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Fact-Check

After getting caught peddling fake news about Nitin Gadkari, Vinod Dua’s website issues bizarre clarification

OpIndia Staff -
HW News says that Vinod Dua made an episode of his show based on a 3:20 minute clip of the 50 minute interview
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News Reports

PM Modi announces Sardar Patel Award for National Integration at DGP/IGP conference in Gujarat

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi also acknowledged the contribution of security forces for their counter-terrorism efforts
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Editor's picks

Exclusive: Govt official who had authority to issue explosives arrested for links with Naxals, was outed by surrendered Naxal

Nupur J Sharma -
Arrested 'urban Naxal' Naxal Narayan Murthy, alias Venkatrao Murthy was working as a government official and a senior technical assistant in the National Geophysical Research Institute of Government of India since 1980
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Editor's picks

While issuing clean chit to Dr Manmohan Singh, Barkha Dutt forgets Singh’s editorial interference in NDTV during UPA era

Shashank Bharadwaj -
Barkha Dutt has delivered her verdict that Manmohan Singh was a true liberal and proclaims that one does not have to wait for history to judge him.
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News Reports

Days after declaring Tejashwi as Arjun, Tej Pratap poses as Arjun himself on a chariot

OpIndia Staff -
Days before he had announced he'd be the 'charioteer' to his brother who'd be 'Arjun'
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News Reports

Whenever Ram Mandir will be built, it will be made during BJP regime: Yogi Adityanath

OpIndia Staff -
"Ram Mandir ka nirmaan, jo koi bhi karega, jab bhi karega, hum he karenge", Yogi said.
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Law

Madras High Court orders status quo in the Sterlite Copper plant case, rolls back NGT’s order of reopening it

OpIndia Staff -
The Bench passed the order on the petition of MDMK politician and activist Fatima Babu who was protesting the reopening of the plant.
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News Reports

Aquatic life in Ganga to blossom once again, thanks to the cleaning measures

OpIndia Staff -
Recently river Ganga was salvaged from waste of three major sewers in Uttar Pradesh
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News Reports

BJP wins high-stake Jasdan by-poll, takes the seat tally to 100 in Gujarat Assembly

OpIndia Staff -
Ahead of Jasdan by-elections, fake news about Vijay Rupani and Amit Shah had gone viral on social media
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Crime

Samajwadi Party leader seen abusing and thrashing women with sticks, expelled from the Party after video went viral

OpIndia Staff -
The women were reportedly demanding a road through an area
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News Reports

Officer who played crucial role in a surgical strike dismissed from service on sexual harassment charges

OpIndia Staff -
The officer had played a crucial role in one of the surgical strikes carried out by the Indian Army.
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News Reports

Why would Taslima Nasreen live in India if there was environment of fear in the country: Author Balendu Dwivedi on Naseeruddin Shah’s remarks

OpIndia Staff -
Dwivedi said that based on his personal experience he can say that there is no atmosphere in the country.
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News Reports

BJP President Amit Shah announces the NDA alliance in Bihar: 17 seats each for JD(U) and BJP, 6 for LJP

OpIndia Staff -
In 2014, BJP had fought on 30 seats and won 22.
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News Reports

The debt-trap diplomacy of China with Pakistan through Belt and Road initiative takes a military turn

OpIndia Staff -
China is replacing the USA as Pakistan's military ally
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Editor's picks

IndiaSpend’s faulty ‘hate tracker’ tries to show they are ‘neutral’, exposes their anti-Hindu bias further

OpIndia Staff -
Swarajya Magazine's Swati Goel Sharma demolishes IndiaSpend's 'hate tracker' and calls out the bias
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Fact-Check

Molestation accused Vinod Dua maliciously edits video clip of Nitin Gadkari to claim Gadkari spoke against Modi govt

OpIndia Staff -
Vinod Dua's attempt to discredit the NDA government led by Prime Minister Modi by using a doctored video is not surprising as Dua has a track record of resorting to this sort of unethical and shoddy journalism to target the BJP.
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News Reports

Andhra Pradesh CM calls upon his arch nemesis Telangana CM KCR to form an anti-Modi alliance

OpIndia Staff -
CM Naidu, who is trying to engineer an alliance, has remained non-committal on the PM face for it.
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News Reports

Protestors block 11 women out of the 50-member group women from an NGO who tried to trek the Sabarimala shrine

OpIndia Staff -
The 50 member group of women belong to a Chennai-based NGO called Manithi, which claims to work for women empowerment.
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Editor's picks

Mother of all ironies: Pakistan PM Imran Khan wants to ‘teach’ Modi government how to treat minorities

Editorial Desk -
Khan's statement is a bit rich coming from a man who is widely known as a terrorist sympathiser.
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News Reports

In yet another goof-up Congress IT cell wishes birth anniversary to former PM Narasimha Rao on his death anniversary

OpIndia Staff -
Congress continues its social media goof-up streak.
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Editor's picks

Stupendous hypocrisy of Rahul Gandhi: ‘Gabbar Singh Tax’ before elections, opposes GST rate cut after winning 3 states

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi has displayed his hypocrisy on several issues that matter. GST seems to be just another case.
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News Reports

BJP corners Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi after Court orders eviction from National Herald building

OpIndia Staff -
The property leased out by National Herald was clandestinely transferred to Young India Trust
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Economy and Finance

Modi delivers: Only 28 luxury items remain in 28% GST slabs, rates slashed for several goods

OpIndia Staff -
Vegetables (cooked or uncooked), and frozen vegetables have been shifted to zero percent slab from previous 5%.
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Crime

AgustaWestland: Court rejects Christian Michel’s bail plea, sends him to 7-day ED custody

OpIndia Staff -
The ED had earlier filed a charge-sheet claiming Michel received Rs 225 crore as kickbacks from AgustaWestland
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Opinions

Indira Gandhi killed democracy, Rahul Gandhi killed decency

Nirwa Mehta -
Congress is more dangerous out of power than in power
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Editor's picks

Lord Hanuman: The latest God that politicians wish to exploit, all the while, making a fool of themselves

Sanghamitra -
We Hindus believe that Hanuman ji is immortal and he has been present all along since Treta Yug to modern days.
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News Reports

Despite Congress promises, Rajasthan farmers unlikely to get waiver certificate till after 2019 elections: Report

OpIndia Staff -
The report suggests that there is no clear timeline yet on how to proceed regarding the loan-waiver scheme and it will take a lot more time than expected to distribute loan waiver certificates to the farmers.
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News Reports

Chandrababu Naidu disagrees with MK Stalin’s endorsement of Rahul Gandhi as PM candidate

OpIndia Staff -
He accused the BJP government of misusing the government agencies like CBI and ED against his MPs and MLAs.
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Law

AgustaWestland case: Delhi court rejects plea of Christian Michel seeking a separate cell in Tihar jail

OpIndia Staff -
Christian Michel argued that some of his inmates would be released soon and any incorrect statement made by them outside might go against his interest
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Economy and Finance

Facts, No Fiction: Recent farm loan waiver prove that Congress hasn’t learnt from its past mistakes that drove fiscal deficit up

Karan -
Populist policies like farm loan waiver of the Congress indicate two things; unwillingness to learn from past economic mistakes and the lack of a sound policy agenda to resolve some of the long-standing issues of Indian farmers.
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News Reports

Indian High Commission officials in Islamabad complain of harassment by Pakistani agencies

OpIndia Staff -
New Delhi had lodged a strong protest with the Government of Pakistan over harassment of Indian Diplomats in Islamabad
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News Reports

Days after Congress govt in MP ‘waives off’ loans, farmer commits suicide because he wasn’t eligible

OpIndia Staff -
The family of the deceased farmer allege that he ended his life as he was not entitled to the farm loan waive-off promised by the newly elected Chief Minister Kamal Nath.
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Editor's picks

From secularism to social justice, every ‘liberal’ principle in India is sacrificed at the feet of the Congress Party

Abhishek Banerjee -
This is only the latest reason to conclude that every purported liberal principle in India lies stretched out at the feet of the Congress Party.
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Editor's picks

The Curious case of Justice Ranganath Misra who gave clean chit to Congress for 1984 Sikh massacre

K Bhattacharjee -
Ranganath Misra, the uncle of former CJI Dipak Misra, went on to become a Rajya Sabha MP from the Congress party between 1998-2004, after his report on the 1984 Sikh genocide, exonerating Congress
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Crime

2016 Nawada rape case: Then RJD MLA and two others get life imprisonment for raping a minor

OpIndia Staff -
On February 16, 2016, Radha Devi and Sulekha Devi had taken the minor victim to Yadav’s residence in Nawada on the pretext of a birthday party and had assisted Yadav in the rape of the minor girl.
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News Reports

Department under Punjab CM Amarinder Singh is building dam to protect his farmhouse from monsoon flooding: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Interestingly, the Village Panchayat, which never demanded the dam earlier, passed a resolution requesting the government to build the dam just around the time the farmhouse construction began, claims the report.
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News Reports

Naseeruddin Shah skips Ajmer Lit Fest after protests over his controversial remarks

OpIndia Staff -
People on Twitter too had called out at the veteran actor for his remark.
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News Reports

As Alka Lamba is asked to resign, AAP flip flops dubiously on 1984 resolution including revoking Rajiv Gandhi’s Bharat Ratna

OpIndia Staff -
With a video of the resolution being passed, one has to wonder why AAP has been lying about the resolution.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: IAS officer transferred within hours of being threatened by Congress MLA

OpIndia Staff -
Kalavati Bhuria has been elected as the MLA for the first time from Jobat of Alirajpur district in Madhya Pradesh.
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News Reports

Shameful comment by Congress leader: Goa CM Manohar Parrikar sticking to chair like a leech, blackmailing Modi

OpIndia Staff -
Jaipal Reddy claimed that Manohar Parrikar was the defense minister during the Rafale deal hence he is 'blackmailing' the PM.
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Crime

Agency handling Rajasthan police Twitter account needs to stop lying about Utambar case to hide their own goof-up

Nupur J Sharma -
It would certainly be in the interest of Rajasthan police to get rid of an agency that has the temerity to lie on social media about the ongoing police investigation in Utambar just to cover their own tracks
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Crime

Aligarh: BJP youth wing files complaint against AMU students for supporting ‘stone pelters’, says it shows their ‘terrorist mentality’

OpIndia Staff -
Seven stone pelters were also killed in the crossfire while they were trying to protect the terrorists
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Law

Genpact executive leaves suicide note pleading innocence in sexual harassment charges, FIR filed against company management

OpIndia Staff -
Two days after Swaroop Raj, Genpact India's Assistant Vice-President committed suicide over allegations of sexual harassment, his wife has lodged an FIR against the company and seven of its employees, accusing them of abetment to suicide.
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Crime

1995 Tandoor Murder Case: Delhi HC orders release of convict Sushil Sharma

OpIndia Staff -
Sushil Sharma, a Congress youth leader and former MLA had killed her wife Naina Sahni, a fellow Congress worker had killed his wife and later had cut the body into pieces and burnt it inside a 'tandoor'.
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Law

Division bench of Calcutta HC overturns the decision of allowing BJP to hold rallies in WB

OpIndia Staff -
The Division Bench had asked the Single Bench to consider all 36 'Intelligence reports' cited by the WB police before arriving at a judgment.
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Opinions

A note to Virat Kohli’s critics: A Lion need not concern himself with the opinions of sheep

K Bhattacharjee -
Years down the line, when all of this is over and his hair has turned grey, hardly anyone will remember the critics of Virat Kohli. But they will remember his centuries, his sixes and fours and his cover drives.
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Law

AugustaWestland: Court allows ED’s plea, Christian Michel to be produced tomorrow

OpIndia Staff -
Michel had filed an application in the court seeking a special cell in the Tihar Jail.
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Editor's picks

Flurry of setbacks for Gandhis in National Herald and why, despite a pliant media, this could prove historic

Abhishek Banerjee -
The matter of National Herald did keep dragging on and bit by bit, things have consistently gone south for Congress and the Gandhi family
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Editor's picks

Congress is lying about Home Ministry order on intercepting computer data allowing snooping on general public

OpIndia Staff -
Agencies could already intercept communication as per IT Act 2000 and IT Rules 2009, now MHA order only specifies the agencies
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Law

Tukde Tukde slogans: Delhi Police ready with draft charge sheet, Kanhaiya, Umar Khalid named as main accused

OpIndia Staff -
The charge sheet comprises of around 100 pages and reportedly contains forensic reports and technical evidence.
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