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Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh asked to resign within 24 hours after protesting wrestlers meet Anurag Thakur

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This comes after Sports Minister Anurag Thakur met the protesting wrestlers including Vinesh Phogat, Ravi Dahiya, Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik at his residence. 
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Social Media

Internet applauds IAS officer for administering CPR on a conscious man in viral video, however, doctors disagree with his method

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While many people on social media praised the IAS for saving a life of a conscious man whom he gave CPR, doctors criticized him saying that this is not the proper way to administer CPR.
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News Reports

London mayor Sadiq Khan accused of manipulating public consultation results on expansion of Ultra Low Emission Zone by excluding negative votes

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Around 5,200 votes opposing expansion of Ultra Low Emission Zone in London were allegedly discounted by mayor Sadiq Khan
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News Reports

Islamist organisation IAMC attacks Lieutenant Governor of Maryland for “promoting Hindutva” as she takes oath on Bhagwad Gita

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The radical Islamist outfit Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) got irked by Aruna's decision to take oath on a copy of Bhagwad Gita.
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News Reports

UK PM Rishi Sunak says he does not agree with PM Modi’s characterisation by BBC documentary quoted by Pakistani-British MP

OpIndia Staff -
Rishi Sunak said that he does not agree at all with the characterization of Narendra Modi shown in the BBC documentary.
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News Reports

Karnataka govt clarifies that no ban imposed on sale of condoms and contraceptives to minors, says pharmacies only asked to counsel minors

OpIndia Staff -
Drugs Controller of Karnataka, said, "We have not issued any circular to that effect. This has been reported wrongly in the media."
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News Reports

Arunachal Pradesh: Muslim miscreants deface Parshuram Kund wall with Islamic symbols during Makar Sankranti mela, steal donations from the temple

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Locals have alleged that Islamists who have been hired as safai karmacharis for this years Parshuram Kund mela have been indulging in theft
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Eknath Shinde Government accepts demand of Hindu activists, will celebrate Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj’s birth anniversary at state level

OpIndia Staff -
Former chief ministerc Uddhav Thackeray had ignored the recommendation to include the name of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj and other great men in government's list to officially celebrate the birth anniversaries.
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News Reports

‘Khalistan Zindabad’, ‘Referendum 2020’ and other pro-Khalistan slogans painted on a wall in Delhi, removed later

OpIndia Staff -
The slogans spray-painted on the wall read, ‘Khalistan Zindabad’ in Punjabi, ‘Referendum 2020’, ‘SFJ’, and ‘Vote For Khalistan’ in English.
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News Reports

Tibetans welcome UN probes into China’s colonial boarding school in occupied Tibet

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Tenzin Lekshay, spokesperson of the Tibetan government-in-exile said there is a very systemic practice that China has been enclosing to assimilate Tibetan people and Tibetan culture under the framework of second-generation policy which intends to marginalize the Tibetan language and Tibetan culture.
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News Reports

‘BBC documentary on PM Modi is propaganda piece to push discredited narrative’: Govt of India

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MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said that BBC 2 documentary on PM Modi is propaganda piece designed to push a particular discredited narrative
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News Reports

UP Madarsa Board refuses to identify non-Muslim students from Madarsas as directed by NCPCR, says ‘it may foster divide between communities’

OpIndia Staff -
The Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education opined on Thursday that conducting investigation and identifying non-Muslim students may foster a divide between the Muslim and non-Muslim communities.
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Media

N Ram, who fabricated Rafale documents, gives gyaan on ‘lessons to draw’ from META story fabrication: How he tried to give ‘The Wire’ a...

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N Ram spoke about what journalists should learn from the Meta mess created by The Wire, while he himself fabricated Rafale document
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News Reports

Gautam Adani to do his bit to combat climate change, announces India’s biggest plantation drive, promises to plant 100 million trees

OpIndia Staff -
Adani Group vows to plant 100 million trees, as announced by Gautam Adani at the World Economic Forum (WEF)
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News Reports

DCW chief Swati Maliwal dragged for 10-15 metres by a car in Delhi, accused drunk driver arrested

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Harish Chandra rolled up the window when Swati Maliwal put her hand inside the car, and then dragged her for some distance near AIIMS Delhi
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News Reports

Nominal ‘8th Nizam’ buried in Hyderabad after death in Turkey, read about his Ottoman dynasty connection and suppression of Hindus

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Mukarram Jah Bahadur, the nominal eighth Nizam of Hyderabad, was buried at Makka Mosque in Hyderabad after he died in Turkey
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News Reports

‘Making victims of POCSO cases face the accused during bail hearing is traumatic’: Delhi HC issues directions

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The victim can be produced virtually before the Court (either by the IO/ Support person before the Court) (by way of Video Conferencing) or by taking assistance from the District Legal Services Authority, the court said.
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News Reports

Delhi High Court dismisses AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan’s plea against police order declaring him a “BC”

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Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain, while dismissing the plea, granted liberty to Amanatullah Khan to move representation before the concerned Authority on Thursday.
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News Reports

CPI (M) leader Brinda Karat and her sidekick asked to get off the stage by wrestler Bajrang Punia and others even as they argue...

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"Madam, I request you to please come down. Please don't politicise the protest. This is wrestler's protest. Please get down from the stage," Punia said to the CPI (M) leader.
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News Reports

Rakhi Sawant Fatima arrested by Amboli Police on FIR filed by Sherlyn Chopra last year

OpIndia Staff -
Sherlyn Chopra tweeted that Rakhi Sawant has been arrested and that her anticipatory bail application was rejected by Mumbai Sessions Court
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News Reports

NIA announces cash reward for information on two PFI members involved in the murder of BJYM member Praveen Nettaru

OpIndia Staff -
According to the NIA, anyone providing information regarding Mohammed Sherif and K A Masud, the two other absconding accused in Praveen Nettaru murder case, will be rewarded with Rs 5 lakhs
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News Reports

Pakistan might lose ‘major non-NATO ally’ status in the US, Congressman introduces bill in House of Representatives

OpIndia Staff -
Republican Congressman Andy Biggs moves bill in House of Representatives to terminate ‘major non-NATO ally’ status of Pakistan
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Law

Allahabad High Court rejects anticipatory bail to a person charged with enticing 90 Hindus to convert their religion to Christianity

OpIndia Staff -
The FIR in this case was registered by Himanshu Dixit who alleged that on April 15, 2022, around 90 Hindus had gathered at the Evangelical Church of India, Hariharganj, Fatehpur, with the intention of converting to Christianity.
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News Reports

Terror suspect journalist Siddique Kappan might have tried to reach Syria through Georgia to join ISIS, suspects NIA

OpIndia Staff -
Siddique Kappan had obtained visa to visit Georgia in 2017, and he might have planned to enter Syria to join ISII
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News Reports

Amritsar, Punjab: Singapore-bound flight of Scoot Airlines takes off without 35 passengers, DGCA orders probe

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"Around 280 passengers were to travel to Singapore but 253 passengers were rescheduled, leaving behind over 30 passengers behind," the Amritsar airport Director told ANI.
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Opinions

The Hindu, Suhasini Haider and how she blamed all of the world’s problems, including climate change, on India and Pakistan ‘not talking’

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As The Hindu front pages Pakistan PM’s irrelevant appeal for talks, they also publish an illogical article calling for India and Pakistan talks
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News Reports

Kenya’s reliance on China for infrastructure and imports proves to be a sour experience for Kenyans: Report

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CRBC is involved in various infrastructure projects in China. It is, however, facing backlash for its corrupt practices and discrimination against the locals.
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News Reports

Faraz Malik, the elder son of NCP leader Nawab Malik, booked in visa fraud case

OpIndia Staff -
Mumbai police have booked Faraz Malik, the son of former minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik
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News Reports

Jharkhand: MBA student Deepak writes ‘do not forget Naseem, Maulana’ in status before committing suicide, family says he was pressurised to convert to Islam

OpIndia Staff -
Anil Singh, the father of the deceased, registered a police complaint on Wednesday and stated that his son was being mentally harassed and pressurised to convert to Islam.
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News Reports

Ban on terrorist organisation SIMI challenged in Supreme Court, Center says they wanted to establish Islamic rule in India, cannot be permitted: Details

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The Centre pointed out that every new recruit of SIMI is administered an oath which asserts that they would operate for 'establishment of Islamic system'. The affidavit was submitted in response to a petition contesting the 2019 notification that extended the outfit's ban under the UAPA.
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News Reports

‘4 Muslim families in a lane, yet it has a big mosque, Hindus were killed in the area during 2020 Delhi riots’: Brahmapuri ground...

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The mosque currently has a Wazu (ablution) tap and a sizeable prayer floor that is visible from the outside. Advocate Sharma stated that the mosque in the street was originally a Brahmin Hindu's home that was bought and converted into a mosque.
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News Reports

Tejasvi Surya calls IndiGo controversy a political hit-job, co-passenger’s version of the event drives home the point

OpIndia Staff -
Tejasvi Surya called the IndiGo controversy a political hit job.
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News Reports

Kerala: NIA arrests PFI ‘Reporter’ Mohammed Sadik for collecting information on non-Muslim leaders and passing it on to ‘hit squad’

OpIndia Staff -
Reporter named Mohammed Sadik arrested by NIA, was working for now-banned Islamic organisation PFI for collecting info on targets
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News Reports

Burqa-clad students denied entry in Moradabad college for violating uniform code

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The college professor, Dr AP Singh said that they have implemented a dress code for the students here and anybody who refuses to follow it will be barred from entering the college campus. 
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World

Jacinda Ardern resigns as New Zealand Prime Minister, says no reason or angle, just tired

OpIndia Staff -
Jacinda Ardern will step down as New Zealand Prime Minister no later than February 7, 2023.
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News Reports

‘Ready to be hanged if the allegations prove to be true’: Wrestling Federation chief Brij Bhushan Singh rejects molestation charges

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Wrestling Federation of India's president Brij Bhushan Singh has denied the molestation allegations of women wrestlers
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News Reports

Gujarat: 8-year-old Devanshi Sanghvi, daughter of a Surat-based diamond merchant, embraces monkhood

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Devanshi Sanghvi, an eight-year-old daughter of a diamond baron, initiated into Jain monkshood at an elaborate ceremony in Surat.
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News Reports

Madras HC commutes the life sentence of a woman who set her minor daughter on fire

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The Madras HC stated that conviction of the woman for setting her daughter on fire was not sustainable.
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News Reports

Top wrestlers demand the removal of Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Singh, level allegations of dictatorship, sexual harassment

OpIndia Staff -
Around 30 protested at Jantar Mantar in Delhi against Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Singh
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News Reports

British historian romanticises ‘love’ of Malwa Sultan – the cowardly Islamic ruler who had abandoned his so-called love leading to her suicide

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British historian romanticizes Malwa Sultan Baz Bahadur’s love for shepherdess Roopmati , didn’t mention that she committed suicide after he abandoned her
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News Reports

‘Wikipedia not dependable; can promote misleading information’: SC cautions court authorities

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The court noted that Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and information entered therein may not be authentic.
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News Reports

Jairam Ramesh dismisses disgraced Kathua-case lawyer turned Congress leader Deepika Rajawat as ‘neta’ over her ‘resignation’ during Bharat Jodo Yatra

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Advocate Deepika Singh Rajawat became an overnight celebrity in the media after she appeared as a lawyer for Kathua's rape and murder victim.
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Fact-Check

Fact check: Muslim man in Khandwa threatens a girl to marry him, propagandists attack Hindu men who came out in her defence

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HindutvaWatch, Ashok Swain were among propagandists who vilified Hindus for standing up for the honour of a girl.
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News Reports

‘We respect Sikhism, but we are choosing Sanatana Dharma, Ramayana and Bhagwad Gita will be recited in Sindhi Temples’: Mahant Swami Tulsidas Udasi

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Sindhi Temples to recite Ramayana Bhagwad Gita and Siddhant Sagar after submitting swaroops Guru Granth Sahib to local Gurudwaras.
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News Reports

GoMechanic co-founder admits to financial irregularities after due diligence report exposed them, 70% workforce to be sacked

OpIndia Staff -
Auto services provider GoMechanic co-founder admits to financial irregularities, promises third-party audit
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News Reports

Amruta Fadnavis, wife of Maharashtra’s deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis dances with TikToker Riyaz Aly on her ‘Mood Banaleya’ song

OpIndia Staff -
'Mood Banaleya' is a Punjabi song by Amruta Fadnavis. It was released by T-Series on 6th January 2023.
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Opinions

India International Centre President Shyam Saran should apologise for inviting Romila Thapar for History lecture

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Romila Thapar being invited for CD Deshmukh Memorial Lecture at India International Centre has created quite a furore.
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News Reports

Bharat Jodo Yatra: Rahul Gandhi will not unfurl the Tricolour at Lal Chowk in Srinagar because it is part of the RSS agenda, says...

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“We do not believe in the agenda of the RSS to hoist the Tricolour at Lal Chowk,” said Congress MP Rajni Patil
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News Reports

Punjab: Former Congress minister Manpreet Singh Badal joins BJP, says Congress supporting factionalism in the state

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In his almost three-decade-long political career, it is the fourth party Manpreet joins. He had differences with Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh earlier.
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News Reports

EC announces assembly election dates in Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland, poll on Feb 16 and 27, results on March 2

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Assembly elections: Tripura to vote on Feb 16, Meghalaya and Nagaland on Feb 27.
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