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Karnataka: Hindu activists arrested for declaring protest against Muslim vendors setting up shops near Temples, MLA says religion-based restriction not possible

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"The old rituals will be followed. Giving opportunities only to Hindu traders is not feasible. If anyone attempts to cause problems in the fair, legal action will be taken against them," BJP's Chikpet MLA Uday Garudachar stated.
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Police in AAP-led Punjab lathi charges farmers: Here are their demands and how Arvind Kejriwal had supported farmers’ protest against farm laws

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Punjab Police officials imposed a lathi charge on the farmers and labour union workers who staged massive protests outside the residence of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann in Sangrur.
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News Reports

Korean vlogger harassed in Mumbai by Mobeen Chand and Mohammad Naqeeb during a live stream, both arrested after social media outrage

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Korean vlogger live streaming from Mumbai streets gets molested by Mobeen Chand and Md Naqeeb, accused arrested
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News Reports

ISIS caliph Hashimi al-Qurayshi dead, Islamic State announces Abu al-Husseini al-Qurayshi as his successor

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In an audio message on Telegram, a spokesperson of the terrorist organisation Abu Omar al-Muhajir said Hashimi was killed “in combat with enemies of Allah.”
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News Reports

No more Twitter vs Apple: Elon Musk says Tim Cook had never considered removing Twitter from the Apple store, posts video of HQ visit

OpIndia Staff -
Elon Musk said Tim Cook never considered removing Twitter from Apple Store and that the issue had been resolved
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News Reports

A senseless comment of one individual cannot change relations between 2 nations: OpIndia talks to The Kashmir Files producer over comments of Israeli filmmaker

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OpIndia talks to The Kashmir Files producer Abhishek Agarwal over the controversy after comments on the movie by Nadav Lapid
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News Reports

Ravish Kumar resigns from NDTV India after Adani group acquired over 29% stake in NDTV Ltd

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NDTV India's Senior Executive Editor Ravish Kumar resigned after Adani Group acquired 29.18% stake in NDTV Ltd
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Aman Sheikh poses as Amrut Khairnar to entrap and abduct a minor Dalit girl from Shrirampur; Hindu groups, BJP demand police action

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Aman Sheikh had reportedly forged documents, including an Aadhar Card, to convince the minor girl that he was a Hindu.
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News Reports

Nadav Lapid calls controversy over his comments on ‘The Kashmir Files’ a cheap political manipulation, accuses Naor Gilon and others of politicising it

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Nadav Lapid said that he does not need to get authorization from any Israeli ambassador or any Indian or anyone else for making his point.
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News Reports

Five cars rented by US President’s secret service burst into flames after his Nantucket vacation: Watch

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The US President's secret service had hired 5 rental cars to drive his family in Nantucket, an island off Massachusetts.
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News Reports

As sex toy store Besharam caught misusing Raja Ravi Varma painting, legality of their business questioned: Here is what the laws say

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Questions have been raised on the legality of the business being conducted by Besharam, which sells sex toys in India
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News Reports

Punjab police lathi-charge farm labourers protesting outside Bhagwant Mann’s residence in Sangrur, the CM refuses to meet the protestors

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Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann refuses to protesting farm labourers, police cane-charge the protestors outside CM's residence
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News Reports

‘Why nobody wept in Pakistan?’ Shankersinh Vaghela raises aspersions on Balakot airstrikes, Akshardham attack, insinuates foul play in CDS General’s death

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Insinuating that Pulwama attack was a false-flag operation, Shankersinh Vaghela implied insider role in the tragedy.
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News Reports

Not aware of Raja Ravi Varma’s Menaka-Shakuntala painting misused as lesbian couple by adult toy store, says Raja Ravi Varma Foundation

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In a reply to OpIndia, Raja Ravi Varma Foundation denied knowledge of painting 'Menaka Shakuntala' being used to sell adult toys.
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News Reports

Adult toys store Besharam under fire for misusing Raja Ravi Varma creation, depicted Shakuntala and her mother Menaka as lesbian couple

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Adult Toy Store Besharam misuses Raja Ravi Varma’s painting of Menaka and Shakuntala depicting as a lesbian couple
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Amid the Vizhinjam port controversy, here are other instances where Churches have fuelled protests against developmental projects in India

Jhankar Mohta -
This article discusses how Catholic churches and foreign-funded NGOs have had a role in stalling development projects in India.
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News Reports

Puducherry: Elephant Laxmi of Manakula Vinayagar temple dies suddenly, activists allege sabotage by PETA and others

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Many individuals paid respects to Lakshmi, including Lt. Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan.
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Crime

Punjab: Congress Sarpanch Amandeep Singh, and 3 others arrested for looting 17 lakhs from UCO Bank in Patiala, had looted from SBI too

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Amandeep, who is also accused of being involved in bank loot at Fatehgarh Sahib, was nabbed with his accomplishes during the manhunt launched by the police after the ₹17.85 lakh were looted from UCO Bank in Ghanaur.
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News Reports

‘It encouraged pan-Islamic and fissiparous tendencies among Muslims’: Central Info Commissioner on SC’s 1993 order granting financial benefits to Imams

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The Commissioner said financial benefits to Imams and Muezzins set a wrong precedent fuelling social disharmony.
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Opinion polls predict a landslide victory for BJP in Gujarat assembly elections, AAP predicted to snatch some seats from Congress

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Opinion polls predict a landslide victory for BJP in Gujarat assembly elections to be held on December 1 and 5
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News Reports

Assam: Mob of school students attacks pregnant teacher and principal for telling parents about low grades

OpIndia Staff -
The incident occurred in the government-run Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Dibrugarh on November 27.
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News Reports

Gujarat is not a one-issue state, different regions vote differently: Read how people in the state have voted in the last 25 years

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Gujarat has been a bastion of the BJP for the last 25 years, coming to power in every assembly polls since 1998.
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News Reports

Former UP minister Dharam Singh Saini, who had switched from BJP to SP before 2022 assembly elections, returns to BJP

OpIndia Staff -
Dharm Singh Saini is all set to get back to the BJP in presence of CM Yogi Adityanath. He recently lost his traditional Nakur seat to BJP leader Mukesh Chaudhary by 315 votes this year.
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Politics

AAP flaunting ‘services’ to illegal Rohingyas and Bangladeshis as an achievement? Viral video hails Kejriwal for ‘good work’

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In January 2020 it was reported how Aam Aadmi Party’s Amanatullah Khan and Kejriwal’s Delhi government was systematically settling illegal Rohingya immigrants in Delhi.
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Cricket

England cricket squad hit by virus on the eve of first test in Pakistan, over a dozen members affected

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Over a dozen members of England cricket squad, including captain Ben Stokes, is down with bug ahead of first test in Pakistan.
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Pakistan: Police truck accompanying Polio vaccination team blown up in Balochistan’s Quetta, several dead

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports the police constabulary truck was on Polio duty and was there for the security of a team of Polio vaccinators. A woman and a child are reportedly among the dead too. A police sub-inspector named Ibrahim is also among the deceased persons.
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Cricket

8 players of the England cricket team visiting Pakistan, including captain Ben Stokes, fall ill a day ahead of the first test, advised rest

OpIndia Staff -
As many as 14 members of the visiting England team in Pakistan, including 8 players, are unwell and have been advised rest
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News Reports

As Congress’ Renuka Chowdhury accuses PM of comparing her laughter to Surpanakha, here are some iconic laughs of actors who played demons

OpIndia Staff -
Demonic laughs from iconic serial Ramayana
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu: DMK councillor Sarbraz Nawaz, brother Jainuddin attempt to smuggle cocaine worth Rs 360 crore to Sri Lanka, arrested

OpIndia Staff -
The DMK brothers, who have been arrested for attempting to smuggle drugs to Sri Lanka, own and operate a cargo logistics company. Central and state intelligence services investigated them to determine their connections with mafia organizations or worldwide drug trafficking networks, as per reports.
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News Reports

Gujarat: AAP workers create a ruckus, obstruct Surat Municipal Corporation employees after damaging road barriers, booked

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The Police after the investigation confirmed that AAP national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's roadshow was to pass through the Katargam area stretch, for which the guard stones were removed by AAP workers.
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Fact check: Did PM Modi compare Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury to Ramayana’s Surpanakha

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi had compared Renuka Chowdhury's loud laughter to an unnamed character from Ramayana.
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Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy resign from NDTV promoter firm RRPR after the takeover of the firm by Adani Group

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Prannoy Roy and his wife Radhika Roy has resigned from the board of RRPR Holding Private Limited, the holding company of the NDTV promoters
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Bengaluru: 22-year-old woman raped by ‘Rapido’ driver Shahabuddin and his friend Akhtar

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Shahabuddin, the Rapido driver, took the victim to his house, where he raped her along with his friend Akhtar.
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Delhi MCD Polls: Kejriwal promises to grant RWAs ‘mini councillors’ status, BJP’s Shehzad Poonawalla slams it as ‘old wine in a new bottle’

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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal promised to grant "mini parshad" status to Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) in Delhi.
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News Reports

“Will leave filmmaking if The Kashmir Files is proved to be not based on truth”: Director Vivek Agnihotri gives a befitting reply over IFFI...

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Vivek Agnihotri vowed to leave filmmaking if even one scene in The Kashmir Files is proven to be not based on truth.
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Meerut: Hijab-wearing teacher gets death threats after she complained of harassment by students, suffers depression after video goes viral

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The incident occurred in Meerut’s Ram Manohar Lohia Inter College in the Kithor Police Station area of Meerut, where Aman, Kaif, and Amaltas of Class 12 openly harassed the teacher
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ASI reclaims 2300-year-old Ashoka edict that was illegally occupied and converted into ‘mazar’ in Sasaram, Bihar

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ASI took to Twitter Tuesday to inform that the Ashoka edict in Sasaram in Bihar has been reclaimed by the agency
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Politics

Gujarat: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge compares Modi with demon king Raavan in an election rally

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Newly elected Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge made an offensive remark about PM Modi, equating him to the demon king Raavan.
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Meet Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, who called The Kashmir Files movie ‘vulgar propaganda’ as IFFI jury head

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Nadav Lapid is known for being a Palestinian sympathizer.
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YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s sister arrested after scuffle between her supporters and KCR party workers

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YS Sharmila, the sister of Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and YSRTP president, was arrested in Telangana's Warangal district.
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‘Liberals’ blame BJP IT cell for Israeli Ambassador apologising for their countryman denying the genocide of Kashmiri Pandits

Jinit Jain -
Liberals took to Twitter to blame the BJP IT cell after Israeli ambassador Naor Gilon apologised for Lapid's remarks.
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Congress and the leftist ecosystem endorse views of Palestine sympathising Israeli filmmaker who denied genocide of Kashmiri Hindus at IFFI 2022

OpIndia Staff -
Many members of the 'elite' leftist ecosystem have endorsed views of the Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid who denied the genocide of Kashmiri Hindus at IFFI 2022
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News Reports

UP: Suhail arrested for kidnapping and assaulting a 15-year-old Hindu girl from the Dalit community in Baghpat

OpIndia Staff -
Suhail has has been booked under IPC Sections 363, 506, POCSO Act Section 7/8 and Section 3 (20(V)(a) of the SC-ST Act.
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Mangaluru: 3 persons named Khalib, Dr Jameela and Aiman booked for forcing a Hindu woman to convert to Islam

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The victim, a resident of Mangaluru, was given burqa, her name was changed to Ayisha, and was forced to convert to Islam.
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Meet Lotta Volkova – The alleged brains behind the controversial shoot of luxury brand Balenciaga

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Twitter user alleged stylist Lotta Volkova was behind the controversial shoot of luxury brand Balenciaga that has seen a huge backlash online.
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News Reports

Advocate Vineet Jindal files complaint against Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid for calling genocide of Hindu community in Kashmir as ‘vulgar propaganda’

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Complaint filed against Israeli filmmaker for hurting Hindu sentiments and using derogatory words to deny the genocide of Hindu community in Kashmir.
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News Reports

Uddhav Thackeray Shiv Sena’s out-on-bail Sanjay Raut opens his mouth again, says more pandits killed after release of Kashmir Files than by Islamists in...

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Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut supported Nadav Lapid calling the Kashmir Files movie by Vivek Agnihotri a "propaganda" movie
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Jharkhand: Clerics ban dance, music, and fireworks in Muslim weddings, call weddings after 11 pm wrong

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Fireworks, music and dance at weddings banned by Muslim clerics in Jharkhand's Dhanbad.
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Elon Musk prepared to go to ‘war’ with Apple after iPhone maker allegedly threatens to remove Twitter from its App Store

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Elon Musk in a now-deleted tweet said he would rather go to war with Apple than pay 30% fee to the iPhone maker.
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News Reports

Sam Brinton, drag queen ‘nuclear scientist’ in the US Dept of Energy caught stealing woman’s luggage from airport, charged with felony theft

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Brinton, an MIT grad, used to conduct a workshop called 'Kink 101' on college campuses and worked as an 'anti-conversion therapy activist'. He is also a member of a drag queen society called 'Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence' which mocks catholic nuns with sexually explicit innuendoes.
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