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“Saghle G**ndu Chi Aulaad Aahe”: Shiv Sena UT faction’s Sanjay Raut abuses Union Ministers over Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj insult row

OpIndia Staff - 8 January, 2023

Speaking to the media, Sanjay Raut abused Union Ministers for remaining silent on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj row.

News Reports

Bihar: Journalist shot at in Siwan a day before CM Nitish Kumar’s scheduled visit

OpIndia Staff - 8 January, 2023

Journalist Rajesh Anal has been shot at twice before, first time in 2002 and 2nd time in 2020.

News Reports

Mysore Bishop Kannikadass William accused of sexual misconduct, criminal activities, also accused of fathering a child

OpIndia Staff - 8 January, 2023

Bishop Kannikadass William was accused of fathering a child and corruption. The 37 priests alleged that the Bishop has strong connections with corrupt police officials and bureaucrats as well as politicians who have criminal records.

World

South Sudan President pees himself in the pants, arrests journalist for circulating embarrassing video

OpIndia Staff - 8 January, 2023

South Sudan has witnessed political turmoil, hunger, natural disasters and brutal conflict over the years.

Punjab: AAP-led state government’s second minister resigns after audio of extortion went viral

OpIndia Staff - 8 January, 2023

At the time of his resignation, Sarari said he would remain a loyal soldier of AAP. His audio went viral in September 2022 when CM Mann was on a foreign tour.

News Reports

Congress supporters dance shirtless in the biting cold in Bharat Jodo Yatra after Rahul Gandhi was hailed as PM candidate for wearing just a...

OpIndia Staff - 8 January, 2023

Maybe these shirtless Congress supporters could be competition to Rahul Gandhi as party's 2024 PM candidate face as they went a step ahead and removed their shirt only.

News Reports

Pro-Hindu group Sri Ram Sene leader shot at in Karnataka, read details

ANI - 8 January, 2023

Officials said that Ravi Kokitakera, District president of Sri Ram Sene escaped with injuries on the chin after an unknown person shot him.

News Reports

Serial killer on the prowl in UP’s Barabanki, targets older women, three murdered till now

ANI - 8 January, 2023

Six police teams are engaged in the search for the killer. He has been accused of targeting older women and killing them, officials with Barabanki police said.

News Reports

Kerala human sacrifice case: First chargesheet filed 89 days after first arrest made, Md Shafi, 2 others named accused

ANI - 8 January, 2023

"Three persons, identified as Muhammed Shafi, Bhagaval Singh, and Laila Bhagaval Singh, have been named as accused in the case," said officials.

News Reports

Dholpur Gang Rape Case: Accused not arrested even after booking a case, minor victim pressurized to compromise

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

16-years-old gang rape victim in Dholpur has alleged that the accused are being protected by the police

News Reports

Haryana: Man booked for assaulting a woman who refused a bike ride, NCW demands probe

ANI - 7 January, 2023

A man in an inebriated state attacked a woman with his helmet after she refused to sit with him on his bike

News Reports

Assam: Former BPF MLA Hitesh Basumatary arrested for keeping illegal weapons, was allegedly attempting to float a new terror group

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

Hitesh Basumatary, a Bodoland People's Front candidate, triumphed in the 2011 Assembly elections from the Chapaguri constituency. Additionally, he held the position of Executive Member of the Bodoland Territorial Council.

News Reports

Kolkata: Two men including a mechanical engineering student arrested for suspected links with ISIS, were allegedly radicalising youths

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

Special Task Force of the Kolkata police arrested two men with suspected ISIS links, Mohammad Saddam and Syed Ahmed

News Reports

Chhattisgarh: IED weighing 25 kg recovered in Bijapur; was planted by Naxals to damage vehicles

ANI - 7 January, 2023

A joint team of local police and security forces recovered an IED bomb weighing 25 kg near Munda pond in Bijapur.

News Reports

Shah Rukh Khan’s NGO Meer Foundation donates to Delhi hit and drag victim Anjali Singh’s family

ANI - 7 January, 2023

SRK's NGO, Meer Foundation, donated an undisclosed amount to Delhi hit and drag victim Anjali Singh's family.

News Reports

Two minor Hindu girls threatened by Wahid and Aman to marry and become Muslims, case registered in Indore

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

In Mhow near Indore, police have registered a case against two Muslim youths. These youths threatened two Hindu girls and asked them to get married and become Muslims.

News Reports

Disturbing statistics of forced conversions, murders, and rapes of religious minorities in Bangladesh: Reports

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

The annual report of atrocities on minorities in Bangladesh said that about 319 families and temples were looted while 173 businesses were vandalised in 2022.

News Reports

Flight service between Bhubaneswar and Rourkela begins ahead of Hockey World Cup, CM Patnaik thanks PM Modi and Civil Aviation Minister

ANI - 7 January, 2023

Flagging off the first flight to Rourkela Airport from Biju Patnaik International Airport, Bhubaneswar this morning, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said that this new air connectivity would help Odisha and its people.

News Reports

Air India peeing case: Accused Shankar Mishra sent to 14-day judicial custody

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

Shankar Mishra is accused of urinating on a female co-passenger in an inebriated state while onboard Air India flight AI-102 on November 26 travelling from New York to Delhi

News Reports

FIR filed against Congress’ Afzal Lakhani for pretending to be a ‘Thakkar’ to create enmity within the Hindu community on social media: Details

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

Afzal Lakhani had reportedly created a fake ID in the name of 'Jigar Thakkar' to malign Hindus, Brahmins, and RSS.

News Reports

Bengaluru school gets bomb threat on email, turns out to be hoax by a student of another school who did it for fun

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

A bomb threat mail sent to National Academy for Learning (NAFL) in Bengaluru was sent by a minor boy for fun

News Reports

Telangana: Brothers Azmath and Akbar Ali repeatedly rape a minor Hindu girl for 6 months, arrested

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

Azmath Ali and Akbar Ali raped the minor Hindu girl, living in Mills colony in Warangal, Telangana, several times during the last six months

News Reports

Kanjhawala hit and run case: Eyewitness Nidhi was arrested in 2020 in a drug smuggling case

ANI - 7 January, 2023

Delhi Police said on Friday that Nidhi has been asked to join the investigation and clarified that she has not been arrested.

News Reports

Air India peeing case: The airline de-rosters a pilot and 4 cabin crew members after urination incidents

ANI - 7 January, 2023

Air India chief executive officer (CEO) Campbell Wilson on Friday asked the airline staff to report any instances of any improper behaviour on board to authorities at the earliest

News Reports

Bhavnagar: Hindus organise a massive rally demanding Disturbed Areas Act, submit a memorandum to Collector over changing demography

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

Over 5,000 Hindus participated in the rally organised to demand the implementation of Disturbed Areas Act in Bhavnagar.

News Reports

‘I had it the worst in terms of verbal, sexual, and physical abuse’: Somy Ali claims Salman Khan had ‘tons of flings’ while dating...

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

Somy Ali said that she was ‘provoked’ by Salman Khan to speak out against him as the actor approached Discovery Plus channel to ban her show ‘Fight of Flight’.

News Reports

Shraddha Walkar murder: Aftab Poonawala wants his credit cards back to buy winter clothes; court extends judicial custody by 4 days

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

Aftab Amin Poonawala is currently lodged in Tihar jail for the brutal murder of his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar

News Reports

West Bengal minister alleges that the old train was painted and given the name Vande Bharat amid stone-pelting attacks on it

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

Udayan Guha said, "The old train has been painted and given the name Vande Bharat. An attempt is being made to fool the common people by naming the old train Vande Bharat."

Politics

MLA poaching case: Telangana Congress wants CBI inquiry into defection of 12 party MLAs to KCR’s party

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

Telangana Congress demanded a CBI investigation into the alleged poaching of its MLA by the erstwhile TRS between 2014 and 2019

News Reports

Former BSP minister Yakub Qureshi and his son arrested for running an unlicensed meat business

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

BSP Yakub Qureshi arrested with charges of running an unlicensed business of meat packaging and processing

News Reports

Delhi Kanjhawala hit and drag case: Anjali and Nidhi fought over money before the accident, alleges the victim’s friend

ANI - 7 January, 2023

A friend of Anjali claimed that both the deceased and Nidhi had an altercation over money while partying at a hotel.

Politics

Did you get 2 crore jobs: Mallikarjun Kharge left red-faced as the crowd responded with a resounding ‘yes’

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

The Congress supporters, who had gathered to listen to Mallikarjun Kharge, cheered in affirmation when asked if they got jobs under BJP government

News Reports

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi registered as a voter in two different assembly constituencies: Congress

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

Telangana Congress alleged that AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi is registered as a voter in two separate assembly constituencies

Social Media

‘He is Vijender, not a dog’: Netizens react after Congress shares Rahul Gandhi’s pictures with a dog, boxer Vijender Singh as BJY enters Haryana

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

Congress shared pictures of Rahul Gandhi walking along with a dog, boxer Vijender Singh, and others.

Opinions

‘Dear Suniel, rotten apples have ruined the industry, and it’s not 1%’ – A Stupid Common Man

Anurag - 7 January, 2023

Many of your colleagues think it is a sinister plot against the film industry. As if some Asuras in the form of fanatics have risen from Narak to boycott Bollywood as part of some evil plan.

News Reports

ISIS operative arrested by NIA turns out to be Karnataka Congress leader Thajuddin Sheikh’s son: Details

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

NIA has confirmed that one of the ISIS operatives arrested on Thursday, Reshaan Sheikh is the son of Karnataka Congress leader Thajuddin Sheikh

News Reports

First phase of Bihar caste census begins, CM Nitish Kumar says it will allow government to work for the development of all

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

As per an estimation, nearly five lakh government employees will be required to complete the caste survey by May this year.

World

Jack Ma to relinquish control of fintech giant Ant Group

ANI - 7 January, 2023

Jack Ma is said to have exercised control over the company through related entities, according to Ant's initial public offering (IPO) prospectus filed with the exchanges in 2020.

News Reports

‘Nafrat ki Zameen’: RJD leader says Ram Mandir in Ayodhya is being built on the land of hatred

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

"Ram will not remain in our hearts but inside the four walls (of the temple). This is beyond my understanding," Jagadanand Singh said.

News Reports

Air India peeing case: Accused Shankar Mishra arrested from Bengaluru

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

This comes after accused Shankar Mishra, who was absconding since the incident came to light, issued a statement through his lawyers claiming that he had paid ‘compensation’ to the victim and the lady displayed no intention of lodging a complaint.

News Reports

Twitter data leaked, leaves 23.5 crore users vulnerable to hackers: Reports

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

Alon Gal added that hackers will also attempt to compromise political accounts and crypto Twitter accounts using the leaked data.

News Reports

‘I think I’m in trouble’: Accused Shankar Mishra told co-passenger after urinating on a female passenger on the Air India flight

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2023

Sugata Bhattacharjee, a US-based doctor of audiology and Mishra’s co-passenger on the Air India flight said that the accused had downed four glasses of single malt during lunch.

News Reports

‘Leave BJP or we will kill you and your family’: Lashkar-e-Khalsa sends messages to BJP leaders, threatens to target BJP, RSS and Indian Army

OpIndia Staff - 6 January, 2023

Lashkar-e-Khalsa sends messages to BJP leaders threatening kill them and their families, says they will target BJP, RSS and Indian Army

News Reports

‘Former Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar and her family were involved in forgery case’: BJP leader Kirit Somaiya

ANI - 6 January, 2023

Kirit Somaiya said Kishori Pednekar submitted false documents to register her son's company Kish Corporate.

News Reports

Research explains how climate change can trigger extreme weather conditions in the Indian Ocean

ANI - 6 January, 2023

Researchers studied how climate change can cause seawater temperatures on one side of the Indian Ocean to be so much warmer or cooler than that on the other side.

News Reports

‘Deeply disturbing’: US-based company Wells Fargo sacks VP Shankar Mishra for urinating on a woman on an Air India flight

OpIndia Staff - 6 January, 2023

Shankar Mishra, accused of urinating on a woman on an Air India flight from New York to New Delhi in November 2022, has been fired from his US financial services firm Wells Fargo

News Reports

DGCA recommends ‘handcuff-like devices’ to control unruly passengers on board

ANI - 6 January, 2023

The DGCA has advised airlines to have restraining devices such as handcuff to control unruly passengers.

News Reports

‘Non-Muslims are our enemies, our children should understand this’, says radical Canadian cleric Sheikh Younus Kathrada in a viral video

OpIndia Staff - 6 January, 2023

Sheikh Younus Kathrada said, "I want our children to understand this well. The non-Muslims are the enemies of Allah therefore they are your enemies."

Crime

Bhopal: Faizan Abbas poses as Shaan Pandit to trap a Dalit minor, rapes and converts her to Islam; arrested along with a doctor who...

OpIndia Staff - 6 January, 2023

In another case of love jihad, a man named Faizan Abbas trapped a Dalit minor by posing as a Hindu, and later raped her.

News Reports

DGCA issues guidelines to handle ‘unruly passengers’ over mid-air urination incidents

ANI - 6 January, 2023

The DGCA issues guidelines to airlines in the wake of back-to-back two urination incidents on Air India flights.

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