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‘Go home, do not come to the office on Friday’: Internal message as Elon Musk initiates big layoffs at Twitter

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This comes a week after Elon Musk became the new owner of Twitter and immediately began overhauling the company.
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News Reports

Bengal: Mos Home Nisith Parmanik’s convoy attacked in Coochbehar with stones and sticks, BJP blames TMC

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Nisith Parmanik was traveling to attend a meeting with BJP workers in the Brahmottar Chatra area.
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News Reports

ISIS, message to pick up swords, punishment for ‘blasphemy’, Jihad against Kafirs and more: Notes in Coimbatore terror plot suspect Mubin’s house

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In a note recovered from Mubin's house, humans were divided into 2 categories - Muslims and Kafirs (non-Muslims).
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: 16-year-old girl beheaded by brother Md Kaleem for having an affair with a Hindu boy

OpIndia Staff -
An FIR has been registered against the accused on the complaint of his mother Taslima. The body of the victim has been sent for postmortem and the accused has been arrested, CO Munna Upadhyay informed.
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News Reports

Muslim ‘intellectuals’ meet Rahul Gandhi during his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Hyderabad, peddle victimhood, discuss UAPA and ‘protection of Waqf’

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After lunch, at Hanumannagar, Rahul Gandhi interacted with a delegation of Muslim intellectuals in Hyderabad during Bharat Jodo Yatra
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News Reports

‘I wanted to become a nurse, now I am a terrorist’: Teaser of movie ‘The Kerala Story’ released, story of 32000 Kerala women who...

OpIndia Staff -
The Kerala Story depicts the heart-breaking and gut-wrenching stories of 32000 women from Kerala who were radicalized to join the ISIS
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News Reports

National Union of Journalists slams press organisations for defending The Wire while remaining silent over the portal’s forgery in Meta story

OpIndia Staff -
The NUJ (I) said in its statement, "Their promptness in issuing a statement against the police inquiry makes these press associations and guilds seem like partisan players."
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Christian missionary school punishes student for chanting ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ in school assembly, parents protest demanding action

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A student named Shivansh Jain studying in Christ Senior Secondary School in Guna, Madhya Pradesh, was punished for chanting 'Bharat Mata ki Jai'
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News Reports

Azaan was going on and Imran Khan was playing music, so shot him: Man who shot Imran Khan, Faisal Butt, confesses, says was acting...

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Faisal Butt said, "I have done this because Imran Khan was misleading the people. I could not tolerate this. Therefore, I attempted to kill him."
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News Reports

The Wire’s shoddy handling of the sexual harassment case against Vinod Dua: How the committee did not even look into the allegations

Anurag -
Documents of The Wire's investigation on sexual harassment charges against Vinod Dua leaked, committee was dissolved without concluding probe
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News Reports

Coimbatore blast: Masjid committee members visit Kottai Easwaran temple, condemn the explosion

OpIndia Staff -
While condemning the Coimbatore car blast, Federation general secretary Haji M A Inayatullah said that no one to date could break the unity between Hindus and Muslims in the city.
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News Reports

The Wire takes down videos ‘explaining’ Meta and Tek Fog stories, but video claiming ‘Md Zubair was targeted using Tek Fog’ remains

OpIndia Staff -
After retracting fake Meta and Tek Fog stories, The Wire takes down videos ‘explaining’ and discussing their claims
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WTF News

UK’s ‘morgue monster’ David Fuller pleads guilty: All you need to know about the Necrophiliac killer who murdered two women and abused over 100...

OpIndia Staff -
David Fuller, a British necrophiliac killer has confessed of sexually assaulting as many as 101 dead women in mortuaries
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News Reports

Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan suffers injury on his leg during firing at his ‘Azadi rally’, shooter arrested

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Former Pakistan PM and Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan has reportedly been injured as shots were fired near his 'Azadi march' container.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Taj Mohammad of Shahjahanpur burns Quran in a mosque, says it wasn’t him but his soul that did it

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When asked why did he burn the Quran, accused Taj Mohammad said, "It is not me but my soul that has burnt it."
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Media

The Wire’s ‘tech expert’ Devesh Kumar appears before Delhi Police Crime Branch in Meta controversy

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Delhi Police is currently investigating allegations of forgery against The Wire which reported that BJP's Amit Malviya had superpowers to bring anyone's post down on various social networking platforms.
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News Reports

Australia: Queensland govt announces AUD 1 million reward for information on Rajwinder Singh, wanted in a woman’s murder case

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Australia announces $1 million reward for information for Rajwinder Singh, accused of killing Toyah Cordingley
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News Reports

UK: Dobby the house elf’s ‘grave’ at a beach in Wales allowed to stay, as long as Harry Potter fans stop giving him socks

OpIndia Staff -
Dobby's grave has been marked with decorated pebbles, endearing messages, and dozens of mismatched socks, just as the house elf loved them. Thousands of Potterheads, as Harry Potter fans call themselves, visit the grave every year.
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News Reports

‘Fear regime in Kerala under Pinarayi Vijayan’: Governor Arif Mohammad Khan

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Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan described the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Kerala government as a fear regime.
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News Reports

Air pollution worsens in Delhi with increasing stubble burning, demand to shut down schools grows as average AQI nears 500

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People in Delhi complain of respiratory illness due to air pollution as AQI plunges to 'severe' and ‘hazardous’ categories
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News Reports

2000 Red Fort attack: SC rejects review petition of convicted LeT terrorist Mohammad Arif, upholds death penalty

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Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Mohammad Arif alias Ashfaq, prime accused in 2000 Red Fort terrorist attack, was awarded death penalty in 2005
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Opinions

The Wire and its ignominy: What went wrong, its impact and how it should be

Rajan Laad -
It is a time of considerable ignominy for The Wire. The organization was compelled to make not one but two retractions of major news stories it broke.
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News Reports

Gujarat poll dates announced: Voting to take place in two phases on December 1 and 5, counting to take place on December 8

OpIndia Staff -
The commission said that around 51,782 polling stations would be set up across 182 Assembly Constituencies in Gujarat to ensure a hassle-free comfortable voting experience.
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News Reports

Farmers in other parts of India don’t burn stubble at this scale, read why Punjab parali is choking Delhi

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Stubble burning incidents are rooted in a decision taken by state governments to discourage farmers from using ground water
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News Reports

Is AAP lying? LG says they received no request from Delhi govt to extend ‘Dilli ki Yogshala’ program beyond 31st Oct

OpIndia Staff -
The Aam Aadmi Party has initiated a new offensive against Lieutenant Governor (LG) VK Saxena by utilising the 'Dilli Ki Yogshala' program
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News Reports

Subramanian Swamy is a Z category protectee, security arrangements for him are adequate: Centre tells Delhi High Court

OpIndia Staff -
Subramanian Swamy filed a petition with the Delhi HC on October 27 alleging that the Centre has not made proper security arrangements for him at his private residence.
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News Reports

UN Security Council: India abstains from voting on Russian resolution seeking an investigation into alleged bio-weapons in Ukraine

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The motion, which was sponsored by Russia, sought to form a commission to probe Moscow's claims that the US and Ukraine are conducting "military biological activities" in Ukrainian laboratories
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News Reports

‘We are sitting idle, no complaints of corruption in Goa in last few years’: State CBI chief encourages people to come forward and report...

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CBI is currently prosecuting 80 cases of corruption in the state while only eight cases are under investigation.
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Opinions

As much as I admire the ongoing torture of the Left by Elon Musk, here is his massive handicap that he might need to...

Ganesh R -
If you recall my earlier article on Elon Musk, I said that India should not accept his unreasonable terms and offer any special deal to Tesla just to get him to sell in India.
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Politics

Congress giving up on Gujarat already? The Grand Old Party casts aspersions on Election Commission ahead of state polls

Nirwa Mehta -
As Election Commission announces dates for the upcoming state assembly elections in Gujarat, Congress has already started its attack on the institution.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Statue of symbolic warrior woman vandalized in Islamabad

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Unknown individuals vandalised a statue of a symbolic woman warrior in the Kachnar Park of Islamabad, Pakistan.
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News Reports

Bangladesh accuses Virat Kohli of ‘fake fielding’ and influencing umpires in India’s tense victory in T20 World Cup

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Bangladesh wicketkeeper-batsman Nurul Hasan complained that the on-field umpires had overlooked an instance of "fake fielding" by Virat Kohli.
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News Reports

As AAP blames the Centre for pollution, here is how Kejriwal cannot escape the responsibilities

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Contrary to allegations by AAP, Centre's panel on pollution said Punjab Government failed to deploy measures to control stubble burning in state.
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News Reports

BJP leader Kapil Mishra recreates Shankar Mahadevan’s ‘Breathless’ song to highlight pollution in Delhi due to a ‘useless CM’. Listen to the song

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In a tweet, Mishra exposes the apathy of Delhi government as well as Punjab government to control the stubble burning fires which lead to intense pollution over the northern India, particularly the national capital region.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Youth Ziaur Rahman assaulted after he entered a girl’s house in the night, the girl Tanu commits suicide after he dies of...

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Muslim boy Ziaur Rahman beaten by family of Tanu alleging that he was molesting her, but Tanu committed suicide after his death
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News Reports

2nd November 1990: The day when Mulayam Singh Yadav ordered to open fire at karsevaks protesting for Ram Mandir in Ayodhya

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Mulayam Singh Yadav was UP CM in November 1990 when the police opened fire at karsevaks protesting for Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.
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News Reports

Gujarat: Man arrested for removing bolt from pandal of PM Narendra Modi’s public meeting in Tharad

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After the video of a man removing a bolt from pandal of PM Modi's meeting in Gujarat went viral, the man has been arrested
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News Reports

Devesh Kumar of Meta Vs The Wire saga denies being ‘mentally disturbed’ as claimed by the portal, says he is cooperating with police

OpIndia Staff -
Devesh Kumar said, "I am not mentally unstable. This is the first time something like this is happening in my life."
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News Reports

WC T20: Pakistanis attack umpire Marais Erasmus as India clinch thriller against Bangladesh, diminishing Pakistan’s chances of qualifications

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Pakistanis targeted Marais Erasmus after India secured a close win against Bangladesh, taking them closer to the semis.
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News Reports

Kerala Human sacrifice: Son of victim waits for mortal remains of mother, accuses Pinarayi Vijayan govt of apathy

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Son of Kerala Human sacrifice victim has written a letter to CM stating that he has been struggling to survive without work and money
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News Reports

Haryana: 11-year-old Hindu girl raped by 32-year-old Sajid from Mewat, was sexually exploited for months

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Sajid was nabbed by Faridabad's Sector 65 Crime Branch and Mahila Thana Police. According to the police, Sajid has been charged under Section 506 of the IPC and the POCSO Act.
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News Reports

Devesh Kumar, who is now being blamed by The Wire, had been in left-wing activism for a long. Read how

Anurag -
Devesh Kumar, Ayushman and The Wire kept on building a story based on an app that never existed
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World

North Korea fires 23 missiles, one landing off the South Korean coast for the first time; Seoul responds with counter missiles

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier this year, North Korea fired missiles over Japan, ringing alarm bells in Tokyo and Washington over Pyongyang's continued escalation.
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News Reports

Arunachal Pradesh: Modi Government approves naming of Hollongi Greenfield Airport in Itanagar as Donyi Polo Airport

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Donyi Polo reflects the people's reverence for the Sun and the Moon and the state's traditions and rich cultural heritage.
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News Reports

Selling girls for sex in Rajasthan: Report details powerful prostitution racket in 4 districts, police, local administration aware and even complicit

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A series of investigative reports by Hindi daily Bhaskar details the targeting, purchase and sexual exploitation of minor girls rampant in 4 districts of Rajasthan. Caste Panchayats are reportedly complicit in the crime.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: ED attaches 28 immovable properties worth Rs 10.12 crore of slain gangster Vikas Dubey, his aides

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ED had launched a money laundering investigation against gangster Vikas Dubey based on an FIR registered by the Uttar Pradesh Police
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Editor's picks

Freedom House, that downgraded India to ‘partly free’ and cited The Wire reports, fails to retract its pronouncements even after Tek Fog reports are...

OpIndia Staff -
The Wire withdrew its Tek Fog reports from public viewing after it was discovered the stories written on Meta that involved same team as Tek Fog, had fabricated documents and evidence
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News Reports

The truth about the Morbi tragedy survivor’s ‘bandage changed to plaster for Modi visit’ fake news spread by usual suspects

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Morbi bridge collapse survivor Ashwin revealed that plaster was put up on his leg after the doctors found fracture in X-ray
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News Reports

As Pooja Bhatt joins Rahul Gandhi in ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, here’s a throwback to the time when her father praised hate preacher Zakir Naik

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Pooja Bhatt is daughter of film director Mahesh Bhatt and sister of Rahul Bhatt, the man who had links with 26/11 terrorist.
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News Reports

Morbi Bridge Collapse: Morbi and Rajkot Bar Associations decide not to represent nine accused from the Oreva Group

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Morbi and Rajkot Bar Association ave decided not to defend nine arrested accused of Oreva company in Morbi Bridge collapse incidcent
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