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According to the reports, the victim's youth was allegedly involved in a theft case he illegally entered a house in the Krishnapur area under the Lala police station in the Hailakandi district.

News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Man gives triple talaq to his wife, assaults and threatens her with a pistol to perform nikah halala with his father

OpIndia Staff - 8 February, 2023

Muslim man gives triple talaq to his wife, then threatens her with a pistol to have sex with his father in the name of nikah halala

News Reports

TMC MP Mahua Moitra defends her ‘hara*i’ comment, says criticising her behaviour is ‘patriarchy’

OpIndia Staff - 8 February, 2023

"BJP is saying how can I use such a word being woman, do I need to be a man to be able to give it back as good as it gets? So there's patriarchy," Mahua said.

News Reports

14-year-old kept as a maid, tortured with hot tongs, cut with sharp instruments, Gurugram couple arrested

Anurag - 8 February, 2023

Premiliary investigation revealed that the child could not sleep the whole night. She was not given food and was forced to eat leftovers from the dustbin. Her mouth was completely swollen, and her whole body was covered with injury marks.

News Reports

Aftab kept chasing girls through dating App, had gifted Shraddha’s silver ring to new girlfriend while body parts were stored in fridge

OpIndia Staff - 8 February, 2023

The woman who was gifted the silver ring after Shraddha's murder joined the investigation in November last year and submitted the ring with the authorities

News Reports

‘No pressure, deal was simple, straightforward’: GVK vice chairman refutes Rahul Gandhi’s allegation on Mumbai airport sale to Adani

OpIndia Staff - 8 February, 2023

GV Sanjay Reddy said that before Gautam Adani approached, the company was talking to other investors who had agreed to deal with the company, but they had many conditions. "Deal with Adani was very simple and straightforward," he said.

World

Joe Biden’s wife kisses Kamala Harris’ husband on the lips ahead of State of the Union address, image viral

ANI - 8 February, 2023

On Tuesday night at the national Capitol, President Biden delivered his second State of the Union address, the first after he lost the majority in the US House of Representatives.

News Reports

‘Har*mi’: TMC’s Mahua Moitra uses abusive language inside Parliament, goes on an unhinged rant as netizens criticise her behaviour

OpIndia Staff - 8 February, 2023

TMC leader Mahua Moitra used abusive language in Parliament.

Opinions

The Hindu and its love affair with the BJ Yatra and Rahul Gandhi: A masterclass in how to be more loyal than the King

S. Sudhir Kumar - 8 February, 2023

The Hindu and its coverage of the Bharat Jodo Yatra had only one aim - prop up Rahul Gandhi even though he had no substance

News Reports

Pocket Aces, which runs popular YouTube channels Gobble, FilterCopy amongst others, lays off 25% of the workforce

OpIndia Staff - 8 February, 2023

Pocket Aces, which was established in 2013, also runs the gaming software Loco and the talent management platform Clout which manages over 100 digital actors and influences.

News Reports

‘Crushed Shraddha’s bones in a grinder and threw its powder on the road’: Aftab Poonawala reveals shocking details in his confession

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

In the charge sheet filed by the Delhi Police, there have been many shocking revelations from Aftab Poonawala's confession.

Crime

Maharashtra: Imtiyaz rapes and assaults former girlfriend, forces her to lick his spit as punishment for breaking up

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

The Maharashtra police said that Imtiyaz Chaudhary committed the crime after victim broke off ties with him after he refused to marry her due to their different faiths

News Reports

Rahul Gandhi rakes up the Adani controversy in parliament, rants and raves against the businessman

Gopal Tiwari - 7 February, 2023

Continuing his diatribe against Adani, Rahul Gandhi devoted a large portion of his speech assailing the business conglomerate.

World

Gwadar protests: ‘Anti-Chinese’ protests erupt in China’s rental state threatening to unravel the China-Pakistan relationship

Siddhi Somani - 7 February, 2023

The police arrested hundreds of protesters including Maulana Rehman's elder brothers Aslam Baloch and Mohammad Jan Baloch, and his second-in-command Hussain Wadala. However, the Maulana managed to escape to Karachi and is said to soon return to the protest site.

News Reports

Reports suggest Pakistan denied airspace to Indian military aircraft used for sending aid to Turkey, here is what we know

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

While reporting on India's efforts to assist Turkey, several media houses reported that Pakistan denied airspace to India.

News Reports

‘Mama, we want a girlfriend’: Youth asks for a girlfriend from Assam CM, video goes viral

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

A video of a youth asking for a girlfriend from Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma has gone viral on social media.

News Reports

Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan uses The Wire ‘journalist’ Arfa Khanum’s report on Kashmir to further anti-India propaganda

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

Unsurprisingly, Arfa Khan received an ally in the form of Imran Khan, who shared The Wire report by her on Kashmir.

News Reports

Victoria Gowri controversy: How an outspoken critic of love jihad and predatory evangelist practices became the target of left-liberal ecosystem

Dibakar Dutta - 7 February, 2023

A motivated group of 21 advocates wrote to the Indian President in the hopes of jeopardising the career prospects of Victoria Gowri.

News Reports

‘Why can’t we have salaries like Muslim clerics?’: Hindu priests chant Hanuman Chalisa in protest outside CM Kejriwal’s house

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

This is not the first time that a protest has been held for priests to get their due. There have been such protests before.

News Reports

Watch: Sword-wielding men attack school bus full of children in Gurdaspur, Punjab, video goes viral

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

Dog owner attacked school bus full of children after his dog was run over by the bus

Opinions

The Adani Group’s fall would only expose the business conglomerate, and it won’t trigger a crash like the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers

Jinit Jain - 7 February, 2023

The Hindenburg report on the Adani Group had the usual suspects scaremongering over a possible Lehman Brothers-like scenario.

News Reports

Calcutta HC quashes FIR against actor and BJP leader Paresh Rawal over his ‘cooking fish’ remark for illegal Bangladeshis and Rohingyas

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

FIR filed against actor turned politician Paresh Rawal for his 'cooking fish' remark quashed by the Calcutta HC.

News Reports

Dehradun: Maulana gets 20 years in jail and a penalty of Rs 50000 for raping a minor girl inside his madrasa

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

Maulana Zeeshan asked the victim to fetch some water. When the girl took water to the accused, Zeeshan locked the minor girl in a room in the madrasa and raped her.

Entertainment

Rakhi Sawant’s husband Adil Khan Durrani arrested over complaints of physical violence, actress also accuses him of looting money, ‘killing’ her mother

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

Adil Khan Durrani was arrested in Mumbai after actor Rakhi Sawant filed a FIR against him at the Oshiwara police station on Monday, as per reports. She had accused him of not taking care of her late mother and had claimed that he was having an extramarital affair.

News Reports

‘DM my friend and double your money, earn 8-10k, 100% trusted’: How Instagram ‘influencers’ may be sending you to a scamster

Anurag - 7 February, 2023

Some of the handles that the scammers use are neha.tradingg, neha__crypto__trader, nhea.tradingg1, neha__trading, nehatrading2023, nehatrading7, neha_tranding_, nehatrading7, tradingneha, neha.trading89, neha_trading_22 and others.

News Reports

Youth Congress workers in Kerala create ruckus, burn budget papers to protest against the cess on fuel: Here is what’s happening

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

Congress workers have been protesting in Kochi against the budget presented by the Kerala government that proposes to impose a cess on fuel

News Reports

Turkey earthquake- Death toll touches 4900, over 20000 injured

ANI - 7 February, 2023

The international community has been quick to offer assistance to Turkey and Syria as the full scale of the disaster becomes clear, reported CNN.

News Reports

Greater Noida: Babbar Ali lures a Dalit woman to gang-rape her; pressurises her to convert when the victim asks him to marry

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

In a love jihad case, a Dalit woman was gang-raped and pressurised to convert by her tormenter Babbar Ali.

Media

‘For hire’ whitewashers now come to The Wire’s rescue to water down Varadarajan’s lack of editorial standards in The Wire’s Meta fiasco

Amit Kelkar - 7 February, 2023

Professional whitewashers for Islamist crimes are now offering their services for lesser crimes.

Tech

As India takes steps to fight the monopoly of ‘Big Tech’, foreign media targets it to claim surveillance and control

Gopal Tiwari - 7 February, 2023

With India, which is practically one sixth of the humanity, steering its Atmanirbhar Bharat campaign at full throttle, it is time for every Indian to come together and stand tall and firm against every single of such attempts and prove our mettle.

‘PM Modi got emotional talking about the Turkey earthquake as he has witnessed the 2001 tragedy in Kutch’: BJP MP Manoj Tiwari

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

BJP MP Manoj Tiwari said that PM Modi became tearful while referring to the Turkey earthquake as he has witnessed the 2001 Gujarat earthquake firsthand

News Reports

Maharashtra: Hindu woman gang-raped, forced to accept Christianity, and her son assaulted; a pastor among 4 arrested

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

In her complaint, the victim had accused a pastor and 4 others for gang-raping her and forcing her to accept Christianity.

News Reports

Kolkata Literature Festival cancels Tuhin A Sinha’s participation, author says organisers caved in to pressure from TMC

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

Expressing his dismay over the sudden cancellation, Tuhin A Sinha said, “This was not a political event. This was a purely literary event and that too to promote a specific work of mine which is the Great Tribal Warriors of Bharat."

News Reports

Mumbai: Iranian thief Mohammad Zakir Sayyad caught by police, Iranian women pelt stones at cops to save him

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

According to police, three cases that were reported to the MHB Colony police station in Borivli have been solved as a result of Sayyed's arrest.

News Reports

Author Salman Rushdie shares his picture after recovering from a brutal stabbing attack in New York by an Islamist Jihadi

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

Salman Rushdie had suffered severe knife injuries during the attack in New York last year. He has lost one eye and has taken months to recover from multiple nerve and muscle injuries.

News Reports

SC dismisses petitions challenging Victoria Gowri’s appointment just as she takes oath as Madras HC judge

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

Victoria Gowri is appointed as an additional judge along with four others inside the library room of the Madras High Court.

News Reports

Rana Ayyub’s plea challenging summons by ED dismissed by Supreme Court

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

The ED had submitted before the Supreme Court that donation fraud accused Rana Ayyub had used money sought for slum dwellers, COVID-19, and some work in Assam for “personal enjoyment, luxuries and pleasure”.

News Reports

14 Hindu temples attacked across Bangladesh, idols broken and tossed into ponds. No arrests made yet

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

Hindu community leader Bidyanath Barman in Baliadangi stated that some of the idols had been damaged and others had been discovered submerged in ponds near the temple locations. Since members of the Hindu community are calling for justice, the miscreants' identities have not yet been made public.

News Reports

Punjab: Free electricity leads to a 12% jump in power consumption in January, unpaid bills and summer months ahead cause concern

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

Cold wave and free electricity resulted in jump in power consumption by 12 per cent in Punjab

News Reports

Lord Hanuman idol vandalised, uprooted, Shivling, Trishul and Nandi statue broken in a temple in Varanasi, UP: Details

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2023

At around 3 am on February 6, unknown miscreants broke into the Hanuman Temple in Varanasi and desecrated the idols kept in the sanctum sanctorum

News Reports

Assam: 60 Qazis arrested as state cracks down on child marriages

OpIndia Staff - 6 February, 2023

A total of 4074 cases have been filed so far in which more than 8000 men are accused. 2278 accused, including 60 Qazis are arrested for performing child marriages by the Assam police so far.

Politics

Chhattisgarh: BJP leader Neelkanth Kekkem dragged from home, hacked to death in front of family members by left-wing terrorists

OpIndia Staff - 6 February, 2023

BJP leader Neelkanth Kakkem was dragged out of his ancestral house in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh and beheaded in front of his family and relatives

News Reports

RSS chief did not mention Brahmin caste: know how the media misquoted a part of Mohan Bhagwat’s Marathi speech

OpIndia Staff - 6 February, 2023

Mohan Bhagwat was explaining how Sikandar Lodi had fraudulently called Saint Ravidas and asked him to convert to Islam.

News Reports

Rajasthan: FIR filed against Baba Ramdev for his speech in Barmer where he lambasted Islamists and Christian evangelists

OpIndia Staff - 6 February, 2023

Baba Ramdev said, "Some say they will convert the whole world into Islam, some say they will convert the whole world into Christianity, but they have no agenda regarding what to do after that."

News Reports

‘Not entertainable’: Meghalaya HC dismisses plea filed by jailed TMC leader Saket Gokhale against NPP for violation of electoral rules

OpIndia Staff - 6 February, 2023

Ironically, TMC leader Saket Gokhale, who has accused the Meghalaya government of misappropriating funds, is himself in jail for misusing funds raised through crowdfunding

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