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Mastermind of 3 bomb blasts, accused in attempted murder of VHP activist and more: Meet ‘career terrorist’ Saquib Nachan arrested by NIA for running...

Dibakar Dutta -
Saquib spent less than 2 years as a convict before being freed in November 2017. His release came 5 months earlier than expected on account of being 'disciplined' in jail.
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Politics

BSP Supremo Mayawati names her nephew, Akash Anand, as her political heir

OpIndia Staff -
BSP Supremo announced her nephew as her heir in a party meeting held in Lucknow. Akash Anand is the son of Mayawati's younger brother Anand Kumar.
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Crime

Bitten by dog, stripped naked, beaten with iron rod, attacked with acid: 13-year-old maid tortured for months by her employers in Gurugram

OpIndia Staff -
The incident took place in sector 57 of Gurugram. the case is booked in the women's police station in sector 51. The 3 accused have been booked under Section 10 of the POCSO Act and Section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Kashi Vishwanath Dham welcomes record 12.9 crore devotees in 2 years since the inauguration of the temple corridor

OpIndia Staff -
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Kashi Vishwanath Dham corridor on 13th December 2021, and since then, the number of devotees of Mahadev has increased manifold.
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News Reports

Jammu and Kashmir: Authorities initiate legal action against 9 people for inflammatory social media posts

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Jammu and Kashmir Police took legal action against nine people found engaging in the misuse of social media by posting hate speeches.
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News Reports

Gruesome beheading incidents send shockwaves across 2 states: UP man kills mother, Odisha man kills wife, both roam around with severed heads

OpIndia Staff -
Two separate cases of beheading sent shockwaves across Uttar Pradesh and Odisha on Saturday (9th December).
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OpIndia Explains

Where is the money – What happens to the cash recovered by Enforcement Directorate or Income Tax department during raids

Anurag -
The money seized during ED raids is kept in SBI branch and later moved to central treasury
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News Reports

Jharkhand: Ehsan Mirdaha trapped tribal girl using the name Badal, raped, killed her and chopped the body into several pieces in Khunti, arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Accused Esan Mirdaha alias Badal lured a tribal girl into his love trap and raped her. Subsequently, he murdered the girl and cut her body into three pieces.
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World

Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi, an advocate against compulsory Hijab in Iran, to be on a hunger strike in prison during her Nobel Prize ceremony

OpIndia Staff -
Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi would go on a fresh hunger strike from her Iranian prison cell even as her family is set to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf.
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OpIndia Explains

Who is Dhiraj Prasad Sahu – The Congress Rajya Sabha MP from Jharkhand at the centre of the historic Income Tax raid

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IT Department has recovered hundreds of crores of unaccounted cash from premises linked to Congress' Rajya Sabha MP Dhiraj Prasad Sahu
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Crime

Kerala: Enforcement Directorate freezes bank accounts of Abdurahiman Chenoth Thirummal who duped UAE banks of Rs 340 Crore

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Abdurahiman - a resident of Mettammal village in Kasaragod's Trikaripur gram panchayat - duped multiple UAE banks of Rs 340 crores.
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News Reports

Hamas stealing humanitarian aid: Israel Defense Forces share video of terrorists looting relief material in Gaza

OpIndia Staff -
"Hamas puts its terrorist goals over Gazans' needs," the Israel Defense Forces emphasised.
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News Reports

Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn, and Akshay Kumar get legal notices for endorsing Pan Masala

OpIndia Staff -
A court of Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan had earlier directed the central government to decide the representation of the petitioner, who had argued that action should be taken against artists and dignitaries who received high-profile accolades but were advertising for gutka companies.
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World

President of University of Pennsylvania Liz Magill resigns days after backlash for refusing to condemn calls for “Jew genocide” on campus

OpIndia Staff -
"It has been my privilege to serve as President of this remarkable institution. It has been an honor to work with our faculty, students, staff, alumni, and community members to advance Penn’s vital missions," Magill stated.
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Politics

‘Got money for bicycles?’ asks Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, girl students answer ‘No’, leaving the CM embarrassed at a public event

OpIndia Staff -
CM Hemant Soren faced heavy criticism from the BJP for the schemes of the state government not reaching the needy people.
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News Reports

Delhi police nab 3 men for the murder of Karni Sena Chief Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi

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Earlier on Saturday, December 9, Jaipur police arrested Ramveer Singh, a resident of Mahendragarh, Haryana, in connection to Gogamedi's murder.
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News Reports

Congress distances itself from its MP Dheeraj Sahu after I-T raids unearthed around ₹300 crores from premises linked to him, says only he can...

OpIndia Staff -
Congress party has officially distanced itself from the businesses of the party leader Dheeraj Sahu after I-T raids found upto ₹300 crore
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News Reports

ISIS terror conspiracy: Saquib Nachan, who was released from jail in 2017 after being convicted in the 2002-03 Mumbai blasts, among 15 arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Saquib Nachan was convicted in connection with 3 terror blasts that rocked Mumbai in 2002-03 and was freed from jail in 2017.
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News Reports

As US accuses India of planning to kill terrorist Pannun, read how Spain expelled 2 American spies for infiltrating Spanish secret service & arrested...

OpIndia Staff -
Spain has arrested two of its secret service agents who were recruited American spies to leak information to US
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News Reports

‘Rebel’ Washington Post reporter plans hitjob on Indian OSINT handle ‘Disinfo Lab’, gets exposed instead: What happened

Dibakar Dutta -
Coincidentally, Pranshu Verma is now hounding the same Indian OSINT handle that uncovered the dubious nature of his news report earlier this year.
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News Reports

Congress MP Karti Chidambaram mocks report of Tata Group setting up semiconductor plant in Assam, gets befitting replies from BJP leaders and others

OpIndia Staff -
Karti Chidambaram under fire for making fun of Tata Group's plans to set up a semiconductor plant in Assam.
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News Reports

‘Jamiat gave you wrong information’: Congress leader Debabrata Saikia demands apology from Kapil Sibal for claiming that Assam was part of Myanmar

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader Debabrata Saikia demanded an apology from Kapil Sibal for distorting history of Assam
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News Reports

15 ISIS terrorists arrested: Accused had declared a village in Thane ‘Al-Sham’, ‘Liberated Zone’ like Syria; were administering an ‘oath of allegiance’ to recruits

OpIndia Staff -
The NIA revealed that the arrested ISIS terrorists declared the village of Padgha in rural Thane as a ‘liberated zone' and as ‘Al-Sham'.
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News Reports

Urdu portal ‘Rekhta’ promotes a book glorifying Islamist Ilmuddin, who killed Mahashay Rajpal in 1929 over ‘blasphemy’

Gopal Tiwari -
Urdu portal 'Rekhta' is promoting a book that glorifies Islamist Ilmuddin who killed Mahashay Rajpal in 1929 over 'blasphemy'.
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News Reports

Ram Mandir Trust shares stunning photos of the sanctum-sanctorum where the idol of Ram Lalla would be installed

OpIndia Staff -
Champat Rai has shared the latest photographs of the ready sanctum sanctorum of the Ram temple.
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News Reports

BSP suspends Danish Ali from the party over “anti-party” activities

OpIndia Staff -
The BSP claimed in a statement that Danish Ali had previously been warned about engaging in "anti-party" activities.
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News Reports

Name of wrong minister mentioned: Clarifies MEA after MoS Meenakashi Lekhi said she didn’t sign an answer that appeared with her name on Sansad...

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MEA said that the answer to question on declaring Hamas a terror group should carry the name of MoS V Muraleedharan, not MoS Meenakashi Lekhi
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Entertainment

“It was to tell the audience that an animal is coming”: Actress Mansi Taxak justifies marital rape scene in film Animal

OpIndia Staff -
Mansi Taxak further lauded Bobby Deol's performance saying that he was 'commendable' in the scene.
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News Reports

Mahua Moitra was Vice President at JP Morgan, but that post doesn’t mean what one may imagine. Here is the truth about fancy designations...

Paurush Gupta -
Mohua Moitra was Vice President at JP Morgan, that does not mean she was in very senior position. VP in an investment bank is low-level managerial post
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News Reports

Return of Jungle Raj in Bihar: Three people including a minor murdered in Banka, Namami Gange engineer injured in indiscriminate firing in Munger

OpIndia Staff -
Two people and a minor boy lost their lives in Banka while an engineer was wounded in firing in Munger.
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News Reports

Kerala: Instagram influencer Ajmal Shereef dies of suicide after posting obituary, family says he was depressed due to inability to secure a job

OpIndia Staff -
Ajmal Shereef, an Instagram user with over 14k followers, committed suicide after sharing his obituary.
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News Reports

You cannot win polls on social media. Can’t understand why opposition does not have confidence in our country: PM Modi at Viksit Bharat event

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PM Narendra Modi on Saturday hit out at the opposition parties over not giving importance to public welfare, saying that they cannot win polls on social media but need to interact with people and win their hearts.
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News Reports

‘Irrepressible impact on national security’: Ethics Committee report lashes out at Mahua Moitra for sharing Lok Sabha credentials

OpIndia Staff -
The Committee of Ethics noted that Mahua Moitra's conduct is unbecoming of a member of the Parliament.
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News Reports

‘I am sorry’: Harvard president Claudine Gay apologises for refusing to condemn genocide calls against Jews on campus

OpIndia Staff -
In the aftermath of global outrage, Claudine Gay has 'apologised' for refusing to condemn the calls for the genocide of Jews on the varsity campus.
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News Reports

India’s per capita emissions ‘very low’, clubbing with emitters like China and the US unacceptable: European Parliament member

OpIndia Staff -
A senior official of the European Parliament expressed dissatisfaction with concerted attempts against New Delhi over pollution and wrongly clubbing India with major emitters
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News Reports

Used to work 85-90 hours in a week, from 6:20 AM to 8:30 PM, 6 days a week: Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy

OpIndia Staff -
Narayana Murthy reiterated that if India's work productivity needed to improve then the youth must work 70 hours every week.
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News Reports

Tax raids in Odisha: More cash recovered at premises linked to Congress MP, SBI counts 40 of 176 bags so far, large amounts of...

OpIndia Staff -
Nearly 20 more bags of cash were seized from the house of one Bunty Sahu in connected to liquor factories in Odisha.
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News Reports

Bihar: Police constable’s son stabbed 30 times and killed, incident caught on CCTV camera

OpIndia Staff -
A young man was killed by unidentified assailants in Bihar's Nawada area by stabbing him more than thirty times.
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Politics

‘Ignore media discussions, yet to gain experience under the guidance of PM Modi’: Yogi Balaknath on speculations linking him to Rajasthan CM post

OpIndia Staff -
Balaknath Yogi is one of the most influential leaders in the state of Rajasthan. He belongs to the Nath sect.
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World

Samuel Paty beheading: Six teenagers convicted in the killing of French teacher over ‘blasphemy’ against Prophet Muhammad

OpIndia Staff -
A French court on Friday convicted six teenagers, including a girl who lied about Mr Samuel Paty displaying cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in classroom.
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News Reports

Accused in Gauri Lankesh case, languishing in jail for 5 years, gets bail: Here are the details of the order and what Karnataka HC...

Dibakar Dutta -
Mohan Nayak was arrested on 18th July 2018 and his bail application has been rejected on 5 different occasions.
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News Reports

Navi Mumbai: Beggar Hussain Imam hits girl with a glass bottle on the head and then stabs her with the broken bottle, arrested

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After hitting the bottle on Nisha's head, Hussain Imam Hasan Shamshu tried to stab the broken bottle into her stomach
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Crime

Mumbai: 42-year-old Moinuddin Ansari kills 26-year-old wife after she refused to give him money for alcohol

OpIndia Staff -
"Her husband Moinuddin Ansari was untraceable. Our probe found he used to fight with her over money for alcohol. On Thursday, he picked up a fight with her on the same issue and thrashed her," the police said.
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Law

Marital rape not an offence if the wife is above 18 years of age: Allahabad High Court

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The court also highlighted that in the anticipated Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita, intended to replace the Indian Penal Code, there is no equivalent provision to Section 377 IPC.
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Crime

“Ho gayi galti ab kya mar jaaun”: Aftab Poonwala, who chopped his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar’s body into 35 pieces, says- Report

OpIndia Staff -
Aftab, however, has never shown a sign of regret or remorse for murdering his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar mercilessly.
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Crime

Shootout in posh Vasant Kunj area in Delhi, 2 sharpshooters of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang arrested

OpIndia Staff -
One of the sharpshooters of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang is a minor. There are many old cases registered against the two gangsters caught by the police.
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Opinions

Madhya Pradesh: Javed Khan mercilessly beats his sister-in-law in Sehore for voting for BJP, Hindu neighbour comes to the rescue

OpIndia Staff -
A case was registered against the accused Javed Khan under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 34, 294, 323 and 506.
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Crime

Maharashtra: Mohammad Adil Azamali Sheikh kills watchman Prasad Khadka for refusing to give a matchstick

OpIndia Staff -
Accused Mohammad Adil Azamali Sheikh picked up a big stone and hit it on Prasad Bhanusingh Khadka's head because Khadka refused to give him a matchstick.
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News Reports

13 arrested in ISIS terror conspiracy case following NIA raids in Maharashtra, Karnataka

ANI -
Of the total 44 locations being raided by the NIA since this morning, the agency sleuths searched one place in Karnataka, two in Pune, 31 in Thane Rural, nine in Thane city and one in Bhayander, sources said.
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News Reports

Assam CM launches portal to start application submission under Mukhya Mantri Atmanirbhar Asom scheme

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Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday launched a portal to start the application submission process of Mukhya Mantri Atmanirbhar Asom.
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