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BJP Mahila Morcha leader and TikTok star Sonali Phogat dies of a heart attack, had contested 2019 polls on BJP ticket from Adampur seat...

OpIndia Staff -
In December 2016, Sonali Phogat's husband Sanjay Phogat had been found dead at their farmhouse under mysterious circumstances. She is survived by her daughter Yashodhara Phogat.
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News Reports

Kerala: Left-wing ‘student activists’ lock Principal after he denies admission to their leader

OpIndia Staff -
SFI activists tried to forcibly stop the police from entering the college campus, thereby leading to a scuffle.
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Politics

Gautam Gambhir tears into AAP’s claims of offer made to Sisodia to join the BJP and other bizarre statements, watch

OpIndia Staff -
Cricketer turned politician Gautam Gambhir takes on the Aam Aadmi Party's bizarre allegations and statements.
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News Reports

Trouble mounts for Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal as CBI raids another rice mill belonging to his kin in Birbhum: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Anubrata Mondal is currently in CBI custody after a special CBI court in Asansol on August 20, 2022, rejected his bail plea and extended his custody till August 24
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Mohammad Ayub and Rashid arrested for kidnapping JDU leader’s son from Noida

OpIndia Staff -
2 men were were nabbed by UP Police on Monday for kidnapping two individuals, including the son of a JDU leader from Bihar.
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Fact-Check

Did the Pfizer vaccine cause miscarriage in 44% of pregnant women during trial? How a viral blog post made flawed calculations

Sanghamitra -
While the vaccine may have some adverse effects, as all Covid vaccines were granted emergency usage permits, and we are still waiting for detailed reports on long-term clinical trials, the claim made by Naomi Wolf's blog post, that 44% of pregnant women lost their babies after receiving the Pfizer vaccine, is wrong.
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Opinions

How the ‘communal harmony’ skit from a Lucknow school actually displays the inherent challenge of ‘Sarva Dharma Samabhava’

Nupur J Sharma -
On Independence Day, video went viral where kids were seen stripping Bharat Mata of her Mukut (crown), tying a cloth on her head and making her do namaz
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Advocate Mohammed Haroon arrested for stalking lady judge at Hamirpur civil court

OpIndia Staff -
Advocate Mohammad Haroon is accused of making vulgar remarks and misbehaving with female judge Harshita Sachan.
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News Reports

Hyderabad: BJP MLA Raja Singh arrested amid ‘Sar Tan Se Juda’ chants over allegedly ‘blasphemous’ comment on Prophet Muhammad

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, Islamists also chanted 'Sar Tan Se Juda' (Islamist call for beheading) at the police station while demanding action against Raja Singh.
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Entertainment

Bollywood makes good films and Rahul Gandhi is intelligent, Swara Bhasker claims while comparing the two

OpIndia Staff -
It takes someone coming from place of privilege to identify with someone who also comes from place of privilege.
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News Reports

Mumbai: Police arrest one Shahbaz for throwing egg at Hindu procession carrying Ganpati idol. Here is what we know so far

OpIndia Staff -
Shahbaz was booked by the Nagapada police station under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 153A and 295A.
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Sports

World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen, who lost to 17-year-old Praggnanandhaa in Miami, gives 4 reasons why chess isn’t cricket

OpIndia Staff -
As chess gains popularity in India along with other non-cricket sports, influencers Abhi and Niyu tweeted how 'Chess is the new cricket', to that, Magnus Carlsen, who recently lost to 17 year old Indian Grandmaster Praggnanandhaa, responded why it isn't so.
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News Reports

Mumbai: Man arrested over WhatsApp status on Prophet Muhammad after an acquaintance snitches on him to a lawyer

OpIndia Staff -
Salim Choudhari, a lawyer, filed a complaint against the man for his WhatsApp Status on Prophet Muhammad.
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News Reports

Gujarat: State Home Minister Harsh Sanghvi hands over Indian Citizenship certificates to Hindu refugees from Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
Harsh Sanghvi handed over citizenship certificates to several Pakistani Hindu refugees living in Ahmedabad.
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News Reports

Excise policy scam: A timeline of the controversy, political war-of-words and CBI probe

Dibakar Dutta -
Manish Sisodia, the deputy CM of Delhi, is accused of corruption in Delhi government’s Excise Policy 2020-2021.
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News Reports

‘Inform police if you don’t know the Imam coming to your village’: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma after arrest of suspicious Islamic clerics in Assam

OpIndia Staff -
The Assam government will also introduce a portal for the registration of Imams, said CM Himanta Biswa Sarma.
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News Reports

After Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt says, “don’t like me, don’t watch me,” ahead of the release of her movie Brahmastra

OpIndia Staff -
In an arrogant display of hubris, actor Alia Bhatt asked the audience not to watch her movies if they didn’t like her.
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News Reports

Drying rivers, forest fires and more: Climate Change threat looms over Europe as drought-like conditions break centuries-old record

OpIndia Staff -
Europe is facing an acute Climate Change crisis, with rivers drying up and fires engulfing forests in an unprecedented drought.
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News Reports

Patna ADM KK Singh brutally thrashes protestor demanding jobs for CTET-BTET qualified candidates: Video goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
A video of Patna's ADM KK Singh brutally thrashing a CTET and BTET qualified candidate who was protesting against the Bihar government at Dak Bungalow Chowraha in Patna went viral on social media.
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News Reports

Kerala engineer ‘Abu Bakr’ who was killed fighting for Islamic State in Libya, appears in IS magazine, security agencies on alert

OpIndia Staff -
Islamic State established roots in Kerala as early as 2014, with modules encouraging religious conversions.
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News Reports

‘Dhyan Chand can wait’: Netizens agree as Kejriwal says Sisodia be given Bharat Ratna, had earlier announced Padma Vibhushan for Satyendar Jain

Nirwa Mehta -
Both his ministers, Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain are accused in financial frauds and scams and are under inquiry.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Son of JDU leader abducted from Greater Noida, ₹5 lakh ransom sought by kidnappers

OpIndia Staff -
It is being speculated that the kidnapping was carried out at the behest of Dilwar's acquaintances.
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News Reports

Dubious procedures, morphed medical documents: Are fraud campaigns making their way into Ketto and Milaap?

Anurag -
Netizens raise red flags about increasing number of fraud fundraisers citing medical needs that use forged documents and inflated monetary requirements.
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News Reports

China shuts down borders with Nepal citing Covid, containers worth billions of rupees remain stranded

OpIndia Staff -
This China blockade has been in place since early 2020, posing significant challenges for Nepali traders and negatively impacting their livelihoods
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News Reports

Karnataka: Omkareshwara Temple priest who said he had converted to Islam retracts, returns to Hinduism after undertaking “purification”

OpIndia Staff -
HR Chandrashekaraiah, the priest at Omkareshwara Temple, said he will continue to remain a Hindu.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Police threatens News18 state bureau chief over Alwar temple demolition coverage case

OpIndia Staff -
Rajasthan Police is threatening News18 state bureau chief Bhawani Singh in the Alwar temple demolition coverage case.
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News Reports

Russia: Arrested ISIS terrorist was planning an attack on a member of ‘ruling circle in India’, was recruited as a suicide bomber in Turkey

OpIndia Staff -
FSB of Russia arrested an ISIS suicide bomber who was trained in Turkey. He was planning a "high profile terrorist" attack against "one of the representatives of the ruling circle of India, Russia's Nia Novosti.
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News Reports

How Congress silently appointed a congress worker accused of sexual harassment as Jammu & Kashmir Youth President, after “removing him” from party in 2018

OpIndia Staff -
After three and a half years of complete silence, the Congress party quietly appointed Fairoz Khan, a MeToo accused, as State Working President of Pradesh Youth Congress Jammu and Kashmir in April this year
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Crime

Delhi: Woman given a spiked cold drink and raped by her friend Yusuf, blackmailed and raped for months over the video of the incident

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi woman met her tormentor, Yusuf, on Instagram in 2018, who later raped her and shot the video of the incident.
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News Reports

Karnataka: BJP puts up posters of Veer Savarkar at Congress office in Vijayapura, police takes them down after Congress leaders complain

OpIndia Staff -
BJP workers pasted posters of Veer Savarkar at the Congress' party office in Vijayapura, Karnataka.
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News Reports

Delhi Excise Policy scam: CBI probes ‘toolkit module’, finds prima facie evidence of financial wrongdoings, comedians represented by OML also on radar

OpIndia Staff -
Apart from this toolkit, Financial dealings by Hyderabad-based individuals and companies, that obtained licences to sell liquor in Delhi, are also being investigated.
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News Reports

Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia claims BJP offered him to join party, abandon AAP: Did he fall for a prank?

OpIndia Staff -
Popular Instagram user 'PokerShah' had sent a message to Manish Sisodia on Instagram posing as BJP worker and made him the proposition on Sunday night.
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News Reports

After FIR in liquor scam, CBI launches preliminary enquiry into Delhi government’s purchase of 1000 low-floor buses

OpIndia Staff -
CBI has launched a preliminary inquiry in the Delhi Government's acquisition of 1,000 low-floor DTC buses.
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News Reports

17-year-old Praggnanandhaa defeats World Champion Magnus Carlsen for the third time in 6-months, finishes runner-up in FTX Crypto Cup

OpIndia Staff -
Indian grandmaster Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu defeated world champion Magnus Carlsen for the third time in six months.
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Opinions

The Salman Rushdie stabbing: Why BJP is smart to stay away from intra-liberal ecosystem issues

Ganesh R -
Here is what prompted me to write this article and it is not the knife attack on Salman Rushdie - a long pending task given to faithfuls
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News Reports

Pakistan: Imran Khan booked under anti-terror law, likely to be arrested as govt bans live telecast of his speech

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistani media suggested that an arrest warrant has been issued against former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan.
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News Reports

‘Figments of vile imagination’: Historian Vikram Sampath slams actress after she falsely claims freedom fighter Veer Savarkar was convicted of rape

OpIndia Staff -
When social media users sought evidence to back her outrageous claims, the actress began searching for sources on social media.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Locals in Hyderabad falsely accuse Hindu man of blasphemy, try to lynch him with slogans of ‘Sar Tan Se Juda’

OpIndia Staff -
Kumar was arrested on Sunday (August 21) by the Hyderabad Cantonment police, based on the dubious complaint of the Muslim shopkeeper Bilal Abbasi.
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News Reports

‘No consideration to levy charges on UPI services’: Clarifies Finance Ministry, says cost of service providers will be recovered through other means

OpIndia Staff -
Responding the media reports claiming that RBI is proposing to impose service charge on UPI, finance ministry said there is no such consideration
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News Reports

Russia-Ukraine war: Know who is ‘Putin’s brain’ Alexander Dugin and his daughter Darya Dugina who was killed in a car explosion

Dibakar Dutta -
Darya Dugina was sanctioned by both the US and UK , with the latter labelling her as a “high-profile contributor of disinformation” about Russian-Ukraine war.
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News Reports

Bihar: Stones pelted at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s convoy, the CM was not present in the cavalcade

OpIndia Staff -
Nitish Kumar is reaching Gaya via a helicopter so he was not a part of the convoy. It only had the security officials who are a part of the CM's security team
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News Reports

‘A Food Walk with Dr. S Jaishankar’: External Affairs minister promotes ‘Food Tourism’ of Bengaluru

OpIndia Staff -
MEA Dr S Jaishankar toured Bengaluru’s famous V V Puram food street with popular food blogger Kripal Amanna
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News Reports

Pakistan: Sikhs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa protest as Islamists forcibly convert a female Sikh teacher and perform her nikaah

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The protesting Sikhs alleged that the administration is also involved in this incident of conversion.
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Entertainment

Actress Kangana Ranaut to sue Filmfare Awards for nominating her, says ‘It is beneath my dignity, work ethics, and value system’

OpIndia Staff -
Kangana Ranaut said, "It is beneath my dignity, work ethics, and value system to encourage such corrupt practices in any way, that is why I have decided to sue Filmfare."
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News Reports

Government of India refutes media reports claiming India planning to import wheat, says the country has sufficient stock

OpIndia Staff -
The Department of Food and Public Distribution clarified that there is no plan to import wheat as there is sufficient stock in India.
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News Reports

Anand Sharma quits as Congress Steering Committee Chairman of poll-bound Himachal Pradesh, says was continuously being excluded and insulted

OpIndia Staff -
Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma resigned from the post of Chairman of Steering Committee of poll-bound Himachal Pradesh
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News Reports

Zomato issues clarification and apologises for the ‘Mahakal Thali’ advertisement featuring Hrithik Roshan

OpIndia Staff -
A statement by Zomato said, "We deeply respect the sentiments of the people of Ujjain, and the ad in question is no longer running."
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News Reports

Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan says his remarks condemning attack on Salman Rushdie were taken ‘out of context’

OpIndia Staff -
Imran Khan said his comments terming attack on Salman Rushdie as "unjustifiable" were taken out of context
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News Reports

Noida: Lawyer Bhaavya Roy arrested by UP Police after video of her abusing and assaulting a security guard went viral

OpIndia Staff -
Noida lawyer Bhaavya Roy was caught on camera physically assaulting and verbally abusing a security guard
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News Reports

Dogs of the Indian breed Mudhol Hound to be included in PM Modi’s security detail; the famous dog used to be part of Chhatrapati...

OpIndia Staff -
On May 6, 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned the Mudhol breed dogs at a rally in Jamkhandi in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka. Since then, the name has been in the news.
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