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Kolkata rape-murder case: Centre files contempt case against Mamata Banerjee government for inadequate arrangements for CISF security at RG Kar Hospital

OpIndia Staff -
According to the plea by the Centre government, the Bengal government’s non-cooperation with CISF stationed at RG Kar Hospital is "unpardonable" and "symptomatic of a systemic malaise".
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Opinions

I saw IC814 series on Netflix and I salute subtle propaganda pushed by Anubhav Sinha: ISI, Taliban, and Terrorists were good guys, Ajit Doval...

Sandeep Singh -
After much outrage from the viewers and after being summoned by Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Netflix has agreed to add a small disclaimer at the start of IC814 series
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Crime

Shahrukh, Rihan, Aslam and 9 others awarded 12 years in prison by court for murder of cricketer Suresh Raina’s uncle, handed a fine of...

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Suresh Raina's uncle was murdered in August 2020 at his Pathankot residence during a robbery incident.
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Specials

Judicial supervision, Hindus on Council, greater scrutiny and investigating foreign funding: 9 suggestions for JPC on Waqf Amendment Bill

Anurag -
Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on Waqf Amendment Act 2024 has sought suggestions from stakeholders including the public, NGOs, experts, and institutions.
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Politics

Karnataka Congress hit by accusations of Land Scam 3.0: BJP MP says 19-acre government land given free of cost to Kharge family’s trust

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BJP Rajya Sabha MP Lahar Singh Siroya has demanded an independent investigation into the allotment of 19 acres of government land to an Institute run by the Kharge family’s trust, “free of cost”.
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News Reports

Dr Mohammad Saad arrested from Palghar after ‘Sar Tan Se Juda’ chants against Ramgiri Maharaj, throwing gaumutra jibes: Why this terror needs to be...

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Saad had posted a photo of Ramgiri Maharaj saying, "Cow urine drinkers and cow dung eaters do not deserve to talk about our God. Whoever does so shall be issued Sar Tan Se Juda punishment."
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News Reports

West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee trying to do damage limitation in the wake of RG Kar Hospital case protests, passes anti-rape bill

OpIndia Staff -
The anti-rape Bill can be seen as an attempt to divert the anger of the people against the TMC government. While introducing the bill, CM Banerjee explained that the Bill further tightens the provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and prescribes the death penalty for rapists if their acts result in the death of the victim or they suffer severe brain damage.
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News Reports

Netflix finally agrees to share real names of the IC814 hijackers in its Web Series, but only as an opening disclaimer

ANI -
The updation of the disclaimer for IC814 series comes after the content head Netflix India Monika Shergill met the Joint Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in Delhi on Tuesday.
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News Reports

Kangana’s ‘Emergency’ stalled by Censor Board but Netflix has full freedom to whitewash IC814 hijack: Activist Uday Mahurkar demands OTT platforms to be held...

OpIndia Staff -
Kangana Ranaut said, “Meri film pe hi Emergency lag gayi hai. Bahut hi nirashajanak ye sthiti hai... [An Emergency has been imposed on my film now. It's a terrible situation...]".
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Opinions

‘How can retiral benefits be greater than salary?’: Congress is digging itself a bigger hole after ICICI exposes hitjob against SEBI chief. Read how

Amit Kelkar -
ICICI bank refuted allegation levelled by Congress, highlighting that Buch may have exercised ESOPs and utilised the benefits after leaving the organisation.
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News Reports

Bangladesh: Awami League MP Bahauddin, who demonised Durga Puja as ‘festival of alcohol’ takes shelter in India illegally along with his daughter

OpIndia Staff -
Given that he belonged to Awami League and 'protestors' began hunting down the ruling politicians, Bahauddin escaped to India illegally about 10 days ago. He is currently staying with a politician in Kolkata.
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World

Read Kalma, become Muslim, it will help you a lot: Popular YouTuber Karl Rock asked to convert to Islam in Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
Karl Rock was repeatedly told to embrace Islam in Pakistan, however, he claimed not to know Urdu and departed.
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News Reports

Border Guard Bangladesh kills minor Hindu girl while she was trying to flee to India with her parents, BSF recovers dead body

OpIndia Staff -
The minor victim has been identified as Swarna Das, a Bangladeshi Hindu who is said to be in the age range of 14-16 years. 
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News Reports

After Nupur Sharma, it is Nitish Rane: Mohammad Zubair dogwhistles against Rane, ignoring ‘Sar Tan Se Juda’ threats to Ramgiri Maharaj, to which he...

OpIndia Staff -
In a post on X against Nitesh Rane, Mohammed Zubair wrote, "In poll-bound Maharashtra, BJP MLA Nitesh Rane says 'Tumhare Masjidon Ke Andar Aake Chun Chun Kar Marenge' (We will come inside your mosques and kill them one by one). This is not the first time but there have been several such Anti-Muslim hate speeches by him in the past."
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Minor Hindu girl gang-raped by Rizwan, Wasim and his brother, blackmailed with private videos to offer namaz and convert to Islam

OpIndia Staff -
The victim informed her relatives that Wasim took her to his house on the pretext of giving her washed clothes, where she was gang-raped.
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Crime

Honour killing in Uttar Pradesh: Naeem beheads 17-year-old daughter for having an affair, dismembers her body in multiple pieces; arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Naeem, resident of Uttar Pradesh, suspected that the minor victim, who had already twice left her home with her lover, would do so again.
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News Reports

Haryana: 12th class student killed in Faridabad mistaken for a cow smuggler, chased and shot dead; five arrested

OpIndia Staff -
A 19-year-old man was shot dead in Faridabad on suspicion of being a cow smuggler.
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News Reports

UP govt withholds salaries of 2.44 lakh government employees for failing to disclose their assets, details

OpIndia Staff -
The information was sought by the government about both moveable and immovable properties of the employees via the Manav Sampada website. Despite this, just 71% of employees provided details about their movable and immovable property on the Manav Sampada website. Following this, the said action was taken.
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News Reports

Quran burning activist’s X account withheld in India and Pakistan: All you need to know about Salwan Momika

OpIndia Staff -
Salwan Momika rose to fame after he set fire to a copy of Quran in front of Stockholm's main mosque on June 28th, 2023, the first day of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha.
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News Reports

‘How will we go to the hospital’: Lives of 25 Hindu families in Bangladesh come to a standstill after Sohail builds house in the...

OpIndia Staff -
After the Hindu families objected to the blockade, Sohail threatened them with physical harm. The Hindu community in Bandal village is now living in a state of fear.
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Crime

Ahmedabad: Gay men lured through dating apps, looted, assaulted and threatened in multiple incidents

OpIndia Staff -
On August 21st, a 32-year-old living in the Satellite area of the city reported to the Satellite Police station saying that he was robbed by a man who posed to belong to the LGBTQ+ community.
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News Reports

Bhil community in Rajasthan rallies in support of Supreme Court ruling on sub-classification and creamy layer exclusion in SC-ST quotas

OpIndia Staff -
The Bhil community members started the rally from Radha Raman Mangalik Bhawan carrying saffron flags in their hands and reached the Mini Secretariat to hand a memorandum to the Collector. During the rally, heavy police force was deployed to uphold law and order in the area.
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News Reports

Selling unclaimed bodies, extortion from students, kickbacks from medicine suppliers: CBI arrests former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh and 3 others over financial irregularities

OpIndia Staff -
Besides Sandip Ghosh, CBI arrested his security guard Afsar Ali Khan (44) and hospital vendors Suman Hazara (46) and Biplav Singha (52).
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News Reports

Meerut: Minor Hindu Dalit girl gangraped by Muslim men, abandoned in critical condition, village Pradhan Aslam booked for coercing victim family not to report...

OpIndia Staff -
This heinous case of gang rape of a Dalit teenager studying in Class 11th has sparked tensions in the area as all the accused hail from the Muslim community.
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News Reports

Will distort pictures of your mother and sister, and hang it on your door: TMC leader threatens protesters protesting against doctor’s rape and murder,...

OpIndia Staff -
TMC suspended its leader for one year after his video went viral on social media and led to a massive outrage
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News Reports

Congress files FIR in Bengaluru against Bangladeshi journalist who claimed Sonia Gandhi has ISI connections, Indian portal ‘The Jaipur Dialogues’ also booked

OpIndia Staff -
In an article, the Bangladeshi journalist stated that the Congress party deliberately never called Sonia Gandhi by her original name. He also called Sonia Gandhi a 'mafia queen' and a 'Pakistani ISI asset' who has been carrying out her 'activities' in India.
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World

Canada: International students now limited to working 24 hours a week, Indian students in the country to feel financial strain

OpIndia Staff -
Off-campus jobs help Indian students in Canada with payments for their groceries and accommodation.
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News Reports

Canada: Shots fired outside home of singer AP Dhillon, car set on fire; Lawrence Bishnoi gang claims responsibility threatening singer for video with Salman...

OpIndia Staff -
Apart from taking responsibility, the post also issued a death threat to AP Dhillon citing his closeness with Bollywood actor Salman Khan.
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News Reports

OpIndia Exclusive: UP man who went to Sierra Leone for job harassed by employer for years, attacked when he asked employer to let him...

Shraddha Pandey -
Arpit said that he went to the Indian Embassy in Sierra Leone seeking their help, however, the officials spoke to Arpit in Vatnani’s presence who assured the officials that he would send Arpit back to India.
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Media

What is Delhi Waqf Board scam in which Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan has been arrested by Enforcement Directorate: Details

Paurush Gupta -
According to ED, Amanatullah Khan acquired "huge proceeds of crime" in cash through these illegal activities and invested these proceeds in purchasing immovable assets in the name of his associates.
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Congress leader Mufti Mehndi arrested for sexually assaulting domestic maid, picture with Priyanka Gandhi surfaces online

OpIndia Staff -
"He also asked me to have relations with other people and on refusal, he would physically assault me," the woman said in an official complaint to the police.
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News Reports

‘How can house be demolished just because he is an accused, can’t demolish even if he is a convict’: Supreme Court on bulldozer action

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court decided to propose to lay down guidelines on the demolition as it strongly opposed the bulldozer action.
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News Reports

Supreme Court forms committee to negotiate with farmers blocking Shambhu border

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court forms a high-powered committee to negotiate with farmers blocking Shambhu border. Urged them to clear the National Highway.
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News Reports

Dhanya Rajendran of The News Minute focuses on Mohan Lal while ignoring explosive allegations of sexual abuse and drug use in Malayalam Film industry

OpIndia Staff -
The News Minute recently published an article with Mohan Lal as the centrepiece, even as the Malayalam film industry is hit by the storm of sexual abuse allegations against actors and filmmakers.
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News Reports

Bijnor: Muslim teacher who wiped tilak off Hindu students suspended, 3 others transferred for spreading communalism in school

OpIndia Staff -
On August 24th, District Magistrate (DM) Ankit Kumar Agarwal appointed a three-member committee to investigate a video of a teacher, Tanveer Ayesha, removing tilak off students' foreheads that was circulated on social media. The incident occurred at a school in Bhanera village, Kiratpur block.
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News Reports

Dangers of open borders, men in women sports, assassination attempt and more: 5 takeaways from the interview of Donald Trump with Fox News

OpIndia Staff -
Donald Trump stated, "Basically, they are liberals. I do not like to use the word 'progressive'. Progressive means you are thinking for the future. They're actually thinking to 3,000 years ago."
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News Reports

SP leader Nawab Singh Yadav raped a minor survivor in Kannauj: Police after DNA samples match

OpIndia Staff -
DNA sample of SP leader Nawab Singh Yadav, former associate of Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple Yadav, matched with minor survivor in Kannauj rape case.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Muslim man burns Quran and accepts Hinduism while supporting Ramgiri Maharaj, gets arrested

OpIndia Staff -
The FIR copy filed in the case mentioned that the accused had hurt the religious sentiments of the Muslim community. Imran, in the video, indicated that Islam was never a peaceful religion and that the people following it are committing a mistake.
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News Reports

Another AAP leader arrested in a money laundering case: Delhi MLA Amanatullah Khan taken into custody by ED over corruption in Delhi Waqf Board

OpIndia Staff -
ED recently moved a complaint against Amanatullah Khan for not appearing before the agency and not joining the probe.
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News Reports

Kolkata: Man flashes woman during RG Kar Hospital rape-murder protests, chaos erupts after police allow him to leave

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Outrage swept Kolkata after a man accused of flashing a woman at the RG Kar Hospital rape-murder protests was allegedly allowed to leave by the police.
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News Reports

IC814: The Kandahar Hijack web series – Netflix India Content Head summoned by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting

OpIndia Staff -
The Neflix show dramatises the 1999 hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight IC814 by a Pakistan-based terror outfit.
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News Reports

Congress leader Simi Rosebell expelled after accusing Kerala Congress of having a ‘casting couch’ culture

OpIndia Staff -
Rosebell accused various Congress leaders of sexual harassment, including VD Satheesan, claiming that women could only advance to key positions by 'impressing' male leaders, often ignoring the requirement for competence and experience.
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Crime

Gujarat: 9-year-old girl molested in school by teacher Akhtar Ali in Kathlal, accused arrested under POCSO

OpIndia Staff -
In Gujarat, teacher Akhtar Ali allegedly called the girl into a room for cleaning and then took her to a corner and physically molested her after taking off her clothes.
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Opinions

Are BJP supporters too demanding? Well, yes and no: Here is why they can’t be blamed but also need to be realistic

Ganesh R -
BJP supporters can't be blamed for expecting too much - however, they must be realistic on Hindu issues and other issues
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News Reports

Former Moneycontrol journalist Rishabh Chakravorty arrested for slamming cab driver to ground in Ghatkopar over minor car accident

OpIndia Staff -
As the cab driver gave his statement to the police after regaining consciousness, a case was formally registered by the Parksite Police. An FIR was filed against Chakravorty and his wife, Antara Ghosh, who allegedly removed the Ola cab device from Qayamuddin's cab and left the scene.
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News Reports

Gujarat: India’s largest renewable energy park in Khavda gets major boost, Adani Energy acquires project to evacuate 7 GW of clean energy

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Businessman Gautam Adani is leading India's transition towards green energy through the AESL, which currently has a transformation capacity of 61,686 and an MVA transmission network of 21,783 ckm.
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News Reports

Government of India pauses India-Bangladesh Friendship diesel pipeline expansion amid political turmoil: Details

OpIndia Staff -
The India-Bangladesh Friendship pipeline was inaugurated in March 2023 by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, and former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina. It runs from Siliguri in West Bengal to an oil depot in Parbatipur in district Dinajpur of Bangladesh.
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News Reports

‘Protestor’ Mamata chickens out over critical media reporting on RG Kar rape-murder case, directs party spokespersons to avoid Republic, ABP channels

OpIndia Staff -
"AITC has, for now, decided not to send its spokespersons to media channels like ABP Ananda, Republic, and TV9 due to their persistent ANTI-BENGAL agenda-driven PROPAGANDA," the party declared.
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News Reports

Haryana: One more person arrested in Charkhi Dadri mob lynching case, total arrests at 8

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"The victim, a resident of North 24 Parganas in West Bengal, worked as a ragpicker here. We have deployed a company of SSB and state police and are continuously monitoring social media," Bhushan said.
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News Reports

‘Make your child anti-India’: Taslima Nasrin shares photo of aid worker wearing shirt with anti-India message in Bangladesh

OpIndia Staff -
An image from Bangladesh has appeared where a man carrying water bottles in a flooded is wearing a shirt with the text 'make your child anti-India'.
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