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AAP on track to lose deposit in all 67 seats it contested in Himachal Pradesh

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In Himachal, the party contested 67 seats and is currently on track to lose the deposit on almost all of them.
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Gujarat results: ‘Liberals’ who rant and rave day in, day out about ‘democracy in danger’ observe radio silence as BJP charts a historic win

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A sense of dismay and grief seemed to have gripped many left-leaning 'liberals' as BJP scripted a historic win in Gujarat.
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Gujarat Elections: Bhupendra Patel to take oath as next CM on December 12 after a landslide victory, PM Modi, Amit Shah to attend the...

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Bhupendra Patel will take oath as the new chief minister of Gujarat on December 12 at 2 pm, state BJP chief CR Paatil said on Thursday
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Politics

People have given a befitting reply to those who insulted Gujarat: state Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi

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As BJP inches closer to a record-breaking victory in Gujarat, state Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi on Thursday said that the people have given a befitting reply to those who insulted the state.
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News Reports

ED attaches properties worth Rs 4.5 crore belonging to former Samajwadi Party minister and gangrape convict Gayatri Prajapati

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ED attached properties of former SP minister Gayatri Prajapati, who is serving life sentence in a gangrape case
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Arvind Kejriwal had promised AAP government in Gujarat: Here’s how his two prime candidates are trailing by massive votes in assembly elections

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Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP's prime candidates, Gopal Italia and Sudan Sadhvi, are both trailing in assembly elections.
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News Reports

BCCI announces schedule of Sri Lanka, New Zealand, and Australia’s tour of India

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Sri Lanka will play 3 T20s and 3 ODIs, while New Zealand will play 3 ODIs in India, Australia will tour of India for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy
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News Reports

USA: 100s employees at The New York Times go on a 24-hour strike over poor pay and work conditions

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The employees reportedly said in a statement that the walkout was “due to the company’s failure to bargain in good faith, reach a fair contract agreement with the workers, and meet their demands.
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Assembly elections 2022: BJP heads for historical win in Gujarat, Congress likely to form govt in Himachal Pradesh

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Latest updates on initial trends, results and who will form the government in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh
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Rahul Gandhi who prefers foreign holidays over Parliament sessions, claims he is not allowed to speak in the Parliament

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“Our mics are turned off when we want to speak on China issue, demonetization or GST. Speaker (Om Birla) is from Rajasthan, they show his face 24 hours,” Gandhi said in Kota.
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News Reports

‘Lock men, set girls free’: Kerala HC criticizes restrictions on women staying at hostels, asks, ‘why curfew for girls alone?’

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The Court was hearing the plea filed by some female students of Government Medical College Kozhikode against the notification issued by college authorities restricting female students from going out of the hostel after 9.30 pm.
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News Reports

US govt clarifies India will not be added to their watchlist for religious freedom violations this year, India had slammed their previous reports as...

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The United States has made it clear that India will not be placed on its list of 'Countries of Particular Concern' or 'Special Watch list' this year for violations of religious freedom. 
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News Reports

Bharat Jodo Yatra apathy: House owner’s elderly mother denied entry while Rahul Gandhi was having breakfast, made to wait outside

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Security personnel did not let Urmila Devi go to her house as she did not have pass.
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‘We don’t have a problem with love, but with those who do jihad in the name of love’: Madhya Pradesh home minister Narottam Mishra

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Dr. Narottam Mishra said that MP govt will never allow those who are planning to convert the innocent and conspire to grab immovable property
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News Reports

CBI files chargesheet in 2016 Mathura violence case where 2 cops were killed, read how Akhilesh Yadav govt was accused of helping criminals

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CBI files chargesheet in 2016 Jawahar Bagh violence case in Mathura, 96 people named as accused
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MP: Bajrang Dal hands over love jihad accused Irfan Sheikh to police, was reportedly harassing Hindu girls outside a school in Indore

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A picture of a minor Hindu girl was found on the cellphone of Irfan Sheikh, who said that he had married her 6 months ago.
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News Reports

Historic parliamentary mandate was undone by SC using judicially evolved doctrine: VP Dhankar lambasts judiciary over scrapping of NJAC

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Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar said that NJAC was scrapped by SC using judicially evolved doctrine of 'Basic Structure' of Constitution.
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Ex-Indian Navy officers detained in Qatar are in touch with their families, embassy actively pursuing the case on priority: EAM

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During a presser on December 1, the official spokesperson of MEA, Arindam Bagchi also underlined that India is regularly responding to the case of ex-Indian Navy officers arrested in Qatar as the embassy is actively pursuing the issue.
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Counting of both Postal Ballots and EVM votes to take place simultaneously for the first time in Gujarat

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Gujarat Chief Electoral Officer P Bharati said that this time EVMs and postal ballot papers will be counted simultaneously
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Himachal Pradesh: Congress expels 30 Shimla office-bearers ahead of counting over anti-party activities

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Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee expelled 30 Shimla office-bearers for indulging in anti-party activities.
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News Reports

Absconding president of Christian organisation awarded by Dainik Bhaskar after he was named in an FIR for illegal conversion of minors

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Vivrat Lall and 9 others of a Christian organisation in Madhya Pradesh have been booked for illegal conversion of minors
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News Reports

Money laundering during Covid: NRI Academy of Sciences raided by ED for collecting large amounts of money from patients and medical students

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ED also seized cash and incriminating documents and froze the properties of various persons involved in this case.
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Delhi anti-Hindu riots accused Sharjeel Imam moves SC against Delhi HC order calling him ‘main conspirator’

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Imam wants remarks to be expunged where he has been called the 'main conspirator' and where the court said that Khalid was in constant touch with other co-accused, including Sharjeel Imam, who arguably is at the head of the conspiracy.
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Crime

Baruipur residents Sajjat and Sarfuddin killed by Abdul in a fit of rage in West Bengal, read details

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The victims, along with their friends, were having drinks with Abdul where in a fit of rage Abdul shot them.
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Chandigarh: Drunk man bites off another man’s tongue during a brawl in Dera Bassi

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Drunk man Vipul Garg allegedly bit off Harpreet Singh’s tongue during a brawl in Chandigarh
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Melinda Gates lauds Yogi governance, says UP model not only for India but for whole world

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During their discussion, Gates lauded the work done by Uttar Pradesh in recent years underlining the Covid management and encephalitis control despite a dense population. 
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News Reports

AAP workers burst firecrackers to celebrate victory in MCD polls, forget about cracker ban imposed by Kejriwal from Diwali to New Year

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On September 7 this year, Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal announced the re-imposition of a ban on manufacturing, selling, storing, and bursting firecrackers till January 1, including Diwali and other festivals.
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World

Canada: Filmmaker slams book publisher Penguin for publishing a memoir by her assailant who described the sexual assault as consensual

OpIndia Staff -
Zoe Greenberg accused Penguin Random House Canada of publishing a memoir that described her sexual assault as consensual.
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News Reports

Tihar videos effect? AAP loses all three wards in Satyendar Jain’s constituency

OpIndia Staff -
BJP candidates won all three wards in Satyendra Jain's constituency Shakurbasti, Delhi.
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Christian groups beat up each other over which direction to face while praying, 35 churches closed in Kerala

OpIndia Staff -
35 churches closed in Kerala after confrontation at St Mary’s Cathedral Basilica in Kochi over unified mass on Sundays
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MCD elections: AAP wins 132, leads in 2, BJP secures 104 while Congress manages 9

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AAP wins the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections comfortably.
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Pakistan Government locks Shaheed Bhai Taru Singh Gurdwara for worship in Lahore, declares it a ‘Mosque’

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Evacuee Trust Property Board of Pakistan shuts down Gurdwara Shaheed Bhai Taru Singh in Lahore for worship, declaring it a mosque
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6 Maharashtra trucks attacked on their entry in Karnataka, hundreds of Kannada Rakshana Vedike activists arrested for pelting stones at vehicles

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In Belagavi, security has been strengthened on all roadways bordering Maharashtra and Karnataka, and over 1,000 police officers have been posted at 21 border checkpoints and villages.
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‘I did no wrong, so I won’t apologise’: Anand Ranganathan in contempt case over ‘whatever happened to dissent being safety valve of democracy’ remark

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Anand Ranganathan said he has done nothing wrong, and he continues to remain a free speech absolutist, so he won't apologise.
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News Reports

Elon Musk fires Twitter lawyer Jim Baker over his involvement in censoring Hunter Biden’s laptop and links to FBI’s Russia probe against Trump

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Elon Musk fired Twitter lawyer Jim Baker for his involvement in handling Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020, his controversial involvement in FBI's Russia probe against Trump comes to light.
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Kerala: Drama praising Pakistan wins first prize at a school youth festival in Kozhikode

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A school drama praising Pakistan wins first prize at district youth festival in Kerala.
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Stabbed, left to die by her own family: 9-year-old girl killed by her father Anees, 3 uncles, and grandfather as they wanted to frame...

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The five accused have been identified as Anees, Shadad, Shehzade, Saleem, and Naseem. The victim girl was the daughter of Anees, the niece of Shadab, Saleem, and Naseem, and grand daughter of Shehzade.
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Elon Musk vs Wikipedia: How new Twitter owner is exposing the left-wing bias of the user-edited ‘encyclopedia’

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Wikipedia editors are discussing to delete Twitter Files article from the platform, Musk mocks the platform for having non-trivial left-wing bias.
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News Reports

TMC’s Saket Gokhale sent to two-day police custody after Gujarat Police arrested him for spreading fake news relating to Morbi bridge tragedy

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Gokhale was apprehended in the early hours of the Tuesday morning in Jaipur, Rajasthan, by officials from the Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Cell and brought to Ahmedabad in the afternoon, where he was formally arrested.
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Social Media

Malaika Arora criticised for flaunting a Balenciaga dress even as the fashion brand faces accusations of promoting child pornography

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Malaika attended fashion designer Manish Malhotra's birthday party at his Mumbai home. At this party, Malaika appeared in a silver turtle neck dress with the Balenciaga logo
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News Reports

Beware! Frauds posing as genuine banking service providers can trick you on social media: Here’s what is happening

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Bank fraud has become a common crime in the world with thousands of people falling prey to scamsters daily.
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Maharashtra: Latur declares two days off for schools to allow Muslim teachers and students to attend Ijtema organised by Tablighi Jamaat

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The directions were issued by the Education Department of the Latur District Administration based on the memorandum submitted by Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Vikram Vasantrao Kale. He said that many Islamic scholars were slated to attend the Ijtema on December 5 and 6 and that it would be better if the administration declared two days off in all the schools and colleges across the district.
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30 years of Babri demolition: Read about the temporary ‘temple tent’ set up at Ram Janmabhoomi after levelling of the disputed structure

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Ram Lalla's 'temporary Mandir' appeared in Ayodhya following the demolition of disputed Babri structure in 1992.
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Paresh Rawal summoned by Kolkata Police over his ‘cooking fish’ remark for illegal Bangladeshis and Rohingyas

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Paresh Rawal had clarified that his remarks were meant for Bangladeshis and Rohingya who had illegally entered India.
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UP: Village head Sattar abuses PM Modi and CM Yogi Adityanath, insults Hindus, Sitapur police arrest him after audio goes viral

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Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur police arrested Khanpur Sadat village head, Sattar, for allegedly abusing PM Narendra Modi and UP CM Yogi Adityanath
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Muslim politicians and ‘activists’ cry ‘death of Indian democracy’ on the 30th anniversary of the Babri demolition at the Ram Janmabhoomi site

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Earlier today, social media users trended hashtags such as ‘Babri Zinda Hai’, ‘6 December’, ‘Babri Masjid’, etc. on Twitter.
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World

Indonesia bans sex outside marriage, live-in relationships, and insulting the president

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Critics have suggested that some Sharia or Islamic law-inspired local bylaws could get replicated in other areas which would lead to discrimination against women and the LGBT community in Indonesia.
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News Reports

Bhagalpur police, state govt trying to hush up the killing of Neelam Yadav by ‘habitual offender’ Shakeel Miyan, alleges BJP leader Nikhil Anand

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BJP leader Nikhil Yadav Tuesday slammed the Bihar police for trying to hush up the killing of Neelam Yadav by Shakeel Miyan in Bhagalpur.
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Crime

Pune: Converted Christian beat wife for 21 years to force her to convert to Christianity, threatened to shift children to a Christian school, booked

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Ravindersingh Bhanwarsingh Rajpurohit, a resident of the Yerwada area of Pune city had accepted Christianity 21 years ago. Since then, he was physically and mentally harassing his wife to force her to convert to Christianity.
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News Reports

Hindu Mahasabha leader detained during bid to recite Hanuman Chalisa at Shahi Idgah Masjid in Mathura

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"The Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha leader Saurabh Sharma was arrested when he was attempting to go towards the Idgah mosque on the complex," confirmed Additional Superintendent of Police (City) Martandey Singh.
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