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Demystifying the ‘Civil Society’: Report calling Amarnath Yatra a ‘militarised pilgrimage’ finds common cause with separatists and ‘urban maoists’

Research Team -
The plot was administered by JKCCS, an organization with clear separatist inclinations.
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News Reports

SC refuses to entertain Lt Col Purohit’s petition for SIT probe into his arrest and torture, asks to take up with Trial Court

OpIndia Staff -
The validity of sanctions to prosecute lt Col Purohit is to be decided by the trial court tomorrow
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2007 Hyderabad Blasts Case : NIA court convicts two Indian Mujahideen terrorists

OpIndia Staff -
The blasts at Hyderabad's popular spots Gokul Chat and Lumbini Park had killed more than 40 people and injured many others.
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News Reports

Creating a nuisance aboard an airplane isn’t dissent, it’s a crime

OpIndia Staff -
One has to respect legal and regulatory norms regarding time, place & occasion while conducting any kind of protest.
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News Reports

Amidst BJP’s NRC demand, Imams of West Bengal ask Muslims to keep citizenship records ready

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court monitored exercise was conducted in Assam to weed out illegal immigrants
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News Reports

TMC leader caught on video asking party workers to get BJP worker arrested in false ganja case

OpIndia Staff -
Anubrata Mondal had earlier been in news for asking party men to burn houses of political opponents and hurl bombs at the police
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60 crores loan scam in Tamil Nadu, labourers shown as borrowers, many died mysteriously: Report

OpIndia Staff -
The arrested duo allegedly obtained signatures of labourers and presented them to the bank as farmers seeking a loan
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One Nation One Card policy soon for public transport services, says NITI Ayog CEO

OpIndia Staff -
The CEO of NITI Ayog was speaking at the Future Mobility Summit-2018
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News Reports

Naxals kill two tribals from Chhattisgarh suspected to be ‘police informers’, chilling note reveals details

OpIndia Staff -
The tribals Sonu and Somaji were allegedly kidnapped along with another person named Panduram
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News Reports

Here are some prominent members of the out-on-bail Mahagathbandhan

Shashank Bharadwaj -
The NDA is going to fight against the 'Out-on-bail' opposition in the next Lok Sabha elections
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News Reports

Congress criteria for selecting candidates for election: 15,000 likes on FB, 5,000 followers on Twitter

OpIndia Staff -
Interesting to note here is that, before Uttar Pradesh assembly elections in 2017, BJP also had determined similar criteria
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News Reports

Five Muslim youths held in Coimbatore for plotting to kill Hindu leaders

OpIndia Staff -
One of the five arrested individuals turns out to be an Islamic State sympathiser.
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Pro-Congress troll caught again spreading fake news on his pro-Islamist propaganda site

OpIndia Staff -
Abhishek Mishra is a serial fake news peddler.
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News Reports

Demystifying the ‘Civil Society’: An incestuous nexus

Research Team -
This is the first in a series of articles that will explore the background of the organizations that form the 'civil society'.
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Sports

Shaky openers, unreliable lower middle order and the curious case of Hardik Pandya

Sandeep Singh -
Indian team is only looking even more vulnerable and a number of questions remain in front of Kohli-Shastri after the series defeat against England.
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News Reports

Intelligence report says Varavara Rao attended funeral of Maoist terrorist killed in Gadchiroli encounter

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, Varavara Rao had attended the funeral of Srinu alias Srikanth, a Maoist commander killed in Gadchiroli encounter in April.
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News Reports

5 booked after UP woman is given triple-talaq and raped by father-in-law under garb of Nikah Halala

OpIndia Staff -
The woman was allegedly harassed by her in-laws for dowry and then forcefully married to her father-in-law who raped her
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Doctor who volunteered in Kerala for flood relief gets abused for merely stating his observation

OpIndia Staff -
Thadani was in Kerala helping the flood relief operations
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Muslim woman files plea in the Supreme Court to declare Sharia Courts unconstitutional

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court has ruled that Islamic practices like Triple Talaq and Nikah Halala are unconstitutional.
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Opinions

Pakistani pop singer wanted a Dutch MP killed for blasphemy, this is where she learnt bigotry from

Imam Tawhidi -
The irony of all this is that Tablighi Jamaat promotes segregation and believes that women should stay at home
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14 skeletons of babies wrapped in plastic bags found in Kolkata’s Haridevpur

OpIndia Staff -
Massive search is undertaken as police believes more skeletons may be recovered from the area
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Culture and History

The kind of Indian Atheists and why they continue to be Hindus, unlike Abrahamics and Marxists

Kushal Mehra -
Criticise them and challenge them. But do it with the right understanding or be a skeptic and just say "I don't know".
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Opinions

Even in sarcasm, seems only a Naxal sympathizer would say #MeTooUrbanNaxal

Abhishek Banerjee -
And now we have people who are “proud” to call themselves Naxals.
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News Reports

Kerala police stalls arrest of Kerala Bishop despite incriminating evidence, reports Goa Chronicle

OpIndia Staff -
In their investigation, Kerala police have found that the initial statement given by the Bishop wass a falsified one.
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BuzzFeed maintains silence even as their employee attempts to dox, stalk and threaten a woman who disagreed with him

OpIndia Staff -
It is very common for so-called liberals to go after the livelihood of those who disagree with them.
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Sports

India at the Asian Games – Plenty of highs, a few lows, and a lot of hope for the future

Sandeep Singh -
A concise summary of how India performed at the Asian Games 2018, hosted at Jakarta in Indonesia.
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News Reports

Buddhist Monk arrested in Bodhgaya for the sexual exploitation of his students

OpIndia Staff -
The children also accused the head monk of locking them up them in a room with food and water for a prolonged period of time.
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Kanhaiya Kumar to contest from Begusarai for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls

OpIndia Staff -
The opposition parties are mainstreaming ultra left wing leaders to defeat the BJP
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Pentagon to cancel $300 million aid to Pakistan for its failure to curb Islamist terror

OpIndia Staff -
The Pakistan is facing massive international pressure for its constant support to Islamist terrorism
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FIR filed against Robert Vadra in the Gurugram land deal case

OpIndia Staff -
Robert Vadra has defended himself by claiming the FIR is a diversionary tactic by the BJP
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India signs agreement with Nepal to help build Kathmandu-Raxaul railway link

OpIndia Staff -
India’s Konkan railways corporation Ltd will conduct the preliminary survey of the planned 130 km broad-gauge line.
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Congress leader Navjot Sidhu’s claims discredited by Pakistan

Jhankar Mohta -
After Pakistan contradict's Sidhu's claim of agreeing to open the Kartarpur corridor, Shiromani Akali Dal asks if Sidhu lied
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OBC data to be collected for the first time in Independent India: Home ministry

OpIndia Staff -
The center is all set to collect data on other backward classes in the 2021 census for the first time since 1931.
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Here is why SC has stayed construction in some states and union territories

OpIndia Staff -
The court also imposed a fine of ₹5,00,000 and ₹3,00,000 on Andhra Pradesh and Chandigarh
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Income Tax Tribunal upholds tax penalty imposed on Congress’ Young Indian: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
The ITAT has upheld the penalty on Young Indian on the grounds that it did not furnish the information requested by the I-T department
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High Courts grant bail to litigants on the condition of contributing towards Kerala Flood relief

OpIndia Staff -
The Judiciary has invented an innovative way of collecting funds for the flood victims in Kerala.
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Look East : Prime Minister Modi gives priority to Northastern India in BIMSTEC Summit

Raju Das -
After decades of neglect successive governments, PM Modi has given greater importance to the development of north-eastern
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GDP hits 8.2% quarterly growth, BJP leaders hail government’s economic reforms

OpIndia Staff -
The numbers are a strong refutation of the claims made by the opposition parties that the economy is in tatters.
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Opinions

No, freedom fighters from a century ago and Maoists aren’t the same

Anubhav -
Their goal is to make heroes out of Naxals and to normalize violence in the name of democratic rights.
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News Reports

More than 1 lakh ‘bogus’ voters dropped from Delhi’s draft electoral roll

OpIndia Staff -
About 12 lakh bogus voters were culled in 2013
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A village in Rahul Gandhi’s Amethi ultimately required BJP’s grit to go digital

Jhankar Mohta -
Smriti Irani has been working tirelessly in Amethi to bring about a change
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Bihar: Illegal firearms recovered from RJD MLA Kunti Devi’s residence at Gaya

OpIndia Staff -
The RJD MLA Kunti Devi was not present at the location at the time of the raid
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The insurgents’ affair with the rocket launchers and grenades: how the Maoists are preparing for the war against nation

OpIndia Staff -
In several instances police have found evidence of Maoists developing indigenous propellers and rocket launchers.
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Opinions

Prashant Bhushan and Arundhati Roy are persona non grata when it comes to public faith

Ashish Shukla -
Pune police do seem to have proof against these alleged 'urban Naxals'. 
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News Reports

Grenade launcher, ammunition and preparation to end ‘Modi raj’, Pune Police reveals explosive details

OpIndia Staff -
The police officer made several letters and documents seized from the arrested people, public on Friday.   
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Supreme Court quashes criminal case against Priya Varrier over viral wink song

OpIndia Staff -
SC has rebuked the complainants saying that they have no other job but to file FIR against a film song
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Rahul Gandhi wants an official Chinese send-off during his Mansarovar Yatra, BJP alleges collusion

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi's proximity to China seems worrying.
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Bonhomie between Naxalites and Kashmiri separatists- an open secret

OpIndia Staff -
We have often seen that people who support the Naxalites also take the side of Kashmiri separatists.
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Opinions

Shekhar Gupta’s The Print perpetuates murderous ideas against RSS if Rahul Gandhi is voted to power

Nirwa Mehta -
Congress and the ecosystem nurtured by it would love to see Hindus persecuted should Congress come to power.
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Germany government to provide Rs 990 crore loan to clean up the Ganga

OpIndia Staff -
The Ganga Rejuvenation Programme- 'Namami Ganga' is one of the flagship programmes of the present government.
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