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Laos releases world’s first-ever stamp depicting Ayodhya’s Ram Lalla: How Hinduism is woven deeply into the rich tapestry of Southeast Asia’s multireligious culture

Jinit Jain -
Earlier this week, Laos released a postage stamp showcasing Shri Ram Lalla of Ayodhya, becoming the first nation to feature the Hindu deity.
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News Reports

‘Ojha to bhai Bojha hai’: Following Rajender Nagar tragedy, students ask where are the biggest dealers of IAS dreams, Vikas Divyakirti and Avadh Ojha

OpIndia Staff -
Meanwhile, no new statement has come from Vikas Divyakirti and Avadh Ojha. They have not even expressed their condolences to the students who died due to the negligence of the Rau coaching institute. Due to this, the anger of other students is increasing.
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Sports

Ace shooter Manu Bhaker creates history, becomes first Indian to win 2 medals at same Olympics as she wins bronze with Sarabjot Singh in...

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India's shooting ace Manu Bhaker scripted history on Tuesday when she became the first Indian to win two medals at the same Olympics.
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News Reports

Yashashri’s brutal murder was act of revenge? Arrested accused Dawood was jailed in 2019 for stalking and harassing minor victim: Exclusive FIR details

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The accused Dawood Sheikh held today from Karnataka confessed that he killed Yashashri Shinde because she had rejected his advances several years ago and he feared she was in a relationship with another young man.
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Law

Administration of Gokarna Temple: Supreme Court grants veto powers to Justice (retired) BN Srikrishna on decisions concerning the historic temple

OpIndia Staff -
Senior Advocate Devadatt Kamat representing Math objected to the veto power granted to Justice Srikrishna stating that the judge had not personally visited the temple since 2021.
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News Reports

‘Grave misconduct’: Odisha govt suspends IPS officer, who forcibly tried to marry woman inspector and assaulted her husband

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The disciplinary action comes three days after he assaulted the husband of a woman, with whom he had an alleged extra-marital affair. The incident took place on Saturday (27th July).
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Crime

After Yashashri Shinde, two more incidents of brutal sexual assaults reported from Mumbai; accused Galib Sheikh, Talib, and Dr Asif Khan booked

Siddhi Somani -
The girl had gone missing from her village on 22nd July. While the family of the girl was looking for her, they were informed by one of the villagers that she had committed suicide on 25th July and that she was last seen with the accused Galib Sheikh in Mumbai.
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News Reports

OpIndia Exclusive: ‘Dara Singh was denied parole on the death of his parents, sister, his surrender was misrepresented as arrest’, family narrates how they...

राहुल पाण्डेय -
Their elderly parents hoped to meet Dara Singh once before he died. However, their wish could never be fulfilled. After the death of his father, mother, and his sister, Dara Singh applied for parole, however, his application was always rejected.
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News Reports

Kerala: Devastating landslides kill 19 in Wayanad, NDRF rescue operation underway, PM Modi announces compensation for victims

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi also announced ₹2 lakh compensation for the kin of those individuals who died in the catastrophe and ₹50000 for victims injured during the landslide.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: CM Yogi tables bill to make anti-conversion law more stringent, life sentence proposed as maximum punishment. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
The statement of reasons of the bill tabled by CM Yogi Adityanath noted that the existing provisions under the Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021 are not sufficient and they should be made as stringent as possible.
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Specials

From Khurshid renaming dhaba multiple times to Jahangir opening ‘Sheetal Chaat’ next to ‘Lakshmi’: Hindus of Western UP consider pseudo renaming not a compulsion...

राहुल पाण्डेय -
According to a Hindu shopkeeper, shopkeepers who are doing business diligently under their real names suffer losses because of some Muslims using pseudo-identity or false Hindu names.
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News Reports

Venezuela: President Maduro declared winner by national electoral body, USA and other nations unhappy over results

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The CNE has been criticized by some international bodies for its lack of impartiality, according to CNN.
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News Reports

MCD seals basement of Drishti IAS, owned by Vikas Divyakirti, for illegally running study centre, students hit the streets in protest

OpIndia Staff -
The action by MCD comes days after 3 UPSC aspirants died by drowning in the flooded basement of another coaching institute, Rau's IAS Study Circle.
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Crime

‘Stop Durga Vahini work’: Sadiq Khan arrested for attacking, trying to abduct Hindu activist in Patan, victim tells OpIndia – ‘condition of Hindu women...

Krunalsinh Rajput -
According to the complaint, Sadiq pulled the kurta of his accomplice and directed him, “Grab her and drag her inside the car,” and hurled abuses.
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Fact-Check

Mohammed Zubair, other Islamists spread fake news about Kanwariyas attacking Police vehicle in Ghaziabad: OpIndia spoke to police. Here is the truth

राहुल पाण्डेय -
According to the Police, the claim that the vehicle belonged to Police is false and misleading. The incident unfolded when the vehicle wrongly entered the lane which was reserved for the Kanwar Yatra. It then went on to hit the Kanwariyas and damaged his Kanwar which angered the Hindu devotees.
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News Reports

RSS worker Arvind Vaishya stabbed to death in Mumbai’s Dharavi; accused Niyaz, Arif arrested: Read FIR details

Siddhi Somani -
In Mumbai's Dharavi, an RSS worker Arvind Vaishya was brutally stabbed to death by Niyaz and Arif.
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News Reports

Kerala: Students at Church-run Nirmala College stage protest after being denied room to offer Friday namaz

OpIndia Staff -
Some female students requested that college authorities provide a place for women to offer Namaz prayers on Friday. When their request was not met, they decided to stage protests outside the office of the college's principal, Father Kannadan Francis on the 26th.
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News Reports

Illegal immigrants from Bangladesh working in Karnataka, agents based in West Bengal and Assam: Republic TV sting operation exposes infiltration racket

OpIndia Staff -
Republic Kannada spoke to Bangladeshi infiltrators, who spent between ₹2000-₹20000 to illegally enter India via Assam and West Bengal and travel to far-flung Karnataka.
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News Reports

‘Never buy a house in Muslim dominated area, unsafe for women’: Hindu woman journalist reports harassment and threats from her neighbourhood

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She noted that this is not a matter of feeding animals rather it is only about targeting a Hindu female.
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News Reports

Supreme Court refuses interim stay on Patna HC’s judgment that struck down Bihar government’s law increasing reservations to 65%

OpIndia Staff -
Notably, the Bihar government has approached the top court to challenge the Patna High Court’s order dated 20th June 2024 in which it set aside its law that increased reservation from 50% to 65% in the state.
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News Reports

Death of UPSC aspirants in Delhi could have been averted: How AAP-led MCD ignored student’s complaint about possibility of major accident

OpIndia Staff -
Had MCD previously ensured enforcement of building norms, the three UPSC aspirants may have been alive today.
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News Reports

Stalked, abducted, raped, and forcibly married: Shadab, Yusuf, and 2 more booked for victimising a minor girl in Ahmednagar. Read FIR details

Siddhi Somani -
The accused persons have been booked by the police under sections 137(2), 87, 123, 64(2), 351(2), 49, 74, 75, 78, and 3(5) of the Bhartiya Nyay Samhita, 2023 and 8 and 12 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012.
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News Reports

Balochistan rises up in protests against the Pakistani govt: Atrocities, firings fail to prevent thousands marching for Baloch National Gathering in Gwadar

Shraddha Pandey -
Earlier in the day, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee said that shopkeepers and entrepreneurs have observed a shutter down strike in most areas of Balochistan, including Khuzdar, Kalat, Mangchar, Nushki, Dalbandin, Mastung and Kharan, against state oppression and brutality at the Baloch National Gathering and the imposition of curfew in Makran, including Gwadar.
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News Reports

Canada: ‘Liberal’ Trudeau govt allows Khalistanis to hold yet another anti-India referendum on Punjab, raise posters glorifying terrorist Talwinder Singh Parmar

OpIndia Staff -
The Trudeau government has been allowing Khalistanis to use the Canadian soil to peddle their anti-India propaganda and undermine the territorial integrity of India.
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News Reports

Elon Musk says Google has ‘search banned’ Donald Trump in US, Republican Senator orders inquiry: What we know about the autocomplete feature

OpIndia Staff -
Some social media users pointed out that the autocomplete feature of the Google search engine could not be compared to the actual search results
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News Reports

Thousands of illegal Rohingyas and Bangladeshis settled illegally in UP districts with fake birth certificates, Aadhar: Accused Zeeshan tells UP ATS the network is...

OpIndia Staff -
As per the reports, in the Palahi village of Rae Bareli, there is only one Muslim family out of 4500 total residents, however birth certificates for 819 Muslims have been allegedly produced by the accused.
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News Reports

Islamists hail Algerian Judo player as hero, falsely claim that he ‘refused’ to fight Israeli judoka in support of Palestine. Here is the truth

OpIndia Staff -
Had Algerian judo player Redouane Messaoud Dris intentionally forfeited the match against Tohar Butbul for virtue of his Israeli nationality, he would have been served with a 10-year ban.
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News Reports

Delhi: Basement of 13 coaching centers sealed, illegal ‘libraries’ vacated after drowning of 3 students at Rajinder Nagar

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The student protests continued in the early hours of Monday also in Karol Bagh, raising various demands, including action against coaching centres and owners running libraries in basements, a rent regulation bill or code of rent regulation to control irrational rent and brokerage, and an insurance cover or grievance redressal mechanism for students.
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News Reports

Convicted rapist of a 12-year-old British girl steps on Olympic field representing Dutch beach volleyball team, gets booed by the audience, BBC panellist who...

श्रवण शुक्ल -
A convicted rapist of a minor British girl was allowed to step on the Olympic field and represent the Netherlands in Paris
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US to provide consultancy to India to build advanced UAVs under $3.1 billion deal for 31 MQ-9B Predator drones

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As part of the USD 3.1 billion 31 MQ-9B Predator drone deal between India and the US, American side is proposing to provide consultancy to Indian entities for developing an indigenous advanced unmanned aerial vehicle.
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How Olympic medalist Manu Bhaker praised Modi government’s TOPS and Khelo India scheme ahead of the Paris Games

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Manu Bhaker who won bronze at Paris Games became the first Indian woman shooter to win an Olympic medal.
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From dreaming of being a boxer in childhood to getting her pistol jammed in the Tokyo Olympics: Meet Manu Bhaker, the girl who made...

OpIndia Staff -
Manu Bhaker emphasised that her only focus was on doing her job rather than thinking about its outcome as she had Lord Krishna’s words in the back of her mind.
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Radical Islamic outfit threatens to behead Pakistani Christian activist over ‘blasphemy’, announces $20000 reward for carrying out ‘Sar Tan se Juda’

Dibakar Dutta -
Posters, calling upon Muslims to do 'Sar Tan se Juda' of the Christian activist, are being circulated in Pakistan.
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Delhi coaching centre tragedy: AAP minister Saurabh Bharadwaj alleges ‘big conspiracy against people of Delhi’, blames LG for not desilting drains

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After the IAS coaching institute tragedy, Delhi Minister and AAP leader Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Sunday said that there is a "big conspiracy hatched" against the people of the national capital
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Delhi: Students continue protests over the death of UPSC aspirants in flooded coaching centre, demand immediate action

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Students are holding massive protests in Delhi's Old Rajender Nagar area over the deaths of the three UPSC aspirants in a flooded basement of Rau's IAS Study Circle.
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Tamil Nadu turning into West Bengal? Two opposition leaders murdered in less than 24 hours in DMK-ruled state

OpIndia Staff -
murders of two opposition leaders in DMK-ruled Tamil Nadu serve as a chilling reminder of the horrifying deaths of opposition leaders particularly those of BJP in West Bengal
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News Reports

As the tragic death of 3 IAS aspirants raises questions on Municipal Corporation of Delhi, know who is Shelly Oberoi, the AAP mayor responsible...

Paurush Gupta -
In May 2023, Delhi HC set aside her decision noting that Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi, also the returning officer, acted beyond her powers and her decision was legally impermissible.
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Manu Bhaker scripts history by winning bronze in 10m air pistol, becomes first India woman to win medal in shooting at Olympics

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Ace India shooter Manu Bhaker finished third to secure a bronze medal in the final of the Women's Air Pistol event in the ongoing Paris Olympics 2024 on Sunday.
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‘There is a lot to learn from him’: Nikhil Kamath and Ranbir Kapoor heap praise on PM Modi, share stories about his personality...

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"And I feel like privileged to have had seen him (PM Modi) in such close quarters," Nikhil Kamath told Ranbir Kapoor.
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‘Living happily with two children’: Kerala High Court quashes POCSO case as victim and accused got married, says case would disrupt their married life

Anurag -
On 22nd July, Kerala High Court quashed a POCSO case against an accused as the accused and the victim had got married
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News Reports

“National shame” to “those responsible should be punished”: Opposition leaders, liberals blame everyone instead of AAP govt for the death of UPSC students

OpIndia Staff -
Opposition and liberals have been doing whataboutry instead of holding AAP accountable for the deaths of 3 UPSC students. 
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News Reports

Guilty will be brought to book: Delhi LG VK Saxena on deaths of civil services aspirants due to flooding at coaching centre in Rajender...

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Three UPSC aspirants died in the basement of a popular IAS coaching institute in Delhi's Old Rajender Nagar on Saturday after the basement was flooded with water.
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News Reports

Basement used as library, no unlocked exit: Delhi Coaching centre where 3 students died in flooding was issued NOC just 18 days ago despite...

OpIndia Staff -
Rau's IAS Study Circle centre in Delhi’s Rajinder Nagar, where three students died, was issued a fire safety certificate despite multiple violation of norms
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Crime

Love Jihad in UP’s Jalaun: 5 girls disappear in less than 2 months, Hindu outfits plan indefinite hunger strike in protest; Rs 15,000 reward...

श्रवण शुक्ल -
Five Hindu girls have disappeared from Jalaun town in the last one and a half months which has infuriated Hindu groups and they submitted a memorandum to the district officials.
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News Reports

Chief Election Commissioner follows Mohammed Zubair, the Islamist who dog-whistled against Nupur Sharma, unfollows him after social media outrage

OpIndia Staff -
Hours after netizens pointed this out and registered their outrage, CEC Kumar unfollowed Zubair as well as accounts of Rahul Gandhi and AIR News.  
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News Reports

Navi Mumbai Yashashri Shinde Murder Case: Mutilated body, accused Dawood Sheikh on the run, history of molestation and more – What we know ...

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In 2019, the victim's father had registered an FIR against Dawood Sheikh for molesting her daughter.
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News Reports

No, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman didn’t say women can wear anything, here’s the truth about viral statement

OpIndia Staff -
The statement was taken out of context from Mohammed bin Salman's 2018 interview with CBS News.
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News Reports

No more ‘legalised’ child marriage for Indian Muslims? Kerala HC sets new precedent

OpIndia Staff -
The Kerala High Court stated that Section 1(2) of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act applied to all Indian citizens, living in India as well as abroad.
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News Reports

IAS aspirants death in Delhi: Police detains owner, coordinator of coaching centre after basement flooding kills three students

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Delhi Police on Sunday detained the owner and coordinator of the IAS coaching centre, where three students lost their lives after the basement of the institute was filled with water, a senior police officer said.
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World

Electricity crisis, mismanaged economy: Pakistani businesses pessimistic about future under Shehbaz Sharif government

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Business owners have become more pessimistic about their future in Pakistan because of continued political turmoil and the new tax-heavy budget, said the Gallup report.
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