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Meta says ‘evidence’ provided by The Wire is manufactured, spoof video used to ‘prove’ their theory

OpIndia Staff -
What The Wire was passing off as 'Instagram' dashboard turned out to be a free trial Workspace account created on 13 October, much after the stories were published in the propaganda site.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Akram poses as Amar to entrap Hindu woman, absconds after raping the victim in a hotel, pressurising her to convert to Islam

OpIndia Staff -
Akram was booked under the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religious Act 2020, on the basis of the complaint of the Hindu girl.
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News Reports

Muslim Twitter users abuse a Muslim woman in the USA for hosting ‘Gustakh-e-Rasool supporter’ Rana Ayyub

OpIndia Staff -
Rana Ayyub wished for well being of author Salman Rushdie. Islamists therefore call her a Gustakh-e-Rasool supporter
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News Reports

Indian Railway launches its first aluminium freight rake, plans to deploy over one lakh such made-in-India wagons

OpIndia Staff -
Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurated India's first aluminium freight rake at Bhubaneswar railway station
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News Reports

Hindu organisations halt illegal conversion in Varanasi, pastor Chotelal Jaiswal used to lure people with money to convert to Christianity

OpIndia Staff -
A new case of religious conversion has been reported in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
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News Reports

Raj Thackeray requests Devendra Fadnavis to not contest Andheri East bypoll against Uddhav Sena candidate, the Dy CM says he can’t decide it alone

OpIndia Staff -
Raj Thackeray requested Devendra Fadnavis that as the late MLA's wife is contesting from the seat, the ruling alliance should not contest the bypolls.
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News Reports

Arunachal Pradesh: Families of two youths missing for 56 days approach the government for help, suspect PLA might have detained them

OpIndia Staff -
The families of the missing boys expressed their apprehension that the two might have inadvertently crossed the Line of Actual Control (LAC). 
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News Reports

Delhi: Bajrang Dal worker Nitesh dies after he was beaten by Ufiza, Adnan, and Abbas 3 days ago, police deny communal angle

OpIndia Staff -
Nitesh was beaten on October 12 after which he was admitted to the hospital, but he died on October 15
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News Reports

The Wire now claims its secure encrypted email account was hacked by hacking of a MacBook, netizens continue to disbelieve

OpIndia Staff -
Siddharth Varadarajan rushed to Twitter again to reveal that The Wire's protonmail account had been hacked.
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News Reports

Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra continues legal battle against Mamata Banerjee govt, attends 72 court hearings in 10 years for a joke

OpIndia Staff -
Ambikesh Mahapatra was booked for forwarding a cartoon targeting West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
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News Reports

TV actor Vaishali Takkar found hanging in her Indore residence, suicide note recovered

OpIndia Staff -
Vaishali Takkar got engaged with a Kenya-based dental surgeon Abhinandan Singh in April this year.
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News Reports

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh defends urban Naxal GN Saibaba, forgets that UPA govt had arrested him

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress leader attempted to portray convicted criminal GN Saibaba and other Urban Naxals as innocent.
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Media

The Wire claims email account of their ‘tech expert’ working on Meta story is hacked, gets mocked by netizens for their tech expertise

OpIndia Staff -
This claim has come after Meta’s assertation that an alleged expose by the leftist portal 'The Wire' was based on fabricated evidence.
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News Reports

Indian grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi defeats reigning World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen in Aimchess Rapid online chess tournament

OpIndia Staff -
Indian grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi defeated reigning five-time World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen during the prelims of Aimchess Rapid online chess tournament.
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World

25-year-old gay Palestinian Ahmad Abu beheaded in West Bank, was living in hiding in Israel for past 2 years

OpIndia Staff -
Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh, a 25-year-old Palestinian, was abducted and brutally beheaded in Hebron, a city in the West Bank.
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Crime

Kerala Human Sacrifice case: Main accused Mohammad Shafi stored 10 kg of human meat in a freezer, used to cook and consume it

OpIndia Staff -
The special investigation team informed that the main accused in the Kerala human sacrifice case used to cut and store the private parts of his victims.
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News Reports

Punjab: AAP government’s claims of controlling stubble burning fall flat, farmers start burning farm residue ahead of Diwali

OpIndia Staff -
More than 700 farm fires have been reported so far in Punjab, despite state govt's claim of plans to prevent it
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News Reports

The Wire ties itself in knots as tech experts call out their photoshopped screenshots of ’emails’ to target Meta and BJP

Anurag -
The Wire has been accused of fabricating screenshots of emails for the latest report targeting Meta and BJP
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Imam Abdul Qadir rapes a minor girl in a mosque in Amroha, gets arrested

OpIndia Staff -
The Imam asked all the students to go to their homes and instructed the victim minor girl to stay back.
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News Reports

The Wire claims Microsoft employee based out of Singapore ‘certified’ the fabricated documents in the Meta controversy

OpIndia Staff -
Facebook uses Microsoft's email services. The Wire tried to use the service provider to 'verify' details about one of their clients, quite likely without their consent and it seems, Microsoft's Ujjwal Kumar agreed.
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World

‘Animal cruelty’ activists in the UK spill milk in supermarkets to protest against dairy industry, irk even the vegans with this wastage of food

OpIndia Staff -
One woman wrote, "I'm verging on vegan, and I agree. If anything, this sets the vegan cause back years."
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu: Man arrested for asking people to buy only from Hindu shops for Diwali

OpIndia Staff -
Diwali is a Hindu festival which celebrates return of Shri Ram, Sita and Lakshman back to Ayodhya after slaying the demon king Ravan in Lanka.
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Social Media Fact-Check

Congress leader shares image of Nigerian crowd in Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra

OpIndia Staff -
In a bid to claim huge participation in Rahul Gandhi's rally, Congress leader resorted to using fake image.
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Media

Dear Western Media, get over your racism and stop making everything about Modi

Nirwa Mehta -
Why do legacy media in the West get so antsy when the 'dirty brown Indians' are calling out their subtle racism and bias?
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News Reports

Congress’ lesson 101 in ‘intolerance’: Party leaders gloat after online attacks force YouTuber Shubham Gaur and India Today’s Saurabh Dwivedi to apologise

OpIndia Staff -
YouTuber Shubham Gaur was bullied online by Congress supporters and sympathiser for his remarks on Rahul Gandhi.
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News Reports

The full-page ad on WSJ urging US govt to ban Nirmala Sitharaman and others, and its link to Rana Ayyub

OpIndia Staff -
Just like Rana Ayyub, Ramachandran Viswanathan, the man behind the ad, is also facing ED probe and has been declared a fugitive
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News Reports

‘Index is an erroneous measure of hunger and suffers from methodological issues’: India rubbishes Global Hunger Report 2022

OpIndia Staff -
The Indian government issued a statement saying that indicators used for the index were not representative of India's population.
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News Reports

Andhra Pradesh HC prevents the state government from taking over the Ahobilam temple

OpIndia Staff -
The Andhra Pradesh HC ruled that state govt has no authority, jurisdiction, or entitlement to administer Ahobilam temple.
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Opinions

Why the onslaught against Hindus of Mominpore is not going to be the last instance of communal violence in West Bengal

Dibakar Dutta -
The Mominpore violence reflects the larger malaise ailing West Bengal, where instances of anti-Hindu violence have shockingly become par for the course.
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Specials

‘We are heading toward becoming a Hindu Rashtra, a Ram Rajya with justice for all and appeasement for none’: Adv Vishnu Shankar Jain to...

Pallav -
Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain spoke to OpIndia on various issues including Uniform Civil Code, Population Control and Hindu Rashtra.
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News Reports

Prayagraj: Faiz, Shamim, Wasim, Monis, Asgar, and Asif arrested for abusing Hindu deities over a saffron flag at Ramleela ground, 150 others booked

OpIndia Staff -
Six Islamists arrested in Prayagraj after a mob of over 150 Islamists storm a Ram Leela venue after seeing a saffron flag
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News Reports

Jammu and Kashmir: 4 govt employees, a bank manager, dismissed for indulging in anti-India activities

OpIndia Staff -
4 government employees and a bank manager in Kashmir were dismissed from their jobs for indulging in anti-India activities
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Opinions

The Guardian accuses OpIndia of ‘attacking’ their journalist, here is our response decoding their discomfort

Nupur J Sharma -
On Friday, my phone buzzed to an incoming email from The Guardian, the subject of which was 'Guardian reporter Aina J Khan'.
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News Reports

Kashmiri Pandit shot dead by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian

OpIndia Staff -
Migrant Kashmiri Pandit employees in Jammu protested against the killing of Pooran Krishan Bhat by terrorists in Shopian.
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Editor's picks

‘When Modi became Gujarat CM, he added his caste to OBC’: JDU leader peddles disinformation ahead of polls. Here is the truth

OpIndia Staff -
Records show that the Modh Ghanchi caste was classified as OBC in July 1994, much before Modi became the Gujarat Chief Minister (2001-2014).
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News Reports

Hindus marry one woman but keep 3 mistresses, we ruled over you for 832 years and you did ‘ji huzoor’ to Badshahs: AIMIM UP...

OpIndia Staff -
The UP AIMIM State President also spewed venom on the Supreme Court's ruling in the Hijab controversy.
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News Reports

After giving $450 million F-16 package to Pakistan, US President Joe Biden calls it “one of the most dangerous nations”

OpIndia Staff -
On Friday, USA President Joe Biden tore into Pakistan by calling it one of the most dangerous nations in the world
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News Reports

Karnataka: Syed Moin first man to be arrested under anti-conversion law, held for converting a woman on the pretext of marriage

OpIndia Staff -
The incident in Karnataka was discovered when a 19-year-old woman disappeared on October 5 and her mother went to Yeshwanthpur Police Station to report her missing.
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News Reports

Supreme Court suspends Bombay High Court order acquitting urban Naxal GN Saibaba, says the HC erred by not going into merits of the case

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court suspended Bombay HC order acquitting GN Saibaba in a case for his links with Maoists, along with 5 others
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News Reports

Tajinder Bagga calls AAP’s Gopal Italia “Congress ka paap”, Congress hits back calling AAP ‘Najayaz Aulad’ of RSS

OpIndia Staff -
Daman and Diu Congress Sevadal on Twitter called the Aam Aadmi Party as the 'najayaz aulad' of the RSS.
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News Reports

Telangana court acquits 24 out-on-bail Muslim men accused in 2008 Bhainsa communal riots that broke out during Durga puja Visarjan

OpIndia Staff -
A local court in Telangana acquitted 24 Muslim men in the 2008 Bhainsa communal riots that took place during Durga visarjan.
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News Reports

Iran: Ayatollah Khamenei warns further crackdown of anti-Hijab protests, says Islamic Republic is ‘mighty tree’ that cannot be uprooted

OpIndia Staff -
Khamenei equated the Islamic Republic of Iran to an unshakeable tree. "That seedling has grown into a mighty tree, and no one should dare to think they can uproot it," he warned on state TV.
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News Reports

Former Chief Justice of Balochistan High Court shot dead by unidentified assailants outside a mosque

OpIndia Staff -
The former chief justice of the Balochistan High Court suffered serious injuries in the targeted shooting as he was leaving a mosque.
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Story behind full-page ad asking USA to ban Nirmala Sitharaman, former SC Judges, ED officials, others: Magnitsky Act, UPA era deal and a fugitive

Dibakar Dutta -
Ramachandran Viswanathan, a US citizen of Indian origin, has been at loggerheads with the Indian government
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu: Virat Kohli fan murders his friend, a Rohit Sharma fan, after the latter mocked the cricket captain, arrested

OpIndia Staff -
In Tamil Nadu, a cricket debate between two drunken friends turned violent when one was stabbed to death by the other for mocking his icon
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News Reports

After Rajasthan HC denied bail to Gauhar Chisti, Nadeem Ansari, who posted a video depicting Nupur Sharma’s beheading, granted bail by Allahabad HC

OpIndia Staff -
Nadeem Ansari submitted the immediate bail application in the court and claimed that he was innocent.
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News Reports

Torch bearers of freedom of speech and the press, Congress, threatens to take action against ScoopWhoop over old memes of Rahul Gandhi: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leaders have taken to Twitter to threaten ScoopWhoop with legal action over some old memes of Rahul Gandhi
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News Reports

Kerala Human Sacrifice: Police scrutinizing accused Mohammad Shafi’s financial dealings, Shafi travelled across Kerala, searched SM for targets

OpIndia Staff -
The SIT is also finding out if the main accused Shafi received help from a fourth party in carrying out the heinous crime.
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News Reports

“The mob intended to kill Hindus”: Delhi court frames charges against former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and 5 others in 2020 Delhi riot case

OpIndia Staff -
Tahir Hussain is accused in the anti-Hindu riots which took place in Delhi on 25th February 2020.
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UK: Britain-based Hindu group writes to PM Liz Truss over targeted hate crimes against Hindus, seeks urgent action

OpIndia Staff -
Over 180 Hindu organisations have signed the letter to PM Liz Truss, drawing attention to targeted attacks against Hindus.
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