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UK event organisers cancel event hosting Congress President Rahul Gandhi, rescind invite

OpIndia Staff -
Gandhi will be in the UK later this month to interact with the Indian diaspora.
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Man says he’ll help poor instead of killing goat on Bakri Eid, gets abused

OpIndia Staff -
He had installed water cooler outside his house instead of sacrificing a goat for Bakri Eid
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‘Neil Armstrong’ gets BMC aproval to slaughter goats inside Bombay High Court

OpIndia Staff -
The BMC has been granting online permissions for goat slaughter without any verification
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Congress leader Ahmed Patel’s close aide and accused in Rs. 5,000 crore Sterling Biotech fraud case held in Dubai

OpIndia Staff -
As the Enforcement Directorate tightened its investigation, senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel's association in this case resurfaced
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Opinions

How not to pay tribute to the departed – these two cartoons are the best examples

Pratap G -
A cartoonist is supposed to think beyond what a normal commentator would come up with, but our cartoonists are poor copy of them.
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News Reports

‘Gau rakshak who supports no political party’ – says former aide of man who claimed attack on Umar Khalid

OpIndia Staff -
Two men have released a video claiming responsibility of the attack on Khalid
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Opinions

Atal Bihari Vajpayee : The Quintessential Indian

Shashank Bharadwaj -
He is the greatest Prime Minister of India.
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Political Fact-Check

Even in death, this rumour does not leave Atal Bihari Vajpayee

OpIndia Staff -
Vajpayee had denied referring to Indira as Durga from day one.
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News Reports

UP: Yogi Adityanath govt requests Centre to rename Bareilly, Kanpur, Agra airports

OpIndia Staff -
The renaming of the public places is being carried out to revive the ancient history associated with the places.
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News Reports

12 things Vajpayee talked about in his speech on Savarkar that hold relevance even today

Sanghamitra -
Savarkar's Hindutva was vast and inclusive, it cannot be defined by narrow views of communalism
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News Reports

Atal Bihari Vajpayee: The man, the legend, the people’s politician

Anubhav -
A people’s leader, an impeccable orator and a poet, Vajpayee wore a lot of hats and unlike many they did not burden his head.
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Opinions

Media Courtiers use ailing Atal Bihari Vajpayee to shower adulation on the Dynasty

Anubhav -
If we take the Indian example, the Gandhi family has established themselves as the kings or the de-facto rulers of the land called India.
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News Reports

Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Vigyan: How former Prime Minister Vajpayee led India to new dawn in science after Pokhran tests

OpIndia Staff -
Pokhran tests in 1998 propelled India as a full fledged nuclear armed state.
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News Reports

Former Yazidi sex slave spots tormentor in German streets, authorities admit they cannot do anything

OpIndia Staff -
Intelligence services have known for some time that many terrorists have entered Europe posing as refugees.
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News Reports

Rejoicing death – how self-declared ‘liberals’ showed they are worst of humanity as Vajpayee remains critically ill

OpIndia Staff -
93 year old former Prime Minister is on his deathbed following a heart attack on 11th August
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Opinions

Hindus first lose lives and then, the narrative

Ashish Shukla -
First you lose lives; then you lose the memory of these lives and instead of outrage are left with guilt.
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News Reports

Nirmala Sitharaman on the Rafale row: Congress has been beating around the bush showing their ‘desperation’

OpIndia Staff -
"The desperation of the Opposition is clear. Congress is displaying irresponsibility", said the Defence Minister
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Politics

My debate with a Leftist friend over demands to cancel Pondy Lit fest

Nirwa Mehta -
Those who like to speak the truth, don't have stomach to hear it.
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News Reports

London authorities return 12th century Buddha statue missing form Nalanda

OpIndia Staff -
The Buddha statue is one of the 14 statues that were stolen from Nalanda museum in 1961
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Opinions

Watch : Madhu Trehan obfuscates when it comes to talking about corruption in the media

Abhishek Banerjee -
Who you think was being ‘served’ at this Media rumble: the establishment or the people?
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News Reports

Two Sadhus opposed to cow slaughter found brutally murdered inside temple premises

Jhankar Mohta -
Cops suspect the victims' opposition to cow slaughter is one of the prime reasons behind this abhorrent act
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News Reports

Three arrested over incident of maulvi refusing to sing national anthem in UP madarsa

OpIndia Staff -
The same had happened last year when many Madrasas refused to sing the national anthem
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News Reports

How an edited video is being circulated to claim Modi insulted the National Anthem

OpIndia Staff -
Many on social media have already shared this malicious video
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Opinions

From Fragile Five to Top Five : India with Modi

Abhishek Banerjee -
We are all hoping to see you again at the Red Fort on Aug 15, 2019. A deep saffron turban, like today, would look best.
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News Reports

Fact-check: How accurate were PM Modi’s claims in his Independence Day speech?

The True Picture -
Some fact-checkers also got their fact-check wrong
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Opinions

Rahul-Kejriwal saga: What the Lutyens Media didn’t tell you

Ashish Shukla -
The Lutyens Media does know how to cover their tracks.
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News Reports

Six-women crew of INSV Tarini honoured with Nav Sena Gallantry medals

OpIndia Staff -
The country has hailed this magnificent achievement by these six Indian Navy officers
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Opinions

How the propaganda against RSS falls flat on its face

Ashish Shukla -
Identify the agenda they have and identify the mistruths they spread.
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News Reports

Grand Jury’s scathing comments against the Catholic Church and large scale sexual abuse in Pennsylvania

OpIndia Staff -
The report also mentions the Church's 'playbook for concealing the truth'.
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Opinions

India’s Broken Tryst

Rahul Kaushik -
India is now certainly 'waking to life & freedom' and as the great Swami Vivekananda said, shall not sleep until the goal is achieved.
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News Reports

Maa Durga’s homecoming: American museum all set to return 2 idols found to be of Indian origin

Jhankar Mohta -
PM Modi is the first Indian head of govt to demand stolen Indian heritage from the U.S, Canada, Germany, and other countries.
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News Reports

All-female SWAT unit guarded Red Fort as Prime Minister delivered the Independence Day speech

OpIndia Staff -
The team comprising of 36 women went through more than a year of harsh training.
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Opinions

The apotheosis of Gandhi: A political project

K Bhattacharjee -
The deification of Gandhi was driven by political goals.
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News Reports

As Ashutosh quits AAP, Social Media erupts with speculations and mirth

OpIndia Staff -
There appears to be no end to Kejriwal's troubles.
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News Reports

21 points that sum up PM Modi’s speech on India’s 72nd Independence Day

Sanghamitra -
I am restless, anxious and impatient to see India marching forward on the path of glory
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News Reports

Dadabhai Naoroji: One of the founders of Congress and an Indian voice that reverberated in British parliament

Anubhav -
Dadabhai has been in many ways the first Indian voice which found an audience in the British society.
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News Reports

Long before the Quit India Movement, the Ghadar Party united against the British

Sanghamitra -
Long before Gandhi's call for Independence, Ghadar movement mobilized Indians around the world to unite against the British
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News Reports

RTI reveals Siddaramaiah government spent Rs 36 crore on phone bills: India Today

OpIndia Staff -
It has been a general trend of Indian politics that taxpayers have to bear the brunt of politicians wasting money on luxuries.
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News Reports

Financial experts give Nidhi Razdan a reality check after she tried to mock Rupee at 70

OpIndia Staff -
Various facts were highlighted to Nidhi Razdan
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News Reports

India has one of the least number of prisoners and one of the highest number of pre-trial detainees

Anubhav -
The top three regions with the highest overcrowding in prisons are D&N Haveli followed by Chhattisgarh and Delhi
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News Reports

Islamic terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda intends to carry out terror attacks in India: UN report

OpIndia Staff -
The Islamic terror groups have been trying to destabilize the country's internal security from a very long time
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News Reports

See how Twitter reacted to Business Standard’s ‘Kanwariyas are jobless’ insinuation

OpIndia Staff -
Business Standard's tweet saw many reactions that called out it's biased attempt at narrative building
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News Reports

Step towards simultaneous polls: BJP looks to hold elections in 11 states along with 2019 Lok Sabha poll

Shashank Bharadwaj -
The holding of simultaneous elections may bring huge savings to national exchequer.
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News Reports

Naxals behead man in Bihar, hide bombs in his body and throw it near temple

OpIndia Staff -
In 2013, too, Naxals had killed 9 CRPF and had put pressure bombs in five bodies
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Opinions

Despite no conclusive proof, AltNews declares journalist’s account ‘false’ to suit a narrative

Nupur J Sharma -
Using this to target journalists whose opinions are starkly against you is fascism
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News Reports

Uttarakhand High Court declares itself as the legal guardian of the cows

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, the Uttarakhand High Court had declared all animals 'legal entities'.
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News Reports

In a bizarre statement, Mamata Banerjee compares illegal immigrants to Hilsa and Sondesh

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee has been trying to paint the BJP as anti-Bengali.
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News Reports

‘Don’t think he is mentally stable, if he is, he shouldn’t go to Pakistan’: Subramanian Swamy on Navjot Singh Sidhu

OpIndia Staff -
Kapil Dev and Sunil Gavaskar have turned down their invite for attending Imran Khan's swearing in ceremony
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Opinions

After FirstPost, the Hindu goofs up: What it tells us about mainstream media

K Bhattacharjee -
The Hindu tweeted in support of Umar Khalid before deleting it and issuing an apology.
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News Reports

Rape accused Christian Bishop’s goons attack journalists

OpIndia Staff -
The media persons were being prevented from taking photos of the Bishop when he arrived to be questioned by the Kerala police
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