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Delhi liquor policy case: Manish Sisodia remanded to ED custody till March 17

OpIndia Staff -
Former Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia was arrested by the CBI in February 2023 in connection with the liquor policy scam.
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News Reports

‘Trying to kill me’: Says BJP’s Kirodi Lal Meena after Rajasthan police detain him and Pulwama martyrs’ wives for protests seeking promised compensation

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The widows of the three slain soldiers killed in the Pulwama terror attack were sitting in protest outside Congress MLA Sachin Pilot's residence when the Rajasthan police detained them
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News Reports

Congress found its Renuka Chowdhury replacement to carry her mantle forward: 5 instances when Supriya Shrinate was vile, uncouth in her conduct

Dibakar Dutta -
The Congress party is now endowed with several abusive spokespersons but Supriya Shrinate ranks at the top of the list.
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News Reports

North East India: Actual Bharat Jodo taking place after the fall of the ‘Bharat Jodo Party’ in the region

Sachin R -
While “liberal” parties ruled North East for decades, the states were taken for granted, even ignored
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News Reports

India’s first H3N2 Influenza deaths reported from Karnataka and Haryana, Union Health Ministry says cases to decline by March-end

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The elderly and those with underlying health conditions such as Hypertension and Diabetes need to be extra cautious
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News Reports

Academy refuses to let Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky speak at the Oscars yet again

OpIndia Staff -
While Zelenskyy appeared via video-link at Cannes, Venice film festival and the Grammy Award, he has been refused permission to speak at the Oscars
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News Reports

Bulldozer Mama in MP: Shivraj govt giving the JCB treatment to rapists, illegal structures get demolished

OpIndia Staff -
Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, has begun bulldozing the homes of murderers and rapists, taking a page from UP CM Yogi Adityanath's workbook.
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News Reports

Land for jobs scam: ED conducts raids at Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav’s residence in Delhi

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Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted raids at Delhi residence of Tejashwi Yadav in connection with the land for jobs scam.
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News Reports

Saudi Arabia imposes strict restrictions during Ramzan month: Loudspeakers prohibited, worshippers ordered to do Iftar inside mosques and more

OpIndia Staff -
According to the new rules imams and muazzins in Saudi Arabia are ordered to keep the prayers short during the month of Ramzan.
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News Reports

UK: Riaz and Hassan convicted for killing a Muslim man outside a Hindu temple

OpIndia Staff -
The duo stabbed the victim Mohammed Rafaqit Kayani on August 30 last year in the car park outside a Hindu temple in Keel Drive in Slough.
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News Reports

Viral video shows armed policemen watching as 2 rival groups engage in a gunfight, Patna Police says 22 arrested in the Jethuli Ghat shootout...

OpIndia Staff -
A gunfight had ensued from an altercation between two rival factions at Jethuli village on the outskirts of Patna, Bihar on February 19 and 20, 2023.
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News Reports

‘We don’t need to learn the grammar of democracy from agenda-driven media’; Here is what Minister Anurag Thakur said about anti-India op-ed in NYT

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Anurag Thakur tweeted, "New York Times had long back dropped all pretensions of neutrality while publishing anything about India."
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News Reports

PM Narendra Modi raises the issue of attacks on Hindu temples by Khalistani elements with the Australian PM, at least 5 attacks were reported...

OpIndia Staff -
PM Narendra Modi said that he has raised the issue of attacks on Hindu temples in Australia with Australian PM Anthony Albanese
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News Reports

Usual suspects share old videos to attack Holi and malign Hinduism: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Old videos are shared by the likes of Jas Oberoi, Vinod Kapri, to attack Holi and induce guilt among Hindus over stray incidents.
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News Reports

Union home ministry announces 10% reservation, exemption from physical test for ex-Agniveers in BSF

OpIndia Staff -
The govt has announced 10%reservation, relaxation of upper age limit and exemption from Physical Efficiency test for ex-Agniveers in BSF
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News Reports

Kerala Muslim couple, who remarried under Special Marriage Act, faces threats, fatwa issued calling it ‘drama’ to ‘mock religious personal law’: Details

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After a 29-year-old Muslim couple got remarried under the Special Marriage Act to ensure that their property and assets would transfer to their three daughters, the Kerala police intensified surveillance around their house
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World

US: Sikh man, Rajvir Gill, arrested on suspicion of hiring assassins and plotting to burn down Gurudwaras in Bakersfield

OpIndia Staff -
Rajvir Gill was arrested on the suspicion of hiring a hit squad and planning to set ablaze Gurudwaras in Bakersfield.
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News Reports

‘Why no action against those openly calling for violence against Hindi-speakers’: DMK’s poll strategist Prashant Kishor asks TN govt

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In the video, it is stated by Seeman that "Hindi-speaking people will hastily pack their stuff and flee from this place. I don't know how many I will beat. They will pack their belongings within a week."
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News Reports

NYT publishes op-ed claiming ‘Modi’s assault on press freedom’ by Anuradha Bhasin, who wanted to keep govt house allotted to her father even after...

OpIndia Staff -
In the article titled 'Modi's final assault on India's Press Freedom has begun' on Kashmir Times, Anuradha Bhasin launched an attack on the Modi govt
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News Reports

‘Congress was Hindu party, Vande Mataram provoked hatred against Muslims’: Pakistani school textbooks teaching falsehood to students to justify partition

OpIndia Staff -
In addition, the book depicts Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as a Hindu leader who neglected Muslims. The book claims that Gandhi and his supporters were pro-Hindu.
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News Reports

Democrats try to force Matt Taibbi of ‘Twitter Files’ fame to reveal his sources, journalist stands his ground: Watch

OpIndia Staff -
The ‘Twitter Files’ (as it is now called) story was initially broken by independent journalist Matt Taibbi.
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News Reports

Pakistan: 37 cases filed against Imran Khan across the country, charges include sedition, blasphemy and terrorism

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According to the report, a total of 21 FIRs are registered against the former prime minister out of which 11 were registered in a single day on May 25, 2022 while eight were registered on May 26. The remaining three FIRs were registered on August 8, reported The News International.
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News Reports

Jammu: Johar Mehmood Ganai stabs Dr Sumedha Sharma to death with a butcher’s knife on Holi, then posts on Facebook about committing suicide

OpIndia Staff -
Dr Sumedha was murdered by Johar Ganai when she arrived at his house in Pamposh Colony. The duo were in a relationship from their college days.
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News Reports

Pakistani journalist begs USA to make India start a dialogue with Pakistan, gets snubbed

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Ned Price said, "It is not for the United States to determine the modalities or the way in which India and Pakistan engage one another. "
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News Reports

Germany: shooting inside a church of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Hamburg, several dead

OpIndia Staff -
We heard gunfire, a witness informed reporters. He claimed that there was 12 continuous gunfire. "Then we saw how people were taken away in black bags,” the witness reportedly said.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: illegal house built on govt land by accused in Damoh gang rape case bulldozed by women police officers

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Earlier, the houses of the accused in Rewa gangrape and Shahdol gangrape cases were also demolished by govt.
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News Reports

‘Misadventure-orchestration by an MP outside the country which is ill-premised, unwholesome and motivated’: VP Jagdeep Dhankhar hits out at Rahul Gandhi

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Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar hits out at Rahul Gandhi for his comments on India during his UK visit
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News Reports

Kerala gold smuggling case: Swapna Suresh alleges she was issued death threats, offered Rs 30 crore, to keep CM Pinarayi Vijayan’s name out of...

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Swapna Suresh said that she was offered Rs 30 crore, asking her to leave Kerala and not name CM CM Pinarayi Vijayan in the gold smuggling case
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Two cops booked, sent to police HQ, for assaulting a Bajrang Dal member without any reason, trying to file false cases

Siddhi Somani -
Two cops booked., sent to police headquarters for assault on a Bajrang Dal leader in Maharashtra
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News Reports

India’s digital payments market will grow to USD 10 trillion by 2026: Report by Boston Consulting Group and PhonePe

ANI -
A report by Boston Consulting Group and PhonePe says that India's digital payment market will rise over 3 times in 3 years to reach $10 trillion in 2026
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Youth scales the wall to sneak into girls hostel, tried to molest a girl by holding her at knifepoint, video goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, the youth entered the girls' hostel of Baba Jaswant Singh Dental College in Ludhiana, Punjab in the wee hours of Thursday
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Opinions

Why are Biharis condemned to be migrant workers? how the Congress-Lalu-Nitish rule for decades killed industries in Bihar and choked job creation

अजीत झा -
The way out to stop forced migration from Bihar is not just big industries, government jobs, special status or central government packages. It can be stopped only by re-establishing industries based on each area's capabilities.
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News Reports

‘Rs 2 troll, absolute disgrace’: Congress leaders abuse Kiren Rijiju for his ‘Indians know that Rahul Gandhi is Pappu’ comment

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Congress IT cell chief Supriya Shrinate called Kiren Rijiju a Rs 2 troll, Jairam Ramesh called him absolute grace over his Pappu comment for Rahul Gandhi
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World

Georgia: Government withdraws the bill to stop foreign intervention in the country after opposition-led violent protests

OpIndia Staff -
The ruling Dream party said in a statement that it would "unconditionally withdraw the bill we supported, without any reservations"
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News Reports

AAP’s Sanjay Singh repeats blatant lies over Mundra Port drug seize, while objecting to humanitarian aid sent to Afghanistan

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AAP MLA Sanjay Singh alleges that no action has been taken in Mundra port drug seizure case, despite multiple arrests and charge sheets by the NIA
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Amidst supply chain disruptions Honda announces plant shutdown in Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
It is notable that several companies in various sectors have stopped production in a cash-strapped Pakistan as they ran out of raw materials or foreign exchange and in some cases both.
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WHO sacks director of Western Pacific over complaints of racial discrimination

OpIndia Staff -
Dr. Takeshi Kasai, WHO director of West Pacific region headquartered in Manila, fired after allegations of racial misconduct
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Social Media Fact-Check

Prashant Bhushan shares AI-generated fake video of Bill Gates as proof that the Microsoft founder promoted untested vaccines

OpIndia Staff -
When Bill Gates said he read about it and talked to professionals, she said it was becoming more evident that the medication he was promoting and made billions from, caused countless injuries, deaths, and side effects.
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News Reports

Rajasthan Minister’s son slams Rahul Gandhi for his comments against India, says ‘maybe he considers Italy as his homeland’

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Singh called Gandhi anti-national and said, "Who badmouths ones own country on international platform. Its as anti-national as it can get. He is anti-national. This is ridiculous."
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Suspected spy pigeon with camera and microchip tied on legs caught by fishermen in Odisha, handed over to police

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The 'spy pigeon' with a camera and a microchip, probably a GPS device, was caught when it sat on a trawler near
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B.Ed student making video of a gunfight between two groups shot dead in Bihar’s Bhagalpur, video goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
Youth making video of two groups fighting with guns from terrace of his house shot dead after he was hit by a stray bullet
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News Reports

NCW takes cognisance after video of Rajasthan police dragging and manhandling widows of 2019 Pulwama attack martyrs goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
NCW took cognisance of the video that went viral on March 4, showing Rajasthan cops manhandling and dragging the widows of 2019 Pulwama attack martyrs.
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Brahmapuram waste plant fire turns Kochi into a ‘gas chamber’, HC lambasts Kerala govt: here is all you need to know

Shraddha Pandey -
The bench noted that there are a large number of water bodies in the state which have been converted into dump sites. 
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Threatened by ex-girlfriend, man uses Bengaluru traffic to run away from his newlywed bride

OpIndia Staff -
The couple was stuck in a traffic jam the next day of the wedding after visiting a Church. The man, who was sitting in the front seat, ran away while the car was stuck in a jam
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Madarsa cleric Tufail Khan converts Chandra Shekhar luring him with Govt job, latter reverts to Hinduism after realising he was duped

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Madarsa cleric named Tufail Khan deceived a Hindu man named Chandra Shekhar Yadav into converting to Islam by promising to secure him a government job. Tufail also promised a house in Delhi and told Chandra Shekhar that he would marry him to his sister-in-law if he converted.
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Assam creates World Record with almost 43 lakh handwritten essays on Lachin Borphukan, certificate handed over to CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

OpIndia Staff -
A total of 42,94,350 handwritten essays on Lachit Borphukan were submitted, which is the largest number of handwritten notes ever submitted on an occasion, according to the Guinness World Records
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ED raids locations linked to separatist leader Qazi Yasir over his links to scam involving allotment of MBBS seats in Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
Enforcement Directorate raided multiple locations, including the house of separatist leader Qazi Yasir and Jammu & Kashmir Salvation Movement chairman Zaffar Bhat.
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From hawala network to radical literature: Here is what has been found during raids on banned terror outfit PFI

Siddhi Somani -
NIA has shattered a multi-state hawala network financing the operations of the banned organization PFI
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‘Locked inside hostel premises, asked to call our guardians’: Female students of Delhi University protest against ‘curbs’ on movement during Holi

OpIndia Staff -
The female students of Delhi University Rajiv Gandhi Hostel raised slogans and protested against the curbs that barred them from going out on account of Holi
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So typical: Pakistani propaganda handles celebrate Women’s Day by glorifying female terrorists locked in Indian jails

OpIndia Staff -
Since terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir is funded by Pakistan, the names read like a Pakistani version of 'Best Employee' award on Women's Day.
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