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India’s first women-only mosque coming up in Jharkhand where men will be banned, clerics oppose saying women can’t become Imam

OpIndia Staff -
A women-only mosque is coming up in Jharkhand in the Jamshedpur district's Kapali Tajnagar area where the entry of men would be banned
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News Reports

Chinese President Xi Jinping fears the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party as 415 million people revoke affiliation with the party: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Chinese premier Jinping expresses fears that Chinese Communist Party may collapse, claims the Greek City Times.
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News Reports

New twist in the Jyoti Maurya controversy, her sister-in-law accuses Alok Maurya’s brother of torture and harassment

OpIndia Staff -
Shubhra said that her husband currently works in the GST Department, however, prior to their wedding he claimed to be an Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer. 
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News Reports

Surat Diamond Bourse snatches the crown from USA’s Pentagon as the largest office in the world

OpIndia Staff -
Surat Diamond Bourse is now the world's largest office. Pentagon held the crown for 80 years.
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News Reports

5 terror suspects arrested with explosives for planning bomb blasts in Bengaluru, were radicalised by Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist in jail

OpIndia Staff -
Central Crime Branch (CCB) of Bengaluru Police arrested 5 terror suspects for planning a large-scale terror attack in the city
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News Reports

Rohingya detainees at Holding Center in Jammu and Kashmir attack police with stones, several injured

OpIndia Staff -
Rohingyas currently lodged at the Holding Center in Hiranagar town of Kathua district in Jammu and Kashmir attacked the police by pelting stones.
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News Reports

Chennai: Two youths hurl bombs at their own houses in Perumbakkam after their fathers refused to give them money

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In two separate incidents, 2 youths hurled bombs at their own houses after their fathers refused to give them money in Chennai.
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News Reports

‘We were working hard, they were busy in protests’: Wrestler Antim Panghal, Vishal Kaliraman question ‘trial-free entry’ in Asian Games for Vinesh Phogat and...

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Wrestlers came forward against discrimination as Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia were given direct entry to Asian Games without trials
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News Reports

’35 videos totalling 8 hours’: Mumbai crime branch initiates probe into lewd videos purportedly of former BJP MP Kirit Somaiya

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Probe ordered after 35 video clips aired by a Marathi channel purportedly showed former BJP MP Kirit Somaiya in a compromised position
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News Reports

Delhi: Manzoor and his minor son arrested for murdering Salman over a love affair in Jafrabad, hunt on to capture the older son

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi Police have apprehended Manzoor and his minor son for killing Salman in Jafrabad. Deceased Salman was the boyfriend of Manzoor's daughter.
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News Reports

AAP trolls abuse and attack stand-up comedian Deepak Saini for his skits on Arvind Kejriwal, the comedian says he won’t be scared

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"Because of making comedy videos on Kejriwal ji, they are trying to trouble me," said stand-up comedian Deepak Saini
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News Reports

West Bengal: BJP worker’s house and shop set on fire in East Medinipur, party says it is the way of TMC celebrating election victory

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The TMC workers allegedly set ablaze the house and shop of BJP worker Gopal Pal while he and his family were fast asleep on Monday
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OpIndia Explains

The multiple delays in Hyderabad Metro project in the old city area and the constant need for “permission” from AIMIM contributing to them

S. Sudhir Kumar -
On July 10th 2023, KTR tweeted that his father and the Honourable CM has instructed his department to take forward the Metro project in the Old City of Hyderabad. Immediately, the president of the Islamist party AIMIM thanked KTR for the announcement.
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News Reports

Jalgaon Pandav Wada case: Bombay HC issues stay on Collector’s order banning prayers in the disputed mosque, next hearing on July 27

Siddhi Somani -
The development was confirmed to OpIndia by complainant Prasad Madhusudan Dandawate of the Pandavwada Sangharsh Samiti. He said that the Court has issued a stay order against the section 144 directive and has allowed members of both the communities to enter into the premises for prayers.
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News Reports

‘No refreshments served, nobody answered phone’: Allahabad HC judge outraged over ‘inconvenience’ during train journey, seeks explanation from railways

OpIndia Staff -
The letter further stated that the incident “caused great inconvenience and displeasure to his Lordship. In this regard, the Honourable Judge wishes that explanation may be called from the erring officials of the Railways, the GRP personnel and the pantry car manager.”
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News Reports

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar did not want the opposition alliance to be named I.N.D.I.A: Here is why

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Congress leader Supriya Shrinate said that Rahul Gandhi justified why it should be INDIA during the discussion in the meeting. “It is a collective effort. We all sat together, and we all decided on names. Rahul ji spearheaded this, he justified why it should be INDIA. He argued for it,” Srinate told ANI.
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News Reports

Odisha: Another major train accident averted in Balasore, loco pilot’s action saves lives

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The incident occurred a mere 15 km away from the tragic Bahanaga triple train accident site.
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News Reports

Can the name ‘INDIA’ be registered as a political alliance? As the opposition launches a PR campaign, here is what the Emblems and Names...

Anurag -
There are 20 such entities listed in the Act that cannot be used for registration. Now, one may think there are India TV, NDTV India and Times of India, then what is the problem with the name of the alliance? You can register a name with 'India' in it, provided there are words before or after it.
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News Reports

Mamata, Rahul, or Kejriwal? I.N.D.I.A. alliance parties rush to claim credit for the acronym, yet to decide a joint leader or agenda to face...

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee, Rahul Gandhi, and Arvind Kejriwal are the top names separately credited to have came up with the I.N.D.I.A name for the united opposition alliance against BJP.
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News Reports

Death toll in Kenyan starvation cult case crosses 400 as 12 more bodies exhumed, over 600 people still missing

OpIndia Staff -
More than 610 people are still reported to be missing from villages around the forest. DNA matching had been performed on 253 of the 403 bodies exhumed so far.
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News Reports

Mumbai: Hindu girl blackmailed and forcefully converted to Islam, Amin Azam Sheikh and 4 others arrested

OpIndia Staff -
In her complaint, the victim stated that the accused intimidated her and threatened to make her intimate videos viral if she does not convert to Islam.
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News Reports

Sahara depositors will get their refunds within 45 days, Amit Shah launches CRCS-Sahara Refund Portal: Read how it will work

OpIndia Staff -
Amit Shah assured that crores of Sahara depositors are going to receive their hard-earned money, which was stuck due to scams, within 45 days of submitting an application for the refunds
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News Reports

‘Unstable PM Contender’: Posters mocking Bihar CM Nitish Kumar comes up in Bengaluru amid opposition ‘unity’ meeting

OpIndia Staff -
The posters in which Nitish Kumar was referred to as the "unstable Prime Ministerial contender" appeared at a time when Opposition parties are holding a two-day mega 'unity' meeting in Bengaluru
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News Reports

Unemployed B.Com pass girl has 14 prospective grooms to choose from, viral post triggers myriad reactions

OpIndia Staff -
Another guy, a 32-year-old man working with BCG in Mumbai, is earning a whooping 45 lakhs per annum, but as Miss BCom noted down, he is "just 5 feet 5 inches" tall.
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Crime

Ghaziabad: Driver drives a car in reverse for 2 KMs on National Highway, kills an engineering student on his way

OpIndia Staff -
The police are trying to identify the driver who caused the accident using CCTV cameras installed at houses and shops on NH9. There are no such cameras available on the National Highway that can provide some leads.
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News Reports

The marriage of Imran Khan with Bushra Bibi was illegal under Islamic law? Islamabad court summons them both

ANI -
Cleric Mufti Muhammad Saeed who conducted the marriage between Imran and Bushra submitted in his statements to court that Khan had married Bushra Bibi during the latter's iddat, despite knowing everything.
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World

UK: McDonald’s employees speak out over sexual abuse, racism, and bullying at the workplace

OpIndia Staff -
Out of 100 allegations, 31 were related to sexual assault, and 78 pertaining to sexual harassment. Additionally, 18 staffers made allegations of racism and six others alleged homophobia.
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News Reports

Assam police ask parents to shield their children from the perils of ‘Sharenting’: All you need to know about the phenomenon

OpIndia Staff -
Assam police took to Twitter to caution parents of the potential risks associated with the practice of sharenting
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News Reports

London’s iconic Trocadero set to have a three-storey mosque, property owner Asif Aziz claims only part of the building will serve as prayer space

OpIndia Staff -
The iconic Trocadero in London will soon have a 3-storey mosque.
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Opinions

Disney’s hypersexualisation of children, woke politics, and overindulgence in gender identity of kids: Here’s why the House of Mouse has been caught in its...

Pragya Bakshi Sharma -
A report by the American Psychological Association on "Sexualisation of Girls" states, "Others have noted that Disney's female characters today (e.g.,The Little Mermaid, Pocahontas) have more cleavage, fewer clothes, and are depicted as "sexier" than those of yesteryear (e.g., Snow White, Cinderella)
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh: SC/ST youths hold nude protest in Raipur demanding action against employees with fake caste certificates

OpIndia Staff -
Vinay Kaushal, the spokesperson for the SC/ST category fake caste certificate case Sangharsh Samite, stated that the nude protest that were held on July 18 in front of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly demanded immediate action against individuals holding fake caste certificates.
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News Reports

26 opposition parties name their alliance as ‘INDIA’: Read what it means

OpIndia Staff -
26 opposition parties including the Congress, DMK, Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena, Samajwadi Party, TMC and others are holding their second meeting in Bengaluru currently.
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News Reports

Delhi court grants interim bail to Brij Bhushan Singh in sexual harassment case

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi police had filed a charge sheet against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh and Vinod Tomar on June 15. This case was registered on a complaint lodged by women wrestlers.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Three Islamists arrested for spitting on Baba Mahakaal procession in Ujjain

OpIndia Staff -
Three miscreants arrested by police for spitting on Baba Mahakaal procession in Ujjain.
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World

Mexico: An Australian man and his dog rescued by a fishing boat after being adrift for 3 months in the Pacific Ocean

OpIndia Staff -
The tuna boat accompanying Shaddock and Bella is expected to arrive later on Tuesday, 18/19 July, at Mexico’s Pacific coast port of Manzanillo.
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News Reports

No leader, no seat-sharing agreement, no agenda yet: ‘Opposition Meet’ in Bengaluru is all about grandiose statements and dreams of defeating Modi

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Sources said Congress is keen that the chairperson should be from the party as it is the largest party in the grouping. However, the party may not be not adamant on the matter and would be willing to go by the combined decision of opposition parties.
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Bihar: Angry over bhajans being played in a Shiv Mandir on the second Monday of Shravan, four youths brutally lynch the temple priest to...

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A 70-year-old priest of a Shiv Mandir in Bihar's Vaishali district was killed by four boys who took offence to the bhajans which were being played in the Mandir
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Kota reports 17th suicide by a student in 2023 as NEET aspirant hangs himself: Here’s what is leading to soaring student suicides in the...

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The victim has been recognised as Pushpendra Singh, a native of Jalore, a city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. He had only recently arrived in Kota and had signed up with a coaching facility to get prepped for the NEET exam.
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News Reports

‘Do you want to promote p*rnographic books for children’? Barack Obama faces backlash over letter against book banning in USA

Anurag -
Barack Obama shared link to website that promotes books like 'Gender Queer', containing explicit sexual imagery targeted at children.
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News Reports

Ram Navami violence in Bengal: NIA yet to get access to records pertaining to 6 FIRs

OpIndia Staff -
An NIA official reportedly confirmed to a media house that case diaries are yet to be handed over to the agency despite SC's refusal to stay the HC order to transfer the probe to NIA.
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News Reports

NIA attaches poultry farm used by ISIS-inspired terror group SUFA, owner Imran Khan and others were planning attacks in Rajasthan

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The anti-terror agency attached the property on Monday under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967. The property is located in village Julwaniya, Viryakhedi Road, Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh.
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News Reports

Vested interests exploited claims made by short-seller: Gautam Adani lambasts Hindenburg Research report

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"The committee's report...cited that there were credible charges of targetted de-stabilisation of the Indian market," Gautam Adani said.
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News Reports

Kerala Congress MLAs break into Kalady police station, open lock up and release two Kerala Students Union workers, booked

OpIndia Staff -
Two Kerala Congress MLAs Roji M John and Saneesh Kumar were booked in connection with the siege of Kalady police station
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Maharashtra: Maulana Shoaib Noori who converted a 20-year-old Hindu girl, forced her to marry rapist Sayam Qureshi, arrested from Indore

OpIndia Staff -
The Police earlier had arrested Sayam, Imran Sheikh, Chotu alias Kaleem, and Faiyyaz and were on a lookout for the Maulana. However, the Maulana was identified and arrested by the Police on July 16.
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Interviews

‘A sense of alienation looms in Bengal, need a strong Nationalist movement to counter it’: BJP leader Swapan Das Gupta on political violence, corruption,...

चंदन कुमार -
The cadre of Marxists and Trinamool is different, but both are similar with only one difference. Corruption during CPM’s regime was limited and it was the party that indulged in corruption. But in Trinamool's case, corruption is all-pervasive from the top leadership to the lower rungs.
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News Reports

Delhi: Salman stabbed to death by the family of his Muslim girlfriend in Jaffrabad

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Manzoor, Mohsin and his minor son are on the run since the gruesome murder.
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News Reports

Trailer of Ajmer 92 released, reflects a story of the serial gangrape of at least 250 girls, movie set to release on 21st July

OpIndia Staff -
Based on true events, Ajmer 92 tells the story of the grim plight of as many as 250 girls who were trapped, sexually exploited, and blackmailed for years by many influential men, including Congress leaders and the caretakers of Ajmer Dargah, in the city of Ajmer in Rajasthan in 1992.
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News Reports

‘An attempt to form parallel religious judicial system’: NIA Court sentences 3 PFI members to life term in TJ Joseph hand-chopping case

OpIndia Staff -
Three PFI members Sajil, Nassar and Najeeb, found guilty in a 2010 Professor TJ Joseph's hand-chopping case were given life sentences
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News Reports

Seema Haider got bail in 3 days while 23 Nigerians detained for living illegally in India are in jail for last 1.5 months: Know why

राहुल पाण्डेय -
Pakistani national Seema Haider was granted bail barely three days after she was arrested for entering India illegally to be with her lover Sachin
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IT Dept raids UP YouTuber Taslim Khan, who earns Rs 1 cr annually from videos

Anurag -
Tasleem Khan shares stock market tips and sells course that includes access to private discord group
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