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Article 35A: Time to get rid of this stain on India’s soul

Jinit Jain -
Article 35A extends special rights and privileges to the permanent residents in J&K while proscribing other Indians from holding/acquiring the land in the state
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Crime

Pulwama attack: Women, children in Kashmir ferried expensive military grade RDX in small quantities for months

OpIndia Staff -
The trigger for the explosive was manufactured locally and that ammonium nitrate was used as an oxidizer in the RDX explosive. The military grade RDX was obtained from Pakistan and the device was assembled around 10 km from the blast site.
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Crime

Hardik Patel’s close aide surrenders in Gujarat court, connected to cases of rioting and arson

OpIndia Staff -
Hardik Patel, PAAS leader, and Congress backed politician, was earlier convicted of arson and rioting during the Patidar riots.
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News Reports

Congress workers used to do booth capturing for me and my father when there was no EVM : Congress leader Kirti Azad

OpIndia Staff -
Kirti Azad was suspended from the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2015 after he accused senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley of Corruption.
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News Reports

India never denies nationality of its citizens: Harish Salve presents a strong case for Kulbhushan Jadhav at ICJ

OpIndia Staff -
India requested the ICJ to adjudge and declare that Pakistan acted in egregious breach of Article 36 of Vienna convention in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case
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Crime

Charge sheet filed against mining baron Janardhan Reddy and others in Ambidant Ponzi Scheme case

Aditi -
Reddy, a former BJP Minister, was arrested in the month of November last year in bribery case and was sent to judicial custody.
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Economy and Finance

Choice for 2019: Between Modi’s agenda of reform vs mahagathbandhan’s incoherent economic policies

Karan -
After the recent assembly elections, there has been a renewed discussion about the likelihood of a “mahagathbandhan” of regional political parties with the agenda of reducing the margin of victory for the PM Modi led NDA
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Editor's picks

IndiaSpend’s faulty ‘fact-checker’ cements its anti-Hindu bias, exposes its Hinduphobia while downplaying Pulwama attack

Nirwa Mehta -
IndiaSpend's FactChecker sinking deeper into the hole it dug for itself by shifting goalposts
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Crime

Pakistan army advice Masood Azhar, Hafiz Saeed to stay out of sight for now over rising international pressure

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan has been condemned and shamed Internationally for this cowardly act
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Editor's picks

Liberalism is a mental disorder: M.K Venu proves it in his latest article about Pulwama attack for The Wire

K Bhattacharjee -
Leftist propaganda outlet recently published an article about Pulwama attack by 'Eminent Intellectual' M.K. Venu which defies common sense and basic knowledge.
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Crime

Karnataka: Suspended Congress MLA JN Ganesh arrested for assaulting fellow MLA Anand Singh a month ago

OpIndia Staff -
An FIR was lodged by Anand Singh against MLA Ganesh for assaulting after which Ganesh had gone missing.
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Government and Policy

Saudi Prince in India: ‘Terrorism common concern, stand with India against terrorism’

OpIndia Staff -
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman addressed a joint conference pledging to work together to curb terrorism and extremism.
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News Reports

Amar Singh donates ancestral properties worth 15 crores to RSS-affiliated organisation Seva Bharti

OpIndia Staff -
Amar Singh donated Rs 15 crore property to Seva Bharti, an RSS affiliated social service organisation.
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Law

Saradha chit fund scam: Justice L Nageswar Rao recuses himself from hearing CBI’s contempt case against Mamata govt

OpIndia Staff -
Justice Rao cited the reason that he had represented the State of West Bengal in a case earlier.
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Editor's picks

Fact-Check: Pro-AAP Facebook page peddles fake data about NDA govt’s track record on national security

OpIndia Staff -
An image is being circulated by a Pro-AAP page on social media which is quoting false data to paint the NDA government in poor light.
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Editor's picks

Terrorist vowed to kill ‘those who drink cow urine’, so-called FactChecker says he is not ‘communal’

OpIndia Staff -
Trust a self-proclaimed liberal to paint a terrorist as a victim
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Economy and Finance

Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code Impact : Another Industrialist finds the money to clear dues

OpIndia Staff -
Jaypee Infratech makes attempt to save its debt-ridden company from insolvency proceedings.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Congress appoints 6 AICC secretaries to ‘support’ JM Scindia and Priyanka Gandhi

OpIndia Staff -
Kumar Ashish, one of the AICC secretaries appointed was allegedly linked to the 2005 Bihar question paper leak case.
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Books

Twisted Threads: A brilliant work of satire by Bhavesh Kansara that is bound to leave readers LLRC

Sanghamitra -
A sharp, witty and brilliant satire on today's politics in India, Kansara's book is a must-read.
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News Reports

Mandya: Actor-turned-politician Prakash Raj attends funeral of Pulwama martyr, villagers expose his hypocrisy towards Armed Forces

OpIndia Staff -
Prakash Raj, a left wing ideologue, who is often known for joining hands with the left-liberals to express their hate towards Hindus and the BJP, has plans to contest in the upcoming elections from Bengaluru Central Lok Sabha constituency.
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News Reports

Lockheed Martin unveils F-21, a different multirole fighter aircraft specifically configured for Indian Air Force

OpIndia Staff -
Lockheed Martin said that the F-21 is different, inside and out and it is specifically configured for Indian Air Force requirements
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Editor's picks

UNHCHR: A hypocritical, biased and defunct institution that deserves only ridicule and condemnation

K Bhattacharjee -
If there was any institution on the face of the Earth which had lesser credibility than the Pakistani government, then its the Human Rights division of the United Nations.
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News Reports

No woman minister in the second cabinet also of KCR in Telangana, which was expanded from 2 to 12 after 66 days

OpIndia Staff -
On December 11, 2018, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi came back to power after winning 88 seats out of 119 assembly seats. 
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News Reports

Kashmiri student writes ‘This was not a terrorist attack, this is returns of what you did to Kashmiri people’, gets rusticated

OpIndia Staff -
"Not 40, but 400 must have been killed," she said while posting a picture of the blast site
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Law

Patna HC slams ‘lifetime entitlement’ rule of Bihar government, asks former CMs to vacate bungalows

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court said last year that the former chief ministers cannot be granted such facilities as they aren’t holding offices.
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Editor's picks

Article 370 must go: BJP can’t pussyfoot any longer

Ashish Shukla -
So what is this Article 370 which allows J&K to function much against the national (or for that matter, it’s own) interests?
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Media

NDTV does what it does best: First spreads falsehood over Vande Bharat Express, now twists PM Modi’s statement

OpIndia Staff -
Congress President Rahul Gandhi had used the event of technical slag of Train-18 to target the NDA government and had mocked the Prime Minister Narendra Modi over reports of India’s fastest train, Vande Bharat Express suffering a breakdown.
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Editor's picks

Human Rights Watch publishes report on ‘violent cow protection’ based on faulty data, NYTimes peddles it further

OpIndia Staff -
IndiaSpend's factchecker.in is best known to have a faulty, flawed and biased database which is often used to peddle agenda and fake narrative, especially, on cow protection in India
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Crime

Congress backed Srinagar deputy mayor boasts about ISI links, says can have politicians assassinated by terrorists

OpIndia Staff -
In the video, which is yet to be verified, Sheikh also boasts of his ties to ISI top brass and his close links with Hizbul commander Riyaz Naikoo.
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Editor's picks

Co-founder of self-proclaimed ‘fact-checking’ blog, AltNews, spreads another fake news by using ‘cropped video’

OpIndia Staff -
Co-founder of self-proclaimed fact-checking portal Alt News, that often indulges in co-ordinated attacks against social media users with the help of Islamists, has yet again spread fake news in an attempt to incite communal violence.
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Editor's picks

Pulwama Attack: Time to abolish Article 370 and implement Uniform Civil Code

Gaurav Singhal -
If India is a secular country, why not secular laws for the population?
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Crime

Pakistan ambassador to Afghanistan warns Afghan peace talks will be affected if India retaliates against Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
This time, Pakistan will definitely have to answer for every innocent life lost in the dreadful terror attack.
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News Reports

Pulwama attack: France to move UN to put Jaish-e-Muhammad chief Masood Azhar in UN sanction list

Raju Das -
France will approach Sanctions Committee 1267 of the UN to ban Jaish-e-Muhammad chief Masood Azhar
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News Reports

Promises of “guaranteed action” ring hollow given the track record of Pakistan: MEA on PM Imran Khan’s statement

OpIndia Staff -
Not surprised that PM of Pakistan refuses to acknowledge Pulwama attack as an act of terrorism: MEA
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Editor's picks

Pakistan minister says ‘bells won’t toll in temples’, he forgets, India is the land of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj

K Bhattacharjee -
Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, Federal Minister for Pakistani Railways, commented that should anyone look at Pakistan in a negative manner, then "the eyes will be ripped out, the grass will not grow, the birds will not chirp and the bells won't toll in Temples."
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Editor's picks

Treating Muslims like excitable children who cannot deal with criticism of their religion is also bigotry

Shwetank Bhushan -
Ignoring the threat of domestic radicalization and international terrorism won’t make it go away.
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Government and Policy

No tomatoes for Pakistan: MP farmers decide to stop export in retaliation of Pulwama attack

OpIndia Staff -
Farmers of Madhya Pradesh want the Indian government to exact revenge for the dastardly attack in Pulwama.
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News Reports

Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s rant on Pulwama attack: A message edited and chopped to make it more ISI friendly

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan PM Imran Khan in a video message threatens with retaliatory attacks if India attacks it
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News Reports

Mandsaur firing was as per protocol, no scam in Narmada sapling plantations: Congress bites its own tail in Madhya Pradesh

OpIndia Staff -
Congress party had used the tragic incidents at Mandsaur to indulge in politics as they had targetted the Shivraj Singh Chouhan's BJP government before the elections claiming that the state government had deliberately attacked farmers at Mandsaur. 
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Editor's picks

Scroll whitewashes celebrations of Pulwama attack, instead targets those who complained about celebrations

OpIndia Staff -
Reporting identities of those who celebrated terror attack to law enforcement agencies is a bigger crime than the terror attack
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Law

Pakistan quotes The Quint, Karan Thapar and Praveen Swami to brand Kulbhushan Jadhav as a ‘RAW spy’ at ICJ

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan quoted several articles published in Indian to present its case during Kulbhushan Jadhav hearing at the International Court of Justice
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Media

Barkha Dutt complains to Police about her number being public, after advertising that her number was public for ‘Kashmiris in need’

OpIndia Staff -
In a tweet Barkha Dutt had posted herself on social media the previous day, she had advertised that her number was online and available to Kashmiris who needed help or 'felt vulnerable'.
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Government and Policy

Uttar Pradesh: Yogi govt’s war against Encephalitis sees a 66% drop in deaths due to the disease

OpIndia Staff -
The United Nations Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) had praised the Uttar Pradesh government led by CM Yogi Adityanath for successfully immunising all children of the state against Japanese Encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome. 
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Editor's picks

Ten things India must do to stop being a soft state

Guest Author -
India is overly defensive. Despite its massive economic and military power, it does not respond to grave provocations (26/11, for example). It does not retaliate when attacked. It tolerates countless attacks on its citizens and affronts to its prestige.
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Editor's picks

Imran Khan’s deranged statement on Pulwama terror attack tailor-made to appeal to Indian ‘liberal’ sensibilities

OpIndia Staff -
In his statement on the Pulwama terror attack, Imran Khan claimed that his country had nothing to gain from attacking India. Apart from that, he threatened India with retaliation should the Indian Army decide to attack Pakistan.
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News Reports

State Bank of India to waive loans of martyrs of Pulwama attack, expedite insurance payment

OpIndia Staff -
State Bank of India takes steps to provide respite to families of martyrs.
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News Reports

After sponsoring the Pulwama attack, Pakistan FM Qureshi seeks urgent UN intervention to ‘diffuse tension’ with India

OpIndia Staff -
India has hinted on abandoning the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan in the aftermath of the Pulwama Terror attack
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News Reports

Gujarat put on high alert following intelligence report about possible suicide bomb attack by JeM in the state

OpIndia Staff -
The specific input generated by the intelligence agencies speaks of a man associated with the Pakistani terror outfit Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) and is "suspected to have played a role in the Pulwama Attack".
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News Reports

One pilot of IAF’s Surya Kiran aerobatic team loses life as two aircraft collide mid-air, two pilots eject safely

OpIndia Staff -
The Surya Kiran Aerobatic Team based at the Bidar Air Force Station in Karnataka was rehearsing their manoeuvres ahead of the 2019 Aero India Show at Yelahanka, Bengaluru.
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Government and Policy

Pulwama attack: Sadly, India can’t resort to ‘water war’

Ashish Shukla -
The dastardly Pulwama attack has again led to talks of India abrogating the Indus Water Treaty of 1960 and wage a 'water war' against Pakistan to bring it to its knees since diplomacy seems to have had no effect on the rogue nation
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