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After abandoning parents of Kathua rape case victim, ‘celebrity’ lawyer justifies Kashmiri Pandit genocide

OpIndia Staff -
Kathua rape victim's parents removed Rajawat as their lawyer after she attended only 2 out of 110 hearings in Pathankot court.
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News Reports

Jack Dorsey poses with a placard that declares ‘Smash Brahminical Patriarchy’, Netizens furious

OpIndia Staff -
Netizens were furious with Jack Dorsey for what they perceived was an endorsement of anti-Brahmin hatred.
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Government and Policy

Gujarat government announces aid of Rs 6,400 crore for 96 rain-deficient talukas

OpIndia Staff -
The aid will be given to the talukas which received a low rainfall.
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Fact-Check

Destined to fail: BBC’s ‘Fake News’ research relied on sources with a political bias and one with a Congress connection

K Bhattacharjee -
The BBC has been busy removing its Fake News research from its website, uploading it, then removing it again.
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Government and Policy

Maharashtra: Government to provide reservation to Maratha community as a socially, economically and educationally backward community

OpIndia Staff -
The Maratha community has demanded 16 per cent reservation, which will take the total reservations to whopping 68 per cent in the state
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Government and Policy

Karnataka: Protesting sugarcane farmers garland posters with shoes, Kumaraswamy calls farmers ‘goondas’

OpIndia Staff -
The opposition BJP condemned the JDS-Congress coalition government's indifference to the plight of the sugarcane farmers in the state
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News Reports

CBI Director Alok Verma’s justification for going slow in IRCTC case: Political fallout, law and order problem

OpIndia Staff -
Alok Verma was worried about possible political fallout of the IRCTC case
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News Reports

They don’t do a damn thing for us: Trump on Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
Trump said everyone in Pakistan knew that Osama was there.
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Editor's picks

Maruti: The extraordinary crony capitalism under Indira Gandhi

Abhishek Banerjee -
Indira Gandhi legacy includes the crony capitalism during her regime
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News Reports

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh’s name emerges in Bhima Koregaon raids, Pune Police may question Singh

OpIndia Staff -
Digvijaya Singh may be called in for questioning by Pune Police
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News Reports

Rajasthan: BJP MLA who said JNU sees thousands of condoms used daily, resigns, joins BJP again

OpIndia Staff -
Gyandev Ahuja said that he will contest the upcoming elections as an independent candidate from Rajasthan
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Editor's picks

Our culture is not a ticket to your self-discovery: Indian girl writes to US nightclub with Gods on bathroom walls

OpIndia Staff -
She not only got a response but also an apology.
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News Reports

BBC deletes ‘fake news’ research, amends, uploads, deletes again

Nupur J Sharma -
BBC had recently published a 'research' paper on fake news which had created quite the brouhaha. The research was conducted based on shoddy methodology, based on questionable sources and had been comprehensively debunked by OpIndia.com
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News Reports

Massive protests erupt at Sabarimala after Communist govt forcefully evicts peaceful devotees from shrine

OpIndia Staff -
The devotees of Lord Ayyappa chanted hymns, staged 'Namjapa' protests demanding that the severe restrictions and security should be removed.
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News Reports

Shocking: AAP Punjab MLA H S Phoolka accuses army chief Bipin Rawat of ‘orchestrating’ the Amritsar grenade attack

OpIndia Staff -
H S Phoolka also says that throwing grenades on a peaceful congregation by itself is not a Terror act
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Media

Sanatan Sanstha files Rs 10 crore defamation suit against The Quint

OpIndia Staff -
The civil defamation suit follows a legal notice served on The Quint in May this year
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Crime

Suspected dog meat dispatched from Rajasthan seized at Chennai’s Egmore railway station

OpIndia Staff -
The Food Safety wing has asked the railways to provide the details of the consigners
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News Reports

Western Peripheral Expressway : Another project started and delayed by Congress government, completed by BJP government

OpIndia Staff -
Started in 2003, the project took 15 years to complete
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Crime

In a first, a woman terrorist affiliated to terror group, Hizbul Mujahideen arrested

OpIndia Staff -
The arrested woman terrorist has been identified as Shazia
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News Reports

Women activists enter Taj Mahal, perform ‘Puja’ at a 400-year old Mosque

OpIndia Staff -
Some sections of the society believe that the Taj Mahal was built for Lord Shiva temple (Tejomahalya), which was converted into the present-day tomb after being demolished by the Mughal rulers.
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Editor's picks

Music is Saraswati, it is ‘barbarism’ to sing with hatred in your heart

Abhishek Banerjee -
What kind of world is it where the murder of young boys could become music to liberal ears?
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Editor's picks

She saw, she came, she left: Trupti Desai returns from Sabarimala

levina -
Going by her tosh, one wonder's if Trupti Desai was carrying her irumudi-kettu at all or that if she had fasted for 41 days?
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Crime

At least three killed and several injured in a blast at Amritsar’s Nirankari Bhawan

OpIndia Staff -
The blast has occurred at a weekly gathering of the Nirankaris, a spiritual organisation, in Adliwal village of Amritsar.
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News Reports

Kashmir: two Al-Badr terrorists neutralised in Shopian, incriminating materials recovered from the site

OpIndia Staff -
Over 100 terrorists are reported to have been killed this year as of now
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Crime

Kashmir: Terrorists slit throat of a teenage boy, second killing in 48 hours

OpIndia Staff -
Since Thursday, this is the second incident of abduction and killing in the district
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News Reports

Turbulence in Congress continues as Telangana rebels form ‘Telangana Rebel Front’

OpIndia Staff -
Rift is also reported between the Telangana unit of TDP after a few leaders were denied tickets.
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News Reports

Sabarimala: Kerala Police takes BJP leader K Surendran into preventive custody, devotees protest at Nilakkal base camp

OpIndia Staff -
K Surendran was carrying "Irrumudikettu" (bundle containing offerings for the Lord), when Kerala police stopped him from moving ahead to reach the Sabarimala shrine.
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi challenges Narendra Modi to ‘debate’ over Rafale

OpIndia Staff -
Congress President was speaking at Ambikapur in poll-bound Chhattisgarh
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News Reports

Urban Naxal case: ‘Activist’ Varavara Rao arrested from Hyderabad, being taken to Pune

OpIndia Staff -
Varavara Rao is to be produced before the Pune Court tomorrow. 
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News Reports

Split in Bhim Army: Faction express doubts on Ravan’s leadership, form Bhim Army 2

OpIndia Staff -
A section was dissatisfied with the leadership of Chandrashekhar
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News Reports

Ayyappa devotees organize ‘Namajapa Yatra’ in front of Trupti Desai’s home at Pune

OpIndia Staff -
Trupti Desai had arrived at Kochi on Friday in her bid to desecrate the Sabarimala Temple.
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News Reports

Congress’ Randeep Surjewala writes to HM Rajnath Singh, seeks urgent security for Navjot Singh Sidhu

OpIndia Staff -
Rabndeep Surjewala asserts that threats against Sidhu have increased ever since he quit the BJP and joined the Congress party.
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News Reports

Watch: Congress workers gherao Sachin Pilot’s car, protest violently against ticket distribution in Rajasthan

OpIndia Staff -
The protests have erupted after massive cash for tickets scandal has broken out within the Congress party ahead of Rajasthan elections
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News Reports

Muslim leaders write to Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, raise the bogey of reservation

OpIndia Staff -
Muslim and Dhangar community leaders have demanded CM Fadnavis to consider their communities for reservations as well
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News Reports

PM Modi is jealous of him getting invited to Pakistan, claims Navjot Singh Sidhu, gets slammed by Netizens

OpIndia Staff -
Navjot Singh Sidhu is not helping himself with such inane remarks.
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Crime

‘Who decides that they are stolen idols?’ asks Madras HC, ‘I decide’, replies IG Pon Manickavel

OpIndia Staff -
The Court then directed IG Pon Manickavel to put his submissions in writing.
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Editor's picks

Sabarimala: Consent of the Governed vs Divine Right

Shreyash -
In both Sabarimala and firecrackers ban, there has been widespread disobedience and if the state wants to implement these policies against the will of people, a disproportionate amount of force will have to be used.
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Entertainment

Tanushree Dutta yet to appear before women’s panel after filing complaint for alleged sexual harassment

OpIndia Staff -
Tanushree Dutta had registered a complaint on October 9 stating that she was allegedly sexually harassed in 2008 on the sets of the film Horn Ok Pleassss.
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News Reports

Sabarimala: Dawn to dusk bandh in Kerala as Communist govt arrests Hindu devotee and leader

Aditi -
Sabarimala has been reopened for a two-month long pilgrimage and will close on January 20.
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Books

You don’t need to write a book for that, Sagarika Ghose, your track record reveals you could only be ‘liberal’

K Bhattacharjee -
Sagarika Ghose and her husband are prime examples of what journalists shouldn't aspire to be.
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Government and Policy

But for demonetisation, the economy would have collapsed: S S Gurumurthy

OpIndia Staff -
Demonetisation was a corrective measure while the GST was a reformative one.
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News Reports

After failed attempt, Trupti Desai vows to enter the Sabarimala shrine ‘unannounced’ using Guerrilla tactics

OpIndia Staff -
Trupti Desai, along with six others had arrived at Kochi Airport at around 4 am on November 17th to visit the Sabarimala shrine but faced severe protests.
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Editor's picks

BBC takes first step towards admitting shoddy work, accepts error in listing fake news sources

Nupur J Sharma -
BBC has chosen to throw caution, diligence and integrity to the wind.
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Crime

4-year-old girl allegedly raped by Christian priest in Jharkhand’s Gumla

OpIndia Staff -
The accused pastor used to perform religious conversions as well, the villagers claimed.
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Editor's picks

Sabarimala: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor mouths off platitudes, says Congress stands with both ‘equality’ as well as ‘devotees’

Jinit Jain -
Congress and Shashi Tharoor have been trying to play both sides of the Sabarimala debate since the begin
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News Reports

Court in Bihar relaxes dress code after Muslim men demand they be allowed to wear lungi on premises

OpIndia Staff -
The area is close to the Bangladesh border and India’s largest Muslim-populated area after the Kashmir Valley and Lakshadweep.
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Fact-Check

Media speculation about CVC report on CBI Director Alok Verma turn out to be wrong

OpIndia Staff -
Alok Verma has not got a clean chit from CVC, as some media houses and journalists were speculating
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Editor's picks

Qualitatively garbage: The bogus methodology employed by BBC in their research on ‘Fake News’

K Bhattacharjee -
BBC's research is an assault on intellectual and academic rigour.
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Media

The Brown Sepoys of Indian Media

Shefali Vaidya -
Such toxic hatred is not new for Nupur Sharma, or indeed, for any of us who take the ‘nationalist’ point of view.
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Media

Tejpal, MJ Akbar, Gautam Adhikari continue being Editors’ Guild members despite sexual harassment charges

OpIndia Staff -
It is not the first time Editors' Guild of India is caught on the backfoot.
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