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Viral again: Mosque in Pakistan trains hijab-clad young girls to behead for blasphemy

OpIndia Staff -
In the video, an instructor in burqa is seen teaching hijab-clad young girls how use a sword to behead people.
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News Reports

Britain’s new monarch King Charles III has been a controversial figure: Here are some of the reasons

Dibakar Dutta -
In her widely watched interview, Princess Diana had accused her husband Prince Charles of infidelity. Over the years, the image of the new British king has not been very popular.
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News Reports

6 Gulf states threaten Netlfix with legal action if content violating ‘Islamic values’ is not removed, Saudi media regulator flags LGBT content

OpIndia Staff -
Saudi media regulator and GCC, a group of gulf states has threatened Netflix of legal action if it fails to remove anti-Islam content
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News Reports

Was Queen Elizabeth 2, head of the Church of England, a descendant of Prophet Muhammad?

OpIndia Staff -
Several claims trace the ancestry of Queen Elizabeth II back to the founding father of Islam, Prophet Muhammad.
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News Reports

Nepali cricketer Sandeep Lamichhane quits Caribbean Premier League (CPL) after Kathmandu Court issues arrest warrant against him in a rape case

OpIndia Staff -
The Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) also suspended the cricketer for being accused in the rape case filed by a 17-year-old girl.
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News Reports

PM Modi tweets about the unusual gift that MK Gandhi gave Queen Elizabeth II when she got married: Here is why the gift was...

OpIndia Staff -
In an article published in The Telegraph, Pamela Hicks, the daughter of Lord Mountbatten, the last governor-general of India, had mentioned the 'gift' sent by MK Gandhi for Elizabeth's wedding.
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Law

Bombay HC denies permission for Ganpati idol immersion at Sanjay Gandhi National Park, directs forest dept to ensure compliance

OpIndia Staff -
Bombay High Court directed Maharashtra forest department to ensure that there is no ganpati idol immersion inside Sanjay Gandhi National Park.
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OpIndia Explains

Kohat Riots 1924: How Hindus were slaughtered and looted by a rampaging Muslim mob and how Hindus were blamed for their own plight

OpIndia Staff -
Kohat Riots were termed as one of the most devastating occurrences of Hindu-Muslim conflict in pre-Independence India.
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World

United Kingdom’s longest-serving monarch Queen Elizabeth II passes away at the age of 96, Prince Charles becomes King Charles III

OpIndia Staff -
On 6 February 1952, King George VI died following a prolonged illness. Princess Elizabeth immediately acceded to the throne, becoming Queen Elizabeth II.
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News Reports

Uttarakhand: Shahrukh arrested for threatening to burn a girl the way Jharkhand minor was burnt if she refused to marry him, had introduced himself...

OpIndia Staff -
The girl also found out that he has ruined the lives of many women after trapping them like this. Following this, she stopped talking to Shahrukh.
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News Reports

‘Country got rid of another symbol of slavery’: Says PM Modi after inaugurating statue of Netaji Bose and revamped Kartavya Path

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi formally dedicated Central Vista Avenue, Netaji Bose statue, Kartavya Path, and India Gate lawns to the common public.
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News Reports

Punjab: Terror module busted in Tarn Taran, police recover improvised explosive devices, three arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Arrested accused from Punjab were in touch with Canada-based gangster Lakhbir Singh Landa and Pakistan-based terrorist Harvinder Singh Rinda.
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News Reports

Amritsar: Nihang Sikhs hack a man to death near Golden Temple allegedly for smoking

OpIndia Staff -
A man named Harmanjit Singh was killed in Amritsar by Nihang Sikhs over an argument for allegedly smoking
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World

Reversing the Trump administration’s decision, US sanctions $450 million F-16 fleet sustainment program for Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
On Wednesday, US President Joe Biden approved $450 million in financial aid to Pakistan to sustain a fleet of F-16 fighter jets.
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News Reports

Goa’s Curlies Restaurant, where Sonali Phogat was drugged and killed, to be demolished for violation of coastal zone norms

OpIndia Staff -
Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority has ordered the demolition of the Curlies restaurant, where Sonali Phogat was killed
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News Reports

Jammu and Kashmir: 20-year-old youth Yogesh Gupta dies of a heart attack while performing Shiva Stuti dance during Ganeshotsav

OpIndia Staff -
Yogesh Gupta was performing Shiva Stuti dance when he suffered a heart attack, fainted, fell on the stage, and died on the spot
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News Reports

Perfume trader Piyush Jain gets bail after 8 months, DGGI raid at his premises had found over Rs 196 crores cash and 23 kgs...

OpIndia Staff -
A team of DGGI and the Income Tax Department had raided the residence of Piyush Jain on 23rd December 2022 after which he was arrested.
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News Reports

Lucknow: Hanuman idol vandalised, accused Taufeeq Ahmed arrested, had entered temple wearing tilak

OpIndia Staff -
Taufeeq Ahmed also allegedly chanted 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans while vandalising the murtis. As per police, he was 'drunk' when he desecrated the temple.
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Interviews

OpIndia talks to Karnataka minister Dr Ashwath Narayan: Ganesh Chaturti vs Hijab, Veer Savarkar controversy, Tipu Sultan, Praveen Nettaru, floods and more

Nupur J Sharma -
Opindia.com, in a freewheeling conversation with Dr Ashwath Narayan, Karnataka Minister, attempts a snapshot of pre-election mood in Karnataka
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News Reports

EOW raids Bishop PC Singh in Jabalpur, recovers ₹1.65 crores and $ 18,000 in cash

OpIndia Staff -
Chairman PC Singh was charged with cheating and engaging in the misappropriation of funds in running an educational society
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News Reports

As film critic KRK gets bail 10 days after arrest, Netizens claim he was sent to jail to prevent him from reviewing ‘Brahmastra’

OpIndia Staff -
As KRK was granted bail after 9 days of his arrest, some social media users smelled a conspiracy behind his detention in a 2020 case
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News Reports

This 1934 story of Bania moneylender and Muslim zamindar from Karachi punches hole in ‘Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb’, read

OpIndia Staff -
When a Bania moneylender chose to kill the Muslim Zamindar who asked him to slaughter a cow after refusing to return the money he had borrowed.
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News Reports

As film critic Kamaal R Khan gets bail, his son appeals for help, says his father was tortured in jail, alleges death threats

OpIndia Staff -
Son of film critic Kamaal R Khan has taken over his father's Twitter handle to appeal for help alleging the latter's life is in danger.
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News Reports

Hijab hearing in SC: Petitioners say Hijab is innocent but saffron scarf is belligerent practice of religion, claim HC misinterpreted Quran

OpIndia Staff -
Advocate Nizamuddin Pasha argued that Hijab is mandatory in Islam and cited Quranic verses in the Supreme Court
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News Reports

Throwback to the time the Nehru-Gandhi family used national assets as private property as Congress tries to portray ‘Container Yatra’ as frugal

Pallav -
As the 'Container Yatra' of the Congress party is set to begin, here is a throwback in time when 'The Family' used national assets as private property.
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World

China’s strict COVID lockdowns stop people from leaving their homes even during a deadly earthquake

OpIndia Staff -
The video which went viral over social media showed people struggling to get out of the apartment after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit China.
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Crime

Madhya Pradesh: Monu Mansoori stalks a Hindu girl, asks her to convert to Islam and marry him, threatens her with an acid attack

OpIndia Staff -
According to reports, the girl is a nursing student and she hails from the same village as that of Monu Mansoori.
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World

This Dutch city is set to become the first to enforce a ban on meat advertisements to curb meat consumption

OpIndia Staff -
In an attempt to curb meat consumption and reduce greenhouse gases emission, Haarlem in Netherlands is set to ban meat advertisements from public spaces.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Journalist reports plight of Hindu flood victims, exposes local administration for denying them food in a relief camp, gets arrested

OpIndia Staff -
According to the reports, the journalist had covered the heart-wrenching story of Pakistani Hindus belonging to the Bhagri community in Mirpur Mathelo of Sindh.
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News Reports

‘Right to undress also becomes a fundamental right then’: SC remarks after petitioner claims Hijab is ‘right to dress’ citing Article 19 of Constitution

OpIndia Staff -
"If the right to dress is claimed as an absolute fundamental right under Article 19 of the Constitution, then right to undress would also qualify as one", the Court remarked on Devdatt Kamat's argument.
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OpIndia Explains

“Once a Waqf, always a Waqf”: How Waqf Boards have become 3rd biggest land owners in India and the properties now belong to Allah

Amit Kelkar -
Since the ownership of the property is transferred to Allah from the waqif, and property can not be taken back from Allah, once a property becomes Waqf, it continues to stay one
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Bilal rapes his cousin, assaults her for refusing to marry him and threatens to release rape video, arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Uttar Pradesh police arrested one person named Bilal in Ghaziabad for raping and abusing his cousin in the public
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News Reports

‘Alia and Ranbir chose not to go inside Mahakaleshwar temple’: MP Home Minister says security arrangements were solid, but they returned without Darshan

OpIndia Staff -
State Home Minister Narottam Mishra said Alia and Ranbir decided themselves not to go for Darshan and no one stopped them.
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Interviews

The exclusive story on how Ramasimhan’s movie on 1921 Malabar Genocide of Hindus is being stonewalled: Cuts by CBFC, threats by Islamists and more

Nupur J Sharma -
CBFC has been stonewalling the upcoming Malayalam film ‘Puzha Muthal Puzha Vare’, revolving around the Malabar Genocide of Hindus, by filmmaker Ali Akbar aka Ramasimhan
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News Reports

Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren’s MLA brother came to Delhi amid to purchase undergarments, he says, justifying his absence from Dumka amid sensational murders

OpIndia Staff -
Soren's rationale for his absence from Dumka, which has still not recovered from the trauma of two successive killings of two minor girls within a fortnight, including a tribal, exposes Jharkhand's political landscape.
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News Reports

LED lights removed from terrorist Yakub Memon’s grave after outrage, BJP’s Ram Kadam says Sharad Pawar and Uddhav should apologise

OpIndia Staff -
Ram Kadam has stated that the leaders of the MVA alliance parties, Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray and Rahul Gandhi should apologise to the people of India for allowing a convicted terrorist and traitor's grave to be glorified.
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News Reports

Terrorist Yakub Memon’s grave in Mumbai gets marble slabs and LED lights: BJP leader says attempts are underway to turn it into a Mazar

OpIndia Staff -
Images shared by BJP leader Ram Kadam show the terrorist's grave with marble slabs and LED lights at Mumbai's Bada Qabrastan.
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Sports

Afghan cricket fans demand ban on Pakistani cricketer Asif Ali for threatening Afghan bowler with his bat

OpIndia Staff -
Afghanistan cricket fans and leaders are saying how terrorism has no place in cricket and demanded action against Pakistani cricketer Asif Ali.
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News Reports

Alt News’ Md Zubair ties himself in knots as he tries to defend himself after raising the ‘Khalistani’ bogey against Arshdeep

OpIndia Staff -
Zubair attempted to play victim card after BJP's MS Sirsa filed FIR against him for fanning the 'Khalistani' rants against Arshdeep Singh.
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Sports

Chairs fly as cricket fans choose violence after Afghanistan lost to Pakistan in Asia Cup match, watch viral videos

OpIndia Staff -
After Pakistan defeated Afghanistan in Asia Cup match, Afghan fans lost their cool after constant taunting and racial slurs directed towards them by Pakistani fans in the Sharjah stadium.
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News Reports

NIA declares cash reward for information on fugitive terrorist Harpreet Singh, accused in Ludhiana Court bomb blast case

OpIndia Staff -
NIA has declared a bounty of Rs 10 lakh for any information on Ludhiana court bomb blast accused Harpreet Singh
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News Reports

As Rahul Gandhi embarks on ‘container yatra’, here’s a throwback to the time he celebrated his birthday midair on an aeroplane

OpIndia Staff -
In 1977, Rahul Gandhi celebrated his birthday in an aeroplane with Indira Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, and Priyanka Gandhi.
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News Reports

‘Gujarat is best in terms of peace and safety’: DGP Ashish Bhatia after NCRB report showed decline in serious crime in the state

OpIndia Staff -
DGP Ashish Bhatia credited excellent patrolling, evidence collecting, a vast network of CCTV cameras, and the use of new sections of GUJCTOC for the excellent results of Gujarat in the NCRB data.
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News Reports

Bareilly: Poster threatening to bomb Shahi Jama Masjid on Friday and kill Imam found pasted on mosque wall, complaint registered

OpIndia Staff -
A handwritten note pasted on a wall of Shahi Jama mosque in Bareilly threatened to bomb the mosque and kill Imam Khurshid Alam
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News Reports

‘He made me wear sarees and put hot wax on me’: Bigg Boss fame designer Rohit Verma reveals his uncle raped him when he...

OpIndia Staff -
Rohit Verma revealed he was a victim of sexual abuse during his childhood, with his real uncle raping him for 3-4 years.
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News Reports

‘If Rahul Gandhi has regret over partition, he should work towards Akhand Bharat’: Himanta Biswa Sarma takes a dig at Congress’ Bharat Jodo Yatra

OpIndia Staff -
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the Bharat Jodo Yatra of Congress party is a Comedy of the Century!
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News Reports

Jammu and Kashmir: Govt official Abdul Rashid suspended for hurting religious sentiments, had used beef jibes to mock eating habits of Hindus

OpIndia Staff -
Rajouri Assistant Commissioner Panchayat Abdul Rashid Kholi suspended for insulting Hindu colleague with cow jibes.
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News Reports

Robert Vadra indicates entry into politics as Congress starts Bharat Jodo Yatra, BJP calls it Parivar Jodo

OpIndia Staff -
Robert Vadra sparked a row of him joining politics as he posted images of Bharat Jodo Yatra posters with his own picture
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News Reports

Mumbai: Arthur Road jail authorities deny Uddhav Thackeray permission to meet Sanjay Raut

OpIndia Staff -
The jail administration told Uddhav Thackeray he will have to take permission from the court to visit Sanjay Raut.
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News Reports

Delhi: AAP govt announces blanket ban on firecrackers ahead of Diwali, but no action plan yet on the stubble burning issue

OpIndia Staff -
The Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government has banned the production, sales and use of firecrackers ahead of Diwali.
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