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Sanjay Gandhi had him imprisoned because he refused to help Adil Shahryar, claimed planning commission member in 1977

OpIndia Staff - 3 January, 2019

Many believe that Rajiv Gandhi helped Warren Anderson escape after the Bhopal Gas Tragedy in a quid pro quo deal for the release of his convicted childhood friend, Adil Shahryar

Government and Policy

Who uses a library? Trump mocks India’s investments in Afghanistan, faces flak

OpIndia Staff - 3 January, 2019

Trump also went ahead to state that Russia used to be the Soviet Union, Afghanistan made it Russia because they went bankrupt fighting in Afghanistan.

Government and Policy

Congress alienated the people of Jammu and Kashmir by subverting democracy to stay in power: Arun Jaitley

OpIndia Staff - 3 January, 2019

Congress created barriers between the people of Jammu and Kashmir and great leaders like Shyama Prasad Mukherjee even laid his life to prevent it, said Jaitley with reference to provisions like Article 370.

Editor's picks

The Narendra Modi government: A government that delivers

sumeetbhasin - 3 January, 2019

The year 2019 has started with Prime Minister Modi setting the record straight; this government is a government that delivers- and it delivered a lot over the last 4 years

News Reports

Pakistan prepping Terrorists to wage seaborne Jihad against India: Home Ministry

OpIndia Staff - 3 January, 2019

Pakistan based LeT and JeM terror outfits are training their modules to improve their sea-borne capabilities

News Reports

Vande Mataram row: Kamal Nath’s reverse tune after BJP protest, tradition to be restored with police band

OpIndia Staff - 3 January, 2019

Former CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan had strongly protested against the abolition of the practice and demanded its restoration.

Editor's picks

Google Trends data shows that Indians hardly have any interest in Rahul Gandhi

Abhishek Banerjee - 3 January, 2019

Let’s see what Google Trends data tells us about public interest in PM Modi vs Rahul Gandhi. Here is the data for the last 7 days

Editor's picks

Rahul Gandhi’s name calling to ANI Editor Smita Prakash reeks of irony for his ‘freedom of press’ rhetorics

Editorial Desk - 3 January, 2019

Smita Prakash was 'named and shamed' not because the interview was bad but because she did not project hate for Modi.

News Reports

Congress leader seeks apology for cleaning Rajiv Gandhi statue with his turban

OpIndia Staff - 3 January, 2019

Congress leader Gursimran Singh, seeks apology for his video in which he was cleaning statute of Rajiv Gandhi with his turban

Culture and History

Mainstream Media : The Enemy of the People

K Bhattacharjee - 3 January, 2019

The manner in which the mainstream media has celebrated the desecration of Sabarimala is a complete and utter disgrace. They have sacrificed common human decency at the altar of liberalism.

Crime

Jharkhand: minor argument between bikers sparks communal tension in Kanke district, police vehicles and shops set ablaze

OpIndia Staff - 3 January, 2019

A police officer was attacked near a 'religious site' and his car was set ablaze

News Reports

Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan slams ‘Paradoxical Intellectual’ Shashi Tharoor for lack of comprehension skills

OpIndia Staff - 3 January, 2019

Shashi Tharoor shared on Twitter the question he had asked the government in the Lok Sabha on reports that it was planning to end the subsidy on Kerosene.

Entertainment

The Accidental Prime Minister: Case filed against Anupam Kher in Bihar court

OpIndia Staff - 3 January, 2019

The movie 'The Accidental Prime Minister' is a biopic on former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh, based on a book with the same name by Sanjaya Baru, who was media advisor of Dr Singh.

Law

US journalist sniffing around in Tuticorin violated visa rules, ordered to leave India

OpIndia Staff - 3 January, 2019

US-based scribe asked to leave India after he was found violating visa norms.

News Reports

A half-naked man has won Delhi CM’s heart, and it’s not his ration card minister

OpIndia Staff - 3 January, 2019

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal 'liked' a video where a half-naked man put various objects at his private parts

Fact-Check

Rahul Gandhi’s lies are worse than the doctored tapes, they are worn out now

OpIndia Staff - 3 January, 2019

Rahul Gandhi's claim that the Rafale cost in the UPA deal was ₹560 crore is a lie.

News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: After Vande Mataram, Kamal Nath now stops pension of prisoners detained during Emergency

OpIndia Staff - 3 January, 2019

Shivraj Singh Chauhan during his tenure as the Chief Minister in 2008 had introduced the scheme and had equated the detainees under MISA and DIR with freedom fighters.

Crime

Bulandshahr: Main suspect Yogesh Raj arrested

OpIndia Staff - 3 January, 2019

Yogesh Raj had been missing since the incident where he was named as prime accused.

News Reports

UK daily calls Subhash Chandra Bose a ‘Hindu Nationalist’, says Andaman islands renaming a move to dissociate from colonial history

Devanshu Rajput - 2 January, 2019

The UK daily carries an article, labelling Subash Chandra Bose, as a Hindu radical and INC as a rag-tag army,

Crime

Former Bihar MLA arrested for shooting a woman at new year party in Delhi

Jhankar Mohta - 2 January, 2019

The police recovered 2 rifles and 800 bullets from the MLAs' farmhouse in Delhi where the incident took place

News Reports

Christian Michel got ‘Mrs Gandhi’s’ number in 1996 by his father who was ‘close to the Gandhi family’ : Reports

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

Many journalists believed the Mrs Gandhi referred by Christian Michel could be Indira Gandhi

News Reports

Congress MPs fly paper planes inside the parliament, is Rahul Gandhi bringing another revolutionary idea to India?

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

The Lok Sabha speaker instructed Congress leaders to behave in a dignified manner in the Parliament.

News Reports

Arun Jaitley hints at the Eurofighter pandora’s box during his scathing speech countering Rahul Gandhi’s Rafale allegations

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

Rumours of Rahul Gandhi meeting Eurofighter officials during his Europe visit was doing the round on social media.

News Reports

Amit Shah slams the newly elected Congress govt in Madhya Pradesh for its order on ‘Vande Mataram’

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

BJP President Amit Shah has slammed the newly elected CM of Madhya Pradesh Kamal Nath for the prohibition on the song 'Vande Mataram' in the Assembly.

News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Elderly man going around government offices to prove himself ‘alive’

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

In his desperation to get justice, he has been reported to be roaming around holding a placard which read 'Saheb mein zinda hoon'.

Crime

Investigation reveals nuns in Catholic institutions in India facing ‘decades of abuse’ by priests who enjoy protection

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

A large number of sexual exploitation cases of nuns has emerged across India.

Editor's picks

Quattrochi, National Herald, AgustaWestland, Eurofighter and Rafale: Arun Jaitley stuns Rahul Gandhi in Parliament

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

The Parliament saw a massive uproar today as Congress and Rahul Gandhi decided to, yet again, bring up the Rafale deal and was countered by Arun Jaitley

News Reports

Rahul Gandhi lies again in Parliament, this time about the Dassault Mirage 2000 aircraft

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

The Congress President has lied on several occasions regarding the Rafale deal and has even repeated the same lies on different occasions.

Government and Policy

UP government to impose a 0.5 percent ‘Gau Kalyan cess’ for the construction and maintenance of cow shelters

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

The government has also decided that mandi cess will be increased from 1 per cent to 2 per cent to support the cow protection and welfare scheme.

News Reports

Saudi Arabia pulls down Netflix comedy show criticising its role in the Jamal Khashoggi murder

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

Netflix pulls down an episode in the comedy show, critical of Saudi regime

News Reports

Kerala: While Communist government organizes Women’s Wall, women molested by communist ‘activists’ fear for their lives

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

Ironically, the Communist government in Kerala was busy organising a 'Women's Wall' to extend support to women who want to enter the Sabarimala temple

Government and Policy

UPI saw the highest number of transactions worth Rs 1 trillion in December 2018, reports NPCI

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

In the last year, the monthly UPI transaction volume has gone up by more than 2,000 per cent, according to NPCI data.

Law

Rahul Gandhi refuses to authenticate the ‘Rafale tape’, brazens it out in the Parliament

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

Rahul Gandhi did not respect the speaker's instruction and kept on reading the script of the tape by expressing his sheer arrogance.

News Reports

Goa Minister Rane and CM Parrikar rubbish Congress tape on Rafale, say it is doctored

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

The Chief Minister of Goa, Manohar Parikar has also rubbished these motivated allegations. He has said that no such conversation came up during the cabinet meeting.

Law

The destructive trio: Yashwant Sinha, Shourie and Bhushan move SC for review of Rafale judgement

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

Supreme Court in its judgement had dismissed all petitions seeking a court-monitored investigation into the Rafale deal. The Court said that it has not found any material to show that there has been any commercial favouritism

News Reports

No recital of Vande Mataram in MP secretariat under Congress rule, BJP protests

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

The tradition of singing Vande Mataram on 1st of every month by government employees was instituted by the erstwhile CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan 13 years ago.

News Reports

Modi Derangement Syndrome: 5 mind-numbingly silly tweets on the Prime Minister’s interview to ANI

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

Smita Prakash was extremely professional and did not shy away from asking difficult questions to PM Modi as we enter the election year

Government and Policy

100 days of Ayushman Bharat: 6.85 lakh patients availed free treatment so far

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

Around 5.1 lakh claims have been availed of the scheme, for which payment has been released.

Editor's picks

Congress’ duality: Mallikarjun Kharge bats for HAL after expressing ‘serious concern’ over HAL’s efficiency

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

Despite calling out Congress for its lies on HAL and Rafale deals, Congress leaders continue the rhetorics

Government and Policy

Congress solicits donations to provide ‘better holidays’ to India, here is why India doesn’t need Congress’ help

Jinit Jain - 2 January, 2019

More and more Indians have been enjoying holidays and the tourism sector has been booming since the Modi government came to power.

News Reports

Sabarimala: Aided by Kerala police, women belonging to CPI-ML enter Sabarimala to violate age-old Hindu customs

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

Two women Bindu and Kanakdurga in their 40s, accompanied by Kerala police has entered the Sabarimala shrine at 3.45am today causing massive anger amongst the Hindu devotees

Media

Comparing PM Modi’s interview with Smita Prakash to Sonia’s interview with Rajdeep Sardesai

Abhishek Banerjee - 2 January, 2019

We can be certain that PM Modi loves a challenge. And so on the first day of the New Year, PM Modi sat down for an interview with Smita Prakash from ANI

News Reports

Karnataka: Congress-JDS government to revive controversial ‘Steel flyover’ project in Bangalore

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2019

In 2017, the Siddaramaiah government had brought this proposal to build a steel flyover but had to stop the project after facing severe protest from citizens and green activists.

News Reports

Did Narendra Modi say he will overturn court’s verdict if not in favour of Ram Temple? Pretty much!

Nupur J Sharma - 1 January, 2019

While answering a question on construction of Ram Temple at Ayodhya, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a statement that essentially assures the construction.

News Reports

Here are the highlights of Prime Minister Modi’s interview to ANI

OpIndia Staff - 1 January, 2019

Prime Minister Modi in his interview with ANI touched upon a lot of subjects and cleared air surrounding lot of controversies about his government.

Editor's picks

Prime Minister Narendra Modi lists steps taken by his government to help the middle-class

OpIndia Staff - 1 January, 2019

During his interview to ANI, Prime Minister Modi has attempted to dispel the narrative that his government has not taken care of the welfare of the middle class.

News Reports

Sohrabuddin Encounter case a political conspiracy by Congress against Amit Shah: Smriti Irani

OpIndia Staff - 1 January, 2019

Union Minister Smriti Irani has launched an attack on the Congress party over the Sohrabuddin Encounter case

Editor's picks

PM Modi proves yet again that he will change the narrative on his own terms, in his own time

Nupur J Sharma - 1 January, 2019

With this interview to ANI, Prime Minister Modi has proven yet again that he will set the narrative in his own time and his own terms.

Editor's picks

Triple Talaq is about gender equality, Sabarimala is about tradition: PM Modi in his interview to ANI

OpIndia Staff - 1 January, 2019

Some temples in India have their own customs and traditions: PM Modi on Sabarimala vs Triple Talaq issue

Editor's picks

Election time ‘lollipop’ of loan waiver promises never benefit farmers, we are working towards their empowerment: PM Modi

OpIndia Staff - 1 January, 2019

PM stated that waiving off farmers' loan is never the solution, had it been the solution, why are there still farmers in distress while multiple governments have promised loan waivers over the years.

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