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Culture and History

Christian Evangelism and The Joshua Project: An existential threat to Hinduism

K Bhattacharjee -
The Indian government needs to do something urgently to put an end to the menace of Christian evangelism and safeguard the nation from the perils of demographic instability.
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Government and Policy

India slams Pakistan for harassing its diplomats and denying permission to meet Indian pilgrims

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan has repeatedly insulted Indian diplomats and denied access to Sikh pilgrim sites.
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Culture and History

After expressing displeasure with toilets and cooking gas, The Wire now trains its gun against Assamese Gamosa

Raju Das -
Wire is wrong in saying that Gamosa has become a symbol of insecurity in Assam
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Law

Don’t attribute motive to us: Delhi HC in Gurumurthy contempt case

OpIndia Staff -
Gurumurthy had tweeted questioning the grant of bail to Karti Chidambaram in INX media bribery case.
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Opinions

Rahul Gandhi needs to personally apologize to PM Narendra Modi and Uma Bharti

Abhishek Banerjee -
Their idea “Brahmanical Patriarchy” is to get OBC Prime Minister Modi voted out of office, to be replaced by a fifth generation ‘janeudhari’ dynast.
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News Reports

Attack on Chinese consulate in Pakistan, two policemen killed

OpIndia Staff -
Balochistan Liberation Army has claimed the responsibility of the attack.
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News Reports

No leaves for JNU Teachers if they do not mark their attendance or submit attendance records: JNU administration

OpIndia Staff -
The JNU Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) has called it an “arbitrary decision” and said the circular was not drawn from any provision of the JNU Act.
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Media

Journalist Shujaat Bukhari’s killer among 6 terrorists shot dead by security forces in Anantnag encounter

OpIndia Staff -
The LeT commander Azad Ahmad Malik who has been shot down during the operation was involved in the assassination of Kashmiri Journalist Syed Shujaat Bukhari in Srinagar.
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Culture and History

Zealot Christians dub missionary who risked the existence of the entire Sentinelese tribe a ‘martyr’

OpIndia Staff -
The Sentinelese have been on the radar of Christian Missionaries for a while now.
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News Reports

Congress leader Raj Babbar mocks PM Modi’s 97-year-old mother, claiming Rupee inching towards her age

OpIndia Staff -
Raj Babbar also said that Congress party was never against the construction of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya
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Editor's picks

More loyal than the King’s courtier: Pallavi Ghosh acts as Rahul Gandhi’s faithful emissary

Nirwa Mehta -
Pallavi Ghosh has earlier quite a few times answered curious questions on behalf of Rahul Gandhi and Congress.
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Editor's picks

‘Liberals’ love to cajole the knife wielding thief, while mocking the ones who save their sorry tuchus

Nupur J Sharma -
Today, Economic Times published an editorial cartoon strip by R Prasad that did just that. Defy decency and reason to pander to this well-entrenched cabal.
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News Reports

Assembly elections: Bru refugees to cast vote in Mizoram’s Mamit district

OpIndia Staff -
The Election Commission has decided to hold polling for Bru refugees in the inter-state border village of Kanhmun.
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News Reports

Jodhpur court admits plea against Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey over anti-Brahmin placard

OpIndia Staff -
The petition has been filed under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings), 500 (defamation) and 120B (criminal conspiracy).
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News Reports

Amritsar Train Tragedy: Railways get clean chit in CCRS report, negligence of people blamed

OpIndia Staff -
The CCRS functions under the ministry of civil aviation.
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News Reports

This independent candidate in Telangana is giving slippers to voters, not for wearing, but for using it to beat him

OpIndia Staff -
The video was shot during his door-to-door campaign in Mettupalli town.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: BJP expecting upswing in public support with PM Modi’s upcoming rallies in the state

OpIndia Staff -
Rajasthan will hold assembly elections on December 7.
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Editor's picks

BBC makes it clear, controversial poster held by Twitter CEO was about Brahmins and about defaming Brahmins

OpIndia Staff -
(BBC) which recently released a shoddy research branding Nationalists as the driving force behind fake news only to later retract the generalisation slyly, has come up with a cartoon that incites further hate against Brahmins.
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News Reports

Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu’s 3-year-old grandson has assets worth more than 18 crores, is six times richer than Naidu

OpIndia Staff -
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu's net assets have increased from Rs 2.53 crore to Rs 2.99 crore in a span of one year
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News Reports

Ludhiana teen Jhanvi Behal who challenged JNU’s Kanhaiya Kumar files police complaint for cyberstalking

OpIndia Staff -
She was mercilessly trolled on the Internet in 2016 for having an opinion
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Editor's picks

Viral video shows Congress leader saying Narendra Modi is from lower caste, can’t talk about Hinduism

OpIndia Staff -
C P Joshi said only Pandits and Brahmins know about Hinduism and others should not talk about it
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Editor's picks

Media spreads half truth on the Prajapati encounter case so that Rahul Gandhi can spread whole lies

Nupur J Sharma -
Sandeep Tamgadge, the chief investigating officer in the 2006 Tulsiram Prajapati encounter case, has named BJP president Amit Shah as “principal conspirators”
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News Reports

25 children rescued from mercy home in Ambala accused of converting children into Christianity

OpIndia Staff -
The shelter home was being operated illegally with gross irregularities
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Culture and History

Kerala government lifts restrictions at Sabarimala after High Court order

OpIndia Staff -
The court said travelling in groups and chanting 'Ayappa Keerthanam' is a part of the pilgrimage and cannot be prohibited.
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News Reports

Iran warns Pakistan of military operations on its land, if terror activities continue from its side

OpIndia Staff -
Iran has warned Pakistan to curb the cross-border terrorism, nurtured on Pakistan's soil and sent to Iran, else it will execute a military operation on its soil.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh : Congress suspends 14 leaders including veteran leader Satyavrat Chaturvedi

OpIndia Staff -
Satyavrat Chaturvedi has been campaigning for his son who is contesting from SP after Congress denied a ticket
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Culture and History

The Sentinelese Tribe: Caught between isolation and the march of humanity that waits for none

K Bhattacharjee -
Sometimes, the best we can do for people is stay away from them. The issue revolving around the Sentinalese tribe is one such instance.
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News Reports

After last year’s ‘Elgar Parishad’, Bhim Army planning ‘Mahasabha’ to mark Bhima Koregaon anniversary

OpIndia Staff -
The battle of Bhima Koregaon was fought between the East India Company and the Maratha army of the Peshwa.
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Fact-Check

The Wire publishes a malicious article to defame Modi’s ambitious BharatNet project

vikassingh -
The promise of providing broadband connectivity to 1 lakh Gram Panchayats made by the Modi Government was fulfilled as per the deadline, in December 2017 under BharatNet
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News Reports

Research group claims the Saubhagya scheme has brought qualitative improvement in lives of beneficiaries

OpIndia Staff -
The scheme has brought qualitative improvement in the lives of many women and children
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Editor's picks

Arvind Kejriwal defends Somnath Bharti after he asked journalist to become a prostitute

OpIndia Staff -
Instead of condemning Bharti's behaviour, Kejriwal decided to deflect the issue and brazen it out
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News Reports

Open rift among lawyers of CBI Director Alok Verma, junior counsel withdraws from the case in SC

OpIndia Staff -
Shankaranarayanan apparently withdrew as he was not informed of Verma's response which was filed on Monday.
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Crime

1984 Sikh genocide was planned at Sonia Gandhi’s residence, she should be interrogated, says Sukhbir Badal

OpIndia Staff -
Sukhbir Singh Badal said the Sikhs were butchered under the supervision of Rajiv Gandhi and he purposely didn’t call the Army for four days.
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Law

This is how SC’s stand on Rafale deal signed by Modi govt could affect 2019 Lok Sabha elections

Shreyash -
As per various reports, they are currently examining the details submitted by GOI in response to the petition against the Rafale deal
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News Reports

AAP MLAs want compensation to Delhi Police martyrs to be stopped

OpIndia Staff -
The party MLAs have claimed that since the Delhi police have failed to protect Arvind Kejriwal they should be excluded from the compensation scheme for martyrs.
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News Reports

Government of India decides to build Kartarpur corridor, urges Pakistan to follow suit

OpIndia Staff -
If the corridor is completed by both the countries, Sikhs in India will be able to visit the Kartarpur Sahib in Pakitan easily
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News Reports

Christian Missionary risked wiping out entire Sentinelese tribe to ‘establish the Kingdom of Jesus on the Island’

OpIndia Staff -
“I have been so nice to them, why are they so angry and so aggressive?” Christian Missionary John Allen Chau wrote in his notes
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Government and Policy

PM Modi’s SIT secures death penalty for 1984 rioter: Lessons to be learned

Abhishek Banerjee -
If we run out of patience before the ecosystem runs out of provisions, they will win.
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News Reports

‘Are governments formed through social media?’ Jammu and Kashmir Governor over last night drama

OpIndia Staff -
The J&K governor Satyapal Malik had dissolved the legislative assembly citing the holy day of Eid
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Fact-Check

Media reports wrong in claiming that the US Christian missionary did not violate rules by visiting North Sentinel Island

Raju Das -
The soul harvester did violate the rotection of Aboriginal Tribe (Regulation), 1956 and other rules by going to the island
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Crime

UK: Liquor baron Vijay Mallya faces setback in legal battle to save his London home from forclosure

Jhankar Mohta -
The Indian government is trying hard to extradite Vijay Mallya from England to India
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Opinions

‘Smash Brahminical Patriarchy’: Academia will always be the harbinger of great evil

K Bhattacharjee -
That terms like 'Brahminical Patriarchy' are mainstream in the academia does not mean that it's not evil. It only reveals that a deep rot has set in.
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News Reports

NPP is the only party to have championed the cause of Christians and Tribals: Meghalaya CM Sangma

OpIndia Staff -
Sangma sought support for the NPP candidates contesting in the upcoming assembly elections in Mizoram.
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News Reports

India to be key partner in development of Maldives: Maldives Foreign Minister to Economic Times

OpIndia Staff -
Male Foreign Minister is expected to visit India on 26th November to work on improving bilateral relations.
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Editor's picks

For whom the bells troll are the unapologetic voice of a people who’ve fought hard to be heard

nandini -
The discipline of copying the template is followed all the way from the top. Remember people, everyone has a boss. Even the Clown Prince.
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News Reports

Akhilesh Yadav calls Congress party as ‘arrogant’, says no alliance with Congress for 2019 general elections

OpIndia Staff -
Akhilesh Yadav slammed Congress for its 'arrogance' while hinting at Samajwadi Party's discontent towards Congress and said that they will not join any 'grand alliance' to fight the BJP.
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News Reports

BJP will never back-off on issue of Ram Mandir, Amit Shah assures in Jaipur

OpIndia Staff -
Amit Shah asserted BJP's goal of constructing the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.
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Editor's picks

This is how IndiaSpend’s faulty ‘hate tracker’ and Kamal Nath’s statements are related

Jhankar Mohta -
The prime narrative the party adopts is creating a fear psychosis amongst the minority community
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Interviews

In an innovative move, BJP MLA presents his ‘report card’ to voters before seeking reelection

Ashutosh Muglikar -
A three-time MLA, Reddy is the state president of BJP Telangana
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News Reports

Church warns whistleblower priest who supported Bishop Franco’s victim of disciplinary action

OpIndia Staff -
The Kerala nun rape case where the nun had accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal has been full of controversies
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