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We have learnt our lesson, want to live in peace with India, says Pak PM Shehbaz Sharif

ANI -
In an interview with Dubai-based Arabic news channel, Pakistan Prime Minister said, "We have had three wars with India, and they have only brought more misery, poverty, and unemployment to the people." 
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News Reports

Absconding terrorist Dawood Ibrahim got married again in Karachi: Sister Haseena Parkar’s son tells NIA

OpIndia Staff -
The revelation were made to the NIA by Alishah Ibrahim Parkar, the son of Haseena Parker. the late sister of fugitive terrorist Dawood Ibrahim
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News Reports

Former female Afghan MP Mursal Nabizada shot dead in Kabul, had refused to leave Afghanistan after Taliban takeover

OpIndia Staff -
Mursal Nabizada and her guard were shot dead in the same room at 3 a.m. on Saturday. A second security guy and her brother have been injured in the attack.
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Economy and Finance

Bottom 50% of Indians pay 64% of GST: Oxfam India’s claims about ‘disproportionate’ taxing of poor is ‘mathematically impossible’. Here is why

OpIndia Staff -
Taking the bottom 50% of the population as 70 crores, Diva Jain calculated the monthly income of the cohort using the data provided by Oxfam India.
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News Reports

Bangladesh: Muslim mob attacks and destroys houses of Hindus over blasphemy allegations, targeted person has been living in India for 7 years

OpIndia Staff -
The Hindu boy, now accused of blasphemy by radical Islamists, has reportedly been living in India for the past 7 years.
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Satire

If New York Times published an Egg Fried Rice recipe, we imagined what it would be like

Amit Kelkar -
Modi government is pushing vegetarianism in a country where people even used to do gargle in the morning with leftover chicken curry. In such a scenario, making and eating egg fried rice is an act of resistance, and we resist!
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News Reports

Man named Mahamed Sharif runs away from Delhi’s Leela Palace Hotel without settling dues of over 23 lakhs, triggers meme fest

OpIndia Staff -
The management team at Delhi's Leela Palace Hotel lodged a complaint against a man named Mahamed Sharif for vanishing without settling his bills of Rs 23.46 lakh
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Entertainment

Sushant Singh Rajput’s pet dog Fudge passes away, fans mourn, say ‘united in heaven’

OpIndia Staff -
Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead on 14th June 2020 under mysterious circumstances. While initial media reports suggested suicide, subsequently concerns were raised and many believe he was murdered.
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News Reports

Sanjay Bhandari to be extradited to India: British home secretary Suella Braverman approves order

OpIndia Staff -
Fugitive arms dealer and Robert Vadra's aide Sanjay Bhandari's extradition approved by UK home secretary
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News Reports

Even a simple egg curry recipe in NYT becomes an anti-Modi rant, columnist chef makes it about bashing ‘pro-vegetarian Hindus’

OpIndia Staff -
Tejal Rao, a NYT columnist, used her recipe section to bash Hindus and rant against the Modi government.
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News Reports

Muslim youths abuse, assault Hindu men over petty brawl, indulge in stone pelting as it turns communal in Aligarh: Details

OpIndia Staff -
A petty brawl turned communal and three Hindu youth were left injured in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.
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News Reports

‘Girls as young as 13 are being kidnapped, forcefully converted to Islam and married to older men’: UN experts on Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
The UN experts emphasised, "Perpetrators must be held fully accountable."
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News Reports

As TMC leader Saket Gokhale continues to be in jail for over two weeks, Mamata Banerjee attacks Gujarat Police for not following procedure while...

OpIndia Staff -
"If I visit Delhi alone, then, I sometimes stay at the Banga Bhavan," Mamata Banerjee had said on CCTV row.
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News Reports

Despite calls for boycott, Romila Thapar delivers lecture at IIC: Some instances when Hindus were hounded, speeches cancelled, as Left called for boycott

Dibakar Dutta -
In December 2015, JNUSU displayed their intolerance over an invitation sent to Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev to the International Congress of Vedanta.
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Specials

The Wire is sold out, published reports after taking money, I and my family are getting threats now: Brahmpuri lawyer

राहुल पाण्डेय -
Advocate Pradeep Sharma said, "Considering the safety of my family, I am planning to sell the house. When the riots took place in 2020, only a few houses belonged to Muslims, today there are many Muslim households here."
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News Reports

‘Freedom to protest is a fundamental principle but not absolute’: UK PM Rishi Sunak announces measures to clamp down disruptive protests

OpIndia Staff -
UK PM Rishi Sunak announced a slew of measures empowering police to clamp down on disruptive protests.
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News Reports

US-based political scientists conclude that large-scale violence in India significantly reduced in the last 20 years compared to the period between 1970-2000

OpIndia Staff -
The researchers have credited enhanced state capacity for the decline in violence in India during the 21st century.
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News Reports

Surat court rejects bail to ‘love jihad’ accused Muhammad Samat Ali Sheikh, who posed as a Hindu to lure a girl and forced her...

OpIndia Staff -
A Surat local court denied bail to a 51-year-old man called Muhammad Samat Ali Sheikh, accused of entrapping a Hindu woman by posing as a Hindu
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News Reports

Iran threatens French magazine Charlie Hebdo with Salman Rushdie-like fate for publishing cartoons on Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

OpIndia Staff -
Charlie Hebdo recently published a raft of critical cartoons mocking Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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News Reports

Jharkhand: Armaan Ali traps a married Hindu woman into a relationship, beats her to death on her refusal to elope with him

OpIndia Staff -
In Ramgarh, Jharkhand, Armaan Ali killed a Hindu woman after she refused to leave her husband and marry him.
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News Reports

Kerala HC pulls up CPM leader for manhandling Lord Ayyappa devotees at Sabarimala temple

OpIndia Staff -
Arun Kumar, a trade union leader of CPM, was found pushing and shoving devotees of Lord Ayyappa at the Sabarimala temple.
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News Reports

Lalit Modi on the oxygen support post-Covid, hands over everything to his son

OpIndia Staff -
"In light of what I have gone through, it’s time to retire and move on. And groom my kids. I am handing them all," Lalit Modi tweeted.
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News Reports

NC leader and brother of former J&K CM Farooq Abdullah claims Central govt ‘planned’ Pulwama and Uri attacks

OpIndia Staff -
NC leader Sheikh Mustafa Kamal has alleged that the 2019 Pulwama attack and the 2016 Uri attacks were 'well planned' by the central govt
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News Reports

Babar Azam caught in a honey trap? Pakistan cricketer’s pictures, videos, and audios of alleged sexting with fellow cricketer’s girlfriend go viral

OpIndia Staff -
The social media posts claim Babar Azam promised a fellow cricketer's girlfriend that her boyfriend will continue to be on team so long as she continues sexting with him.
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News Reports

Another video of namaz inside Maharaja Sayajirao University of Vadodara appears, senate members demand strict action

OpIndia Staff -
A young woman was seen offering namaz in the botany section of the science department of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Vadodara.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: People in Washim dance holding Aurangzeb’s posters; 8 booked

OpIndia Staff -
People participating in the local urs of Manglurpir danced in the procession holding posters of Mughal tyrant Aurangzeb.
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News Reports

Press Information Bureau dismisses fake news that Ganga Vilas Cruise got stuck in Bihar’s Chhapra, shares that it reached Patna as per schedule

OpIndia Staff -
PIB has dismissed such reports and said that the claim which originated from reports by news agencies is false, and the cruise reached Patna as per schedule.
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News Reports

Grand corridor proposed on five acres of land surrounding the iconic Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan: Here is all you need to know

OpIndia Staff -
Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh promised that a dedicated corridor would be developed soon to guarantee the easy transit of devotees from the Yamuna riverfront to Mathura's iconic Banke Bihari Temple.
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News Reports

CJI-led bench takes over plea against religious conversions, earlier Justice Shah-led bench asked Centre to collect information on forced conversions

OpIndia Staff -
Justice Shah, who headed the former bench of Supreme Court, had said that religious conversions was a serious issue.
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World

Kabul’s female mannequins covered with black plastic bags – A symbol of Taliban rule in Afghanistan

OpIndia Staff -
The women customers feel a sense of fear as they look at the hooded mannequins donned in elaborate dresses. "When I see them, I feel that these mannequins are also captured and trapped, and I get a sense of fear. I feel like I see myself behind these shop windows, an Afghan woman who has been deprived of all her rights," a woman shopping at the Lycee Maryam Street was quoted as saying.
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News Reports

Senior Pakistani lawyer accused of assassination case of a judge shot dead outside Peshawar High Court

ANI -
Latif Afridi was acquitted in a murder case by Swat Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Judge Aftab Afridi and his three family members a few weeks ago. 
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Tech

ChatGPT – The buzz around it, the inherent biases of the algorithm, its jokes on Hinduism, and more – The basics of the AI-based...

Anurag -
AI systems like ChatGPT can't be anti-bias, after all, it is the programmers that feed the information to the system.
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News Reports

‘Finland jaane do’: Kejriwal leads protest march towards Delhi LG house over sending teachers for ‘training’ on taxpayers’ money

ANI -
The Lieutenant Governor's office has denied rejecting any proposal and has said he only advised the state to record a cost-benefit analysis.
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News Reports

44 Sikh delegates arrive from Pakistan to visit Gurudwaras in Delhi and Amritsar

ANI -
Visuals captured by ANI show Sikh delegates crossing the Attari-Wagah border. They are carrying their luggage and getting their passports checked by security officials.
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Opinions

Deciphering the Global South Summit: India becoming the voice of developing economies across the world

Pallav -
The Voice of the Global South Summit is to bring together developing nations to discuss a wide variety of topics from their points of view and objectives.
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News Reports

Berhampur Bank liquidation: Calcutta HC settles India’s oldest pending case; was filed a decade before the birth of the current Chief Justice

OpIndia Staff -
The case for liquidation of Berhampur Bank Limited had come up before the Calcutta High Court in 1951.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Man forced to carry mother’s dead body after being unable to pay ambulance charges, cops arrest NGO Head Ankur Das who helped...

Dibakar Dutta -
On January 10, 2023, the Jalpaiguri Kotwali police interrogated Ankur Das for 8 hours and thereafter arrested him.
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News Reports

Asaduddin Owaisi says Islam ‘gifted’ democracy to India, leaves netizens amused

OpIndia Staff -
"We opened our closed doors and we gave everything, and the most unique gift that Islam gave to this country was the gift of democracy", Owaisi said.
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Crime

Tayyab Ansari poses as a Congress MP, rapes and extorts money from a woman on the pretext of getting her a Lok Sabha ticket,...

OpIndia Staff -
Tayyab Ansari posed as a Congress MP and sexually assaulted a woman after promising her a Lok Sabha ticket.
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Opinions

Sexual predators and the Left: Why the ‘ecosystem’ keeps silence, protects them

Amit Kelkar -
At a time when it takes tremendous courage for victims to speak up on sexual abuse, why are the ‘liberals’ always around to silence a victim?
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News Reports

Hyderabad: Swiggy delivery agent dies after falling off a building escaping a dog attack, owner charged with death by negligence

OpIndia Staff -
The Swiggy delivery agent died after falling off from the third floor of a building trying to escape dog attack.
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News Reports

Mominpore communal violence: NIA files chargesheet against Md Fakruddin Siddique, Md Salauddin, and 12 other accused

OpIndia Staff -
On October 9 the Hindu community in the Mominpore locality of Kolkata in West Bengal came under attack as they geared up to celebrate the annual Lakshmi Puja. Bikes and shops belonging to Hindus were vandalized by Islamists at Maila Depot in Mominpore.
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Cricket

Viacom18 wins Women’s IPL media rights for 951 crore

ANI -
The Women's T20 Challenge was initially held as an exhibition tournament, but the BCCI last year eventually made the decision to introduce the WIPL, with the first season's opening match scheduled for March.
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News Reports

Rampant conversions by Missionaries underway in Hindu-majority Nepal, Christian population shot up by 68% in the last decade: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Christian Missionaries, particularly from South Korea, have set their eyes on expanding their evangelist activities in Nepal.
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Crime

Khalistani and Jihadi terrorists killed a Hindu man to show “capability” to handlers in Pakistan, had plans to kill influential RW leaders ahead of...

OpIndia Staff -
The trishool (trident) tattoo on the deceased's arm helped Delhi police determine that the man killed in Delhi's Bhalswa Dairy area was a Hindu
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News Reports

Central govt seeks representation in the panel for selecting judges to be appointed, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju writes to CJI Chandrachud

Siddhi Somani -
Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju has written to Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, recommending that government representatives be included in the 25-year-old Supreme Court-created two-tiered collegiums to enhance openness.
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News Reports

‘Fatwas are used as political weapons, issued to stop those who do good deeds’, says Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan

OpIndia Staff -
In a jab at people who issue fatwas, Khan noted that Maulana Shibli used to remark that the doors of paradise would only open for those who had received two or four fatwas. He blamed politicians rather than ulemas and clerics for the endeavour to foster a sense of superiority among Muslims.
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News Reports

Tripura CM Manik Saha interacts with OpIndia, talks about Left hounding him, how leaders may defect but he will never compromise on his principles

Dibakar Dutta -
Dr Manik Saha touched upon the HIRA model that PM Modi had promised to the residents of Tripura during the 2018 Vidhan Sabha elections.
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News Reports

Germany: Protesters clash with police over demolition drive for coal mine expansion, Greta Thunberg removed from the protest site

OpIndia Staff -
Reportedly, Greta recently said earlier that Germany was "embarrassing itself" by removing the protesters from the site.
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Sports

Hockey World Cup: India and England share points after a riveting contest ends goalless

ANI -
India played a goalless draw against England to take home one point each in a crucial Pool D, Hockey World Cup match at the Birsa Munda International Hockey Stadium in Rourkela on Sunday.
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