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‘Honeytrapped’ driver working in India’s External Affairs Ministry arrested for passing confidential information to Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier in June, a contractual DRDL employee was arrested for passing confidential defence information to an alleged ISI operative.
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News Reports

Medianama founder Nikhil Pahwa says he never wrote the article The Wire published in his name

OpIndia Staff -
The Wire gets confused between Nikhil Pahwa and Nitish Pahwa, publishes an article in the wrong name
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News Reports

A large flock of sheep has been walking in a circle for 12 days without stopping in China, CCTV video goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
The sheep can be seen walking continuously in circles inside their fence in northern China in the video.
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News Reports

While Rahul Gandhi accuses Veer Savarkar of wanting to become ‘obedient servant of British’, MK Gandhi had also used same phrase many times

OpIndia Staff -
Just like Veer Savarkar, MK Gandhi had also written “I have the honour to remain, Your Excellency’s obdt. Servant" in letters to British officers
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Two Congress workers booked for vandalising Veer Savarkar’s statue in Pune

OpIndia Staff -
The statue of Veer Savarkar in Pune was vandalised in the wake of Rahul Gandhi's diatribe against the freedom fighter.
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News Reports

YouTuber Gaurav Taneja, who was arrested after fans swarmed the Noida metro station on his birthday, asks for suggestions to celebrate his wife’s birthday

OpIndia Staff -
On 9th July 2022, Gaurav Taneja was arrested by the Sector 49 police station in Noida on charges of creating chaos in the city.
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News Reports

MP: Hindu girl and Muslim boy caught while eloping away to Sagar; pregnant girl says boy’s mother promised his conversion to Hinduism after marriage

OpIndia Staff -
The Hindu girl & Muslim boy were caught at the Vidisha railway station after realising that they had boarded the wrong train.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Mohd Sufiyan arrested after an encounter, had pushed 19-year-old girlfriend to death in Lucknow

OpIndia Staff -
An FIR has been filed against the man under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code, as well as relevant sections of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Act (commonly called love jihad law).
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Opinions

8 ways in which Rahul Gandhi’s comments on Veer Savarkar have done BJP and Hindus, in general, a huge favour

Ganesh R -
It is a widely held belief among most observers that clown Prince Rahul Gandhi is a gift that keeps on giving.
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh: NSUI State General Secretary Ruhab Meman arrested for raping a college student after taking her to a secluded area

OpIndia Staff -
Ruhab Meman, the Chhattisgarh State General Secretary of NSUI, has been accused of raping a girl.
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News Reports

Hyderabad: TRS workers attack and vandalise BJP MP Arvind Dharmapuri’s house, KCR’s daughter threatens to hit him with slippers

OpIndia Staff -
TRS workers protested outside and vandalised the home of Bharatiya Janata Party (MP), Arvind Dharmapuri
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News Reports

‘She’ and ‘her’ replace ‘he’ and ‘him’ in the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill brought by the Ministry of Electronics and IT

OpIndia Staff -
The Bill does not seek to regulate non-personal data and the Union government is expecting to present it in the Parliament in the next budget session.
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News Reports

Mission Prarambh: India’s first-ever private rocket Vikram-S launched by ISRO

OpIndia Staff -
The launch of Vikram-S by ISRO is the first launch since the space segment was opened to private entities in 2020.
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News Reports

Mehmood Khan posed as Raunak Chaurasiya to trap a Hindu girl, forcibly converted her to Islam and performed Nikah, arrested: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Yet another shocking case of love jihad and forced religious conversion has been reported in Uttar Pradesh’s Baharaich.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Court issues non-bailable warrant against Samajwadi Party MLA Irfan Solanki for arson and rioting

OpIndia Staff -
A woman has accused Samajwadi Party MLA Irfan Solanki and his brother of setting her home to fire to take its possession.
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News Reports

West Bengal: 9-year-old girl dies after crude bomb kept in house explodes, uncle and alleged TMC worker Abdul Hossain arrested

OpIndia Staff -
A 9-year-old girl died in a crude bomb explosion at her uncle's house in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district
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News Reports

‘While We Watched’: Read how a documentary film on NDTV anchor Ravish Kumar has connections to George Soros and Ford Foundation

Dibakar Dutta -
'While we Watched', directed by Vinay Shukla, features Ravish Kumar and chronicles his journey in the newsroom as a 'broadcast journalist'.
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News Reports

Shraddha Walkar was brutally abused by her live-in partner Aftab, was hospitalized in 2020 with severe back pain and bruises on her face

OpIndia Staff -
Medical report and photos from 2020 show that Shraddha Walkar was brutally abused by her live-in partner Aftab and she was hospitalised
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News Reports

UK reiterates its support for India’s permanent representation at United Nations Security Council

OpIndia Staff -
India and Brazil are the front-runners for a permanent seat on the expanded United Nations Security Council.
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News Reports

Two years of Uttar Pradesh anti-conversion law: Yogi Govt registers 291 cases of illegal conversion and love jihad, arrests 597 perpetrators thus far

OpIndia Staff -
Since the implementation of the anti-conversion Act in 2020, 507 people have been arrested and 291 cases have been registered in Uttar Pradesh
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News Reports

Georgetown research which claims Muslims are in the 8th stage of genocide in India is written by a Pakistani researcher, funded by Saudi Arabia

Raju Das -
Bridge Initiative under Georgetown University in the US has published a report claiming that genocide of Muslims is going on in India
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News Reports

‘Aftab should have loved Shraddha like his sister’, ‘Islam does not allow Muslims to marry non-Muslims’: Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind cleric Maulana Qasmi

राहुल पाण्डेय -
Maulana Qasmi also railed against Aftab for his support to LGBTQ movement, saying that Islam forbids same-sex relationships.
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News Reports

Telangana: Hyderabad Police busts fake arms licence racket, mastermind Altaf Hussain and 6 others arrested

OpIndia Staff -
After busting the fake arms licence racket, Hyderabad police said the accused obtained weapons using forgery and phoney seals.
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News Reports

Pakistan lifts ban on Saim Sadiq’s queer-themed film ‘Joyland’, movie to release on November 18 with some cuts

OpIndia Staff -
The film 'Joyland' has been written and directed by Saim Sadiq and has been produced by Apoorva Guru Charan, Sarmad Sultan Khoosat, and Lauren Mann.
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News Reports

Taliban judges asked to implement Sharia in their rulings which include public executions, floggings, stoning and amputation of limbs

OpIndia Staff -
Taliban has recently ordered Afghan judges to fully execute Sharia law provisions such as public executions, stoning, flogging, and amputation of limbs of persons guilty of specific offences
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News Reports

Bombay HC grants bail to Bhima Koregaon accused Anand Teltumbde, stays its own order: Read the case against him

OpIndia Staff -
Pune Cops arrested Anand Teltumbde for his suspected role in the violence that occurred in Elgar Parishad event.
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News Reports

Islamic cult leader Adnan Oktar of Turkey sentenced to 8,658 years in prison: Surrounded by scantily clad women he called ‘kittens’, child abuse and...

OpIndia Staff -
On November 16 (local time), a Turkish court sentenced 66-year-old Islamic sex cult leader Adnan Oktar to 8,658 years in prison
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News Reports

Punjabi singer Babbu Maan receives death threat from Bambiha gang, security tightened after threat call

OpIndia Staff -
As per the intelligence inputs received by the Punjab Police, the Bambiha gang is planning to use people with no criminal record especially minor boys in their plot to kill singer Babbu Maan. Maan has lodged a complaint.
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News Reports

Conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar writes 5th letter, says ‘AAP leaders demanded kickbacks for supply of tablets in 2016 for Delhi School Model’

OpIndia Staff -
Sukesh Chandrashekhar added in the letter that Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal was lying and that he must face a polygraph test
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News Reports

Jammu Kashmir: Turkey-based Pakistan-funded terrorist Mukhtar Baba found to be the mastermind behind terror threats to journalists

OpIndia Staff -
2 government employees and 4 media persons found to be working with terrorist Mukhtar Baba to propagate fear in Kashmir region.
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News Reports

Delhi LG VK Saxena directs CM Kejriwal to fire Delhi Dialogue and Development Commission VC Jasmine Shah for misusing office for political purpose

OpIndia Staff -
Jasmine Shah, DDDC vice-chairman, holds a rank equivalent to a cabinet minister in the Delhi Government and was asked to be removed
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News Reports

Case registered against Rahul Gandhi for derogatory claims against Veer Savarkar, complaints filed, including one by Ranjit Savarkar: What happened

OpIndia Staff -
On November 15, Rahul Gandhi claimed that the freedom fighter took a pension from the British government to work against the Congress.
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News Reports

Elon Musk gives ultimatum to Twitter employees to work hard, hundreds quit: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Hundreds of employees resigned after recent ultimatum by Elon Musk to say 'yes' to hardcore work culture at Twitter
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Kamal Nath cuts a temple-shaped cake with image of Lord Hanuman and a saffron flag on his birthday, Foundation that brought the cake apologises

OpIndia Staff -
Video of Kamal Nath cutting a four-tier cake with an image of Lord Hanuman and a saffron flag on top went viral on social media
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News Reports

Centre files a review petition challenging the Supreme Court order to release Rajiv Gandhi’s killers

OpIndia Staff -
The center has asked for review petition on grounds that the center wasn't heard on the matter by SC despite this being the case of the murder of a former Prime Minister of India.
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News Reports

Shraddha murder case: Delhi Court gives clearance for Narco test on Aftab Amin; 100 lawyers protest outside the court demanding death penalty

OpIndia Staff -
Following various contradictions in the statement of Aftab Amin in connection with the murder of Shraddha Walkar, the Delhi Police opted to conduct the narco test on him.
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News Reports

Self-proclaimed saint Shraddhanand, serving life term without parole for killing his wife, pleads for his release like Rajiv Gandhi’s killers

OpIndia Staff -
Swami Shraddhananda who has spent 29 years in jail for killing his wife, seeks release like Rajiv Gandhi killers
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News Reports

Punjab: Three persons including two shooters accused of killing sacrilege-accused Pradeep Singh arrested

OpIndia Staff -
A week after Dera Sacha Sauda adherent Pradeep Singh was shot dead by six assailants, Punjab Police made three arrests
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Madhya Pradesh: Minors converted to Islam at children’s home during lockdown sent home, NCPCR launches probe against the home operator Haseen Parvez

OpIndia Staff -
Three minor inmates of a care centre in Madhya Pradesh, who were allegedly converted to Islam by the centre's operator, Haseen Parvez, have been handed over to their father
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News Reports

Big Basket flaunts how thousands of Indians have ‘BigBasket’ as their password, only to realise it’s not something to be proud of. Read why

OpIndia Staff -
Big Basket flaunted being at fourth number of most used passwords without realizing the list was based on cyber security incidents
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News Reports

Delhi Court dismisses bail plea of AAP minister Satyendar Jain and two others in the money laundering case

OpIndia Staff -
AAP minister Satyendar Jain has been once again denied bail in connection with the money laundering case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED)
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News Reports

Bihar: School headmistress Sajda Khatoon converts a classroom into a bar, safeguards drunkards while they ‘enjoy drinks’, caught red-handed

OpIndia Staff -
After discovering alcohol in school, the Senior Deputy Collector has instructed the BDO and BEO to look into the matter and suspend the headmistress after inspection.
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Opinions

The very media that celebrates Rishi Sunak, derided PM Modi for his ‘Hinduness’ – the result of a colonised mind

Virender Kapoor -
Telegraph, which targeted Modi when he visited temples, is going gaga over Rishi Sunak meeting King Charles in Buckingham palace with his sacred thread tied to his wrist.
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News Reports

‘Misleading and fallacious’: Govt refutes reports claiming that Covaxin approval was rushed due to political pressure, Bharat Biotech also denies

OpIndia Staff -
Govt of India and Bharat Biotech deny claims that approval for Covaxin was rushed and procedures were skipped
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News Reports

Saudi Arabia exempts Indian nationals from submitting police clearance certificates, cites strong relations with India

OpIndia Staff -
The Kingdom of Saudia Arabia has announced that Indian nationals will be made exempt from submitting a Police Clearance Certificate to obtain a visa. The kingdom has cited the strong strategic partnership between the two nations as the reason.
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News Reports

Allahabad HC dismisses plea challenging continuance of Yogi Adityanath as UP CM, imposes Rs 11,000 fine for wasting court’s time

OpIndia Staff -
Dr Farugui argued that Yogi Adityanath was not qualified to contest the election for the Legislative Assembly of UP due to a violation of provisions under Rule 4A of the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961.
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News Reports

Bangladesh: Abu Bakr trapped a Hindu woman in love, then killed her and cut the body into pieces

OpIndia Staff -
Abu Bakr trapped Kavita despite having a live-in partner, took her his home 5 days after meeting her, and killed her after an argument
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World

South Korea: Three weeks after tragic stampede that killed 158 people, ‘Itaewon crush’ becomes a macabre school game and TikTok trend

OpIndia Staff -
In a disturbing trend, children in South Korea are turning the tragic October 29 stampede in the country's capital of Seoul during the Halloween festival into a game.
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News Reports

Kathua case: SC order to try the accused as an adult identifies the victim as a “Muslim girl” and the perpetrators as “Hindus”

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court on Wednesday passed an order to try one of the accused, Shubham Sangra, in the Kathua case, who had claimed to be a juvenile, as an adult.
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Amazon fires 10,000 employees: Indian software engineers, H1B visa holders impacted badly

OpIndia Staff -
Amazon has however said that the job cuts would be effective beginning on January 17.
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