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When Nehru sent police into Golden Temple to supress ‘Punjabi Suba Movement’: community kitchen captured, langar stopped, 8000 people arrested

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Even though everyone has some memory of Operation Blue Star, which was carried out under Indira Gandhi's directives, few people are aware that Jawaharlal Nehru's reign also saw an identical era in Punjabi history
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Law

Will you name your pet after Hindu God or Muslim Prophet: Calcutta HC asks Bengal govt to give different names to lions Sita and...

OpIndia Staff -
The Calcutta High Court observed that Goddess Sita is worshiped by a large majority of people in the country.
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News Reports

‘Took AYUSH medicine on PM Modi’s advice when I had Covid, didn’t use allopathic medicine’: CJI DY Chandrachud while inaugurating AYUSH centre at SC...

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While inaugurating YUSH Holistic Wellness Centre at the Supreme Court premises, CJI DY Chandrachud said that he used only AYUSH medicine when he had Covid for the 2nd and 3rd time
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News Reports

Gemini AI behaves Woke Max Pro: Google apologises after users highlight chatbot’s refusal to acknowledge existence of ‘White’ people

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Google chatbot failed to generate images of persons of White ethnicity
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News Reports

Manipur High Court modifies its order that triggered violence in the state, deletes direction to include Meitei Community in ST list

OpIndia Staff -
The Manipur High Court on 21 February removed its instruction to Manipur Govt given last year that sparked the riots in the state which started in May 2023
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News Reports

Hamdard Laboratories known for halal-certified product ‘Rooh Afza’ cheating millions by hiding possible health hazards linked to the cooling drink: Report

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The managing director of Hamdard, Dr Hakim Muhammad Yusuf Harun Bhuiyan has issued a written apology for the "false promotion" of the product.
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News Reports

Nuh Violence: UAPA charges slapped on 63 individuals including Congress MLA Mamman Khan

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Congress leader Mamman Khan was arrested last year in connection with the Nuh violence case and granted regular bail by court.
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News Reports

‘Farm unions are neglecting Punjab’s long-term interests’: Here is the generous proposal from the Modi govt that protesting farmers rejected

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Farmers rejected generous proposal of the centre that would have helped small and marginalised farmers diversify crops and assured transition to sustainable practices.
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News Reports

Republic Bangla journalist Santu Pan, arrested for Sandeshkhali reporting, gets bail; Calcutta HC slams police for arresting journalists instead of real culprits, stays probe

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Besides his relentless coverage of Sandeshkhali, Santu Pan is known for asking hard-hitting questions to TMC strongman Abhishek Banerjee.
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News Reports

West Bengal: TMC leader Udayan Guha and two others accused of harassing women in Dinhata for not going to party office at midnight

OpIndia Staff -
On Wednesday (21st February), the  West Bengal unit of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) shared a video of a woman accusing TMC leader Udayan Guha,  Deepak Bhattacharya and Bishu Dhar.
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News Reports

Darul Uloom Deoband issues a fatwa saying that Ghazwa-e-Hind is a command from Allah: NCPCR chief writes to the Saharanpur SDM, district SP to...

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Darul Uloom has recognised the concept of Ghazwa-e-Hind, as told in Islamic scriptures in its fatwa.
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News Reports

CBI raids locations linked with former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satyapal Malik in Kiru hydel project corruption case

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The CBI on Thursday conducted raids at more than 30 places, including the premises linked to former J&K Governor Satyapal Malik, for alleged corruption in contracts for Kiru hydel project
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News Reports

‘What next? Viagra tablets?’: Condom politics in Andhra Pradesh as TDP and YSRCP shame each other for distributing packets with party name

OpIndia Staff -
YSRCP shared a video of the TDP condom, tagging TDP, Chandrababu Naidu, his son Nara Lokesh and Janasena leader Pawan Kalyan, asking how low they are going to stoop for politics. They even asked if the TDP would start distributing Viagra tablets next.
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News Reports

ED seeks ‘look out circular’ against Byju’s co-founder B. Raveendran over Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) violations: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Once lookout circular is issued, Byju Raveendran would not be allowed to leave the country after he returns to India.
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News Reports

Mahua Moitra seeks gag order against media alleging ED is leaking information about FEMA case against her, ED refutes charges in Delhi HC

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The Delhi High Court reserved its order on TMC leader Mahua Moitra’s plea to restrain ED from allegedly leaking info about FEMA case against her
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News Reports

You can live in Russia, but stay away from children: Putin warns homosexuals against influencing minors

OpIndia Staff -
Reaffirming Russia's reservations about openly promoting LGBTQ ideologies in the country, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that while Russia is not adverse to homosexuals, they should stay away from children
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News Reports

‘108 mazars demolished in anti-encroachment drive across Gujarat’: Minister says ‘Dada’s bulldozer’ will raze all encroachment part of a plot to remove temples

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"The encroachment around Somnath has been removed. This bulldozer of Dada can enter a 20-ft wide street and an 80-m wide road," he said
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News Reports

Karnataka govt sparks controversy by exempting private schools from singing state anthem, later calls it ‘printing mistake’

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Kannada and Culture Minister Shivaraj Tangadagi called the mix-up a printing mistake and said that the order would be rectified to direct all the schools including the private ones to sing the state anthem mandatorily during the school assemblies.
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News Reports

Sandeshkhali Protests: West Bengal Governor’s move to open ‘Peace Home’ gets all-party support, top TMC leaders resort to politics over alleged ‘Khalistan’ slur

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A 3-member team of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes reached Sandeshkhali on Wednesday to probe the sexual exploitation of the tribal women in the Sandeshkhali incident.
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World

Perfect mom on YouTube, child abuser in reality: Parenting influencer Ruby Franke gets 60 years in prison for starving, torturing her children

OpIndia Staff -
Ruby Franke, who has over 2.5 million followers, admitted to forcing her child to work outside all day in the blazing hot sun while depriving him of water and food as punishment.
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News Reports

Mega boost for Indian Navy: Cabinet Committee clears acquisition of 200 BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles worth 19000 crores

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The BrahMos is the main weapon for anti-ship and attack operations for the Indian navy warships which have been regularly firing the weapon system.
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News Reports

Punjab farmers will not use trains, ‘Bhaiyye’ spit there, Deep Sidhu was Bhindranwale without Kesh – Protesting farmer at Haryana-Punjab border

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A farmer from Punjab accused farmer leaders of ending the protests early in 2021 resulting in lesser number of protesters in farmer protests 2.0
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News Reports

‘Hamas terrorists shoved knives inside women they raped, victims were found with sexual organs mutilated’: Crisis centers in Israel submits report to UN

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The report further revealed that the victims of sexual assault were killed “after or during the rape”. The Hamas terrorists raped women in front of an audience including the victim’s family members, partners or friends to further humiliate them.
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News Reports

Centre announces 100% Foreign Direct Investment in Space sector, move expected to attract potential investors to Indian space companies

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"Now, in line with the vision and strategy under the Indian Space Policy 2023, the Union Cabinet has eased the FDI policy on the Space sector by prescribing liberalized FDI thresholds for various sub-sectors/activities," the government announced.
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News Reports

Modi govt hikes Fair and Remunerative Price of sugarcane payable by sugar mills, says move to benefit 5 crore sugarcane farmers

OpIndia Staff -
It added that the decision is going to benefit more than 5 crore sugarcane farmers (including family members) and lakhs of other persons involved in the sugar sector.
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News Reports

Farmers’ Protest stopped for 2 days after the clash with police at Khanauri, announces farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher

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The development came after the farmer protest took a violent turn on the resumption of the Delhi Chalo march on February 21, after a brief halt. Notably, clashes broke out between protesting farmers trying to break barricades and create tear gas of their own and security forces deployed at the Punjab-Haryana border, particularly the Khanauri border. 
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News Reports

Sandeshkhali violence: NHRC issues notice to West Bengal government, to dispatch a team for ‘on-spot’ inquiry

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The Commission has noted that recent events in Sandeshkhali "indicate a prima facie violation of human rights, shocking the conscience."
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News Reports

NIA seeks information from West Bengal Police over allegations of Human trafficking in Sandeshkhali: Reports

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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has reportedly sought details from the West Bengal police regarding the allegations of human trafficking in the Sandeshkhali incident
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Opinions

Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Dancing Aishwarya Rai’ remark: From north to south, the brazen objectification of women continues unabated

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is one among many politicians who have made insulting statements regarding actresses.
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News Reports

“Acted with responsibility”: Income Tax dept defends recovering ₹65 crore from Congress, says amount will be returned if the party wins the case

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The Income Tax Department said that they acted with responsibility and their action was fully in line with the law to recover Rs 65 crore from the bank accounts of Congress party
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News Reports

Farmers Protest 2.0: Several cops injured in attack with sharp weapons, chilli mixed stubble burnt by protestors, Haryana police deny claims of shooting bullets

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Haryana police said that three cops have died so far during the farmer protests. All of them died after their health suddenly deteriorated
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News Reports

Strings of Rajasthan illegal beef market tie the case to Nuh: High alert raised over suspected presence of 20 active cow smugglers and 12...

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Information of 20 cow smugglers operating in Nuh district was revealed during interrogation of the suspects apprehended in illegal beef market case in Rajasthan
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News Reports

Uttarakhand: Recovery notice of ₹2.44 crore issued to key accused Abdul Malik for damages in Haldwani violence, six more arrested

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Uttarakhand Police on Wednesday arrested six people in connection with the violence that took place in Banbhulpura, Haldwani on February 8.
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News Reports

Samajwadi Party confirms alliance with Congress in UP for Lok Sabha polls, Congress to contest 17 seats while SP to fight on 63...

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Samajwadi Party has confirmed that the Congress party has agreed to contest 17 seats in UP in the INDI alliance
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Food supplier Javed Khan molests girls of Thane’s CP Goenka School during a school trip, arrested

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Thane police registered an FIR against one Javed Khan for molesting school girls during a school trip, and later arrested him
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News Reports

Stalemate ends in Pakistan: PPP and PML-N reach agreement to form government, Shehbaz Sharif to return as Prime Minister, Asif Ali Zardari to be...

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The Bilawal Bhutto Zardari-led PPP, in a late-night press conference, announced forming a coalition government with PML-N in Pakistan
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News Reports

How Khalistanis spread a corrupted version of partition to separate Punjab from its Hindu identity and further their agenda of geographical separation

Pragya Bakshi Sharma -
Khalistanis don't want people to think that partition was India's loss, they don't think it was a loss for Hindus; they peddle the narrative that Punjab sacrificed land and life so naturally, for them, Sikhs sacrificed land and life and hence Sikhs, as per Khalistanis, have a divine right to a separate state carved out of India.
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Government and Policy

PM Modi to unveil two new reactors at Kakrapar NPP, Gujarat: Read how leftists have been trying to stall India’s nuclear ambitions for decades

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India’s nuclear power plans have for years suffered due to the politics of leftist-communist parties as well as anti-nuclear activism. Such players have on multiple occasions resorted to fearmongering and stalling nuclear power projects.
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News Reports

‘MNCs will be required to display the number of Kannadiga employees on notice boards on campuses’: Karnataka Minister Shivaraj S Tangadagi

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Karnataka government recently passed a new rule on Thursday (15th February) according to which business licenses would be cancelled if the signboards do not have 60 per cent Kannada.
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News Reports

West Bengal: CM Mamata Banerjee announces ‘alternative Aadhaar cards’ for minorities alleging mass deactivation of Aadhaar cards

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Mamata Banerjee announces ‘alternative Aadhaar cards’ for minorities over allegations that aadhaar of minorities are being deactivated in West Bengal
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News Reports

Kerala: CPI(M) workers put up hoarding covering saffron flags at Attukal Temple during Pongala festival, Hindu activists tear it down leading to clashes with...

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Tension in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram after Communists covered saffron flags at Attukal temple with a hoarding, and then Hindus tore down the hoarding
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News Reports

Haryana farmers say protesters from Punjab fooled their children during Farmer Protest 1.0, made them heroin addicts, vow to stop them from entering Delhi

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Farmers from Haryana accused protesters from Punjab of fooling them during farmer protests 1.0
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Joint team of Kerala and Ajmer police attacked by criminals Danish and Shahjad in Dargah area, IPS injured

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Two criminals named Danish and Shahjad were wanted by the Kerala police for cases of robbery of Rs 45 lakhs and gold in Ernakulam district. The police team has recovered bullets, illegal guns, spare cartridges and other tools from the criminals.
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News Reports

Security agencies flag to central govt list of Indian influencers peddling pro-China propaganda, say they do so after taking money from CCP

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The report citing security establishment sources states that Chinese propaganda on Indian social media influencers, including YouTubers, is on the rise and poses a threat to the way certain sections of Indian populations view China and its policies.
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News Reports

Healthy Children, Healthy Future: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma says the govt is providing eggs thrice a week in mid-day meals for tea garden...

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Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted about the success of the scheme of providing eggs thrice a week in mid-day meals in tea gardens schools
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News Reports

Income Tax Department recovers Rs 65 crores from Congress account, party approaches ITAT

OpIndia Staff -
The Income Tax Department recovered Rs 65 crores from the Congress party as a part of the total outstanding tax dues of Rs 115 crores.
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News Reports

“Ready to discuss all issues including MSP, crop diversification, stubble”: Union Government invites protesting farmers for fifth round of talks

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Union Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda invited the farmers for the fifth round of talks saying that govt is ready to discuss all issues including MSP demand
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News Reports

Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun threatens to target India-England cricket match in Ranchi, asks Maoists to create disturbances, FIR filed

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Gurpatwant Singh Pannun had earlier threatened to attack the ICC Cricket World Cup held in India in November 2023.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: 4-year-old girl killed, two others wounded by stray dogs in Bijnor district; 10th incident in 15 months

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A group of half-a-dozen street dogs attacked the three young girls as they were bringing food for their father to the fields.
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News Reports

Mumbai Youth Congress President Zeeshan Siddique removed from the post after his father defected to NCP Ajit Pawar faction

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Days after Nationalist Congress Party leader Baba Siddique left the Congress, the Congress party removed his son Zeeshan Siddique from his position as the President of the Mumbai Youth Congress
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