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Maharashtra: Eknath Shinde govt announces stipend scheme, Rs 6,000 for 12th pass, Rs 8,000 for diploma holders, and Rs 10,000 for graduates

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The Eknath Shinde government in Maharashtra announced Rs 6,000 for 12th pass, Rs 8,000 for diploma students, and Rs 10,000 for graduates.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: 400 people fall ill after drinking Sharbat during the Muharram procession in Banswara; break locks of a nearby dispensary for treatment

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Several participants of the Muharram rally broke the locks of a nearby dispensary for treatment after consuming sharbat that rendered them ill.
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News Reports

UP: Health Department seals ‘Youtuber’ Dr Salma Nasir’s hospital in Moradabad after finding illegal pathology lab and unqualified medical staff

OpIndia Staff -
The hospital's staff told the officials that Dr Salma Nasir runs the hospital. The health department team also found an illegal pathology lab being run in the hospital.
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News Reports

UP Govt orders inspection of all slaughterhouses after NCPCR rescues 57 child labourers from Yasin Qureshi’s slaughterhouse in Ghaziabad

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The order was issued after the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) in a joint operation with the UP Police busted a child labour racket in Ghaziabad's slaughterhouse
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News Reports

Meerut, UP: Stone pelting by Muslim mob on Dalit man’s wedding procession after fight over playing DJ music, casteist slurs hurled

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A victim named Neeraj said that Muslim youths were making videos of girls dancing during the wedding festivities on Sunday and also passed obscene comments on them, as the Dalit youths objected to this, the Muslim youths called several other people and launched an attack on Hindu Dalits.
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News Reports

Bengal Police discover 40-meter long tunnel that leads to Bangladesh under accused Saddam’s house: What we know about the Kultali fake gold case

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The 40-meter-long concrete tunnel found beneath Saddam's house connects to a nearby canal flowing into the Matla River in the Sunderbans beyond which lies the Indo-Bangladesh international border, the Bengal police revealed
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News Reports

Yogi govt suspends digital attendance system for teachers after protests, Akhilesh Yadav says it is fear of defeat in by-elections

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Following controversies surrounding the digital attendance system, the Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday decided to form an expert committee under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary to address the problems and suggestions of teachers.
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News Reports

USA received intel in the last weeks about an Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump: Report

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Officials, however, said that there is no known connection between this Iranian plot and the 20-year-old who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump on July 13
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News Reports

Trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar alleges harassment against Pune Collector who ordered her transfer, files complaint

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The official said, “Women police personnel visited Khedkar at her residence in Washim on Monday when she lodged a complaint of harassment against Pune district collector Suhas Diwase.” 
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News Reports

Calcutta HC comes down heavily on CM Mamata Banerjee for defamatory statements against West Bengal Governor, restrains her from making such statements

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Earlier, Governor Bose approached the High Court against CM Mamata Banerjee’s remark where she said that women no longer felt safe to enter the Raj Bhavan in West Bengal
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World

Racist attacks, Hinduphobia and more: After Tulsi Gabbard, Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley, Usha Chilukuri becomes latest victim of racism and xenophobia in US...

OpIndia Staff -
The New York Times described Usha Chilukuri as a perfect test case for the “Elite” and a “political cipher”, seemingly painting her as a tool for someone, who they didn’t specify, for sending a political message.
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News Reports

Vadodara: Palestine flag hoisted on Muharram in Savli, Police takes suo moto cognizance, three minors being questioned

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Muharram processions are taking place all around the country. Amid this, a Palestinian flag was raised on Muharram in Vadodara's Savli.
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World

As Republican Harmeet Dhillon gets attacked with racist slurs for Sikh prayer at RNC, read how she targets India regularly, whitewashed Khalistani Nijjar

OpIndia Staff -
Harmeet Dhillon had come out in support of the pro-Khalistani elements and Canadian government over allegations against India in Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar's murder case.
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News Reports

Trainee IAS Puja Khedkar aged only one year between 2020 and 2023, used different names on applications: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Although Puja Khedkar secured 841st rank, she was allotted IAS, India's premier civil service, due to the caste quotas.
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News Reports

Assam: Police arrest Nasibuddin and Murtaza after they film woman taking bath, accused used to uploading videos on porn sites for money

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A Police officer said, "We have found several objectionable clips and videos on their phones. They had been recording women bathing, changing clothes, and in other compromising situations. They used to upload those videos on various porn sites to earn money. We are interrogating them." 
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World

Bangladesh hits back at US for lecturing on ‘violence’, reminds America of assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump

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The statement came hours after, the US claimed that two students had died during the current student protests in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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News Reports

Byju’s failed to deposit TDS with the govt despite deducting it from employee salaries, a punishable offence against company directors: Report

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According to the EPFO data, Byju’s has also failed to deposit monthly provident fund (PF) payments for several employees since December.
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News Reports

Victim blaming, intellectual dishonesty and complete lack of empathy: ‘The Hindu’ follows global Left in downplaying assassination attempt on Donald Trump

Dibakar Dutta -
Though a late entrant in this game of whitewashing, The Hindu made it clear that it will not fall far behind its global counterparts in peddling agenda in the name of news editorial.
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Law

Madras HC puts Muslim custom over discipline, reverses action against constable Ibrahim: Promotion, extended leave after Haj and a beard

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Referring to an Official Memorandum issued in Madras Police Gazette dated 5th February 1957, Madras High Court noted that while permission to grow a beard could not be granted to non-Muslim officers, the Muslim officers in the police force were entitled to maintain a beard for their lifetime. The judge emphasised that a Muslim officer is allowed to keep a beard provided it is trimmed and tidy.
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WTF News

UP: Groom’s father Shakeel elopes with bride’s mother Asma Khatun in Kasganj days before Nikah, leave 16 children behind

OpIndia Staff -
Mohammad Pappu believes that Shakeel, a Ganeshpur resident lured and abducted his wife. He has filed a case against Shakeel for kidnapping his wife. On Pappu's complaint, the police have registered a case and launched an investigation.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Court acquits Khadim Gauhar Chisthi, who met killers of Kanhaiya Lal and raised ‘Sar Tan Se Juda’ slogans

OpIndia Staff -
Gauhar Chishti was previously  arrested by the police in 2020 for making a video of the CRPF camp, though he was let off at that time with a mere warning.
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News Reports

Moradabad: Family finds 2-page suicide note of Maulana Akram, how his death in June was peddled as an anti-Muslim hate crime by Islamists

OpIndia Staff -
It is important to note that the death of Maulana which happened due to a gunshot was peddled by Islamists as a murder. Several Islamists on social media insinuated that Maulana Mohammed Akram's death might be a religiously motivated hate crime.
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu: Days after high-profile killing of state BSP Chief, NTK functionary brutally hacked to death in Madurai

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This is not the first high-profile killing in Tamil Nadu as in recent past, state BSP Chief, a functionary of AIADMK, a Congress leader have all been killed in the state
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News Reports

Dhule: Days after being brutally attacked by a Muslim mob over a minor incident, Dalits to organize a rally to demand justice, here’s all...

Siddhi Somani -
The Dalits will stage the rally 'Ambedkarite Morcha' and demand strict punishment against the 18 identified Muslim accused and 25 other non-identified people from the Muslim community.
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News Reports

Kenya President William Samoei Ruto says the Ford Foundation is fueling violent protests in his country

Anurag -
Kenya's President is facing a series of protests from the youth of the country. The protests started as peaceful rallies against the proposed tax hikes. However, they spiralled into a larger campaign against President William Samoei Ruto and his administration.
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News Reports

Maharashtra CM orders removal of illegal encroachment from Vishalgadh fort, 35 shops demolished so far: Details

Siddhi Somani -
“The administration has started removing encroachments from Vishalgadh. However, attempts are being made to give it a communal color. The first few encroachments which have been removed belong to Hindu community members,” Sambhajiraje clarified while talking to the reporters in Kolhapur.
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News Reports

Oman: Attack at Al Wadi Al Kabir Shia mosque near Muscat, four dead, several injured, hundreds of people trapped inside

OpIndia Staff -
In an official statement, the Royal Oman Police said, “The Royal Oman Police dealt with a shooting incident in the vicinity of a mosque in the Wadi Al Kabir region, which resulted in the death of four people and the injury of a number of others.
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News Reports

Trump’s VP pick JD Vance slammed Biden for calling India xenophobic, called UK under Labour party rule as ‘first Islamist country with nuclear weapons’

Shraddha Pandey -
Vance was born James David Bowman in Middletown, Ohio, to a mother who struggled with addiction and a father who left the family when JD was a toddler. He was raised by his grandparents.
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News Reports

Maulana Tauqeer Raza, who claimed that there was nothing like love jihad, organises nikkah and mass conversion of Hindu women

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The mass conversion programme is scheduled to be held at the Khalil Higher Secondary School in Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh on 21st July.
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News Reports

Jammu and Kashmir: Four Indian Army soldiers including an officer killed during encounter with terrorists in Doda, operation underway

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Earlier on 15th June, the White Knight Corps of the Indian Army said in a statement, "Based on specific intelligence inputs, a joint operation by Indian Army and JKP was in progress in General area North of Doda. Contact with terrorists was established tonight at about 2100h in which heavy firefight ensued. Initial reports suggest injuries to our bravehearts. Additional troops have been moved into the area. Operations are continuing."
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Law

Muslim man pretends to be a Kalava-wearing Hindu to later convert Hindu girl to Islam, connives with Village Pradhan: What Allahabad HC said denying...

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Allahabad HC denied bail to a Muslim man Imtiyaz Ansari who had pretended to be a Hindu, converted woman to Islam
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News Reports

China has destroyed hundreds of mosques in Xinjiang, forcefully assimilating Uyghurs into Han Chinese culture: Report

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The report titled 'China is using archaeology as a weapon' elaborated how the state is unearthing ancient justifications for its rule over Xinjiang. China has destroyed hundreds of mosques and Muslim shrines across Xinjiang.
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Kerala: 12-year-old girl on her way to madrassa abducted and raped at knifepoint in Kasaragod, police suspect assaulter was known to her

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A 12-year-old girl who was walking to a madrassa in Kerala's Kasaragod was abducted at knifepoint and sexually assaulted, an FIR filed with Bekal Police on Monday said.
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MP: Minor girl attempts suicide after being repeatedly raped by a Muslim cleric; AAP leader accused of assisting Maulvi

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Maulvi Imam Khan in Madhya Pradesh's Narsinghpur is accused of sexually assaulting a minor girl for over one and a half years.
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MP: Shaheen reverts to Hinduism following divorce 15 years after Saddam forced her to convert and perform nikah at gunpoint

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A history-sheeter, Saddam has 24 cases registered against him under serious sections. He is currently lodged in jail.
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Kedarnath temple to be built in Delhi is a temple, not a Dham, says president of Kedarnath Dham Trust

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 The Kedarnath temple to be built in Delhi is a temple, not a Dham and the Uttarakhand government has nothing to do with it, said Surinder Rautela, president of Kedarnath Dham Trust on Sunday.
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Love Jihad in Raebareli: Tauheed poses as Janu Mishra to trap a minor Hindu girl in a love affair, girl commits suicide after learning...

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In a video accessed by OpIndia, the victim's younger sister stated that her sister used to talk with a boy who introduced himself as Janu Mishra but was a Muslim.
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News Reports

Uncovered high grounds, poor evacuation, clueless agents and more: How US Secret Service failed to prevent assassination attempt on Donald Trump

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Immediately after Donald Trump was shot, a clueless Secret Service agent was heard asking, "What’re we doing, what’re we doing, Where are we going...”
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OpIndia Explains

Suspected illegal immigrant from Bangladesh declared a ‘citizen’ by SC citing technicalities and discrepancies in proceedings: Here’s what happened

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On 19th March 2012, the Foreigners Tribunal, Nalbari, declared Rahim Ali as a foreigner. The decision was based on the fact that Ali allegedly failed to provide sufficient evidence that he was an Indian citizen.
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Kerala: Man who went for a health check-up at a hospital gets stuck in lift for 2 days

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Nair told the media that the lift got stuck at around 12 noon on Saturday, and he kept pressing the alarm.
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Jammu And Kashmir: Mourners wave Palestinian flags and chant slogans in support of Gaza during the Muharram procession in Srinagar

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During the Muharram procession, mourners waved Palestinian flags and raised slogans in support of Gaza. Additionally, they also raised anti-US and anti-Israel slogans
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News Reports

‘Hindustan mein rehna hai, Ya Hussain kehna hai’: 7 minors arrested for raising provocative slogans during Muharram procession in Amethi

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The video of the incident had gone viral after which Superintendent of Police Anoop Kumar Singh filed a complaint and detained several persons involved.
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Variety

Do you know? The word ‘assassination’ originates from an old group of cannabis-addicted Islamic killers that were (in)famous for political murders

Shraddha Pandey -
Interestingly, "assassination" and the historical group known as the Assassins have permeated popular culture, inspiring a wide array of myth, mysticism, and creative interpretations in movies, television shows, and video games. This legacy reflects both the fear and fascination that the original Assassins evoked.
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News Reports

Sanjay Singh claims Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal lost weight, might slip into coma: Tihar authorities say he is fine and receiving good healthcare

OpIndia Staff -
Sanjay Singh claimed that Arvind Kejriwal had lost 8.5 kg of weight and had his blood sugar level drop below 50 mg/dL five times after his detention. He also said that the jail authorities committed a crime by revealing an inmate's medical report and challenged their assertion.
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Specials

HNG, longest running IBC case: CoC lead by SBI making Rs 850 crores losses due to delay, workers threaten suicide – Is Resolution Professional...

Nupur J Sharma -
SBI led CoC is making a loss of over Rs 35 crores per day due to the delay in the HNG IBC process - is the Resolution Professional to be blamed
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News Reports

‘Om Namah Shivay’ inscriptions, figurines of Hindu deities, and more: ASI says ‘parts of pre-existing temples converted into a mosque’ in scientific report on...

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In its report on the Bhojshala complex, the ASI said parts of pre-existing temples were used to build the mosque.
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News Reports

Puja Khedkar had submitted non-creamy layer OBC certificate for MBBS admission in 2007: Director of Kashibai Navale Medical College

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As per information given by Arvind Bhore, Director of Shrimati Kashibai Navale Medical College and General Hospital, Puja had secured a seat for the MBBS course in the college through the Association of Management of Unaided Private Medical and Dental Colleges of Maharashtra (AMUPDMC) entrance test and had scored 146 marks out of 200. She was enrolled in the college's first batch in 2007.
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Assam: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma drops cases against Hindu Bengalis under foreigners tribunal, issues fresh directives on CAA

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During a press conference, Sarma mentioned that most Hindu Bengalis prefer to prove their citizenship status in court rather than applying under the CAA.
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Bannu Cantt in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa attacked with explosives, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan’s faction Jaish Fursan-e-Muhammad claims responsibility

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The Jaish Fursan-e-Muhammad, a faction of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur, has claimed responsibility for this incident.
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Jammu and Kashmir: Ancient Uma Bhagwati temple reopens in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district after 34 years

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During the ceremony, an idol of Goddess Uma Bhagwati was placed in the sanctum sanctorum amid the chanting of religious hymns. The idol was brought from Rajasthan.
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