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One tweet, multiple lies : The Wire ‘journalist’ discovers new heights of tabloid journalism

OpIndia Staff -
The Bihar shelter home case has been used by politicians and journalists to settle political scores
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Entertainment

Teased over flop movie, ‘Mulk’ director mocks ‘Vikas’, gets roasted on Twitter

OpIndia Staff -
Mulk Director mocks a Twitter user named Vikas, Twitter responded in kind
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News Reports

RTI query reveals journalists owe huge amounts in unpaid rents to the UP government

OpIndia Staff -
Journalists from many prominent media houses owe the UP government lakhs of rupees in unpaid rent
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News Reports

Terror attack foiled: terrorist carrying cache of grenades from Jammu to Delhi arrested

OpIndia Staff -
The inputs from the agencies said that the terrorists have planned to carry out terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir and New Delhi on the Independence Day
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News Reports

Shelter home inmates in Deoria, UP, allege sexual exploitation, say were forced into prostitution

OpIndia Staff -
Following a CBI investigation, the shelter home's licence had been revoked.
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News Reports

Shashi Tharoor finds North Eastern headgears ‘outlandish’, attacks Modi for wearing those but not skull cap

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Shashi Tharoor mocks Naga headgear, calls it 'outlandish'
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News Reports

NDTV’s Sreenivasan Jain threatens to sue columnist for pointing out controversial past of Jain’s father

OpIndia Staff -
Perhaps Sreenivasan Jain is allergic to facts
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News Reports

Akhilesh Yadav offers Rs. 11 lakh to the person who outs the name of journalists who filmed how he ruined his former bungalow

OpIndia Staff -
Clearly, Akhilesh isn't too happy with people calling him out on him having taken advantage of taxpayers' money
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News Reports

IAS officers lock horns with AAP minister again, accuse Kailash Gahlot of misbehaving with woman IAS officer

OpIndia Staff -
The IAS Association has condemned the incident through its official Twitter handle.
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News Reports

PM Modi to oversee Kumbh Mela preparations which will be held in Allahabad in 2019

OpIndia Staff -
Kumbh Mela will be held earlier next year in January in Allahabad
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After aping each others’ political styles, Rahul Gandhi and Kejriwal seem to be avoiding each other

OpIndia Staff -
The differences between the two parties appear too vast to resolve.
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News Reports

Tribal girls in Kondagaon of Chattisgarh choose hockey sticks over radicalisation by Left-wing terrorism

OpIndia Staff -
The government's attempt at improving internal security has been yielding results
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: In another act of bestiality, a cow raped, accused Chotu Khan arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Just last month, 8 men were accused of gang-raping a pregnant goat in Mewat, Haryana
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News Reports

How media defames people for daring to criticise a journalist. This is what India Today did to me

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It is fairly common these days for “mainstream” media outfits, especially Congress-leaning ones like India Today, to subject social media users to pejorative labeling....
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News Reports

Sordid ‘solidarity’ saga: Politicians caught laughing and make merry while protesting against Bihar rapes

Nirwa Mehta -
Dozens of girls were rescued from a shelter home in Muzzafarpur, Bihar where they were repeatedly sexually harassed.
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News Reports

Congress and JDS a match made in heaven: Karnataka man arrested for trolling CM Kumaraswamy

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress too has had a long history of being against freedom of expression
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News Reports

Over 3800 kg worth cannabis sized in the last two days from Tripura and Assam

OpIndia Staff -
As confirmed by the DR, in the last few months a total of 8900 kg ganja has been seized from Tripura alone.
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News Reports

Lok Sabha passes bill for National Sports University in Manipur, to offer 13 courses through 4 schools

OpIndia Staff -
The University of Canberra and Victoria University will help develop the curriculum, research facilities and laboratories
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Maharashtra : Political pundits misjudge the mood of the masses, again

OpIndia Staff -
Contrary to the beliefs of political pundits, the BJP is going from strength to strength in Maharashtra.
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News Reports

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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