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Madhya Pradesh: Farmers in Damoh protest against Kamal Nath led Congress govt over unsold paddy

OpIndia Staff -
One farmer was quoted by the news agency as saying, "My paddy has been lying at the center for last 20 days. Nobody is doing anything, my wife and kids are starving. Govt isn't listening, how am I supposed to survive?"
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Editor's picks

Rahul Gandhi accidentally reveals he had a secret meeting with Chinese ministers during his Kailash visit

OpIndia Staff -
While talking about automation, Rahul Gandhi revealed that he had met Chinese ministers during is Kailash Mansarovar visit
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Fact-Check

Nidhi Razdan of NDTV twists Piyush Goyal’s statement to claim Railways failed in fulfilling jobs creation promise

OpIndia Staff -
Nidhi Razdan conducted an entire debate on misinformation regarding a statement by Piyush Goyal on jobs creation in the railways
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Government and Policy

Supreme Court refuses to stay 10% reservation to EWS, agrees to hear the petitions challenging quota

OpIndia Staff -
Citing the Supreme Court's judgement in 1992 Indira Sawhney's case, the NGO through its petition claimed that granting reservation solely based on the economic criteria violates both the Constitution and Supreme Court's 1992 observation.
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News Reports

Pro-Congress troll Abhishek Mishra posted communally charged posts on Internet to earn money

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, the IDs used for Internet connection and SIM card for phone for running the account were found to be of someone else.
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Editor's picks

Rahul Gandhi lies: This time about hate mongering

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi conveniently forgets that it is his party leaders like Kamal Nath and Alpesh Thakor who have recently tried playing hate politics
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Editor's picks

‘The movie is not stuck, the makers are’: CBFC member Vivek Agnihotri explains how The Wire twisted facts around ‘No fathers in Kashmir’

Nupur J Sharma -
The media reports about the movie 'No fathers in Kashmir' meeting a roadblock with CBFC seems to be patently false
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News Reports

Supreme Court upholds Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code in its entirety

OpIndia Staff -
The petition to permit promoters to bid for their own companies was initially filed by the promoters of Bhushan Power and Steel. Later, the Court had merged similar petitions filed by operational creditors of Binani Cement.
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Government and Policy

PM Modi’s intervention leads to 94-year-old army widow’s family pension being restored after 30 years

OpIndia Staff -
According to the India Today report, Hebe Benjamin's husband was an officer in the Indian Army and served in the Corps of Engineers. He had retired in 1966 and had relocated with his family to Israel.
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Government and Policy

Only Citizenship Amendment Bill can save Assam from becoming another Jammu and Kashmir: Himanta Biswa Sarma

OpIndia Staff -
Himanat Biswa Sarma has said that without citizenship Bill, Assam will end up like Kammu and Kashmir.
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News Reports

Another PM aspirant? Posters of ‘Akhilesh for PM’ seen in Lucknow

OpIndia Staff -
Posters were put up in Uttar Pradesh declaring Akhilesh Yadav as the future PM.
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Editor's picks

With Priyanka Gandhi’s wild card entry into active politics, Congress is all-in

Nirwa Mehta -
With Priyanka Gandhi getting active in politics, (the announcement came when she was actually abroad, and she will take charge once she is back in India in February), Congress has put all the cards on the table.
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Crime

78 criminals gunned down, over 3000 encounters in the first 16 months of Yogi Adityanath government: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Fearing encounters, over 11,981 criminals have got their bails cancelled and preferred staying in jails, say government records as per the report.
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News Reports

Four policeman dressed in plain clothes accompanied two women to Sabarimala on Jan 2: Police to Court

OpIndia Staff -
Kerala police made a disturbing revelation to the Kerala High Court stating that four policemen disguised as civilians protected and aided two middle-aged left-wing women to enter the Sabarimala shrine on January 2nd
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Editor's picks

The Print indulges in scaremongering, spreads fake news about shortage of polio vaccine in the country

OpIndia Staff -
The Print published an alarming report saying that India doesn’t have polio vaccine for the next round of immunization, which turned out to be fake
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Government and Policy

July 31 deadline for finalising the NRC in Assam not to be extended: Supreme Court

OpIndia Staff -
The NRC is being prepared under the direct monitoring of the Supreme Court.
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Editor's picks

OpIndia Evening Dispatch: Thursday, 24th January 2019

OpIndia Staff -
Here is what made it to the news today
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News Reports

Rose Valley scam: Producer and Mamata Banerjee’s close aide Shrikant Mohta arrested by CBI

OpIndia Staff -
Shrikant Mohta will be produced before the Court tomorrow. He is likely to be taken to Bhubaneshwar after he was arrested in Kolkata.
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Crime

JNU sedition case: Delhi govt issues show cause notice to the bureaucrat who cleared JNU sedition case file

OpIndia Staff -
The notice was issued as the Principal Secretary had allegedly cleared the file without the approval of the Law Ministry.
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Government and Policy

Indian Navy commissions its third air base INS Kohassa in the Andaman and Nicobar islands

OpIndia Staff -
INS Kohassa will become the third Naval Air Base in the region after INS Utkrosh at Port Blair and INS Baaz at Campbell Bay, while Indian Airforce has an independent air base at Car Nicobar known as Car Nicobar AFS.
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News Reports

Production delays by HAL impacting country’s air combat capabilities, IAF informs Govt

OpIndia Staff -
Recently, a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Parliament led by senior Congress leader Mallikarjuna Kharge had heavily criticized HAL for the production delays.
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Economy and Finance

MUDRA Yojana: The elixir for the MSME sector which is fuelling job growth

Guest Author -
For every loan disbursed under MUDRA about 1.3 jobs have been generated
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News Reports

Telangana: After ‘EVM hacking’ fiasco, Congress stoops to a new low, uses derogatory poster to target EC

OpIndia Staff -
In the recently concluded assembly elections that were held in 5 states, Congress leaders, despite leading in 3 states, had started complaining about rigged EVMs when the numbers in Telangana started going against them.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh Congress government opposes arrest of Pro-Congress troll by Delhi Police

OpIndia Staff -
More than 10 laptops were recovered by Delhi Police on his arrest
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News Reports

Supreme Court refuses to stay amendment passed by government in the SC/ST Act

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court says that the review petition against the SC order and petition against the amendment should be heard together
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News Reports

Terrorist turned decorated soldier Lance Naik Nazir Wani to receive Ashoka Chakra

OpIndia Staff -
Lance Naik Nazir Ahmed Wani attained martyrdom while eliminating 6 terrorists in Shopian last year
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News Reports

The tragic death of Homi Bhabha and the trend of top Indian scientists dying under mysterious circumstances

K Bhattacharjee -
Between 2009 and 2013, there were 11 unnatural deaths of nuclear scientists in India
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News Reports

Karnataka: JDS Minister Sa Ra Mahesh calls female IPS officer “Bloody lady”, CM HD Kumaraswamy defends abusive Minister

OpIndia Staff -
CM Kumaraswamy stood in the defence of tourism minister Sa.Ra Mahesh asserting that the police officer 'disrespected the minister' leading to such incidents. He also said that 'disrespecting the state tourism minister is equal to disrespecting the CM'.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Senior BJP leader Babulal Gaur considering contesting upcoming elections on Congress ticket

OpIndia Staff -
He also predicted "major political changes" in the coming days. 
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Farmer gets loan waiver only Rs. 13 against a loan of Rs. 24,000

OpIndia Staff -
The farmer was expecting a complete waiver of his loan amount of Rs 23,815 but the Panchayat list only suggests that only Rs.13 will be waived off.
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Editor's picks

Colour TVs and grinders are passé, Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik now introduces foreign trips

Sambit Nayak -
To fund his populist scheme, Naveen Patnaik’s government has recently withdrawn 735 crore rupees from state contingency funds.
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News Reports

Congress breaks ties with Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh, to go alone in upcoming elections

OpIndia Staff -
Congress has ended its alliance with TDP in Andhra Pradesh. It has announced that it will contest alone in all seats.
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Law

After CJI Gogoi, Justice Sikri recuses himself from plea against appointment of interim CBI Director

OpIndia Staff -
Advocate for the petitioner, Dushyant Dave, was not pleased with the further delay and appeared to lash out at Justice Sikri. He stated that there was an impression that the Court does not wish to hear the matter and suggested that the Justices could have recused themselves earlier.
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News Reports

CBI registers FIR, raids Videocon headquarters in money siphoning case involving ex ICICI Bank head Chanda Kochhar’s husband

OpIndia Staff -
The CBI is yet to confirm whether Chanda Kochhar has been named in the FIR or not
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Editor's picks

India Today journalist caught ‘directing’ Congress workers to appear excited about Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

OpIndia Staff -
India Today journalist later tried to defend herself by saying they were not Congress workers but the 'people of Prayagraj' and she was not feeding them words but was telling them what Rahul Gandhi had to say about it
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Editor's picks

Farmers protest against Rahul Gandhi for the Samrat Cycle ‘land grab’ case by Rajiv Gandhi Trust

OpIndia Staff -
Amethi farmers were protesting against Congress and Rahul Gandhi for their failure to restart the Samrat Cycle factory, the land of which was bought by Rajiv Gandhi Trust
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Crime

Madhya Pradesh: RSS worker found murdered in Ratlam, 4th BJP/RSS worker murdered in ten days

OpIndia Staff -
This is the fourth murder of a BJP/RSS worker in Madhya Pradesh in ten days' time
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News Reports

AMU sends notices to students who organised Tiranga Yatra ahead of Republic Day in the University campus

OpIndia Staff -
The students have alleged that their application seeking permission to organise the Yatra was not responded to.
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Editor's picks

Priyanka Gandhi’s entry into politics seems like a skit where people dress up as politicians for laughs

Abhishek Banerjee -
For at least 10 years now, journalists, academics and intellectuals have been talking about the supposed charisma, intelligence and political acumen of Priyanka Gandhi
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News Reports

Pro-Congress troll Abhishek Mishra arrested for offensive posts which hurt religious sentiments

OpIndia Staff -
Abhishek Mishra is was arrested by Delhi Police last night from Madhya Pradesh
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Crime

Maharashtra ATS arrests 9 persons suspected to have links with the ISIS

OpIndia Staff -
The nine arrested persons engineers, pharmacist and a minor studying in 11th standard.
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Media

“I feel very responsible”, Karan Johar on the Pandya-Rahul controversy

OpIndia Staff -
Johar said that he has had sleepless nights and he wished he could undo the damage.
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News Reports

OpIndia Evening Dispatch: Wednesday, 23rd January, 2019

OpIndia Staff -
In the hustle and bustle of the day, it is only natural to miss some of the biggest developments that impact the nation. The OpIndia Evening Dispatch will catch you up on the day’s event even if you have been busy thus far.
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Editor's picks

Pliant Media jubilant on the arrival of a non-achiever dynast in the politics

Jinit Jain -
The media has gone gung ho on the formal entry of Priyanka Vadra into the politics
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Editor's picks

Sitaram Yechury unveils statue of Lenin, known for mass murder during his Red Terror

OpIndia Staff -
Lenin presided over the death of millions of political dissidents, he brutally suppressed protests by farmers
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News Reports

Kinnar Akhara performs puja at Kumbh praying for early construction of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya

OpIndia Staff -
The Kinnar Akhara Mahamadaleshwar Lakshminarayan Tripathi has spoken up in support of Ram Temple in the past.
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Editor's picks

Institutionalising fake news: The Congress Doctrine for 2019

sumeetbhasin -
While earlier the fake news was limited to select occasions, proximity to elections indicate that perhaps there’s an attempt at using fake news as a tool to mislead the people in order to improve the performance of the Congress
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News Reports

69% Indians want Ram Mandir at Ayodhya: India Today Survey

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India Today survey says that an overwhelming number of Indian want construction of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya.
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Economy and Finance

Leading job website, ‘Naukri’, releases survey of recruiters, predicts 20% increase in hiring between January and June 2019

OpIndia Staff -
Naukri.com, one of India's premier job portals, has published the findings of its Hiring Outlook survey which depict a very bright scenario for employment opportunities in the country between January to June 2019.
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Crime

Kerala Nun rape case: Missionaries of Jesus issues ultimatum to another nun to shed her ‘rebellious attitude’

OpIndia Staff -
The letter from the superior-general reportedly accused Sister Rose of not cooperating with her local convent head and her “revolutionary approach”. It further says the nun’s refusal to “fall in line” raises severe questions about her commitment to the vow of obedience.
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