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Chandrababu Naidu led TDP to bring in no-confidence motion against NDA, gets support of opposition parties

OpIndia Staff -
The Chandrababu Naidu led Telugu Desam Party has officially announced its decision to bring in a no-confidence motion against the ruling NDA government. As per...
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Opinions

Are Congress’ political and intellectual ecosystems pulling in opposite directions?

Abhishek Banerjee -
The tail is not just wagging the dog. The tail is becoming the dog.
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Rahul Gandhi says #IAmCongress, Twitter reminds him what Congress really is

OpIndia Staff -
Social Media can indeed by brutal
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CBI files chargesheet against Farooq Abdullah for allegedly siphoning off crores of rupees

OpIndia Staff -
The chargesheet also filed against three others is linked to the J&K cricket association
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Kumaraswamy wastes taxpayers’ money by distributing expensive gifts to MPs, BJP MP returns gifts

OpIndia Staff -
Why should the taxpayers money be wasted in such extravagance
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WCD Minister orders immediate inspection of all child care homes run by Missionaries of Charity

OpIndia Staff -
The charity home has been in the news over allegations of its nuns selling babies
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Delhi Police responds to Delhi CM’s rant on law and order situation in national capital

OpIndia Staff -
Kejriwal has earlier accused Delhi Police of working for Narendra Modi
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Fact Check : No, most Indians did not search for Hima Das’ caste on Google

Shantanu -
Media is not a representation of reality
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Mayawati sacks BSP vice president for calling Rahul Gandhi a ‘foreigner’

Sanghamitra -
Mayawati sacked BSP vice president Jai Prakash Singh from the party for 'personal attack' against Rahul Gandhi
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Drinking in Public, littering, dumping plaster to be fined soon, says Goa CM Manohar Parrikar

OpIndia Staff -
The Goa government has been keenly observing the impact of its tourism industry on the local environment.
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NIA court sends Asiya Andrabi to 30 day judicial custody for waging war against the country

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistani sponsored terrorists are facing tough time since Narendra Modi became Prime Minister
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‘We can win 30 seats, but need to connect with people’: Chandra Kumar Bose speaks about BJP, Mamata and 2019

Anubhav -
'Mamata Banerjee has a long history of paranoia and overreaction'.
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Senior Congress leaders ‘tormenting’ Kumaraswamy, senior Congress leader backs the CM’s claims

OpIndia Staff -
Congress-JDS alliance has been in trouble from the word go.
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No crown for the Prince? BSP says Rahul cannot become the PM because of his mother’s foreign origin

OpIndia Staff -
The BSP, with 4 Rajya Sabha and zero Lok Sabha seats at present, wants Mayawati as the PM candidate
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Muslims living in China’s ‘little Mecca’ allege conspiracy to deliberately eradicate Islam

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier it was reported that all Chinese mosques had been asked to hoist the national flag
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Kerala police arrest members of Islamist outfits SDPI and PFI in connection with the Abhimanyu murder case

OpIndia Staff -
The Islamic group PFI has used violence extensively to promote their ideology.
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MNS workers protest against pothole deaths in the city, vandalise PWD office in Navi Mumbai

OpIndia Staff -
The MNS workers had threatened the PWD staff, forcing them to do sit-ups on the pothole-ridden road
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Opinions

Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity : Decades of the Baby Bazaar?

Abhinav Agarwal -
India has not begun to take even small, tentative steps towards true freedom.
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News Reports

Rajyavardhan Rathore slams terror apologists, says ‘fake liberals’ glorify Afzal Guru instead of Rifleman Aurangzeb

Sanghamitra -
Apologists for terrorists and Maoists always aim their protests against the armed forces, the very people who make sacrifices to protect our national and constitutional integrity.
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Journalist with alleged Benami links to Chidambaram, taken into CBI custody over extortion and corruption charges

OpIndia Staff -
He has been associated with the Tehelka magazine
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TOI quietly deletes “Veda Pathshala” from its ‘child trafficking at Madarsa’ story, no apology tendered

OpIndia Staff -
Not the first time misleading headlines were used to paint a wrong picture.
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Part of tent collapses during PM Modi’s speech, PM instructs SPG to help, meets the injured in hospital

OpIndia Staff -
The PM went to the hospital after his rally and spoke to each of the injured people individually.
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Divided house in MP Congress? Poster war erupts between Jyotiraditya Scindia and Kamal Nath

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress internal war is out in the open
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Babies sold by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity have been rescued, confirms Police

Jhankar Mohta -
The police statement came a day after the woman confessed to having sold three children and giving away the fourth for free
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AAP founder mocks BJP spokesperson for his disability, gets called out by netizens for insensitivity

OpIndia Staff -
One wonders if political parties would reign in official trolls like Shrivastava once and for all.
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Casteist Rajdeep Sardesai strikes again: Manages to link France’s victory to caste in Indian cricket

Nirwa Mehta -
It is amusing to see 'celebrity' journalists suddenly go 'woke' on caste discrimination.
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Bangladesh assures it won’t allow its soil to be used for terror activities against India

OpIndia Staff -
The assurance was given by Bangladesh's Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan
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Read about the four stalwarts nominated to the Rajya Sabha by the President of India

OpIndia Staff -
The President can nominate 12 persons to the Rajya Sabha
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India now stands 8th in the world for annual net gain in forest area and 10th for total area under green cover

Anubhav -
The India State of Forest Report is published by The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
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In a report about child trafficking in Madrasa, Times of India force-fits ‘Veda Pathshala’ in headline

OpIndia Staff -
With no data or specific cases mentioned to link any Veda Pathshala to child trafficking
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Social Media

Kiran Bedi congratulates Puducherrians for France’s FIFA victory, gets called out for ignorant comment

OpIndia Staff -
Kiran Bedi hasn't retracted her statements yet
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News Reports

TMC builds a ‘secular’ puja room in their office, BJP calls it drama

OpIndia Staff -
Recently, Mamata has been seen taking a soft Hindutva approach like Congress President Rahul Gandhi
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Madhur Bhandarkar summarizes his sufferings during “Indu Sarkar” by the Congress, headed by “the benefactor of freedom of expression”

OpIndia Staff -
Madhur here recollects the harrowing experience he had when he was hounded by the Congress workers
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Nawabzada Siraj Raisani, the anti-India Baloch leader killed in a suicide attack by Islamist terrorists

OpIndia Staff -
Raisani has been earlier attacked in 2011, too, but he had escaped.
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Politics

Congress Twitter account goofs up, again, refers to Subhadra as Lord Jagannath’s ‘brother’

OpIndia Staff -
A little bit of research would help.
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Trouble mounting for PDP as 18 disgruntled MLAs ready to join BJP to form the government

OpIndia Staff -
The political scenario in the valley has seen many highs and lows with the BJP deciding to pull out of the alliance
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Cracks deepen in the coalition as Karnataka CM breaks down: I won’t stick to CM post at the risk of my self-esteem, he says

OpIndia Staff -
Congress and the JD(S), both ensuing completely different ideologies, were earlier in lock horns with each other over several issues
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Rahul Gandhi and freedom of expression – A paradox

OpIndia Staff -
Congress President Rahul Gandhi could try practicing before tweeting
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National Commission of Scheduled Caste warns Aligarh Muslim University on SC/ST reservation

OpIndia Staff -
The Commission has ordered the government to present the year-wise details of the grants that AMU received from its establishment till 2018-19.
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BJYM protests against the extortion of students by the Trinamool Chatra Parishad in Bengal

Anubhav -
There has always been much uproar about the politicization of student unions in Bengal
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Watch: Anubhav Sinha blaming Union minister ‘felicitating rioting Hindus’ for Muslims becoming terrorists

Nirwa Mehta -
'Muslims did not start terrorism' - Anubhav Sinha
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Books

Karan Thapar didn’t want Pallavi Joshi in a TV serial because ‘she is dark’, Vivek Agnihotri reveals

OpIndia Staff -
Thapar was then heading Home TV. Vivek Agnihotri has written about the incident in his book ‘Urban Naxals’.
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Opinions

Rudra Hanuman and Swastika : How Hinduphobia went global

Abhishek Banerjee -
All it takes is for a smalltime journalist for a left-wing portal to stick her neck out of the window and damn you forever.
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Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia throws away coconut prasad given to him by party workers

OpIndia Staff -
The coconut was covered in Sindoor which indicated it could have been part of a Prasad
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Kerala church becomes a condominium for sinners, with another priest being held for rape

OpIndia Staff -
Church finding itself bang in the middle of accusations of blackmail, gangrape and selling babies
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Sonal Mansingh, once hounded by ‘secular Congress govt’, now nominated to Rajya Sabha by President

OpIndia Staff -
Mansingh talks about how Congress and Communist leaders came together to bring her down.
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Opinions

The Curious Case Of Justice Chelameswar

Naagesh Padmanaban -
The writing on the wall is clear.
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News Reports

Congress discovers a new low: Asks ‘dear friend’ Modi to be answerable for Nawaz Sharif’s arrest

OpIndia Staff -
We hope Congress comes up with an explanation. Though, we are certainly not holding our breath.
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In another case of Love Jihad, Muslim man kills Hindu girl after his fake Hindu identity was exposed

OpIndia Staff -
He was earlier posing as a Hindu in a bid to marry the girl
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Shia Waqf Board wants Ram Temple built, Sunni Waqf Board lawyer says ‘Hindu Taliban destroyed Babri’

OpIndia Staff -
It is the birthplace of Lord Ram and only a Ram temple will be built, said Waseem Rizvi
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