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Barkha Dutt threatened to get him fired if she’s not allowed entry into sensitive area, claims Retd Air Marshal

OpIndia Staff -
The incident about Barkha Dutt narrated by Retired Air Marshal happened during the national security crisis of Kandahar hijacking
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News Reports

BJP spokesperson refuses to criticise Sidhu in front of Pakistani guest on TV debate

OpIndia Staff -
Bagga said that he refuses to indulge Pakistan because of the duality it shows on issue of terrorism.
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Editor's picks

The fanaticism of ‘All Nations’, the Christian missionary organisation which trained John Allen Chau

K Bhattacharjee -
All Nation's conduct appears to be hazardous to the health of its missionaries.
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Crime

Congress using slain gangster’s family to appeal for Rajput votes in Rajasthan

OpIndia Staff -
Congress’ desperate attempt to ride two horses at the same time laid exposed several times
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Books

‘If core issues were of political relevance, BJP would have lost several elections’: Aashish Chandorkar on ‘The Fadnavis Years’

Editorial Desk -
The Fadnavis Years focuses greatly on Fadnavis' policy reforms and how he has strengthened BJP's position in the state and has navigated through a highly complicated political scene to only emerge stronger than before.
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Editor's picks

‘If they think this is humour, they must stop producing any content,’ Agartala furious at AIB writer’s offensive blogpost

K Bhattacharjee -
People from Agartala were furious with the blogpost by Vishal Dayama, senior writer at AIB, where he made some pretty insulting remarks about the city and its people.
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Economy and Finance

Latest GDP and growth figure revision is based on robust and rigorous methodology

Karan -
According to the revised GDP numbers released by the government on Wednesday, India’s economic growth under the previous Congress-led coalition government was slower than estimated earlier and was never in double digits.
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News Reports

India opens Hockey World Cup with a 5-0 win against South Africa

OpIndia Staff -
Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar is hosting the 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup
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News Reports

Maharashtra Assembly unanimously passes Bill for 16% reservation to Marathas

OpIndia Staff -
The reservation will be provided to Marathas under the socially and educationally backward classes category.
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News Reports

My patriotism doubted, darkest day of my life: Cricketer Mithali Raj responds to Ramesh Powar’s ‘threat’ revelation

OpIndia Staff -
Former India skipper Sunil Gavaskar has come out in support of senior Indian woman cricketer Mithali Raj
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News Reports

Navjot Sidhu gets more love and respect in Pakistan than in India : Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur

OpIndia Staff -
Harsimrat Badal's dig at Congress leader Sidhu comes after Imran Khan showered praises on him saying that Sidhu will win even if he contests an election in Pakistan.
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News Reports

No scandal in Rafale Deal, says French ambassador Zeigler in Bengaluru

OpIndia Staff -
"Look at the facts, not Tweets," said Alexandre Zeigler.
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Entertainment

Priyanka Chopra to marry Nick Jonas: Is it really so difficult to not get judgemental?

Aarti -
Why is it so hard for people to accept two people in love and just be happy for them?
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Editor's picks

Dear Indian journalists, don’t go gaga over Kartarpur corridor, for Pakistan and Imran Khan it is a matter of survival

Ullas -
The paeans being sung by the mainstream media that Imran Khan has taken a historic step in the Kartarpur issue is highly misplaced.
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News Reports

A setback for Tamil Nadu government and anti-Sterlite groups, NGT panel says closure of Sterlite plant unjustified

OpIndia Staff -
13 people had died in police firings after during the protests against the plant.
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Entertainment

Actor Dilip Joshi popularly known as Jethalal to campaign for BJP in Rajasthan

OpIndia Staff -
Dilip Joshi plays the role of Jethalal in the famous show 'Taarak Mehta ka ooltah Chashmah'.
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News Reports

Union minister Giriraj Singh calls Darul Uloom Deoband “temple of terrorism”

OpIndia Staff -
He appealed to Muslims not to test Hindus' patience on the issue of Ram temple.
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News Reports

Free Balochistan Movement leader Hyrbyair Marri to attend event in India

OpIndia Staff -
Hyrbyair Marri will highlight human rights violations by Pakistan and Iran in the Balochistan region
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Media

Corridor of Love: Indian journalists are elated with the experience they had in Pakistan

Editorial Desk -
Some journalists even thought of themselves as messengers of peace as they crossed the border
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News Reports

Niti Aayog Vice Chairman calls out P Chidambaram’s lies and disingenuous tricks on GDP numbers

OpIndia Staff -
Former Finance Minister of India, P Chidambaram, is mighty disgruntled with the revised GDP numbers released by the Niti Aayog for the UPA era. He has called it a "bad joke".
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News Reports

New GDP math punctures Congress’ claim of better economic growth rate, growth 8.5% not 10.3% in 2010-11

OpIndia Staff -
The new data series issued would now puncture the Congress' claims who has been using the data to defend its track record
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News Reports

Telangana: BJP demands probe, says conspiracy by Congress, TRS, AIMIM to include illegal Rohingyas in voters’ list

OpIndia Staff -
On November 28, it has come to light, that while names of Rohingyas have been deleted from Ranga Reddy and Medak districts, 71 out of 189 names still exist in the electoral rolls of the Hyderabad district.
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Editor's picks

‘Kisan’ march: How long should we submit to Communist subversion tactics

Abhishek Banerjee -
If we fall for the Communist blackmail today, we are setting ourselves up for more such subversion in the future. And we just cannot have that.
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Media

Wikileaks to sue Guardian for publishing fabricated story claiming Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy

OpIndia Staff -
WikiLeaks has even demanded the editor-in-chief to resign owing to the back-pedalling on the story, WikiLeaks claims to be false.
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News Reports

Yogi compares Rahul Gandhi with the BTech student who failed 17 compartments in 9 years

OpIndia Staff -
Congress cannot win any election under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi, said Yogi.
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Government and Policy

General Rawat warns about the ongoing demography change in POK

OpIndia Staff -
Army Chief Bipin Rawat recently had stated that external forces are attempting to revive the Khalistani insurgency in Punjab.
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Editor's picks

Here is the list of journalists ‘approved’ by Pakistan High Commission to cover Kartarpur event

OpIndia Staff -
We are told that the list of journalists who are to cover the Kartarpur Corridor inauguration has been carefully vetted by the Pakistan High Commission.
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News Reports

Congress leader Navjot Sidhu poses with Khalistani terrorist Gopal Chawla during Kartarpur visit

OpIndia Staff -
This act by the senior Congress leader Sidhu comes after a day that terrorist Chawla was spotted alongside Pakistan Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa at the inauguration of the Kartarpur Corridor. 
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Government and Policy

Jammu and Kashmir: Controversial Roshni Act, once dubbed as the ‘biggest land scam of the country’, repealed

OpIndia Staff -
Against the expected 25,000 crores, the Roshni Act has managed to raise only 78.4 crores for the state government.
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Crime

Should ‘scope of reformation’ of a rapist be considered before awarding him the death penalty?

K Bhattacharjee -
Regarding the Death penalty, punishments are about justice as well and sometimes justice requires us to perform actions which are not entirely pleasant.
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News Reports

Telangana: Owaisi continues to provoke, now offers beef to Amit Shah

OpIndia Staff -
Kalyani biryani is another of the famous biryanis from Hyderabad made with either beef or buff.
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Media

Yogi Adityanath gets a legal notice for a comment which was misreported by the media

OpIndia Staff -
Times Now had reported that Yogi Adityanath during his speech, he had said, "Lord Hanuman was Dalit who united India from east to west, north to south."
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News Reports

PM Modi leaves for G20 summit at Buenos Aires, Argentina, to be held from 29 November

OpIndia Staff -
On the sidelines of G20, PM Modi will have bilateral talks with several world leaders
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News Reports

Prince Yakub Habeebuddin Tucy sends legal notice to Shia leader Waseem Rizvi over Ram Janam Bhoomi movie

OpIndia Staff -
Interestingly, he also staked his claim to the disputed Babri Masjid site in Ayodhya and said that he will give the land to the Hindus as he is the rightful owner of the land as well as the site.
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News Reports

Congress leader C P Joshi given clean chit by the Election Commission for his remark on Modi’s caste

OpIndia Staff -
Joshi had said in the video that only pandits, intellectuals, Brahmins know about Hinduism, and others should not talk about the religion.
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Crime

Journalist Shujaat Bukhari’s killer and LeT commander Naveed Jatt neutralised in encounter

OpIndia Staff -
Another LeT commander involved in Shujaat Bukhari's killing was neutralized in the Anantnag encounter on November 23
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Law

Maharashtra: ACB cites ex-deputy CM Ajit Pawar responsible for 70,000 crores irrigation scam

OpIndia Staff -
The ACB has concluded that the blame for irregularities in irrigation scam squarely lies on ex-deputy CM Ajit Pawar
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Crime

UK: Police ‘recklessly ignored’ Muslim grooming gangs sexually abusing Sikh girls for decades due to ‘political correctness’, claims study

OpIndia Staff -
The Muslim grooming gang phenomenon in the West bears close resemblance with the phenomenon of Love Jihad in India.
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Crime

1984 Anti-Sikh riots: A ‘dark chapter’ in history of independent India, said Delhi HC while upholding conviction of 88 people

OpIndia Staff -
The court expressed its disappointment over the delay in justice delivery to the victims and the failure to usher judicial reforms.
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Government and Policy

Railways to use a ‘weakness’ of elephants to save them from being killed on tracks

OpIndia Staff -
Northeast Frontier Railway had adopted 'Plan Bee' last year. The mechanism was hailed as an innovative way to save the lives of elephants and is now being adopted by Indian Railways
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Government and Policy

India all set to issue the highest valued tender for its bullet train project

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi has kept a stern deadline of August 15, 2022, for the completion of the bullet train project.
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News Reports

Congress poster on respecting women goes viral, because it has one aspect missing

OpIndia Staff -
It is a bit of an irony that Congress would talk about respecting women.
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Government and Policy

Kartarpur corridor not connected to talks, Pakistan must stop aiding terrorists first: EAM Sushma Swaraj

OpIndia Staff -
Sushma used this occasion to also show her dismissal of Pakistan's 'invitation' to PM Modi to attend the 20th SAARC summit.
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News Reports

Will bring a private member bill on Ram Mandir if needed: Manoj Tiwari

OpIndia Staff -
A delegation of VHP has met Tiwari at his residence and presented a memorandum on the temple.
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News Reports

Amit Shah compares Mahagathbandhan to a band of thieves during election rally in Rajasthan

Aditi -
Shah lbelled the Mahagathbandhan as a band of 40 thieves who were thrown out of the villages that they looted by the Chowkidar (PM Modi).
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Media

No, Times Now, Yogi Adityanath did not say Lord Hanuman was a Dalit

OpIndia Staff -
Times Now misinterprets Yogi Adityanath's statement in Alwar, Rajasthan
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News Reports

Ganga cleaning got a major boost, the river got rid of waste from Asia’s largest sewer

OpIndia Staff -
Sissamu Nalla used to discharge 14 crore litres of waste fluid in the river Ganga
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News Reports

Jack Dorsey under investigation for potential falsities in his testimony about censorship on Twitter

OpIndia Staff -
Twitter's 'hateful conduct' policy reveals a definite progressive bias. The platform has now banned 'misgendering' and 'deadnaming' after modifying its policy.
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News Reports

Assembly elections: Telangana’s first transwoman candidate goes missing, kidnap suspected

OpIndia Staff -
Muvvala is the first and only transgender woman to contest in Telangana Assembly elections.
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News Reports

During Congress regime, Rs 90,000 crore was looted every year using 6 crore bogus names: PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
Prime Minister Narendra Modi continued his attack on Congress leadership
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