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‘Social Media has become an instrument of a terrorist toolkit to spread conspiracy theories’: EAM S Jaishankar at UN Counter-Terrorism meet

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EAM Jaishankar highlighted the flip sides of technology, saying that it has posed new challenges to the governments.
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News Reports

Mass conversion racket busted in Meerut: Christian evangelists lure 400 Hindus to convert, remove idols and threaten against performing puja

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Christian missionaries allegedly forced, lured and coerced vulnerable Hindus into conversion in Meerut in UP
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News Reports

Kerala Court restrains Kantara makers from playing the song ‘Varaha Roopam’ in theaters, streaming platforms

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Kantara, Kannada blockbuster’s plot revolves around the greed of the King’s successors to reclaim the land granted to the tribal people.
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News Reports

Why did prankster who conned CNBC as ex-Twitter employee fired by Elon Musk choose ‘Ligma’ as his name: Read about the origin of ‘Ligma...

Dibakar Dutta -
Ligma is a fictional testicular disease, which is meant to make people say ‘lick my balls’ in response to the joke.
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News Reports

Mumbai NCB files 200-page charge sheet against comedian Bharti Singh and her husband Haarsh Limbachiyaa in 2020 drug case

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Bharti Singh and Haarsh Limbachiyaa have been booked under sections 20(b)(ii)(A) and 8(c) and 27 (consumption of drugs) of the NDPS Act.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: 4 Muslim youths vandalise Hindu temple, Govardhan Puja prasad thrown on floor, protestors say Congress MLA was trying to protect accused

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Vandalism in a temple on the day of Govardhan Puja has been reported in the Bhiwadi district of Alwar, Rajasthan.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: One Sheikh Jahid pretends to be a Brahmin, rapes a Hindu woman for over 7 years, forces her to convert to Islam,...

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After the Court marriage the accused began to harrass the woman. He forced her to convert her religion to Islam, offer Namaz and also asked her to consume meat. On being refused, he used to thrash her brutally.
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News Reports

Random men carrying boxes pose as ‘Twitter employees’ fired by Elon Musk, prank CNBC reporters: Here is what happened

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CNBC fell for a prank by random strangers who posed as Twitter employees fired by company's new owner Elon Musk
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News Reports

Muslim girls above 15 years can marry, it would not violate the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act: Punjab and Haryana HC cite Sharia law

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In his order, Justice Vikas Bahl stated, "Such a marriage would not be void in terms of Section 12 of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006."
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News Reports

After deporting 3 Swedish preachers, Assam police detain 7 Germans for giving religious speeches on tourist visas, to be deported

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Seven German nationals detained in Assam for violating tourist visa norms by participating in religious activities
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News Reports

Govt takes another step in preventing arbitrary suspension of social media accounts, amends IT Rules to form Grievance Appellate Committees

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The central government has amended IT Rules, 2021, to constitute Grievance Appellate Committees for supervising content moderation policies of social media intermediaries.
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News Reports

UP Global Investors Summit 2023: Mexico and Thailand to become partner countries as Yogi Adityanath plans to visit multiple nations to pitch summit

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Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath himself along with his key ministers will visit different countries.
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News Reports

Amit Malviya to lodge FIR against The Wire and its management for fake Meta story, says it was a criminal conspiracy to tarnish his...

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Amit Malviya said that while Wire has apologised to its readers for the fake Meta story, they have not apologised to him
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News Reports

As ‘censor chief’ Vijaya Gadde is fired, read how Twitter had refused to take down child porn even as victim’s parents begged for its...

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In 2021, Twitter had refused to removed child porn from its platform despite request made by victim's parents for its removal.
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News Reports

‘Politicians are involved’: NCPCR and NCW take cognizance after NHRC issues notice to Rajasthan Govt over auctioning of minor girls

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Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar published a report saying that minor girls were being auctioned on stamp paper in several districts of Rajasthan to pay off family loans.
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News Reports

Coimbatore Blast: NIA recovers bomb-making material, Jihadi literature from the residence of deceased Jamesha Mubin

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Terror link emerges in the Coimbatore blast case, incriminating items found from house of Jamesha Mubin
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News Reports

Rishi Sunak and PM Modi hold their first conversation after Sunak became UK PM, both agree to sign Free Trade Agreement soon

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After talking to Rishi Sunak, PM Modi tweeted, "We will work together to further strengthen our Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. "
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News Reports

Elon Musk to become Twitter CEO after Parag Agrawal’s departure, reverse lifetime bans on users: Reports

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Elon Musk is expected to stay Twitter CEO in the interim but may eventually relinquish the position in the long run
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News Reports

‘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

OpIndia Staff -
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

Dibakar Dutta -
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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‘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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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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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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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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‘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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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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