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‘Let football take center stage’: FIFA urges World Cup teams to focus on the game instead of politics and ideologies

OpIndia Staff -
“Please, let’s now focus on the football. Do not allow football to be dragged into every ideological or political battle that exists", the letter by FIFA president read.
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News Reports

Amritsar: Shiv Sena Taksali’s Sudhir Suri shot dead outside temple amid protests over broken idols of Hindu Gods found in the garbage dump

OpIndia Staff -
Sudhir Suri was protesting against temple authorities after the discovery of broken idols of Hindu Gods outside the temple.
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News Reports

Azamgarh: ‘Pakistan zindabad’ slogans raised during BSP civic poll body campaign rally, local candidate Pappu Khan and aide detained

OpIndia Staff -
Pappu Khan and his aide Khursheed Ahmed were detained after 'Pakistan Zindabad' slogans were raised during the BSP rally.
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News Reports

Photojournalists from some media houses not allowed to attend joint press conference of Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann

OpIndia Staff -
Photojournalists from The Print, The New Indian Express, and The Morning Standard were not allowed in AAP press conference
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News Reports

Twitter user accuses journalist Sucheta Dalal of derailing #MeToo investigation, Sucheta Dalal posts a detailed response

OpIndia Staff -
A Twitter user has accused Sucheta Dalal of ratting out on a 'source' investigating potential MeToo cases in Moneylife
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Opinions

Settling the ‘teleprompter’ issue once and for all – whether PM Modi uses one or not is immaterial. Here is why

Virender Kapoor -
Off late I have observed people ‘criticizing’ PM Modi for using a teleprompter for his speeches.
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News Reports

Punjab: Farmers hold a govt official hostage who had visited a village in Faridkot to inspect stubble burning, refuse to release

OpIndia Staff -
Patwari Sukhdeep Singh Sodhi has been kept hostage by villagers of Jeewan Wala village in Faridkot in Punjab for inspecting stubble burning
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News Reports

Gujarat bridge collapse: CO of Morbi municipality who admitted that the bridge was reopened without a fitness certificate suspended by govt

OpIndia Staff -
Chief officer (CO) of Morbi municipality Sandeepsinh Zala has been suspended over the bridge collapse incident.
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News Reports

Judiciary vs Sharia again: Court says Khula is the absolute right of Muslim women and not subject to husband’s will, AIMPLB says husband can...

OpIndia Staff -
On Thursday AIMPLB asserted that a Muslim woman does not have the unilateral right to end her marriage through Khula.
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News Reports

‘Stubble burning in Punjab has converted Delhi into gas chamber’: Delhi LG writes to Bhagwant Mann to take urgent steps to control pollution

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi LG Vinai Kumar Saxena writes to Bhagwant Mann asking him to take urgent and substantive measures to control stubble burning in Punjab
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News Reports

Haryana records 30% dip in stubble-burning in one year, 55% in last six years: Read what state is doing to fight the menace

OpIndia Staff -
Haryana has not only seen a considerable decline in the number of occurrences of stubble burning this year
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News Reports

Over 2 lakh fake labourers registered in Delhi Construction Workers Welfare Board, BJP questions AAP Government

OpIndia Staff -
Between 2018 and 2021, the Delhi government registered 9 lakh labourers as workers, with about 2 lakh of them being fake.
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News Reports

SFI goons lock up college principal in Idukki over suspension of two comrades: Here is what we know so far

OpIndia Staff -
The SFI goons locked up the principal of Kattappana Government College in Idukki for suspending two of their comrades.
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News Reports

Delhi High Court imposes Rs 25,000 fine on petitioner who sought to make Elon Musk party to a case challenging suspension of Twitter account

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi HC calls plea to include Elon Musk in a case against Twitter 'highly misconceived' as Twitter was already represented in the matter
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News Reports

Netizens dig up old tweets by Arvind Kejriwal claiming he had solutions for stubble burning as he starts the blame game over pollution

OpIndia Staff -
Arvind Kejriwal has been boasting that he has found solutions to stubble burning, even as Delhi's air quality worsens.
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News Reports

Supreme Court orders transfer of all FIRs against blasphemy-accused former BJP leader Naveen Kumar Jindal to Delhi

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court also ordered that no precipitative action should be taken or no new FIR should be filed against Jindal for 8 weeks
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Crime

Kerala: 6-year-old child of migrant labourers from Rajasthan brutally kicked and injured by one Sihshad, for leaning on a car

OpIndia Staff -
The little boy happened to lean against the white car of the accused while it stood at the roadside. The man was caught on camera brutally kicking the boy.
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News Reports

‘Can’t say centre can’t refuse renewal of licence on security ground’: SC reserves order on plea challenging ban on Malayalam channel MediaOne

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court said that the central govt has right ban on a TV channel on security ground in a plea filed by MediaOne channel
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News Reports

The spat between Elon Musk and AOC is the most juvenile thing on the internet today – and we love it: Here is why

OpIndia Staff -
One of the flag bearers of delusional Left ideas, Democrat and House representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Elon Musk had a rather public spat on Twitter
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News Reports

Honor killing in UP: 19-year-old girl murdered by brothers Tohid and Danish over love affair, audio clip of victim seeking help before dying goes...

OpIndia Staff -
The 19-year-old girl from Ghaziabad was smothered with a pillow by her brothers Tohid and Danish for having an affair with a youth whom the latter did not approve of.
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Social Media

Twitter web crashes globally, several users unable to access feed and log in

OpIndia Staff -
93% of Twitter visitors had issues with the web, but just 6% experienced issues with the app.
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News Reports

Pakistan in chaos: Protests break out in Peshawar and other cities over the alleged assassination attempt on Imran Khan at Wazirabad

OpIndia Staff -
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in front of the Corps Commander's House in Peshawar and raised their voices against the incident.
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News Reports

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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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’

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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...

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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...

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