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Rahul Gandhi delivers his promised ‘earthquake’ and this is how Twitter reacted

Hemant Bijapurkar -
Rahul Gandhi delivered his earthquake in a rally in Mehsana in Gujarat and people took to social media to analyse it.
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Opinions

Rajdeep Sardesai’s moral compass points away from communal riots in West Bengal

Editorial Desk -
While various reports point to communal riots, Rajdeep Sardesai insists on not probing it.
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News Reports

Assam govt announces a long list of incentives if one transacts digitally

OpIndia Staff -
Announcements include a lot of awards and discounts to encourage adoption of digital payments.
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News Reports

Demonetization and Velocity of Money – something overlooked by many

OpIndia Staff -
CA who wrote the open letter to Kejriwal, talks about a new idea
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Politics

How Kejriwal would have dealt with demonetisation to emerge as a hero

Aditya (reviewero) -
Modi should take lessons from him
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News Reports

Social Media calls out Media’s political correctness in reporting Berlin Attack

Hemant Bijapurkar -
Pass the buck onto the truck
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News Reports

How China played a double game during the liberation of Goa

Hemant Bijapurkar -
China’s two faced reaction after Goa was liberated from Portugal by freedom fighters backed by India.
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News Reports

IIT-BHU startup creates a water filtration solution that considerably reduces water wastage

Rahul Raj -
BHU start-up trying to reduce water crisis in industrial and domestic space.
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News Reports

IT head of AAP maligns Lt Gen Bipin Rawat, in a bid to split Army on political lines

OpIndia Staff -
Social Media head of AAM Aadmi Party spreads rumors about Lt. General Bipin Rawat.
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News Reports

Congress govt in Uttarakhand gives special break to Muslim employees for Friday prayers

OpIndia Staff -
This comes days after the BJP govt in Assam denies Madarsas a special weekly off on Fridays.
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News Reports

How religion was dragged in after announcement of new Army Chief

OpIndia Staff -
The government announced chiefs of armed forces, but some could only see religion in it.
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Books

Why I decided to publish my first novel all by myself

Nirwa Mehta -
Journalist turned author Nirwa Mehta shares her experience with book publishing.
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News Reports

Why Muslims are not allowed to keep long beard in the armed forces

Hemant Bijapurkar -
At least two men have been dismissed from their services because they refused to cut their beard.
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News Reports

The truth behind political parties being exempt from tax scrutiny for deposit of old notes

OpIndia Staff -
How the media spread rumours about an old rule, as if it was introduced by the new govt.
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Opinions

Demonetisation and the miraculous rise of Humanity

Divya -
Its economic effects will be known in long run, but milk of human kindness is flowing in short run.
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OpIndia Explains

Political parties and ‘income tax’ on donations – all you need to know

Ashutosh Muglikar -
Do parties pay tax? Do they keep records of donations? And more FAQs.
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News Reports

When journalists joined Kejriwal in attacking Paytm without any valid reason

OpIndia Staff -
As per rules and the IT law, any person is welcome to file a cyber-crime complaint with CBI.
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Media

This Scroll reporter can write reports on anything just by imagining things

Rahul Roushan -
Find out when a reporter should legitimately use anonymous sources in his reportage.
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News Reports

This is how Pakistani media ‘managed’ Vijay Diwas

Hemant Bijapurkar -
A look at selected newspapers in Pakistan and their coverage.
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Opinions

Narrative against Income Tax raids and why it reminded me of my college days

Rahul Raj -
How hatred for Modi is causing the so-called left-liberals to lose all objectivity.
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News Reports

Axis Bank becomes target of outrage and ridicule after multiple raids

Hemant Bijapurkar -
Twitterati didn't spare the bank, where many fake accounts were found by the taxmen.
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News Reports

Local Congress leaders from Arunachal support Kiren Rijiju, deny any scam

OpIndia Staff -
While Congress in Delhi is accusing the minister of corruption, local leaders are backing him.
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Opinions

If demonetisation was bad for black money, GST will be much worse

Gaurav -
How the proposed GST system will make sure that generation of black money is curbed.
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News Reports

Kejriwal government hurting our morale by insulting us: IAS association

Hemant Bijapurkar -
Delhi government has often blamed the bureaucrats whenever an issue of governance is raised.
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News Reports

The fake ‘dog meat’ news reports that sent Hyderabadis into shock

OpIndia Staff -
How a rumour about Shah Ghouse using dog meat made into local news media.
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Politics

This is why Rahul Gandhi so desperately wants to speak in the parliament

Editorial Desk -
Rahul claims to have information on corruption by Modi, but he will speak only in the Parliament.
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News Reports

Allegations against Kiren Rijiju and the controversial officer at the heart of it

OpIndia Staff -
Are corruption charges against the union minister tenable?
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News Reports

Chanda-bandi hits Aam Aadmi Party while it runs down note-bandi

OpIndia Staff -
A former member has asked not to donate to the party till it makes donors’ list public.
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News Reports

How two Economists destroyed Manmohan Singh’s arguments against demonetisation

OpIndia Staff -
Manmohan Singh’s must talked about article debunked by Bibek Debroy and S Gurumurthy.
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News Reports

Owaisi joins Sibal and Kejriwal in giving communal colour to demonetisation

OpIndia Staff -
Owaisi has claimed that Muslims were being discriminated during the demonetisation drive.
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Politics

Satyendra Jain deletes old embarrassing tweets to Kejriwal, but we have a copy

OpIndia Staff -
Screenshots live forever
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News Reports

Banks facing the heat in demonetisation crack-down

OpIndia Staff -
Many banks like Axis Bank is under the scanner for helping money launderers. Government must take strict actions against such banks.
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Opinions

Appointment of the Army Chief – If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

rohitagarwal -
Merit over seniority argument might appear tempting, but it has its pitfalls.
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Media

E-mails of Barkha Dutt and Ravish Kumar hacked, NDTV approaches courts

OpIndia Staff -
NDTV fears that emails will be used ‘out of context’ to damage their reputation.
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News Reports

THIS is why so many money launderers are getting caught. And it will only get worse

Gaurav -
There seems to be a design to all the raids
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News Reports

AAP facing wide range of problems as Punjab approaches 2017 elections

OpIndia Staff -
AAP started well, but as the election dates are approaching, it seems AAP is losing ground.
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Social Media

How I dealt with Sexual Harassment on Twitter

Guest Author -
Women often prefer to ignore or keep silent about online harassment, but some speak up.
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Media

How the media misread and misreported Allahabad HC’s judgement over Triple Talaq

Hemant Bijapurkar -
Comments of a judge were creatively interpreted to report something else.
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News Reports

Hacker releases property details of Vijay Mallya, warns Congress of upcoming leaks

OpIndia Staff -
A group calling itself ‘Legion’ hacked the account and sent warnings to Rahul Gandhi.
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Media

News18 tries to cover up after wrongly quoting Deepak Parekh over demonetisation

OpIndia Staff -
The news channel misquoted the HDFC Chairman, and later quietly changed the report.
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News Reports

Delhi government’s achievements in the education sector – Truth vs Hype

prashantb1984 -
AAP government in Delhi claims to have made magical turnarounds. A reality check.
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News Reports

Demonetisation – how some in the low income groups are dealing with it

OpIndia Staff -
A Mumbai based NGO, Sukrta, tried to find out problems the poor are facing due to demonetisation.
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News Reports

The story of Abdul Latif, on whose life SRK’s upcoming movie Raees is based

OpIndia Staff -
Latif was a communal gangster and Dawood’s aide. Will the movie show the truth?
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News Reports

Yet another mistake from The Hindu forces them to apologise

OpIndia Staff -
The Hindu twisted answer given by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to mislead people
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News Reports

Out of power, Abdullahs of Kashmir flirt with separatist and Jihadi sentiments

OpIndia Staff -
Farooq Abdullah gives support to separatists in desperation to win support.
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News Reports

Remembering Jayalalithaa

OpIndia Staff -
The end of an era in politics. Social media recalled some of her best moments.
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News Reports

Media spins Baba Ramdev’s statement on Mamata Bannerjee

OpIndia Staff -
Media does Yoga with Baba Ramdev's statement on Mamata
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News Reports

The truth about Nitin Gadkari arranging 50 chartered planes for his daughter’s wedding.

OpIndia Staff -
"Flights" of fancy from the media?
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News Reports

Shocking: Former Finance Minister Chidambaram makes embarrassing mistake

OpIndia Staff -
We trusted this man with the country's finances!
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Media

Greek Embassy slams The Hindu for misquoting their minister in an anti-demonetization article

OpIndia Staff -
This one boomeranged on them
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