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Chandra: Read about NASA’s advanced X-Ray Observatory and the brilliant Indian scientist it is named after

Siddhi Somani -
Chandra X-ray Observatory is a Flagship-class space telescope and named after the Nobel Prize-winning Indian-American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
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News Reports

‘Mere Saheb, Uddhav Saheb’: Shiv Sena UBT’s Priyanka Chaturvedi bats for Uddhav Thackeray as PM candidate for I.N.D.I.A. alliance

Amit Kelkar -
Priyanka Chaturvedi's recent endorsement for Uddhav Thackeray to be the PM candidate of I.N.D.I.A. alliance illustrates what is ailing the coalition.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: FIR filed against Congress leader Digvijay Singh for spreading fake news about Bajrang Dal activist desecrating Jain temple. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Digvijay Singh's post did not go well with the Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad as they submitted a memorandum to the police following which an FIR was registered against Digvijay Singh under the relevant sections of the IPC.
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News Reports

Bittu Bajrangi gets bail after 14 days of judicial custody, was arrested in connection with the Nuh violence

OpIndia Staff -
CIA Tawadu police apprehended Bittu Bajrangi at his residence in Faridabad on charges of delivering inflammatory speeches during the Nuh Jalabhishek Yatra.
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News Reports

ISRO shares pictures of Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram Lander taken by Pragyan rover: Details

OpIndia Staff -
In one of the images, ISRO has displayed two key payloads that are currently conducting in-situ experimentation on the moon’s south pole.
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News Reports

I.N.D.I.A. alliance falling apart? Arvind Kejriwal missing from poster released by Congress, Shiv Sena (UT) angry for showing Rahul Gandhi at forefront

Paurush Gupta -
Arvind Kejriwal missing from I.N.D.I.A. alliance poster released by Congress which shows Rahul Gandhi on the centre stage
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News Reports

Child abuse has Hindu-Muslim filters too, for Ravish Kumar: How the ‘secular’ journalist spread propaganda over Muzaffarnagar and Kathua incidents

Gopal Tiwari -
In the Kathua incident, Ravish Kumar blamed the victim for displaying his religious identity with the 'Jai Shri Ram' slogan for having earned the ire of his teacher and the principal.
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News Reports

Bihar: Security forces foil major Maoist attack, recover huge cache of weapons from Gaya district, discover a tunnel

OpIndia Staff -
Security forces have foiled a major Maoist attack after they found arms and ammunition from Bihar’s Gaya.
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News Reports

Another coup in West Africa as Gabon military leaders grab power, claim that general elections ‘lacked credibility’

ANI -
Gabon became the third African nation after Burkina Faso and Niger to see a change of guard through a military coup in 2023.
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News Reports

Ex-Trinamool leader Riazul Haque’s wife seen posing with AK-47 ‘gifted’ by husband on Facebook

OpIndia Staff -
Former TMC leader's wife seen holding a 'gifted' AK 47 in social media photo, Riazul Haque deletes post later.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: 93-year-old Hindu priest murdered in Shiva temple in Tonk, attacked with sharp weapon

OpIndia Staff -
On Tuesday, August 29, a 93-year-old Hindu priest was murdered in a Shiva temple in the Tonk district of Rajasthan
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News Reports

Yaariyan 2 faces stern warning from SGPC over actor sporting ‘Kirpan’, Sukhbir Singh Badal warns makers to remove the ‘objectionable’ scene

OpIndia Staff -
SGPC has taken strong objection to the use of Kirpan in a song in the upcoming Bollywood movie Yaariyan-2.
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News Reports

Islamists harass man for travelling with a Muslim woman in Hyderabad, police apprehend three minors after video goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
In the video, the three accused were heard asking the bike-riding young man about the girl sitting as a pillion rider on the bike. They asked him where he was taking her. When he questioned what was their problem, they started abusing him.
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World

Online scammers include ‘hundreds of thousands’ of victims, trafficked and tortured by criminal gangs to run fraud rackets, says UN report

OpIndia Staff -
A new UN report has been estimated that over 120,000 people in Myanmar, and at least 100,000 in Cambodia, have been trafficked and forced to run online scam rackets.
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News Reports

Bihar govt reduces school holidays for rest of the year from 23 to 11 by cutting Durga Puja, Diwali, Chhath holidays, BJP calls it...

OpIndia Staff -
Bihar government's education department reduced number of holidays from 23 to 11 from September to December.
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News Reports

‘India’s Kashmir is mind blowing’: Miss World Karolina Biwlawska after visiting Srinagar, beauty queens enjoy a tour in the valley ahead of December pageant

OpIndia Staff -
Miss World Karolina Biwlawska on Monday expressed her absolute joy as she praised the beauty of the beautiful places in India including Kashmir.
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News Reports

‘10 lakhs to cut his tongue’: UP Congress leader issues bounty against Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya over anti-Hindu remarks

OpIndia Staff -
A district Congress leader from UP has announced a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh as a bounty against SP’s Swami Prasad Maurya.
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News Reports

‘Titanic wreckage contains remains of 1500 people’: US govt cites law and a treaty to oppose another expedition by private company down the Atlantic

OpIndia Staff -
The U.S. is trying to stop a planned expedition to recover items of historical interest from the sunken Titanic.
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News Reports

UP: BSP expels ‘Boti Boti’ Imran Masood for praising Rahul Gandhi, Masood accuses party of demanding Rs 5 crores

OpIndia Staff -
BSP expels Imran Masood for anti-party activities. Masood says he was being pressurised for money.
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News Reports

Prosecutors in the Netherlands demand a 12-year term for Pakistani cricketer Khalid Latif who offered a bounty to murder Geert Wilders: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Wilders during the trial stated that he continues to receive death threats and has been on the death lists of the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and ISIS for a very long time. Notably, an international warrant has been issued for Latif’s arrest.
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News Reports

Islamist on Instagram threatens man and woman dressed in Islamic clothes for chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’

OpIndia Staff -
An Islamist on Instagram threatened a couple dressed in Islamic clothes for chanting Jai Shri Ram
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News Reports

Australia set for landmark indigenous rights referendum on October 14, marks defining moment for the modern country’s relationship with original inhabitants

OpIndia Staff -
Australia lacks a treaty with its indigenous population, which constitutes approximately 3.2% of the country's nearly 26 million inhabitants.
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News Reports

Muslims upset with Karnataka Congress govt for continuing the Rs 1 lakh per annum grant to maintain Urdu Academy: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Ashraf expressed his disappointment over the Congress government continuing with the Rs 1 lakh grant for the Urdu Academy announced by the previous BJP government instead of raising the amount.
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News Reports

‘No permit needed for Azaan on Jummah and Ramzan in New York City’: NYC Mayor Eric Adams

OpIndia Staff -
Meanwhile, New York City Police Commissioner Edward Caban described the move to allow Azaan calls without permission as part of the NYPD's community engagement and ongoing crime-fighting initiatives.
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News Reports

Nigeria: Police raids gay wedding event, over 200 persons arrested, homosexuals can get 14-year jail sentence

ANI -
A police spokesperson in the southern Delta state on Tuesday told reporters that 67 people will be prosecuted for “allegedly conducting and attending a same-sex wedding ceremony.”
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News Reports

Passionate 10-minute-kiss leaves boyfriend deaf: Expressing love on China’s Valentine’s Day ruptures eardrum of a Chinese man, read why it happens

OpIndia Staff -
The incident took place on 22nd August 2023. The Qixi Festival is the Chinese equivalent of Valentine's Day.
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News Reports

Chandrayaan-3 update: Pragyan Rover conducts experiments on lunar soil, confirms Sulphur, Titanium, Chromium and much more, ISRO says search for Hydrogen underway

OpIndia Staff -
The various metals/non-metals found by ISRO include Aluminum (Al), Calcium (Ca), Iron (Fe), Chromium (Cr), Titanium (Ti), Manganese (Mn), Silicon (Si), and Oxygen (O). The space agency added that the process to find traces of Hydrogen (H) is still underway.
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News Reports

CBI registers case for minority scholarship scam: 830 fake institutions across 18 states found to have claimed over 144.33 crores between 2017-22

OpIndia Staff -
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against unnamed officials, nodal officers, and PSU bank staffers for a scam in minority scholarships worth Rs 144 crores. The complaint has been registered by the Ministry of Minority Affairs.
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World

Pakistan: Imran Khan arrested in Cipher case hours after getting bail in Toshakhana Case

OpIndia Staff -
Hours after getting bail in the Toshakhana case, a special court recently established to hear cases under the Official Sec­rets Act directed the Attock Jail authorities to keep Imran Khan in “judicial lockup”.
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Politics

‘Mumbai mein Narendra Modi ke nareti (throat) pe chadhne jaa rahe hain hum log’: Out on bail RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav

OpIndia Staff -
While speaking about the upcoming opposition meeting, lalu Prasad Yadav claimed that they have caught hold of Prime Minister Modi by his throat and would soon remove him.
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News Reports

“We reject these claims as they have no basis”: MEA registers strong protest against China’s distorted map laying claim to Indian territories

OpIndia Staff -
In regard to media queries regarding China’s bizarre claims, the MEA issued an official statement rejecting the so-called 2023 “standard map” of China.
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News Reports

Surat police arrest fake ISRO scientist Mitul Trivedi who claimed to design Chandrayaan-3, says did so to attract students to tuition classes

OpIndia Staff -
Surat Police Crime Branch arrested Mitul Trivedi, the bogus scientist who claimed to play a vital role in the development of the Chandrayaan-3 design
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Opinions

Kerala Assembly speaker AN Shamseer, his diatribe against Hinduism and how it was not a product of a ‘scientific mind’ but plain bigotry

Shree Menon -
Kerala Assembly Speaker A N Shamseer’s uncalled-for and ridiculing comments about Hindu God Ganesh, have stirred a Hornet’s nest. 
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News Reports

‘J&K’s statehood will be restored, Ladakh will remain a Union Territory’: SG Tushar Mehta during Article 370 hearing

OpIndia Staff -
The SG reiterated the govt’s stance that the statehood of J&K would be reinstated. However, he added that Ladakh will remain a UT. 
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News Reports

Delhi becomes world’s most polluted city, residents losing 11.9 years of their lives to pollution: Report

OpIndia Staff -
India has the highest health burden from air pollution of all the countries in the world because of the sheer number of people that high particulate matter levels affect the citizens.
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‘Pranam kaahe nahi kiya re mad*rc**d’: Jharkhand Congress leader Ranvijay Singh’s son brutally beats student for not touching his feet

OpIndia Staff -
Akash Singh was allegedly hit with the butt of a pistol and sticks by Jharkhand Congress leader Ranvijay Singh's son and his bodygaurds for not bowing to him
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News Reports

‘Onam and Rakhi gift’: Centre announces Rs 200 subsidy on LPG gas cylinder, offers 75 lakh women free gas connections under Ujjwala program

OpIndia Staff -
Thakur announced that the government has decided to offer another 75 lakh women free gas connections under the Ujjwala program on the occasion of Rakhi and Onam.
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News Reports

Hotels across Delhi-NCR prepare for President Biden, President Xi Jingping and other world leaders for G20

OpIndia Staff -
ITC Maurya Sheraton will be the residence of US President Joe Biden, while Chinese President Xi Jinping will stay at the Taj Palace. In total, 23 Delhi hotels and nine NCR Hotels will be hosting the G20 delegates.
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Delhi: Two minor boys sexually assaulted in Govt school by fellow students, principal and vice principal suspended

ANI -
DCW has requested the Delhi Police and Directorate of Education to provide a detailed action taken report on the two matters by September 1, 2023.
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News Reports

12 companies, mostly based in tax havens, benefitted from short selling after Hindenburg Research report on Adani Group. Here is what we know so...

OpIndia Staff -
Two of the 'top short sellers' of Adani Group shares were Indian companies, one registered in Mumbai and the other in New Delhi.
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NIA files charge sheet against Assam-based Al-Qaeda module terrorists for conspiring to spread terror & violence across the country

OpIndia Staff -
The NIA filed a charge sheet against terrorists belonging to the Ansarullah Bangla Team affiliated with Al-Qaeda.
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News Reports

‘Any change in the Constitution that brings everyone at par can never be faulted with’: SG Tushar Mehta during Article 370 hearing

OpIndia Staff -
SG categorically highlighted why Article 370 is different from others. He said, “Article 370(3) has an in-built extinguishing provision. That's the distinction. This is the only provision that has a self-destructive clause. This shows it was intended to be temporary."
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News Reports

Prayagraj: Mohammad Yusuf, Mohsin & two others beat Satyam Sharma to death, family says they were harrasing boy’s sister but police denies

OpIndia Staff -
Satyam Sharma was first lynched black and blue until his body was covered in blood and then was left suffering for the next 30 minutes until he couldn't anymore.
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Crime

Burari rape case: Premoday Khakha’s son to be investigated as well, suspected of complicity in rape of the minor girl

OpIndia Staff -
"Based on the statement issued by the girl, we will soon interrogate Harsh, and if any corroborative evidence is found, he will be arrested,” Delhi Police said.
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh: Anam Ali, who shot to fame with Bharat Jodo Yatra rap song, claims threat to life, asks Rahul Gandhi to focus on Congress-ruled...

OpIndia Staff -
In sharp criticism, Anam Ali stated that Rahul Gandhi always avoids speaking or reacting to serious issues that take place in Congress-ruled states.
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World

Pakistan court suspends Toshakhana Case verdict, Imran Khan to be released on bail

ANI -
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has suspended the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman’s conviction and three-year jail sentence in the Toshakhana case
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News Reports

West Bengal: ‘Friends’ kidnap teen for ransom to buy gaming laptops, kill him after offering Rasgullas and cold drink

OpIndia Staff -
Online gaming addiction leads to the murder of a teen in Nadia, West Bengal
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Opinions

Nuh: The state takes a knee to Islamist street veto again by denying Hindus to hold yatra on the last Shravan Somvar

Pragya Bakshi Sharma -
The Hindu community is a victim of this Islamist power on one hand, and the state is held to ransom by this Islamist power on the other.
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News Reports

‘Take revenge, burn Hindus alive’ ISIS calls for killing Hindus in its latest magazine, quotes ‘journalist’ Meer Faisal to spread disinformation

OpIndia Staff -
ISIS called for burning Hindus alive in the latest issue of its propaganda magazine "Voice of Khurasan"
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7 instances where Hindu students were thrashed, harassed and even expelled from schools for practising their religion

Dibakar Dutta -
Meanwhile, the left-Islamist ecosystem has been fixated on the Muzaffarnagar case and falsely trying to give it a communal spin.
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