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Government and Policy

Delhi: Nuts and bolts stolen from recently inaugurated Signature Bridge, officials fear for safety

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi Tourism and Transportation Development Corporation (DTTDC) engineers said that they will be welding the whole section to avoid such incidents in the future.
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Crime

Bulandshahr violence: Four people arrested; two FIRs lodged

OpIndia Staff -
The police has also lodged two separate FIRs in the current case, one against the alleged cattle slaughter and another against the protests which followed.
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News Reports

Ashok Gehlot missing from Congress banner in Ajmer, party calls it a mistake

OpIndia Staff -
Ashok Gehlot was the only important name which did not find a place on the Congress' party poster.
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Culture and History

Christianity’s verdict on Hinduism: It is incompatible with the ‘will of God’

K Bhattacharjee -
Thus, we see that Christian missionaries have a clear critique of Hinduism based on their religious scriptures. To us, it appears bigotry but to them, it's the commandment of their God
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Law

Twitter informs critics of radical Islam that they have broken Pakistani laws

OpIndia Staff -
Australian Muslim scholar Imam Tawhidi and Ensaf Haider, wife of jailed Saudi dissident Raif Badawi received notices from Twitter
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News Reports

Telangana: State Congress working president arrested ahead of KCR rally

OpIndia Staff -
The police have allegedly also taken Revanth Reddy's brothers, their watchman and personal security guards appointed to guard the household.
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News Reports

Karnataka: Congress minister in a resort and an audio clip sparks speculations about stability of govt

OpIndia Staff -
An audio-clip containing a conversation between an associate of BJP leader B Sriramulu and a Dubai-based businessman allegedly trying to get few Congress- JDS MLAs to switch sides to BJP.
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News Reports

Bihar BJP accuses JD(U) leader Prashant Kishor of interfering in Patna University polls

OpIndia Staff -
After joining JD(U), Prashant Kishor was made national vice president within a month
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Crime

Haridwar: Hindu boy-Muslim girl couple seek police protection after their marriage is used to create communal tension

OpIndia Staff -
Police spruced up the security when a nearby mosque announced on the speaker and asked people from the girl's side gather together
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News Reports

CBI chargesheets Satyendra Jain, his wife and his associates in disproportionate assets case

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier Satyendra Jain had accepted that he made black money and disclosed more 16 crore under income disclosure scheme.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: PM Modi slams Congress for its Anti-Hindu policies, calls it a ‘University of lies’ in a Jodhpur rally

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi accused Congress of neglecting Mahatma Gandhi and his cherished ideals
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Editor's picks

Here is how I became a Hindu ‘liberal’

antimony -
The harder I think, the more I realize that not knowing Samskritam, locking ourselves out of our culture is the most harmful thing that we have done to ourselves.
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Crime

UP: Cop killed in Bulandshahar during protests over illegal slaughterhouses

OpIndia Staff -
It is claimed that the Police was forced to open fire after the protesters attacked them with stones in Bulandshahar. In the chaos, Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh and youth Sumit lost their life.
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Crime

National Herald Case: ED attaches properties worth Rs.30 crore allocated by former Haryana CM Hooda

OpIndia Staff -
The charge sheet says that the re-allotment of the Panchkula land to AJL was a gross abuse of power by Hooda.
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Crime

Rajasthan: Congress MLA accused of harassment and stalking a woman, FIR filed

OpIndia Staff -
In a video that has gone viral on social media, a woman has accused the Nawalgarh MLA of sexually harassing her.
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi calls AIMIM BJP C team, Owaisi says ‘B team of Hindutva’ ‘janeudhaari’ thinks of others as ‘impure mlecchas’

OpIndia Staff -
Once allies, the difference between Congress and AIMIM has further increased during the ongoing assembly elections
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News Reports

AAP leader Manish Sisodia’s brainwave on Ram Mandir issue: “Build university instead”

OpIndia Staff -
One Twitter user asked why the Delhi government not using the hajj house funds to build universities instead.
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Editor's picks

Tharoor’s defence of janeu dhaari, tilak brandishing Rahul is… well, Rahul (the adjective it has come to be)

अजीत भारती -
Dear Shashi Tharoor, you come across as a person 'suffering' from sesquipedalianism, whose words are devoid of any actual comprehensible meaning when it is tried to be put in context
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Editor's picks

Fact Check: Congress and The Wire spread falsehoods about Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana

Ashutosh Kulkarni -
If in spite of loan waivers by three big states, the farmers under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana drop by mere 84 lakh out of whopping 5.72 crores, isn’t it an indicator that the scheme is still alive and kicking?
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Fact-Check

Congress leaders post doctored video to prove the video of ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogan in Congress rally is fake

OpIndia Staff -
In the full video of the Congress rally, Pakistan Zindabad slogan can be heard
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Crime

‘Honey-trapping’ the preferred method by Pakistan to lure young men into terrorism

OpIndia Staff -
‘Honey Trapping’ is a commonly used technique practised for very long by spy agencies to extract sensitive information
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News Reports

‘Remove police for 15 minutes’ fame Akbaruddin Owaisi mimics PM Modi, tells him to behave like a ‘real wazir-e-azam’

OpIndia Staff -
Reacting to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's earlier statements, Akbaruddin Owaisi mocked his saffron-clad attire and said the next 1000 generations of Owaisi will stay in this country. 
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News Reports

Being gay is ‘fashionable’, homosexuals should leave the Church: Pope Francis on gay clergy

OpIndia Staff -
Pope Francis's position with regards to homosexuality in the clergy is not new as the Roman Catholic church believes that homosexual acts are sinful.
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Editor's picks

Navjot Singh Sidhu hits another low, calls Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath “chowkidar ka kutta”

OpIndia Staff -
Navjot Singh Sidhu, referring to PM Modi said 'chowkidaar chor hai' and then called CM Yogi Adityanath 'chowkidaar ka kutta' (watchman's dog)
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OpIndia Explains

Bhopal Gas tragedy, Rajiv Gandhi and Adil Shahryar: A sordid tale of alleged quid pro quo

OpIndia Staff -
There may well be more to the Bhopal Gas tragedy than meets the eye, but unfortunately, the truth about Adil Shahryar may be hidden forever
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Economy and Finance

Qatar to become the first Gulf nation to withdraw from OPEC, decision effective from January 2019

OpIndia Staff -
Qatar is focusing on natural gas in future, not oil
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News Reports

Zakia Jafri’s petition challenging the acquittals by SIT in 2002 Gujarat riots case adjourned to mid-January

OpIndia Staff -
The Gujarat High Court had upheld the Magistrate order citing lack of "prosecutable evidence"
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Editor's picks

Kerala: Beef festival organiser and left-wing ‘activist’ Deepa Nisanth apologises for plagiarism

OpIndia Staff -
In 2015, she had challenged the Sangh Parivar by taking the lead in organising a beef festival at the college, which is run by Cochin Devaswom Board.
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Crime

Odisha: NGO that wants to bring ‘Good News of Jesus’, connect with ‘savages’, caught for sexual abuse, 11 girls missing

OpIndia Staff -
The NGO, Good News India was running the shelter home illegally, the NGO has 22 shelter homes in the state.
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News Reports

‘Donkeys are more graceful than Sabarimala head priest’, says Kerala CPI-M minister

OpIndia Staff -
BJP has come out strongly in support of the Ayappa devotees.
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News Reports

Captain Amarinder and Sidhu face-off: Congress leaders put up posters in Punjab declaring him as ‘their captain’

OpIndia Staff -
Posters have been posted on social media as well as on ground with caption, "Punjab Da Captain, Sadda Captain"
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Editor's picks

Rahul Gandhi is like the Johnny Lever of Indian politics who acts as comic relief during high political drama

Nirwa Mehta -
Sometimes one is not sure whether Rahul Gandhi even gets his speeches vetted before taking to stage.
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Crime

AAP MLA’s aide seen leading mob assault, beating a man in viral video

OpIndia Staff -
No action has been taken on the family's complaint against Saurabh Jha.
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Fact-Check

No, the Nizam was not a large hearted patriot who donated 5000 kg of gold to fight China

OpIndia Staff -
There exists an urban legend that the Nizam Mir Osman Ali of Hyderabad had donated 5000 kgs of gold to the Indian government to help in Indo-China war.
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Editor's picks

In two post retirement interviews, Justice Kurian Joseph contradicts his own claims about ‘external pressure on Judiciary’

OpIndia Staff -
Justice Joseph in his interview seems to have also tried to slide away from the criticism by putting the blame of Retd. Justice Chelameswar for the press conference fiasco.
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Editor's picks

Kerala Government, Congress spread misinformation about bill for Kerala flood rescue operations

OpIndia Staff -
Opposition parties tried to project a routine procedure as an example of centre's injustice towards Kerala
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News Reports

Rajasthan: BJP candidate makes controversial statement backing child marriage, district collector takes cognizance

OpIndia Staff -
Chauhan was addressing a gathering at a Sneh Sammelan at the Peepaliya Kala region in Sojat area
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Electorate will send ‘turncoat’ Manavendra Singh back to where he belongs, says Vasundhara Raje’s son

OpIndia Staff -
Raje has been representing Jhalrapatan seat in the House of 200 assembly seats since 2003
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News Reports

If BJP comes to power in Telangana, Owaisi will have to flee from the state: UP CM Yogi Adityanath

OpIndia Staff -
Yogi was addressing a public rally in Tandur, Vikarabad ahead of Telangana polls
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News Reports

Kerala to build a ‘women’s wall’ on new year day to prevent the state from ‘sliding back into medieval madness’

OpIndia Staff -
Vijayan, on Wednesday, had said that Sabarimala won't be allowed to become an Ayodhya.
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News Reports

Munger: Condemned weapons of Army smuggled to Maoists, one more smuggler arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Two former Army men Purushottam Rajak and Mohammad Niyazur Rehman have been arrested by the investigating agencies.
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News Reports

Congress and AAP spread EVM hacking theory after unused machines found outside strong rooms

OpIndia Staff -
Election Commission keeps extra EVMs ready, and the unused EVMs are not meant to be kept in strong rooms
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Crime

Rajasthan: Congress gives tickets to children of key accused in ‘Bhanwari Devi murder case’

OpIndia Staff -
The kidnap and murder of 37-year-old auxiliary nurse midwife Bhanwari Devi of Jodhpur in 2011 had created a big political turmoil
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Law

Defence analyst Abhijit Iyer-Mitra’s health deteriorates in Odisha jail, admitted to hospital

OpIndia Staff -
On Friday night, Abhijit Iyer-Mitra's health deteriorated and he had to be admitted to hospital.
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Government and Policy

Government officials’ promotions to be attached to public grading and feedback system: DoPT

OpIndia Staff -
The new system will account the grading of each government officials received by the public and based on these ratings the promotion of public servants will be considered.
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News Reports

UP: Urdu teacher forces students in government school to greet him with ‘Salam Alaikum’, show cause notice issued

OpIndia Staff -
Some people complained about the Urdu teacher to the Basic Education Department.
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Government and Policy

Ayushman Bharat Yojana: First open heart surgery successfully facilitated under ‘Modicare’

OpIndia Staff -
In the first 10 days of its launch, Ayushman Bharat had approximately seen 23,387 claims worth Rs 38 crores.
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Editor's picks

Sardar a “right wing bigot”? How liberals defame India globally

Abhishek Banerjee -
How badly do liberals want to hurt India? How far would they go in their hatred and hypocrisy?
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Government and Policy

India to host G-20 summit in 2022 on the occasion of 75th year of India’s independence

OpIndia Staff -
Italy, which was supposed to host the event in 2022, accepted India's request to allow it to host in 2022.
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News Reports

Cash-strapped Maharashtra government gets Rs 500 crore loan from Shirdi Trust

OpIndia Staff -
The BJP government had approached the Saibaba Temple Trust of Shirdi, one of the richest temple trusts in India.
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