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DUSU elections: ABVP wins 3 out of 4 top posts

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, NSUI and CYSS had played the 'EVMs tampering' blame-game
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News Reports

Shia Waqf board chief claims Rahul Gandhi and Ghulam Nabi Azad pressurised him to save Vijay Mallya

OpIndia Staff -
Rizvi said that he could not even register an FIR against Mallya due to political pressure by Rahul Gandhi and Ghulam Nabi Azad.
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News Reports

NCPCR report reveals a significant decline in child marriages across India, prevalence highest among SC/ST castes

OpIndia Staff -
Data in the NCPCR report shows that girls who complete secondary school education are least likely to get married before 19 years of age.
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Opinions

The politics of ironies: Getting away with assassination of a former PM

Devanshu Rajput -
Unnatural deaths of national leaders have always endangered India's stability and security
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Crime

Triple Talaq victim falls prey to acid attack in Bulandshahar

OpIndia Staff -
The health of the victim is said to be critical.
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News Reports

Watch: DMK leader entered a beauty parlour, assaulted a woman

OpIndia Staff -
The former DMK corporator has been now suspended from the party
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Media

News agency IANS uses expletive to describe PM Modi, suspends journalist

OpIndia Staff -
The reporters in whose name the story was published has been suspended with immediate effect.
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News Reports

Congress distances itself from Tehseen Poonawalla’s PIL in Supreme Court over Rafale deal

OpIndia Staff -
The AICC legal cell has stated that the Congress party thinks the apex court is not a forum for raising such an issue.
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi accuses Arun Jaitley of having ‘struck a deal’ with Mallya, demands resignation

OpIndia Staff -
Vijay Mallya has also stated that he has made a comprehensive settlement offer before the Karnataka High Court.
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Crime

Over 3,600 children abused by Vatican clergymen between 1946 and 2014 in Germany, claims study

OpIndia Staff -
The Vatican has a long history of child sexual abuse by its clergymen.
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Interviews

Watch: Surrendered Naxal Pahad Singh says arrested ‘activist’ was present at high ranking meeting of CPI Maoists

Nupur J Sharma -
Pahad Singh also said that many such people come to these meetings and instigate the Adivasis
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News Reports

“Are Rahul Gandhi and Mallya working in tandem?” asks RS Prasad on Mallya’s allegations

OpIndia Staff -
Mallya had last evening said that he met the FM before he left for the UK, Jaitley denied having any such official meeting
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News Reports

China proposes to build bullet train corridor to Kolkata via Bangladesh and Myanmar

OpIndia Staff -
The Chinese envoy described India as a rising economy
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Interviews

Surrendered Naxal commander speaks out on how ‘jobless intellectuals’ deceive tribals

OpIndia Staff -
Maoist leaders actively spread fear in the minds of tribals against the government to persuade them against surrendering, says the surrendered Naxal commander.
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News Reports

MEA dismissed Mamata Banerjee’s claims, says reports on denial of permission to visit Chicago not true

OpIndia Staff -
The organisers of the event had, in a letter in June informed her that the scheduled programme was cancelled
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News Reports

Congress’ Sanjay Nirupam defends his statement of calling PM Modi ‘Anpadh Gawar’

OpIndia Staff -
Sanjay Nirupam had called PM Modi an 'anpadh gawar' and stated that college children have nothing to learn from him
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News Reports

Arun Jaitley denies meeting Vijay Mallya with ‘offer of settlement’ before he left for London

OpIndia Staff -
Mallya had claimed that he had met the Finance Minister and repeated his offer to settle with the banks before he left for the UK
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News Reports

Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam calls PM Modi ‘illiterate and uncouth’

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier too Nirupam has used crass language for leaders including women.
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News Reports

Union cabinet approves 100% electrification of railways by 2021-22

OpIndia Staff -
Electrification of tracks also help in improving the signalling system, which enhances safety on the tracks.
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Crime

Muslim woman killed by brother and father for being in ‘relationship’ with Hindu man

OpIndia Staff -
The accused duo, residents of Bihar's Jamalpur, were arrested from Kolkata admitted to killing the woman
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News Reports

Violent clashes between BJP and ally IPFT in Tripura, many injured

OpIndia Staff -
The alliance has been sailing through troubled waters for quite sometime.
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News Reports

Tension gripped as mosque sealed in Gurugram as part of drive against illegal structures

OpIndia Staff -
11 illegal structures were sealed within 300 mtrs of the ammunition depot.
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News Reports

BJP MP calls for wealth in Kerala temples to be donated for flood relief, Twitter responds

OpIndia Staff -
Udit Raj, the BJP MP from Delhi (North-West) had stated that people of Kerala should protest on the streets demanding the wealth from Hindu temples to be donated for flood relief work.
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News Reports

Following ‘a comprehensive settlement offer’, Mallya may be on his way back to India

OpIndia Staff -
The Westminster Magistrates’ Court is hearing final arguments in the case, and a ruling is expected soon.
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Government and Policy

HRD Ministry plans to set up ‘National Madarsa Board’ to register madarsas for better academic standards

OpIndia Staff -
Uttar Pradesh government has already taken steps to mainstream the madarsas
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News Reports

Missionaries of Jesus again sides with the Bishop accused of raping the nun, calls the accusation a ‘conspiracy’

OpIndia Staff -
In an earlier statement, Missionaries of Jesus had come out in support of the rape accused and deemed him an "innocent soul".
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News Reports

Haryana: Congress MLA Karan Singh Dalal and INLD chief Abhay Singh Chautala hurl abuses in Assembly, indulge in shoe-fight

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress MLA had a heated argument with Leader of Opposition Abhay Singh Chautala during the monsoon assembly session.
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News Reports

Congress promises ‘Rampath’ in MP, as the party’s tilt towards Hindutva continues

K Bhattacharjee -
There are clear contradictions between the words of the Congress party and its actions.
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Government and Policy

Delhi High Court refuses to pass order on PIL against rising fuel prices

OpIndia Staff -
The court said that the fuel prices are a matter of policy decision of the government and refrained from interfering
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News Reports

Chinese Army attempted infiltration in Uttarakhand, entered India thrice in August: ITBP report

OpIndia Staff -
The PLA troops had retreated and pushed back in the recent 73-day Doklam standoff.
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Government and Policy

ISRO displays space suit and crew model for its first ever manned space mission- Gaganyaan in 2022

OpIndia Staff -
The display comes weeks after our PM, announced to launch the mission by 2022 to commemorate the 75th independence of India.
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News Reports

Air Force Chief BS Dhanoa says Rafale and S-400 missiles crucial for India

OpIndia Staff -
The IAF chief insisted that Rafale and S-400s are crucial to boost India's combative strength for a two-front war.
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News Reports

PM Modi announces Diwali gift to ASHA, Anganwadi workers, set to get upto 50% pay hike

OpIndia Staff -
The increase in the honorarium will help more than 24 lakh Anganwadi and ASHA workers working to enhance healthcare in the country.
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Sports

India vs England: How many numbers out of 10 you’ll give to players? Here is our rating

Sandeep Singh -
India have lost the test match series 1-4 to England. A review of how the Indian team members performed.
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Culture and History

Emerging demographic shift in the Bengal Duars and national security concerns for India

vimalkhawas -
There is an urgent need for serious research, thinking and debate on the topic.
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Government and Policy

AAP government launches door step delivery of services, unavailability of phone operators creates hurdles

OpIndia Staff -
AAP is trying to portray that the BJP is trying to sabotage their project
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News Reports

Minor girl rescued from Naxal organisation in Jharkhand

OpIndia Staff -
The girl reportedly confirmed that she was forcefully taken to the camp by the Naxals in the pretext of getting her married.
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OpIndia Explains

Centre issues advisory against the ‘Momo Challenge’. All you need to know

OpIndia Staff -
The game is like Blue Whale Challenge that was a rage till last year, except deadlier
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News Reports

Election Commission issues show cause notice to Aam Aadmi Party

OpIndia Staff -
The notice was issued based on a CBDT report which indicated that there were discrepancies in the disclosure of donations received by the party
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News Reports

All you need to know about the Gomti Riverfront Project scam

OpIndia Staff -
Soon after CM Yogi Adityanath assumed office, he had ordered a probe panel to look into alleged irregularities in the megaproject sanctioned under the Akhilesh Yadav government.
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News Reports

Plea of Gandhis against I-T reassessment reveal deep seated corruption in Congress: Smriti Irani

OpIndia Staff -
Mr Gandhi, who is quick to hug the prime minister, would run a mile when it comes to an income tax office: Irani
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Law

Demystifying the ‘Civil Society’: Foreign funded organizations campaigning against Indian sedition laws

Research Team -
It's of critical importance that the government reviews its FCRA policy.
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Law

‘Jesus will arrive to punish’ shouted a Christian pastor on the recent SC judgement decriminalising homosexuality

OpIndia Staff -
The recent judgement declaring the legality of Homosexual relationships has not received well by certain sections
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News Reports

Justice Gogoi says PILs are for the poor, turns down argument by Prashant Bhushan

OpIndia Staff -
Justice Gogoi dismissed Prashant Bhushan's PIL against the appointment of vigilance commissioner of the CVC.
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Entertainment

Hey Anushka, please brace up for the hate that is coming your way

Aarti -
Earlier, Akshay Kumar had drawn flak for his film 'Toilet - Ek Prem Katha' and dismissed by critics as 'pro-government propaganda'
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News Reports

ED summons six firms linked to irregularities in the Gomti Riverfront project sanctioned by Akhilesh Yadav

OpIndia Staff -
Gomti Riverfront project was sanctioned by the Akhilesh Yadav government run up to the 2017 Uttar Pradesh polls.
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Media

Research scholar calls out Shekhar Gupta’s ThePrint for misleading, click-baity headlines

OpIndia Staff -
This is not the first time ThePrint's ethics are questioned
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Government and Policy

Assam’s NRC vs Jammu and Kashmir’s PRC: Drawing parallel among distinct laws and acknowledging the ‘liberal’ double-standard

Siddharth Acharya -
There is a constant attempt by liberal scholars who cultivate the thought that nationalism is subservient to constitutionalism
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Law

NDTV’s Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy get show cause notice from SEBI for insider trading

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier too, NDTV has had a similar brush with the law when they got a show cause notice from the Income Tax Department
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Economy and Finance

PNB recovers record amount from defaulters due to Insolvency and Bankruptcy code

OpIndia Staff -
Punjab National Bank (PNB) recovered a record Rs 11,378 crore from defaulters in the first five months of this fiscal.
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