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Khudiram Bose – A tale of youth and sacrifice

Anubhav -
Let his idea of self-emancipation and discipline guide our lives which are otherwise riddled with lack of conviction and purpose.
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News Reports

NDTV’s Sreenivasan Jain pulls a Barkha : Threatens and bullies columnist into deleting tweets

OpIndia Staff -
Self-proclaimed champions of 'freedom of expression' have successfully bullied a questioning voice into silence
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Opinions

With all due respect, please spare us your history lesson, Dalai Lama

Ashish Shukla -
Dalai Lama's assertion might be innocent, but grievous nonetheless
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News Reports

Illegal Immigration and Hindu rights: Amit Shah’s scathing attack against Mamata in a clarion call for 2019

OpIndia Staff -
The BJP President urged the crowd to uproot the TMC in the coming elections.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Minor girl raped and abandoned, accused Salim and Zafar arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Several such cases have been reported in the past
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News Reports

‘India must have a Temple at Ram Janma Bhoomi’, writes Savio Rodrigues

OpIndia Staff -
'The industry that is booming globally is religious tourism', he wrote
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News Reports

Girl drugged, molested and filmed in Goa, Aqib Sheikh and Kaffil Sayed arrested

OpIndia Staff -
The accused were arrested after the victim registered a complaint with the Police on Friday.
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Politics

Javed Akhtar has Twitter meltdown, again, this time for his hypocrisy on free speech being pointed out

OpIndia Staff -
Javed Akhtar launches a personal attack on a Twitter user when he questions his hypocrisy
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News Reports

Research scholar subjected to targeted attack and online hate for writing on Aadhaar

OpIndia Staff -
The constant hate which was directed at Chandra eventually got the Editor of Slate.com, who edited the article, to respond
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News Reports

Jharkhand Christian NGOs in the dock: Police raids 88 and reveal Rs 250 crore spent on forced conversion

OpIndia Staff -
Mostly all of these organizations have received funds running in crores
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi asks why the Government did not ‘buy cellphones from BHEL’, Twitter answers

Sanghamitra -
Rahul Gandhi says BHEL manufactures mobile phones and Chhattisgarh government not buying them is a scam
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Fact-Check

The Caravan of lies that is now headed straight towards Amit Shah

Nupur J Sharma -
This entire article published by the Caravan hinges on the faulty understanding of finance and law
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News Reports

‘Was denied entry to Audrey Truschke’s event as I was wearing Shivaji t-shirt and dhoti’, man claims

OpIndia Staff -
It appears that the organizers and the scholar did not want anyone in the audience with an opposing point of view.
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News Reports

‘Indiregandi’, Turkey invokes Indira Gandhi to describe cheating and stealing, reports VICE

K Bhattacharjee -
The Congress party may not find it as funny as the rest of us.
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Opinions

Triple Talaq Bill not just about Muslims, but about resisting mob rule

Abhishek Banerjee -
The Triple Talaq Bill was intended not only to bring gender justice but also to strike at the heart of mob power.
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News Reports

Police prompt in handling situations during Kanwar Yatra, arrests troublemakers

OpIndia Staff -
Many incidents of crime were reported involving Kanwariyas and people dressed as Kanwariyas
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News Reports

Mewat: Hotbed of organised crime, cattle smuggling, illegal Rohingyas and mob violence against Police

K Bhattacharjee -
Incidents of villagers attacking the Police to rescue criminals have become increasingly frequent in the region.
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Triple Talaq Bill: Congress MP Hussain Dalwai invokes Lord Ram, says even Shree Ram ‘once left Sitaji’

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier Kapil Sibal too had dragged Hindu faith to justify barbaric practices of the minority community
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News Reports

Arrested JMB terrorist reveals the terror group’s plans of terror attacks in Bengal and Assam

OpIndia Staff -
Top JMB leader 'Bomber Miyan' had escaped from Bangladesh and has been actively preparing terror modules in India
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Politics

Raj Babbar holding a ‘blank’ placard during Rafale protests outside Parliament has Twitter users in splits

OpIndia Staff -
Ringing in the weekend with the unintentionally hilarious Raj Babbar. Cheers.
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News Reports

Former IPS officer Bharti Ghosh makes a shocking revelation: says Mamata Banerjee transfers officers if BJP gains grounds

OpIndia Staff -
Bharti Ghosh, who was once considered a very close aide of Mamata Banerjee is the first IPS officer to resign from service in Mamata's regime.
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News Reports

‘We will ally with crooks after winning elections against them’: Kejriwal misquoted by pro-AAP blog

Sanghamitra -
Parody and reality just stop being different when it concerns AAP
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News Reports

Contempt petition filed against Prashant Bhushan for his statements against the judiciary

Nupur J Sharma -
The petitioners have sought initiation of criminal contempt against Bhushan, Aaj Tak and Times Now
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News Reports

Congress MLA from Madhya Pradesh compares Shivraj Singh Chouhan to a prostitute

OpIndia Staff -
Both the political parties want to emerge victorious in the upcoming state elections which has larger national implications
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News Reports

Jammu: Police suspect terror funding as they seize Rs 30 lakh from Rohingyas

OpIndia Staff -
It is rather surprising how the Rohingyas' in Jammu have been seen flourishing in the recent past.
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Opinions

Ae mere pyaare watan.. Ae mere bichde chaman..

nandini -
Not quite here. Not quite there. Fallen between the cracks...
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News Reports

Leaders splurged during Kumaraswamy swearing in, Kejriwal ordered food and beverages worth 70,000

OpIndia Staff -
JD(S) invited the politicians to show the power of opposition, but the taxpayers in Karnataka are paying for the extravagance
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News Reports

Indian Express and India Today owners rubbish claims of Modi govt asking owners to fire journalists

OpIndia Staff -
Purie and Goenka even ranked Modi high in trying to weed out corruption.
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Hyderabad youths planning terror attack on ISIS’ instruction arrested for questioning by NIA

OpIndia Staff -
Suffering major setbacks in the Middle East, leading to almost 10 months of placidness, the ISIS is again trying to re-establish its grip
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News Reports

Former Sahitya Akademy President claims Award Wapsi was a politically motivated organised act

OpIndia Staff -
He said he has evidence that shows the 'Award wapsi' campaign was orchestrated and managed by a few with political agenda
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News Reports

Hyderabad: Lecture by Pro Aurangzeb ‘historian’ cancelled after protest against her anti-Hindu views

OpIndia Staff -
The organizers have confirmed the cancellation of the event which was to be held on August 11.
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News Reports

Congress spokesperson refuses to shake hands with JNU VC, media paints it as student protest

OpIndia Staff -
One is likely to think that his Congress links are an important part of the story.
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News Reports

Terrorist neutralised by security forces shortlisted for post of Sub-Inspector in JK Police

OpIndia Staff -
The 26-year old slain terrorist had appeared for the written and physical examination for the post in June.
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Opinions

AAP, which was embarrassed by Lalu hugging Kejriwal, wants Rahul to hug their supremo

Nirwa Mehta -
AAP seems terribly confused about hugs and people they have previously criticised.
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News Reports

Muslim mob running illegal cow slaughterhouse attacks journalist, Editors Guild remains silent

OpIndia Staff -
The illegal cow smuggling and slaughtering has on a rise recently in India
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News Reports

NDA’s Harivansh Narayan Singh elected as Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman

OpIndia Staff -
Harivansh Narayan Singh won by 20 votes against his rival BK Hariprasad
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News Reports

The Nazi-like Anti-Brahmin propaganda in some sections of Tamil literature

K Bhattacharjee -
Anti-Brahmin bigotry is quite acceptable in Indian intellectual circles.
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News Reports

Kangana Ranaut talks about illiberal liberals and how her team wanted Rani Lakshmibai to save a ‘sheep’ and not ‘cow’

OpIndia Staff -
Amidst conversations on spirituality, Kangana and Sadhguru delved upon Indian politics and the hypocrisy of Indian liberals
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News Reports

These youths are going to tell everyone not to undertake kiki challenge, on orders of court

OpIndia Staff -
Mumbai Police and the court seems to have the right idea!
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Pakistan faces setback as Dawood Ibrahim’s henchman is set to be repatriated to India

OpIndia Staff -
The court reprimanded Pakistan for submitting concocted evidence through Pakistani embassy in Thailand
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News Reports

Know about the two candidates who are contending for Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman post

OpIndia Staff -
Harivansh Narayan Singh of NDA is expected to get 126 votes while BK Hariprasad is hopeful of 109 votes
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News Reports

NDTV quotes a 2011 satire article by The UnReal Times as news

OpIndia Staff -
This is not the first time satire has been mistaken for 'news'
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Opinions

Will China regret its treatment of Muslims? Not very likely

K Bhattacharjee -
There is absolutely nothing to indicate that China might come to regret their treatment of Muslims in the future.
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News Reports

Bangladeshi Nationals arrested in Delhi for armed robbery and shooting at a Police Officer

OpIndia Staff -
The gang is said to have been committing crimes since 1994.
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi asks the court to gag media on National Herald case, Court declines

OpIndia Staff -
Champions of freedom of media, surprisingly, wanted a stay on media reporting of the case.
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Opinions

Why is media losing sleep over Justice KM Joseph

Ashish Shukla -
Who cares if anarchy is served for the course and blood is your drink for the night.
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News Reports

Yogi on Deoria rape: Irregularity detected in SP regime, license cancelled in 2017, errant DPO suspended now

Jhankar Mohta -
This shelter home was functioning since 2009, hence the govt blamed the previous govt for giving funds and overseeing functioning
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Brajesh Thakur wanted to contest elections on Congress ticket: Accused in Bihar shelter home case puts party in dock?

OpIndia Staff -
Gruesome details of sexual exploitation and physical assault have emerged from the shelter home run by Brajesh Thakur
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Karunanidhi’s troubled legacy: 1990 Wikileaks cable reveals his unprecedented support for LTTE

OpIndia Staff -
Many were perplexed by the DMK supremo's sudden change of heart.
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Tata’s Sanand factory working at peak capacity, after the usual suspects had predicted doom

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi had claimed that Tata manufacturing plant had 'died' just because it stopped producing Nano
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