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4-year-old dies after attack by stray dog in Bhiwandi, MLA Rais Shaikh holds Municipal Corporation responsible, demands FIR

OpIndia Staff -
Bhiwandi East MLA Rais Shaikh has demanded an FIR be filed for negligence in the case. "In the past two or three months, nearly 800 children have been attacked by dogs in Bhiwandi. Another girl, Nayeeb, who a dog bit on July 8, passed away today. She was in a lot of pain and it is a sad incident," Shaikh said.
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Entertainment

Mollywood sex scandal: Kerala Police register complaint against filmmaker Ranjith on actress Sreelekha Mitra’s complaint

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The FIR was registered under the Indian Penal Code by the Kerala Police as the incident reportedly happened in 2009.
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Editor's picks

As Modi and Biden talk, fears grow around US interfering in Indian democracy: How US diplomats are meeting opposition from Gupkar gang, Owaisi to...

Anurag -
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Biden discussed the situation in Bangladesh and emphasised restoration of law and order and ensuring safety and security of the minorities, particularly Hindus. Meanwhile, US Diplomats had meeting with NC leaders in J&K.
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News Reports

Conspiracy to derail Vande Bharat Express in Rajasthan’s Pali: Miscreants placed cement block on track, case registered to probe sabotage attempt

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The CPRO emphasised that the cement block was deliberately placed on the track to cause an accident.
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News Reports

Covid-19 posts, Hunter Biden laptop story and Russian disinformation: Mark Zuckerberg exposes how Biden administration forced Meta to censor free speech

OpIndia Staff -
Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the company made 'some decisions' owing to the intimidation of the Biden administration, which it should not have enforced in hindsight.
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News Reports

US deliberately skips mention of Bangladesh Hindus? As Modi reveals bringing up plight of Hindus in call with Biden, White House communique makes no...

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Even on the US President’s official X handle, the discussion on the Bangladesh crisis was not mentioned.
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Crime

Telangana CMRF Scam: 26 hospitals named in FIR for colluding with corrupt individuals to siphon off relief money with fake documents

OpIndia Staff -
The FIR alleges that the accused created fake bills and submitted them to the Chief Minister's office for the sanction of the CMRF funds.
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News Reports

Kerala: Interfaith couple attacked by Muslim mob after Hindu wife refuses to follow Islamic customs, flees to a nearby temple for safety

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In Kerala's Kasaragod, an interfaith couple was attacked by Islamists after the Hindu wife refused to convert to Islam and adhere to Islamic customs.
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News Reports

JNU agrees to conduct caste census on campus, revert to in-house exam, drop inquiries in a sexual harassment case after students’ protests

Paurush Gupta -
The JNU students’ body has also claimed that the administration has agreed to drop the inquiries in a sexual harassment case
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News Reports

Karnataka: Congress minister Shivraj Tangadagi abuses villagers for demanding good roads, video goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
The video of the incident was posted on X by India Today media in which the Minister could be seen gheraoed by the residents. The Minister started hurling abuses and arguing with the citizens as they began making demands for good roads in the city.
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News Reports

Kangana Ranaut faces threats for speaking about rapes and murders during ‘farmers’ protests, BJP distances itself saying they don’t reflect the party’s stance

Paurush Gupta -
The development comes at a time when Kangana Ranaut is facing multiple threats for her recent remarks on Farmer protest. Notably, during one of the promotion event for her upcoming movie, Emergency, Kangana Ranaut lauded the Union government for its actions during the farmer protest.
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News Reports

RG Kar Hospital rape and murder case: Accused visited red-light areas and molested a woman on the night of the crime

OpIndia Staff -
Sanjay Roy also confessed to molesting another woman ion the street, an incident that was notably captured on surveillance cameras.
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OpIndia Explains

Meeran Haider gets 10-day interim bail: Role in 2020 Delhi anti-Hindu riot conspiracy, talks of Ghazwa-e-Hind, Zakat, PFI money, payment to rioters and more

Nupur J Sharma -
Meeran Haider has been granted interim bail for 10 days - but his involvement in Delhi anti-Hindu Riots is deep, with a money trail being established
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News Reports

Idol of Goddess Kali found beheaded: Tripura witnesses communal violence over temple desecration, houses and vehicles set on fire

OpIndia Staff -
In the meantime, the local administration has imposed a 48-hour curfew under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).
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News Reports

Balochistan: Major attack against Pakistani military personnel, multiple vehicles targeted on highway, dozens shot dead. Read about Baloch rebels’ Operation Herof

Paurush Gupta -
While Pakistan has dubbed the Mushakhail incident as a ‘terrorist attack’, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) said that the deceased passengers were Pakistani military servicemen who were disguised in civilian clothes.
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World

Massive protests in Indonesia after Widodo govt tries to overturn court order to amend eligibility for election candidates: All you need to know

Anurag -
The Parliament was set to revise election laws following a Constitutional Court judgment on candidate age requirements, which rendered President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo's youngest son, 29-year-old Kaesang Pangarep, ineligible to contest elections. The legislature planned to make revisions to reverse this judgment.
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News Reports

Joshua Project running conversion racket in MP, Jharkhand, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh, 6 crore people reached under drive for large scale conversion to Christianity: Details

Shraddha Pandey -
Of the total population of India, 95.5% of the population remains unreached for Joshua Project with 2.9% minimally reached and 1.7% superficially reached, as per The Joshua Project.
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News Reports

Ghaziabad: Hindu residents suspect madrasa functioning in a residential apartment, Muslim ‘guests’ assault guard for objecting to Quran recitation

OpIndia Staff -
A video recorded the gathering inside the flat which is now going viral on social media. In the viral video, people can be seen eating food together in the flat. Many children and minors are also seen among them.
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi extends greetings on Janmashtami without Lord Krishna’s image: Why has he been avoiding using pictures of Hindu Gods?

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Rahul Gandhi has been meticulously walking a tightrope—projecting himself as a Hindu leader while also appeasing his core vote bank that harbours deep disdain for idolatry and pictorial representation of Gods.
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News Reports

Bangladesh: ‘Student body’ hounds teachers opposed to hijab, unleashes Islamic lynch mob against them by making names public

OpIndia Staff -
OpIndia analysed the names of 100 teachers who were labelled 'anti-hijab' by the 'Odhikar Sochetan Shikharti Samaj'. We found that at least 21 of them are Hindus while 5 are Christians.
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi’s caste representation rhetoric is more preaching and less practice: CWC is proof, with only 5 out of 39 SC leaders

Anurag -
There are 39 members listed in the recent CWC composition, out of which at least 25 belong to the General category or Upper Caste including Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, P. Chidambaram, and Abhishek Manu Singhvi.
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News Reports

Mumbai-based Amin arrested for posing as PA of BJP leader Ashish Shelar and duping kin of prison inmates

OpIndia Staff -
The 24-year-old contacted lawyers to get information of prisoners, their kin; later duped relatives, saying the inmate needed money for treatment.
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News Reports

Flights restricted, infrastructure damaged: Ukranian drone crashes into high-rise building in Russia’s Saratov in 9/11 style

OpIndia Staff -
Saratov is about 900 kilometers (560 miles) from the Ukrainian border. According to Russia's RIA news agencies, flights at the provincial Saratov airport have been prohibited, citing the airport's press service.
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News Reports

200 people killed by Al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) in Burkina Faso

OpIndia Staff -
The terrorists opened fire on a group of people who were digging trenches designed to protect security outposts in Barsalogho, located 40 km north of the strategic town of Kaya in Burkina Faso.
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News Reports

Editor of ‘Dhaka Tribune’ whitewashes crimes against Hindus in Bangladesh, belongs to the family of Huseyn Suhrawardy who orchestrated Direct Action Day

Dibakar Dutta -
Zafar Sobhan was unable to explain how the 'minority' Muslim population in India surged from 9.84% in 1947 to 14.09% in 2011 despite supposed 'lack of safety' while the Hindu population in Bangladesh has been on a serious decline.
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News Reports

UP: Muslim mob attacks Hindu boy and burqa-clad Muslim girl sitting in a garden in Bareilly

OpIndia Staff -
“The Inspector in Charge of Kotwali, Bareilly has been directed to investigate and take necessary legal action,” Bareilly Police said.
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News Reports

Punjab: Pastor Jacob Masih and 8 others beat a daily wage labourer suffering from seizures to death claiming to remove the devil from his...

OpIndia Staff -
A 30-year-old man was thrashed to death in Punjab's Gurdaspur district allegedly by a pastor and eight others in an attempt "to get his body rid of the devil"
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News Reports

‘In Assam, if we ask the name of Shahjahan or Shahzalal, intellectuals play victim card’: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma says he and his family...

OpIndia Staff -
Assam CM Sarma explained the Toolkit of Land Jihad stating that once one or two people enter a region, they start eating a ‘certain kind of animal’, cows. Then the nearby people start to leave. There is a complete pattern. These are the things that are happening in Barpeta, Mangaldol.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Pune Police book over 300 individuals after an Islamist mob gheraoed Collector’s office and raised ‘Sar Tan Se Juda’ slogans against Ramgiri Maharaj

OpIndia Staff -
During the march, the Islamist protestors demanded Sar tan se Juda [beheading] punishment for Ramgiri Maharaj for his recent remarks during a sermon in Nashik’s Sinnar region.
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News Reports

Bangladesh: Madrasa student caught after vandalising three Hindu temples, says he did it after seeing rumours of India causing floods in the country

OpIndia Staff -
A student in a Madrasa in Bangladesh was arrested on Friday for vandalising three Hindu temples, who said that he did it over rumours that floods in the country were caused by India
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News Reports

Union Minister and LJP leader Chirag Paswan favours Caste Census, says accurate data needed as many govt schemes designed keeping caste in mind

ANI -
After Rahul Gandhi reiterated the demand for a caste census on Saturday, Union Minister Chirag Paswan expressed his support for the initiative.
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News Reports

Israel and Hezbollah exchange ‘heaviest strikes’ since October 7th Hamas terror attack, Israeli jets destroy thousands of Hezbollah rocket launchers

OpIndia Staff -
On Sunday (25th August), Israel and Islamic terror group Hezbollah exchanged their “heaviest strikes” since the 7th October 2023 Hamas terror attacks on Israeli territories
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News Reports

Former general secretary of student wing of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League dies while attempting to flee to India from Bangladesh

ANI -
Ishak Ali Khan Panna, a former General Secretary of the Bangladesh Chhatra League and a member of the Pirojpur District Awami League, died on Saturday while attempting to flee to Meghalaya
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News Reports

Kolkata rape and murder case: Prime suspect Sanjoy Roy takes U-turn before polygraph test, claims he has been framed

OpIndia Staff -
Sanjay Roy initially confessed to the crime after his arrest. However, hours before the scheduled polygraph test, he reversed his stance, claiming innocence in the case. He is currently held in solitary confinement under tight security with CCTV surveillance. Roy has asserted that he was framed in the case.
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News Reports

FIR filed against 12051 people including Jharkhand BJP chief, union minister and others over clashes with police during BJYM rally in Ranchi

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An FIR was registered on Saturday against 12,000 unnamed, and 51 identified individuals, for allegedly being involved in a clash with police personnel during a Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) rally in Ranchi
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News Reports

Bal Buddhi, divisive man, a disaster, needs mental health check-up: BJP leaders mock Rahul Gandhi for caste profiling Miss India winners

OpIndia Staff -
After netizens, several BJP leaders also attacked Rahul Gandhi for claiming that no SC, ST or OBC has ever won the Miss India contest
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News Reports

Anti-Hindu Delhi Riots: Court grants 10-day interim bail to former RJD Youth Wing Leader Meeran Haider, who accepted he orchestrated riots in Delhi with...

OpIndia Staff -
Meeran Haider was a PhD student at Jamia Millia Islamia University. He was arrested in April 2020 in connection with rioting and criminal conspiracy related to the anti-Hindu riots in northeast Delhi. Haider made some shocking revelations regarding the anti-Hindu riots that Islamists carried out in February.
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News Reports

Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) and its comparison with National Pension System: How will government employees benefit from UPS – Know point-by-point

OpIndia Staff -
OPS was the best scheme because the employees did not have to make any contribution for pension and the government bore all its expenses. The Union government has estimated that the UPS will be beneficial for 99 percent of the currently working central employees.
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News Reports

30 organisations issue deadline to Miya Muslims to leave upper Assam within 7 days after the Dhing rape case, Congress MLA challenges them

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Following the horrific rape of a minor girl in Dhing in Assam by three youths from the Muslim community, several organisations have issued ultimatum to Miya Muslims to leave Upper Assam in 7 days
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News Reports

RG Kar Hospital rape and murder case: CBI conducts searches at premises of former Principal in Kolkata amid corruption probe

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The anti-corruption branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted searches on Sunday at multiple locations connected to former RG Kar Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh and his relatives in West Bengal's Kolkata.
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News Reports

Actor Siddique resigns as General Secretary of Association of Malayalam Movie Artists amid resurfaced sexual assault allegations

OpIndia Staff -
On 24th August, Malayalam actor Siddique resigned from the post of General Secretary of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA).
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Politics

“Anti-reservation parties”: Dalit leader Mayawati slams Congress and Samajwadi Party, rules out any alliance with them in future

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Targeting the Congress and Samajwadi Party (SP) over reservations, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Sunday called both parties 'anti-reservation' and ruled out any future alliance with them.
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Tech

The EU’s growing obsession with censorship: Arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov signals a threat to digital freedom

OpIndia Staff -
The investigation against Pavel Durov focuses on the lack of moderation on the Telegram app, which police claim has facilitated criminal activities. Telegram has approximately one billion users and is widely used in Russia, Ukraine, and the republics of the former Soviet Union.
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World

Pakistan Supreme Court revises its judgement saying Ahmadiyyas have a right to follow their religion following pressure from hardliner Islamists

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan Supreme Court removed so-called controversial paragraphs from Mubarak Sani judgment after pressure from Islamists. After the previous judgment, fanatics in Pakistan had rioted against Supreme Court Chief Justice.
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World

Israel Defense Forces launch strikes in Lebanon, hits places from where terror organisation Hezbollah was planning to launch attacks on Israel

OpIndia Staff -
In the days leading up to the Israel attack, Hezbollah had said that it is preparing to launch a major attack against Israel in retaliation for the assassination of its top military commander in Beirut by Israel.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Headmaster Jamal Kamil sexually assaults minor Dalit girl on pretext of cutting her nails in Meerut, Tuition teacher Syed Wasik Ali arrested...

OpIndia Staff -
According to the complaint, while cutting her nails, the accused Principal Jamal Kamil lifted the dress of the minor girl and started doing obscene acts. The victim got scared and somehow she managed to free her hands and ran out of his office crying. 
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News Reports

‘No Dalit, tribal or OBC women in Miss India list’: After media, bureaucracy and ministers, Rahul Gandhi indulges in caste profiling of beauty pageant...

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi said, "...I checked the list of Miss India to see if there would be any Dalit or tribal woman in it, but there was no women from Dalit, tribal or OBC. Still the media talks about dance, music, cricket, Bollywood but does not talk about farmers and labourers,"
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News Reports

Union cabinet approves ‘Vigyan Dhara’ scheme by merging 3 umbrella schemes under Science & Technology Dept with an outlay of ₹10,579 crore for five...

OpIndia Staff -
The Union Cabinet on Saturday approved continuation of the three umbrella schemes, merged into a unified central sector scheme namely ‘Vigyan Dhara’ of Department of Science and Technology
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News Reports

Centre approves Unified Pension Scheme (UPS), to benefit 23 lakh central government employees

OpIndia Staff -
Set to take effect on April 1, 2025, the UPS introduces various benefits, including a guaranteed pension amounting to 50 per cent of the average basic pay earned during the last 12 months before retirement.
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News Reports

Punjab: 2 assailants open fire at NRI in front of his wife and kids at his Amritsar’s residence; incident caught on CCTV cameras

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In the video which is going viral on social media, Singh’s family members including his wife and two children from his first marriage can be seen pleading before the assailants to spare Singh’s life.
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