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

OpIndia Staff -
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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News Reports

From ‘OMG cringe’ to ‘hope it is not anti-Pak or Islamophobic’, fans react as SRK drops Pathaan trailer on his birthday

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Shah Rukh Khan shared the trailer of his upcoming movie Pathaan, an action-packed thriller, on his 57th birthday on November 2.
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Crime

Praveen Nettaru murder case: NIA declares cash rewards for information on 4 absconding PFI members

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NIA announces Rs 5 lakh each for information on the two accused and Rs 2 lakh each for two other accused in Praveen Nettaru murder
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News Reports

Bloomberg retracts column on Tek Fog, but the other publications like WaPo, Print which used syndicated feed, continue to peddle Tek Fog lies

Anurag -
While some of the media houses have retracted Tek Fog stories after they were proven to be false, many continue to peddle the lies.
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News Reports

Illegal mining: ED summons Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren in money laundering case, asks to appear on Nov 3

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Notably, ED, in this case, has already arrested political close aide of CM Hemant Soren, Pankaj Mishra. Mishra who currently is in judicial custody was arrested on July 19 this year.
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News Reports

Morbi bridge collapse: ‘It was God’s will’, says Oreva manager as Police alleges poor bridge maintenance, rusted cables

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"The bridge was on a cable, and no oiling or greasing of the cable was done. No documentation of what works and how it was done has been maintained. The material procured/used, if its quality was checked, remains to be probed", the officer maintained.
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World

Benjamin Netanyahu to return as Israel Prime Minister

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Benjamin Netanyahu's government was toppled last year and he had vowed to come back to power as soon as possible.
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News Reports

Musk says Twitter Blue will cost $8 per month, Blue check verification badge among other features included: Read Details

Anurag -
Media houses have reported that Blue Tick on Twitter will cost $8 which is misleading. Blue Tick or verified badge will only be a part of Twitter Blue which is a set of services.
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News Reports

Anti-Hindu professor Chris Allen, appointed to conduct ‘independent inquiry’ into Leicester violence, steps down after Hindu organisations protest

OpIndia Staff -
Chris Allen, 52, is an associate professor at the University of Leicester. He is an expert on 'Islamophobia, hate, and extremism,' according to his Twitter profile (which has now been deleted).
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Opinions

As The Wire scapegoats Devesh over its Meta fiasco, here is why Siddharth Varadarajan is equally responsible for its forgery and fraud

Anurag -
Siddharth Varadarajan cannot wash his hands of Meta fiasco after The Wire retracted its reports amid allegations of forgery.
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News Reports

Kerala airport closes its runway and suspends all flights for five hours to allow passage to Lord Padmanabhaswamy’s procession

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According to the traditional practice, the processional idols of the temple deities are carried to the sea behind the airport for a holy dip twice a year in a ceremonial march.
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News Reports

Usual suspects peddle misinformation to insinuate victims were planted ahead of PM Modi’s visit to Morbi: Here’s the truth

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Several left-liberals took to Twitter to insinuate that victims are planted in hospitals ahead of PM Modi's visit to Morbi.
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Government and Policy

How the Modi government spearheaded the largest disinvestment initiatives in Indian history: Reports

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The Modi government is planning to rid itself of loss-making assets and maintain a 'minimum presence' in only strategic sectors.
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News Reports

Bihar: Maulana forces Dalit youth to spit and lick over an affair with a Muslim girl, police refrains from invoking SC/ST Act against the...

राहुल पाण्डेय -
In the video that had gone viral, a Maulana is seen forcing a Dalit youth to spit and lick over his affair with a Muslim girl.
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OpIndia Explains

I listened to The Wire’s ‘tech team’ talk about Tek Fog absurdity for over 90 minutes so you don’t have to

Nirwa Mehta -
The Wire's Devesh Kumar, Ayushman Kaul and Siddharth Varadarajan had spoken to their readers and answered their questions on 'Tek Fog', a super secret app they 'investigated which does not exist.
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World

China inches closer to launching its own space station as the final module completes docking with Tiangong

OpIndia Staff -
China launched the third and final module of its space station named Tiangong space station on Monday.
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Entertainment

Comedian James Corden called out for plagiarism for copying a Ricky Gervais joke word by word

OpIndia Staff -
British comedian James Corden has been called out for copying a joke from fellow British comedian Ricky Gervais word by word during his Late Late Night Show.
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News Reports

When former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi held a hanky to her nose while visiting the Machchhu dam disaster site in 1979

OpIndia Staff -
In 2017, Modi recalled how the then PM Indira Gandhi had visited the disaster-stricken Morbi district in Gujarat holding a hanky to her nose.
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News Reports

Job scam: Madras HC refuses to discharge DMK minister V Senthil Balaji from ED case, orders fresh inquiry

OpIndia Staff -
DMK Minister V Senthil Balaji served as transport minister in the AIADMK government led by the late J Jayalalithaa from 2011 to 2015.
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News Reports

Morbi, Gujarat: PM Modi reaches bridge mishap site, meets survivors of the tragedy

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Prime Minister Modi visited the civil hospital in Morbi to meet the victims and survivors of the accident.
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News Reports

Chief editors cannot be prosecuted unless there’s direct allegation: SC quashes defamation case against India Today’s Aroon Purie, case against journalist to go on

OpIndia Staff -
The apex court ruled that if there are no specific and adequate allegations the editor-in-chief cannot be prosecuted for defamation
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News Reports

Morbi tragedy: 40 graves dug in one night at local Islamic cemeteries, dozens of funeral pyres at Shamshan as families mourn

OpIndia Staff -
The suspension bridge, which is also known as the jhoolta pool, was reopened on the occasion of Gujarati New Year Day on October 26 this year after the completion of the renovation task of the bridge.
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News Reports

DMK’s Saidai Sadiq booked over his derogatory remarks against BJP leader Khushbu Sundar

OpIndia Staff -
DMK leader Saidai Sadiq sparked a major controversy with his lewd remarks for female BJP leaders, including Khusbhu Sundar.
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News Reports

Full text of Sukesh Chandrashekhar’s letter to Delhi LG: Paid crores to Satyendra Jain as ‘protection money’, to AAP to buy party position

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Sukesh Chandrashekhar has stated that he was forced to pay Rs 10 crore to AAP's Satyendra Jain for his safety inside Tihar jail.
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World

Bappi Lahiri’s ‘Jimmy Jimmy’ turns into a protest anthem in China amid stringent Covid lockdown

OpIndia Staff -
Hindi blockbuster song "Jimmy Jimmy" has been skilfully transformed into a subdued protest song in China.
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News Reports

AAP leader Satyendar Jain given special treatment in Tihar jail, provided massages and home food: ED to Delhi Court

OpIndia Staff -
The ED said that Satyendar Jain is easily meeting co-accused Ankush Jain, Vaibhav Jain, and some others inside the cell.
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News Reports

We will break your legs, set you on fire: Viral video from Kerala shows SFI leader Hassan Mubarak threatening College Principal

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, five SFI goons led by their Thrissur district secretary Hassan Mubarak barged into the Principal's room and threatened the acting Principal, Dr. P Dileep, with physical harm.
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News Reports

Bengaluru: Faiz Rasheed gets 5-year jail term for celebrating Pulwama terrorist attack on Facebook

OpIndia Staff -
Rasheed had reportedly created a Facebook account just to post provocative posts following the terror attack in Pulwama.
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News Reports

NIA suspects larger conspiracy in the Coimbatore bomb blast, to probe foreign funding links: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
NIA has stated that they will investigate the foreign links of the accused in the Coimbatore blast case
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News Reports

Has British PM Rishi Sunak converted 10 Downing street into a Wedding venue?

OpIndia Staff -
Several people are sharing a video claiming that Rishi Sunak has turned 10 Downing street into a wedding venue.
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News Reports

Leftist media outfit warns that India will be downrated on press freedom and democracy if The Wire is punished for forgery and fraud: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Following the raids on The Wire co-founders Siddharth Varadarajan, MK Venu, and staffer Jahnavi Sen, Delhi Police seized electronic devices
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News Reports

Iran anti-Hijab protests: 19-year-old celebrity chef Mehrshad Shahidi gets beaten to death in custody

OpIndia Staff -
The incident resulted in thousands of protesters taking to the streets on Saturday, during the funeral held for Shahidi. "Everyone who is killed will be supported by thousands more", the demonstrators chanted.
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News Reports

Conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar reveals he paid Rs 10 crore to jailed AAP leader Satyendra Jain as “protection money”: Read details

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Sukesh Chandrashekhar claimed that Satyendra Jain secretary asked him to pay Rs 2 crore every month as protection money
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News Reports

MHA directs 2 Gujarat districts to grant citizenship to persecuted minorities from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh: Details

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MHA released a directive allowing collectors in Gujarat's Mehsana and Anand districts to provide citizenship certificates to applicants under the Citizenship Act of 1955.
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News Reports

Gujarat: Accused Altaf Mansuri who threw petrol bomb at police officer on Diwali night in Vadodara arrested

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As of now, 19 accused have been arrested.
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News Reports

‘Modi govt does not feel pressure’: Hardeep Singh Puri takes CNN journalist to cleaners after she tries to ‘guilt-trip’ India about Russian oil purchases

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Hardeep Singh Puri told CNN, "We have 1.34 billion population and we have to ensure that they are supplied with energy."
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News Reports

As ‘liberals’ paint The Wire cofounders Siddharth Varadarajan, Venu and staff as victims, here’s why Delhi Police raided their residences

Amit Kelkar -
The raids against The Wire cofounders were not related to defamation but to a criminal case filed for cheating, forgery, fraud etc.
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World

‘Anti-Modi’ Australian activist Drew Pavlou alleges harassment by London Metropolitan Police at the behest of China. Here is all you need to know

OpIndia Staff -
Drew Pavlou, an Australian 'human rights activist', has now accused the London Metropolitan Police of working in cahoots with the Communist Party of China
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News Reports

Morbi tragedy: Read about Oreva group, the company behind the bridge’s renovation, that is under scanner

OpIndia Staff -
The role of Oreva Group, which is in charge of Morbi bridge maintenance, appears questionable based on the early facts
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News Reports

Nepal: Hindu procession attacked by an Islamist mob in Mahottari, several people including police officials injured

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The incident happened on October 27 when the Hindus conducted a religious procession to immerse the idol of the Hindu Goddess in the Bhangaha area of Nepal
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News Reports

Delhi Police raids residences of ‘The Wire’ co-founders Siddharth Varadarajan, MK Venu, staffer Jahnavi Sen

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Delhi Police raided the house of The Wire founders in connection with an FIR filed by BJP leader Amit Malviya.
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News Reports

Subramanian Swamy claims Modi and Shah planning to do a ‘Haren Pandya’ on him, issues veiled threat against PM

OpIndia Staff -
Subramanian Swamy took to Twitter to repeat the same lies that the biased sections of the media and self-styled secularists have been peddling for years that Modi was behind Pandya's murder.
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News Reports

Mumbai: Police arrest 28-year-old food delivery executive for raping a dog in a Powai mall

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The man was arrested after 61-year-old animal activist and member of MGO Bombay Animal Rights Minu Sheth filed a complaint in the matter.
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News Reports

Morbi tragedy: Did the bridge collapse because of overcapacity? Or were there other reasons? Here is what experts say

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OpIndia reached out to experts in engineering to understand what could have gone wrong and led to the tragedy at Morbi
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News Reports

‘Madarsas will lose the sense of purpose’: Darul Uloom Deoband turns down the govt proposal to modernise education in madarsas

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Darul Uloom Deoband said madarsas will lose their sense of purpose with revamped education and inclusion of modern subjects.
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News Reports

Telangana: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind organises get-together event for ‘non-Muslim’ girls, Police denies permission after VHP intervenes

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VHP took cognizance of the incident and requested the Karimnagar Police to take appropriate action against the Islamist organization.
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News Reports

Alarms raised over ‘Chinese police stations’ on foreign land, read details

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Illegal Chinese police stations are running in several countries, three were reportedly found in the UK.
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News Reports

Anti-Hindu Professor Chris Allen, entrusted with ‘independent inquiry’ into the Leicester attack, had called the 9/11 terror attack a ‘set up’

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Islamists have been trying to mainstream the conspiracy theory that the 9/11 attack was an 'inside job', meant to defame the Muslim community.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Container smuggling 31 cows chased, stopped by Bajrang Dal workers, driver arrested

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The cows from Dholpur village of Rajakhera district of Rajasthan were stuffed in a container and were being taken to the slaughterhouses of Uttar Pradesh. The Police have booked the accused under relevant sections of the law.
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News Reports

Watch: Ex-MLA Kantilal Amrutiya jumps into the Machchhu river to save the lives of people after the Morbi bridge collapse

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Kanıtla Amrutiya, the former MLA from Morbi, jumped into river to save following the bridge collapse on Sunday evening.
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