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Pakistani Army storms into Police station on Eid, thrashes and humiliates Police personnel, makes them kneel amidst dramatic scenes in Punjab province

OpIndia Staff -
The Pakistan Army personnel then went on to brutally assault cops, humiliate them, and make them kneel as the injured cops were seen bleeding.
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News Reports

‘President not invited for Ram Mandir inauguration because she is Adivasi’: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi peddles vicious lies during election campaign

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The truth is that President Murmu was formally invited by a delegation representing the Ram Temple Trust to attend the Pran Prathistha ceremony in Ayodhya.
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News Reports

Uttarakhand: Kids taught namaz in the name of Eid event at play school, parents and Hindu outfits protest, principal denies accusations

OpIndia Staff -
Hindu activists also agitated against teaching namaz at the Eid event in the play school in Roorkee, Uttarakhand.
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Government and Policy

Government instructs e-commerce platforms to remove drinks and beverages including Bournvita from ‘Health Drink’ category

OpIndia Staff -
The ministry cited a finding by the child rights body NCPCR that there is no beverage category called Health Drink under the rules.
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World

Australia: At least five killed after mass stabbing in a Sydney mall, multiple victims, including a 9-month baby, in critical condition; attacker shot dead

OpIndia Staff -
The mass stabbing incident unfolded at 3.20 pm (local time) on Saturday afternoon (13th April) when a man in an NRL jersey began stabbing shoppers at random, including a woman and her nine-month-old baby.
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Variety

Crowdfunding collects Rs 34 crore “blood money” in 4 days to save Kerala native Abdul Rahim, convicted of killing a 15 years old, from...

OpIndia Staff -
Abdul Rahim from Kerala went to Saudi Arabia in 2006 and was imprisoned merely twenty-eight days after landing there on accusation of killing a 15-year-old.
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News Reports

Rameshwaram cafe blast mastermind Abdul and bomber Mussavir used fake Hindu identities while on the run, were planning the next attack

Paurush Gupta -
NIA officials intend to interrogate Tahaa and Mussavir Hussain Shazib regarding the 'colonel's' identity, the frequency of their meetings with him, methods of payment for terrorist activities, and their future intentions. 
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News Reports

Supreme Court to hear Arvind Kejriwal’s petition against his arrest in Delhi excise policy scam case on 15 April

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Arvind Kejriwal approached the Supreme Court challenging a Delhi HC judgement that dismissed his plea against arrest by the ED and his subsequent remand in the excise policy case.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Shehzadi pretends to be ‘Naina Verma’ to entrap Hindu man in Meerut, forces him to convert to Islam and circumcises minor step-son

OpIndia Staff -
Shehzadi forged documents and assumed the identity of 'Naina Verma' before getting married to Vipin.
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News Reports

Power ministry issues order to operationalise all gas-based power plants to meet increased electricity demand during summer

OpIndia Staff -
In order to help meet the high electricity demand in the country during the summer season, the Government of India has decided to operationalize the gas-based power plants
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News Reports

‘Muslims not bonded labours of RJD, won’t tolerate Nazi attitude’: RJD leader Sarfaraz Alam slams Lalu and Tejashwi after party gives his ticket to...

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RJD leader Sarfaraz Alam alleged that his party leadership had betrayed him and put a knife in his back by not giving him a ticket.
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Politics

Karnataka: Congress MLA Laxman Savadi seeks Mallikarjun Kharge’s permission to chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ during a rally

OpIndia Staff -
Laxman Savadi represents Congress in the Karnataka state legislative assembly from the Athani constituency.
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Politics

Chaos in Rajasthan Congress days ahead of polls: 400 workers quit the party after suspension of 3 leaders over charge of campaigning for BJP

OpIndia Staff -
Congress workers in Rajasthan resigned from the membership over the party's alliance with the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP).
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News Reports

US President Biden says he expects Iran to attack Israel ‘sooner than later’

ANI -
Biden said he expects Iran to attack Israel 'sooner than later' after Tehran vowed revenge after Israel launched airstrikes on the Iranian embassy in Damascus
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World

Pakistan: Ancient Hindu temple in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa demolished for commercial complex, was earlier attacked by Islamists in 1992

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistani administrative officials claimed that they were unaware that there was any temple at this place even though land records show its existence.
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News Reports

US: Riddhi Patel who earlier said ‘f*ck Hindu fascism’ gives death threats to city council members to support Hamas, arrested

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"We'll see you at your house. We will murder you," Riddhi Patel was heard saying.
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News Reports

“How can you prevent a repeat of 26/11 without reacting to it?”: EAM S Jaishankar says can’t have rules when dealing with terrorists

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Jaishankar said Pakistan sent tribal people from its north-western part to launch attacks in the erstwhile Indian province but the Congress government back then labelled them as 'infiltrators', and not 'terrorists'
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World

Forced marriages and conversions of Hindu women: UN experts condemn Pakistan for atrocities against minority women in the country

OpIndia Staff -
A panel of experts from the UN issued a statement in Geneva and slammed Pakistan for the forced marriages and religious conversions of Christian and Hindu women in Pakistan.
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News Reports

Khatakhat paisa aata rahega: Rahul Gandhi claims magical method to remove poverty, gives old Alu-Sona, the escape velocity of Jupiter logics

Rukma Rathore -
Similar to the Congress Lok Sabha manifesto, Rahul Gandhi did not provide a strategy for carrying out his commitment.
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News Reports

‘Fact-checker’ Md Zubair spreads fake news, falsely claims that BJP received donations from ‘beef exporting company’

OpIndia Staff -
‘Fact-checker’ Md Zubair spreads fake news that BJP received donations from ‘beef exporting company’ Allanasons, which actually exports boneless buffalo meat
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News Reports

MEA advises Indians not to travel to Iran and Israel amid escalating tensions, asks people already there to observe utmost precaution and restrict movements

ANI -
Amid ongoing tensions between Iran and Israel, the Ministry of External Affairs issued a travel advisory to Indian citizens and asked them to refrain from travelling to both countries until further notice.
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News Reports

“Reasons are multicausal”: MEA on the recent deaths of Indian students in the US, says two murder cases are currently under investigation

ANI -
Ministry of External Affairs on Friday condemned the deaths of Indian students in the US and said that the cause of their deaths was more than one
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News Reports

Punjab Police arrests Khalistani terrorist Prabhpreet Singh Sidhu from Delhi Airport, was running Khalistan Zindabad Force module in Germany

Siddhi Somani -
Punjab Police busted a Khalistani terrorist recruitment, funding, and helping module by capturing Germany-based operative Prabhpreet Singh Sidhu at Delhi's IGI Airport
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News Reports

‘No mention of 23 crops, formula in manifesto’: Interview of Congress leader with The Wire shows party backtracking on Rahul Gandhi’s MSP promise

OpIndia Staff -
Praveen Chakravarty failed to name specific crops that the Congress party plans to procure at MSP if it is elected to power.
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News Reports

Sikh delegation visits Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara ahead of Baisakhi, offers special prayer for successful continuation of PM Modi’s leadership

ANI -
On the eve of Baisakhi, the Indian Minorities Foundation (IMF)-led Sikh delegation offered prayers at Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara for a successful continuation of PM Modi’s leadership
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News Reports

Rampant violence rocks schools in France during Ramzan, report highlights how Islamists are targetting people for not following Quranic principals

OpIndia Staff -
Céline Imart, number two on the Les Républicains list for the European elections, reportedly mentioned that in a middle school in her area in France, a student prevented a teacher from drinking a glass of water because it was Ramzan
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News Reports

Bloomberg reinvents the ‘EVM hack’ bogey, peddles Andy Mukherjee’s unhinged nonsense without a shred of evidence

Shraddha Pandey -
Andy Mukherjee has written an opinion piece in Bloomberg asserting that the electronic voting machines (EVMs) which have been used in elections since 2004 are “rightly” the next port of call for judicial scrutiny.
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News Reports

Kangana Ranaut trolls Rahul Gandhi, and Vikramaditya Singh for Congress’ beef comment for her, calls them ‘Bada Pappu, Chota Pappu’

OpIndia Staff -
Kangana called Singh 'Chota Pappu' and said that he was making false claims regarding her beef eating. "Jhutha aur aur ek number ka palutubaj hai yeh Chhota pappu. Lekin is se kya ummeed ki ja sakti hai jab iska “Bada Pappu” kehta hai ki humein shakti ka vinash karna hai," she said.
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Opinions

Lok Sabha 2024: Why complacency of own leaders and voters may be a bigger challenge for BJP than the dysfunctional, broken Opposition

Paurush Gupta -
The I.N.D.I. alliance is plagued by internal chaos, confusion, rivalry, and a propensity to undermine its own partners within the coalition.
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News Reports

“Mughal mentality”: PM Modi hits out at INDI Alliance leaders for posting videos of non-veg food deliberately during Saawan & Navratri

OpIndia Staff -
PM Narendra Modi criticized the opposition's 'Mughal mindset' for posting videos of consuming non-vegetarian food in the month of 'Saawan' and during 'Navratri'
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News Reports

UP: Maulana Manzar Ali who was reported missing by wife no 1 and 2 in Lucknow, found living with wife no 3 in Gonda

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The Maulana went to live with his third wife in Gonda because he was upset with his first two wives in Lucknow.
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News Reports

I challenge any political party, especially Congress, to announce that they will bring back Article 370: PM Modi at Udhampur rally

ANI -
PM Narendra Modi on Friday threw a challenge at Opposition parties, especially the Congress to bring back Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.
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News Reports

Repeated rape, hand burnt with hot water, forcible conversion to Islam: 2 ISIS terrorists arrested in Germany for sexual abuse of minor Yazidi children

OpIndia Staff -
The terrorists, identified as Asia R.A. and Twana H.S., are accused of crimes against humanity, genocide, war crimes and holding the membership of a foreign terror outfit.
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News Reports

Chats with an ‘alien’, afterlife, and dinosaurs: 3 persons from Kerala found dead in Arunachal Pradesh under weird circumstances

OpIndia Staff -
Police discovered Arya B. Nair dead on the floor with her wrist slashed with a blade, while Devi B. was found dead on the floor with cut marks on her neck and right wrist. However, Naveen was found dead in the hotel washroom.
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News Reports

Villagers had stopped drunk driver, school staff allowed him to drive: Haryana govt orders probe into Mahendragarh school bus accident, principal among 3 arrested

OpIndia Staff -
The Haryana administration has given orders for a comprehensive probe covering various aspects of the Mahendragarh school bus accident
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News Reports

Crime cases rise in Pakistan amid economic turmoil: 19 killed, 55 injured in Karachi over resisting robberies during Ramzan

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According to Karachi Police Chief, approximately 4,00,000 "professional" beggars and criminal elements flock to Karachi during Ramzan and Eid-ul-Fitr
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Opinions

Agniveer Scheme: Let us look at it differently and objectively

Virender Kapoor -
I have interviewed more than 8000 graduates and groomed 2000 MBA managers and I have seen that a two-month summer internship transforms their personality. 42 months is a huge experience.
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News Reports

“Placing Guru Granth Sahib does not give immunity”: Punjab and Haryana HC slams state authorities for failing to clear road blocked by protestors

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Punjab and Haryana HC said that protesters who misuse the Guru Granth Sahib as a "shield" to demand the release of Sikh prisoners cannot be granted any immunity.
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News Reports

Defence Ministry issues ₹65,000 crore tender to Hindustan Aeronautics for purchasing 97 made-in-India LCA Tejas Mark 1A fighter jets

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The tender for LCA Tejas Mark 1A was issued by the Defence Ministry to the HAL recently and they have been given three months to respond to it.
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News Reports

“Can’t afford to feed them”: Pakistan Man kills wife and seven children with an axe, cites financial distress as motive in confession to police

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan: Man kills family due to financial distress
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News Reports

NIA makes major breakthrough in Rameshwaram cafe blast case, nabs bomber Mussavir and mastermind Abdul

OpIndia Staff -
The central agency spotted bomber Mussavir Hussain Shazib in a CCTV footage, where he and Mateen Taahaa were seen purchasing a cap before committing the crime.
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News Reports

‘Rip you apart’ comment by SC judge Ahsanuddin Amanullah in Patanjali misleading ads case enrages present and former judges

OpIndia Staff -
Former judges said that the “we will rip you apart” comment verged on a street brawl threat and could never be part of the obiter dicta lexicon of a constitutional court judge, TOI reported.
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News Reports

‘After central forces leave, you will be left here with our forces’: TMC MLA intimidates voters ahead of elections, hints at ‘Khela’ of violence...

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Hamidul Rehman subtly reminded voters about the TMC's Khela of violence during the 2021 Vidhan Sabha elections and the 2023 Panchayat polls.
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News Reports

[email protected]: CBI creates email ID for Sandeshkhali residents to register complaints of crimes against women & land grabbing cases

OpIndia Staff -
This comes after the Calcutta High Court's order directing a court-monitored CBI investigation of rape cases and land grabbing in Sandeshkhali.
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News Reports

Sandeshkhali: BJP worker’s house burnt down allegedly by TMC workers, disaster relief sarees distributed among women with threats to kill if they don’t vote...

OpIndia Staff -
BJP worker Subrata Mandal in Khulna village panchayat of Sandeshkhali has alleged that miscreants linked with TMC set his house on fire late last night
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News Reports

Pune: Police unearth Rs 4 crore online sharing trading fraud racket in Pimpri Chinchwad, Junaid, Salman, Abdul, Arif and Taufik arrested

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Pimpri Chinchwad police cyber cell in Maharashtra exposed an online share trading fraud scheme using fake trading apps, money mule accounts and USDT cryptocurrency to route money to Hong Kong
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News Reports

Mumbai: Naim Qureshi slaughters cow in Kashigao area ahead of Eid, detained, search underway for two other involved

OpIndia Staff -
The Police immediately reached the spot discovering remains of the cattle skin and blood post-slaughter. The police also saw a total of three men surrounding the remains. However, the three tried to flee from the spot after seeing the police constable approaching.
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News Reports

Someone with ‘Ram’ in his name asked people to keep quiet when Sanatan Dharma was insulted: Rohan Gupta who left Congress and joined BJP

OpIndia Staff -
After joining BJP, Rohan Gupta also took a swipe at the opposition bloc I.N.D.I.A., saying that the alliance named after the country consists of 'antinational elements'.
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News Reports

UK: Over 50 children were sexually abused by paedophile catholic monks on holy Caldey Island for decades, no action taken against the accused

OpIndia Staff -
The Caldey Island is one of the holy islands in UK where Cistercian monks reside and has been a popular tourist destination.
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News Reports

‘That’s low, poor marketing taste’: Canadian brand Dbrand faces backlash after posting rude, derogatory comment on an Indian customer’s name

OpIndia Staff -
Dbrand's statement drew criticism on X, with some pointing out the racial connotations. Despite the criticism, the accessories firm refused to apologize or eliminate the post. The post has received more than 9 million views on X.
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