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Media spreads half-truths about central government debt under Modi

Shantanu -
On January 19th 2018, several media houses reported how the central government debt had increased massively under the Modi government
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News Reports

Delhi Congress chief Sheila Dikshit hits out at Arvind Kejriwal, says Congress will highlight AAP’s ‘propaganda’

OpIndia Staff -
Sheila Dikshit takes a jibe saying, AAP is a small party and such party's keep coming and going
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Editor's picks

Karnataka: After expensive Hublot watch, a Mercedes car comes to haunt former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, Siddaramaiah was gifted an expensive diamond-studded Hublot watch
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News Reports

BJP President Amit Shah, who was suffering from Swine Flu, discharged from AIIMS

OpIndia Staff -
BJP President Amit Shah discharged from AIIMS, after 4-day long treatment from Swine Flu
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News Reports

Congress expels former minister Srikant Jena and former MLA Sagaria for ‘anti party activities’

OpIndia Staff -
While Jena was a former Union Minister in the previous UPA government, the Dalit leader, Sagaria represented Koraput in the state assembly
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Government and Policy

Indian Railways mulls export potential for Train-18, plans to set its foot into $200bn global market with the new semi-high speed train

OpIndia Staff -
The Train-18 is all set to replace the Shatabdi Express that has been in the service of Indian Railways for the past 30 years
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Crime

Madhya Pradesh: BJP Mandal President Manoj Thackeray found murdered in a field

OpIndia Staff -
Balwadi BJP leader Manoj Thackeray bludgeoned to death by unknown assailants
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Law

CJI Gogoi, Retd Justice Madan Lokur attend Pakistan Chief Justice swearing-in, Lokur shares bench with the new Chief Justice

OpIndia Staff -
Justice Lokur was one of the four SC judges who held the press conference last year against then CJI Dipak Misra.
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Entertainment

“How’s the josh?” asks PM Modi at the inauguration of the National Museum of Indian Cinema in Mumbai

OpIndia Staff -
"How's the josh?", asked Modi and the audience replied with an enthusiastic "High Sir".
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News Reports

OpIndia Evening Dispatch: Saturday, 19th January 2019

OpIndia Staff -
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

Hail Mary pass: The stained ghosts of Niira Radia resurrected by the Congress ecosystem

Jinit Jain -
The Radia tapes scandal brought to the fore the shenanigans employed by political parties and their ‘pliable’ journalists
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News Reports

‘This Gathabandhan is not only against Modi but the country’: Highlights from PM Modi’s speech at Silvassa

OpIndia Staff -
Attacking the opposition rally taking place in Kolkata, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Silvassa said that the opposition leaders have gathered in Kolkata crying for help
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Editor's picks

Facts, No Fiction: Rahul Gandhi, the rightful heir to Indira’s legacy of Emergency

Karan -
Rahul Gandhi has over the last couple of months demonstrated that at the end of the day, he is the rightful heir to the legacy of the family and to be more specific, to the legacy of Emergency
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Law

Court nod for FIR against Delhi CM Kejriwal for disrespecting National Flag in 2014 rally

OpIndia Staff -
Kejriwal is accused of disrespecting the National Flag during an election rally in 2014.
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News Reports

PM Modi inaugurates K-9 Vajra manufacturing facility in Hazira, Howitzer riding images go viral

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi inaugurated India's first manufacturing facility for self-propelled K9-Vajra.
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Editor's picks

Here are Arun Shourie’s views on Ambedkar, does Jignesh Mevani support them?

K Bhattacharjee -
Arun Shourie was one of the attendees at the United India rally organized by the Trinamool Congress at Kolkata. The event was also attended by Jignes Mevani, a Dalit 'leader'.
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Editor's picks

Rajasthan Congress’ proposed women reservation and BJP’s reservation for the poor: How The Wire reported them

OpIndia Staff -
The leftist propaganda website The Wire has run many misleading and false reports in the past.
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News Reports

Freudian slip: Embarrassment for ‘united opposition’ at Kolkata rally as Sharad Yadav talks about the Bofors loot

OpIndia Staff -
At the United India opposition rally in Kolkata, Sharad Yadav said that Bofors was daylight robbery and that while our soldiers laid their lives down at the border, the ruling dispensation had robbed and stole in the Bofors case
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Crime

D-Company and Pak’s ISI planned conspiracy to murder RSS leaders, Delhi Police burst module

OpIndia Staff -
One of the suspects arrested suspects allegedly works for Dawood Ibrahim’s close aide Rasool Patty.
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Editor's picks

‘United India’ rally: A heady mix of comical contradictions

K Bhattacharjee -
On Saturday, Kolkata was witness to the 'United India' rally by Opposition parties at Kolkata organized by the Trinamool Congress
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Editor's picks

How Mr X turned from being a die-hard Modi fan to a thorough Modi hater overnight

Anant Chetan -
Every time PM Modi and his party would do something Mr X would oppose it but will pretend as if he supported the last action.
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Economy and Finance

Vibrant Gujarat Summit: Investments worth lakhs of crores announced by Indian and foreign companies

OpIndia Staff -
Investors announced investments worth more than Rs 4 lakh crore for the state.
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Editor's picks

Arvind Kejriwal govt delays in giving sanction to prosecute ‘tukde tukde gang’, Court rejects chargesheet till approval given

OpIndia Staff -
The court has questioned the Delhi police as to why the chargesheet in the JNU sedition case against Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and others was filed without proper sanction from the Delhi government led by Arvind Kejriwal
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News Reports

‘Felt like chopping Ram Kripal Yadav’s hands off when he joined BJP,’ says Misa Bharti

OpIndia Staff -
Misa Bharti stated that she felt like chopping his hands off when she heard the news of him joining BJP
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Law

Fake names, male pilgrims, false age: Kerala government pulled all forgery tricks to make list of ’51 women under 50′

OpIndia Staff -
Many names in the list are reportedly found false, some have the wrong age mentioned and some belong to male persons.
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News Reports

Congress popularity wanes, attracts a mere 20% of BJP’s receipts in 2017-18

OpIndia Staff -
Congress party's income fell to Rs 199 crores in 2017-18 as compared to Rs. 225 crores in 2016-17
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Editor's picks

Fact-check: Was the photo shared by Vinod Kapri that of Nehru after taking holy dip in Kumbh 1954

OpIndia Staff -
While a Congress leader in his book says photo shows Nehru immersing ashes of his father, few media houses say it was ashes of Nehru's mother
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Editor's picks

Fact-Check: N Ram is lying in his The Hindu article about the Rafale Deal, here’s how

Rohit Vats -
The Hindu article gets its facts wrong and makes a blunder in analysing them
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News Reports

OpIndia Evening Dispatch: Friday, 18th 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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Media

A new TV News Channel backed by Congress leaders to be launched ahead of general elections

OpIndia Staff -
The new News channel is reportedly expected to counter Arnab Goswami's Republic TV.
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News Reports

Smriti Irani questions the Kerala government’s intentions on women empowerment

OpIndia Staff -
Union Minister Smriti Irani accused the Kerala government of being blind to nuns’ ordeal
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Opinions

Belt and Road Initiative: China and the world

Raunaq -
China was quick to utilise its influence in developing port near strategic sea routes and choke points
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News Reports

After Gujarat and Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh approves 10% reservation for economically weaker sections

Aditi -
The Yogi government has given approval to the proposal for 10% economic reservation in higher educational institutions.
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News Reports

Many farmers across Madhya Pradesh discover only Rs 25-30 to few hundred rupees of farm loan waived by govt

OpIndia Staff -
Famers claim that loan waiver scheme only benefited them by mere Rs 25-30, even though loan amounts to Rs 1 lakh
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Farmers block Damoh-Sagar highway over protests

OpIndia Staff -
The problems for the farmers in Congress-ruled Madhya Pradesh only seems to be on the rise
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Government and Policy

Interim Budget may go beyond conventional vote-on-account, indicates Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

OpIndia Staff -
Jaitley rubbished doubts that he is under pressure to present a populist budget after the recent election defeat in three states and ahead of general elections in April-May
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Editor's picks

‘2016 Rafale deal achieved objectives of better price, delivery and terms’: MoD spokesperson rubbishes The Hindu report

OpIndia Staff -
In a point by point response, the Ministry of Defence spokesperson has rubbished The Hindu article about the Rafale deal written by N Ram. Read the full statement here
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News Reports

Congress leader discovers a new low yet again, after mocking Amit Shah’s diagnosis, says he doesn’t have swine flu at all

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress leader made a statement claiming that he has received reports stating that BJP President Amit Shah does not have any flu
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Crime

West Delhi: Man, wife and son stabbed to death by Mohammad Azad, in full public view

OpIndia Staff -
Incidentally, the murder spree occurred in West Delhi, the same region of the capital city where Ankit Saxena was murdered last year by her Muslim girlfriend's family.
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News Reports

Odisha: Congress MLA resigns after party suspended him for praising non-Congress Chief Minister

OpIndia Staff -
MLA Jogesh Kumar suspended from Odisha Congress, for his alleged anti-party activities
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News Reports

RLP’s Hanuman Beniwal disrupts the first session of Rajasthan Assembly, stops the Governor from delivering address

OpIndia Staff -
Beniwal entered the Well of the House and started shouting slogans demanding that the government should purchase moong dal from farmers.
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Opinions

HD Kumaraswamy: The eternal whiner

Jinit Jain -
Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy has been perpetually lamenting about his party’s coalition government with Congress
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Editor's picks

Times Group’s communal propaganda: Supporting desecration of Sabarimala while publishing ‘Convert to Islam’ op-ed

K Bhattacharjee -
The Kochi edition of the Times Group newspaper, Times of India, published an article with effusive praise for the religion with the headline "Convert to Islam"
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Law

Sabarimala: Kerala govt says 51 women entered shrine, panel slams VIP treatment by police

OpIndia Staff -
In a huge embarrassment for the ruling Pinarayi Vijayan government in Kerala, a High Court-appointed monitoring committee has slammed Kerala Police for taking unauthorised measures and treating the two woman activists like VIPs to facilitate their entry into the shrine.
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Crime

Himachal Pradesh: Two Congress factions hurl chairs at each other as new state president assumes office

OpIndia Staff -
The clash allegedly took place between the supporters of former chief minister Virbhadra Singh and outgoing state unit president Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu
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Media

Indian Express and Hindustan Times reject article asking uncomfortable questions about Shah Faesal

Raju Das -
Khalid Shah wrote an article asking tough questions of Shah Faesal and the article was rejected by Hindustan times and Indian Express
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Government and Policy

At 7.3%, the average GDP growth over last 4 years has been highest for any government since 1991: PM Modi at Vibrant Gujarat

OpIndia Staff -
Various initiatives taken by the Modi government have helped India improve the GDP and contain inflation
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Culture and History

President Kovind becomes the first President since Rajendra Prasad in 1953 to visit the Kumbh Mela

OpIndia Staff -
President Kovind's visit was organised on a day when the authorities expected less of a rush. He performed Ganga Pujan at the banks of the Triveni Sangam.
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Media

N Ram of The Hindu blatantly picks up the work of another journalist on Rafale to brand it an “exclusive”

OpIndia Staff -
N Ram of The Hindu has not only stolen another journalist's work on Rafale and called it his own, but he has also skewed his work to give it a narrative spin that suits him
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News Reports

Karnataka crisis: Congress summons MLAs to identify dissenters, warns absentees of expulsion

OpIndia Staff -
Animosity between the three principal parties in the state has been at a fever pitch
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