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ED seizes property worth Rs 238 crores of TMC MP in connection with a ponzi scheme case

OpIndia Staff -
TMC MP's company is accused of illegally starting a collective investment scheme without the approval of SEBI and collected funds of over Rs. 1900 crores from the public in the years leading up to 2015
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News Reports

PM Modi and Nitish Kumar to kickstart 2019 campaign in Bihar with March 3 mega rally

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi and CM Nitish Kumar to attend a joint rally at Patna on March 3, to kickstart campaign for General elections in the state.
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Editor's picks

Fact-check: The Print and The Telegraph spread dangerous lies about Polio vaccine in India

OpIndia Staff -
It is indeed worrisome how big media like The Print, which is run by the Editors Guild chief Shekhar Gupta, no less and The Telegraph spread rumours and lies about the Polio vaccine
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News Reports

Congress supports ‘Tukde Tukde Gang’, invites sedition accused Kanhaiya Kumar for an event remembering Mahatma Gandhi

OpIndia Staff -
Kanhaiya Kumar has been invited as a speaker for an event to mark the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi
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Crime

Schoolchildren attacked with swords during R-Day celebrations in MP, Imtiyaz and Zakir among others booked

OpIndia Staff -
12 people, including 4 schoolchildren have been reportedly injured.
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News Reports

Bharat Ratna: Mallikarjun Kharge booked for his remarks on Bhupen Hazarika which hurt sentiments of Assamese people

OpIndia Staff -
Kharge had criticised the government for 'choosing a singer' over Lingayat spiritual leader Shivakumar Swami who passed away on 21st January.
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News Reports

No Hindu saint given Bharat Ratna but Mother Teresa given, is it sin to be a Hindu? Asks Ramdev

OpIndia Staff -
Ramdev alleged that Mother Teresa was given the Bharat Ratna because she was a Christian.
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News Reports

Watch: Cost break-up of Rafale deal – What Rahul Gandhi & Lutyens Media are hiding, by Nitin Gupta ‘Rivaldo’

OpIndia Staff -
Rivaldo has exposed the hypocrisy and double standards adopted by Congress President Rahul Gandhi over Rafale deal.
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Government and Policy

Modi meets the woman who started a business with Mudra loan and runs a successful enterprise through Government e-Marketplace

OpIndia Staff -
Arulmozhi Saravanan had taken a loan under the Mudra Yojana for her business and now she owns a business of over 1 crore turnover.
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News Reports

BJP does not have beautiful faces to show, uses Hema Malini to get votes: Congress minister in Madhya Pradesh

OpIndia Staff -
MP state minister Sajjan Singh Verma issues a misogynist remark about BJP's female leaders.
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Editor's picks

OpIndia Evening Dispatch: Sunday, 27th January 2019

OpIndia Staff -
Selected stories of the day for your evening reading.
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Law

January 29 hearing of Ayodhya dispute in Supreme Court cancelled due to non-availability of Justice S A Bobde

OpIndia Staff -
Yet another delay in the Ayodhya dispute case hearing in the Supreme Court
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Editor's picks

Nambi Narayanan: A victim of India’s greatest politico-bureaucratic nexus, costing us huge accomplishments

Shashank Bharadwaj -
The story of Nambi Narayanan is nothing short of a Bollywood thriller which unfortunately pushed India back a couple of decades in space technology.
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Crime

Delhi man kills live-in partner who had fled her husband’s house and had converted to Islam

OpIndia Staff -
The woman reportedly fled from her husband's house nad had been living with Intezar after converting and changing her name to Ikra.
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News Reports

Vote: ‘American’ founder of The Wire or ‘Canadian’ Akshay Kumar, who is more suitable to comment on nationalism?

OpIndia Staff -
Rohini Singh commented on Akshay Kumar's Canadian citizenship, but she herself works for a publication run by an American Citizen
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Editor's picks

Chhattisgarh: CM Bhupesh Baghel disrespects Indian National Flag by unfurling a pre-1947 Congress flag during Republic Day celebrations

OpIndia Staff -
Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh chose to unfurl the flag adopted by the INC in 1931 instead of India's national flag causing disrespect to a national symbol
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Crime

Maharashtra ATS arrests Thane man for alleged link with ‘ISIS inspired’ terror module

OpIndia Staff -
This arrest has been made following the interrogation of these eight earlier arrested men
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Editor's picks

Twitter user lists out various initiatives of military modernisation under Modi government

OpIndia Staff -
The axiomatic call of duty rooted in a soldier has always been respected by this Government and given utmost importance
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News Reports

Posters of Priyanka Gandhi as Rani Lakshmibai come up in Gorakhpur

OpIndia Staff -
During the run-up to the 2014 elections, too, posters had come up demanding that Priyanka Gandhi contests Lok Sabha elections from Uttar Pradesh
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Media

British newspaper apologises to US First Lady Melania Trump for making false claims, agrees to pay damages

OpIndia Staff -
The Daily Telegraph agrees that its January 19 article about Melania Trump had several false statements, and agreed to pay damages along with apologising for the same.
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Editor's picks

PM Modi’s first ‘Mann ki Baat’ with nation in 2019: Key takeaways

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi addresses the nation through Mann ki Baat
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Crime

Karnataka: Two die, 11 hospitalised after consuming prasad in Gangamma temple, one woman arrested

OpIndia Staff -
In December, too, a seer and his accomplices were arrested for allegedly poisoning 15 people to death by mixing pesticide in prasad
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Editor's picks

Around 430 small and marginal farmers and farm labourers in Punjab committed suicide in last one year: Bhartiya Kisan Union

OpIndia Staff -
Despite the farm loan waiver scheme, the farmer suicide seems to be on a rise.
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News Reports

Priyanka Gandhi is bipolar, beats up people, alleges Subramanian Swamy

OpIndia Staff -
Swamy alleges that Priyanka Gandhi has a violent side where she beats up people
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Law

Kerala DCP gets transferred within hours after she raids CPM office in connection with a case registered under POCSO

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, Kerala Police Chief has also sought an explanation from Chaithra for the raids conducted.
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Editor's picks

You are wrong, NYT: It is our time now

Karan -
The commentator, through the article in The New York Times, tries to make personal jibes at the Indian Prime Minister Modi without offering any data to substantiate the tall claims that are being made.
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Editor's picks

I was a Modi supporter, but with the entry of Priyanka Gandhi into active politics, I am all for Congress now

Nupur J Sharma -
I am hereby declaring, with all the intellectual, suave English speaking power at my disposal, that I am now a Priyanka Gandhi Vadra fan
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News Reports

OpIndia Evening Dispatch: Saturday, 26th January 2019

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

Family of Chandan Gupta, killed during Tiranga Yatra on Republic Day last year, honoured by UP government

OpIndia Staff -
Chandan was shot dead while participating in Tiranga Yatra on the Republic Day through a Muslim locality
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News Reports

Pranab Mukherjee awarded Bharat Ratna because he visited RSS headquarters: JD(s) leader Danish Ali

OpIndia Staff -
Ali demanded that Sri Sri Shivakumara Swami, the Swani of Siddaganga mutt who recently passed away, should be conferred with Bharat Ratna.
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News Reports

NDA’s former ally AGP now finds support from Meghalaya Chief Minister against the Citizenship Amendment Bill

OpIndia Staff -
Meghalaya CM meets members of AGP to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill
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News Reports

Shocking comments from Former Kerala DGP on Nambi Narayanan: ‘Rapists and murders will also get Padma awards next year’

OpIndia Staff -
Nambi Narayanan introduced the liquid rocket fuel technology in India in the early '70s and was the first to build a successful 600-kg liquid motor engine and went on making an even bigger one
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News Reports

Modi govt commissions long-range Boeing to bring back fugitives Mehul Choksi and Jatin Mehta: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Indian Government commissioners Air India flights reportedly to bring back economic offenders Mehul Choksi, Jatin Mehta and Nirav Modi
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News Reports

MP Minister fails to read properly, asks the Collector to finish the Republic Day speech on her behalf

OpIndia Staff -
MP minister Imarti Devi, who failed to read her Republic Day speech, in her election affidavit claims that she has passed 12th From Govt. Higher Secondary School of Bhind, Madhya Pradesh in 2000.
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Editor's picks

Fact-check: On Republic Day 2019, Sitaram Yechury lies about the Constitution of India

Jinit Jain -
Sitaram Yechury blatantly lies about the provenance constitution of India, which in its initial version didn't have 'Secular' and 'Socialism' in its Preamble
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Editor's picks

Republic Day 2019 Parade: An event of many firsts in pictures

OpIndia Staff -
The overall theme for the Republic Day celebrations this year is the 150th birth anniversary of MK Gandhi and most of the tableaux were themed on the remembrance of the freedom fighter.
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News Reports

Twitter suspends young boy’s account after he was doxxed and harassed by AltNews founder Pratik Sinha and Islamists

OpIndia Staff -
Altnews founder Pratik Sinha today stirred a hornet’s nest after he doxxed several unsuspecting users on Twitter simply because he did not agree with their political views.
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News Reports

AgustaWestland case: Lawyer Gautam Khaitan arrested by ED on money laundering charges

OpIndia Staff -
Lawyer Gautam Khaitan, a co-accused in the Agusta Westland Chopper scam has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on charges of money laundering
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Fact-Check

Fact Check: Is the newspaper clip headlined ‘Rajiv Gandhi’s daughter joins family firm’ genuine?

Raju Das -
The article printed in a newspaper reports the elevation of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra with a rather unusual headline, “Rajiv Gandhi's daughter joins family firm”.
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Editor's picks

Padma Bhushan for Nambi Narayan, scientist whose life was destroyed by India’s ‘secular’ govts

Abhishek Banerjee -
Indian secularism finished Nambi Narayanan. It took India 20 more years to build the cryogenic engine Nambi Narayan was working on
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Editor's picks

‘Timing of the award might be misconstrued’: CM Naveen Patnaik’s sister, Gita Mehta, declines Padma award

OpIndia Staff -
The NDA government had conferred Padma Shri to Gita Mehta, sister of CM Naveen Patnaik, in the 'Foreigners' category for her distinguished work in Art and Literature
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Editor's picks

All you need to know about Republic day 2019: An occasion of many firsts

OpIndia Staff -
The 26th of January, 2019, will mark India's 70th Republic Day celebrations. The momentous occasion will be one of many firsts as well.
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News Reports

BJP questions Rahul Gandhi for keeping his meeting with Chinese ministers during his Kailash Mansarovar visit a secret

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi revealed that he discussed job creation with some Chinese officials during his Kailash Mansarovar meeting last year.
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Crime

Sadanandan Master, the ex-communist who had to pay the price of shifting to the RSS ideology

OpIndia Staff -
In 2016 PM Modi had lauded Sadanandan for braving the communist brutality and still continuing to serve the people.
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News Reports

OpIndia Evening Dispatch: Friday, 25th January 2019

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

Bharat Ratna to be conferred on Nanaji Deshmukh, Bhupen Hazarika and Pranab Mukherjee

OpIndia Staff -
Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award of the country
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Editor's picks

OpIndia investigates: How true is Congress claim that no planes are available for charter because BJP booked them all

Nupur J Sharma -
Rahul Gandhi led Congress party claimed that BJP had booked all available chartered planes for 2019 and that Congress was not struggling
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News Reports

‘Treating the notorious with notoriety is the call of these times’: Yogi at UP Foundation Day event

OpIndia Staff -
Yogi Adityanath's speech focused greatly on history and culture. The event was attended by Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis and UP Governor Ram Naik as well.
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News Reports

Kejriwal announces salary hike for Muslim clerics, says will go to any extent to defeat Modi-Shah

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi government announces salary hike for Islamic clergies in all mosques in and around Delhi.
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Media

Is AltNews founder Pratik Sinha using ‘fact-checking’ as an excuse for doxxing

OpIndia Staff -
Pratik Sinha has earlier also shown stalkerly tendencies, which if not controlled could become dangerously criminal.
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