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India and Israel soon to have direct flights between Goa and Tel Aviv, announced by Israeli Consul General

OpIndia Staff -
Tel Aviv and Goa to have a direct flight, to ensure easy travel of tourists from both sides.
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Crime

Sanjiv Bhatt gave Rs.20,000 to a cop to buy and plant opium to frame lawyer, says CID chargesheet

OpIndia Staff -
The charge sheet says former IPS Sanjiv Bhatt had instructed the policemen to buy 1kg of opium and plant it against Rajasthan based lawyer Sumersingh Rajpurohit in Palanpur.
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News Reports

Jammu and Kashmir assembly dissolved after parties send letter to Governor via Twitter, Whatsapp staking claim to form government

OpIndia Staff -
The term of the assembly was to end in December 2019
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh Government demolishes 7 illegal Islamic shrines around holly Govardhan Parvat in Mathura

OpIndia Staff -
The National Green Tribunal has declared the area as no construction zone
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Editor's picks

BBC’s choice of fact-checkers and its reliance on accreditation by IFCN reveals extensive bias in its Fake News research

K Bhattacharjee -
The BBC must come out clean and admit that it's research on Fake News on does not adhere to academic standards and issue an unconditional apology.
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News Reports

Veerappa Moily calls Rahul Gandhi ‘Best Material’ to become the PM

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul's name as the Prime Ministerial candidate has been opposed by many senior politicians.
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News Reports

Hurriyat leader Hafizullah Mir shot dead in Achabal area of Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
Attacks on Hurriyat leaders have increased recently, pointing toward growing rift between the terrorists and their separatist counterparts.
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Crime

FIR registered against AAP MLA Somnath Bharti for insulting and outraging modesty of a woman

OpIndia Staff -
FIR has been registered under sections 504 and 509 of IPC.
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Editor's picks

BBC’s amended research on Fake News: Glaring flaws, negligence and a carefully hidden confession

K Bhattacharjee -
The BBC in its amended report on its research on Fake News has corrected only minor mistakes while ignoring the great flaws in their research.
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Media

“If 90% Muslims don’t vote for us, we will be in big trouble”, Congress leader Kamalnath seen saying in video

OpIndia Staff -
Kamal Nath is seen saying the Congress needs to ensure that 90% of Muslims vote for them.
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News Reports

Idol theft and defecation in temple at Guwahati : arrested thieves say don’t know where the ancient idol is

K Bhattacharjee -
The stolen items, however, are yet to be recovered, says crime branch of the Guwahati Police.
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Government and Policy

India suggests voting to overcome hurdles in UN Security Council reforms

OpIndia Staff -
The Security Council reform is being opposed by a group of countries which includes Pakistan.
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Editor's picks

Jammu and Kashmir: PDP, NC and Congress aim to form an opportunistic alliance to keep BJP out

Jhankar Mohta -
Jammu and Kashmir have been under Governor's rule since BJP pulled out of the ruling coalition with PDP on June 16
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Crime

Satisfied with ongoing Police probe In Amritsar attack case: Nirankari Mission

OpIndia Staff -
Regional in-charge of the Nirankari Mission said that CCTV Cameras will be installed at all Nirankari Bhavans in Punjab.
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News Reports

Zealot Christian missionary goes to restricted Andaman Island to convert protected tribals, gets killed by Sentinelese tribe

OpIndia Staff -
Seven fishermen who took Chau to the island were arrested under the Prohibition of Aboriginal Tribes Act and various sections of the IPC.
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News Reports

Mizoram Elections: Mizo Church takes anti-BJP stand as Amit Shah promises secularism and peace in the state

OpIndia Staff -
BJP President Amit Shah promised to make Mizoram secular and peaceful.
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News Reports

CBI vs CBI : Govt suspects phones of Ajit Doval and others were cloned and tapped to frame them

OpIndia Staff -
The petition of Manish Sinha reveals more than it wanted to reveal
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Government and Policy

Days after Donald Trump slams Pakistan for not acting on Islamic terror, US suspends $1.66 billion security aid

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, The US President Donald Trump had launched a scathing attack on Pakistan for deliberately not acting against the Islamic terrorist forces operating on its soil.
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Editor's picks

Here is why furious CJI Ranjan Gogoi came down heavily on The Wire

ajaykashyap22 -
It remains to be seen if the Editors at The Wire will be called in for Contempt of Court under the Contempt of Courts Act 1971.
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Editor's picks

After Twitter’s ‘caste’ row, Manish Tewari says Brahmins should accept their fate as Jews did

Nirwa Mehta -
Manish Tewari tweeted that 'Anti-Brahminism' is the reality of Indian politics.
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Crime

1984 Anti-Sikh riots: 34 years later, court awards death penalty to a convict, life term to another

OpIndia Staff -
The two convicts, Naresh Sehrawat, and Yashpal Singh were held guilty by the court for killing 24-year-old Hardev Singh and 26-year-old Avtar Singh thirty-four years ago on November 1, 1984, at Mahipalpur village in south Delhi.
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Editor's picks

Here is why I left the Left

Ahmed Shariff -
I feel so uncomfortable around the Left, it is not a question of whether you will offend them, it’s just a question of when.
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Culture and History

Sabarimala: VHP warns Kerala government of Ayodhya-like movement to save Sabarimala and protect Hindu devotees

OpIndia Staff -
The VHP accused Pinarayi Vijayan of trying to turn Kerala into a Hindu-free state like Kashmir.
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News Reports

A Congress PM will make Ram Mandir at Ayodhya, claims a senior party leader in run up to polls

OpIndia Staff -
Upcoming elections are crucial for Congress which is struggling to gain back its lost foothold.
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Editor's picks

Dear BBC, unscientific research is fake news

Abhishek Banerjee -
I’d love to see a BBC staffer go flying in a plane at 30,000 feet that has only been “ethnographically tested”.
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Media

Twitter user serves legal notice to AltNews for breach of privacy, claims Rs 5 crore in damages

OpIndia Staff -
The Skin Doctor had earlier filed a police complaint on misrepresentation and breach of privacy.
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Editor's picks

Dear Jack Dorsey, you insulted Hindus while on our soil and it is time you introspect

Kapil Mishra -
Forgiving is in our Dharma. So whether you apologise or not, we forgive you. With a hope that you will see reason.
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News Reports

Sushma Swaraj announces she will not contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls

OpIndia Staff -
Sushma Swaraj was the first woman chief minister of Delhi in October 1998.
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News Reports

Controversial poster Jack held was not ‘rhetorical’ but entirely about caste, confirms the person who gifted the poster

OpIndia Staff -
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has got himself in a pickle after posing with a "Smash Brahminical Patriarchy" poster
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Media

Watch: AAP MLA Somnath Bharti stoops to a new low, asks a woman journalist to become a prostitute

OpIndia Staff -
Somnath Bharti was caught hurling abuses towards a woman journalist.
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Media

Not only BBC ‘fake news in India’ research, but Nigeria and Kenya research also pulled down

Nupur J Sharma -
BBC 'fake news' research on Kenya and Nigeria pulled down too
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Fact-Check

NDTV changes headline after their dishonesty is caught on Twitter

OpIndia Staff -
The BJP leader, Gyan Dev Ahuja, had earlier quit the part after being denied a ticket.
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News Reports

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi says Congress offered him Rs 25 lakh to cancel an election rally in Telangana

OpIndia Staff -
Interestingly, AIMIM is not contesting in Nirmal but has lent his support to Telangana Rashtriya Samiti (TRS) candidate P Indrakaran Reddy.
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Editor's picks

Journalist refutes Twitter’s claim of ‘private photo’ following outrage over controversial placard

OpIndia Staff -
It appears that Twitter has realized that it crossed a big red line with the placard declaring "Smash Brahminical Patriarchy"
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Fact-Check

Political opportunism on Petrol and Diesel prices: A class act by India’s opposition

Karan -
With elections just around the corner, it is refreshing to see a government that is looking at the larger economic interest rather than political gains.
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Editor's picks

Congress troll ‘temporarily’ shuts down fake news website after OpIndia expose, continues to spread fake news on Facebook

Nirwa Mehta -
The admins are currently busy with the upcoming state assembly elections.
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Government and Policy

‘Congress delayed Expressway by 9 years’: PM Modi while inaugurating the Delhi metro extension

OpIndia Staff -
Prime Minster Modi inaugurates Western Peripheral Expressway and extension of Violet Line in Haryana
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Culture and History

‘Smash Brahminical Patriarchy’: Intellectual transformation of vile bigotry and fanaticism into supposed ‘noble pursuit’

K Bhattacharjee -
"Smash Brahminical Patriarchy" is a product of the abyss called Postmodernism and at its core, Postmodernism is just communism on steroids.
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Editor's picks

The dynasty scion is like a magician who works really hard to fool his audience

Anant Chetan -
Congress would start resurrecting as soon as Dynasties are left behind.
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News Reports

Poverty cannot be eradicated by planting a couple of banana saplings: Smriti Irani takes on Rahul Gandhi

OpIndia Staff -
Irani attacked Rahul for criticising the RSS on one hand and following in their footsteps on the other.
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Law

CJI Ranjan Gogoi irate about The Wire’s reportage of CBI Director Alok Verma’s responses to CVC

OpIndia Staff -
The Wire has invited the ire of the Chief Justice of India with their 'irresponsible' reporting of the CBI issue
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Editor's picks

Gujarat Congress tries to please-all, declares a humongous list of 400 office-bearers after 8 long months

OpIndia Staff -
Along with this, a list consisting of in-charge in each of 26 Lok Sabha constituencies was also declared.
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Law

Kerala High Court slams Pinarayi Vijayan led Communist government for forcefully evicting Hindu devotees from Sabarimala shrine

Shashank Bharadwaj -
The Kerala High Court observations come hours after the Kerala police forcefully evicted several Hindu devotees from the Sabarimala temple.
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Editor's picks

Is Twitter trying to spread casteist divide in India?

Sambit Nayak -
Twitter head Jack Dorsey is seen to be standing with few women journalists, holding a poster which reads, "Smash Bramhinical Patriarchy".
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News Reports

‘Rahul Gandhi Zindabad’ and not ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ in Congress’ Rajasthan meet, video goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
The incident occurred in Rajasthan in the presence of senior Congress leader and former state education minister Dr BD Kalla ahead of the Rajasthan state elections.
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Media

Here Lies BBC: Your BBC is not infallible, dear Media Sepoys

Nupur J Sharma -
Here are just 20 instances of fake news that were furthered by the BBC
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News Reports

Christian Michel of the AgustaWestland scam can be extradited to India, rules Dubai court: UAE media

OpIndia Staff -
Christian Michel was paid a disproportionate amount of money by AgustaWestland for influencing Indian authorities to buy their choppers
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Editor's picks

Manohar Parrikar: Goa’s Nayak

Giriraj Pai Vernekar -
Though appointment of Pramod Sawant as Speaker and recent induction of Nilesh Cabral as Minister is a positive sign, BJP Goa certainly needs a lot more.
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News Reports

Upheaval in Gilgit-Baltistan over Pakistan’s illegal occupation

OpIndia Staff -
The activists in Gilgit-Baltistan have urged Pakistan government to immediately stop the CPEC project
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Yogi govt’s report on encounter exposes the misleading data of petitioners at Supreme Court

Jhankar Mohta -
Of the 48 criminals died in police encounters, only 18 were from the minority community
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