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Vote-bank politics influence investigations in cattle smuggling cases in Rajasthan, says VHP; talks of a witchhunt against Bajrang Dal in Bhiwani case

OpIndia Staff -
VHP has accused Rajasthan police of witch-hunt against Bajrang Dal in the Bhiwani case. The press statement contains remarks by VHP's central joint general secretary Dr. Surendra Jain and it is issued by VHP's spokesperson Vinod Bansal.
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News Reports

BMC invites bids for removal of illegal cycle track from Powai lake, 10-km track opposed by environmentalists was pet project of Aaditya Thackeray

OpIndia Staff -
In May, 2022, the Bombay High Court held that work on the cycling track around Powai Lake was illegal and directed the civic body to immediately remove all constructions carried out so far and restore the reclaimed portions.
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News Reports

Pi le pi le… or mere raja: Rajkot Police makes drunk baraatis dance, recreate ‘drinking games’, watch videos

OpIndia Staff -
Sale and consumption of alcohol is prohibited in Gujarat.
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News Reports

Congress CM in Himachal Pradesh boasts how he helped Adani-owned cement factories to resume operations, Rahul Gandhi silent

OpIndia Staff -
The 67-day standoff in Himachal Pradesh between Adani Group-owned cement plants and truck unions ended after the two sides agreed on new freight rates.
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News Reports

Delhi: Newborn child declared dead by Delhi govt-run hospital, handed over to family in a surgical glove box

OpIndia Staff -
The LNJP hospital denied the family's claims and stated that it was the case of an aborted foetus.
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News Reports

Sufi singers sing songs praising Allah at the Mahashivratri festival in Himachal Pradesh in the presence of CM Sukhu

OpIndia Staff -
A singer from Bilaspur, Rakhi Gautam, sang a number of Bollywood songs including "Bahon mein chale aao", "Ladka aankh maare", "Saat samundar paar" and "Ishq di gali vich no entry" at the Shivratri Festival.
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News Reports

Darul Uloom Deoband issues fatwa saying shaving beard is not allowed in Islam, students who trim or shave to be expelled

OpIndia Staff -
the notice was issued by Maulana Hussain Ahmad Haridwari, who oversees Darul Uloom's education division.
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News Reports

Delhi Jal Board’s Naresh Singh arrested in Water Bill Scam, accused of siphoning off Rs 20 crores

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi Jal Board's Naresh Singh allegedly received bribes from the directors of two accused companies, Arrum and Fresh Pay.
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News Reports

Son of Uddhav Thackeray’s party MLA attacks singer Sonu Nigam, injures two other associates

OpIndia Staff -
Uddhav Thackeray Sena MLA's son attacks Sonu Nigam for refusing selfie during a music festival.
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News Reports

George Soros linked organisation wanted Alt News’ Mohammed Zubair to win Nobel Peace Prize

OpIndia Staff -
Organisations associated with Alt News have further links to George Soros and his Open Society Foundations where he has directly or indirectly funded them and furthered anti-India narrative.
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WTF News

Hyderabad: Mohammad Zakeer calls off wedding after bride’s family gives used furniture as dowry

OpIndia Staff -
Mohammad Zakeer from Hyderabad called off his wedding, claiming that the bride's family was giving him secondhand furniture as dowry
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Crime

Bhiwani Double Murder Case: ‘Operation Loharu’ reveals Monu Manesar was nowhere close to the crime scene

OpIndia Staff -
In a sting operation, SHO Ram Naresh of Gopalgarh, Rajasthan has disclosed, that Monu Manesar's location was not found where police had discovered Junaid and Nasir's charred dead bodies in Bhiwani.
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News Reports

Karnataka: A female IPS officer shares private photos of a female IAS officer on social media

OpIndia Staff -
Karnataka's home minister Araga Jnanendra said, "We are not sitting quiet, action will be taken against them. They both are behaving in such a bad way - not even normal people speak on the streets like this."
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News Reports

Indigo flights from Mumbai to Delhi and Delhi to Deogarh receive hoax bomb threat calls: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Two separate Indigo flights received hoax bomb threat calls on Monday
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News Reports

USCIRF and George Soros: How the Commission peddled hysteria surrounding NRC, CAB, and religious freedom in India

OpIndia Staff -
Prior to the legislation on the Citizenship Amendment Bill, USCIRF appealed to the US government to impose sanctions on India.
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News Reports

Moldova: Protestors rally against the government over increased gas and power prices, seek Russian intervention

OpIndia Staff -
Moldova, strategically positioned on Ukraine's border and host to a pro-Russian breakaway area of Transnistria, is reliant on Russian gas.
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News Reports

22 of 49 wires were already corroded, welded suspenders too reason behind Morbi Bridge collapse, SIT reveals

OpIndia Staff -
The British era suspension bridge over Machhu river broke in Morbi on 30th October leading to deaths of 134 people.
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News Reports

Chennai: Man attempts self-immolation alleging his land was grabbed by DMK councillor

OpIndia Staff -
The victim stated that he had filed a complaint with the Chennai police and the collector about the land-grabbing incident, but when no action was taken, he resorted to the extreme measure
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu House of Horrors: Madras HC seeks ‘Action Taken Report’ from police, allegations of sexual assault, organ trafficking had emerged from shelter home

OpIndia Staff -
With the promise of three meals per day and a secure place to stay, the Anbu Jyoti shelter home attracted homeless people. Many were allegedly sedated and tonsured later to give the impression that they had mental health issues.
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News Reports

Nikki Yadav Murder Case: Initial plan was to portray the murder as road accident, prime accused Sahil tells Delhi police

OpIndia Staff -
Sahil Gehlot told Delhi police that he had planned to show the murder as a road accident but was unsuccessful.
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Opinions

Gaurakshaks: How cow theft and cow vigilantism is more of law and order problem, not a communal one

Anurag -
India would not need Gau Rakshaks if people become empathetic towards cow stealing and smuggling and their illegal slaughter and call out the crime for what it is - instead of building false narratives for their international audience to play up the 'Muslims under attack' rhetoric.
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News Reports

Kamal Nath will lead Congress in the 2023 MP elections, says Digvijaya Singh. Read about his links with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots

OpIndia Staff -
If Digvijaya Singh is to be believed, Kamal Nath will be the face of Congress party in this year's Madhya Pradesh assembly elections.
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News Reports

Clashes erupt after leftists vandalize Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s portrait in JNU, accuse ABVP of attacking students

OpIndia Staff -
Clashes erupted between 2 student groups at JNU after leftist students vandalized Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s portrait
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh Congress workers clash and trade insults at each other while Digvijaya Singh tries to pacify them: Watch

OpIndia Staff -
Madhya Pradesh Congress workers got into fistfights and exchanged insults in front of senior leader Digvijaya Singh
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Opinions

Aryan Invasion Theory: Let us revive the debate again

Guest Author -
Until the millennium year 2000, there had been many voices doubting or plainly rejecting the Aryan Invasion Theory, and contributing many little arguments from linguistics or archaeology, all indirect evidence, but a clear alternative was lacking.
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World

Pakistan chose extremist Islam over economic stability: Foreign Policy report

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Saudi and U.S. petrodollars that helped sustain Pakistan's jihadi structure are no longer on the table. Global institutions are mulling sanctions over Pakistan's human rights abuses, especially its blasphemy laws.
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Crime

Chhattisgarh: Two police personnel killed in Naxal attack in Rajnandgaon, search operation underway

OpIndia Staff -
The official from Chhattisgarh stated that one of the personnel passed away immediately and the other succumbed to injuries while being rushed to a nearby hospital.
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News Reports

Congress-Soros saga continues as Rahul Gandhi to give lecture at Cambridge, where Soros is a donor, to hold closed-door meetings about India-China relations

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress party had signed an MoU in 2008 with the Communist Party of China in Beijing to 'exchange' high-level information.
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Cricket

As India retains KL Rahul as opener for next two Tests against Australia, Venkatesh Prasad once again highlights his poor Test record

ANI -
"There is a view that KL Rahul has an outstanding overseas Test record. But stats speak otherwise. He has a test avg of 30 overseas in 56 inning", Prasad tweeted.
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News Reports

Guwahati: Woman kills husband and mother-in-law, chops them and stores in fridge, later dumps parts in mountains

OpIndia Staff -
The woman had killed her husband in August and with help of her lover chopped off his body and stored them in fridge. Over next few months, the body parts were dispersed off in mountains.
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News Reports

Slogans of ‘Jai Bhavani, Jai Shivaji’ echo in the UK as Indian students celebrate Shiv Jayanti at Parliament Square in London

OpIndia Staff -
Several students from Queen Mary University, Soyas University, and the London School of Economics gathered at London City Parliament Square and remembered the founder of Hindavi Swarajya, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj on Shiv Jayanti.
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News Reports

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi claims stones pelted at his house in Delhi, here is what we know

OpIndia Staff -
Asaduddin Owaisi has stated that unidentified individuals threw stones at his Delhi residence, located  in the Ashoka Road area, between 5:30 to 6 pm.
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World

Pakistan: Lecturer asks students to write an essay on ‘Is it ok for brother-sister to have sex’, university fires him after uproar on social...

OpIndia Staff -
COMSATS Univesity in Islamabad, Pakistan has come under fire after one of its faculty members encouraged students to write an essay on incestuous relationships
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News Reports

Lahore University students celebrate ‘Bollywood Day’, get slammed by Pakistanis for showing love for India

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistani students celebrate Bollywood Day, get slammed by fellow country men for showing love for India.
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News Reports

Haryana police exhumes body of stillborn child who died in Bhiwani case after Rajasthan police deny kicking nine-month pregnant woman

OpIndia Staff -
While raiding Shrikant’s room, the Rajasthan police allegedly kicked his pregnant wife, which ultimately resulted in the death of the child inside the womb.
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News Reports

Abbas Ansari was using wife’s phone for illegal activities, jail authorities were bribed with expensive cars: UP Police investigates Nikhat’s involvement

OpIndia Staff -
The Police on February 10 conducted a surprise investigation on the jail premises and found Bano inside a room next to the jail superintendent’s office. She was there to meet Ansari without completing a visitor’s formalities. The Police then lodged an FIR against Abbas Ansari, Bano, and her driver Niyaz.
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News Reports

Coal levy scam: ED raids multiple locations linked to Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh

ANI -
The investigation relates to "a massive scam in which illegal levy of Rs 25 was being extorted for every tonne of coal transported in Chhattisgarh by a cartel involving senior bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians and middlemen", the agency has alleged.
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News Reports

Amit Shah mocks Uddhav Thackeray for begging Sharad Pawar for CM post

OpIndia Staff -
Amit Shah made the remarks while addressing a 'Vijay Sankalp rally' in Kolhapur city of Maharashtra. He accused Thackeray of abandoning his ideologies post the 2019 elections in the hopes of becoming the Maharashtra Chief Minister.
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News Reports

Meta announces subscription system like Twitter for Facebook and Instagram, here is how much it will cost

OpIndia Staff -
As of now, 'Meta Verified' will be available only in Australia and New Zealand for Facebook and Instagram users.
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News Reports

“Mind your own business”: Israeli minister tells U.S. ambassador after he advised Israel to ‘pump the brakes’ on judicial reforms

OpIndia Staff -
Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli said that U.S. Ambassador Tom Nides should mind his own business and not meddle in the internal affairs of Israel.
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News Reports

Christian couple’s house of horror: 142 people rescued from Anbu Jothi Ashram. Rape, torture, monkey attacks, and many more tales of horror

OpIndia Staff -
Anbu Jothi Ashram, a rehabilitation facility in Kundalapuliyur in Villupuram, had been operating for almost two decades without registration or license.
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News Reports

Patna: Two dead and four injured after a gang fires over 50 rounds following a parking dispute, angry mob burn house of the accused

OpIndia Staff -
Two people were killed and several others were injured when a group of people opened fire on others in a village on the outskirts of Patna
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News Reports

SDM ordered Shivling to be destroyed, SHO bowed down to Shivling first and then… New video surfaces in Kanpur Dehat deaths case

OpIndia Staff -
Another person, who claimed to be SDM, is seen in the same video instructing the SHO to demolish the Shivling along with the platform
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News Reports

Mehsana: Former Sarpanch Karim Yadav showers cash including Rs 500 notes on the street from his terrace at his nephew’s wedding

OpIndia Staff -
During his nephew's wedding procession, Karim Yadav showered Rs 500 notes from the terrace of his house on the street below
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News Reports

Tandoor murder case: When a Congress leader killed his wife, stuffed her body in a tandoor and set it on fire

Shraddha Pandey -
In July 1995, Congress leader Sushil Sharma killed his wife Naina Sahni and burned the body in the tandoor of a restaurant
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Cricket

No changes in Test squad for last two Tests, Rohit Sharma to miss 1st ODI- BCCI announces teams for the remainder of the home...

ANI -
Rohit Sharma will be unavailable for the first ODI due to family commitments and Hardik Pandya will lead the side in the first ODI against Australia.
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News Reports

Kulche Chole? Rahul Dravid reveals delivery of which food made Virat Kohli happy and excited

OpIndia Staff -
Virat Kohli had professed his love for Chole Bhature during a 2017 interview with Gaurav Kapoor of 'Oaktree Sports' Youtube channel.
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Social Media

Meet Brennan Baby, the Ugandan TikTok and Instagram influencer who wears blue lipstick and runs away crying in slow motion

Anurag -
Blue-lipstick wearing influencer Brennan Baby from Uganda runs in slow-motion in his videos portraying girl cheated by her boyfriend
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News Reports

A month after becoming a Buddhist monk, Muay Thai world champion Rodtang Jitmuangnon converts to Islam to marry Muslim girlfriend

OpIndia Staff -
Muay Thai world champion Rodtang Jitmuangnon confirmed on Instagram that he converted to Islam to marry his girlfriend and fellow fighter Aida Looksaikongdin
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Cricket

We are not looking into individuals’ performances: Rohit Sharma backs struggling opener KL Rahul

ANI -
After KL Rahul's horrid run in international cricket continued as the batter failed to fire with his willow, India captain Rohit Sharma defended the opener
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