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Air India case: Accused says he paid ‘compensation’, the victim narrates how she was coerced into a ‘settlement’ with man who urinated on her

Jhankar Mohta -
The Air India 'urinating' incident occurred on November 26, 2022, but it only came to the fore after the media reported about it on January 4, 2023.
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News Reports

Non-bailable warrant issued against Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut in defamation suit filed by Medha Somaiya

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Mumbai court warrant issues non-bailable warrant against Sanjay Raut for not appearing in court in defamation case filed by Medha Somaiya
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News Reports

Sammed Shikharji row: Another Jain monk on indefinite fasting against Jharkhand govt’s decision dies in Jaipur

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This is second such death after protests erupted against Jharkhand government’s decision on Shri Sammed Shikharji.
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News Reports

Conversion attempt using grape juice as the blood of Jesus foiled in Pune, case registered against three people

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Case filed against Sudhakar Baburao Suryavanshi and others for attempting conversion by using grape juice as blood of Jesus
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News Reports

Afghan refugees, most of them women and children, languish in Pakistani jails after escaping from Taliban

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Regarding Afghan refugees' plight, PTM's leader Manzoor Pashteen tweeted, "Afghan girls are deprived of knowledge in Afghanistan and innocent Afghan girls are imprisoned in Pakistan". In response to this tweet, a Sindh Government Minister questioned these claims.
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News Reports

Israeli minister visits Al Aqsa mosque, built on holy Jewish site: Here is how UN, Palestine and ‘liberals’ lost their mind

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The Israeli Minister also drew the ire of the Foreign Ministry of Jordan, which condemned him for violating the 'sanctity' of the mosque.
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News Reports

Iraq: 17-year-old girl attacked by dozens of Muslim men in Kurdistan for coming to watch a bike race and causing ‘distraction’

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Kurdistan Watch described the Hwana suburb, where the attack took place as one of the most unsafe areas in Sulaimani adding that the place is known for the widespread use of drugs.
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News Reports

Amit Shah inaugurates the Marjing Polo statue in Imphal: Know about the Meitei Deity associated with Sagol Kangjei

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In Meitei mythology, Marjing is a primordial deity with significant mythological and theological importance.
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News Reports

Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar announces 50% hike in salary of Muslim clerics, makes provision for a 5% hike every year

OpIndia Staff -
Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar announced a staggering hike of 50 per cent in the salaries of Imams and Maulanas in the state.
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World

WHO slams China for ‘underreporting’ COVID-19 cases, ‘too narrow’ definition of infected deaths

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WHO has criticised China for understating the extent of COVID-19 outbreak sweeping the country and deaths related to it.
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News Reports

Clashes erupt between BJP and AAP members before Delhi Mayor Elections inside Civic Centre

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BJP and AAP members clashed over the swearing-in ceremony of the nominated councillors to the Delhi body.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Training aircraft crashes into a temple in Rewa; one pilot dead

OpIndia Staff -
The plane crashed 3 km away from Chorhatta airstrip in Madhya Pradesh after hitting the dome of a temple.
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News Reports

Saudi Arabia govt agents infiltrated Wikipedia to control content, imprisoned two independent Wikipedia administrators: Report

OpIndia Staff -
A report by DAWN and SMEX report claim that the Saudi government in 2020 arrested two top-ranking Wikipedia administrators
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News Reports

Delhi Police arrests 6th accused in the Kanjhawala hit and run case, says he tried to mislead investigation by lying about driver’s identity

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Delhi police have arrested the 6th accused in Kanjhawala death case and are in the lookout for the 7th accused
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News Reports

Bengal: Md Ansarul chops his wife Renuka into 2 pieces, drowns body parts in the Mahananda river canal

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The accused identified as Mohammad Ansarul made this admission during police interrogation, ten days after his wife had gone missing. The family members of the deceased, Renuka Khatun lodged a missing complaint on December 24 last year.
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News Reports

US: Liberal arts professor fired for showing Muhammad paintings, President of varsity says respect for Muslim feelings should supersede academic freedom

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A female Professor was reportedly fired for showing the picture of Prophet Muhammad to her students during a global art history class at Hamline University in Minnesota in the United States.
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News Reports

‘Ram Mandir will be destroyed like 360 idols of Kaaba’: Al Qaeda’s Ghazwa-e-Hind magazine asks Indian Muslims to wage war against ‘Hindu’ rule.

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Calling the Indian governance system a 'hell of secularism', it urges Indian Muslims to abandon the ideas of co-existence with non-Muslims.
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Law

‘Divorced Muslim women are entitled to maintenance beyond Iddat period until remarriage’: What the Allahabad High Court said

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Allahabad High Court held that a divorced Muslim woman is entitled to maintenance from her ex-husband for the rest of her life until she remarries and not only till the completion of Iddat period.
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News Reports

Uttarakhand: Landslide scare in Joshimath as 561 houses develop cracks, CM Dhami to hold a high-level meeting on Friday

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Cracks have reportedly developed in as many as 561 houses in Joshimath as a result of continued land subsidence in the town, stated the District Disaster Management Department.
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News Reports

‘99% of us are good people’: Actor Suniel Shetty urges UP CM Yogi Adityanath to help stop the ‘Boycott Bollywood’ campaign

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Moreover, Suniel Shetty also asked CM Yogi to discuss the anti-Bollywood campaign with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claiming that "99% of the people" in the industry are good.
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Law

CJI Chandrachud recuses himself from hearing a contempt case against ‘comedian’ Kunal Kamra: Here is what we know so far

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Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud recused himself from hearing a contempt case against 'comedian' Kunal Kamra.
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News Reports

Punjab Vigilance Bureau registers criminal case against Congress leader and former minister along with IAS officer and 10 govt officials: Here is why

OpIndia Staff -
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) on Thursday registered a criminal case against former minister Sunder Sham Arora, Neelima, IAS, and 10 government officials
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World

Russian President Putin orders ceasefire in Ukraine over Orthodox Christmas

OpIndia Staff -
This is the first ceasefire ordered by the Russian president Putin since the Russian offensive against Ukraine began in February 2022.
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News Reports

‘Ram Mandir in Ayodhya will be ready by 1st January 2024’: Amit Shah

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Amit Shah said, "Rahul baba, open your ears and listen, on January 1, 2024, you will have the grand Ram temple in Ayodhya ready."
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News Reports

Outsiders involved in the Haldwani anti-eviction protests led by a cleric: reveals OpIndia ground report

राहुल पाण्डेय -
The Haldwani encroachers said that the Maulana who is leading the protests against the eviction is an outsider
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Social Media

Pakistani commentator confuses retired Kiwi player Danny Morrison with pornstar Dani Daniels, latter reacts after video goes viral

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Pakistani commentator Bazid Khan confused former New Zealand cricketer Danny Morrison with pornstar Dani Daniels
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News Reports

Another incident of peeing in the sky: Man urinated on female passenger’s blanket during Paris-Delhi Air India flight

OpIndia Staff -
Incident of December 6 has come to light in which a "drunk man urinated on blanket of a co-passenger" while the Air India flight was on its way from Paris to the national capital
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News Reports

‘Imran Hafeez asked many small children to come dressed in Madarsa uniforms’, reveals Minor boy who participated in the Haldwani ‘protest’

राहुल पाण्डेय -
A minor child named Mohammad Sameer told OpIndia how one Imran Hafeez had coerced him and many other children to participate in the Haldwani 'protest.'
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OpIndia Explains

As Supreme Court says 50,000 people cannot be uprooted overnight, here is how 1 lakh people were displaced during the Khori Gaon eviction

Shraddha Pandey -
On June 7, 2021, Supreme Court had directed the removal of illegal encroachments on forest land in Khori Gaon, a village at the foothills of the eco-sensitive Aravallis in Haryana’s Faridabad within six weeks.
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News Reports

Central govt stays Jharkhand Govt’s decision to convert Shri Sammed Shikharji Tirth into a tourist hub, orders to protect the sanctity of Jain shrine

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The Central govt has asked Jharkhand Govt to halt all tourist activities at the Shri Sammed Shikharji Tirth with immediate effect
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News Reports

“Bahar nikalne ke baad dekh lunga”: jailed AAP minister Satyender Jain threatens and intimidates Tihar officials, complaint filed

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Tihar Jail authorities have filed a complaint against Satyender Jain with the Director-General (Prisons), accusing him of threatening them
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News Reports

DGCA issues show cause notice to Air India over the incident of urination in a flight from JFK to Delhi

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The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Thursday issued Show Cause notices to Air India, crew members and pilots of the New York-Delhi flight in connection with the urination incident onboard on November 26 last year.
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As videos showing journalist tutoring Haldwani encroachers emerge, time to recall how it’s not new for ‘liberal media’ to tutor and twist for setting...

Anurag -
Journalists and activists have been caught tutoring the witnesses what to speak on camera, as seen in viral videos from Haldwani
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Crime

Urdu teacher Dilshad takes Maulvi Wasim from Panipat to Kairana, beats him to death, and buries him in an under-construction house

OpIndia Staff -
The accused Dilshad told the police that he had taken the deceased Wasim to Kairana on the pretext of getting him a job.
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Zakir flashes his private part at a woman passenger in DTC bus in Delhi, pretends to cry when caught by marshal: Watch

Jhankar Mohta -
A DTC marshal caught and confronted Zakir after he allegedly flashed his private part at a female passenger on a bus in Delhi
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Kanjhawala Death Case: Delhi police deny the possibility of murder charges, 7 accused identified so far

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The police have denied the possibility of any murder charges on the accused in this case. Delhi Police have also revealed that there are 7 accused in the case, and not just 5
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CPIM women’s wing AIDWA uses former Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto’s face for its national conference

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CPIM women's wing used a picture of Pakistan’s former PM Benazir Bhutto as the cover photo for their upcoming national conference.
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California: Indian-origin man drives his Tesla off 300-foot cliff in a suicide attempt, family of four survives crash

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The driver of the car, Dharmesh Patel of Pasadena, California, is being treated for his injuries and will be booked into San Mateo County Jail upon his release from the hospital, according to CHP.
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Cracks in houses, families relocated: Severe landslides continue to cause concern in Joshimath, Uttarakhand

OpIndia Staff -
On Monday night, there were major cracks in 50 residential buildings of JP Company in the Marwari ward of Joshimath.
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OpIndia Scoops

‘Muslim crowd, Arfa, religion… speak in Hindi, not Urdu’: Haldwani encroachers being trained by journalist claiming to be from The Wire

राहुल पाण्डेय -
A journalist who claimed to be with The Wire can be heard tutoring illegal encroachers at Haldwani who have been protesting against High Court order of their removal.
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Supreme Court stays demolition drive to clear illegal encroachment from Railways land in Haldwani, says there has to be rehabilitation before eviction

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The apex court Thursday put a stay on the matter of the removal of encroachment from Indian Railways land in Haldwani, Uttarakhand
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‘Hockey comes home’: As Odisha gears up to host Hockey World Cup, Birsa Munda Stadium, world’s largest, to be inaugurated today by CM Patnaik

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When the Indian national hockey teams, both Men's and Women's, were struggling to find a sponsor around 2018, CM Naveen Patnaik had come forward, and opened Odisha's purse, and heart for hockey.
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News Reports

‘Don’t talk about religion, don’t wear saffron, become modern’, Maharashtra Congress leader Hussain Dalwai mocks UP CM Yogi Adityanath

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Maharashtra Congress leader Hussain Dalwai mocked the customary saffron robe of UP CM Yogi Adityanath, stating the latter should junk saffron and instead dress more contemporarily
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Crime

Maharashtra: Sameer Saleem Patel lures a minor Hindu girl, rapes her several times on the pretext of marriage, booked

OpIndia Staff -
The accused has been sexually assaulting the victim girl since June last year. The case has been registered under section 376 (n) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), sections 4 and 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO), and sections 3 (1) (w), 3 (2) (v) of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.
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Kerala: Muslim politicians and organisations outrage after state-run school festival depicts a terrorist as a Muslim

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Muslim organizations slammed Kerala government for allegedly sanctioning an ‘Islamophobic’ program at Kerala School Kalolsavam
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Law

‘Dogs aren’t humans’, Bombay HC imposes fine on State for filing FIR against delivery boy for ‘killing’ a dog by ‘rash driving’

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The Bombay HC quashed an FIR against a Swiggy delivery executive who had accidentally mowed down a stray dog while delivering a food parcel
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News Reports

“If I open my mouth, your Dhoti, Pyjama…”: Prashant Kishor takes a dig at Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav over party funding

OpIndia Staff -
Prashant Kishor accused Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav of looting the money of the poor people of Bihar.
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News Reports

OpIndia Exclusive: Streets named as per ‘Line Number’ after ‘Railway Lines’, the inside story of encroachments in Haldwani

राहुल पाण्डेय -
As the usual suspects have jumped in to defend illegal encroachment, t the Supreme Court will hear petition against anti-encroachment drive in Haldwani January 5
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News Reports

Amazon to layoff over 18,000 employees, had fired 10,000 in November 2022

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"Between the reductions, we made in November and the ones we're sharing today, we plan to eliminate just over 18,000 roles. Several teams are impacted; however, the majority of role eliminations are in our Amazon Stores and PXT organizations," CEO Andy Jassy said in a statement.
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Assam: Hindu minor girl allegedly kidnapped by a married Muslim man recovered

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According to the reports, the 17-year-old girl was missing since December 31 and the family members lodged a complaint at Duliajan police station on January 1.
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