting with Manohar Parrikar
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Law

Bhima-Koregaon case: Teltumbde was conspiring to spread riots, claims prosecution as Pune police ask for custodial interrogation

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His appeal to quash the FIR filed by the Pune police against him was rejected by the Supreme Court on January 14.
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Crime

Illegal telephone exchange case: Special CBI Court frames charges against Maran brothers and five others

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The Supreme Court had earlier dismissed the plea of former Union telecom minister Dayanadhi Maran, his brother Kalanithi Maran and five others against the Madras High Court order setting aside their discharge in the case.
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News Reports

Allegations against Rakesh Asthana false, powerful people working against him: Brother

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MK Asthana has claimed that one section of CBI, under orders from former chief Alok Verma was actively trying to scuttle Christian Michel's extradition.
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News Reports

Construction work of Ram Mandir to begin on February 21, ready to take bullets if required, says Swami Swaroopanand

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Swami Swaroopanand today declared that the construction of the temple will begin from February 21
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Crime

Ex-SIMI man accused of sedition held from Varanasi airport due to a Lookout Circular against him

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A LOC had been issued against him in 2001
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News Reports

AgustaWestland scam accused Rajiv Saxena, UPA era Lobbyist Deepak Talwar being extradited to India

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It is alleged the companies of Rajiv Saxena received bribe paid in the VVIP Chopper deal, while Deepak Talwar made crores lobbying in aviation deals
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News Reports

OpIndia Evening Dispatch: Wednesday, 30th January 2019

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Selected stories of the day for your evening reading.
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News Reports

‘Congress is using its lawyers to delay the Ram Mandir case’: Amit Shah in Kanpur

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Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah today addressed the booth-level presidents of Kanpur-Bundelkhand and Avadh region at Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh in Booth Adbyaksh Sammelan
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News Reports

Mathura Railway station gets swanky new look

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The railways have identified 70 major stations across the country under its redevelopment initiative
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News Reports

Tickets for sale: AIADMK tells party leaders to pay Rs. 25,000 as ‘application fees’ if they want to contest 2019 Lok Sabha elections

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All 40 constituencies (39 Tamil Nadu and 1 Puducherry) have been listed for sending applications
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News Reports

PM Modi lays foundation stone for more than a dozen projects in Surat, furnishes his government’s report card

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PM Modi laid the foundation stone for the expansion of terminal at Surat Airport
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News Reports

Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan gets ED notice in currency smuggling case

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The ED issued a notice to Pakistani Singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan in a case related to smuggling foreign currency
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Editor's picks

Shashi Tharoor’s tweet denigrating the Kumbh ought to make us all wary

K Bhattacharjee -
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has decided to participate in the propaganda against Kumbh
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Editor's picks

‘Stooping so low as to make a false statement raises questions about purpose of your visit’, Manohar Parrikar to Rahul Gandhi in a scathing...

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Manohar Parikar says Rafale was not discussed when Rahul Gandhi met him on January 29
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Crime

Vatican priest Hermann Geissler, who handled sex-abuse cases quits after being accused of sexual abuse by a former nun

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Hermann Geissler, who was the Chief of staff in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has been accused of sex abuse by a former nun of the Church named Doris Wagner-Reisinger
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News Reports

Government rubbishes media speculations about full budget, clarifies it will be presenting Interim Budget

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The budget presented on February 1 will be interim budget, not full budget
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Editor's picks

QNet: All you need to know about the scam, the company’s association with Times Group and bonhomie with Congress leaders

K Bhattacharjee -
QNet, formerly known as QuestNet, GoldQuest and QI Limited, is a Hong Kong-based multi-level marketing (MLM) company founded in 1998 by Vijay Eswaran and owned by the QI Group
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Editor's picks

Leave Manohar Parrikar alone, Rahul Gandhi

Nirwa Mehta -
When the destruction of a man is inevitable, the conscience of the man is the first to die.
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News Reports

Hizbul-Mujahideen warns people about former IAS officer Shah Faesal’s ‘drama’, calls him a fodder of India

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Hizbul-Mujahideen says former IAS officer Shah Faesal should joint the terrorist forces if he cares about Kashmir
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Editor's picks

‘Without my integrity, my profession would be over’: Vivek Doval records statement in defamation case against Caravan and Jairam Ramesh

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Vivek Doval appearing before the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal on Tuesday said that the allegations put forward by the magazine Caravan in its article titled 'The D-Company' were completely baseless and false. 
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Editor's picks

Modi government’s petition in Ram Janmabhoomi case: A simple yet potent step towards construction of Ram Temple

Divya Kumar Soti -
The Modi government moved a petition in SC asking for the vacation of stay over the 67-acre undisputed land surrounding the plot which is the actual subject matter of title suit
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News Reports

Possible rupture in Congress-JDS alliance? Karnataka BJP claims to have met with CM Kumaraswamy’s brother, HD Revanna

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JD(S) is trying to use the BJP to firm its alliance with the Congress
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News Reports

After Meghalaya CM, Nagaland CM also opposes the Citizenship Amendment Bill

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Nagaland parties oppose the Citizenship Amendment Bill
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Noida police arrests a police inspector and three journalists in connection with extortion case

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UP Police arrested SHO Manoj Pant along with three Noida based journalists Sushil Pandit, Raman Thakur and Udit Goyal for extorting Rs 8 Lakh
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Law

CJI Ranjan Gogoi warns Karti Chidambaram to not play around with the law, says will come down heavily on him if he does not...

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Karti was also asked to deposit Rs 10 crore with the court if he wishes to travel abroad.
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Crime

Communist leaders shield SFI leader Muhammad Nazeem who assaulted Kerala Traffic Police officers

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A group of six SFI members including Nazeem had brutally assaulted the traffic police officers in duty at Palayam, Sarath and Vinayachandran, for questioning the violation of traffic signal.
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Crime

Congress leader O M George booked under POCSO for sexually assaulting a minor Adivasi girl for over 2 years

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Senior Congress leader from Kerala, Om George, has been booked for alleged sexually assault of a minor 17-year-old Adivasi girl for a period of almost 2 years
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Rahul Gandhi can’t even manage to make a courtesy call to a cancer patient without lying profusely

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Rahul Gandhi has lowered the bar of basic human decency in the current political landscape.
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Child right body writes to Arvind Kejriwal, says poll campaigns in schools a bad influence on children

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NCPCR wrote a letter to Arvind Kejriwal a day after the Delhi CM and his deputy Manish Sisodia campaigned for Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) at a school event for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections
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Telangana: Congress candidate loses Panchayat elections, husband demands bribe money back from voters

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The Congress leader and her husband had reportedly paid each voter between Rs 500- 700, in return for the promise of a vote
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West Bengal: Vehicles used for Amit Shah’s rally in East Midnapore vandalised, BJP holds TMC responsible

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Amit Shah while addressing the rally, sneered the TMC chief on various issues
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OpIndia Evening Dispatch: Tuesday, 29th January 2019

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Selected stories of the day for your evening reading.
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Fact-Check

Government trashes report by The Print, says no such “IB report” exists that talks about Universities being anti-Modi

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The government has denied that it has received any IB report against universities selected for IoE status, as alleged by The Print report
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Editor's picks

Posters of Rahul Gandhi depicting him as Lord Ram: A sham by a party that questioned the very existence of Lord Ram

Jinit Jain -
Congress has a decorated history of exhibiting anti-Hindu tendencies and a mere depiction of Rahul Gandhi as Lord Rama will not wash them off their sins
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Government and Policy

Uttar Pradesh: Yogi Adityanath announces Ganga expressway, connecting Prayagraj to Meerut

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CM Adityanath and other leaders took a holy dip in the Kumbh Mela, the world's largest religious gathering, ahead of the cabinet meeting.
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News Reports

‘If this happens, the entire country will burn’: Muslim petitioner on the Government’s Ram Mandir move

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Mehboob also suggested that the move was political. He stated, “The whole world knows about the current position of the BJP, therefore the Modi government took this step.”
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Law

Benami assets worth Rs 6900 crores seized under benami property law by the IT department

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Modi government had earlier cracked a whip on 16500 shell companies and put 80000 suspicious companies under the scanner.
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Crime

Priya Ramani summoned as an accused in defamation case filed by former Union Minister MJ Akbar

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Akbar had filed a defamation case against Ramani in October last year and dismissed the allegations as ‘false and fabricated’ and ‘malicious’. He had then resigned from his post of Minister of State in the External Affairs Ministry. 
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Editor's picks

Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Rafale scam’: A repeat of the fake ‘coffin scam’ that Congress used to hound Vajpayee and George Fernandes

Raju Das -
Although the Congress party badly wants the ‘Rafale scam’ to become the Bofors scam for BJP, it is actually a repeat of ‘Coffin scam’.
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News Reports

A personal loss for me: Says Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on demise of George Fernandes, announces 2-day state mourning

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Bihar government announces two-day mourning following the demise of leader George Fernandes.
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Former Congress leader Shankersinh Vaghela joins Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party

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Veteran Congress leader Shankarsinh Vaghela joins NCP, in presence of its supremo Sharad Pawar.
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