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Gujarat: ‘Sir tan se Juda’ attempt on VHP member in Bhuj leaving him gravely injured, accused Nizam and Irfan arrested

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In Gujarat's Bhuj, a Vishwa Hindu Parishad activist was brutally assaulted by two Muslim youngsters on 22nd July, leaving him gravely injured.
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Royal Moidams of Assam’s Ahom dynasty included in the UNESCO World Heritage List: All you need to know about the 700-year-old mound burial system

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The Charaideo Moidam became India's 43rd UNESCO World Heritage Site, the first in Assam and the northeast India.
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News Reports

Chilkur Balaji temple priest requests Telangana govt to preserve sanctity of sacred land, Bajrang Dal protests against efforts to construct a mosque by claiming...

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The protesters accused the Telangana Congress govt of hurting the temple's sanctity and being biased towards Muslims.
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News Reports

France’s high-speed rail system TGV disrupted by multiple acts of sabotage hours ahead of Olympics opening ceremony, over 800,000 affected

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"Coordinated malicious acts targeted several TGV lines last night and will seriously disrupt traffic until this weekend. I strongly condemn these criminal actions which will compromise the vacation departures
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News Reports

‘Ban on govt officials joining RSS was arbitrary and without material evidence’: Here’s what MP HC said while lamenting over the five-decade-old ban

Shraddha Pandey -
The Madhya Pradesh HC lamented that it took five decades for the Centre to rectify the mistake of banning an internationally famed organisation like RSS.
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News Reports

Moidams, the mound burial system of the Ahom dynasty in Assam, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List during ongoing session in Delhi

ANI -
The mound burial system of the Ahom dynasty in Assam Moidams was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List under the category Cultural Property on Friday.
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News Reports

‘Transparency and informed choice of the consumer was the idea behind the decision’: UP govt defends Kanwar Yatra ‘nameplate’ order in SC

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UP govt stated that the directive was implemented to maintain peace during the Hindu pilgrimage of Kanwar Yatra.
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News Reports

Dehumanising bigotry, casteist slurs, and more: Instagram influencer’s jovial reel about her Brahmin community targeted with hateful posts

Siddhi Somani -
A Brahmin Instagram influencer was targeted with dehumanising slurs, posts filled with anti-Brahmin bigotry over a reel wherein she described about her community's societal habits.
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News Reports

Muslim girl’s family assaults her Hindu husband, threatens to kill him and drags her away, girl kept in police protection in Amroha

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After a Hindu boy married his Muslim lover in Uttar Pradesh, the family of the girl attacked the boy's family and forcibly took the girl with them
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News Reports

Left and its delusion: Democrats debate whether ‘coconut’ for Kamala Harris is racist, Desis whine over ‘Lotus for Potus’ slogan alleging BJP connection

Dibakar Dutta -
The ongoing debate over 'coconut' and 'Lotus' reference for Kamala Harris goes on to show how leftist hysteria and mental gymnastics know no bounds.
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News Reports

‘Agnipath is a necessary reform, we need to keep the Army young and fit’: PM Modi in Ladakh on Kargil Vijay Diwas

ANI -
Highlighting the scheme, PM Modi said that the goal of Agnipath was to make the Army young and keep the Army continuously fit for war. He said that the major reforms in the army have been a long-standing demand.
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News Reports

‘Treat India on par with NATO, Japan and Korea’: Senator Marco Rubio introduces US-India Defense Cooperation Act to strengthen ties

OpIndia Staff -
Taking to X, Senator Marco Rubio informed about introducing the bill “U.S.-India Defense Cooperation Act” and wrote, “In order to strengthen our partnership with India, it’s essential we increase our strategic relationship w/ New Delhi. Introduced a bill to best support India as they continue to face aggression from Communist China.”
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News Reports

25th anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas: Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh remembers the indomitable spirit of Indian soldiers

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Meanwhile, in Kargil security was heightened ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the Kargil War Memorial on the occasion of the 25th Kargil Vijay Diwas 2024.
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News Reports

Planned carnage, foreign intervention and a hidden Islamist nexus: Real objective behind violence in Bangladesh under the garb of ‘quota protests’

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury -
Although the Awami League government has succeeded in foiling the attempt of the BNP-Jamaat nexus to capture power by unseating Sheikh Hasina, the coming days may bear much harder challenges as BNP-Jamaat is adamantly looking to return to power.
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News Reports

Congress party distances itself from party MP and former Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi’s support to Khalistani MP Amripal Singh in Lok Sabha, says...

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Congress party has said that the comments made by party MP Charanjit Singh Channi in support of Khalistani MP Amirtpal Singh are his own and he does not represent the party’s views
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Politics

Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu compares former CM Jagan Mohan Reddy to ‘drug lord Pablo Escobar’

ANI -
Launching a scathing attack on former Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday compared YSRCP chief to slain Columbian narco-terrorist, Pablo Escobar.
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News Reports

Bungalow No 1: Centre allocates Lutyens bungalow to AAP for its office after the party was asked to vacate its office on court land

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Bungalow No. 1, Ravi Shankar Shukla Lane, New Delhi will be the new address of the Aam Aadmi Party headquarters.
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News Reports

India strongly takes up Hindu Temple vandalisation issue with Canadian authorities, expects swift action

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Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday that India has strongly taken up the vandalisation of temple in Edmonton with Canadian authorities in Delhi and Ottawa, adding that India expects Canada to take swift action.
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News Reports

Guna: Principal Catherine Vattoly of Vandana Convent School booked for snatching mic from students reciting Sanskrit verses; ABVP stages protest, files complaint

OpIndia Staff -
Catherine Vattoly stopped sixth-grade students from chanting Sanskrit verses during the morning assembly on 15th July. A First Information Report (FIR) was registered against her, per the authorities.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Bulldozers raze down decades old illegal flower market in Lucknow- Details

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The flower market earlier operated from the 2000 sq ft of land behind the Imambada area of the city. It was shifted to the Hussainabad Trust land in the year 2001.
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News Reports

Foreign affairs sole prerogative the Union Government as per the constitution, states should not intrude: MEA on Kerala govt appointing ‘foreign secretary’

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Reacting to Kerala government appointing a Secretary for External Cooperation, the Ministry of External Affairs said that foreign affairs are the "sole prerogative" of the Union Government and not concurrent or state subject
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Politics

My grandfather died for the nation, not for Congress: Former Punjab CM Beant Singh’s grandson Ravneet Bittu slams Congress leader Charanjit Channi in Parliament

OpIndia Staff -
Responding to Channi's comment “Bittu Ji, your grandfather was a martyr, but he died when you left the Congress", Ravneet Singh Bittu, a state minister in the NDA government, responded that his grandfather didn't die for the Congress party, but for the nation.
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News Reports

CBI court finds 14 people including CPM leader guilty in 14-year-old murder case of Congress leader Anchal Ramabhadran in Kerala, 4 acquitted: Details

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Ramabhadran's wife earlier filed a petition in the High Court stating that justice was not done in the investigation.
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Opinions

The world remembers Akhlaq, but not Tejram: Here is how Tejram was lynched in Bareilly by a Muslim mob over stopping them from playing...

Shraddha Pandey -
The report said that the head bones of Tejram were damaged during his lynching as a result of strikes from large stones and iron rods, and blood clots had developed in his brain.
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News Reports

The regular Q&A drama between Pakistani journalist and US State Dept to lecture India is now peddling false claims of Muslim victimhood: How the...

OpIndia Staff -
Matthew Miller replied citing the Supreme Court's interim stay on the directive and said, "We have seen those reports. We have also seen the reports that the Indian Supreme Court on July 22nd issued an interim stay on the implementation of those rules, so they’re not actually in effect now."
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News Reports

President Droupadi Murmu announces that Durbar Hall and Ashok Hall in Rashtrapati Bhavan have been renamed Ganatantra Mandap and Ashok Mandap

ANI -
President Droupadi Murmu announced on Thursday that two of the important halls of Rashtrapati Bhavan, namely, Durbar Hall and Ashok Hall, have been renamed as Ganatantra Mandap and Ashok Mandap, respectively, according to a President's Secretariat release.
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News Reports

Ghaziabad: Mohammad Alam, father of four, strangles his second wife Pooja Devi to death with her dupatta, dumps her body in canal

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Mohammad Alam and Pooja Devi were living together for four years before they tied the knot in an Islamic wedding.
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Congress govt in Karnataka passes resolution against NEET in assembly, demands return to state-organised CET for medical admissions

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Siddaramaiah-led Congress government on Thursday passed a resolution in both houses of the Karnataka legislature against the NEET
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World

Manchester Police arrests 4 Muslim community members for brutally assaulting 3 airport staff and a police officer, viral video used to peddle ‘Islamophobia’ claims

OpIndia Staff -
The video of action by Manchester Police after the attack is being used by Islamists to claim Islamophobia saying that the Police assaulted them because they are Muslims.
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News Reports

US flags removed, burnt and replaced by Palestine flags, cop dragged by Pro-Palestine group: Chaos in Washington DC during Netanyahu’s visit

OpIndia Staff -
A US Park Police commander confirmed that two of the three American flags taken down by protesters were set on fire. The demonstration further resulted in road closures in the Capitol and Union Square locations. Protesters also burned an effigy of Netanyahu and demanded an end to US military funding to Israel during its ongoing crisis in Gaza.
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Law

Kamlesh Tiwari murder case: Supreme Court Bench grants bail to Syed Asim Ali, the accused conspirator in the murder

OpIndia Staff -
Kamlesh Tiwari, the Hindu Samaj Party leader was murdered in Lucknow on October 18, 2019, when the assailants came to meet him on the pretext of working for his outfit. He was murdered at his home in Naka Hindola area in Lucknow.
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News Reports

Delhi High Court declines to stay release of Netflix show ‘Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper’ on ICAI’s defamation lawsuit, read what the court said

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi High Court asserted that the Netflix series does not refer to the profession of Chartered Accountancy.
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News Reports

Reliance Industries gets US approval to continue crude oil import from Venezuela amid sanctions

OpIndia Staff -
Before the United States placed oil sanctions on Venezuela in 2019, Reliance was the second-largest private buyer of Venezuelan crude oil, trailing only China's China National Petroleum Corporation.
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News Reports

Ashiq Ali is the hero, Vikrant and Sunny forgotten: How Islamists choose heroes based on religion and how, it is done only to whitewash...

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Islamists and the entire liberal ecosystem have developed this penchant for selecting heroes based on religion, though they do so primarily to whitewash Jihadis rather than out of admiration for their valou
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News Reports

‘Gays for Gaza’ is like ‘Chickens for KFC’: Israel’s PM Netanyahu slams supporters of Hamas during address at US Congress, calls for an ‘Abraham...

Anurag -
PM Benjamin Netanyahu also pointed out the irony of some protest slogans such as “Gays for Gaza” highlighted the severe persecution of the LGBTQ community in regions controlled by Hamas and other Islamic groups. Mocking the slogan, he said, “They might as well hold up signs saying ‘Chickens for KFC'.
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Meerut: Teenage girl gang-raped, brutalised with iron rod, Haseen, Shahrukh, Ikramuddin, Mohsin named as accused by victim family

OpIndia Staff -
As per the local reports, the girl was gang raped by the 4 suspects identified by the family of the girl. They abducted her, gang-raped her, and then murdered her by inserting an iron rod in her private parts. The suspects also burned the face of the girl by pouring acid on it.
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UP: Lakme Academy director Rakshanda Khan booked for pressuring Hindu trainees to marry Muslims and convert to Islam in Moradabad

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The duo alleged that Sapna alias Rakshanda Khan used to encourage Hindu girls to befriend Muslim boys and do Nikah with them after converting to Islam. They also alleged that Rakshanda used to keep Hindu girls in groups with Muslim boys at the academy situated on Kanth Road. The duo said that Rakshanda Khan was originally a Hindu, however, converted to Islam before marrying a Muslim man named Shahnawaz Khan 17 years ago.
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Majid Freeman formally charged with encouraging terrorism: Instigator of 2022 anti-Hindu Leicester violence whose links to ISIS and Al Qaeda OpIndia had exposed

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Majid Freeman, who had spread lies and misinformation about the role of Hindus in the 2022 anti-Hindu Leicester riots, has been charged with inciting terrorism and lending support to the proscribed terrorist organization, Hamas
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Washington DC: Pro-Palestine group releases insects and sets off fire alarms at Watergate Hotel where Israeli PM Netanyahu was staying, dye fountains red, over...

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Additionally, a DC-based pro-Palestine group named ‘Palestinian Youth Movement’ has claimed that it released mealworms and insects inside the Watergate Hotel where Netanyahu is staying during his current US visit.
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News Reports

‘Judicial impropriety’: Justice BR Gavai-led SC bench expresses displeasure as another bench hears the same case, refers the matter to CJI

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Justice Gavai expressed displeasure after another bench led by Justice AS Oka took up the same contempt case later.
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“No company will be forced into the internship programme”: Union Govt clarifies on stipend for interns in top 500 companies announced in budget

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Government sources have said that the top 500 companies will not be forced for the internship programme announced in the Union Budget
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She is my possession, I will convert her to Islam and marry her: Dilshad Ali kidnaps Hindu girl in Uttar Pradesh, dares anyone to...

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The perpetrator worked as a brick kiln worker in the Basti area of Uttar Pradesh where he lured the victim.
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Assam: Shahid Ali arrested for sexually harassing a woman; was blackmailing her with obscene videos

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Shahid Ali, the sexual predator, was arrested by Dispur Police for blackmailing a woman with obscene videos.
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OpIndia Explains

The destruction of Mecca and Medina: How Wahabi Islam razed down ancient structures like Taliban destroyed Bamiyan Buddhas, fearing idolatry

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Of the famed "Seven Mosques" originally established by Prophet Muhammad's daughter and four of his "greatest Companions", five have been demolished.
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News Reports

As I.N.D.I. Alliance alleges ‘Undeclared Emergency’, Karnataka Police filed 37 cases for social media posts against politicians, many based on ‘fact-check unit’ run by...

OpIndia Staff -
It is pertinent to note that reportedly none of the companies part of the state’s fact-check unit are signatories of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN).   
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‘They are also human beings’: SC asks govt to come out with rehabilitation scheme before removing encroachments on Haldwani railway land

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The SC on Wednesday asked the Centre and state govt to come up with a rehabilitation scheme for encroachers in Uttarakhand's Haldwani area.
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Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun tells Canadian MP Chandra Arya to leave the country for condemning attack on Hindu temple, the MP says their...

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Canadian MP Chandra Arya said, "Our land is being polluted by Khalistani extremists abusing our freedoms guaranteed by our Canadian Charter of Rights."
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Madhya Pradesh: Mob pelts stones at police, residents demanding the removal of illegal property owned by Rafiq, accused of assaulting old woman; 22 booked

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"When civic staff went to pull down illegal shops of one Rafiq Khan on directives of village panchayat officials, a large crowd comprising local residents and other individuals demanded that his house, too, be razed and later pelted stones at policemen and members of the demolition squad," the police said.
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News Reports

5 months ago, WSJ called this US city ‘America’s Jihad capital’ and the drama hasn’t stopped yet: Pro-Hamas protests, heightened security, politics and more

Anurag -
In February 2024, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed written by Steven Stalinsky, executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute in which he called Dearborn “America’s Jihad Capital”. The assertion was based on the fact that the region became a focal point of intense scrutiny following a series of rallies and protests supporting Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.
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World

New Zealand: Inquiry finds 200,000 children, vulnerable adults abused in state, church care for 70 years

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The Anglican Church and the Catholic Church have acknowledged the abuses meted out to victims after an inquiry found 200,000 children and adults were subjected to abuse by church care for over 7 decades.
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