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Internal rift widens in TMC after Kolkata rape case, Kalyan Banerjee drags Mohua Moitra’s recent marriage after she called him misogynist, calls her ‘most...

OpIndia Staff -
A war of words has erupted within the Trinamool Congress after a student leader linked to the party was accused of rape. Controversial remarks by senior leaders triggered backlash, forcing the party to issue a clarification and deepen internal divisions.
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Those who imposed emergency murdered the constitution: Here are the highlights from the 123rd episode of PM Modi’s Mann Ki Baat

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The Prime Minister highlighted how thousands of people were subjected to inhumane atrocities under the draconian Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA).
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News Reports

Puri Jagannath Ratha Yatra: Read how over 1500 RSS Swayamsevaks provided various services to the devotees

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Demonstrating a significant commitment to public service, over 1,560 Swayamsevaks (volunteers) from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) played a pivotal role in ensuring the safety and well-being of lakhs of devotees during the renowned Ratha Yatra festival in Puri. Working in close coordination with the Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti, the volunteers executed nine structured humanitarian service activities, earning widespread appreciation.
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Chhattisgarh: Three women arrested for attempt to convert students outside a school in Raipur, insulted Hindu Gods and claimed Christianity will make them smarter

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A case of conversion has come to light in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. An attempt was being made to change the religion of children outside Madhav Rao Sapre school. Three women have been arrested in this case. The women were trying to deceive the children outside the school. Allegedly, the three women were asking children to go to church and convert to Christianity after a holiday outside the school.
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Uttar Pradesh: Muzaffarnagar police arrest Aryan for morphing and circulating obscene photos of Hindu girls on Instagram; Read FIR details

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Aryan, a 19-year-old resident of Rampuri, was arrested after the victim’s friend spotted the obscene images. He confessed during interrogation and has been sent to judicial custody after being produced in court.
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News Reports

Attempt to censor reporting of ‘love jihad’ in media? Madhya Pradesh High Court rejects petition of Maruf Ahmad Khan

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The petition was filed by one Maruf Ahamd Khan who submitted that the use of the term Love Jihad by media outlets and newspapers hurts the religious sentiments of the Muslim community.
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Opinions

Bangladesh: BNP leader Fazor Ali rapes Hindu woman at knifepoint in Cumilla, disturbing video of the incident surfaces online. Here is what we know...

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On Thursday (26th June), when the family members of the victim went to a local fair, the BNP leader seized the opportunity to break into his house and rape her at gunpoint.
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News Reports

Trinamool Congress distances itself from comments of Kalyan Banerjee and Madan Mitra on Law College rape case, says it strongly condemns the same

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Trinamool Congress on Friday evening issued an official statement distancing itself from controversial remarks made by MP Kalyan Banerjee and MLA Madan Mitra regarding the recent gangrape case at South Calcutta Law College
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‘Sky is never the limit’: 5 big moments from PM Modi’s interaction with Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla aboard the ISS

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"You may be farthest from India, but you’re closest to every Indian’s heart,” PM Modi told astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla in a historic space-to-Earth interaction.
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News Reports

Iran deports over 88,000 undocumented Afghan migrants in a single week, govt cancels all lease agreements with Afghan refugees and bans giving them shelter

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More than 88,000 undocumented Afghan migrants were deported from Iran in a single week, raising alarm over urgent humanitarian and funding needs.
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News Reports

Suhas Shetty murder case: NIA finds direct involvement of PFI, accused received foreign funding, hatched conspiracy 3 months in advance

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According to reports, the NIA found that most of the men involved in the murder of the Hindu activist are directly connected to the banned radical Islamic outfit Popular Front of India (PFI).
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News Reports

Himanta Biswa Sarma urges removal of ‘Secular’ and ‘Socialist’ from Constitution’s preamble, targets Indira Gandhi for not resolving illegal immigration and chicken neck issues

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Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma urged the Centre to remove "Secular" and "Socialist" from the Constitution’s Preamble, calling them Emergency-era impositions. He also questioned Indira Gandhi’s role in the 1971 Bangladesh war, citing its long-term impact on Assam.
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News Reports

Pakistan starts rebuilding terror camps destroyed by Indian airstrikes during Operation Sindoor: Report

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The terror camps are being reconstructed by diverting the financial aid provided to Pakistan by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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Rajdeep Sardesai peddles TMC propaganda on Rath Yatra, The Indian Express claims ‘competition’ between Puri Jagannath Dham and new temple constructed by Mamata govt

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The West Bengal government has openly flouted scriptural injunctions and long-established traditions in its brazen appropriation of the Puri Jagannath Dham.
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News Reports

Three years on, justice eludes Kanhaiya Lal’s family as Udaipur murder case lingers in court: Killed by Islamists after Mohammed Zubair’s dog whistling

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Mohammed Zubair played a central role in triggering Sar Tan Se Juda protests across the country, which ultimately led to the killing of Kanhaiya Lal.
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News Reports

Window grills of the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir in Ayodhya will be made of titanium, a first in the country, says construction committee chairman Nripendra...

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Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra construction committee chairman Nripendra Mishra on Saturday stated that the window grills of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi temple will be made of titanium
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News Reports

Denmark plans to introduce law to clamp down on Al-generated deepfakes by allowing citizens to copyright their features

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If the amendments get through, it will confer a right on the Danish citizens to ask online platforms to take down any content related to them shared without their consent.
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News Reports

Delhi: Mohammed Amaan and his aides murder Yash, family says victim killed over his relationship with Muslim girl

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"He has been killed as part of a conspiracy," the victim's mother told AajTak News. She said that Yash was in a relationship with a Muslim girl.
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News Reports

Mazagon Dock acquires Sri Lanka’s biggest shipbuilding facility Colombo Dockyard: Read how this move will help India check the growing influence of China in...

Shriti Sagar -
India’s state-owned Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders is acquiring a majority stake in Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard PLC for approximately $53 million. This marks MDL’s first overseas acquisition, strengthening India’s shipbuilding capacity and maritime influence in the Indian Ocean amidst China’s growing presence.
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News Reports

As Manipur celebrates Kang festival, read all about the Meitei community’s own version of Jagannath Rath Yatra

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Meitei community in Manipur celebrate their own version of the Jagannath Rath Yatra called the Kang Yatra.
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Kolkata rape case: Victim called TMC leader ‘Dada’ and even touched his feet to spare her but accused demanded her ‘loyalty’ towards him and...

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TMC leader Monojit Mishra threatened to kill the victim's boyfriend and get her parents arrested using his political influence in the ruling party.
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World

Malaysia: 36 Bangladeshis arrested for promoting Islamic State terror group’s ideology in the country, had set up recruitment cell, raised funding for terrorist activities

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Malaysia's Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, making the announcement of the arrest of the Bangladeshis, stated that the police’s operation started on April 24 with three phases of arrests in Selangor and Johor in Malaysia.
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News Reports

India proposes four-pronged plan to reduce border tensions with China: Will China accept it?

Shraddha Pandey -
Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh has proposed a four-pronged plan to ease Indo-China border tensions and improve diplomatic ties during the bilateral meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Admiral Dong Jun, at the SCO in Qingdao.
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News Reports

Grandfather of new MI6 chief was a Nazi spy chief known as ‘the buther’, had boasted of killing Jews and Ukrainian resistance fighters, reveals...

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Citing German archives, The Daily Mail reported that new MI6 chief Blaise Metreweli is the granddaughter of Constantine Dobrowolski, a notorious Nazi collaborator who spied and killed for Adolf Hitler's Germany.
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News Reports

India thrashes supplemental award by ‘illegal arbitration court’ under Indus Water Treaty on 2 hydroelectric projects in Kashmir, calls it a charade at Pakistan’s...

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Government of India on Friday dismissed a Court of Arbitration under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty as illegal, and rejected its recent rulings over Kishenganga and Ratle hydroelectric projects in Jammu and Kashmir
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News Reports

India’s current account records a surplus of $13.5 billion in January-March quarter of 2024-25, deficit for the financial year comes down to $23.3 billion

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India's current account recorded a surplus of USD 13.5 billion (or 1.3 per cent of GDP) in the January-March quarter of 2024-25 as compared with USD 4.6 billion (or 0.5 per cent of GDP) in the same quarter of 2023-24, RBI data showed Friday.
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Temple demolition whitewashed: How Muhammad Yunus-led govt in Bangladesh brazenly defended demolition of Hindu temple in Dhaka

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A day after a Durga Temple was demolished in Bangaldesh's Dhaka, the Muhammad Yunus-led govt released a press note, brazenly defending the action and victim-blaming the Hindus.
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British Navy finally agrees to move stranded F-35B jet to Maintenance facility of Thiruvananthapuram airport for repairs, 2 weeks after it made emergency landing

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British High Commission said that the UK has accepted an offer to move the stranded F-35B aircraft to the Maintenance Repair and Overhaul facility at the Thiruvananthapuram airport
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OpIndia Ground Report: Taufiq murdered “rakhi sister” Neha for rejecting his wedding proposal, threw her off the 5th floor of the building to her...

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Taufiq, after making an emotional case that he doesn't have any sister, apparently treated Neha as his sister. The elder sister of Neha said that she used to tie Rakhi to him on Rakshabandhan.
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News Reports

Washington Post downplays anti-Hindu propaganda of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as ‘harsh criticism’ of PM Modi

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It is this selective framing by media outlets like The Washington Post that contributes to a broader problem: delegitimizing Hindu concerns while sanitizing hate under the convenient banner of political dissent.
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News Reports

Allahabad High Court links live-in relationships to exploitation in “False Marriage Promise” case, says it is against middle-class norms

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In a significant observation during a bail hearing, the Allahabad High Court commented on the concept of live-in relationships, The court stated that live-in goes against the "established laws" of middle-class society. The court also expressed concern over the rising number of cases involving the exploitation of women under the guise of false marriage promises.
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Managing crash site to analysing blackbox data in own lab: India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau handling AI-171 crash probe entirely in the country

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The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) Lab in New Delhi, is currently working intensively to examine data retrieved from the black boxes of Air India Flight AI-171, which crashed in Ahmedabad earlier this month.
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Prashant Kishor is misleading, Norway and Sweden are heavily industrialised nations, and Bihar needs industries too

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The cumulative effect of the policies of the Congress and the RJD governments was that the local industries Bihar were entirely uprooted pushing the state into a dark unending period of poverty.
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Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray reunite try to force another “language war” under false claims of “Hindi is compulsory”: Read why it is not...

Rukma Rathore -
Uddhav Thackeray has taken a leaf out of DMK's political playbook and is trying to start an anti-Hindi language war in Maharashtra
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South Kolkata Law college rape case: What we know about the involvement of TMC leader Monojit Mishra and his connection to top netas

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The rape accused has been seen meeting several TMC leaders, including Abhishek Banerjee, Mamata Banerjee's sister-in-law and even Firhad Hakim.
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Karnataka HC issues notice on ‘Cauvery Aarti’ after plea by self-styled farmer activist Sunanda Jayaram

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Sunanda Jayaram has over the years earned a reputation of being a compulsive contrarian who has made a career out of opposing even well-intentioned policies. The plea against Cauvery Aarti is no different.
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Opinions

Bangladesh says it is not trying to join an alliance with China and Pakistan to sideline India in the region, but here is how...

Balendu Singh Angad -
Bangladesh's interim government, under Muhammad Yunus, is actively deepening engagements with Pakistan and China while simultaneously denying any intent to form alliances targeting India.
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News Reports

The politics of contradiction: How LGBTQ patron Muhammad Yunus turned into ‘saviour of Muslims’ in Bangladesh

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Despite Yunus’s decades-long involvement in promoting and funding LGBTQ causes globally, a growing segment of Islamic leaders in Bangladesh now view him favourably. This contradictory narrative exposes the fragile and often opportunistic dynamics of Bangladeshi politics, where ideological lines can be redrawn overnight.
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Lucknow: A day before Muharram, 300 firearms and 50,000 cartridges seized from a house, Hakim Salahuddin arrested

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A large cache of weapons, cartridges, and illegal weapon-making tools were seized in Lucknow, just a day before Muharram from the house of Hakim Salahuddin in Lucknow.
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After success in Operation Sindoor, Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr raises $100 million funding: How India is becoming more Atmanirbhar in defence manufacturing

Shraddha Pandey -
Raphe mPhibr drones fired missiles at terror and military establishments in Pakistan during Operation Sindoor. The Noida-based company is increasing its domestic drone capabilities due to growing military interest and national security concerns, including an impending Army order.
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World

‘No Space For Jeff Bezos’: Read why the city of Venice is protesting against Amazon founder’s Rs 480 Crore wedding

Rukma Rathore -
Protestors are pleased that the Jeff Bezos wedding location had to be changed and are still determined to keep protesting till Bezos and his guests leave Venice.
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News Reports

The Arvind Kejriwal of NYC: How Zohran Mamdani won the Democrat nomination for the mayor post by promising freebies and Wall Street is losing...

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Wall Street and business leaders have warned that the policies of Zohran Mamdani could cripple the economy of New York City. Philippe Laffont of Coatue Management has predicted a “wealthy exodus” to low-tax States.
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Cases of Christian conversion rise rapidly in Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh, some districts saw 41% increase in Christian population: Report

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Missionary organisations have been offering money to people and providing facilities like installing hand pumps to lure people to convert.
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Uttar Pradesh issues guidelines for Kanwar Yatra: No sale of meat on the yatra route, no liquor, shopkeepers asked to display their names

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From banning liquor and meat shops to deploying drones and setting up eco-friendly facilities, the administration is gearing up for a safe Kanwar Yatra.
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Don Bosco Hinduphobia incident: Local Congress leader, who claims to be part of school management committee, intimidates victim’s family over phone

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"What is the big fuss if the tilak of the kid was wiped off?" the Congress leader attempted to justify the blatant act of Hinduphobia targeting 6-year-old Hindu child.
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Political History of India

Freight Equalisation Policy: Another Nehru ‘gift’ that kept mineral-rich states like Bihar and Odisha backward while Southern states and Maharashtra prospered with industrialisation

Rukma Rathore -
Former Union Minister Hansraj Bhardwaj admitted that the FEP needed to be abolished because it had failed to meet its goals.
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Congress demand for digital copies of electoral rolls is not legally tenable, matter already conclusively settled by Supreme Court: ECI sources

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Sources within the Election Commission of India (ECI) have clarified that the Indian National Congress' (INC) ongoing demand for machine-readable, digital copies of electoral rolls is "not legally tenable" and has already been conclusively settled by the Supreme Court.
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SpaceX Dragon spacecraft piloted by Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla docks with International space station, Axiom Mission-4 crew members enter the ISS

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Axiom Mission 4 successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, June 26, 2025, at approximately 4:15 IST (10:31 UTC).
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Madras HC delivers split verdict in plea against animal sacrifice at Dargah on Thiruparankundram Hill where Hindu temples are also located, rejects renaming of the...

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The Muslims have been claiming the entire hill as the Waqf property and demanding the continuation of animal sacrifice calling it an old tradition.
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Karnataka: Congress files FIR against BJP for equating Indira Gandhi with Hitler in AI-generated video commemorating emergency

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Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar defended the declaration of emergency by Indira Gandhi saying that after emergency, she came back to power after receiving people's mandate.
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