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PM Narendra Modi has drawn a straight line between Urban Maoists and Maoist Terror

Abhishek Banerjee -
The Stalinist of yesterday has become the human rights activist of today.
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh: A day before voting, Maoists put up posters threatening villagers to boycott elections

OpIndia Staff -
The Naxals occupying the forest interiors have put up posters not only to boycott the polls but also "the Government backed by the corporates"
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh: Makeshift polling booth established under a tree in Sukma after IED was detected

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier Naxals blasted an explosive minutes before polling began in Dantewada.
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News Reports

A look back at the life of Union Minister Ananth Kumar as he passes away at 59

Shashank Bharadwaj -
He was suffering from severe complications and infection and was on ventilator support for the last few days
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh: 900 officials and security personnel air-dropped to polling stations to ensure safety

OpIndia Staff -
In the first phase, 190 candidates are contesting for 18 assembly elections and as per electoral rolls, there are 31,80,014 voters. 
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh: Naxals blast explosives minutes before polling begins in Dantewada’s Katakalyan block

OpIndia Staff -
No harm to security forces as well as polling party has been reported.
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh Congress Vice President Ghanaram Sahu resigns hours before first phase of state assembly elections

OpIndia Staff -
He is expected to join the BJP tomorrow in presence of BJP President Amit Shah.
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Crime

Bihar: Four minors missing from Patna’s Asha Kiran shelter home, search operations underway

OpIndia Staff -
Children of shelter homes in Muzaffarpur being sexually abused and tortured came to light in June this year
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Opinions

Pakistan’s Philatelic brazenness: Waging a proxy war against India one Stamp at a time since 1954

Krishna Kant -
Pakistan had released a Miniature Sheet of 20 stamps on July 8 this year to commemorate ‘Kashmir Martyr’s Day’.
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Crime

Mining baron G Janardhan Reddy arrested in bribery case, sent to judicial custody till 24th November

OpIndia Staff -
Reddy is accused of accepting bribe from the owner of Ambident Group to help him bail out.
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Government and Policy

PM Narendra Modi to inaugurate Multi-Modal Terminal in Varanasi along National Waterway-1 on the Ganga

OpIndia Staff -
National waterways provide a logistically efficient, cost-effective and environment-friendly mode of transport
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Editor's picks

Promise to ban RSS from government premises may get Congress brownie points, but not votes in MP

Nirwa Mehta -
Congress has also promised commercial production of 'gau mutra' and cow dung and also set up 'gau shalas'
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News Reports

State Congress unit under fire as Telangana Congress minority cell makes a host of demands for ‘Christians’

OpIndia Staff -
The list s being dubbed as the Congress ‘Christian manifesto’
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News Reports

One BSF personnel martyred as Maoists triggered 6 IED blasts in Kanker a day before first phase elections in Chhattisgarh

OpIndia Staff -
A day ahead of polls in Chhattisgarh, maoists triggered 6 IED blasts in Kanker and engaged in an encounter with security forces in Bijapur.
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News Reports

Mahila Congress misspells the first Education Minister’s name on National Education Day

OpIndia Staff -
Yet another 'oops' moment for the Congress
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Culture and History

Even Gods are unsafe in Mamata’s Bengal, Maa Durga ‘converted’ to Mother Mary in Barasat

OpIndia Staff -
The organisers had set up a pandal at Barasat’s Colony in Kolkatta and theme of the Kali Pandal was 2018 Fifa World Cup.
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News Reports

This is why India’s women’s cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur wears the number 84 jersey

OpIndia Staff -
Kaur was awarded the prestigious Arjuna Award last year
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News Reports

Lawyer demands Bharat Ratna for PM Modi citing precedents of Nehru and Indira getting the honour while in office

OpIndia Staff -
Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi had won Bharat Ratna while they were still in office in 1955 and 1971 respectively
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News Reports

Statue of Unity attracts 1 lakh visitors in just 10 days, earns Rs 2.1 crores

OpIndia Staff -
Within 10 days of its inauguration, Sardar Patel Rashtriya Ekta trust has earned around Rs 2.1 crores
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Crime

“Forced conversions in Kerala a reality, CM, government and political parties not taking it seriously,” says NCW chairperson

OpIndia Staff -
Rekha Sharma said Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was like "an ostrich who is keeping his head buried in the sand."
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Editor's picks

#MeToo: Actor Niharika Singh speaks out against Nawazuddin Siddiqui; condemns liberals and feminists for their duplicity

OpIndia Staff -
In her post, she has named Bhushan Kumar, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sajid Khan and Rituparna Chatterjee and others.
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Opinions

Welcome to India, Jack. If we were like Twitter, you’d have been ‘blocked’ or ‘shadow banned’ at arrival

Nupur J Sharma -
When in India, Jack, you must indeed 'experience it all'. And experience the virtue of diversity and co-existence, you must.
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Economy and Finance

Rahul Gandhi and the eternally changing amount of ‘industrialists’ loans waived off’ by Modi

OpIndia Staff -
From 1.1 to 3.5 lakh crores, Rahul Gandhi's claims of industrialist's loan waiver just get bigger and bigger.
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi does a Mevani, poses with a PM Modi lookalike

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress President should honestly contemplate, does he really want to practice the kind of politics that Mevani does?
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Government and Policy

BJP to collect data of Triple Talaq victims, help in rehabilitation and employment

OpIndia Staff -
The BJP minority wing will collect the data of triple talaq victims in order to rehabilitate them and make them self-reliant.
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News Reports

No end to Communist zeal: Police may deploy choppers to airlift women into Sabarimala shrine

OpIndia Staff -
The Save Sabarimala protestors have been steadfastly protesting against the Supreme Court's verdict of allowing women to enter the temple
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Editor's picks

List of Ajit Jogi, Amit Jogi’s misdeeds are endless, and Congress is silent even after they have left the party

GujaratRiots.com -
It will take an encyclopedia to even compile the list of illegal acts committed by the Jogi family
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Editor's picks

Incompetent, uncouth, entitled: There is a lot which is common between Acosta and Indian media

K Bhattacharjee -
The viewers have started realizing that commitment to truth is much lower down in the list of the media's priorities
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News Reports

Expelled BSP leader accuses Mayawati of selling the party’s Lok Sabha ticket for 5 crores

OpIndia Staff -
The former BSP leader alleged that Mayawati sought Rs 5 crore from him for giving Aligarh Lok Sabha ticket.
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News Reports

As Delhi grapples with air pollution, CM Kejriwal takes a private trip to Dubai: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Kejriwal has reportedly left for Dubai with his wife last night.
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News Reports

A day after PM Modi attacked Congress, Raj Babbar defends his statement calling Maoists as ‘Revolutionaries’

OpIndia Staff -
Babbar had, during a poll campaign in Chattisgarh, compared Naxals with revolutionaries
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Economy and Finance

Demonetisation: Step that kick started the digitisation process and formalised a large chunk of the Economy

Guest Author -
The truth of the matter is that if India had to leapfrog into the 4th Industrial Revolution as it is doing today, then the journey would not have been possible without the kickstart of demonetization.
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Government and Policy

Swami Sanand’s death would sit heavy on Prime Minister Modi’s conscience

Ashish Shukla -
Swami Sanand scientifically knew more about the Ganga than ordinary folks in this country do
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News Reports

Tipu Jayanti: Karnataka government imposes section 144 in several places

OpIndia Staff -
Congress had organised tipu Jayanti celebrations from 2015 onwards.
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News Reports

Foul mouthed Sanjay Nirupam strikes again, goes on a tirade against PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
Sanjay Nirupam went on to say that the people of the country will "politically" hang PM Modi in 2019 General Elections to take revenge against the hardships they suffered due to demonetisation.
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News Reports

It is time to burn Modi alive: Senior Congress leader TB Jayachandra’s shocking statement

OpIndia Staff -
When confronted, the Congress leader brazened it out by saying he has said nothing wrong.
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News Reports

Congress was in Dhritrashtra mode for 10 years against corruption: BJP on Rahul Gandhi’s demonetisation jibe

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi was addressing a rally in Chhattisgarh which goes to vote for first phase on 12th November
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Fact-Check

Barkha Dutt uses fake data and biased rhetoric to deny the institutional discrimination Hindus suffer in India

K Bhattacharjee -
The only thing that Barkha does get right in her video is the fact that Hindus are not hapless victims.
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Culture and History

Every cracker burst this Diwali had a message that echoed through the Country

nandini -
The messaging is indeed confusing. Were they fighting pollution or the festival of Diwali itself?
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Editor's picks

PM Modi calls out ‘Urban Maoists’, the ‘liberal’ media has a meltdown on Twitter

OpIndia Staff -
Prime Minister's jibe has not gone down well with the Congress-friendly journalists.
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Opinions

Those who sit in judgement of the Commanding Officer who stood up for his men, think again

mallufideintent -
The contribution of Policemen to our nation and each of our lives deserves the highest respect.
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Government and Policy

Indian Army gets a power boost with the induction of K9 Vajra and M 777 Howitzer

OpIndia Staff -
This deal for K9 Vajra is one of the first defence programmes between India and South Korea.
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Government and Policy

“Enough funds available, claim and achieve target”: Centre to states on rural housing scheme

OpIndia Staff -
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) was launched in June 2015.
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Fact-Check

Navbharat Times claims Delhi air worsened ’77 times’ due to firecrackers during Diwali based on absurd data

OpIndia Staff -
The conclusion they reached was based on dubious data.
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Media

#MeToo: The Wire puts a journalist who was accused of rape back to work without offering an explanation

OpIndia Staff -
There are some questions that only The Wire can answer
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Government and Policy

Greece takes Church priests off government payroll, ends their ‘civil-servant’ status

OpIndia Staff -
The decision is being viewed as a step towards the separation of the Church from the State.
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Culture and History

Sabarimala Karma Samithi, a united Hindu front appeals for unity among Hindus to protect customs and traditions of Sabarimala

OpIndia Staff -
The Sabarimala Karma Samithi, a united front to bring all the individuals and groups to plan and execute all possible acts peacefully and legally was set up on October 8, 2018.
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Politics

Congress is busy protecting ‘Urban Maoists’ who have destroyed the lives of Adivasis: PM Modi in Chhattisgarh

OpIndia Staff -
In these 4 years, more than 9,000 villages of Chhattisgarh were connected by roads, said Modi.
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Editor's picks

Pakistanis join hands with ‘liberals’ to paint journalist Jagrati Shukla as a monster and violent stone pelters as innocent

K Bhattacharjee -
Jagrati Shukla's Twitter account has now been suspended.
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News Reports

Watch: ‘He should change his name instead,’ Renuka Chowdhury proposal to rename Hyderabad

OpIndia Staff -
Elections will be held in Telangana on 7th December
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