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Mamata Banerjee and her unhealthy obsession with not being a kafir and ‘fighting kafirs’: Here’s how she peddled the dangerous line earlier

Shraddha Pandey -
Mamata Banerjee has mainstreamed the use of 'Kafir' in public discourse, often using the dehumanising slur used against Hindus and non-Muslims to attack her political rivals.
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World

UAE: 57 Bangladeshis sentenced to jail for protesting against their government in the Gulf country

OpIndia Staff -
Following the completion of the prison terms, the Bangladeshi citizens will be deported from the UAE as per the Abu Dhabi court order. Protests are banned in UAE and any public protests generally invite legal action.
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News Reports

The story of Bhagat Singh Thind: A Sikh immigrant who claimed to be ‘White’ and sought citizenship in the USA

Anurag -
Bhagat Singh Thind claimed to be “White” to gain citizenship contending he was a Caucasian belonging to the Aryan race. The crux of the case was whether Thind, who belonged to a high caste in India, could be considered “White” under the naturalization laws of the US.
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News Reports

Dreaded criminal Mohammed Umar, wanted for the murder of two gang members and disfiguring an associate’s face with acid, arrested after 12 years in...

OpIndia Staff -
DCP Kaushik added that there were trust issues, as three of them had killed Mukesh in Baghpat in 2011 because they believed he had informed the police about them.
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News Reports

End of political blackmail? Modi govt turns down ‘Special Category Status’ request for Bihar, the long-standing demand of its ally JDU

OpIndia Staff -
The Minister of State for Finance pointed out that the Special Category Status for Bihar was previously considered in 2012 but it did not fulfill the criteria laid down by the National Development Council.
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News Reports

Productive jobs, skill gap, green transition, China conundrum among focus areas that find mention in the Economic Survey 2023-24

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The structural reforms undertaken by the Government of India since 2014 have put the economy firmly on a growth path, and India is soon set to become the third-largest economy in the world.
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Law

Are eateries run by an ‘Abdul’ or ‘Abhishek’, Kanwariyas won’t have any way to know as Supreme Court pauses UP and Uttarakhand governments’ orders...

OpIndia Staff -
The petitioners, Apoorvanand Jha and Aakar Patel approached the Supreme Court to challenge the UP and Uttarakhand governments’ order for eateries falling on the Kanwar Yatra routes.
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News Reports

Bareilly: Bulldozer action against 11 of 35 accused who attacked Hindus, molested women during Muharram celebrations, NSA charges to be added too

OpIndia Staff -
The stated administration conducted a survey on 21st July to learn that around 11 accused persons belonging to the Muslim community had illegally expanded their properties. The same will be demolished.
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OpIndia Explains

Anti-quota agitation in Bangladesh: Who were the Razakars and why has the word provoked unprecedented fury in the country

Rukma Rathore -
'Razakars' were a paramilitary force formed by the Pakistan Army to oppose the independence movement in Bangladesh.
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News Reports

Real-life Jolly LLB: Judge tells Somnath Bharti that his petition against Bansuri Swaraj is full of typos, cant understand what the petition says

OpIndia Staff -
For the unversed, Somnath Bharti had filed a petition against Bansuri Swaraj after losing by a margin of 78,370 votes from the New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency.
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Modi govt withdraws 1966 memorandum barring govt servants from participating in RSS activities: Here is how RSS was officially persecuted for years

Shraddha Pandey -
Notably, the ban on government employees participating in Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activities was imposed by the Indira Gandhi government in 1966. The Congress government's 1966 decision to ban government employees from partaking in activities of the RSS was a move rooted in political expediency rather than genuine concern for the public interest. The ban sought to stifle the influence of a prominent organization that ideologically opposed the Congress party.
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World

BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami may try to grab power unconstitutionally taking advantage of student protests: Bangladesh government

OpIndia Staff -
The Bangladesh protests turned violent last week after alleged students at Dhaka University started clashing with police.
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News Reports

‘Actor’ Ajaz Khan, who once said that he would choose Quran over the constitution, mocks Hindu sage Narada Muni, apologises later

OpIndia Staff -
In order to describe the supposed deceitful and disloyal behaviour of YouTuber Love Kataria, Ajaz Khan invoked the example of Hindu sage Narada Muni.
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News Reports

Muslims open up about how women go missing in Mecca: Kidnapped, groped, and abused, how crimes against women during Hajj go largely unnoticed

OpIndia Staff -
An X user replied, "Mohammed Junaid Khan wrote, "I remember the driver taking us from Makkah to Madinah was throwing phone numbers at all the women. The whole way he was harassing. A similar incident happened. The husband got down to buy water, the driver fled away taking the wife. She was never found."
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Uttar Pradesh: Taufiq and Shadab take turns to rape minor Hindu Dalit girl, thrash victim’s mother

OpIndia Staff -
Additional SP (East) Manoj Kumar Rawat informed, "Two men of another community, residents of the same village, dragged the girl into the field and raped her."
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News Reports

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to present the Economic Survey today in Parliament, a day before Union Budget

ANI -
The Session will have 16 sittings spread over 22 days. Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Kiren Rijiju said that this session will mainly be devoted to the financial business relating to the Union Budget for 2024-25, which will be presented to Lok Sabha on July 23.
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News Reports

Joe Biden announces decision to drop out from US Presidential Election 2024, endorses Kamala Harris as his replacement for the race

OpIndia Staff -
Ending weeks of speculation, President Joe Biden has announced that he is dropping out from the presidential election
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‘Republics are always saved on the street, not inside parliaments’: Yogendra Yadav says his hopes are on ‘resistance movements’ to “save the Republic”

OpIndia Staff -
Yogendra Yadav, who has been a perennial protester against the Modi government, added that the message today to anyone who wants to stand up to this government, is they're going down, inko to dekh lenge. 
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India will contribute 1 million dollars to UNESCO World Heritage Centre, announces PM Modi at 46th session of World Heritage Committee in Delhi

ANI -
PM Modi on Sunday announced that India will contribute one million dollars to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre to provide support for heritage conservation in countries, especially of the Global South
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News Reports

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, who opposed CAA, says her govt will offer shelter to ‘helpless people’ suffering in ongoing violence in Bangladesh, cites...

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee added that assistance will also be extended to Bangladeshis who came to West Bengal and are facing difficulty in returning home.
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News Reports

Bangladesh: Students to continue protests over other demands even after Supreme Court scraped almost all quota in govt jobs

OpIndia Staff -
A spokesman for one of the student groups stated that the protests in Bangladesh would continue.
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Swami Govindananda Saraswati says Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati is fake baba and a Congress toy, slams Priyanka Vadra for calling him Shankaracharya despite SC stay...

OpIndia Staff -
Avimukteshwaranand will stand with Rahul Gandhi when he makes anti-Hindu remarks. Why? This letter is the reason... The Congress is playing a game and Avimukteshwaranand is the toy, Govindananda Maharaj said.
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News Reports

Karnataka government mulling new plans to make 14 hours workday and 70 hours workweek, faces stiff opposition from employees and IT unions

OpIndia Staff -
The IT union, KITU, has warned that this will be an “open challenge” to the 20 lakh employees working in the IT/ITeS sector in Karnataka and called upon them to unite and oppose this move. 
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News Reports

Delhi HC tells petitioners to seek relief through IT Rules on PIL against derogatory YouTube videos and comments: Read how videos of women and...

Anurag -
A petition was filed against the derogatory videos being posted on YouTube of women and minor girls taking holy dip at Rivers in Haridwar, Rishikesh and other places
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Opinions

Unconstitutional, blatant overreach, and dividing Indian citizens: Kerala government’s appointment of ‘Foreign Secretary’ is against Indian constitution itself

Paurush Gupta -
The move is also seen as an attempt to usurp the powers of the Union government, posing a serious threat to federalism and the democratic process in the country.
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News Reports

Neglected regions: The socio-economic struggles of Pakistan-Occupied Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (POJK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) are regions in Pakistan that have long been neglected in various domains such as education, youth unemployment, poverty, infrastructure, healthcare, and food security
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Law

“Judges are also humans”: Karnataka High Court recalls order which stated only watching child pornography not a violation under IT Act

OpIndia Staff -
Karnataka HC earlier observed that only watching child pornography is not an offense under the provisions of the IT Act.
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News Reports

Bangladesh Supreme Court revokes High Court order on govt job quota that led to deadly protests, reduces reservation from 56% to 7%

OpIndia Staff -
In a significant decision, the Bangladesh Supreme Court has scrapped most of the quotas in govt jobs amid violent protests against the reservations for grandchildren of freedom fighters.
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News Reports

Anyone who harms us will pay a heavy price: PM Netanyahu after Israel attacks Houthi-controlled Yemen port which left 3 people dead, injured 87...

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Political Council of the Houthis declared that there would be an "effective response" to Israel's airstrikes.
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News Reports

Landslide in Rudraprayad on Kedarnath Yatra route kills 3 pilgrims, 8 injured

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Three people are dead and eight were injured in a landslide in the Chidwasa region of Rudraprayad district of Uttarakhand on Sunday.
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World

Pakistan economy is very fragile: Global financial report on the country facing economic collapse

ANI -
The analysis made some dire predictions for the Pakistan economy saying that it remains extremely fragile and that growth was weighted to the downside.
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News Reports

There were 3 Muslim-majority districts after independence, now there are 9, how is this happening in West Bengal: Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar

OpIndia Staff -
The West Bengal BJP chief stated that the demographic shift in the country is not biological but planned.
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Madhya Pradesh: “It is customers’ right”, Ujjain Mayor directs shops to show names of owners prominently

OpIndia Staff -
Ujjain Municipal Corporation's Mayor Mukesh Tatwal issued orders directing shopkeepers to prominently show the name and phone number of the owner outside the shop.
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World

“I took a bullet for democracy”: Former US President Donald Trump in his first rally after assassination attempt

ANI -
"I took a bullet for democracy," former US President Donald Trump said on Saturday, addressing a first rally after he was shot in the ear during an assassination attempt on his life last week, The Hill reported.
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Acharya Pramod Krishnam sends legal notice to producers and actors of ‘Kalki 2898 AD’ including Amitabh Bachchan alleging the movie has hurt religious sentiments...

ANI -
Former Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam on Saturday sent a legal notice to the producers and actors of the recently released movie 'Kalki 2898 AD'.
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World

Close to 1,000 Indian students return from Bangladesh as anti-quota protests claim 115 lives, 4,000 remain

OpIndia Staff -
Nearly 1,000 Indian students have returned from Bangladesh as anti-quota protests convulse the country, claiming 115 lives thus far.
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Rajasthan: Two Muslim girls pretended to be Hindus to get married and ran away within a week, broker had taken Rs 2 lakh each...

OpIndia Staff -
The women threatened to file a rape case against the grooms if they are not allowed to return to their home in Bihar.
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News Reports

‘Efforts to undermine Madarsas will not be tolerated’: Muslim bodies attack UP govt for order to transfer students from Madarsas to schools

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The All India Muslim Personal Law Board, along with others said that they strongly condemn the efforts to undermine the status and identity of Madarsas
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Madhya Pradesh: ‘Holy Scriptures’ distributed in a government school in Vidisha to promote conversion from Hinduism to Christianity

OpIndia Staff -
The girl was distributing books titled,  'Pavitra Shashtra, Bhajan Sanhita, and Niti Vachan’, one of the teachers of the school revealed that it glorifies Jesus Christ and promotes Christianity. 
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“Arrogance even after being defeated, have seen it for the first time’: Amit Shah slams Rahul Gandhi

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Speaking at the Jharkhand BJP working committee meeting in Ranchi, Shah accused the JMM-Congress alliance of indulging in corruption and working against the interests of the tribals.
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Pakistan: Police arrest man on blasphemy charges, mod attack and damage the police station demanding the suspect’s handover to them

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A Police Station was attacked in Pakistan’s Okara by people after a man was arrested on blasphemy charges. demanding his handover to them
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Student-led protests, deaths and appeasement politics: How Bangladesh’s anti-quota movement is reminiscent of anti-Mandal agitation in India

Dibakar Dutta -
A major turning point in the anti-Mandal agitation came on 19th September 1990 when a student named Rajeev Goswami set himself on fire in protest.
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West Bengal: TMC Minister Firhad Hakim, who wanted to convert non-Muslims to Islam, opposes UP government’s order for eateries, says shouldn’t do Hindu-Muslim as...

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier this month, on 3rd July, Firhad Hakim stirred the hornet’s nest after he derided non-Muslims as ‘unfortunate’ and openly called for their religious conversion to Islam. 
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Blatant overreach and a violation of the Union list of Constitution: Kerala BJP chief slams Pinarayi Vijayan govt for appointing ‘Foreign Secretary’

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Kerala BJP president K Surendran slammed the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Kerala government for appointing IAS officer K Vasuki as Foreign Secretary in the state
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Love Jihad in UP: Aaqib poses as Aakash to befriend a Hindu girl, rapes and administers drugs to her for 2 years; had forced...

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The accused threatened to murder the victim and her family members and sexually exploited her for two years.
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IIT Madras student peddles pro-Palestine propaganda in convocation: The weaponisation of academic institutions to promote Hamas’ talking points

Paurush Gupta -
In his speech during the convocation ceremony, the IIT Madras student claimed a "mass genocide" was underway in Gaza and called for "action" to stop it.
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News Reports

After Karnataka, Tamil Nadu police hounds journalist Ajeet Bharti based on Congress complaint: Details of the case

OpIndia Staff -
The notice was issued to X based on a complaint by one M. Samuel Diraviam MC, a Congress party worker in Tamil Nadu. He had alleged that Ajeet Bharti made 'false claims' about Rahul Gandhi.
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NTA publishes centre-wise marks obtained by candidates in NEET (UG) 2024 exam as per Supreme Court order: Read how to check the marks

OpIndia Staff -
The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Saturday published the detailed city-wise and centre-wise results of the NEET-UG 2024 exam on its website
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World

Anthony Fauci, who came under fire for his mishandling of Covid, says Donald Trump’s wounds from assassination attempt are superficial

OpIndia Staff -
Dr Anthony Fauci claimed Donald Trump’s ear injury from the assassination attempt was "superficial."
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Congress government in Karnataka proposes 2 per cent cess on cinema tickets and OTT subscription fees, bill tabled in the assembly

OpIndia Staff -
"The Cine and Cultural Activists Welfare Cess" would be the name of the welfare cess levied by the Karnataka government.
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