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Congress’ abhorrent treachery : It is time Congress answers for Assam and to Assam

Nupur J Sharma -
Congress must answer why, after everything Assam has been through, are they playing the dangerous game even today.
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Opinions

BJP sweep in Sangli has left Congress ecosystem stunned in Maharashtra

Abhishek Banerjee -
As Fadnavis said in his banners, “Ha shabda mazaa aahe.“
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Political History of India

Congress pays tribute to Kishore Kumar, who was intolerantly banned by its govt during emergency

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress seems to have forgotten how it treated him during emergency
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News Reports

Congress leader Ahmed Patel’s involvement in 5000 cr bank fraud case resurfaced as ED tightens investigation

Jhankar Mohta -
According to the ED, Malik had sent through a courier, named Rakesh Chandra 25 lakh to 23, Mother Teresa Crescent, which is the official address of Congress leader Ahmed Patel.
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News Reports

Ex-Congress and TRS MP’s son booked under Nirbhaya Act for sexually assaulting 11 nursing students

OpIndia Staff -
The case has been registered against Sanjay, under sections 354, 506, 509 and 342 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
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News Reports

Contrary to popular media narrative, was ABP ‘journalist’ made to leave because he peddled fake news?

OpIndia Staff -
It appears that sheer incompetence on the part of the journalists may have contributed to their fate.
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News Reports

Wikipedia page of Tripura CM vandalized to show him as a Bangladeshi immigrant

OpIndia Staff -
After consistent vandalism of the page on the Tripura CM, Wikipedia has locked the page to stop vandalism
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News Reports

After dismantling a toy prototype, AAP MLA now wants to take his great EVM hacking show to Africa

Sanghamitra -
The AAP MLA drew flak on social media too
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News Reports

Haryana police arrest Jaffar and Saahukar Khan, two of the eight accused in gang raping a pregnant goat

OpIndia Staff -
The goat later died following the ordeal
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News Reports

NDTV does it again: Spreads lies about Guwahati boy being related to BJP MP and his NRC status

OpIndia Staff -
Jaydip said that the error by the media house has caused him a lot of mental harassment.
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News Reports

How the hysteria about phones ‘hacked’ to add Aadhaar helpline number was spread

OpIndia Staff -
Perhaps the hysteria could have been avoided with some research
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News Reports

PM Modi’s Ujjwala scheme provides 5 crore LPG connections to the poor, eight months ahead of schedule

OpIndia Staff -
A total of eight crore poor households are going to be covered under this scheme by 2020
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News Reports

Rebel AAP MLAs declare independence from central leadership: Form autonomous Punjab unit

OpIndia Staff -
The central leadership of the party in Delhi seems to have lost the control of the Punjab state unit
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News Reports

Maharashtra local body polls: BJP registers success in Jalgaon, leads in Congress bastion Sangli

OpIndia Staff -
From zero wards, BJP is now leading in 39 wards in Sangli, expected to win against Congress-NCP alliance
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News Reports

WHO report praises Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin, 89% rural sanitation achieved so far

OpIndia Staff -
19 states and Union Territories have declared themselves open defecation free so far
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Opinions

Modi government gave the Economy just what the doctor ordered: Tough structural reforms

Shashank Goyal -
Structural reforms by the Modi government have addressed many of the systemic issues holding back the economy
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News Reports

Assam’s neighbouring states on alert to contain infiltration by illegal immigrants

OpIndia Staff -
The states do not want the problem faced in Assam due to illegal immigration to spill over into their states
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Sports

Virat Kohli brings Test Cricket alive by playings a captain’s knock to steer India’s ship to safety

Nithesh S -
He was neither over cautious nor too aggressive in his well poised innings
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News Reports

SP’s ‘Samajwad’: Akhilesh Yadav built illegal structure worth over Rs 4.67 crores in govt bungalow

OpIndia Staff -
It may be mentioned that out of this amount, about Rs 90 lakh went from Estate Department coffers.
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Opinions

Karan Thapar’s book is a well timed means to revive the Lutyens’ media from its creaking future

Rohan -
This book needs to be recognised as a means for the Lutyens' media to reclaim what they have lost in recent times.
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News Reports

Switzerland’s top court allows sharing of data with Indian authorities in tax evasion cases

OpIndia Staff -
The court as a result rejected an appeal by two Indian citizens
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News Reports

WikiLeaks Cables from 2005-06 reveal Congress’ sinister Assam politics that compromised national security

OpIndia Staff -
The WikiLeaks cables reveal how the CPI(M) and Congress played vote-bank politics with illegal immigrants
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News Reports

Mamata meets Gandhis, but Bengal Congress chief calls her a ‘chameleon’, ‘trojan horse’ and ‘dictator’

OpIndia Staff -
He also accused Mamata Banerjee of trying to finish Congress in Bengal
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News Reports

‘Mulk’ director calls fellow Indians ‘losers’, requests Pakistanis to watch his movie, even illegally

OpIndia Staff -
Anubhav Sinha urges Pakistanis to watch his movie illegally
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News Reports

To avenge rifleman Aurangzeb’s brutal murder by terrorists, 50 villagers return from the Gulf

OpIndia Staff -
He was found dead by a team of police and Army at Gussu village, about 10 km away from Kalampora, in Pulwama district.
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News Reports

Price of misplaced activism: Post GST exemption, manufacturing cost of sanitary napkins up

OpIndia Staff -
The government gave into popular activism and exempted sanitary napkins from GST
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News Reports

Pakistan’s cyber war to break India: Instigate Indians by spreading fake news through Whatsapp

OpIndia Staff -
There are 60-70 such Whatsapp groups controlled from Multan and Islamabad in Pakistan
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News Reports

AICTE identifies 277 fake institutions functioning in India, Delhi tops with 66 such institutions

OpIndia Staff -
Union Ministry of State for Human Resource Development Satya Pal Singh while responding to a question in the Lok Sabha earlier this week said...
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News Reports

Assam: Post NRC draft release and imposition of sec 144, TMC leaders detained at Silchar Airport

OpIndia Staff -
The Cachar district administration issued a prohibitory order under section 144 of the CrPC last night.
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News Reports

Supreme Court expresses shock at rape and sexual assault cases emerging from Churches in Kerala

OpIndia Staff -
The court was hearing a minor's rape case where a christian priest is an accused
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News Reports

VHP claims Mamta Banerjee sheltering more illegal immigrants than Assam, presses for NCR in Bengal

OpIndia Staff -
Criticising Mamta Banerjee, for her 'hypocrisy' over the NCR issue and for using 'infiltrators as vote bank'
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News Reports

Supreme Court takes suo moto cognizance in the heinous Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case

Sanghamitra -
State government shelter homes run by Brijesh Thakur's NGO was functioning as a brothel, 34 underage girls were raped
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News Reports

Jyotiraditya Scindia asks Muslim woman leader to step down from stage during press conference

OpIndia Staff -
Scindia is fighting a internal battle with veteran Kamal Nath to take control of the state Congress unit
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News Reports

Senior HRCE official arrested in connection with misappropriation in making gold idols

K Bhattacharjee -
HRCE officials have claimed that they are being unfairly targeted by the Idol Wing of the Police.
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News Reports

Mehul Choksi had ‘loose alliance’ with Congress, says his lawyer David Dorsett: Republic

OpIndia Staff -
India has recently sought to extradite Mehul Choksi from Antigua
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Opinions

Liberals want Bharat ke tukde so that they can feed the pieces to Bangladeshi illegals

Abhishek Banerjee -
But don’t you dare call a Bangladeshi illegal an infiltrator. Haven’t you heard that the world is one big family?
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News Reports

NRC fallout: 2 TMC leaders from Assam quit, accuse Mamata Banerjee of speaking without knowledge

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee has drawn flak for her comments on the NRC from various quarters.
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News Reports

Christian Convent in Gujarat punishes girl student for wearing henna, later apologizes

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, a government school run by an evangelical Christian affected an order on girl students not to wear flowers and bindi.
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News Reports

Amidst rampant idol thefts from temples, Tamil Nadu govt to transfer all such cases to CBI

OpIndia Staff -
About 1200 ancient idols are believed to have been stolen between 1992 and 2017
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Opinions

NRC draft has come as a death knell for the already dwindling common sense of opinion makers

Nirwa Mehta -
A narrative seems to be being built to guilt Indians on the illegal immigrants' issue
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News Reports

As BJP men are killed, 80 members flee Bengal to take shelter in Jharkhand claiming threats

K Bhattacharjee -
The recently held Panchayat elections in the state were mired in violence.
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News Reports

Sabarimala Temple Case: Petitioner says she now understands and respects the Temple traditions

OpIndia Staff -
Two female petitioners say they did not understand the temple traditions and were triggered by media hype over the Jayamala controversy
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Opinions

Assam’s NRC: All that the media doesn’t tell you

Ashish Shukla -
Anyone can be overwhelmed by the fear-mongering in the media
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News Reports

College affiliated to Malankara Church refuses to publish magazine with a poem about sex abuse by godmen

OpIndia Staff -
The four line poem reportedly refers to the Kottoyoor rape case where father Robin had allegedly raped and impregnated a minor girl
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News Reports

Talib Hussain, the ‘Braveheart’ seeking justice for Kathua rape victim arrested on rape charges

OpIndia Staff -
A case has been registered against him under section 376 (rape) of Ranbir Penal Code (RPC) and 4/25 Arms Act.
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News Reports

Activist Tommy Robinson who was arrested for reporting about paedophile gangs, released on bail

OpIndia Staff -
The court has ordered a retrial after releasing him on bail
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News Reports

NC MLA threatens: ‘If changes made to Article 35A and 370, Indian Flag won’t be seen in Kashmir’

OpIndia Staff -
The National Conference is known to be controversial, as he had earlier abused the security forces
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News Reports

Cow smugglers in Rajasthan shoot at cops, break barricades to try and flee with the bovines

OpIndia Staff -
The truck carrying the bovines was later nabbed by the police
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News Reports

Amit Shah dares Mamata Banerjee to arrest him, Kolkata police says permission for rally already granted

OpIndia Staff -
The BJP Yuva Morcha had stated earlier that Kolkata police is yet to respond to the formal application for the August 11 rally
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Opinions

Understanding the Assam conflict : The NRC final draft is out and the rhetoric is not helping

K Bhattacharjee -
We have to be realistic about current circumstances.
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