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David Cameron lectures India on poverty, forgets that his own country has 18% absolute poverty and 11% cannot even afford to heat their homes

Pragya Bakshi Sharma -
David Cameron was addressing the UK Parliament where he responded to questions about India
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Telangana: Missionary school refuses entry to students observing Hanuman Deeksha for their saffron dress, protesting religious group vandalises the school, case filed against both...

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Mother Teresa School in Kannepalli village in Telangaga was vandalised after school denied entry to students wearing saffron dress as part of 21-day Hanuman Deeksha
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News Reports

Election Commission dismisses fake news shared by Prashant Bhushan in Supreme Court that EVMs are recording extra vote for BJP in mock polls

ANI -
Prashant Bhushan, representing NGO 'Association for Democratic Reforms', cited a report on mock poll results of Kerala to cast aspersions on EVMs.
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News Reports

The Wire passes off the obvious about Adani-Israel JV as a great investigation, but there is a more sinister plan behind it: Here is...

Shraddha Pandey -
Back in 2018, it was reported that Adani Group had received an order to manufacture Hermes 900 UAVs for the Israeli Defence Forces. Thus, The Wire is somehow 'investigating' something that is already out in open.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Ayan Pathan rapes Hindu woman, brutally assaults and tortures her for property, arrested

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The victim added that the accused abused her by using a leather belt and iron instrument and that he also poured salt and chili powder into her wounds.
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News Reports

Kejriwal following Prison Break tricks? ED says jailed Delhi CM is eating mangoes, sweets to raise his sugar levels, so he can get bail

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"The cause of concern is he was allowed prescribed home-cooked food because he claimed he has high diabetes. But he is having mangoes, sweets, and sugar with tea. This is a basis to create a ground for bail," Hossain submitted.
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News Reports

Australia: Islamic Council condemns authorities for calling the stabbing of Bishop a ‘terror attack,’ despite perpetrator’s own admission of Islamic motive

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The 16-year-old accused stabbed the the Bishop while shouting "Allahu Akbar" during live streaming of mass ceremony.
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Politics

We don’t need Congress validation: I.N.D.I. Alliance member CPM’s leader Pinarayi Vijayan heavily criticises Rahul Gandhi

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Although the Left parties and the Congress are part of a larger INDI bloc, they are opposed to each other in Kerala where the Congress is currently in opposition as part of the UDF alliance.
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News Reports

“Spoon-fed kids seeking refuge in states with large minority community”: Former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad lashes out at Rahul Gandhi & Omar Abdullah

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Ghulam Nabi Azad was addressing a rally in Udhampur for his party candidate GM Saroori.
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News Reports

Largest gold heist in Canada’s history: Air Canada employee Parmpal Sidhu, Amit Jalota and 7 others facing charges for stealing 6600 gold bars from...

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Police issue nationwide warrants for three in connection to the robbery while six others were already arrested.
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News Reports

Hindus come under attack in Bengal during Ram Navami, with 20 injured after stone pelting and bombs hurled: Here are few videos, pictures that...

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On Wednesday, massive violence erupted in the Murshidabad district of West Bengal after a Ram Navami procession was brutally attacked
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News Reports

YouTuber Ajit Anjum threatens criminal defamation against fellow YouTuber after she interviewed a journalist claiming Anjum sexually harassed female anchors

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Ajit Anjum has sent a defamation notice to the anchor of the YouTube channel who interviewed journalist Kumar Srikant
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News Reports

USA: Public-funded NPR suspends veteran editor Uri Berliner after he writes about media outlet’s political bias, editor resigns

OpIndia Staff -
Uri Berliner worked for NPR for 25 years. In an essay, he expalined how NPR has become overtly liberal biased over the years, to the point of neglecting genuine stories and fanning unfounded political allegations.
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News Reports

No lessons learned: Priyanka Gandhi’s clueless rants before elections of 2019 and 2024

OpIndia Staff -
Similarly, before the 2019 elections, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra made several bizarre statements
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World

Brazil: Woman brings dead body of her uncle to bank and tries to make the corpse sign off on a loan

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The woman in Brazil tried to control the dead man's head and make him clasp the pen with which to make the signature on loan document.
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News Reports

Jharkhand: Ram Navami procession in Bokaro attacked by Islamists, 12 injured in stone pelting

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When the procession reached close to the Masjid area, some of the Islamists stopped the procession and later pelted stones at the Hindu participants.
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News Reports

Nestlé adds sugar in infant food sold in India, avoids sugar in Europe and US: Report

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Nestlé India spokesperson stated that the company complies with all local and international standards and has already decreased added sugars across its infant cereal range.
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News Reports

Bengaluru: Farhan, Sameer, and others assault Hindus for chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’, force them to chant Allah Hu Akbar, arrested

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"The three youths were holding a flag and chanting Jai Shri Ram while travelling in the car. During that time, two youths blocked the car and questioned them for shouting these slogans, also demanding them to say Allah Hu Akbar" said the police.
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Tech

Google fires 28 pro-Palestine employees involved in protest against $1.2 Billion Israel contract

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Protesters are demanding that Google pull out of the $1.2 billion “Project Nimbus” contract, under which, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services provide cloud-computing and artificial intelligence services for the Israeli government and military.
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News Reports

UP: Stone-pelting on Hindu homes in Ghazipur, a shop vandalised; most attackers Muslim minors

राहुल पाण्डेय -
The victim has identified 5 accused from the Muslim community for the stone pelting at his house.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Ram Navami Shobha Yatra attacked with stones and bombs in Murshidabad days after Mamata Banerjee predicted riots on 17 April, 20 injured

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While the nation is marking celebrations of Ram Navami, an attack on a Ramanavami Shobha Yatra has been reported from West Bengal’s Rejinagar in Murshidabad
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News Reports

Pakistan: Sindh High Court orders interior ministry to revoke its order suspending social media platform X within a week

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The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday directed the Pakistan Interior Ministry to revoke its letter regarding suspension of social media 'X' within one week
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News Reports

Congress once again shields India’s enemies, insinuates recent Naxal encounter was fake: How it has been batting for Left-wing terrorists

Shraddha Pandey -
Congress party has a history of genuflecting before the Naxalites to whitewash their crimes. Desperate after defeat in the last state assembly elections, Congress is sympathising with even Naxal terrorists to garner some votes.
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News Reports

Floods in Dubai are not all doom and gloom: Read about climate experimentation and geoengineering, how humanity has been working to mitigate natural challenges

Paurush Gupta -
Despite the bad optics that unfolded before the UAE residents yesterday because of flooding, media office in Dubai dubbed the downpours “rains of goodness”.
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News Reports

‘Ram Mandir in Ayodhya is uniting the nation’, says psephologist Pradeep Bhandari in his new book ‘Modi 3.0: Bigger, Higher, Stronger’

OpIndia Staff -
Psephologist Pradeep Bhandari in his latest book 'Modi 3.0: Bigger, Higher, Stronger' has asserted that PM Modi is poised to return to power with an even greater mandate.
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News Reports

“The world must laugh at us”: Sindh High Court orders Pakistan to lift ban on social media platform X after Islamabad confirms suspicion of...

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The ban on X was imposed during the Pakistan general elections during which time internet services were also banned in the Islamic country with the interior ministry citing security reasons
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News Reports

The story of Hercules: Bangladesh’s mysterious serial killer who hunted down rapists and punished them

Rukma Rathore -
"Hercules" left notes tied to the necks of all his targets, calling them rapists and warning others as well.
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News Reports

Trending ahead of Lok Sabha elections: Who is Ravindra Bhati, independent candidate from Barmer currently in news for meeting anti-India elements

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Ravindra Singh Bhati wanted to contest Rajasthan Assembly elections from BJP ticket but the party gave ticket to Swaroop Singh Khara. Bhati contested as independent and won the Sheo assembly seat.
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News Reports

‘AAP Ka Ram Rajya’: How Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party is trying to ride on the Ram wave after insulting Hindus, mocking Ram Mandir for...

Siddhi Somani -
AAP has always been showcasing its hatred towards the Hindus and Sanatan Dharma and also Lord Rama at times. And now when the Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has been jailed because of his involvement in the Delhi Liquor Scam, the party is making use of Lord Ram's name to its benefit.
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Opinions

How Modi Hacks EVMs, Part 8: Seminal 10 years with epochal events and decisions – from Ram Mandir to G20, Women’s Reservation Bill, NEP...

S. Sudhir Kumar -
10 years of the tenure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been full of epochal decisions and events
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News Reports

‘Leave the institution if you don’t like it’: High Court rejects Muslim girl’s petition against prohibition on namaz in British school

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Thirty students began praying namaz in the school's yard in March of last year while kneeling on blazers.
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News Reports

Manipur: United Kuki National Army claims responsibility for the attack on fuel tankers near Kaimai village on NH-37

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Hours after the attack, the insurgent Kuki outfit issued a press release to warn of more such attacks in the future.
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News Reports

CNBC misattributes ‘go back to paper ballots or hand VVPAT slips’ remark to SC: Read what top court said about returning to paper ballots

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Contrary to the CNBC report’s claim, it was not Justice Khanna but advocate Prashant Bhushan who spoke in favour of returning to paper ballots.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Sabir kidnaps and rapes minor Dalit in Alwar, converts her to Islam and marries her; FIR lodged

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In Rajasthan's Alwar, a man named Sabir reportedly kidnapped a Dalit minor girl, raped her, converted her to Islam, and married her.
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West Bengal: Bombs hidden in Murshidabad explode due to intense heat, Congress and TMC blame each other

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Bombs hidden behind a wood mill in West Bengal’s Murshidabad exploded due to intense heat of the sun
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Opinions

Ram Navami 2024: For the first time in 500 years, Ram Navami is celebrated with Ram Lalla Virajman at Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya

Jinit Jain -
For the first time in nearly 500 years, Ram Navami is being celebrated with Ram Lalla, the child-like form of Lord Ram, installed at the sacred site of Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya.
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News Reports

Ram is the foundation, the faith of India: PM Modi’s Ram Navami post asserts the glorious occasion that has arrived after 500 years

Pragya Bakshi Sharma -
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to X, formerly Twitter, to wish the nation on the first Ram Navami after Pran Pratishtha
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News Reports

Canada falls to Halal blackmail: How Raghuram Rajan too wanted to introduce Islamic Banking in India

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Recently released repport report by Canadian government read, "Budget 2024 announces that the government is exploring new measures to expand access to alternative financing products, like halal mortgages. This could include changes in the tax treatment of these products or a new regulatory sandbox for financial service providers while ensuring adequate consumer protections are in place."
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Unmissable strategy by the clown prince, berates any legitimate question he does not like as a “BJP question”: Rahul Gandhi avoids Amethi query, attacks...

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Rahul Gandhi claimed that all the decisions are taken by his party's Congress Election Committee, and attacked the journalist for asking a genuine question.
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Mamata Banerjee’s subtle incitement on Ram Navami as Hindus get set to hold over 5000 rallies in Bengal: How the CM has a history...

Siddhi Somani -
Mamata Banerjee extended 'wishes' to the Hindu community on the occasion of Ram Navami. "Greetings to all on the auspicious occasion of Ram Navami. I appeal to maintain peace, prosperity, and development for all," Banerjee said blatantly holding Hindus responsible for the violence in the state like every time.
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News Reports

Thakur Puran Singh, who is making Kshatriyas take oath not to vote BJP, accused of shooting a Rajput man with the help of one...

राहुल पाण्डेय -
Thakur Puran Singh, accused of killing a Rajpur, appealed to Rajputs to abstain from voting for the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Hindu Jagran Manch to take out 5000 processions on Ram Navami, police on high alert

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Meanwhile, the police have said that no public display of weapons during processions on the festive occasion will be allowed. They added that “some traditional groups and akharas have been given permission. Even their processions will be videographed.”
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Editor's picks

Jadavpur University revokes permission to celebrate Ram Navami on campus after granting it, cites MCC and ‘communal threats’

OpIndia Staff -
While revoking permission to celebrate Ram Navami at campus, Jadavpur University said in its notice that they recieved complaints of communal threats from different groups of students at the University, which might lead to the disruption of peace and harmony within the campus.
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News Reports

Jaipur: Saffron flags put up on occasion of Ram Navami removed after Hinduphobic Congress files complaint citing violation of Model Code of Conduct

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Calling the Congress's allegations false, VHP said that the saffron flags have nothing to do with politics and are hoisted every year on Ram Navami
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Fact-Check

As Israel embassy, Community Notes bust fake claims of ‘Hindu Indian man denied entry in Tel Aviv clubs’, watch how vlogger was asked to...

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The full video by the vlogger Shubham shows he subsequently manages to find entry in some clubs and bars and enjoys the vibrant night life of Tel Aviv.
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News Reports

Election Commission of India bars Congress leader Randeep Surjewala from campaigning for 2 days over his sexist remark against Hema Malini

Paurush Gupta -
Randeep Surjewala has become the first politician to be banned by the poll panel in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections in 2024.
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Law

“We know what happened when there were ballot papers, we haven’t forgotten,” Supreme Court says to Prashant Bhushan’s plea seeking return of ballot...

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The apex court rejected the arguments of Bhushan, appearing for the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), about how most European countries that had opted for voting through EVMs have returned to paper ballots.
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News Reports

From claiming hijab protects Muslim women from molestation to petitioning in Gyanvapi, CAA: Meet Nizam Pasha, pulled up by SC in mob lynching plea

Paurush Gupta -
In February 2022, Pasha tweeted that Hijab is a tool that protects Muslim women from molestation by helping molesters distinguish Muslim women from others.
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‘Administered spiked drink and read the Quran to me’: Hindu girl raped, converted to Islam, and force-fed beef; Taher Pathan who posed as a...

Siddhi Somani -
The Police have filed an FIR under sections 376 (rape), 376 (2)(n), 377, 420, 323, 504, 506 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. Further investigations in the case are underway.
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UP: Upset Hindu youth commits suicide by consuming poison after a Maulana influenced his father to convert to Islam in Bareilly

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According to Harishankar's family members, a Maulana paid frequent visits to their home. The Maulana is reported to be a resident of Ejaz Nagar Gautiya, Bareilly.
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