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Internet explodes with memes over report of Mickey Arthur’s appointment as “online coach” of Pakistan Cricket Team

OpIndia Staff -
While the story can not be confirmed as yet, the very idea of an online coach baffled everyone, including the chairman of selectors in Pakistan, Shahid Afridi.
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News Reports

Visakhapatnam to be Andhra Pradesh’s new capital, says CM Jagan Mohan Reddy, pitches for investment in the coastal city

OpIndia Staff -
On November 28 last year, the Supreme Court stayed in time both directions passed by High Court. The High Court had issued directions to construct and develop Amaravati's capital city and capital region within six months' time. The Supreme Court stated that the directions had set out unrealistic timelines.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: 13-year-old boy raped by a madarsa teacher who had lured him five months ago under the pretext of teaching him the Quran

OpIndia Staff -
A 13-year-old minor boy was raped by a Maulvi at Aisha Madarsa in the Loni area of Uttar Pradesh .
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News Reports

Breaking down Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra: How everything was planned but portrayed as ‘spontaneous people’s movement’

OpIndia Staff -
From snacks to toilets to where Rahul Gandhi would stop for breaks - everything was broken down to last detail for 'Bharat Jodo Yatra'
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News Reports

‘There was no other way except to physically enter the Golden Temple’: Operation Bluestar hero recounts final nail in the coffin of Bhindranwale

OpIndia Staff -
"It is our diaspora who have gone abroad who are more pro-Khalistan and all that than those who are in India,” Lt General Brar emphasised.
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Opinions

Adani, Hindenburg, short-selling and how it is all about Markets being at work: Salient aspects of the saga worth pondering over

Ganesh R -
Hindenburg report on Adani Group has stirred a lot of interest but there are some salient points that we need to discuss
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News Reports

Kanpur: Shahnawaz lures a Dalit girl under the pretext of getting her a job; tries to burn her alive when she resists conversion to...

OpIndia Staff -
In Kanpur, a Dalit girl accused one Shahnawaz of holding her hostage for 25 days and torturing her to embrace Islam.
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News Reports

Prayagraj-based Agri university officials, Chancellor and VC booked for illegal conversions. Old cases, funds being probed

OpIndia Staff -
The FIR was filed based on the complaint registered by a University's former student named Savendra Vikram Singh on January 20. The complainant stated that he was forced to convert his religion to Christianity in exchange for a job, money, and 'marriage to a beautiful girl' in Fatehpur.
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News Reports

Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed renames Al Minhad area to ‘Hind City’, but it may not mean what you think it means

OpIndia Staff -
Hind bint Maktoum Al Maktoum, the senior wife of Dubai rule Sheikh Mohammed, married him on 26 April 1979 in a grand ceremony.
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News Reports

American weapons that fell into the hands of the Taliban after US forces withdrew from Afghanistan are surfacing in Kashmir: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan-backed terrorists operating in Kashmir have been observed to be using M4 carbine assault rifles, M16 rifles and other US-made arms and ammunition
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News Reports

Bharat Jodo Yatra’s end disappoints Congress, only 8 of 23 invited political parties show up to mark final event in Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
While HD Deve Gowda of the JD(S) and Rajiv Ranjan 'Lalan' Singh of the JD(U) had written to Congress head Mallikarjun Kharge expressing their inability to attend the occasion, leaders of the Trinamool Congress, RJD, Samajwadi Party, and CPI(M) failed to attend too. Shiv Sena (Thackeray), NCP, TDP, BSP, RLSP, HAM, MDMK, and Kerala Congress also skipped the meeting. 
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Kasganj youth Aarif abducts Hindu minor girl, his brothers Tahir, Abid issue death threats to victim’s family, booked

OpIndia Staff -
The minor girl was alone at home when her family members had reportedly gone to the fields for their jobs. Aarif, who stays in same village kidnapped her.
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News Reports

Australia: Tiny radioactive capsule ‘smaller than human fingernail’ goes missing, now they are searching for it along a 1400 km long road

OpIndia Staff -
A tiny capsule of Cesium-137, the size of 6mm x 8mm, smaller than a coin and smaller than the average human fingernail, has gone missing after it fell away from a transport truck.
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News Reports

Canada: Khalistanis deface Hindu temple with anti-India graffiti in Brampton

OpIndia Staff -
In September last year, some Khalistani terrorists defaced BAPS Swaminarayan Temple in Toronto with anti-India slogans.
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News Reports

Italian woman arrested after she assaults cabin crew, gets partially naked for being denied free business class upgrade: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Paola Perruccio was produced before a court in Andheri, which granted her bail on a surety bond of ₹25000.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Sikh family abused, threatened with murder by local Muslims in Jacobabad, Sindh

OpIndia Staff -
Harish Singh, a Sikh man from Jacobabad, SIndh has stated that the local Muslims have threatened to kill him and his daughters.
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News Reports

The truth of ‘special screening’ of Pathaan at Rashrapati Bhavan, which wasn’t special at all: Details

OpIndia Staff -
On Sunday, January 29, the news spread that a "special screening" of the Shah Rukh Khan starrer Pathaan was held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. However, a basic check tells us that it wasn't so special.
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News Reports

From ‘I have killed Rahul Gandhi’ to ‘pigs joined the yatra’:Revisiting gems of Rahul Gandhi as Bharat Jodo Yatra comes to an end

OpIndia Staff -
At various stages during this Yatra, Rahul Gandhi went on to prove that the 50th attempt at his grand political launch ended up portraying himself as more miserable than ever.
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News Reports

‘Anyone supporting Delhi, whether Hindu, Sikh or Muslim, is our enemy’: Pro-Khalistan leader Amritpal Singh

OpIndia Staff -
Pro-Khalistani Sikh leader Amritpal Singh called every Hindu, Sikh and Muslim supporting the Indian government his enemy.
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News Reports

‘When you lock a bogey, set it on fire and pelt stones, it is not just stone pelting’: Gujarat Govt opposes the bail plea...

OpIndia Staff -
The Gujarat government counsel argued that Godhra train carnage was a deliberate act of homicide and not mere stone-pelting.
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Islamist terror organisation Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claims responsibility for the attack on Peshawar mosque

OpIndia Staff -
Islamist terror outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the bombing in Peshawar mosque in Pakistan
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News Reports

UP: Mohammad Salim among 5 arrested for desecrating Ramcharitmanas in support of SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya

OpIndia Staff -
UP Police arrested five persons for the desecration of the holy Hindu scripture Ramcharitmanas in Lucknow on January 29.
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Rahul Gandhi repeats his story about poor kids and ‘t-shirts in winter’, but fails to realise he has already told the same story earlier

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi said, "These kids are not able to wear a jacket, so I should not wear any."
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Credentials of Teesta Setalvad’s organisation CJP in “serious doubt”: MHA says as it opposes plea by CJP against illegal conversion laws

OpIndia Staff -
Ministry of Home Affairs also told the Supreme Court that Teesta led CJP is guilty of collecting huge funds and exploiting riot-affected people for which, criminal proceedings are going on against its office bearer, Teesta Setalvad.
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World

‘Personally, I thought he was dour’: Ex-US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Xi Jinping ‘most unpleasant’ leader he met

OpIndia Staff -
In his latest book, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has described Xi Jinping as the "most unpleasant" leader.
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News Reports

‘Raised funds for the banned outfit, trained terrorists in IEDs’: NIA files chargesheet against 2 CPI(M) terrorists for reviving terror network

OpIndia Staff -
The CPI (M) terrorists sought funds to revive the terror network, purchase arms, and provide training to terrorists.
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News Reports

Abu Dhabi-based International Holding Company to invest USD 400 Million in Adani enterprises’ FPO

ANI -
The release added this is the second investment deal International Holding Company has completed with India's Adani Group after last year's USD 2 billion investment
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Rajasthan: Two Muslim groups clash during annual Urs celebration at Ajmer Dargah, fight reported between Barelvi and Khadims

OpIndia Staff -
The dispute took place on the sixth night of the ongoing annual urs at the Ajmer dargah. The meeting of Sadarat was going on at the time of the incident. There was a lot of crowd in this meeting.
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OpIndia Explains

BBC Documentary: How Islamist ‘students’ groups wanted to orchestrate Shaheen Bagh style protests and defame India during ongoing G20 presidency

Nirwa Mehta -
BBC documentary and Anti-CAA protests followed by February 2020 Delhi riots: What connects the two?
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News Reports

2022 Gorakhnath Temple attack: NIA Court awards death penalty to Ahmad Murtaza Abbasi, who had links to ISIS

OpIndia Staff -
In India, the provision of the death penalty is reserved for the 'rarest of rare' cases that shake the conscience of society.
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Opinions

‘Why support Adani Group just because ‘liberals’ are attacking it?’ The question has right-wing divided on Twitter

Jinit Jain -
While Congress and Left have been visceral in their attack against Adani, the entire saga has the right wing divided.
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News Reports

Pakistan: 28 killed, 150 injured as suicide bomber blows himself up inside Peshawar Police Lines mosque

OpIndia Staff -
Suicide attack at a mosque in Pakistan left 28 dead and 150 injured.
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News Reports

Farah traps Dushyant Chaudhary in a love affair and forces him to convert to Islam; unable to withstand pressure to convert, Dushyant commits suicide

OpIndia Staff -
In Meerut, Dushyant Chaudhary, a Hindu man, was pushed towards suicide after his wife Farah and in-laws forced him to convert to Islam
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Opinions

Can India be considered a superpower if it can’t slay the demon? How we can deal with the existential threat of radical Islam

Moorthy S. Muthuswamy -
Does India deserve to be considered a major power if it cannot slay the demon? To be clear, threat of radical Islam is existential
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‘UN Security Council needs to be reformed’: UNGA President Csaba Korosi praises India’s call for peace in Ukraine

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"G20 was created in a time of a major crisis. It was a financial meltdown and the G20 was created to launch action. It is up to the members of the G20, to run this platform to lead the world," Korosi said.
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As Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra comes to an end, here are 11 incidents that show BJY was in fact ‘Bharat Todo Yatra’

Anurag -
Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra ended on January 30, here is a list of incidents that prove it was more of a 'Bharat Todo Yatra'.
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Entertainment

Dilip Kumar’s old video, where he talks about boldly shutting down Indira Gandhi’s criticism of ‘poor films’ in Bollywood, goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
This speech by the late actor explains why the films made in the first few decades after Indian independence, during the Congress rule, highlighted poverty.
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News Reports

As out-on-bail AltNews co-founder Mohammed Zubair attacks NDTV over Adani, netizens remind him of his own convenient silence

OpIndia Staff -
A Twitter user reminded Mohammed Zubair how he never tweeted about the Time report about him being in the race for Nobel Peace Prize.
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World

Shadow unit of UK army secretly spied on citizens who criticised Govt’s Covid lockdown policies: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Reports have emerged suggesting that the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence extensively monitored the social media accounts of citizens who were critical of the government's Covid-19 measures
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UP police books OBC Mahasabha members and Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya for burning copies of Ramcharitmanas in Lucknow

OpIndia Staff -
The Lucknow police in Uttar Pradesh has booked Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya and Akhil Bharatiya OBC Mahasabha members after latter burnt copies of Ramcharitmanas
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Congress leaders skip the all-party meeting ahead of the Budget Session

ANI -
According to government sources both Mallikarjun Kharge and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury were held up due to the ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra that culminated in Srinagar today.
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Islamists take out a protest march in Lahore over the burning of Quran in Sweden while fellow citizens fight over food

OpIndia Staff -
While hundreds of fellow citizens have been rioting over food shortages, some have taken to the streets in Lahore to protest the burning of a copy of the Quran in Sweden
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Bangladesh: Hindu teacher suspended after being accused of blasphemy by Muslim students. Here is what we know so far

Dibakar Dutta -
"They quoted me out of context. I cannot understand why did they do it to me," the Hindu teacher told BDNews24.
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Mumbai: Man arrested for stealing silver and gold articles from a temple disguising himself as a Jain devotee

ANI -
The accused used to gamble with the money received after selling the stolen temple articles, a senior police officer said.
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Delhi police arrests two over pro-Khalistan graffiti painted on walls around the national capital, probe underway

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi Police arrested two pro-Khalistani men in connection to Khalistani graffiti on walls in several areas of Delhi
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West Bengal: TMC goons assault BJP workers returning after listening to PM Modi’s Mann ki Baat, MLA names Rezaul, Abdul and Judail

OpIndia Staff -
According to BJP MLA (Asansol South) Agnimitra Paul, TMC goons led by Rezaul Gazi, Abdul Dhali and Judail Molla attacked the BJP workers with iron rods and sticks.
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London: Indian diaspora protests outside BBC headquarters, calls out media house for propaganda against Hindus and biased narrative

OpIndia Staff -
Indian diaspora protested against BBC's documentary on Gujarat Riots
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‘Conflict of interest, calculated attack on India’: Adani Group responds to claims of Hindenburg Research report with a 413-page response

OpIndia Staff -
The Indian conglomerate also responded to the 88 question raised by Hindenburg Research to cast aspersions on its credibility.
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Media

The Hindu Group’s Chairperson rebuffs their journalist for taking a dig on Hindu gods while mocking EAM Dr Jaishankar

OpIndia Staff -
Parthasarathy was reacting to The Hindu journalist S. Anandan's tweet where he was mocking Dr Jaishankar's statement on how he draws foreign policy lessons from Mahabharata, the Hindu epic.
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Opinions

MK Gandhi and the pretence of the Left-Congress ecosystem of carrying forward his ideals

Amit Kelkar -
Congress has long divorced itself from the Gandhian ideals but it continues to put up with pretence of following Gandhi.
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