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

OpIndia Staff -
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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News Reports

Aligarh man has been in jail for 7 years, the woman he was accused of killing found alive, living with husband and children

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A few months after the girl was reported missing, a dead body was found which was confirmed by the missing girl's family.
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News Reports

“Petty F**kers”, “Embarrassment to everyone”: Twitter users blast at Pakistanis for dragging IAF pilot Abhinandan into Ben Stokes’ press conference

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IAF's Abhinandan was needlessly dragged in Ben Stokes' press conference after humiliating defeat of Pakistan against England.
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Crime

Uttarakhand: Nitin Bhandari murdered by Naushad and his family members for asking for his money back from Naushad, arrested

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The Uttarakhand police said that Azad and Naushad killed Nitin Bhandari by hitting him with a sharp weapon and then strangulating him while their minor brother and mother heled them hide the body in a grain tank
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News Reports

Maharashtra: 19-year-old Shahanawaz Shah rapes his 5-year-old neighbour after luring her with chocolates, arrested

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The police said Shahanawaz Shah lured his 5-year-old neighbour with a chocolate, took her to his house and raped her.
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World

Iranian activist calls out ‘propaganda’ by NYT, says Iran has not abolished morality police as previously reported

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Masih Alinejad, the Iranian journalist and activist Tuesday slammed The New York Times for spreading fake news that the Iranian regime has disbanded the country’s morality police.
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News Reports

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister blames India for importing ‘cheap’ Russian oil. Here is how S Jaishankar responded to the allegations in the past

OpIndia Staff -
It has now come to light that the decision to buy discounted Russian oil has benefited India to the tune of Rs 35,000 crores.
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News Reports

North Korea publicly executes two teenagers for watching and distributing South Korean films: Report

OpIndia Staff -
North Korea reportedly executed two teenagers for watching and circulating South Korean dramas among friends.
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News Reports

Indian billionaires Gautam Adani, Shiv Nadar, and Ashok Soota part of Forbes Asia’s Heroes of Philanthropy list

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Adani reportedly pledged Rs 60,000 crores (USD 7.7 billion) when he turned 60 in June of this year. The funds will be used toward healthcare, education, and skill development through the Adani Foundation, which was established in 1996.
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News Reports

Swara Bhasker says ‘speaking up’ for values has cost her huge: How virtue-signalling and her own poor professional choices are causes of her undoing

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The interview followed after Swara participated in Rahul Gandhi-led Congress party's Bharat Jodo Yatra.
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Economy and Finance

World Bank raises India’s GDP growth prediction for 2022-23 to 6.9%, up from 6.5% predicted earlier

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The World Bank has raised India's GDP growth prediction due to the country's strong economic performance.
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News Reports

Income Tax officials conduct raids at the offices of real estate giant Vamsiram Builders in Telangana

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The Income Tax agency raided the homes of Subba Reddy, chairman of Vamsiram Builders, and his brother-in-law Janardhan Reddy.
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News Reports

Here is a list of 5 mosques that were built after demolishing holy shrines of other religions

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In October last year, Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen said that Prophet Mohammed had himself destroyed 360 idols of pre-Islamic Arab Gods at Kaaba.
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News Reports

Deoband’s Maulana Rao Musharraf lashes out at Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid, says women don’t go to mosques as imams molest them

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Muslim leaders criticized Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Ahmedabad for opposing women contesting elections
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Books

Bestselling authors Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, dozens others comfort a new author after only two people turn up at her author signing...

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Many bestselling authors have had their moments of setbacks. While on topic of wizards, Harry Potter author JK Rowling was rejected 12 times before Barry Cunningham, who ran the children’s literature department at Bloomsbury picked it up.
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News Reports

‘#BabriZindaHai’ trends as Indians mark 30 years of demolition of disputed structure at Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya

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On December 6, the disputed structure in Ayodhya was brought down by various Hindu activists in 1992. While the day is termed the 'Black Day' by the Islamist community, the day is marked as Shaurya Divas by others.
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News Reports

The News Minute Editor-in-chief endorses ‘no hasty arrest in mutual romantic cases’ involving POCSO Act, later justifies and ‘gives context’

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NCPCR to issue notice to TN Govt and TN Police over recent circular asking officials not to file cases in haste under POCSO Act
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News Reports

TMC’s Saket Gokhale arrested by Gujarat police for spreading fake news relating to Morbi bridge collapse tragedy

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Derek O'Brien claimed that the arrest was because of the fake news shared by Gokhale in context of Morbi bridge collapse where the TMC leader had claimed that ₹30 crore was spent on PM Modi’s Morbi visit.
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News Reports

Exit Polls results: BJP to storm back to power in Gujarat, a close contest in Himachal Pradesh

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The exit polls have predicted BJP's return to power in Gujarat with a thumping majority, and a hung assembly in HP.
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News Reports

‘Clear cut objective to harm Hindus in every manner possible’: Charges framed against ex-AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and 9 others in 2020 Delhi riots

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The Delhi Court framed charges against Tahir Hussain and 9 others in connection with the 2020 Delhi Riots case.
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News Reports

Gujarat Congress spreads fake news of their MLA candidate being abducted, police refutes allegations

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Gujarat Police said Congress lied about its leader being attacked and abducted by BJP in Danta.
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News Reports

Energy crisis: Oil prices rise after European Union and G7 countries impose a price cap on Russian Oil

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A price cap, set by EU and G7 countries, implies that oil sold at the agreed price can be shipped using the tankers of the said countries.
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Cricket

England rip up the playbook to play Test cricket and grab an astounding win in Rawalpindi against Pakistan

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The pitch was considered so bad that PCB Chairman Ramiz Raja deemed the pitch to be an embarrassment halfway through the Test match. However, England had other ideas.
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News Reports

‘Cannot convert on the pretext of help’: SC slams NGOs for carrying out religious conversion asks Centre and States to file a detailed affidavit

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Reiterating that forced religious conversion are a very serious matter, the SC today also called it unconstitutional.
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News Reports

Supreme Court slams AAP govt in Punjab for not taking any action on the manufacturing and sale of illegal liquor

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The court had earlier slammed the AAP government in Punjab for being lethargic in taking action against illegal alcohol manufacturing and drug menace.
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News Reports

US cult leader who proclaims to be a ‘prophet’ married 20 women including minors, forced followers to have sex with his own minor daughter

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US' self-proclaimed 'prophet' directed three of his male followers to have sex with his daughters, one of whom was only 12 years old, while he watched, as per FBI's charges.
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News Reports

Ashok Swain, Sweden-based troll who teaches at Uppsala university, spreads disinformation about lynching of Muslims

Amit Kelkar -
Ashok Swain shared a viral video of a mob thrashing a man insinuating that Muslims are lynched in India.
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News Reports

Kerala: Islamic cleric against equal property rights for women, govt gives in to his demand but later has a change of heart

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Islamic cleric Nasar Faizy Koodathai said that a female member of a family is allowed half of what a man receives from the father's property.
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News Reports

The Wire’s Arfa Khanum is to give a lecture on ‘Downgrading of India’s democracy’ at UMass but skips mentioning this little detail

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The Wire's editor Arfa Khanum Sherwani to give lecture at event sponsored by Indian American Muslim Council on 'Downgrading of Democracy in India'
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News Reports

Days after Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid called genocide of Kashmiri Hindus “vulgar propaganda”, terror group issues hitlist of remaining Hindus in Kashmir

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The Resistance Front (TRF), Pakistan's new terror outfit and an offshoot of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group, has released a so-called 'hitlist' with the names of 57 Kashmiri Govt employees
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News Reports

Amazon may lay off 20,000 employees, including top managers: Report

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Amazon employees across levels are expected to be affected by an imminent lay off, a report said.
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News Reports

US: Islamist outfit CAIR cries foul after mobile truck displays pictures of 26/11 attack, lists the names of terrorists

OpIndia Staff -
CAIR remained fixated on the broadcast of 26/11 footage instead of condemning the actual terror attack, perpetrated by Islamic terrorists from Pakistan.
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Crime

Bihar: Shakeel Miyan brutally stabs a Hindu woman, cuts her ears, breasts and hands in full public view after her husband asks him not...

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Shakeel Miyan brutally stabbed the woman to death and cut her hands, legs, ears and breasts before fleeing the busy market area in ​​Bhagalpur, Bihar
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News Reports

Sidhu Moosewala murder case: Mastermind Goldy Brar appears in a YouTube interview, claims he is not detained by US police

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Mastermind of Sidhu Moosewala murder Goldy Brar allegedly said in an interview that reports of his arrest were false, he left US and Canada long ago
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News Reports

After anti-Semitic comments, rapper Kanye West now dubs Elon Musk ‘half-Chinese’

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Kanye West has recently expressed admiration for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during the 'Infowars' show with Alex Jones.
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News Reports

As Mamata Banerjee celebrates driving away Tata Motors from Singur, here is how Gujarat won over Bengal in 2008

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Mamata Banerjee celebrated the hunger strike and protests that forced Tata Motors out of West Bengal.
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News Reports

Gujarat Elections: PM Modi casts vote in Ahmedabad, urges voters to vote in large numbers

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Gujarat Assembly elections took place in two phases. Voting for the first phase took place on December 1. The second and final phase of voting took place on December 5. The results will be announced on December 8 along with recently concluded Himachal Pradesh elections.
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Sports

Qatar 2022: Defending champions France progress to the Quarter Finals as Olivier Giroud becomes the record goal scorer for Les Bleus

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The end result may make it seem like one way traffic in favour of France but it wasn't always so during the game. Piotr Zielinski had a great chance to give Poland the lead when the score was 0-0
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News Reports

ISIS terrorist Abu Khaled al-Cambodi charged in Australia after extradition from Turkey, media uses his earlier name Neil Prakash to mislead readers

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Neil Prakash became Abu Khaled al-Cambodi after converting to Islam and before joining ISIS, but media refuses to use his Muslim name
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News Reports

Newslaundry whitewashes Kashmiri terrorist Mukhtar Baba, accuses media and police of wrongly labelling him as terrorist despite overwhelming evidence against him

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Newslaundry pointed out how 'terrorist' Mukhtar Baba is not an ordinary man and holds a master's degree in political science.
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Opinions

The rise of Amritpal Singh in Punjab and the striking similarities with Bhindranwale’s early years

Amit Kelkar -
Soon after Deep Sidhu's demise in a road accident, in an official announcement, the organisation said that Amritpal Singh would henceforth manage it.
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News Reports

Gujarat prepared for the second phase of assembly elections, PM Modi to cast his vote at a polling booth in Ranip, Ahmedabad

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Prime Minister Modi will vote in the Gujarat assembly elections tomorrow at a polling booth in Ranip, Ahmedabad.
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News Reports

‘Mard nahi hain kya?’ Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid in Ahmedabad says giving election tickets to Muslim women is revolt against Islam

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Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid in Ahmedabad says giving election tickets to Muslim women is revolt against Islam
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News Reports

All ‘real-money’ online games to be regulated by centre government under the new online gaming laws, report suggests

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It is notable that the process of differentiating the skill-based games and games of chance is not easy as there is no legal clarity over the two
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Entertainment

Ayushmann Khurrana starrer ‘An Action Hero’ tanks at box office, the actor courted controversy recently by calling India a ‘homophobic’ country

OpIndia Staff -
It is being speculated that the reason behind the film's poor performance at the box office is Ayushmann Khurrana’s recent statement where the actor said that “India is a homophobic country.”
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News Reports

NYT reports that the Iran govt is set to abolish the morality police, Iran govt denies reports

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Iran has abolished its morality police following more than two months of demonstrations sparked by Mahsa Amini's death.
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News Reports

Not practical for Rahul Gandhi to attend winter session of Parliament: Congress MP KC Venugopal

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At the time of the winter session, Rahul Gandhi will be in Rajasthan, a state that has seen bitter fights over the last few years between CM Ashok Gehlot and senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot.
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Social Media

Liberals lose their minds and suffer a collective meltdown after the release of the Twitter Files. Here is what happened

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The Twitter Files exposed how the censorship was justified under the guise of the ‘hacked materials policy’ by the likes of Vijaya Gadde.
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