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Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma accuses Jharkhand govt of spying on Champai Soren using state police, suspects phone tapping and honey-trapping

OpIndia Staff -
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said that two cops of Jharkhand police were caught spying on Champai Soren in Delhi, and they followed the former CM on flight from Kolkata
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Editor's picks

Bangla Bandh on August 28: Bullet firing on a BJP leader’s vehicle, police lathi charge and more as people raise voices against TMC...

OpIndia Staff -
Arjun Singh stated that seven bullets were fired at Priyangu Pandey's vehicle in an alleged assassination bid. He also said that the attack was carried out in the presence of the ACP. Leader of the Opposition in Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari also shared the video and said that the "toxic cocktail of Police & TMC Goons won’t be able to scare BJP.”
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News Reports

Bihar: ‘Minorities under attack’ narrative falls flat as man who inserted chilli powder in rectum of a ‘thief’ turns out to be a Muslim

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The Police arrested the main accused in this case who has been identified as Mohammad Sifat, debunking the oppression of minorities angle.
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World

Why is South Korea offering monetary aid to encourage youngsters to date, marry, and have kids?

Siddhi Somani -
As per the government, people setting out on blind or regular dates can now continue doing so with government assistance. They can get serious and marry in public museums or parks and pay only KRW 10,000 in monthly rent for their new home after marriage.
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News Reports

Jodhpur horror: 15-year-old girl gang-raped in Mahatma Gandhi hospital, 4th such incident in the district within 24 hours

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The two accused misled the girl and took her to an isolated area in the hospital after initiating a conversation with her.
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News Reports

4,000 Women from Uttarakhand to join Tata Group’s iPhone manufacturing plants in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu

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The recruitment drive will be facilitated by Tata Group under the National Apprenticeship Training Scheme (NATS) and the National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS).
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News Reports

Cash-strapped Bangladesh owes more than $1 billion to five Indian power companies, $800 million due to Adani Power alone

OpIndia Staff -
Bangladesh is in debt to five Indian power companies for more than $1 billion which provide electricity to it, and power supply can be cut if payment is not made
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News Reports

After multiple sabotages, most recently by Afsan on the Jabalpur-Nagpur railway line, Pakistani terrorist urges Jihadis to carry out train derailments in India

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The call for derailing trains in India comes at a time when investigations have revealed deliberate mischief by miscreants to derail trains and cause harm to passengers.
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News Reports

Sunita Viswanath of anti-Hindu HfHR uses Janmashtami, Mahabharata, and Bhagvad Gita to peddle Hamas terrorism cause for Gaza: The Wire needs to leave our...

Anurag -
The analogy presented by Sunita Vishwanath via The Wire is not only deeply flawed but also misleading. Mahabharata speaks about the Pandavas, who were the embodiment of Dharma and who fought against the Kauravas, representing Adharma. The great War of Mahabharata was guided by Bhagwan Krishna in order to bring about justice and truth.
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News Reports

Anarchy in Bengal? Bullets fired on BJP leader Priyangu Pandey’s vehicle as students, politicians and public continue to protest demanding justice for RG Kar...

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BJP leader Arjun Singh shared a video of the attack on Priyangu Pandey's car. He asserted that the attack took place in the presence of a senior police officer
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News Reports

PM Jan Dhan Yojana completes 10 years: 2.31 lakh crore deposited, over 53 crore accounts opened out of which more than 66% are in...

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The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) has today completed 10 years of implementation. Launched by PM Narendra Modi in 2014, it now has 53.13 crore accounts, with significant participation from women and rural areas
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh: Arif harasses Hindu woman, gets community members to threaten her family when they confront him

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Subsequently, the victim’s family approached the police station demanding action against the accused. The protesting locals gheraoed the Saraswati Nagar Police Station in Kota.
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News Reports

Indian Express misrepresents phone call between PM Modi and President Biden on Ukraine and Bangladesh Hindus, insinuates Modi initiated the call

OpIndia Staff -
Several media outlets reported on the Modi-Biden conversation, with most presenting the news as it was, clearly indicating that Joe Biden was the one who called PM Narendra Modi. However, the Indian Express insinuated that it was Modi who initiated the call to the US President.
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News Reports

CNN fuels anti-India narrative, publishes article blaming India for floods, whitewashes religious persecution of Hindus as political violence

Paurush Gupta -
Apart from trying to blame India for the Bangladesh floods, the CNN article also whitewashed the ongoing religious persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh as it tried to ‘intellectualise’ it as targeted political violence meted out on Hindus for backing Sheikh Hasina.
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World

Maldives police launch probe into alleged coup attempt after suspension of foreign transactions by Bank of Maldives

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Maldives Police commenced a probe into allegations of attempted coup after the Bank of Maldives (BML) suspended foreign transactions.
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News Reports

‘It’s a cover-up’: RG Kar Hospital victim’s parents say the crime scene was tampered with

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“It’s a cover-up. It’s a setup. The crime scene was tampered with,” India Today quoted the victim's parents as saying.
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Zakir becomes Jackie to befriend and rape Hindu girl, records her explicit videos and blackmails her, forces her to convert and marry...

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Zakir Ansari's brother and sisters also phoned the love jihad victim and pressurised her to convert.
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News Reports

Sanyasi against tyranny: Powerful image of a man in saffron robes braving water canons in Kolkata captures the imagination of netizens

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Several netizens have shared videos of the brutal crackdown by police on peaceful protesters against RG Kar Hospital rape and murder incident.
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Crime

Chhatarpur stone-pelting main accused, Shahzad Ali, arrested by MP Police, was caught while hiding in e-rickshaw, details

OpIndia Staff -
According to the reports, today he was arrested while he was on his way to the court to seek relief. The accused who is believed to own a huge mansion and several cars could be seen traveling in an e-rickshaw.
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Opinions

Two ‘liberals’ sit and discuss why the Khadims of Ajmer Dargah, convicted for brutalising 100s of Hindu girls, should not be identified by media...

Shraddha Pandey -
Unsurprisingly, highlighting the names and pictures of the Ajmer case convicts is more problematic to Saba Naqvi and Yogendra Yadav than the perpetrators being Ajmer Dargah ‘Khadims’ and a Congress leader.
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News Reports

Significant impact of PM Modi’s push to boost tourism in Lakshadweep: The archipelago’s footfalls double, 88 per cent rise in flight numbers

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Footfalls to Lakshadweep doubled since PM Modi posted pictures of the island and encouraged Indians to visit there.
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News Reports

Malayalam Film Industry: Mohanlal-led film body AMMA dissolves amid allegations of sexual harassment in Malayalam film industry

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The statement from AMMA read, “We are hopeful that AMMA will have a new leadership capable of renewing and strengthening the association. Thanks to everyone for criticising and correcting."
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News Reports

Don’t bite the hand that feeds you: Bangladeshi studying at NIT Silchar deported, had endorsed dehumanising, racist post targeting Indians

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Despite being an alumnus of NIT Silchar, Sadat Hossain Alphi did not have qualms about equating Indians with dogs. Maisha Mahjabin reacted to his disturbing post with a heart emoji.
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News Reports

‘Another khatakhat loot after MUDA Scam’: All you need to know about the alleged land scam – 5 acre-plot allotted to Kharge family trust...

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, in March 2024, the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) allotted 5 acres of land in the Aerospace Park near Bengaluru to Siddhartha Vihar Trust (trustees include the Kharge family).
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News Reports

RG Kar case: Kolkata Police resorts to lathi charge, water canons to disperse peaceful protestors marching to Nabanna, demanding Mamata’s resignation

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The enraged protestors had organized the protests to demand the removal of CM Mamata Banerjee from her position given her failure to take action against the culprits in the Kolkata rape and murder case.
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Social Media

Zuckerberg’s admission, Twitter Files, and more: How USA has been censoring and ‘controlling’ speech while delivering sermons to India

Anurag -
Mark Zuckerberg's admission revealed that the United States government can push US-based social media platforms to promote any information they like and suppress what they don’t want the world to see.
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News Reports

Telangana: Idols of Goddesses vandalised in Bhoolaxmi temple in Hyderabad, two suspects arrested

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A few unidentified assailants vandalised the idol of the goddess in Bhoolaxmi temple located in the Rakshapuram area in Santosh Nagar police station limits of Hyderabad on Monday night. Two suspects have been arrested by the police in the case.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Police arrest 4 students ahead of ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ protest march claiming they were ‘planning large-scale violence’, BJP to move court

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'Nabanna Abhijan' is organised to demand the resignation of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
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News Reports

Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha set to humanize IC 814 hijackers including Masood Azhar’s brother, upcoming web series to show terrorists hugging pilot and playing antakshari...

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Indian Airlines Flight 814 was hijacked on 25th December 1999 while it was en route to Delhi from Kathmandu. It was carried out by 5 terrorists belonging to the Islamist outfit 'Harkat-ul-Mujahideen.'
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News Reports

Manipur: BJP leader Michael Lamjathang Haokip’s house attacked after TV discussion on ‘Kuki Supremacy & its agenda’, bullets fired, rooms set on fire

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As per the CM, the leader belongs to the Thadou community which is the oldest among the ethnic tribes of Manipur. Haokip while talking about the vandalism mentioned that two rooms of his house were set on fire by the miscreants.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Auto driver rapes 19-year-old nursing student after spiking her drink, search launched to arrest the accused

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According to the hospital sources, the victim has sustained multiple injuries which has raised suspicions of a brutal sexual assault or rape. 
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News Reports

How ‘Muslim journalists’ and Congress leader lied to paint the death of beef smuggler as ‘mob lynching by a Hindu mob’: Read details

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Three people have alredy been booked by the Uttarakhand Police for spredaing fake news over the incident.
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News Reports

Indian govt investigates use of messaging platform Telegram for alleged illegal activities, including extortion and gambling; may ban post probe

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Telegram was recently in the headlines due to the UGC-NEET debate, which sparked student protests and prompted the Supreme Court to intervene.
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News Reports

Bihar Sunni Waqf Board sends notice to 7 Hindu houses claiming ownership, fails to give proof in Patna HC: Here’s what happened

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Bihar Sunni Waqf Board has been frequently issuing notices to residents of Govindpur village who have built houses and have been living there for many years. There are around 95% Hindu families living in this village.
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Editor's picks

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

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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

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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

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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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