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85,000 crores approved by Defence Ministry for Zorawar light tanks, mounted howitzers, and guided bombs for the Indian Armed Forces

ANI -
According to Defence officials, the proposals include six for the Indian Army, six for the Indian Air Force, 10 for the Indian Navy and two for the Indian Coast Guard for a total value of Rs 84,328 crore.
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News Reports

Maharashtra govt announces SIT probe into Disha Salian death case after BJP MLA demanded narco test of Aaditya Thackeray in the case

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Last month CBI had refuted media reports claiming that it concluded that death of Disha Salian was accidental, saying they didn't probe the case
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News Reports

Kidneys slit into half, entire skin peeled off: Doctors performing autopsy express horror at the brutality with which Dildar Ansari chopped his wife Rubika

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The Dumka doctors who conducted autopsy of Rubika Pahadan's body parts, who was butchered by her husband Dildar Ansari, stated that they had never performed such an autopsy in their entire medical career
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News Reports

Rajasthan HC rejects Robert Vadra’s plea to quash Bikaner land deal case; Vadra threatens to file a case against reporters asking questions over the...

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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi's husband Robert Vadra is accused of a land deal scam in Bikaner.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Session Court sends Kaleem, Hafiz, Umar, Razak, and 36 others to 7 years in prison in an 8-year-old riots case in Khandwa

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There were a total of 47 accused in the case, including four minors who were released while one of the accused died. Out of the remaining 42, two got acquitted, and 40 were convicted.
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News Reports

AAP’s free power scheme in Punjab hits govt pockets, state govt’s power subsidy bills to be nearly Rs 23,000 crore this fiscal

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Punjab govt is expected to pay a whopping amount of Rs 22,962 crore in electricity subsidies to various categories
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News Reports

As letter by ex-employee emerges claiming non-payment for months, rumours of India Ahead closing down emerge: What channel sources say

OpIndia Staff -
While reports said India Ahead channel has been shut down, the channel is still broadcasting and is available on DTH platforms
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News Reports

The Citizen glorifies Mukul Sinha in a profile of his wife Nirjhari Sinha, but forgets to mention his role in spreading misinformation about Godhra...

Gopal Tiwari -
'Scientist' turned 'activist' Mukul Sinha was at the forefront of spreading misinformation regarding the Godhra carnage that has now been propagated widely as facts despite evidence showing otherwise.
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Entertainment

Uorfi Javed denies being detained in Dubai for wearing revealing clothes: Here is what happened

OpIndia Staff -
Uorfi has clarified that although the police officers did arrive at the shooting location, she was neither detained nor the police had any objection to her skimpy outfit. 
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News Reports

Central govt to install 22 new mobile towers along the LAC in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh

ANI -
The government has taken the initiative to improve mobile connectivity along the bordering areas, aiming at good mobile connectivity to security forces and civilians.
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News Reports

Modi govt launches incentive scheme under Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, digital health solution providers to get incentives up to ₹4 crore

OpIndia Staff -
Hospitals, labs and digital health solution providers will get incentives up to Rs 4 crore under Digital Health Incentive Scheme
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News Reports

Viral image shows Joe Biden grabbing Zelenskyy by his posterior: Is the image real? Here’s a fact check

Anurag -
Viral image showed President Joe Biden placing hand on President Zelenskyy’s posterior, here is the truth
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OpIndia Explains

Islamic clerics have labeled “Merry Christmas” as ‘unIslamic’ and ‘haram’ for years: Here is what the scriptures and scholars say

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Islamic Scholars believe that Muslims wishing 'Merry Christmas' to other is a sin. However, wishing 'Happy New Year' is okay, they say.
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News Reports

Mainstream media spins report to claim Dalit man thrashed by ‘upper caste’ youths for ‘accidentally touching food’ in UP: Here is the truth

राहुल पाण्डेय -
Mainstream media spins a fight over food, triggered by an old dispute in Uttar Pradesh's Gonda dicsrict into a case of 'casteism and untouchability'
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OpIndia Explains

Tribal women losing lives and land over ‘love’ – A deep dive into land grabbing menace through ‘love jihad’ in Jharkhand

Anurag -
One of the main reasons behind luring tribal women for marriage is the law (Chota Nagpur Tenancy Act or CNT Act and Santhal Parganas Tenancy (SPT) Act in the case of Jharkhand, that prohibits the sale and purchase of tribal land to anyone who does not belong to the tribal communities.
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News Reports

Congress leader Jitendra Singh Alwar threatens journalist Aman Chopra with legal action over video of Rahul Gandhi patting his back

OpIndia Staff -
In the 20-second clip, Rahul Gandhi was seen tapping Jitendra Singh Alwar and pointing to the ground, after which the latter bent down to tie his shoelaces.
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News Reports

As global media reports ring alarm over rising Covid cases in China, Global Times, the CCP mouthpiece says ‘all is well’

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) on December 22 expressed concerns over the unprecedented wave of Covid cases in China and asked it to accelerate vaccination of the most vulnerable.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Woman named Urvi Vaishnav brutally murdered, dumped in a river by her live-in partner Riyaz Khan for asking him to marry her

OpIndia Staff -
According to police, the deceased woman and the accused were in a live in relationship. The accused Riyaz Khan is already married and some reports say he has 3 wives.
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Entertainment

‘Naatu Naatu’ from ‘RRR’ shortlisted for Oscars in ‘Best Original Song’ category, Gujarati film ‘Chhello Show’ shortlisted too

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'RRR' was nominated in two categories, 'Best Picture - Non-English Language' and 'Original Song - Motion Picture'. 
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News Reports

India offers 280 million dollars to war-torn Syria for building a power plant and steel plant

ANI -
Ruchira Kamboj also said that India has been extending humanitarian, technical and developmental assistance to Syria through bilateral and multilateral channels. Consignments of food and medicines have been supplied to Syria from time to time, including during the pandemic.
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News Reports

No vandalism at ‘make-shift’ prayer room for Christians in Burari, Delhi Police says

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The police informed that no tenant has been dispossessed and neither was any incident of vandalism, theft, medicolegal intervention or trespassing reported. 
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News Reports

Kirti Azad shares photoshopped image to insult PM Modi, Himanta Biswa Sarma slams him for insulting culture of Meghalaya

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Kirti Azad also included a derogatory caption to the photoshopped image in his tweet.
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News Reports

Sanjay Raut compares Maharashtra-Karnataka border with Indo-China border, says ‘will enter Karnataka just like China entered India’

Gopal Tiwari -
Sanjay Raut said, "They said that we will not give an inch to China but China entered. Just like China entered, we will also enter Karnataka. We don't need anyone's permission to enter.
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News Reports

4 cases of BF.7 variant, driving China’s Covid-19 surge, found in India

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The BF.7 variant of the coronavirus has reportedly powered the recent surge of COVID-19 cases in China.
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News Reports

MP: Moin Khan poses as ‘Monu Verma’ to entrap a Hindu girl, caught and handed over to the police by Bajrang Dal

OpIndia Staff -
The Bajrang Dal activists caught Moin Khan indulging in obscene acts with a Hindu girl at Treasure Island Mall in Indore, Madhya Pradesh
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News Reports

Congress refuses to implement Covid protocol in Bharat Jodo Yatra as advised by govt, alleges BJP is alarmed and wants to detail the yatra

OpIndia Staff -
Congress cries foul after health minister advised them to exercise caution in Bharat Jodo Yatra amid surge in Covid cases in China
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Politics

Congress leader shares Rahul Gandhi’s shoe pic to prove another Congress leader did not bow down to tie his shoelace

OpIndia Staff -
Supriya Shrinate of Congress shared Rahul Gandhi's shoe pic on Twitter to 'fact-check' Amit Malviya
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World

Saudi Arabia bans abaya in the exam halls, asks female students to conform to prescribed uniforms

OpIndia Staff -
Abaya is an Arabic term for a long, loose outer garment. The government has banned women from wearing it in the exam halls.
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Opinions

From creating Islamic Terrorism to toppling governments to inventing fake Saffron Terror: the white man’s sophisticated suited-booted terror

Virender Kapoor -
The white man’s terror: The white dominated USA and Europe are behind the unrest, war and terrorism all over the world
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News Reports

‘COVID retreated because of Jesus, Christianity responsible for India’s development’: Telangana Health Director G Srinivas Rao

OpIndia Staff -
Telangana Health Director G Srinivas Rao said it was because of the grace of Jesus Christ that India was spared from COVID-19.
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News Reports

Aussie sociologist Dr Salvatore Babones shames Newslaundry for editing his interview, video suddenly vanishes from YouTube

OpIndia Staff -
Dr Salvatore Babones called out Newslaundry for sharing aggressively edited clips of his interview.
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News Reports

Three more places in India included in the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites

OpIndia Staff -
Gujarat's Vadnagar, Modhera Sun Temple and Tripura's Unakoti have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites tentative list.
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News Reports

As Covid cases surge in China amid the failure of its vaccines, here is how ‘liberals’ had hailed China to run down India’s vaccination...

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Indian liberals showed Indian vaccination program in bad light and hailed China
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News Reports

Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu tests covid positive after he attends Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra

OpIndia Staff -
Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu was going to meet PM Modi in Delhi. Now the meeting is postponed.
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News Reports

Manipur: Several school students feared dead in a bus accident during a study tour

OpIndia Staff -
The injured students were given first aid at the Bishnupur district hospital and then referred to Raj Medicity hospital in Imphal - the capital of Manipur.
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News Reports

US allots $200 million for gender equity and equality programs in Pakistan, 20 times increase from $10 million given in 2020

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Despite giving such huge aid to Pakistan, everything the US gets in return is a protest for disrespecting Islam.
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News Reports

Afghanistan: Male students walk out in protest after Taliban bans women’s entry into universities

OpIndia Staff -
Several male students at the Nangarhar University in Jalalabad and at Kandahar University in Afghanistan staged a protest and expressed solidarity with the women. The male students walked out of the examination hall at the University and stood by women's rights in the country.
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World

China’s resurgent coronavirus crisis is a scathing indictment of its inefficacious homemade vaccines

Jinit Jain -
China's resurgent coronavirus outbreak is a message to the CCP to end its boondoggle of homemade vaccines.
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News Reports

US court dismisses Hindu American Foundation’s defamation suit against Audrey Truschke, IAMC, and others despite ‘verifiably false’ statements

OpIndia Staff -
US District Judge Amit Mehta although dismissed the defamation suit filed by HAF, noted that Hindus for Human Rights co-founder Sunita Vishwanath’s claim that HAF has parent organisations in India is “plausibly verifiably false.”
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News Reports

Ministry of I&B directs YouTube to take down three channels for peddling fake news

OpIndia Staff -
Ministry of I&B directs YouTube to take down three channels for spreading fake news.
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Hostels not tourist homes, says Kerala Uni in HC, says students don’t have to go out at night and should sleep when they should

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Kerala University said that people reach maturity at age 25 and any decisions taken before that need to be guided and they must stay in hostel and not enjoy nightlight.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Hindu man forcefully circumcised and converted to Islam for marrying a Muslim widow, 3 men including a doctor booked

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Kumel Kureshi and Asif Sheikh forcefully circumcised a Hindu man for the crime of marrying a Muslim widow with two daughters
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News Reports

Jains observe a one-day bandh to protest against the Jharkhand govt’s decision to turn Shri Sammed Shikharji Tirth into a tourist spot

Jinit Jain -
Jains consider Shri Sammed Shikharji as one of their holiest sites, the place where 20 Tirthankaras attained salvation.
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News Reports

PFI had links with ISIS and Al-Qaeda, ran a secret wing that made hitlist of people from other communities: NIA tells Kerala court

OpIndia Staff -
NIA told a court in Kerala that they need more time to probe activities of PFI as the group had links with ISIS and Al-Qaeda
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News Reports

Maharashtra: 17-year-old girl sexually exploited multiple times, accused Ajimoddin Sheikh arrested under POCSO

OpIndia Staff -
The accused has been booked by the Police under IPC sections 376 (2) (n), 506 and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POSCO) sections 5 (j) (2), 5 (l) and 6
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi angrily pushes down the phone of a fan who wanted a selfie with him, watch video

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Rahul Gandhi was seen shoving away the phone of a person who wanted a selfie with him.
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Entertainment

Riva Arora’s Instagram account was removed, and mother apologises to NCPCR, child actor was getting lewd comments on her posts

OpIndia Staff -
Riva Arora, who is not even a teenaged girl yet and too young to understand hypersexualisation of herself, was getting creepy and lewd comments on her Instagram where some men also said how they were masturbating to her videos.
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News Reports

Follow guidelines or postpone ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in national interest, Health Min writes to Rahul Gandhi amid surge in COVID cases in China

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ln view of the sudden spurt of cases being witnessed in Japan, USA, Korea, Brazil and China, it is essential to gear up whole genome sequencing of positive case samples to track variants.
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News Reports

Uorfi Javed detained in Dubai for shooting video in ‘revealing clothes’? Here is what we know

OpIndia Staff -
Uorfi, dressed in a ‘revealing outfit’ was shooting a video in a public place, which is restricted in Dubai. 
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Politics

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan does not invite Guv Arif Mohammad Khan for Christmas party

ANI -
Last week Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Cabinet members, and opposition leader VD Satheesan also abstained from the Christmas Party, hosted by Governor Arif Mohammad Khan, despite an invitation sent by the Rajbhavan to all of them.
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