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Delhi excise policy scam: BRS leader K Kavitha appears before ED for questioning

Shraddha Pandey -
Reportedly, Kavitha was questioned about the alleged destruction of a phone she used during the time the scam took place.
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World

While BBC sermonizes on media freedom, the state broadcaster asks Gary Lineker to step back from ‘Match Of The Day’ for criticizing the UK...

Dibakar Dutta -
On multiple occasions, BBC has attempted to tarnish India's image and cry foul over the supposed lack of press freedom in India.
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News Reports

Attacks on Hindu temples have no place in Australia: Says PM Anthony Albanese after PM Modi raised the issue with him

ANI -
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese assures action against attacks on Hindu temples in Australia after PM Modi raised the issue
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News Reports

Jharkhand: 17-year-old boy kills his girlfriend for talking to some other boy through Instagram, sent to remand home

OpIndia Staff -
Finding that his girlfriend was talking to someone else on Instagram, a 17-year-old killed her by hitting her with a iron rod in Jharkhand
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Entertainment

Selena Gomez expresses gratitude toward her best friend Francia Raisa for her kidney donation

ANI -
While appearing on the latest episode of Apple TV+'s documentary series, Selena Gomez, reflected on receiving a kidney transplant from Francia, in 2017.
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News Reports

Pakistan’s FM Bilawal Bhutto admits his country faces an ‘uphill task’ to try and get Kashmir into ‘centre’ of agenda at UN

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari admitted that India’s strong influence and diplomacy has made it difficult for Islamabad to place the Kashmir issue into the centre of the agenda of the United Nations.
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News Reports

Manish Sisodia staying in VVVIP ward in Tihar jail, says jailed conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar

OpIndia Staff -
Sukesh Chandrasekhar pointed out that a few sevadars and old inmates have been roped in to provide comfort for Manish Sisodia.
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News Reports

Delhi police recover ‘medicines’ from the farmhouse where late actor Satish Kaushik attended a Holi party

OpIndia Staff -
The investigating team recovered some ‘medicines’ from the farmhouse where Satish Kaushik was staying in Delhi
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News Reports

Bangladesh cricket team’s captain Shakib Al Hasan explodes in anger and repeatedly hits a fan in Chattogram, video goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
Bangladesh Test and T20I skipper Shakib Al Hasan lost his cool and beat up a fan at a promotional event in Chattogram
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News Reports

3, including a juvenile, apprehended from Delhi’s Paharganj for harassing a Japanese woman

OpIndia Staff -
Three people have been arrested in connection with the harassment of a Japanese tourist in the national capital.
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News Reports

Bihar Dy CM Tejashwi Yadav to not appear before CBI in ‘Land for jobs’ case as wife hospitalised after ED raids: Report

OpIndia Staff -
The summons was issued to Tejasvi Yadav after the ED on Friday raided 15 places of Lalu Yadav's close associates in Delhi, Mumbai, Noida, and Patna.
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News Reports

Thieves steal taps and geyser from the house of a judge in Ludhiana

OpIndia Staff -
Thieves stole taps and a geyser from the house of Additional Sessions Judge Ravdeep Hundal in Ludhiana when he was visiting Chandigarh
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News Reports

Investor Bill Ackman, who attacked Adani Group over Hindenburg report, now demands bailout from US govt for Silicon Valley Bank

Dibakar Dutta -
Bill Ackman had earlier conceded that his judgment was based on the cursory reading of the Hindenburg Research report and Adani's response.
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World

Its raining worms: Here is what we know about the bizarre viral video of worms from China

OpIndia Staff -
Several suggestions have started to appear online to help solve the mystery, but the Chinese authorities have not yet explained the cause of the bizarre phenomenon.
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Crime

Bihar police arrests man allegedly behind ‘fake’ videos of migrants being attacked in Tamil Nadu

OpIndia Staff -
According to the police, Manish Kashyap tweeted a video created by Rakesh Ranjan Kumar on March 8. He uploaded the video on the BNR News Honey YouTube channel.
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Crime

Chhattisgarh: Mohammed Samir and Shahid among 7 arrested for tearing Lord Shiva’s poster and burn it in Holi fire

OpIndia Staff -
Mohammed Samir and Shahid Khan were among 7 arrested for tearing and burning Lord Shiva’s posters.
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News Reports

Days after being ‘proud to be on Forbes best banks list’, Silicon Valley Bank shuts down

OpIndia Staff -
On March 10, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced the shutdown of the US-based Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and the seizure of its assets.
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Tech

Facebook-parent Meta to launch Twitter rival

ANI -
The rep said the company had no additional info on the prospective social network to share. News site Moneycontrol first reported on the potential Meta service, which is code-named "P92."
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News Reports

Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore diplomatic relations after China-brokered talks in Beijing, to reopen embassies

OpIndia Staff -
Iran and Saudi Arabia to resume diplomatic relations and re-open embassies within two months after talks in Beijing
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News Reports

The News Minute justifies Shabbir who set ablaze his friend for smearing him with colour, quietly updates its article after online outrage

OpIndia Staff -
The News Minute recently published an article, sympathising with perpetrator Shabbir, who tried to set ablaze his friend for colouring him on Holi.
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News Reports

From threatening to hurling stones and petrol: Five instances when Islamists displayed rabid hatred towards Hindus during this year’s Holi

OpIndia Staff -
In this report we have listed five instances of attacks on Hindus by rabid Islamists during this year's festival of Holi
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News Reports

Delhi youth Qasim shoots 16-year-old Hindu girl using a country-made pistol just because she was talking to a boy on the phone, arrested

OpIndia Staff -
A 16-year-old girl was shot by her 19-year-old neighbor Qasim in northeast Delhi's Nand Nagri district on Monday
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News Reports

‘Do Nikah with me or will shoot you dead’: Hindu girl receives death threat from Saqlain, victim’s mother appeals for justice to CM Yogi

OpIndia Staff -
The victim's mother has written a letter to CM Yogi Adityanath after her daughter received death threats from Saqlain.
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News Reports

Gautam Adani plans to sell stake in Ambuja cement for $450 mn to reduce debt: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Gautam Adani plans to divest shares of Ambuja Cement to raise roughly $450 mn and reduce debts on the group.
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News Reports

Mohammed Zubair, whose tweet led to death threats to Nupur Sharma and murder of many, is painted a victim by ‘journalist’ who steered anti-Modi...

OpIndia Staff -
This has further emboldened Mohammed Zubair to play his perpetual victim card and not take responsibility for putting the likes of Abhishek Singh in danger.
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News Reports

OYO founder Ritesh Agarwal’s father Ramesh Prasad Agarwal dies after falling from a high-rise building in Gurugram

ANI -
Hospitality chain OYO Rooms founder Ritesh Agarwal's father died after falling from a highrise building in Gurugram on Friday, 10 March
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News Reports

‘Kejriwal is a wazir…after Sosidia, he will be next’: Conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar fires fresh salvo against AAP

OpIndia Staff -
Sukesh Chandrasekhar alleged that Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal would be next to be arrested in the Delhi liquor scam.
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News Reports

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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

ANI -
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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