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No reservation to converts, concealing religion for marriage punishable: Stringent provisions included in new anti-conversion bill of Himachal Pradesh

OpIndia Staff -
The new anti-conversion bill of Himachal Pradesh says that reservation benefits will not be available after conversion
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Rahul Gandhi targets Modi govt over price rise: Here is how data proves his claims are wrong aimed to create inflation hysteria

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi claimed that prices of pulses have increased by 20% in last 15 days, which is completely false
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Bar Council of India condemns Prashant Bhushan’s remarks against SC during his address to Islamist IAMC, calls it a ‘rant against the nation’

OpIndia Staff -
The Bar Council of India (BCI) on Saturday heavily criticized advocate Prashant Bhushan for his recent remarks against the apex court.
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News Reports

As Fareed Zakaria condemns the attack on Salman Rushdie, here is what his father’s open letter said condemning the Satanic Verses

OpIndia Staff -
In an open letter to its author Salman Rushdie in 1988, Rafiq Zakaria praised Rajiv Gandhi's decision to ban The Satanic Verses.
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News Reports

Pakistanis, including Dawn journalist, celebrate stabbing of Salman Rushdie, hail assailant as ‘Ghazi’

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"This is the young man who killed the great enemy of Islam, Salman Rushdie. Brother may God protect you," rejoiced another Islamist.
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News Reports

Salman Rushdie’s attacker used a fake license with the name ‘Hassan Mughniyah’, a Hezbollah commander close to Iranian General Qassem Soleimani

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Salman Rushdie was attacked on August 12 when he was about to give a lecture at Chautauqua Institution in New York.
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News Reports

Hindu leader gets beheading threats for condemning incident where Islamists raised ‘sar tan se juda’ slogans during Muharram in Khandwa, case filed

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Ashok Paliwal, a Rashtriya Veer Yuva Manch leader approached the police after getting death threats on social media from a Muslim youth
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News Reports

Nawab Malik claim false, former NCB officer Sameer Wankhede and his father are not Muslim and never gave up Hinduism: Committee findings

OpIndia Staff -
The committee found that Sameer Wankhede and his father Dyaneshwar Wankhede had not converted to Islam from Hinduism.
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News Reports

October 5, 1988: When Rajiv Gandhi-led India became the first country to ban Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses, aided by Fareed Zakaria’s father

OpIndia Staff -
Rajiv Gandhi had already shown his willingness to bow down to Islamists in the Shah Bano case and he did it again by leading the world in banning Satanic Verses.by Salman Rushdie
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News Reports

Sonia Gandhi tests positive for COVID for the second time in two months as ED investigation into the National Herald scam gathers steam

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh informed that Sonia Gandhi has tested positive for Covid-19 for second time in two months
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Babu Qureshi threatens to behead youth Suraj like Kanyaiya Lal for working with Hindu organisations, arrested

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Sohid alias Babu Qureshi threatened Suraj to leave the Hindu organizations failing which he would ne killed like Kanhaiya Lal
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Crime

Rajasthan: Armaan Khan, Mansoor Ahmed, and Mohammed Aslam raise ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans while desecrating a saffron flag, arrested

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Rajasthan police arrested three Muslim youths for raising 'Pakistan Zindabad' slogans while desecrating a saffron flag
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News Reports

Javed Akhtar condemns stabbing of Salman Rushdie without mentioning Islamists: Here is how he had dog whistled about Satanic Verses in 2012

Dibakar Dutta -
Left-liberals tend to do lip service and shed crocodile tears following Islamist attacks, despite creating a fertile land for such tragedies to follow.
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News Reports

Four Jammu and Kashmir Govt officers, including jailed terrorist Bitta Karate’s wife Assabah Khan, sacked for ‘anti-national’ activities

OpIndia Staff -
Jammu and Kashmir administration fired four government workers, including Assabah Arjumand Khan, the wife of Bitta Karate
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News Reports

Pakistani man claiming to be PMLN politician announces 20 Million USD bounty on Dutch MP Geert Wilders, says he is next after Salman Rushdie

OpIndia Staff -
Twitter has suspended the account of a Pakistani man who announced a bounty of 20 million USD for anybody who beheads Dutch Lawmaker Geert Wilders
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Kushinagar youth named Salman unfurls Pakistani flag on his house amid ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign, arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Amid the Har Ghar Titanga campaign launched by the central government ahead of the 75th Independence Day, a Muslim youth unfurled Pakistan's national flag in Kushinagar
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News Reports

‘You made our mentors Owaisi, Maulana Madani cry’: Man threatens to blow up Yogi Adityanath, Hindu leader who filed PIL against illegal slaughterhouses

OpIndia Staff -
Uttar Pradesh police have sprung into action after one Salman Siddiqui sent a threat letter to a Hindu leader, threatening to bomb him and Yogi Adityanath
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News Reports

After saying ‘don’t like, don’t watch’, Kareena Kapoor follows Aamir Khan’s footsteps, pleads not to boycott Laal Singh Chaddha: Here is what she said

OpIndia Staff -
These remarks from Kareena Kapoor come after widespread calls to boycott the movie Laal Singh Chaddha.
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Pakistan: 62-year-old Ahmadi Muslim stabbed to death for refusing to chant ‘Labbaik ya Rasool Allah’, supporter of Tehrik-e-Labbaik arrested

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Ahmadi Muslim man named Naseer Ahmad was stabbed to death for refusing to chant the Islamist slogans in the eastern town of Rabwah, Pakistan.
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News Reports

Delhi-based lawyer files complaint against Aamir Khan for disrespecting Indian Army in Laal Singh Chaddha, hurting sentiments of Hindus: Details

OpIndia Staff -
A complaint has been lodged against Aamir Khan alleging that his portrayal of Laal Singh Chaddha has insulted Indian Army.
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News Reports

Salman Rushdie may lose one eye, stabbed in the neck and liver, one Hadi Matar arrested for the attack: What we know so far

OpIndia Staff -
Hours after Salman Rushdie was brutally stabbed at Chautauqua Institution in the United States, the novelist's agent Andrew Wylie informed that he is still in a critical state.
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News Reports

Laal Singh Chaddha, Raksha Bandhan set to do worse than opening day as they see massive drop on Day 2: Details of estimated collection

OpIndia Staff -
Aamir Khan starrer Laal Singh Chaddha tanked at box office with its opening day collection being abysmal - and day 2 is just worse
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World

Salman Rushdie attack: ‘The Satanic Verses’ author punched, stabbed in the neck at New York event

OpIndia Staff -
Salman Rushdie was attacked when he was about to give lecture at Chautauqua Institution in New York
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: ATS busts JeM and TTP plot to kill Nupur Sharma, arrests one Muhammad Nadeem who was given the task by the terror...

OpIndia Staff -
Muhammad Nadeem was asked by Jaish and TTP to kill Nupur Sharma, and he was also planning a suicide attack
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News Reports

Nude photoshoot row: Mumbai police visits residence of Ranveer Singh, issues summon to appear for questioning on August 22

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Mumbai police has issued summon to actor Ranveer Singh to appear for questioning on August 22
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‘Was coerced to make the recommendation’: Doctor who prescribed TMC’s Anubrata Mondal 14-day bedrest a day before his arrest tells CBI

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A WB Govt doctor who examined Anubrata Mondal said he was forced to recommend 14-day bedrest to the TMC leader.
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News Reports

‘Indian women are blessed, scriptures like Manusmriti give a very respectable position to women’: Justice Pratibha Singh

OpIndia Staff -
Justice Pratibha Singh said women are blessed to have scriptures like Manusmriti that grant them a respectable position.
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News Reports

Karnataka: More than 25 arrested in connection with Koppal violence over a Hindu boy meeting his Muslim girlfriend at Muharram program

OpIndia Staff -
After two people dies and 6 injured in communal clash in Koppal in Karnataka, over 25 persons have been detained
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Chhattisgarh: Video of miscreants beating a cow, tying its legs before throwing it into a river goes viral; two arrested

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In the viral video from Chhattisgarh, some miscreants beat a cow, tie its legs before throwing it in the river.
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News Reports

After Jaunpur, Islamists in Khandwa district in Madhya Pradesh chant ‘sar tan se juda’ slogans during Muharram procession, case registered

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Fanatic Muslims taking part in a Muharram procession can be heard chanting ‘gustakh-e-Rasool ki ek hi saza, sar tan se juda sar tan se juda’ in Madhya Pradesh
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World

Joan of Arc, the female cultural icon of Europe to now go woke and non-binary, Shakespeare’s Globe to portray her with ‘they/them’ pronouns

OpIndia Staff -
The play 'I, Joan' is meant to reinterpret the character of the saint from a non-binary perspective, a view strongly defended by its writer Charline Josephine.
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News Reports

Kanpur: Jeetu Khan, Akhil Khan and others attack RSS member Anshu Trivedi at his home for organising a shakha in the locality

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RSS member Anshu Trivedi, his brother and another person were attacked by Muslim youths in Kanpur for organising an RSS Shakha in the area
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Opinions

The reasons given by the average intellectual to oppose “Har Ghar Tiranga” and just how asinine they really are

Virender Kapoor -
The Prime Minister expressed his wish and suggested that on 15th August 2022 when we are celebrating our 75th Independence Day, ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ every Indian should endeavour to have a flag on top of his home. Fair enough, one would say.
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News Reports

Karnataka: Missionary school teachers remove Rakhis from the wrists of students and throw them in the dustbin, school apologises after parents protest

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School teachers of a missionary school in Karnataka reportedly forced students to remove the Rakhis tied to their wrists and threw them in the dustbin.
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News Reports

PIB busts fake claims made by NDTV and Saket Gokhale, confirms no GST on rent of properties rented for personal use

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Saket Gokhale tweeted, "Modi government will now be charging GST to tenants on their house rent."
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Accused in Jahangirpuri violence, Gulam Rasool, gets interim bail on ‘humanitarian grounds’ because his wife is pregnant

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Court granted interim bail to one of the accused in the Jahangirpuri violence case on humanitarian grounds.
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Kerala: KT Jaleel stirs controversy by calling PoK ‘Azad Kashmir’ in a Facebook post, BJP slams the CPI(M) leader over his comments

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Kerala CPI(M) leader KT Jaleel sparked a controversy after he referred to PoK as ‘Azad Kashmir’ in a Facebook post.
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Odisha, Chhattishgarh, and Bengal have irregularities implementing Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, Centre to conduct state-wise review

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According to ministry figures, 1.83 million houses have been approved under PMAY (Rural) in Odisha, with 1.69 million completed so far. The ministry has now instructed the state to complete 1.26 lakh houses over the next 12 months.
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Tejashwi Yadav pushes all responsibility for job creation on Nitish Kumar, uses anti-Brahmin statement to attack Giriraj Singh

OpIndia Staff -
While Tejashwi Yadav was quick to join hands with Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United (JDU), he appears reluctant in taking the responsibilities that come with power.
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Hayat Zafar, Mukhtar Baba, and Haji Wasi among 47 charge sheeted in June 3 Islamist violence in Kanpur

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On June 3, Islamists in Kanpur went on a rampant, indulging in violence over alleged ’blasphemy’ against Prophet Muhammad.
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Opinions

Aamir Khan’s Laal Singh Chaddha is a horribly made, boring parody of Forrest Gump, it is not surprising that nobody wants to watch it

Amit Kelkar -
If Aamir Khan makes a movie on the 1971 war, we would have 93000 Pakistani businessmen in India instead of 93000 prisoners of war.
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News Reports

Delhi: Ammunition smuggling syndicate busted days before independence day celebrations, 2000 live cartridges recovered

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East Delhi Police arrested six smugglers with two bags of ammunition from the Anand Vihar area
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Laal Singh Chaddha: Exhibitors reduce 1300 shows because of empty theatres and cancelled shows on first day of the Aamir Khan movie

OpIndia Staff -
There is very less footfall in the talkies for 'Laal Singh Chaddha' than expected. Theater owners have therefore decided to reduce the number of shows.
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Divya Kakran vs AAP: Saurabh Bharadwaj says Delhi govt can’t reward athletes from other states; had earlier rewarded Haryana’s Bajrang Punia, Ravi Dahiya

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Divya Kakran had earlier alleged that she received no support from AAP government in Delhi despite assurances.
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Fan page of AAP leader claims UK PM Candidate Rishi Sunak is emulating ‘Delhi model’, Arvind Kejriwal shares it as mainstream news

OpIndia Staff -
AAP leader fan page turned news website site claimed that UK PM Candidate Rishi Sunak is emulating ‘Delhi model’
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People continue to die in Bihar after drinking spurious liquor due to prohibition of Nitish Kumar, 5 die in Chhapra hooch tragedy

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Chhapra Hooch tragedy: 5 die, 2 fall severely ill in last 24 hours due to consumption of poisonous liquor in Bihar
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Is Elon Musk coming up with a new social media platform to rival Twitter? Read what the Tesla CEO hinted at

OpIndia Staff -
Responding to one of his followers' questions, Elon Musk said he might launch a new social media website called X.com.
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News Reports

‘Pakistan Zindabad’, ‘Sar Tan Se Juda’ slogans raised in Jaunpur during Muharram, Mohammad Shakeel, Mohammad Jeeshaan and 2 others arrested

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Jaunpur police in Uttar Pradesh arrested four people after a video went viral where a Muslim mob was heard raising 'sar tan se juda' slogans during a Muharram procession
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News Reports

Meerut: Headless body of a young woman found in Lisari Gate area, identity yet to be known

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The body seems to belong to a woman in her twenties. It has been sent for postmortem.
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Farmani Naaz takes down ‘Har Har Shambhu’ after its original writer Jitu Sharma takes legal action: All you need to know about the controversy

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'Har Har Shambhu', the popular song sung by Farmani Naaz that sensationalized the internet within no time, has been removed from YouTube due to copyright issues.
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