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UK Police clamps down on freedom of speech amid riots after Labour govt came to power, starts arresting people for social media posts and...

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The Labour Party-led British government is cracking down on those who share social media posts about the UK riots that it believes are "likely to incite racial hatred."
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News Reports

Sonia Gandhi’s NAC member Jean Dreze among those detained for pro-Palestine protest in Delhi

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The protesters wanted India to end all ties with Israel for retaliating against the October 7 terror attacks by Hamas, which left 1,300 dead and hundreds of others captive.
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News Reports

Woman doctor found dead in Kolkata’s govt medical college, BJP launches protest alleging police trying to show murder as suicide

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A second-year postgraduate student of RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata was found dead inside the Seminar Hall on the 3rd floor of the campus
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News Reports

Lok Sabha passes new civil aviation bill Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak to replace Aircraft Act of 1934, to remove ambiguity, redundancy in old law

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Lok Sabha on Friday passed the Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak, 2024, through a voice vote, after discussion and a reply from Civil Aviation Minister Rammohan Naidu.
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Specials

Women raped, villages and temples burnt, hospitals denying treatment to Hindus and more: What Bangladesh Hindus told OpIndia amid their ongoing genocide

Nupur J Sharma -
On the 4th of August, the signs that the Bangladesh violence was morphing into a targeted onslaught against Hindus
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Mentally unstable serial killer murdered 9 women in 14 months after wife left him, arrested

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On 9th August, a serial killer identified as Kuldeep Gangwar was arrested by authorities in Uttar Pradesh
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News Reports

‘Female students should have the freedom to choose their attire’: SC stays Mumbai college’s ban on hijab, questions exempt on tilak, bindi

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The SC compared hijab with tilak and bindi, asking why tilak and bindi were exempt while hijab was banned by the college.
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News Reports

Bangladesh crisis: Hindu man watches helpless as his shop is burned to the ground in Comilla by an Islamist mob

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"Has anyone seen that your dreams have been shattered in front of your eyes? I am seeing that. I am seeing how my future is being destroyed. My workplace is burned. I worked yesterday here, in my shop and now it has been destroyed," Hindu could be heard saying in the video.
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Editor's picks

Amid Islamist onslaught on Hindus in Bangladesh, Modi govt forms committee to ensure their safety

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"The committee will maintain communication channels with their counterpart authorities in Bangladesh to ensure the safety and security of Indian nationals, Hindus, and other minority communities living there," Amit Shah emphasised.
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News Reports

‘You may be a celebrity, but maintain decorum’: Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar schools Jaya Bachchan

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Dhankhar responded by telling Bachchan that she should understand the necessity of maintaining decorum, even if she is an actress and a celebrity. However, Dhankhar grew angry as opposition members rallied around the actor-politician and protested against him.
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News Reports

‘You want to destabilise the entire nation’: VP Jagdeep Dhankhar slams opposition over Rajya Sabha walkout

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The Vice President further slammed the Kharge and other opposition leaders for walking out of the House and said,” You are walking away from your obligations. You are walking away from your duty. Honourable members, they don’t want to participate. They know only how to create chaos…The nation is a priority…”
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World

British zoologist sentenced to over 10 years in prison for raping, torturing, and killing dozens of dogs

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He found pleasure in filming the countless bouts of torturing the animals until almost all died a horrifying death at his hands.
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News Reports

Qatar-funded Al Jazeera thinks Hindus talking about the Hindu genocide by Muslims in Bangladesh is ‘Islamophobic’

Shraddha Pandey -
While Hindus across Bangladesh are being attacked, their houses being plundered, and temples being vandalised, Al Jazeera attempted to whitewash the communal angle in the ongoing anti-Hindu pogrom by claiming that only those Hindus associated with Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League are being targeted.
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News Reports

Madras High Court quashes detention order issued by Chennai Police against YouTuber Savukku Shankar

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The Madras High Court has quashed the detention order against YouTuber Savukku Shankar by invoking the Goondas Act of 1982.
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu Congress’ N Aswathaman arrested in BSP leader K Armstrong’s murder case, expelled from party

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Aswathaman had been earlier arrested in a case related to the threatening of a businessman in Ennore. According to sources, he suspected that Armstrong was the reason for his arrest and had developed an enmity towards the latter.
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World

Iraq proposes a bill to lower the legal marriage age for girls to 9

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Iraq has proposed a controversial bill that seeks to lower the legal marriage age for girls to just 9 years old.
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Opinions

‘It was political, not religious’ – absurdity of this claim when it comes to Islamic aggression

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Scroll, Al Jazeera, and other assorted commentators have tried to whitewash attack on Bangladeshi Hindus as being motivated by politics and not religion.
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News Reports

Bangladesh: Hefazat-e-Islam leader AFM Khalid Hossain becomes part of interim govt, read how the group spreads Hindu hate, wants to turn country into Sharia-run...

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Abul Fayez Muhammad Khalid Hossain who is associated with Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam becomes a minister in the new interim govt in Bangladesh
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News Reports

Over 4,000 dead bodies stolen from crematoriums, medical labs: Chinese crime ring accused of illegally harvesting corpses for bone grafts

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The corpse trafficking spanned at least seven provinces and nearly a dozen localities in China, per leaked information.
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News Reports

Houses looted, children kidnapped, family members assaulted: Hindu women in Bangladesh narrate their ordeal amid Islamist onslaught

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OpIndia has documented cases of atrocities against Hindus in Bangladesh by Islamists masquerading as 'pro-demcoracy, anti-quota and anti-government' protestors.
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News Reports

Supreme Court grants bail to Manish Sisodia in liquor policy case, AAP leader to walk out of jail after 17 months

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As per reports, the ED had requested the court to restrict Sisodia from visiting the Delhi Secretariat and the CM's office, as Kejriwal was asked to before his conditional bail for campaigning in the Lok Sabha elections. However, the SC refused.
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News Reports

IIT Guwahati researchers develop innovative machine learning framework ‘LEAP’ for the semiconductor industry

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This cutting-edge solution enhances the design process of Integrated Circuits (ICs), a critical component in the $600 billion semiconductor industry that powers modern electronic devices.
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News Reports

Vinesh Phogat disqualification: Top Indian lawyer Harish Salve to represent IOA at CAS hearing today in Paris

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 Harish Salve, a renowned Indian lawyer, will represent the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) hearing on Friday, regarding the disqualification of wrestler Vinesh Phogat from the Paris Olympics. 
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News Reports

Boilers Bill introduced in parliament to replace century-old law on boiler safety, some criminal penalties replaced with monetary fines for ease of doing business

OpIndia Staff -
The Boilers Bill, 2024 was introduced in Rajya Sabha today by Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal. It repeals the Boilers Act, 1923 (5 of 1923)
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News Reports

Waqf Board has been misused in last 70 years, it should be moved to Home Ministry from Minority Affairs: Sufi Islamic Board on Waqf...

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National President of the Sufi Islamic Board said that given the misuse of the Waqf Board over the past 70 years, the Sufi Islamic Board had submitted suggestions to address these issues
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News Reports

Balkanise India, attack Indian embassies worldwide, receive money to stop hoisting of Indian flag on August 15: Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun

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Gurpatwant Pannun declared that the Punjab Chief Minister would be prevented from hosting the tricolour on Independence Day, in Punjab and whoever will succeed in stoppping will receive a prize of Rs 1 crore from banned organisation Sikhs for Justice.
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News Reports

Bangladesh crisis: Viral social media post claims a Kali devotee Hindu family used their bali weapons to protect themselves from attack by Muslims

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An Agartala resident claimed that his extended family in Bangladesh used the knives used for animal sacrifice to Goddess Kali to counter attack Muslim attackers
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News Reports

Bangladeshi journalist attempts to downplay attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh while talking to The Wire, claims attacks are attempts to malign the ‘students movement’

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Bangladeshi journalist Sajen Shamsuddoza watered down the attacks on Hindus and claimed those took place to “malign the achievements of the student-led movement”.
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News Reports

They should only have 2 options, sword or accept Islam: Islamic scholar Abu Najm celebrates the massacre of Hindus in Bangladesh, urges Muslims to...

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Abu Najm insisted that non-Muslims in Islamic countries like Bangladesh should be degraded as inferior beings and forced to pay jizya.
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News Reports

From verse of Prophet to Delhi Sultanate’s land allocation for Jama Masjid to Waqf Act of 1995: All you need to know about Waqf...

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There have been significant changes in Waqf Act post independence giving Waqf Board virtually unlimited powers.
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News Reports

Telangana: 18-month-old attacked by stray dog in Karimnagar, hospitalised

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In a CCTV footage, the toddler, identified as Harinandan, could be seen playing with another child on the roadside when the dog pounced on him, inflicting severe injuries.
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Sports

Vinesh’s uncle Mahavir Phogat slams Congress leader Bhupinder Hooda for politicizing Vinesh’s disqualification, says he discriminated against Geeta and Babita

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"When Bhupinder Hooda's government was about to nominate Geeta and Babita as DSPs, Hooda Saheb discriminated and selected Geeta as Inspector and Babita as Sub Inspector instead. Now he wants Vinesh to go to Rajya Sabha," Mahavir Phogat said.
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News Reports

Waqf Amendment Bill sent to Joint Parliamentary Committee after it was tabled in Lok Sabha, opposition parties oppose

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The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, which seeks to “effectively address" issues related to the powers of the State Waqf Boards, registration and survey of waqf properties and removal of encroachments, was introduced in Lok Sabha on Thursday.
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News Reports

Human Rights Watch deputy director for Asia whitewashes Islamist brutality against Hindus in Bangladesh by insinuating that it is due to politics, not religious...

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Taking to X, Meenakshi Ganguly wrote, “In #Bangladesh, musician Rahul Ananda's house burned in an ugly spree of attacks on Hindu minorities because they traditionally supported Sheikh Hasina's Awami League party. Authorities should ensure rule of law, identify & prosecute perpetrators.”
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World

Is this not our country, we feel helpless because we are easy targets: Hindu students part of protests share safety concerns amid anti-Hindu violence...

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Several Hindu students were part of the quota reforms agitation that eventually culminated in Sheikh Hasina's ouster.
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News Reports

Hindus and Awami League Members fleeing Bangladesh stopped at border by BSF in North Bengal, hundreds of people take shelter on no man’s land...

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Around 600 Bangladeshis are refusing to leave the no man’s land near Jalpaiguri in northern Bengal, demanding entry into India
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Politics

Congress leaders start dreaming about an ‘uprising’ in India, Mani Shankar Iyer says Bangladesh and India situation ‘comparable’: How Congress is playing with fire

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Congress motormouth Mani Shankar Aiyar compared the situation in violence-hit Bangladesh with India and tried to push his agenda that There are concerns about fairness of Indian elections.
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OpIndia Explains

Ban on SIMI maintained by UAPA tribunal citing its links to ISIS- Here’s all you need to know about the banned terrorist outfit

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The Centre-appointed tribunal that examined the ninth renewal of the prohibition on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act maintained the ban on SIMI.
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News Reports

‘She has ruined my father’s honour’: Haseen strangles his 16-year-old sister to death in front of a crowd in Meerut for loving a Hindu...

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She wanted to go to her Hindu boyfriend on the fateful day but her brother learned about it and the two fought over it.
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Media

As Hindus get massacred in Bangladesh, NYT contextualises brutality by calling it ‘revenge attack’, changes headline after outrage by Hindus

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The New York Times attempted to push the narrative that Hindus are under attack in Bangladesh because they supported Sheikh Hasina's party. Changed headline of report after backlash.
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Opinions

‘Scroll’ defends targeted violence against Hindus in Bangladesh: From ‘inevitable aftermath of uprising’ to blaming ‘Hindutva’ and ‘they were Awami supporters’

Nupur J Sharma -
Hindus are being massacred in Bangladesh in the aftermath of the coup, but for the Scroll, is it merely an obvious consequence of revolution
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News Reports

‘Malicious attempt by certain sections of people to incite communal violence’: Manipur Govt to probe source of doctored audio clip of CM Biren Singh 

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Notably, in the doctored audio clip that emerged, a voice claiming to be that of Manipur CM Biren Singh is heard saying that he has initiated the ethnic cleansing against the Kuki-Zo community in Manipur.
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Specials

Retired US Diplomat calls for return of Islamist BNP’s Tarique Rahman to Bangladesh: How support for 2004 terror attack convict fuel speculations of deep...

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Tarique Rahman is the prime convict and mastermind of the 21st August 2004 terrorist grenade attack on Awami League's political rally
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News Reports

Delhi police put up posters of terrorists linked with Al Qaeda and Khalistan ahead of Independence Day, says informers would be rewarded suitably

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The Delhi police said that those coming forward with any information regarding the terrorists will be rewarded "suitably". The names of informants will, however, be concealed.
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News Reports

‘They tied her mouth and raped her, they wanted to slit her throat, we gave our ornaments to save her’: Hindu women narrate ordeal,...

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Several Hindu women in Bangladesh have come forward to share their tales of horror at the hands of the rampaging Islamist mob
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News Reports

Taylor Swift concerts canceled in Vienna after ISIS terror plot uncovered, two Islamists arrested by Austrian police

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Taylor Swift three concerts in Vienna, Austria this week were canceled after the government confirmed a planned ISIS attack on the stadium.
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News Reports

‘Won’t let you go alive today’: Hindu youth hacked to death by his Muslim wife’s kin over interfaith marriage in Dwarka, 7 including one...

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"You married out a girl without our approval, we won't let you go alive today," shouted the Muslim girl's relatives before mercilessly attacking the Hindu youth with axes, iron rods, sticks and knives in Dwarka, Gujarat
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News Reports

Maharashtra government to build International football stadium at Aamkhas maidan which was occupied by Waqf Board in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar

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During the meeting with government officials, Abdul Sattar directed the District Magistrate of Sambhaji Nagar to send the proposal to build an international football stadium at the Aamkhas Maidan to the Sports Department as soon as possible.
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News Reports

Athletes should compete in their natural weight, wrestlers losing too much weight and it’s not good: United World Wrestling president denies exception for Vinesh...

OpIndia Staff -
United World Wrestling (UWW) President Nenad Lalovic today ruled out any exception for wrestler Vinesh Phogat who was disqualified from the Paris Olympics just before her final match for being overweight
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Maulvi Mulla Haroon sexually assault and threaten to kill two minor sisters who came for religious education classes, arrested

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The accused Maulvi has been booked under serious charges including under POCSO Act.
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