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Kerala priests accused of blackmail and sexual abuse

OpIndia Staff -
Father John has reportedly said that this incident does not deserve a police probe.
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Grandmaster Praggnanandhaa’s coach appeals for change in policy for sports awards

OpIndia Staff -
He appeals for equal opportunity for sports like chess when it comes to sports award at national level.
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Modi government likely to double minimum pension for organised sector employees

OpIndia Staff -
Employees provident fund organization has an active member base of over 6 crores
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Dalit organisation praises Modi govt, calls it a better performer than UPA

OpIndia Staff -
The Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI) Chairman praised the Modi government
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Centre proposes to make board affiliation and geo-tagging mandatory for madarsas

OpIndia Staff -
BJP led Uttar Pradesh government has already taken few steps in modernising madarsas.
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FIR filed against former Congress CM Siddaramaiah in matter involving illegal purchase of land

OpIndia Staff -
The former Chief Minister and three others are believed to be involved in this matter
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Battleground 2019, ahead of the general elections, regional parties look at digital platforms to woo voters

Jhankar Mohta -
Social Media has rapidly grown in importance as a forum for political activism in its different forms
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Opinions

Why 60 year old Mira Maheshwari had to flee from Pakistan to India

Abhishek Banerjee -
Bharat Mata ki Jai! Let's say it for her sometimes.
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Opinions

The media maintained silence, while the Congress rubbed shoulders with separatists

Ashish Shukla -
Most of them stood by and said nothing. 
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News Reports

“AMU and Jamia should provide reservations to Dalits like the BHU,” says UP CM Yogi Adityanath

OpIndia Staff -
Yogi Adityanath also attacked Congress President Rahul Gandhi for his temple-run streak.
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IAF guard collapses during ceremonial reception, Prime Minister Modi enquires after him

OpIndia Staff -
National capital has been facing severe heat and dust storms since past few days.
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Under fire from security forces, Naxals ask locals to choose between joining them and death

OpIndia Staff -
The Naxals seem unnerved after heightened action by security forces
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News Reports

Government urges Sonia, Mamata and Mayawati to ‘keep an open mind’ aiming for their support on Triple Talaq issue

OpIndia Staff -
While this move was welcomed by the majority, our women politicians chose to maintain silence on this issue
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News Reports

Surrendered Naxals eager to return to normal lives, Modi Sarkar’s multipronged approach has taken Left-wing terrorism to its deathbed

Sanghamitra -
Extensive anti-Naxal operations and taking development to doorsteps of locals have taken the war against left-wing terror to its last legs
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News Reports

When Congress tried to burn all copies of a movie satirising Emergency. Watch what upset them

Nirwa Mehta -
43 years of Emergency declared by Indira Gandhi
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Staggering rates of HIV among gay and bisexual men that no one is talking about

OpIndia Staff -
Globally, Men who have sex with Men (MSM) are 24 times more likely to be living with HIV than the general population.
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News Reports

Eye-witness in the ‘inter-faith’ couple passport row alleges abduction attempt

OpIndia Staff -
Lucknow Police is investigating the matter further.
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Modi approves committee for standardization of Metro systems in India, E Sreedharan may chair the committee

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier India has exported metro coaches to Australia.
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Opinions

The Wire publishes an article which seems like a Hurriyat press statement

Anubhav -
His musings about Kashmir has always been driven by his ivory tower upbringing and Oxfordian sense of superiority
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News Reports

No, government is not going to fix AC temperature in your homes

Nirwa Mehta -
The statement issued by the ministry of power had clarified.
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Clashes between two communities forces Hindu family to flee from Saharanpur

OpIndia Staff -
Amit, who belongs to Prajapati community, has fled the village, fearing life.
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Tea seller’s daughter’s dreams take off, makes it to flying branch in Indian Air Force

OpIndia Staff -
Success stories like these prove how where there is a will, there is a way.
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Lingayat minority status granted by Congress ahead of Karnataka elections challenged in High Court

Jhankar Mohta -
The primary grounds for the challenge is that Veershaivas and Lingayats fall under the Hindu religion
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Punjab : AAP leader’s son among two found dead because of suspected drug overdose

OpIndia Staff -
Karan Pasi was married to a girl living in New Zealand and was supposed to travel there in July
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Culture and History

Normalising Paedophilia: I am afraid the ‘progressives’ are at it again

K Bhattacharjee -
Pedophile advocacy is not a very recent phenomenon.
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News Reports

Kerala Communist chief mounts a strange defence, says ‘BJP workers can join other parties in future, only if they are alive’

OpIndia Staff -
The Communists Party of India (Marxists) have been ruthlessly eliminating all the political rivals all over the country.
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News Reports

Trouble mounts for Kerala Cardinal as Vatican removes him as head of archdiocese over land deal row

Jhankar Mohta -
Bishop Jacob Manathodath of Palakkad diocese to be appointed as the new apostolic administrator of the archdiocese
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Opinions

Kerala’s Chief Minister Pinarayi and the politics of tragedy

Madhavan -
Constitutional propriety and basic human values are damned.
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News Reports

BJP leader Mohammad Anwar brutally stabbed to death in Karnataka’s Chikmagalur

OpIndia Staff -
BJP claims he had been receiving threats by fundamentalists
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Opinions

Scrapping Article 370 will be the most fitting tribute that BJP can offer to Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee

Nithesh S -
Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee died in the state of Jammu and Kashmir while agitating against Article 370
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Catholic priest, nuns and teachers of catholic school among those questioned in Jharkhand Gangrape case: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
The priest allegedly got the nuns released but did not attempt to help the victims
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Media

CNN-News18 corrects a report that painted Sanskrit as a ‘dreaded subject’ and Arabic as ‘relief’

OpIndia Staff -
The report was quietly updated with no apology or retraction
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Ayodhya to get memorial park honouring Queen Hu, the Princess of Ayodhya who became Queen in Korea

OpIndia Staff -
Queen Hu Hwang ok is believed to have married King Suro of Korea in 48 AD.
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If you are not in your office during working hours you are suspended: Maharashtra Health Ministry issues whip

OpIndia Staff -
The health department has issued a government resolution to this regard
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Tripura : Real heroes avert a disaster, Minister recommends their name for an award

OpIndia Staff -
The quick reaction of the father-daughter duo has saved more than 2000 lives
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4 terrorists killed in Anantnag encounter are reportedly from Islamic State of Jammu and Kashmir

Sanghamitra -
Top ISIS commander in J&K Dawood Sofi has been reportedly killed in the encounter.
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Pakistani terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba backs Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad’s statement on Kashmir

Jhankar Mohta -
This is not the first time Congress leaders have spoken like terror sympathisers.
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Fact-Check

Truth about ‘Ahmedabad DCCB-Amit Shah scam’ – How Congress spread lies and inanities

Nupur J Sharma -
Rahul Gandhi and his motley band of manipulators won't stop lying
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News Reports

Modi snubs Kerala CM Pinarayi, refuses to meet him for the fourth time

OpIndia Staff -
The Kerala CM was asked to meet Food and Public Distributions Minister Ram Vilas Paswan for his concerns over ration allocation to Kerala
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Arun Jaitley slams ‘Jehadis, Maoists, their intellectual counterparts and Human Right Organisations that espouse separatism’

OpIndia Staff -
The Maoist sponsored human rights organisations only espouse the cause of separatism and violence, he wrote
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Went to Kashmir in search of jobs but were forced to become stone pelters: UP youths to police

OpIndia Staff -
They later returned home after being fed up by it
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Water crisis management: Government fast tracks the interlinking of thirty rivers

Jhankar Mohta -
The projects will transfer 174 billion cubic meters of water through about 14900-km network of canals aiming to ease the water crisis
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Lateral Entry: Landmark step by Modi govt to equip bureaucracy for challenges and opportunities

Ujjwal Virendra Deepak -
A reform to equip India’s bureaucracy for the challenges as well as opportunities of the 21st century.
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After Ghulam Nabi Azad insults Army, Congress leader Saifuddin Soz bats for ‘independence of Kashmir’

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress party seems to have been playing a dangerous plot, appeasing interested parties on both sides of the border
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Media

‘The Wire’s’ Vinod Dua lies yet again, this time about Kashmir, BJP-PDP alliance and Modi’s Foreign Policy

Anubhav -
The “gloom and doom” scenario of India that has been consistent in Dua’s views are farcical at best.
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Karnataka’s Congress MLA demands ‘Fortuner’, not small ‘Innova’ that nobody would notice

OpIndia Staff -
He wants Fortuner so that he is 'visible' to people.
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Billboard in Texas urging liberals to leave the great state of Texas to be countered with another billboard

OpIndia Staff -
The image was shared over 10,000 times on Facebook.
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Congress’ Karnataka ‘man of the match’ paid unaccounted money to AICC, claims IT Department

OpIndia Staff -
Summons are issued by the Income Tax Department for Shivakumar and his 4 aides
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Commandos of the elite National Security Guard reach Kashmir valley for anti-terror operations: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
The NSG has also been asked to train both the J&K State Police and the CRPF in counter-terror operations in densely populated areas
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This is what I learnt from the ‘inter-faith couple’ passport drama – don’t show your nikahnama when it’s not needed

Nirwa Mehta -
Prime Minister Modi trusts Indian citizen way too much and is way too liberal.
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