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Accenture India fires a large number of employees for taking jobs using fake experience letters

Accenture India fires a large number of people after finding out that their experience credentials were fake

BJP wins 4 out of 7 assembly seats in the byelections held in 6 states: Read detailed results

While BJP won a seat in Bihar, Haryana, Odisha, and Uttar Pradesh, RJD won in Bihar, Shiv Sena won in Maharashtra, and TRS won the byelection in Telangana.

When an Indian journalist had asked Tulsi Gabbard if she plans to ‘stay with’ Hinduism as a religion

Tulsi Gabbard had said in her answer, "This is the motivation for my life and all that I do. And it is the only way of life for me."

Hindu leaders under threat in Punjab, Ludhiana Police advise them to stay inside their homes after Sudhir Suri murder

Following threats from pro-Khalistani Gopal Singh Chawla from Pakistan, Hindu leaders were advised to stay at home in Punjab

Adipurush’s release likely to be delayed as makers to rework VFX after severe backlash: Reports

The teaser of the film Adipurush that released in October this year, netizens were aghast at some of the visuals where the Hindu epic appeared more like appropriated rather than retold.

Retired IB officer RN Kulkarni, who wrote a book exposing Jihad, murdered by unknown persons by hitting him with a car

RN Kulkarni wrote a book 'Facets of Terrorism in India'. In this book he exposed the Islamic Jihad going on in India for the last 1000 years.

Cricketer Venkatesh Prasad gets abused after he jokes how ‘Bhagwa’ helped Pakistan reach semi-finals in T20 World Cup

Netherlands, which wears an orange-coloured jersey as uniform, beat South Africa in the T20 World Cup Super 12 Group 2 match, paving way for Pakistan to reach the semis

TMC’s Saket Gokhale claims he is using Twitter Blue, but the feature has not been launched in India yet

TMC's Saket Gokhale claimed he subscribed to Twitter Blue long ago. The feature is yet to launch in India.

‘Influencers had spread false narrative’: Report by UK think tank says Hindutva or RSS extremism was not behind Leicester violence

Report by Henry Jackson Society denies any possible involvement of Hindutva or RSS extremism in Leicester violence

Bihar: Gold trader kidnapped, murdered, body recovered three days later, 3 arrested

Hariji Gupta was a resident of Arrah in Bihar and owned several shops and a market which he gave out on rent to others.

TN BJP chief K Annamalai skips family event at Chennai home of Bengal Governor La Ganesan because Mamata Banerjee was present

'Did not go because Mamata Banerjee was present': K Annamalai skips event at home of Bengal Guv La Ganesan

Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor become parents to a baby girl, the couple tied the knot in April this year

Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt got married in April this year after being in a relationship for five years.

Gujarat overtakes Delhi to rank among the top 5 in school education Performance Grading Index

According to the data, Gujarat’s education Performance Grading Index has been consistently improving.

Twitter Blue starts rolling out at $8 with several features, Musk may probe charges of employees selling verification tags for $15,000

Twitter Blue starts rolling out at $8 with several features, to be available in India in a month

Madhya Pradesh: Sakir Mohammad, father of 9 children, poses as Rajkumar, rapes and forces Hindu woman to convert

Sakir Mohammad, pretending to be Rajkumar, also claimed he was a widower himself and that's how he started to get close to the woman who was a widow herself.

Youths in Iran hit and strike turbans of Islamic clerics in protest against hijab, videos viral

Visuals of youths knocking clerics' turbans off their heads in Iran have gone viral on social media.

Tamil Nadu: Video of goons harassing women outside a govt college in Madurai goes viral, 6 arrested

Visuals of a bunch of men encircling women and harassing them outside the Sri Meenakshi Government Arts College for Women in Madurai have gone viral on social media

‘India wrongly portrayed as a fascist state’, ‘India’s intellectual class is anti-India’: Australian sociologist Dr Salvatore Babones at India Today conclave

To Rajdeep Sardesai's chagrin, Australian sociologist Dr Salvatore Babones said India's intellectual class is anti-India.

The Wire withdraws report claiming that Tek Fog was used by BJP to target Mohammed Zubair leading to his arrest

The Wire has withdrawn its July 2 report where it had claimed that Tek Fog was used to target Md Zubair with thousands of bots

Women officers sexually and mentally harassed on submarines in British Royal Navy, probe ordered: Details

The Royal Navy said it has ordered an investigation into "abhorrent" allegations of sexual harassment of women on submarines.

Kerala: T’puram mayor participates in parliament march against unemployment after perpetuating nepotism and favouritism in govt jobs

Arya Rajendran wrote a letter to district secretary of CPM and asked for the list of CPM workers seeking job in Thiruvananthapuram corporation.

‘It was preplanned’: Son of Shiv Sena (Taksali) leader Sudhir Suri alleges his father got threat call a day before he was shot dead

Sudhir Suri had received a threat call from the UK the night before his murder, and his family continued to receive such calls, his son Manik Suri has revealed

‘Turn Muslim, no matter what you do in life, you go to heaven’: Old video of Pakistani cricketer Ahmed Shehzad persuading TM Dilshan to...

In the viral video, Pakistani cricketer Ahmed Shehzad tried persuading T Dilshan of converting to Islam on a cricket ground.

‘Sympathy-seeking jilted lover being scorned by SC’: Ex-Live Law staffer denigrates Law Min Kiren Rijiju over his criticism of the collegium system

Radhika Roy, a former associate editor at Live Law, had a meltdown on Twitter after Kiren Rijiju criticised the collegium system.

Gujarat AAP leader Indranil Rajguru leaves the party to join Congress, claims a large amount of money comes to AAP office

Indranil Rajguru claimed that Aam Aadmi Party is corrupt and that a lot of money used to come to its office.

ED questions Manish Sisodia’s PA in liquor scam case, the Delhi Dy CM alleges BJP doing it in fear of losing elections

ED questioned Manish Sisodia's PA Devendra Sharma in the liquor scam case, but Sisodia claimed Sharma has been arrested

RSS postpones route march in Tamil Nadu despite go-ahead from Madras HC due to restrictions imposed, to challenge the order

RSS asked for the permission to hold rallies in 50 places in the state. The Madras High Court had allowed the organization to take the route marches and hold the rallies in 44 places.

‘They will soon become a minority in India, won’t stay majority for long’: AAP MLA Rajendra Pal Gautam spreads hate against Hindus on The...

AAP legislator Rajendra Pal Gautam revealed his nefarious agenda of converting India into a Buddhist-majority nation.

Music director-singer DSP booked for hurting religious sentiment of Hindus in his new song O Pari

Music composer Devi Sri Prasad, popularly known as DSP, booked following a complaint alleging that his song O Pari hurts religious sentiments of Hindus

Old strangleholds loosening and new discourse appearing: Is a new Dharmic ecosystem finally taking shape

Elon Musk has just taken over Twitter. What more is 2022 going to do to the beleaguered left? While your guess is good as mine, there is not an iota of doubt that 2022, so far, has truly been a year of pleasant surprises like no other.

Freedom House finally responds to OpIndia’s query on The Wire’s Tek Fog fraud: Here’s how they continue to use their prejudiced index to malign...

Internet freedom in India report by Freedom House had cited The Wire's now withdrawn Tek Fog story to downgrade India's score.

Shiv Sena Takhali leader Sudhir Suri murder: Eyewitness says he caught the attacker, but 15 officers shoved him aside, accuses police of negligence

A day after Hindu leader Sudhir Suri was shot, eyewitnesses to the crime have spoken to the media, accusing the Punjab police of gross negligence.

Elon Musk threatens to publicly disgrace, ‘name and shame’ advertisers who are leaving Twitter due to layoffs: Read details

On Friday, Billionaire Elon Musk threatened to publicly humiliate sponsors and advertisers who are pulling out of Twitter after the social networking site announced major layoffs.

Sukesh Chandrashekhar pens second letter: Rs 50 cr to Arvind Kejriwal for RS seat, Rs 500 cr demand towards AAP and Satyender Jain’s threats

Sukesh Chandrashekhar claimed that Arvind Kejriwal forced him to bring 20 to 30 more people who would each provide Rs 500 crore to the party.

Did Shahid Afridi disrespect former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee? Here is why #ZehrilaAfridi is trending on Twitter

In 1993, Shahid Afridi shook hands with former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee and made him feel embarrassed.

Pro-Khalistan group Justice League India claims responsibility for killing Sudhir Suri, Khalistani Gopal Chawla celebrates

The day Sudhir Suri, the president of Shiv Sena (Takshali) was shot dead in Amritsar, Punjab, a pro-Khalistani group Justice League claimed responsibility for the killing

Music label sues Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders for illegal use of KGF Chapter 2 music in Bharat Jodo Yatra promos

MRT Music files copyright infringement lawsuit against Rahul Gandhi, Supriya Srinate, and Jairam Ramesh for illegal use of KGF Chapter 2 Muslic

Coimbatore car blast terrorist Jamesha Mubin had shaved his body before the attack like ISIS suicide bombers: Report

Jamesha Mubin was the 29-year-old engineering graduate who died after an LPG cylinder in a vehicle exploded in the communally sensitive Kottaimedu region

Ansar Sheikh, prime accused in the Jahangirpuri violence against Hindus, who made ‘Jhukega Nahi’ gesture after arrest, granted bail: Read why

Bail granted to Ansar Sheikh, accused in Jahangirpuri violence, by Additional Sessions Judge of Rohini District Court.

Entitled Indian ‘journalist’ wants Rishi Sunak to find her lost wallet in London, gets ridiculed for her missing sense of reality: Here is what...

Sakshi Joshi assumed that the police investigation in London would be expedited on account of her influence in leftist circles in India.

‘Billionaire making efforts to comply with the law’: Attorney who sued Twitter after Elon Musk started laying off employees

Elon Musk cutting 3,700 jobs or nearly half of its working population, has prompted litigation against Twitter Inc

ED arrests Abbas Ansari, son of former BSP MLA ‘Don’ Mukhtar Ansari, was grilled for 9 hours in a money laundering case

Abbas Ansari was grilled for 9 hours at the Prayagraj office of ED before he was arrested by the central agency.

Imran Khan declares himself ‘Mujibur 2.0’, compares ongoing situation in Pakistan to 1971 when Bangladesh was created, Pak Army cries ‘defamation’

Imran Khan blamed Major General Faisal Naseer, Rana Sanaullah and PM Shehbaz Sharif, for the assassination attempt against him.

‘We are ready to deliver oil’: Iranian ambassador to India Dr Iraj Elahi says Iran is ready to ‘increase economic ties with India’

Iran was a major energy provider to India until May 2019, when the country ceased doing so after the US threatened to impose more sanctions.

‘Almost justified arrest’: Indian Express publishes editorial condemning action against Arnab Goswami after 2 years, Republic TV lashes out

Republic TV lashed out at Indian Express after they published an editorial that condemned the arrest of Arnab Goswami

Twitter fires almost all employees in India, major layoffs in the marketing, communications and engineering teams

Twitter has 300 employees in India and almost 250 employees across all the functions were fired on Friday

‘Forcibly entered into the temple-like body of the girl’: UP POCSO Court awards death sentence to ‘vampires’ Haleem and Rizwan for the brutal rape...

The UP POCSO court awarded death sentence to Haleem and Rizwan for raping and grievously injuring a minor girl.

Meet former journalist Isudan Gadhvi, the Aam Aadmi Party’s chief ministerial candidate for Gujarat assembly elections

Isudan Gadhvi belongs to the Other Backward Classes (OBC), which account for 48% of Gujarat's populace.

‘Proceeds of crime used for riots’: Court frames charges against Tahir Hussain in money laundering case linked to the 2020 Delhi riots

A Delhi Court framed charges against Tahir Hussain in a money laundering case related to the 2020 Delhi anti-Hindu riots.