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Delhi HC halts IT procedures against Oxfam India, accused of violating FCRA and receiving Rs 1.5 crores in foreign funding

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Delhi High Court recently halted Income Tax (IT) reassessment procedures started against Oxfam India.
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News Reports

BJP dismisses reports that it supported SDPI in Karnataka panchayat polls, says elections not contested on party lines

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BJP debunks reports of backing SDPI in Karnataka panchayat polls saying there are no party symbols in panchayat in Karnataka.
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News Reports

Rajya Sabha Chairman extends AAP senior leader Sanjay Singh’s suspension for repeated and deliberate misconduct, has been a repeat offender

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Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar announced the extension of the suspension of AAP MP Sanjay Singh for repeated and deliberate misconduct in the upper house of the Parliament
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News Reports

PM Modi mentions the 1966 bombing of Mizoram: When Indira Gandhi had ordered the IAF to carry out an aerial attack in Aizawl and...

Gopal Tiwari -
On March 5, 1966, the Indian Air Force (IAF) conducted an airstrike on the city of Aizawl in the Mizo Hills, Mizoram.
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News Reports

‘If we hadn’t run away, we would have been burned alive’: Kali temple in Nuh was also attacked, attackers shouted Allahu Akbar, says the...

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The priest of the Kali temple in Nuh told OpIndia that on July 31, a mob of more than 500 attacked the temple. They were shouting 'Allahu Akbar'.
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News Reports

Former Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik granted interim bail on medical grounds, was arrested in money laundering case

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On Friday, August 11, the Supreme Court granted interim bail to former Maharashtra cabinet minister Nawab Malik
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News Reports

Assam: 13-year-old orphan minor pregnant after Arabic teacher rapes her for two months, accused booked under POCSO Act

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A 13-year-old orphan minor was raped for two months by her Arabic teacher, Ashif Sheikh, in Dhubri for two months.
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News Reports

A step towards curbing the menace of Love Jihad? Amit Shah introduces new Bill that criminalises sexual relations established under false pretences

Raju Das -
Amit Shah said that under new criminal law, having sex with a woman by hiding real identity is defined as a crime
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News Reports

Offence of sedition to be repealed in Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita which replaces Indian Penal Code, announces home minister Amit Shah

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The new bill to replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC) will repeal the offence of sedition under Section 124A
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News Reports

OMG 2: Akshay Kumar movie uses Hindu Gods and themes to ‘educate’ the public about masturbation and sex

OpIndia Staff -
The film is based on the subject of sex education. The plot centres around Kanti Sharan Mudgal (Pankaj Tripathi), a devotee of Lord Shiva who owns a pooja shop near a temple.
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News Reports

‘I feel fortunate to be born in India’: Journalist Amana Ansari debunks Western media claims that Muslims are discriminated against in India in BBC interview

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Journalist Amana Begum Ansari, in an interview with BBC tears into Western media for trying to vilify India by utilising a few isolated incidents of violence in the country
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News Reports

‘Plenty of girls for Rahul Gandhi, why would he blow flying kiss to a 50-year-old woman’: Congress MLA’s bizarre claim for 53-year-old Wayanad MP

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Neetu Singh, Congress MLA from Bihar made derogatory remark against Smriti Irani while defending Rahul Gandhi's flying kiss towards latter in LS
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Two Hindu boys thrashed by Muslim mob in Meerut, rudraksha beads broken; one arrested

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A video of a Muslim crowd attacking a Hindu delivery boy and his friend in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, has gone viral on the internet.
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News Reports

AAP MP Raghav Chadha suspended over allegations of forging signatures of Rajya Sabha MPs

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AAP MP Raghav Chadha was suspended from Rajya Sabha over accusations of 'forging' signatures of five Rajya Sabha MPs.
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News Reports

Ex Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar, 2 officials pulled off body bags scam worth Rs 50 lakh, ED to initiate fresh case in covid jumbo...

OpIndia Staff -
According to the EOW FIR, BMV officials bought 1,200 body bags since 2020 for about Rs 80 lakh, a fraud committed under instructions from the former mayor.
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News Reports

Hawaii: Massive wildfires in Maui kill 55 so far and many still missing, entire towns burnt, restoration to cost billions. Here’s what to know

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Strong winds from a far-off hurricane Dora fuelled the fires in the city of Lahaina, primary tourist attraction in Maui in Hawaii, resulting in the fatalities
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News Reports

From Katchatheevu to Coco islands: How Nehru-Gandhi family lost India key marine territories, not just strategic Himalayan heights

Gopal Tiwari -
India's former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi relinquished the Katchatheevu Island to Sri Lanka in 1974.
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News Reports

UK announces £95,000 package to combat Khalistani terror after Security Minister meets EAM S Jaishankar

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United Kingdom's Security Minister Tom Tugendhat has announced funding of 95,000 Pounds, around ₹1 crore, to tackle Khalistani terrorism in the country.
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News Reports

NewsClick Chinese funding scandal: Who is Vijay Prashad, the linchpin of Neville Roy Singham’s network and his relationship with CPI(M) top brass

Pragya Bakshi Sharma -
Vijay Prashad, a nephew of CPI(M)'s Brinda Karat and linked to Prabir Pukayastha's NewsClick, has been the linchpin of Neville Roy Singham's network.
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News Reports

Local Muslims involved in attack on Gurukul, cow slaughter connection: Here’s how Rajdeep Sardesai tried to shield Shakti Saini’s killers by calling them ‘outsiders’

राहुल पाण्डेय -
In the Bhadas Gurukul attack, the Muslim rioters were heavily armed with petrol bombs, sticks, and weapons. The mob was chanting the Islamic war cry "Nara-e-Takbir" and "Allah-hu-Akbar". The mob also consisted of small children who assembled at the site of violence in two small groups.
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News Reports

First conviction under MP’s anti-conversion law: Mohammad Sabir jailed and fined Rs 56,000 for coercing Hindu girl to convert to Islam

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Mohammad Sabir becomes the first to be convicted under anti-conversion law in Madhya Pradesh
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News Reports

Allahabad HC seeks an explanation on how ownership of Banke Bihari Ji Maharaj Temple land went to a Muslim graveyard

OpIndia Staff -
The counsel for the state government drew the attention of the court that one application is also pending since the entries in the revenue records have now been altered from Qabristan to 'purani abadi'(old settlement).
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News Reports

‘Congress MLA Gopal Meena and DSP assaulted, urinated upon me, made me lick shoes’: Dalit man in Rajasthan says

OpIndia Staff -
Furthermore, the Dalit victim alleged that he was subsequently taken to a hall where MLA Gopal Meena allegedly asked him to lick and clean his shoes, saying that only then would he be permitted to leave.
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Opinions

Hindu processions, especially ones by Hindu orgs, are targeted by Islamists because they are antithetical to how defenceless they want Hindus to be

Pragya Bakshi Sharma -
The anti-Hindu mob violence in Nuh bears a sinister resemblance to the many attacks launched on Hindu rallies in the past.
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News Reports

Russia launches Moon landing mission Luna-25 after 47 years, ISRO congratulates Roscosmos

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Indian space organisation ISRO, whose Chandrayaan 3 mission is also on the way to the Moon, has congratulated Roscosmos, the Russian space agency.
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News Reports

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury internationalises Manipur issue in Parliament a day after Kapil Sibal wanted a referendum in Kashmir

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Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said that the Manipur issue cannot be confined to any state or any nation, it has already assumed a global dimension
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News Reports

Military rulers of Niger threaten to kill deposed president Mohammad Bazoum if foreign countries try to intervene to restore the govt

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Niger junta have warned that they’d kill deposed president if there is any military intervention
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News Reports

They did tukde-tukde of Vande Mataram: As PM Modi launches a stinging attack on Congress, learn about the brief history of the national song

Rukma Rathore -
PM Modi said Congress chopped Vande Mataram song because of appeasement politics.
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News Reports

As the no-confidence motion is defeated in Lok Sabha, read everything PM Narendra Modi said in his reply to the motion

Gopal Tiwari -
In his reply to the no-confident motion, PM Modi launched a scathing attack on the Congress party, reminding history
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News Reports

“Over 4 lakh lives saved by Jal Jeevan Mission, 3 lakh lives saved by Swachch Bharat Abhiyaan”: PM Modi cites WHO data, says opposition...

Pragya Bakshi Sharma -
While replying to the no confidence in Lok Sabha, PM Modi said that the truth that the world is witnessing from afar, the Opposition cannot see even from such a close distance
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News Reports

No Confidence Motion defeated by voice vote after opposition MPs walk out, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury suspended from the house

OpIndia Staff -
The No Confidence Motion brought by the opposition parties in the Parliament was defeated today after Prime Minister Narendra Modi replied to the motion
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Money lender Mehrdeen rapes woman for not being able to repay interest on loan she took for her husband’s treatment, arrested

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Rajasthan's Nagaur police arrested a money lender identified as Mehrdeen for allegedly raping and blackmailing a married woman in his neighbourhood
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News Reports

‘This is opposition’s favourite taunt which I take as tonic’: As Modi takes a dig on ‘Modi teri kabar khudegi’ chants read how many...

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Addressing the Lok Sabha in response to the Opposition's no-confidence motion against the NDA government, Modi took a jibe at the opposition parties saying that "Modi teri kabar khudegi' is their favourite slogan
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News Reports

Indore: Maulana Shadab Khan insults sanitation workers, accuses them of looking at women with bad intentions, booked under SC/ST Act

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Madhya Pradesh Police filed a complaint under SC/ST act against one individual identified as Maulana Shadab Khan for abusing sanitation workers
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News Reports

“You came together for what? You are not even prepared for the no-confidence motion,” PM Modi takes a dig at the Congress party in...

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi drew the cricket analogy while taking a dig at the Opposition's conduct while moving the no-confidence motion against the Modi government.
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News Reports

Mahua Moitra, MP from a state where Hindus were attacked during post-poll violence, says she is ashamed that PM Modi bowed to Hindu seers

Rukma Rathore -
Mahua Moitra said that she is ashamed that PM Modi bowed to the Adheenam seers in the new parliament during the ceremony where the Sengol was handed over.
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Politics

You didn’t let Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury speak, was there a call from Bengal: PM Narendra Modi asks opposition during his response to the no-confidence...

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Taking a dig at the opposition's decision not to allow Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury to speak during the debate, PM Modi asked, "Why did Congress sideline Adhir Chowdhury? Was there a call from Bengal?"
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News Reports

During 2008 Beijing Olympics, Sonia Gandhi was to meet athletes but met CCP instead says Col Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Congress signed MoU with China...

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Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said, "They (Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi) were running the government at that time. They should be tried for treason."
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Chhattisgarh: Veteran tribal leader Arvind Netam resigns from Congress citing anti-Tribal mindset and policies of Baghel govt

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"There are several reasons, including the neglect of tribal communities under the current Congress government in Chhattisgarh. Diluting the PESA rules is a prime example of how the Congress government is least interested in protecting the rights of tribal communities," Netam said.
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Madhya Pradesh: Statue of Maharana Pratap vandalised in Morena, FIR registered

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Additional SP stated, “As soon as the matter came to the notice of the police, they immediately got the statue of Maharana Pratap repaired. It is true that this is a matter of anger but soon the accused will be identified and arrested.”
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Cricket

“It is time you start performing like Hardik Pandya,” former Pakistan cricketer Kamran Akmal tells Faheem Ashraf

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A critical Akmal said that Ashraf should not let go to waste the support he has received with his inclusion in the squad and should do justice to the faith shown in him.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Hanif rapes a woman by deceptively feeding her drugs, threatens her to convert to Islam, booked

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Uttar Pradesh police filed an FIR against one individual identified as Hanif Ladku for intoxicating a girl with drugs and raping her
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News Reports

Nuh Violence: Islamist rioters burnt BJP leader’s oil mill to ashes, products and equipment worth over ₹1.5 crore destroyed

OpIndia Staff -
BJP leader's said his oil mill was burnt during Nuh violence because of his association with the party
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‘Clearing your mess’, says FM Nirmala Sitharaman to Opposition over reforms and recovery in the banking sector

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“We realised that the banking sector needs to be healthy and therefore we took a lot of measures. Banks are able to work without political interference, they are working with professional integrity. 'Banks mein failaya hua aapka raita hum saaf kar rahe hai’,” Minister Sitharaman said. 
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Media

NCLT approves Zee-Sony merger, paves the way for the media giant with an audience of over 700 million people

OpIndia Staff -
It's worth highlighting that the Zee-Sony merger was declared in September 2021, and the approval from NCLT has materialised after more than a year.
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News Reports

Modi government moves a bill for selection of election commissioners as per Supreme Court directive, opposition spreads misinformation

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Centre has moved a bill to prescribe the manner of selecting the chief election commissioner and other election commissioners.
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Rajnikanth Fever: Japanese couple travels all the way to Chennai from Japan to catch the first-day-first-show of his film Jailer

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Japanese couple Yasuda Hidetoshi and his wife have travelled all the way from Japan to Chennai to catch the first-day-first-show of Rajnikanth starrer Jailer
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Female officer slaps teen girl after she argues over court order instructing action against illegal encroachment, video viral

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In Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi district, a female government inspector slapped a teenage girl after a verbal dispute
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Entertainment

Kuwait bans ‘Barbie’ film for ‘promoting homosexuality’; film also under fire in Lebanon

OpIndia Staff -
The prohibition of Barbie adds to the trend of banning films in the Middle East due to apprehensions surrounding homosexuality. Within the past few years, movies, like Call Me by Your Name, Moonlight, and The Danish Girl, have encountered bans in the region.
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Shiv Sena MLA’s son booked for kidnapping a music company CEO in Mumbai, video of the incident goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
Complainant Rajkumar Singh contended that Shiv Sena MLA Prakash Surve's son Raj Surve and his accomplices kidnapped him from his office.
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