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US: Indian student found dead in Indiana; fifth such incident this year, second from same university

ANI -
"Sameer Kamath, a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering, was found dead in Warren County, the mechanical engineering head Eckhard Groll announced to the ME community,
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News Reports

‘Skyrocketing public debt’: Maldives at ‘high risk’ of external and overall debt distress, says IMF

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"Without significant policy changes, the overall fiscal deficits and public debt are projected to stay elevated, and the Maldives remains at high risk of external and overall debt distress", the IMF stated in its report.
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News Reports

‘You distorted news to suit your narrative’: Mumbai Police debunks Saket Gokhale over misleading claims made against ED

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Mumbai Police on Wednesday debunked Saket Gokhale's tweet insinuating that ED was extorting money using gangs.
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News Reports

‘You made our Ram Lalla black’: Congress MLA Adesh Singh Chauhan’s racist remark sparks outrage in Uttarakhand Assembly

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Uttarakhand Congress MLA Adesh Singh Chauhan accuses BJP of making Ram Lalla black for using Krishna Shila to carve the Ram Lalla idol installed in Ayodhya’s Ram Mandi
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News Reports

Punjab man Amritpal Singh killed in terrorist attack in Srinagar, another non-local worker critically injured

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On Wednesday (7th February), Jammu and Kashmir Police stated that a non-local who hails from Punjab’s Amritsar was killed while another person sustained critical wounds after terrorists opened fire at the Shaheed Gunj area in Srinagar.
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News Reports

Real story of viral video where cop confronted Muslim mob giving beheading threats: How a small fight between Hindu customers and Muslim tailor escalated...

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SHO Damoh Anand Singh Thakur confronted the enraged Muslim crowd alone and directed them to maintain law and order.
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News Reports

Kerala: Youth arrested for threat to murder female judge who awarded death sentence to 15 convicts in BJP leader’s murder case, fourth arrest so...

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The Kerala Police have arrested 26-year-old Asarikkandy Muhammer Hadi who is accused of calling for the murder of female Judge VG Sridevi
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News Reports

Congress leader Surendra Rajput spreads fake news, uses cleverly edited video of PM Modi quoting Nehru to claim that BJP is against reservations

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PM Modi quoted a letter by Nehru to show how he was against reservations, but Congress leader Surendra Rajput used edited to video to claim that BJP opposes reservations
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News Reports

Islamists post cropped video of Maulana Azhari, skipping part where he threatens “kafirs”, blame Hindus instead for targeting him with edited video

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Several Islamists have shared clipped video of Maulana Mufti Salman Azhari to shield him for his hate speech against Hindus.
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News Reports

Rajasthan, Chennai, Jharkhand, every part from North to South, East to West is a part of India: PM Modi rips into Congress over North-South...

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a powerful speech in response to the 'Motion of Thanks' in the Rajya Sabha, excoriating the Congress party for pushing a north-south divide in India
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News Reports

Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill passed by the Uttarakhand assembly with comfortable majority during special session

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The Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill was passed on Wednesday n the Uttarakhand assembly with a comfortable majority during a special session.
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News Reports

‘Krishna wanted 5 villages, we want just 3 holy places’: Yogi Adityanath cites Mahabharata peace offer in assembly seeking Mathura and Kashi after Ayodhya

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Yogi Adityanath likened Shri Krishna’s ‘peace’ offer to the Kauravas in Mahabharata to the demands of Hindus to reclaim three holy sites, namely Ayodhya, Mathura, and Kashi
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News Reports

‘Idols don’t drink milk, Hindus pour it down the drain’: Muslim youth maligns Hindu Gods and rituals at ‘Gareeb Nawaz’ event where calls were...

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The Muslim youth said what kind of a religion keeps a child suffering from hunger while pouring milk down the drain, referring to the practice of offering milk to Shiva Linga. He immediately says after this that his religion (Islam) is the true religion
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News Reports

Rahul Kanwal takes Rajdeep Sardesai to the cleaners for blaming news channels for the opposition’s pessimism over the inevitability of BJP’s 2024 victory: Watch

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Rahul Kanwal questioned Rajdeep Sardesai for blaming the news channels for the perception of BJP's win in 2024 while the opposition had already conceded defeat.
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News Reports

Munnan Khan’s son Qasim Khan was involved in anti-CAA violence, given life imprisonment for abducting SDM, faces many cases under Gangster Act

राहुल पाण्डेय -
Qasim Khan is feared like his father Munnan Khan. He was engaged in several unlawful activities along with the latter.
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News Reports

‘Starve yourself to meet Jesus’: Christian cult leader in Kenya charged with murder of 191 children

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Mackenzie, who ran the Good News International Church, is accused of leading a doomsday cult where he instructed his mass followers to starve themselves and their children to death so they could reach heaven.
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News Reports

Delhi court directs Arvind Kejriwal to appear before court on 17th Feb for skipping ED summons in liquor policy scam

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ED had approached Delhi Court against Arvind Kejriwal after he skipped five summons to appear in Delhi Excise Policy Scam
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Opinions

Decoding how PM Modi hacks EVMs, Part 1: Expanding focus on small-scale industries from MSME to other ministries – from Vishwakarmas to fishermen

S. Sudhir Kumar -
I don’t know about you but I am now a very firm believer that Prime Minister Narendra Modi hacks the EVMs (hereinafter, referred to as “The Project”). This first part explains how he uses MSMEs for it.
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News Reports

Munnan Khan, accused of killing karsevaks using hencemen dressed in police uniforms, has streets, villages, and a competition named after him in Gonda

राहुल पाण्डेय -
Our investigation has revealed that not only streets, villages, and a competition are named after Munnan Khan but also his name is mentioned in government records. 
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Fact-Check

‘Nehru did not call Indians lazy and unintelligent directly’: How YouTuber Sanket Upadhyay made a failed attempt at ‘fact-checking’ PM Modi’s LS speech

Shraddha Pandey -
Subsequently, Upadhyay tries to justify Nehru’s speech saying that the former prime minister did not essentially call Indians “lazy” and “less intelligent” rather he said that “Indians generally [emphasis added] don’t have the habit of working hard.”
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News Reports

British daily The Times demonises PM Modi and India for not supporting draconian Sharia, believes asking Muslims to follow UCC is a ‘crackdown’

Jinit Jain -
The Times recently published an article claiming the introduction of UCC is an attempt at 'overturning Sharia law in Muslim crackdown'
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News Reports

‘I pray that you manage to get at least 40 seats in elections’: PM Modi taunts Congress on Mamata’s statement

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"A challenge has been posed before you from West Bengal that Congress will not be able to cross 40 (in Lok Sabha elections 2024). I pray that you are able to secure 40," the Prime Minister said.
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News Reports

‘Congress is anti-Dalit from the beginning, Nehru openly said he hates reservations for SC-STs’: PM Narendra Modi in Rajya Sabha

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"Forest Rights Act, Prevention of Atrocities Act etc were not applicable in J&K. We granted those rights to the Dalit communities by removing Article 370", PM Modi stated.
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News Reports

‘Not every stone on the roadside can be a religious idol’: Madras HC rules as petitioner claims a ‘stone’ at the entrance of his...

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Justice Venkatesh asserted that it would be impossible for a court to decide whether the stone had been uplifted to the status of an idol.
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News Reports

‘State Police shall not investigate’: Calcutta High Court stays formation of SIT including West Bengal police to probe attack on ED officials

OpIndia Staff -
Calcutta High Court stayed formation of SIT including state police to probe the attack on ED officers case. ED wants CBI to investigate the case.
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News Reports

Karnataka: Around 1,000 years old Lord Vishnu idol along with Shivling recovered from Krishna river, believed to be buried to protect from Islamic invaders

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The two idols were discovered during bridge construction work on the river near Devasugur village in the Raichur district.
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News Reports

Muslim cleric instigates violence in Mumbra over arrest of Maulana Azhari, crowd chants ‘Labbaik’ as he asks Muslims to be ready to ‘get throat...

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"Who can get their throats slit in the name of 'huzoor', raise your hands? Will you get your throats slit in the name of 'huzoor'? Those who can get their throats slit in the name of 'huzoor' can do anything," the cleric said.
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News Reports

Mumbai extortion case: Valuables worth Rs 13.63 crore, three weapons, live cartridges seized from arrested accused Hiren Bhagat

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The Mumbai crime branch has recovered Rs 13.63 crore in cash and valuables from Khar resident Hiren Bhagat, the sixth accused in the Rs 164 crore extortion bid against a city developer
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Opinions

‘Biden govt tried to stop us, illegally surveilled, leaked chats’: Tucker Carlson in Moscow for Putin interview, exposes US hypocrisy on media freedom

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The Western media, for the last several years, and especially since February 2022, has painted Vladimir Putin as an evil, cruel dictator running a terrorist regime. The vilification has been so unidirectional, biased, and relentless that any scope of understanding and mutual dialogue has been stamped out.
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Crime

ED raids locations linked to Congress leader & former minister Harak Singh Rawat in forest scam involving illegal tree cutting and construction in Corbett...

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Searches were carried out at multiple premises in Uttarakhand, Delhi and Chandigarh connected to Harak Singh Rawat.
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News Reports

‘Talking about Bengal corruption crossed Maryada’: Yogendra Yadav gives up on INDI Alliance defeating Modi, blames Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for Congress-TMC fallout

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While discussing Mamata Banerjee’s recent announcement snapping ties with the I.N.D.I. bloc and attacking Congress, Ajit Anjum asked what went wrong between TMC and Congress. He also claimed that Mamata Banerjee's scathing attack on the Congress party seemed more like a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader.
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News Reports

Second FIR against Maulana Mufti Salman Azhari in Kutch: ‘Ghulam of Mohammad will come and purify mosque, Azaan will echo again’. Watch what he...

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Gujarat Police booked Maulana Mufti Salman Azhari in a second case related to inflammatory speech which was delivered in Kutch
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News Reports

Punjab Police arrests Sab Loktantra founder: What we know about how a complaint by ‘pastor’ Alisha Sultan against handle ‘NoConversion’ led to Rachit Kaushik’s...

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On 6th February, Rachit Kaushik (Tantra Baba), founder of the Sab Loktantra news portal, was picked up by four Punjab Police officers from Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh.
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News Reports

‘Open remaining cellars, let ASI survey them too’: Varanasi court to hear Hindu side’s petition next on Feb 15

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There are a total of eight cellars in North and South directions in the Gyanvapi complex. Six out of them have already been surveyed by the ASI whereas two cellars N1 and S1 are still closed. 
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News Reports

Suspicious boat found near Mumbai coast, police launch probe

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, the three men have been working in Kuwait for the past two years. The fishing boat was seen by the Yellow Gate police near the Sassoon dock first.
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News Reports

EC declares Ajit Pawar-led faction the real ‘NCP’, directs Sharad Pawar camp to take new name

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The EC ruled in favour of the faction led by Ajit Pawar. His faction will now be the original/real NCP and can use the party symbol ‘clock’.
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World

BBC editor received payment to help Somali criminals, including a gang rapist, to fight deportation from the UK: Report

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The African Editor of BBC World Service, Mary Harper was hired as an expert witness to help Somalian criminals.
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News Reports

India to fence entire 1,643-kilometre-long Indo-Myanmar border: HM Amit Shah

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said India will be constructing a fence along the entire 1643-kilometre-long Indo-Myanmar border.
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: 19-year-old watches porn, then rapes his minor sister, later strangulates her to death to avoid getting exposed

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According to the police officials, the accused Sanju, after watching a pornographic clip, raped his sister who was sleeping beside him.
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News Reports

‘Muslims are governed by Shariat Law’: All India Muslim Personal Law Board opposes UCC bill tabled in Uttarakhand Assembly

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AIMPLB opposed UCC bill introduced in Uttarakhand Assembly, stating that Muslims are governed by the Shariat Law.
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World

Pakistan gears up for its next general elections even as the main opposition leader Imran Khan rots in jail

Paurush Gupta -
While the election outcome is considered pre-determined in favour of the Army’s pick, the 71-year-old PTI leader Imran Khan has been campaigning from behind the bars by using chatbots, AI, and social media
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News Reports

IAF officer sends legal notice against ‘Fighter’ movie over kissing scene in uniform: Details

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"By utilizing this sacred symbol for a scene promoting personal romantic entanglements, the film grossly misrepresents its inherent dignity and devalues the profound sacrifices made by countless officers in service of our nation," the notice read.
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News Reports

Delhi Police arrest Lashkar terrorist Riyaz Ahmed, a retired Army personnel in connection to cross-border arms smuggling and terrorism

OpIndia Staff -
Riyaz Ahmed was an Indian Army personnel. He retired from Indian Army in Janaury 2023 as per reports. He is accused of smuggling weapons and ammunition for LeT terrorists from Pakistan
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News Reports

‘UCC will snatch rights of citizens and give it to Adani-Ambani’: ISIS poster boy Mehmood Pracha who asked Muslims to raise an armed militia

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Mehmood Pracha, who had called for Muslims and Dalits to raise an armed militia, said UCC will snatch rights of citizens and hand it over to Ambani and Adani.
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News Reports

‘Shravan Kumar and Aurangzeb cannot have equal rights to parents’ property’: Key highlights of the Uttarakhand UCC

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The Bill says that the relationship between a man and a woman can be termed legitimate or illegitimate based on social norms, but a child is never 'illegitimate'.
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News Reports

‘He is insulting entire SC community’: BJP slams DMK for disgraceful remarks against Dalit Minister L Murugan

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"Don't interfere. You are unfit to be an MP...you are unfit to be a minister! Sit down!" TR Baalu was heard saying to L Murugan.
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News Reports

‘Workers are not dogs’: Congress leader Acharya Pramod lashes out at Mallikarjun Kharge over comparison of booth workers with canines

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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge drew a parallel between choosing a pet dog and choosing party worker at booth level.
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News Reports

‘Rich people don’t pay GST, only poor pay it’: How Rahul Gandhi’s latest rant exposes his ignorance about the GST and how it works

Jinit Jain -
Rahul Gandhi recently went on a bizarre rant against the GST, claiming that the rich don't pay the GST while the poor pay for it.
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Crime

Hyderabad: Mohammad Majeed and Mohammad Qasim arrested for attacking TSRTC driver and conductor with a cricket bat

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The accused duo identified as Mohammad Majeed and Mohammad Qasim launched a violent attack with a cricket bat in which TSRTC conductor Ramesh’s left arm was broken.
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News Reports

‘Kejriwal spent over 8 lakhs per night on hotel stay while moving around in Auto during the day’, claims Delhi politician Naveen Jindal

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"You have seen the picture of Arvind Kejriwal travelling by auto during the 2022 Gujarat election. But do you know that he stayed in the Maharaja suite which costs ₹8-10 lakhs daily?" Naveen Jindal remarked.
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