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Rajdeep Sardesai proposes debate with sociologist Salvatore Babones over his criticism of Indian intellectuals, then declines his invitation to debate

Raju Das -
Rajdeep Sardesai says that there should be debate with Salvatore Babones over his criticism of intellectuals, but refuses to debate himself
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News Reports

Congress to review its stand on EWS reservations for the poor Upper Castes, takes a U-turn after initially welcoming Supreme Court judgment on it

OpIndia Staff -
Besides welcoming the Supreme Court's judgment, Congress also tried to take credit for the EWS reservations for the poor upper castes.
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News Reports

Pakistan’s blasphemy culture now in full glory repeated in Punjab, flower petals showered at Sandeep Singh, the killer of Shiv Sena leader Sudhir Suri

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Flowers were showered on Sandeep Singh, the suspected killer of Shiv Sena leader Sudhir Suri, outside the court.
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World

‘Hindus kidnapped Muslim girl’: Fake news spread by Islamists to stoke communal tension in Leicester has eerie similarities with the 2002 Godhra riots

Dibakar Dutta -
The Henry Jackson Society concluded that the false allegations had exposed the Hindu community in Leicester to hate, vandalism and assault.
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News Reports

‘False and baseless’, PIB fact-checks Rahul Gandhi’s claims about privatisation of Indian Railways

OpIndia Staff -
In the video embedded in Rahul Gandhi’s tweet, he can be seen interacting with people in Telangana while on his Bharat Jodo Yatra. Some of them were railway union members who came to meet Rahul Gandhi to submit a memorandum opposing the alleged 'privatisation of railways.'
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Social Media Fact-Check

Gujarat: AAP IT cell spreads fake video to mock BJP while trying to take advantage of Morbi bridge tragedy

OpIndia Staff -
With Gujarat state assembly elections just around the corner, desperate times are calling for desperate measures, it seems.
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Entertainment

Asked me to use oils to enlarge my breasts, kept staring at my private parts: Actress Sheela Priya Seth makes shocking statements about Sajid...

OpIndia Staff -
In an interview, actress Sheela Priya Seth stated that Sajid Khan misbehaved with her 14 years ago, in the year 2008.
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News Reports

Rajiv Gandhi assassination convict Nalini Sriharan smiles to the camera as she steps out of prison along with her husband and 4 others

OpIndia Staff -
Nalini Sriharan, convict of former PM Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, was seen smiling to the camera after her release from jail
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Variety

Sheru weds Sweety: Childless couple adopts female dog from local temple, to perform her ‘Kanyadaan’ as she marries neighbour’s dog

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Two dogs will be married by their owners in Haryana's Gurugram in an unconventional marriage ceremony.
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News Reports

Jammu & Kashmir: In yet another targeted attack, two migrant labourers shot by terrorists in Anantnag

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Two migrant labourers from Uttar Pradesh were injured after being shot by terrorists in the Anantnag district of Jammu & Kashmir.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Bike borne Shoaib opens fire on Aligarh Muslim University campus, arrested

OpIndia Staff -
A bag, about two dozen cartridges, and a country-made firearm were recovered from the accused, identified as Shoaib alias Choba.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Rs 10,000 fine on pet owners in Noida if their dog attacks others causing injury, read details

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The Noida Authority CEO announced on Twitter that it is mandatory to get pet dog/cat registration done by January 31, 2023. A fine will be imposed in case of failure of registration. Pet dogs must also be sterilized and vaccinated against rabies.
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Editor's picks

‘Have you looked at her face’: TMC Minister makes derogatory remarks about President Murmu, shamelessly tries to defend it later

OpIndia Staff -
President Murmu hails from a Scheduled Tribe (ST) community from Odisha. Born in a family of Santhal tribes in northern Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district, in a nondescript village, she is India’s first President from the tribal community.
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World

Dallas: Horrifying visuals of two military planes colliding midair at Veterans Day airshow emerge

OpIndia Staff -
The 'America's Premier World War II Airshow' took place on Veterans Day weekend, where over 40 World War II-era aircraft were displayed.
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News Reports

BJP leader accused by The Wire of being brains behind imaginary app ‘Tek Fog’ demands an apology

OpIndia Staff -
The Wire, in its January 2022 report had claimed that Devang Dave was the brains behind the 'hate app' Tek Fog, which had super powers and could bypass sophisticated security features of any social media app. The app does not exist.
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News Reports

‘Banned by mistake’: Uttarakhand government revokes the ban on five Patanjali medicines

OpIndia Staff -
The Uttarakhand government issued a press release stating that the ban on Patanjali medicines was imposed by mistake.
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News Reports

Kashmir: Ganderbal district admin imposes blanket ban on electric heaters ahead of harsh winter to prevent disruption in power supply

OpIndia Staff -
The blanket ban on heaters have been issued owing to the non-judicious use of such appliances, said the DM of Ganderbal in Jammu and Kashmir
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News Reports

NHRC says farmers can’t be blamed for stubble burning, holds 4 state governments responsible

OpIndia Staff -
NHRC said in a press release, "The State Governments have to provide harvest machines to get rid of those stubbles but they have failed to provide an adequate number of requisite machines and other measures."
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News Reports

‘Structural violence, built-in-hierarchy and susceptible to abuse’: Anti-Brahmin activist demonises Yoga in her latest tirade

Dibakar Dutta -
"There are lot of Yoga traditions that try to sexually control the body in this idea of like purity and pollution," claimed Thenmozhi Soundararajan.
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News Reports

Hum uski ‘aukat’ batana chahtein hain: Congress leader Madhusudan Mistry makes derogatory remark against PM Modi, BJP hits back

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader made the distasteful remark against PM Modi when he was asked about Congress manifesto promise to rename the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad to Sardar Patel Stadium
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Cricket

‘Aap mein aur hum mein fark yehi hai’: Irfan Pathan gives a befitting reply to Pakistan PM over his tweet mocking India’s exit from...

OpIndia Staff -
Irfan Pathan slammed Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif over his petty tweet mocking India over its exit from T20 WC.
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News Reports

Ganga Vilas Cruise: World’s longest river cruise set to sail from Varanasi to Dibrugarh in January, to cover 4000 km in 50 days

OpIndia Staff -
Ganga Vilas Cruise will depart from Varanasi on January 10 and arrive in Dibrugarh in Assam on March 1, through Kolkata and Sundarbans
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Entertainment

Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan stopped by Customs at Mumbai Airport, made to pay over Rs 6 lakh duty on expensive watches

OpIndia Staff -
The exact cost of the watches in Shah Rukh Khan luggage amounted to Rs 17,56,500. The star had to pay Rs 6,87,000 duty on that.
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World

SL cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka repeatedly choked victim while sexually assaulting her: All you need to know about the Sydney rape case

OpIndia Staff -
Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka is facing rape charges after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her.
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News Reports

Nepal: 38 Indians working as bonded labourers in a brick factory rescued, handed over to SSB

OpIndia Staff -
These laborers hailed from Uttar Pradesh. They were handed over to the Sashastra Seema Bal at Bairganiya in Bihar’s Sitamarhi district.
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News Reports

Karnataka: ‘If Tanveer Seth installs statue of Tipu Sultan, will demolish it like Babri’, says Sri Ram Sena chief Pramod Muthalik

OpIndia Staff -
Pramod Muthalik said, "How you can install a statue of Tipu Sultan? It is an anti-religious statement according to Islam. Muslims will hang Tanveer Seth for making such statements."
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News Reports

Punjab: Unavailability of ambulance forces Dera Bassi couple to ferry their ill son in a cart 16 km away to a hospital in Chandigarh

OpIndia Staff -
The Dera Bassi couple ferried their son in a cart after the '108' helpline told them that they had no ambulance available.
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News Reports

Hyderabad: Student Himank Bansal beaten up and forced to chant Allah-hu-Akbar in college hostel, complaint filed

OpIndia Staff -
As per the complaint by Himank Bansal, 15 to 20 guys burst into his hostel room and beat him up while accusing him of hurting religious sentiments.
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News Reports

Malegaon: Hindu groups protest against the kidnapping of a minor tribal girl, family suspect Imran Sheikh and the ‘love jihad’ motive behind the abduction

OpIndia Staff -
Hindu groups protested outside Malegaon police station over the kidnapping of a tribal girl & slammed them over inaction.
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Economy and Finance

Adani Group to launch open offer to acquire an additional 26% share in NDTV on November 22, will raise Adani’s total stake above 55%

OpIndia Staff -
The Adani Group has declared an open offer to purchase another 26% interest in NDTV commencing November 22.
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News Reports

Congress leader Abhay Thipsay, who had defended Nirav Modi in UK court, joins Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’

OpIndia Staff -
Abhay Thipsay, who joined Congress in 2018, appeared as a defence witness for Nirav Modi in a UK court in 2020
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News Reports

Love Jihad in Jharkhand: Abducted minor girl’s mother accuses Shahid Ansari of kidnapping, says he is forcing her to convert and marry him

OpIndia Staff -
The mother of the victim has alleged that Shahid Ansari has kidnapped her daughter and forcing her to convert her religion.
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Politics

Telangana CM KCR throws a tantrum, skips PM Modi event in the state as the invitation did not come directly from the PMO

OpIndia Staff -
Union Minister Reddy stated that Union Health and Family Welfare and Fertilizers Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had written to KCR personally inviting him to the RFCL inauguration. 
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Politics

Himachal Pradesh Elections: It is once again BJP vs Congress as AAP disappears mid-campaigning

OpIndia Staff -
Himachal Pradesh is famous for oscillating between Congress and BJP, as no party has been able to secure consecutive victories since Virbhadra Singh led Congress in 1985.
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News Reports

Remembering terror victims: 33 years since the massacre of 19 Hindu students by Khalistani terrorists in Punjab

OpIndia Staff -
19 students were killed by Khalistani terrorists at Thapar Engineering College in Patiala in the night of 10 November 1989
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News Reports

‘Twitter Blue’ blues: Stocks of ‘Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals’ plummet after fake verified account tweets about offering free insulin. Here is what happened

OpIndia Staff -
Notably, a verified Twitter account posing as Eli Lilly tweeted Thursday afternoon, "We are excited to announce that insulin is now free."
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Nikah Halala ends in gang rape as husband’s brother, Islam, refuses to divorce the woman. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
The woman in the complaint said that based on the suggestion of Islamic cleric Guddu Haji, Salman made her marry his younger brother
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News Reports

Sculptor Arun Yogiraj accuses ‘The Hindu’ of not crediting him for the chiselling of Netaji statue at Kartavya Path: Here is what we know...

OpIndia Staff -
A tweet posted by the Ministry of Culture on September 13 also appreciated Arun Yogiraj for his "breathtaking" work over a span of 75 days.
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News Reports

Sukesh Chandrashekhar drops another letter bombshell: Arvind Kejriwal used his money for paid article in American paper about Delhi’s education model

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Earlier, Chandrashekhar had confessed to providing Rs 10 crore as “protection money” to incarcerated Aam Aadmi Party minister Satyendar Jain.
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News Reports

Here is how Pentecostal Pastors are leading Christian conversion menace in Punjab: From police officer pastors to ambitions of ‘largest Church in Asia

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The reality of conversions to Christianity in Punjab is widely known, but it has received little attention
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Political History of India

His father wanted him to be a ‘Pir’, but Nehru made him India’s first education minister: Read how Abul Kalam Azad distorted history to...

Jhankar Mohta -
Abul Kalam Azad, the first Education Minister of India, exalted Mughals and attempted to whitewash their sins by obfuscating history.
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News Reports

Another big blow to Uddhav Thackeray, senior party MP Gajanan Kirtikar joins the Eknath Shinde faction of Shiv Sena

OpIndia Staff -
Shiv Sena MP Gajanan Kirtikar joined the Eknath Shinde faction of the party on Friday evening
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News Reports

E-Nuggets gaming app fraud case: ED freezes Bitcoins worth Rs 22.82 crores in a raid on Binance Crypto Exchange

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ED freezes 150.22 Bitcoins worth Rs 22.82 Crore in a raid on Binance Crypto Exchange in E-Nuggets gaming app fraud case
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World

Pig heads and banners: Why South Koreans are objecting to the construction of a mosque by immigrant Muslims in Daegu

OpIndia Staff -
The locals in Daegu city of South Korea feared that a mosque would exacerbate the demography change in the neighbourhood.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: NCP MLA Jitendra Awhad arrested for stopping a show of movie ‘Har Har Mahadev’ in Thane

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NCP MLA Jitendra Awhad arrested by Vartak Nagar police in Thane for stopping the show of Marathi film 'Har Har Mahadev'
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News Reports

As Congress outrages about the release of Rajiv Gandhi’s killers, here’s how Sonia Gandhi wrote a letter and the Gandhi siblings sought a pardon

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress party on Friday criticised the SC over its decision to release former PM Rajiv Gandhi's killers.
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News Reports

Supreme Court extends bail granted to Godhra Train Carnage convict Abdul Rehman Abdul Majid till March 2023

OpIndia Staff -
The bail of Godhra Train Carnage convict Abdul Raheman Abdul Majid extended by Supreme Court till March 2024
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Tourism minister threatens Hindu seers protesting against illegal mining and stone crushers in Bharatpur

OpIndia Staff -
Seers in Rajasthan have intensified their protests against illegal mining and stone crushing in Bharatpur district
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News Reports

Kerala: Missing doctor from Kasargod found dead after Muslim League leaders had threatened him in his clinic, Hindu groups demand strict action

OpIndia Staff -
According to a report by Organiser, the doctor had received threats from leaders of the Muslim League and some other locals to extend support to another dental hospital recently opened in town. The doctor had also received extortion threats and was forced to shut his clinic or face threatening consequences, as per the report.
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News Reports

Delhi: 10-year-old girl molested inside a mosque in Maujpur, accused Mohammed Arman arrested

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24-year-old Mohammed Arman arrested for molesting a 10-year-old girl in a mosque in Delhi's Maujpur
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