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‘Naxalism with gun or pen must be uprooted’: PM Modi in his address to MHA’s Chintan Shivir

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PM Modi expressed concern that the Maoist-Naxalite forces are expanding their intellectual sphere in order to corrupt the minds of future generations.
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News Reports

‘He placed his hands on my bare breasts and pushed me’: Woman files molestation complaint against Mumbai’s Islam Gymkhana general secretary Nurul Amin

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The Mumbai police have filed an FIR against Nurul Amin, the general secretary of Mumbai's iconic Islam Gymkhana, on the basis of a molestation complaint lodged by a female member of the club
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News Reports

Netizens flood Twitter with memes after Elon Musk acquires the social media platform

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The news of Twitter's acquisition and the change in top management of the company certainly delighted Musk's supporters and free speech advocates.
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News Reports

Parag Agrawal likely to receive $42 million after departure from Twitter

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Parag Agrawal was fired as Twitter CEO after billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk took over the company.
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News Reports

‘Don’t make changes in Muslim Personal Law, Sharia has to be obeyed’: General secretary of Muslim League’s women’s wing

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The IUWL leader stated in a memorandum to Deputy Secretary Goutam Kumar attached to the Rajya Sabha Secretariat that Muslim personal law was promulgated and maintained to allow Muslims to follow the teachings of the Quran.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Imran Khan announces Haqeeqi Azadi March to Islamabad after being disqualified by Election Commission

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Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan commences his 'Haqeeqi Azadi March' from Lahore to Islamabad
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News Reports

Furnish proof that names of Muslim and Yadav voters deleted from the electoral roll: EC issues notice to Akhilesh Yadav

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EC issued notice to SP chief Akhilesh Yadav on his claim that names of nearly 20,000 Muslim and Yadav voters have been deleted
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News Reports

The Wire, after having committed fraud that was used to defame India, issues a laughable statement that calls out their bluff

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After being slapped with defamation suit for its Tek Fog and Meta frauds, The Wire issued an apology note, painting themselves as victim of 'deception by their writer'.
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News Reports

After demanding Supreme Court probe over fictitious app Tek Fog, Editors Guild withdraws reference to it after The Wire retracted its stories

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Editors Guild withdraws reference to Tek Fog in its January statement on online harassment of woman journalists
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News Reports

Former Amnesty India chief and Modi hater Aakar Patel runs away from court battle over fear of facing heavy fines

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Aakar Patel filed application in Karnataka HC in the case filed by Twitter challenging orders by Centre for blocking accounts.
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World

Russia: Putin cracks down on LGBTQ propaganda, seeks to toughen 2013 law and ban the promotion of homosexuality, trans activism

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Russia has moved to toughen the 2013 'gay propaganda' law, banning all adults from promoting same-sex relationships.
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News Reports

Canada: Indians holding Tricolour stand against Khalistan supporters in Mississauga, raise ‘Khalistan Murdabad’ slogans

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The group of Khalistan supporters held banners and raised slogans like ‘Raj Karega Khalsa’ and the other group of Indians raised ‘Khalistan Murdabad’ slogans.
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News Reports

‘Smash Brahmanical patriarchy’ fame Vijaya Gadde liked this tweet of Elon Musk before being sacked by him

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Interestingly, the Twitter Legal Head had liked the tweet without learning about her impending fate.
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News Reports

DMK leader Saidai Sadiq makes sexual innuendos against women actor-turned-BJP leaders, DMK MP Kanimozhi apologizes on his behalf: Read what happened

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DMK MP Kanimozhi was responding to a Tweet posted by BJP leader Khushbu Sundar, who tagged Kanimozhi and asked if insulting women was part of the “new Dravidian Model”.
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Social Media

Twitter blocks user for Tom and Jerry GIF, then suspends for cat GIF available on its own platform: Will Elon Musk be able to...

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Earlier this year, popular fact-check handle @BefittingFacts was suspended citing 'violation' of Twitter rules. Other popular handles like The Skin Doctor and The Angry Lord have also faced suspension from Twitter for alleged policy violations.
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News Reports

Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth drops by $100 billion this year as Facebook struggles, Meta’s value plunges by $89 billion amid rising costs: Details

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On Thursday, Meta's value plunged by $89 billion after the company owner Mark Zuckerberg reported another quarter of falling revenues
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World

Tibet erupts in massive protest against China, left without food and water, protestors say will set things on fire if COVID restrictions are not...

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Some experts have stated that the Chinese authorities have not yet resorted to violence to crack down on anti-Covid protests because it involves not just Tibetans, but Han Chinese migrant workers too.
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News Reports

‘Future belongs to India’: Russian President Putin lauds PM Modi’s independent foreign policy and Make in India, hails him as a patriot

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Putin applauded independent foreign policy by PM Modi and stated that a lot has been accomplished in India under his leadership.
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News Reports

‘The bird is freed’: Elon Musk takes over Twitter, fires “smash Brahmanical patriarchy” fame Gadde, CEO Parag Agarwal

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Billionaire Elon Musk had taken potshots at Vijaya Gadde for censoring the critical 'Hunter Biden story' on Twitter
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News Reports

Did Donald Trump issue a statement after Elon Musk takeover of Twitter saying his account is set to be back Monday? Not quite

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Takeover of Twitter by billionaire Elon Musk is complete and a fake statement of Donald Trump is doing the rounds
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Social Media

“Next time, send the real Mr. Bean”, Zimbabwe President to Pakistan after Zimbabwe stuns Pakistan team at the World Cup

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After Zimbabwe shocked Pakistan, the Zimbabwean President took to Twitter to advise Pakistan to send the real Mr Bean the next time.
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News Reports

RTI reply reveals that the Delhi AAP government gave Rs 101 crores to the Delhi Waqf board in seven years

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In the financial year 2020-21 alone, Rs. 62.57 crores were given to the Delhi Waqf Board by the Delhi govt
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Social Media

World T20: Memes flood the internet as Zimbabwe pushes Pakistan toward World Cup exit with a 1-run win

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Zimbabwe defeated Pakistan by 1 run in the nail biting thriller as Pakistan succumbed to their 2nd loss, giving birth to plengty of memes online
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News Reports

‘Chief Twit’ Elon Musk assures advertisers that Twitter will not become a ‘free-for-all hellscape’ amid concerns of softened moderation under him

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Elon Musk said that he has not acquired Twitter to make more money, but to provide a common digital town square
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News Reports

Kerala: Islamists assault Tamil family, abuse women and children for celebrating Diwali- Report

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The Tamil family complained to the police that they had been assaulted for lighting fireworks in celebration of Deepavali.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: NHRC issues notice over reports that minor girls are being auctioned on stamp papers and refusal leading to rape of their mothers

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NHRC serves notice to Congress government in Rajasthan on auctioning of girls on stamp papers by caste panchayats to settle disputes
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News Reports

Gujarat achieves 100% household tap water connections under Jal Jeevan Mission, 91.73 lakh houses connected to tap-water

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Gujarat declared a 'Har Ghar Jal' state which means that all households in the state now have access to running tap water
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News Reports

‘Like Kejriwal, like MLA’: After AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, Netizens mock his MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj for following ‘adult’ Twitter account

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Netizens mock AAP MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj for following in Kejriwal's footsteps when he was found following an 'adult' Twitter account named @edynwaifu
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News Reports

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader demands Balasaheb Thackeray’s photo on currency notes, BJP MLA wants Shivaji, Ambedkar, Savarkar and Modi

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For the past two days, there has been a lot of controversy over the currency notes in India and the photo of MK Gandhi on these notes.
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Politics

Amit Malviya to pursue criminal and civil proceedings against “The Wire” over their fraudulent reporting targeting the BJP leader

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The Wire, founded by American citizen Siddarth Varadarajan, had alleged that Amit Malviya has been given access by Facebook's parent company Meta to delete anti-BJP posts from Facebook and Instagram.
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World

Anti-Hijab Iranian protesters call on Elon Musk to ban Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei from Twitter

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Iranian journalist and activist supporting these anti-hijab protests, Masih Alinejad stated on Twitter that Khamenei has prohibited 83 million Iranians from Twitter
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News Reports

‘Hand skeleton spells out Allah’: Bangladeshi professor publishes research paper claiming parts of human skeleton represent Islamic phrases

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Mohammad Abul Hossain of the University of Dhaka claims that the skeleton of the human hand forms the Arabic word 'Allah'.
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News Reports

India’s oil imports from the Middle East drop to a 19-month low, Russia becomes 2nd largest supplier again: Reports

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After China, India has emerged as second-largest buyer of Russian oil, taking the advantage of discounted prices.
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C-295 Aircraft for IAF will be made by Airbus-Tata joint venture in Gujarat’s Vadodara, PM Modi to lay foundation stone of plant on Sunday

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Airbus and Tata Advanced Systems Limited will manufacture 40 C-295 aircraft for IAF at a facility in Vadodara in Gujarat
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News Reports

SP leader Azam Khan convicted by Rampur Court in 2019 hate speech case, sentenced to three years in jail

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SP leader Azam Khan has been found guilty in a 2019 Hate Speech case by a Rampur Court
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Karnataka: Lingayat Matha’s seer commits suicide in Ramanagara, blackmail, and honey trap for 80 acres of land suspected

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The plot against the seer was planned by a political figure in Karnataka who wanted the seer to give away 80 acres of the Kanchugal Bande Matha land which is at a prime location on the Bengaluru-Mysuru highway, a report in Republic stated.
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World

‘Breathtaking lack of remorse’, Court rejects grooming gang child rapists Adil Khan and Qari Abdul Rauf’s deportation appeal from UK to Pakistan

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While rejecting the convicts' plea against deportation, the UK immigration tribunal stated that there was a very strong public interest to deport them
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News Reports

Chinese spies inside US universities, 4 MSS agents charged for trying to recruit professors to work against US

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US DOJ informed that Four Chinese Nationals were charged for acting as agents of the Chinese government in the United States.
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As Delhi HC’s 6-week notice to Subramanian Swamy to vacate govt bungalow ends, he approaches court claiming centre has not made security arrangements

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Subramanian Swamy approached Delhi HC claiming that Centre failed to ensure security arrangements at his private residence in Delhi
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Pope Francis admits nuns and priests watch porn, says “The devil gets in from there”

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Pope Francis' meeting at the Vatican on Monday saw the 86-year-old pontiff address in detail a broad range of questions
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Cricket

In a historic decision, BCCI Secretary Jay Shah announces equal pay for male and female cricketers

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As per the new policy, the women cricketers contracted by BCCI will be paid 15 lakhs rupees per Test match, 6 lakhs rupees per One Day International, and 3 lakhs per T20 International
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News Reports

From 97% made-in-India mobile phones to the new Data Protection Bill, here is what all MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar said at the CyFY2022 event

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Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that the new Data Protection Bill of India will be modern and simple legislation
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Entertainment

Bollywood filmmaker rams wife with his car after being caught with another woman by her, video viral

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After being caught by his wife, Kamal Kishor tried to escape from the spot, running over his wife, who later registered the complaint.
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Editor's picks

Days after Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal promised a clean Yamuna for Chhath puja, toxic foam appears on the river

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Toxic foam was seen drifting towards the Yamuna ghats, despite Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's promise of clean water for Chhath Puja
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News Reports

Coimbatore blast: Mohammed Thalka, one of 5 arrested is the nephew of Al-Ummah’s chief, the mastermind of 1998 serial blasts in the city

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Basha was then sentenced to life imprisonment under Section 120-B (conspiracy) of the IPC read with additional IPC offences, including murder. Now his nephew identified as Mohammad Thalka has been arrested for his involvement in the recent car blasts that happened in the city on October 22.
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News Reports

AAP-led Punjab govt spent over 1.8 crores on Facebook ads with over 77% in Gujarat, here is what we found

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Punjab government spent over 1.8 crores in less than a month on Facebook ads, 77%+ money spent to target audience from Gujarat
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Media

Analysing The Wire’s ‘apology’ to readers, its victimhood and indulgence in self-glory and how it does not own up they fabricated ‘evidence’

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The Wire's 'apology' is more of an exercise of getting patted on back for 'owning up' on lapses instead of apologising to those it falsely accused and targeted over fabricated evidence.
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News Reports

1984 anti-Sikh Riots accused Jagdish Tytler attends oath ceremony of Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge in presence of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi

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Despite public calls to cut relations with Tytler, Congress has frequently accommodated him on a public platform.
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World

‘Let that sink in’: Elon Musk enters Twitter headquarters carrying a sink, changes bio to ‘Chief Twit’

OpIndia Staff -
Musk has also changed his Twitter bio to 'Chief Twit', and has added 'Twitter HQ' as the location. He had earlier shared that buying Twitter is the first step towards making X, the everything App.
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Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee clears field trials of first genetically modified food crop, indigenously developed GM mustard

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Union Environment Ministry's Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) approves genetically modified mustard
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