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Rajasthan: PM Modi dedicates various development projects, releases PM-Kisan installment

ANI -
PM-Kisan is a central sector scheme launched in February 2019 to supplement the financial needs of all land-holding farmers subject to certain exclusion criteria of higher income status.
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News Reports

‘If police come here, break their hands and legs’: Mob gathers in Haryana village after the death of one Shekul Khan in police custody

OpIndia Staff -
The video is related to the protests that emerged after the death of a person named Shekul Khan, a resident of Mewat. He died in police custody in a case related to cyber fraud.
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News Reports

Varanasi’s tourist footfall was 8 times that of Goa in 2022: Here is how major projects have led to a big jump in spiritual...

Pragya Bakshi Sharma -
Varanasi has seen eight times the number of tourists as Goa in 2022, according to data shared by ICICI Direct
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News Reports

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal ‘runs away’ again after he was confronted by BJP at NDMC meeting over flood management

OpIndia Staff -
BJP members during the meeting raised the issue of CM Kejriwal engaging in 'political tourism and alliances' at a time when the nation's capital was grappling with a flood crisis. CM then adjourned the meeting and walked away.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: POCSO Court awards death sentence to Mohd Faheem for raping and killing a four-year-old girl

Jhankar Mohta -
Calling it a "rarest of rare" case, a special POCSO Court in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, awarded death sentence to Mohammed Faheem for raping and killing a four-year-old girl child
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Politics

Your speech was scheduled, your office said you will not be able to join: PMO replies to CM Ashok Gehlot’s charges of ‘removing his...

OpIndia Staff -
The Chief Minister of Rajasthan claimed that he could only extend his welcome to the Prime Minister through Twitter as the PMO had cancelled his speech at the event.
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News Reports

‘Labelled as Mujahideen because I am a Muslim’: BJP’s Shehzad Poonawalla files complaint against AAP’s Priyanka Kakkar after debate. Read what happened

OpIndia Staff -
Shehzad Poonawala said AAP spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar has abused him on and off camera on several occassions
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Media

No, video recording unsuspecting girls inside toilet is not a ‘prank’: How TNM editor and others engaged clever wordplay to whitewash Udupi bathroom video...

Sneha -
The gravity of the situation is expertly diluted by the TNM's editorial wordplay. The fact that video recording someone during their private time, without their consent is a crime, has no importance here, not for TNM, because what is most important for them here is the protection of the perpetrators involved.
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News Reports

Former Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Darda awarded 4 years jail term by special Delhi Court in Chhattisgarh Coal Scam case

OpIndia Staff -
“The present case relates to allocation of a coal block. The convicts had obtained the said block by committing cheating with the Government of India. Prosecution is justified in saying that the loss to the nation was huge,” the court said.
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News Reports

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma says the Golaghat triple murder was a case of love jihad as the Muslim man pretended to be Hindu,...

OpIndia Staff -
The Assam chief minister who also oversees the Home Department, called it a "open-and-shut case," and said the chargesheet would be filed within the next 15 days.
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Specials

15 years since the Ahmedabad blasts of 2008 when 21 explosions rocked the peaceful city killing 56 people: Read account of a victim’s family

OpIndia Staff -
"Papa had also given blood, but while coming out, seeing some injured people in an ambulance, Papa ran there too to help them. At the same time, there was a bomb blast and Dad's whole body was pierced with sharp-edged objects", Swapnil said.
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News Reports

Karnataka: Home Minister G Parameshwar calls restroom video shooting in Udupi College a ‘minor issue between friends’, says BJP politicising it

OpIndia Staff -
Karnataka's Home Minister G Parameshwar said that the shameful case from a college in Udupi where videos of Hindu girl students were shot in a restroom by Muslim girl students is a 'small incident'
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Crime

Meerut: Minor girl drugged and raped, her nude video recorded; main accused Shakir and his 2 accomplices arrested

OpIndia Staff -
As per the family, Shakir took her to the jungle a few months back, where he drugged her and then proceeded to rape her. Soon, his accomplices joined him there and they beat up the girl while removing her clothes and recorded her video.
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News Reports

Indian Men and Women Football teams to participate in Asian Games this year after getting exemptions from the Sports Ministry: Details

Paurush Gupta -
The Indian football teams will be participating in the Asian Games for the first time since 2014.
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OpIndia Explains

From a hill tribe in India to a lost tribe in Israel: Did you know Kukis from Manipur had demanded a right to return...

Pragya Bakshi Sharma -
It is believed that the tribals converted without much effort due to the similarities they found in the biblical stories told to them by the missionaries.
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News Reports

As Conjunctivitis cases spread in the country, read why it is called ‘Jai Bangla’ in some regions

OpIndia Staff -
Conjunctivitis is generally known as pink-eye disease, but in various regions of the world, it is known by various names including Jai Bangla and Apollo 11
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News Reports

Manipur Violence: Armed groups from Myanmar join Kuki militants in gun battle with security forces in Moreh, over 30 houses torched

OpIndia Staff -
Heavily armed militants shielded by a mob started burning houses in Moreh, Manipur.
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News Reports

BBC forced to issue apology after its reporter asks Morocco women’s football team captain if there are lesbians in the team

OpIndia Staff -
BBC apologizes for its reporter’s ‘inappropriate’ question to Morocco women’s team captain at FIFA world cup
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News Reports

Sudha Murthy gets branded as ‘casteist’ by left-liberals for calling herself a “pure vegetarian”  

Shraddha Pandey -
Sudha Murthy, known for her candour, opened up about her love of vegetarian food and her cooking habits in one of the episodes of the 'Khane Mein Kya Hai?' show.
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News Reports

Bihar: 1 killed, 2 injured in Katihar after police open fire on villagers protesting against power cuts

OpIndia Staff -
1 person died in police firing at Barsoi in Bihar's Katihar when the villagers gathered outside the office of the Electricity Department
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News Reports

USA: House Oversight Committee to hold an open hearing on UFOs, alien spacecraft, and more

Paurush Gupta -
The committee is likely to examine Grusch’s claim whether the Pentagon allegedly possesses 'intact and partially intact' alien UFOs or craft of non-human origin.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Farzana weds Virendra Kashyap in a Bareilly temple and becomes Saraswati, seeks police protection after her father files case

OpIndia Staff -
Farzana married Virendra Kashyap in a temple in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh and took the name Saraswati.
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News Reports

Udupi restroom video row: Mohammed Zubair peddles half information after FIRs are filed in the case, dog-whistles against ANI’s Smita Prakash yet again

Amit Kelkar -
Mohammed Zubair and Anusha Sood had been downplaying the Udupi restroom video incident, throwing labels of misinformation at those who raise their voice against it.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Shakir traps a girl in a love affair, drugs and gang rapes her with friends Alam, Pappu and others

OpIndia Staff -
Uttar Pradesh Police arrested three persons identified as Shakir, Alam and Pappu for gang-raping a girl and physically assaulting her
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News Reports

‘We will hang you in the temple, we will burn you alive’: Anti-Hindu slogans raised at IUML’s youth wing rally in Kerala’s Kasargod

OpIndia Staff -
During IUML's youth wing's rally on the backdrop of Manipur violence, anti-Hindu slogans were raised
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Opinions

As Pune police book Mukesh Machkar for inciting genocide of Brahmins by attacking women, read why Brahmin bashing is considered cool in Maharashtra

Gopal Tiwari -
Read the historical and political reasons why bashing Brahmins is considered cool in Maharashtra
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News Reports

Sextortion call to Minister Prahlad Patel: Delhi Police bust gang, Mohammad Vakil and Mohammad Sahib arrested

OpIndia Staff -
During the investigation, the Crime Branch revealed that the arrested accused were running an organised “sextortion” racket.
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News Reports

Read why, despite the new Parliament Building being ready, the monsoon session is being held in the old building

OpIndia Staff -
The government announced that the session would start in the old parliament building and eventually shift to the new one once the necessary arrangements were completed.
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News Reports

‘Gangs, lawyers working to help illegal migrants’: Rishi Sunak promises to ‘stop the boats’, and help the Ukrainians seeking asylum in the UK

Shraddha Pandey -
The UK government currently spends £6 billion each day on hotel accommodations for immigrants awaiting the decision.
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News Reports

Sudipto Sen gives a befitting reply to a troll who asked if he has the guts to make a movie on Manipur violence after...

OpIndia Staff -
Sudipto Sen, the director of the recent box office success 'The Kerala Story' indicated on Wednesday, July 26 that he is not scared to make a film about the ongoing Manipur issue
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News Reports

Triple murder in Assam: Nazibur Rahman Bora kills wife and her parents, Sanghamitra Ghosh had eloped with him ignoring the objection of parents

OpIndia Staff -
Nazibul Rahman killed his Hindu wife and her parents with a knife in Golaghat town, Assam, and took away their minor son
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News Reports

Udupi: Police files FIR against 3 Muslim students for secretly filming Hindu girls in the restroom; had denied communal angle

OpIndia Staff -
A case has been filed against three Muslim students named Alimatul Shaifa, Shabanaz, Alia, and against the management board of Netrajyoti College.
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News Reports

‘Ahmadiyyas are not Muslims’: Jamiat backs Andhra Waqf Board after Centre denounces hate campaign against Ahmadiyyas

OpIndia Staff -
Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind said the AP Waqf Board's stance on Ahmadiyyas reflects the unanimous position of the entire Muslims.
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News Reports

‘I have not married Nasrullah’: Anju calls the Pakistani citizen ‘just friend’, says went to Pakistan only for vacation and will return to India...

OpIndia Staff -
Indian woman Anju who went to Pakistan denies reports that she has married Nasrullah, says she will return from vacation soon
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Hindu boy forcibly circumcised, converted, and held hostage by Muslim girlfriend’s family in Noida; complaint registered

OpIndia Staff -
A Muslim girl's Hindu boyfriend was circumcised by her family, forced to convert to Islam and was held captive.
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News Reports

Bihar: One Md Shaqib Ahmed arrested for derogatory, obscene depiction of Lord Rama, insulting Hindus on Instagram

OpIndia Staff -
The accused identified as Mohammed Shaqib Ahmed is the resident of Masjid Chowk and had posted a derogatory comment on an Instagram post through his Instagram handle itts_shaqib.
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News Reports

Did BJP ‘abandon’ their injured Kuki MLA as claimed in interviews with Rajdeep Sardesai and Barkha Dutt? Here is what documents show

Nupur J Sharma -
Vungzagin Valte, the BJP Kuki MLA from Manipur, was attacked in May allegedly by a Meitei mob and suffered critical injuries.
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News Reports

As opposition parties get all set to bring a no-confidence motion against the govt, here is how PM Modi had asked them to do...

Anurag -
Video of PM Modi's address from 2019 went viral on social media where he urged opposition to prepare hard to bring no confidence motion against him again before 2024 elections.
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News Reports

5-year-old child made to answer vulgar, explicit questions in Sony TV’s Super Dancer show, NCPCR asks channel to remove content

OpIndia Staff -
NCPCR instructed Sony Entertainment Television to remove sexually explicit content from the channel's dance reality show for children.
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News Reports

TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee announces protest gheraoing homes of BJP leaders on August 5, BJP files complaint

OpIndia Staff -
Abhishek Banerjee alleged that the BJP-led Central government has stopped MNERGA funds due to their vendetta politics.
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News Reports

Amit Shah writes to opposition leaders seeking cooperation, says govt is ready to discuss Manipur issue

OpIndia Staff -
Home Minister targeted the opposition alleging that they are not interested in issues of dalits and the welfare of women, instead they are merely resorting to sloganeering.
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News Reports

Chronology of how Udupi secret video unfolded: From downplaying the crime, FIR after Zubair’s dog-whistling, to the shameless whitewashing by TNM

Amit Kelkar -
While it was initially reported as an incident involving students from two communities, the media outfits later made clear distinctions of the religious identities of the perpetrators and victims.
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News Reports

Bengal, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and now Karnataka: How non-BJP governments misuse state machinery to silence dissenting voices

Paurush Gupta -
The hounding of Rashmi Samant is yet another manifestation of how opposition-ruled states use police power to suppress critical voices.
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News Reports

We cannot let his strange Gods into the White House: Christian evangelist goes on a Hinduphobic rant against Indian-origin, US Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy

OpIndia Staff -
Hank Kunneman drew inspiration from the King of Judah, Jehoshaphat, and claimed that God loved him for 'kicking out idols from his kingdom.'
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News Reports

Muslims oppose last rites of Shrikant Paswan in Darbhanga: Media starts working overtime to hide the religious identity of the perpetrators

OpIndia Staff -
Darbhanga district in Bihar was gripped by communal clashes after some members of the Muslim community created a ruckus and impeded the last rites of a Hindu villager named Shrikant Paswan
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News Reports

NIA attaches 3 properties in terror-gangster-drug smuggler nexus case

ANI -
The NIA attached three properties owned by members of Organised Crime Syndicates in Haryana and Delhi on Tuesday.
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News Reports

Pune: Shopkeeper Kaif Karimullah Sheikh molests 20-year-old woman under the guise of ‘helping’ her check size of garments, booked

OpIndia Staff -
Kaif Karimullah Sheikh, a shopkeeper, reportedly molested a 20-year-old woman under the guise of helping her check garment size.
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World

China sacks ‘missing’ foreign minister Qin Gang, replaces him with his predecessor Wang Yi

OpIndia Staff -
Intriguingly, Qin had gone 'missing' since meeting with Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko in Beijing on June 25.
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News Reports

Multivalent meningococcal meningitis vaccine from Serum Institute of India gets WHO prequalification, to be used in Africa

ANI -
"As the first conjugate vaccine to safeguard against the five predominant causes of this deadly disease, MenFive offers hope for a future free from annual outbreaks and epidemics in the African meningitis belt. It is a big moment as we, together, pave the way towards a healthier Africa, saving countless lives," Poonawala said.
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Politics

My “Red Diary” contains all the information about corruption in Rajasthan under Ashok Gehlot government: Sacked Congress minister Rajendra Gudha

OpIndia Staff -
Rajendra Gudha claims that the red diary is jam-packed with facts and proof of Ashok Gehlot and his son's wrongdoings during his term as the chief minister of Rajasthan.
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