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Congress leader Jagdish Tytler submits voice sample in connection with the Pul Bangash Gurudwara fire during 1984 anti-Sikh riots: Details

OpIndia Staff -
CBI summoned former Congress MP Jagdish Tytler to question him in a case related to a fire that took place at Delhi’s Pul Bangash Gurudwara during the 1984 Sikh riots
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News Reports

Pakistan fumes over India’s decision to host G20 meeting in Jammu and Kashmir, calls attempt disconcerting

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan has also informed other Group-20 (G20) members of its reluctance about India hosting a tourism conference in Srinagar. 
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Opinions

Ram Navami violence is not sporadic: If one read RC Majumdar, one would know that history, leading up to 1947, is being repeated right...

Nupur J Sharma -
Every year, Hindus come under attack when they take their religious processions out and this year was no different.
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News Reports

Documents show Amul expanded in Karnataka under Congress rule even as former CM Siddaramaiah says Modi is ‘coming to loot the state’ via Gujarat’s...

OpIndia Staff -
In his haste to bring down BJP, Congress leader Siddaramaiah has probably forgotten that Amul had already expanded its footprints in the state when he was the CM in 2017.
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News Reports

Pro-Khalistanis using Twitter bots to promote violence, anti-India propaganda, says NCRI research

OpIndia Staff -
Notably, Twitter is working extensively to cut off bots promoting violence, but the platform has remained a remarkable source for separatists and propagandists to spread misinformation and call for action in the real world.
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News Reports

Mumbai Police detains ‘Rocky Bhai’ who threatened to kill Salman Khan on April 30

OpIndia Staff -
The Mumbai Police identified the caller who threatened Salman Khan and took him into custody.
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News Reports

‘Those responsible for Bihar Sharif violence are only doing probe, want to defame Hindus’: Questions raised on Bihar Police’s claims

अजीत झा -
Bihar Police says that the mastermind of the violence is the coordinator of Bajrang Dal. Questioning this claim, VHP Kameshwar Chaupal says that he had apprehensions that Hindus would be implicated, considering the government had told its agenda by blaming Hindu organizations even before investigation.
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News Reports

Supreme Court dismisses DMK government’s appeal against the Madras HC judgement, permits RSS street marches in Tamil Nadu

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Senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani, who was representing the RSS, stated that without a very good cause, the freedom to assemble peacefully without weapons under Article 19(1)(b) cannot be restricted.
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News Reports

‘I was morally obligated to apologise after the author took down his article’: Vivek Agnihotri explains why he tendered an apology to Delhi HC

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Vivek Agnihotri had reposted an article by Dristhikone on Gautam Navlakha who was arrested on charges of threatening integrity and sovereignty of India.
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Crime

Madhya Pradesh: Aishwarya, who was forced to become Aaysha by Irshad, returns home after seven years, files complaint

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Irshad posed as Shakti to lure Aishwarya into a relationship and later changed her name to Aaysha. The Victim returned home after seven years
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News Reports

‘Not possible to take stones to rooftops in 10-15 mins’: Calcutta HC observes that Ram Navami violence in West Bengal was prima facie ‘pre-planned’

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In a scathing observation, Calcutta HC noted that violence during religious festival has become a commonplace affair in Bengal
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News Reports

Muslim groups in the UK are upset because Suella Braverman spoke about Pakistani grooming gangs without mincing words: details

OpIndia Staff -
Home Secretary Suella Braverman also stated that these crimes weren't tackled in Labour-run areas for fear of being branded as racist.
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News Reports

Congress support to BBC documentary targeting PM Narendra Modi was the straw that broke the camel’s back: Anil Antony on leaving the party

OpIndia Staff -
Anil Antony said that he is feeling quite relieved now following his exit from the grand old party and leaving the negativity behind.
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News Reports

Bangladesh: 5-year-old Hindu girl lured with chocolates and raped by one Nuru Islam, accused absconding

OpIndia Staff -
The accused Nuru Islam stays in the neighborhood of the victim. He happened to note that the girl was alone at her home and that her parents were out on their respective jobs.
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News Reports

Washington DC: FM Nirmala Sitharaman busts fake claims by Western media over ‘violence on Muslims’, asks journalists to come and see reality

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Citing widespread reportage on Opposition MPs losing their status and Muslim minorities being subjected to violence, Adam Posen questioned if these 'perceptions' had any impact on India's capital flows.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Sachin Pilot to go ahead with his fast against corruption despite appeals from Congres leaders

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The demonstration by Sachin Pilot will commence from 11:00 am onwards on Tuesday (April 11) at Shaheed Smarak in Jaipur.
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News Reports

Caste discrimination case against Indian origin CISCO engineers in USA dismissed after no evidence was found: details

OpIndia Staff -
CRD could not find any evidence against the two Cisco Systems engineers that constituted harassment.
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News Reports

Meet Jas Oberoi, Canada-based columnist, who used to write for NewsLaundry, known for pushing anti-India, anti-Hindu, pro-Khalistani propaganda

Amit Kelkar -
Jas Oberoi is known for spreading lies and propaganda. Interestingly, he keeps his professional and activism life seperate
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News Reports

Reimposed ‘Jizya’ tax, forced Hindus to recite Quran verses: Revisiting Mughal tyrant Aurangzeb’s deep-seated hate for Hindus

अनुपम कुमार सिंह -
The Hindus, who had somehow accustomed themselves to living with the Mughals during their early rule, were in for a rude shock when the dominion passed to Aurangzeb, a fanatic of Islam.
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Culture and History

Editor of fraud-accused National Herald claims ‘Shivaji’s army’ raped women: The lies, perversion of history, the Bengal conquest and what we know

Gopal Tiwari -
It is because of the decisive defeat of and subsequent heavy ransom imposed on the Mughal governor of Bengal that liberals often paint the revenge Maratha forces took for 22 commanders' murders in Bengal as atrocities and try to insinuate that even Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's army committed rapes because he too hailed from the Bhosale clan.
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News Reports

India and the US discussed the Chinese spy balloons: Top US Air Force commander

ANI -
Earlier this year, the US had shot down a Chinese spy balloon that had drifted across America.
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Politics

Election Commission withdraws National Party status from TMC, NCP and CPI, AAP gets the coveted tag

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party and the Communist Party of India (CPI) have been reassigned the status of a regional party
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World

Pakistan: Deadly blast hits a police van in Quetta; 4 dead and several others injured

OpIndia Staff -
Quetta has been plagued by violence and attacks in recent years, with rebel militant groups often targeting security forces and law enforcement personnel. However, as of now, no group has claimed responsibility for the latest blast
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News Reports

DK Shivakumar backs MK Kharge for Karnataka CM post amid fierce tussle with former CM Siddaramaiah

OpIndia Staff -
DK Shivakumar proposed AICC chief MK Kharge as the face of Karnataka CM ahead of state assembly polls.
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News Reports

Modi govt transformed Northeast from ‘disturbed region’ to area contributing to natiom’s progress: Amit Shah in Arunachal Pradesh

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Amit Shah said the disputes and extremism in the northeast are at a diminishing stage and there is peace and development in the region.
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News Reports

Truth is in nobody’s interest: New York Times, the world’s leading newspaper, wants people to forget about sabotage of the Nord gas pipeline

Dibakar Dutta -
Seymour Hersh lambasted the New York Times for parroting the CIA's version of the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage.
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News Reports

Controversy erupts as Ukrainian Church bans prayers in Russian Language, Russian Orthodox monks face eviction from Lavra

OpIndia Staff -
Ukraine has a sizable population of Russian speakers, particularly in the eastern regions, and the ban may be viewed as discriminatory towards this minority.
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News Reports

‘System has fractured spirit of woman power’: VHP condemns Gujarat Police for arresting Kajal Hindustani, wants FIR quashed

OpIndia Staff -
Vishwa Hindu Parishad has condemned the arbitrary action taken by Gujarat police against Hindu activist Kajal Hindustani and demanded her immediate release
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News Reports

Vivek Agnihotri gets relief from Delhi HC in 2018 contempt case after he appears in person, Anand Ranganathan agrees to appear in next hearing

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi High Court has discharged Vivek Agnihotri in a 2018 Contempt-of-Court case after he appeared in person and reiterated his remorse over his remark.
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News Reports

‘Masked mob coming out of Iftar party targeted temple’: VHP over clashes in Jamshedpur, accuses the administration of inaction against accused

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The VHP has alleged that masked mob out of Iftar party targeted the temple and indulged in acts of arson and stone pelting.
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Editor's picks

While AAP launches ‘Degree dikhao’ campaign, election commission website shows 29 AAP MLAs in Delhi do not have a degree, 9 not even 12th...

OpIndia Staff -
As AAP started a "Degree Dikhao" campaign, its 29 MLAs out of the 62 MLAs in Delhi do not have a degree
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News Reports

‘Mentally disabled, goon, terrorist’: Youtuber hurls insults at Hindu seer Swami Rambhadracharya, Netizens call for police action

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The video, wherein the YouTube channel owner is seen using extremely derogatory, abusive words against the Hindu seer, was released on April 8 and has garnered 20 thousand views since then.
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News Reports

Elon Musk follows Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Twitter, follows only 194 accounts globally

OpIndia Staff -
Currently, Elon Musk follows only 195 accounts on the micro-blogging platform.
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News Reports

While Muslims could earn FIR against Kajal Hindustani after protests, the same protest got FIR against hundreds of them too. Details

OpIndia Staff -
Police official describes eye witness account of the violence unleashed by Muslim mob on 31st March 2023 as part of preplanned conspiracy following Kajal Hindustani's speech in Una on Ram Navami
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News Reports

Fugitive pro-Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh’s key aide Papalpreet Singh arrested from Hoshiarpur

OpIndia Staff -
Papalpreet Singh, the key aide of fugitive pro-Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh, was nabbed today (April 10) from Hoshiarpur.
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News Reports

Jamshedpur: Clashes erupt after a piece of meat was allegedly found hanging with a Ram Navami flag, police force deployed

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Hindu organisations demanded the arrest of the accused who allegedly desecrated a Ram Navami flag in Jamshedpur.
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News Reports

‘Brahman are a lineage of Ibrahim Aliahisalam’: Singer Lucky Ali makes a bizarre claim, deletes Facebook post following outrage

OpIndia Staff -
Opindia was able to find a cached version of the Facebook post on Google.
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News Reports

‘Mendacious, deliberate attempt to paint the group in worst possible light’: Adani Group asks FT to take down its misleading March 22 article

OpIndia Staff -
The Adani Group accused the Financial Times of being selective in using publicly available facts to attack the group.
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News Reports

Haryana: Communal tension breaks out in Sonipat, 9 people injured

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As per reports, a group of 15-20 men from one community assaulted people from another community with bamboo sticks.
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News Reports

Gaurav Sawant vs Rajdeep Sardesai: When Sardesai praised the Mughals, and Sawant gave a befitting response

Anurag -
Rajdeep Sardesai got a befitting reply from his collegue Gaurav Sawant for praising Mughals.
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News Reports

London bound Air India flight returns to Delhi after unruly passenger gets into mid-air fight with cabin crew

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The flight, which took off for Heathrow Airport (London) at around 6:30 am on Monday returned to Delhi airport at around 10 am after the crew reported to pilots about the physical altercation mid-flight. 
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News Reports

Indian government denies media reports that it halted trade talks with UK over Khalistani attacks on Indian High Commission in London

Amit Kelkar -
However, India has now denied these reports and said that they have not halted the trade talks.
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News Reports

Dalai Lama apologises after his controversial video drew condemnation, says the boy had asked for a hug

OpIndia Staff -
Tibetan spiritual guru The Dalai Lama has extended an apology after a recent video of him drew widespread condemnation on social media.
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News Reports

Delhi: Pregnant woman shot dead by neighbour for objecting to loud music, two arrested

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According to the police, the woman was eight months pregnant and also suffered a miscarriage after the incident. 
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News Reports

As Gujarat Police arrests Kajal Hindustani, here is how she ‘hurt the sentiments’ of the Muslim community according to the FIR

OpIndia Staff -
OpIndia has accessed the FIR filed by the Gujarat police against Kajal Hindustani, on the basis of which she has been arrested
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News Reports

Islamists share fake letter attributed to RSS, claim Hindu outfit wants to ‘entrap’ Muslim women

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AIMIM supporter Shahavaj Anjum Siddiquee was the reportedly the first to post the screenshots of the fake letter, attributed to the RSS.
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News Reports

‘Suck my tongue’: Dalai Lama’s video kissing a little boy on lips sparks controversy

OpIndia Staff -
A controversy erupted after Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama was seen in a video asking a boy to "suck his tongue".
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Media

Twitter labels British broadcaster BBC as ‘government funded’

ANI -
Twitter defines state-affiliated media outlets as outlets "where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution." 
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News Reports

“Ram Navami riots pre-planned, Police allowed violence in Hooghly,” says former Justice Narasimha Reddy

OpIndia Staff -
While addressing the media, former Justice Narasimha Reddy said, "We are not allowed to visit violence-hit areas. Even in areas where they have not implemented Section 144, we are not allowed to go."
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News Reports

Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis shares the aerial view of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir in Ayodhya: Watch

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Notably, Union Home Minister Amit Shah had announced that the Ram Mandir being constructed in Ayodhya will be ready by 1st January 2024.
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