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Swords drawn as AAP MLA gets into a war of words with pro-AAP blog editor: Naresh Balyan asks if Rifat Jawaid was behind Rushdie’s...

OpIndia Staff -
Rifat Jawaid claimed that Naresh Balyan was a pick-pocketer while Naresh Balyan called Rifat Jawaid a 'Talibani'
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News Reports

AAP may pitch Arvind Kejriwal as PM candidate for 2024 as he announces ‘Make India No 1’ mission

OpIndia Staff -
Arvind Kejriwal repeatedly mentioned about 130 crore Indians and aimed to connect everyone of them with his party's campaign Make India No 1.
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News Reports

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap hopes film The Kashmir Files, based on Hindu genocide, should not be India’s entry to the Oscars

OpIndia Staff -
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap remarked that he hopes that The Kashmir Files would not be nominated for Oscars.
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News Reports

As the illegal Rohingya immigrants issue is raised again, here is how the UP government freed its land from illegal possession in Delhi

OpIndia Staff -
Illegal Rohingya immigrants settled on around 2.1 hectares of land in Delhi owned by the Irrigation Department of the Uttar Pradesh government.
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News Reports

AAP leaders found to have Facebook page admins from Qatar, the US, and Lithuania, removed after expose

OpIndia Staff -
Aam Aadmi Party and its leaders Facebook pages had admins from the US, Qatar and Lithuania
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News Reports

WB cattle smuggling case: Arrested TMC leader Anubrata Mondal’s daughter refuses to talk to CBI, FD worth Rs. 16.97 crore traced

OpIndia Staff -
CBI traced FD worth Rs 16.97 crores in the name of TMC leader Anubrata Mondal who was arrested cattle smuggling case
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News Reports

Rohingyas and EWS flats controversy: All you need to know about the issue and the Modi government’s position on it

Raju Das -
As MHA clears the Rohingya controversy triggered by union minister Hardeep Singh Puri, here is all you need to know about it
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News Reports

Russia to award women who give birth to 10 children, Putin brings back Stalin-era ‘Mother Heroine’ title to boost population

OpIndia Staff -
According to the decree, the mothers who are qualifying for the award will also be provided with a one-time payment of 1 million rubles as soon as their tenth living child turns a year old.
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News Reports

UP: Headless body found in Meerut identified, Shahid Qureshi arrested for killing own daughter and throwing her head away

OpIndia Staff -
On 12 August, a headless body of a young woman was found in a drain in Meerut's Lisarigate area.
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News Reports

Govt penalizes Flipkart, orders to recall 598 substandard pressure cookers that don’t follow quality norms

OpIndia Staff -
CCPA ordered Flipkart to recall over 598 pressure cookers that did not fulfill quality norms, asks to pay customers back.
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News Reports

Fact Check: Is the Indian Railways charging full ticket price for children below the age of 5?

OpIndia Staff -
A fact check: Is the Indian Railways charging full ticket fare for children under 5?
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News Reports

‘Rohingyas are illegal foreigners to be deported, no EWS flats for them’: Home Ministry clarifies after Union Minister’s tweet triggers outrage

OpIndia Staff -
"Govt of Delhi proposed to shift the Rohingyas to a new location. Illegal foreigners are to be kept in Detention Centre till their deportation as per law", the HMO noted on August 17.
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News Reports

Bihar: Absconding politician Kartikeya Singh, accused in kidnapping case, takes oath as minister in newly formed Nitish cabinet

OpIndia Staff -
RJD MLC Kartikeya Singh who was appointed as Law Minister on August 16 was supposed to surrender at Danapur Court in a kidnapping case but he instead reached Raj Bhavan in Patna for the oath-taking ceremony, as per reports.
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News Reports

‘Instead of providing them housing, send them back’: VHP objects to the move to house Rohingyas in Delhi flats

OpIndia Staff -
VHP opposed the move to house Rohingya Muslim refugees in flats in Delhi and urged the govt to re-examine the decision.
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News Reports

Actress Jacqueline Fernandez, who received luxury gifts from Sukesh Chandrashekar, named as an accused in the extortion case against the conman

OpIndia Staff -
ED names actress Jacqueline Fernandez as an accused in Rs 200 crore extortion case against conman Sukesh Chandrashekar
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News Reports

Jammu and Kashmir: Hours after his appointment, Ghulam Nabi Azad quits both committees of the state Congress unit

OpIndia Staff -
Ghulam Nabi Azad resigned from key posts reportedly to mark his protest against the reconfiguration of J&K Congress unit.
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News Reports

Muslim TMC MLA up in arms against Mamata Banerjee govt over making a fellow Muslim leader the block president of Islampur

OpIndia Staff -
TMC MLA Abdul Karim was miffed with the party as he was expecting them to make his son the block president of Islampur.
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News Reports

As BJP gets attacked by its own supporters over decision to give special amenities to Rohingyas in Delhi, sources in party try to explain...

Nupur J Sharma -
Hardeep Singh Puri said India would be giving accommodation and round the clock protection to 1,100 Rohingya 'refugees'.
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News Reports

‘Case will not stand as complainant was wearing sexually provocative dress’: Kozhikode court while granting relief to sexual harassment accused

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The Sessions Court in Kozhikode district granted anticipatory bail to a social activist accused Civic Chandran in a sexual harassment case.
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News Reports

Tainted NGO Hemkunt Foundation now gets Ranveer Singh as Goodwill Ambassador, lauds actor’s passion and commitment to education

OpIndia Staff -
"I am thrilled to join hands with Hemkunt Foundation to build the largest not-for-profit skill development center in India. Our mission is to provide equal access to education and employment opportunities to lakhs of people through this initiative", the Actor said in his Instagram post
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News Reports

1,110 registered Rohingyas to get flats, security, and basic facilities in Delhi, minister Hardeep S Puri informs

OpIndia Staff -
1,100 registered Rohingyas to get flats, basic amenities and security in Delhi, provided by Central govt.
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News Reports

Is Greece turning out to be a hotbed for Grooming Jihad by Pakistani immigrants? Recent murder of a 17-year-old is only the latest of...

OpIndia Staff -
The recent murder of a 17-year-old girl named Nicoletta in Athens is one of many such crimes where Pakistani immigrants have targeted local non-Muslim women.
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Entertainment

Bollywood nepo-kid now wants to take action on audience for boycotting films, says filmmakers ‘tolerated too much’

OpIndia Staff -
Arjun Kapoor's interview comes close on the heels of much anticipated big budget films like Aamir Khan's Laal Singh Chaddha and Akshay Kumar's Raksha Bandhan which have tanked at the box office miserably.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Vikram Khan, Asad Khan, Syabu, Sahun, and others lynch one Chiranji Lal to death on suspicion of theft, arrested

OpIndia Staff -
A vegetable vendor named Chiranji Lal was lynched by Vikram Khan, Asad Khan, Syabu, Sahun, Taleem and others over suspicion of theft.
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News Reports

Sales of ‘The Satanic Verses’ soar after the Islamist attack on author Salman Rushdie 

OpIndia Staff -
Salman Rushdie, the author of ‘The Satanic Verses’, was attacked last week during an event in New York.
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News Reports

Did Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP hire a professional actor Shahbaz Khan to show ‘frustrated youth of Gujarat’, netizens wonder

OpIndia Staff -
On Tuesday AAP posted a video depicting 'Gujarat youth's discontent with the BJP.' Netizens were not convinced with the act on display.
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News Reports

‘Why put Savarkar’s portrait in a Muslim area?’ Karnataka LoP Siddaramaiah on communal flare-up in Shivamogga

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Siddaramaiah insinuated that putting up Savarkar’s poster in a “Muslim area” caused violence in Shivamogga.
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News Reports

Jammu and Kashmir: In yet another targeted attack, terrorists shoot a Kashmiri Hindu dead and leave his brother critical in Shopian

OpIndia Staff -
In yet another targeted terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir, terrorists shot dead a Kashmiri Hindu, while leaving his brother critically injured
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World

Two policemen guarding polio vaccinators shot dead in Pakistan; the country remains one of the last hurdles to eradication of polio

OpIndia Staff -
Team of polio vaccinators emerged unharmed from the attack but this is yet another setback to the polio vaccination drive in Pakistan
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News Reports

Norway: Walrus ‘Freya’ killed by authorities because ‘selfie-hungry’ people won’t stay away from it, wildlife experts outraged

OpIndia Staff -
Norway killed Freya the walrus because people did not listen to authorities to stay away from her.
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News Reports

‘Naked, butchered bodies of Hindu women were hung at beef shops in Kolkata’: Direct Action Day survivor recalls the horror

OpIndia Staff -
Today on the 75th anniversary of horrific 'Direct Action Day', Rabindranath Dutta, a survivor recalled the brutality Islamists had inflicted on innocent Hindu women during those days.
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Political History of India

Did you know: Muslim League politician who fought for separate Pakistan was a speaker in Indian assembly the night Nehru delivered his “tryst with...

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Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman, a Muslim League politician who fought for the division of India, the creation of a separate Pakistan, and indeed moved to Pakistan after partition where he became the first president of Muslim League (Pakistan).
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News Reports

‘Hindus killed for being Hindus’ series: 75 and still counting…here is a never-ending list of Hindus killed and brutalised in independent India

OpIndia Staff -
As India completes 75 years of its Independence, OpIndia has compiled a list of 75 Hindus who were killed for being Hindus.
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News Reports

‘It is our government now’: Goons in Bihar’s Sheikhpura go on a rampage, beat up shopkeepers for no reason

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Miscreants beat up shopkeepers in Bihar's Sheikhpura, vandalise shops.
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Opinions

As calls to boycott Laal Singh Chaddha taste success, here is how we need to learn from the global Left going forward

Ganesh R -
As I write this, the concerted efforts by some activist Hindus to boycott Amir Khan’s copycat movie Lal Singh Chaddha appear to be successful.
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News Reports

Laal Singh Chaddha: Producer-distributor Viacom 18 deny claims of seeking compensation as movie faces disaster

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Subhash K Jha had also appealed to those, boycotting the film, to watch it in the theatres. "They will come away reformed," he had suggested.
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Opinions

While the Nation celebrated its 75th year of Independence, here is how ‘The Hindu’ chose to worship Nehru and sound despondent

S. Sudhir Kumar -
Left with no choice to adopt it, the Congress party came up with what they know best – worship Nehru and his dynasty even while referring to the Indian flag! 
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News Reports

Delhi: Kejriwal aide among 4 arrested; were part of Pak ISI-backed terror module to execute attacks in Delhi and Punjab ahead of I-Day

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Arrested accused Vipin Jakhar is an Aam Aadmi Party leader who contested in the 2017 Municipal Council elections of Delhi.
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Entertainment

The Oscars apologises to Sacheen Littlefeather, 49 years after Hollywood subjected her to racist insults, booing, and nearly an assault by John Wayne

OpIndia Staff -
Nearly 50 years after suffering racist insults and abuse, Littlefeather will now return to the Academy as an invited guest of honour at the Academy Museum.
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News Reports

Did you know: Nehru wanted ‘date with destiny’ in his I-Day speech but his PA changed it to ‘tryst with destiny’ because ‘date’ had...

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Nehru heeded his PA’s advice and changed ’date’ with ‘tryst’ in his I-day speech because of the former’s romantic overtones.
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Opinions

Hey, Rana Ayyub, say it, say that ‘Gustakh-e-Rasool’ should not be punishable with ‘sar tan se juda’

Nirwa Mehta -
Prominent Muslim celebrity journalists have also not said it in as many words that 'blasphemy' of divine figures of Islam should not be punished by death.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: opium, poppy husk served at Govt school in Barmer after Independence Day function, video viral

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Opium and poppy husk distributed in a school in Barmer, Rajasthan after Independence Day function
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News Reports

Karnataka: Nadeem, Abdul and Jabiullah among 4 arrested for stabbing two men in Shivamogga amidst communal tensions

OpIndia Staff -
As per ADGP Law and Order, all four suspects in the alleged stabbing in Shivamogga have been apprehended.
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News Reports

Brother of Loten Nishad, killed over criticism of Tablighi Jamaat observes, ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign

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In April 2020, a 30-year-old Loten Nishad was shot dead by one Mohammed Sona in Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh.
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News Reports

Islamic terrorist organization Al Qaida asks Indian Muslims to ‘Bring Nupur to Justice,’ urges to prepare for ‘defensive Jihad’

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Al-Qaida called for vengeance, urging Muslims to arm themselves against the enemy for a "defensive jihad."
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News Reports

FIFA announces suspension of AIFF: From Praful Patel’s sacking to losing Under-17 Women’s World Cup hosting rights, how it happened

OpIndia Staff -
Recently, CoA filed plea in Supreme Court against former AIFF President Praful Patel for "arranging" letter from FIFA for AIFF suspension.
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News Reports

Punjab AAP Minister defends presence at Red Fort, along with Deep Sidhu, during the Republic Day siege: What he said

OpIndia Staff -
Congress sought the resignation of the Punjab Transport Minister over a video of rioters storming the Red Fort on January 26, 2021.
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News Reports

Jungleraj returns to Bihar? Convicted politician Anand Mohan seen holding a political meeting at home in Patna: Here is what happened

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The incident has raised questions about the working style of the Bihar police under the Mahagathbandhan government.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Anganwadi worker gets ‘Sar Tan Se Juda’ threat from ‘Friends of ISI’ for distributing Tiranga, probe initiated

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Family of Anganwadi worker get death threats in UP for distributing Tiranga in neighbourhood.
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News Reports

Swaminarayan Akshardham Gandhinagar celebrates India’s ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ in the presence of Sadguru Pujya Ishwarcharan Swami

OpIndia Staff -
While addressing the devotees at the BAPS Akshardham temple, Swami Ji also supported the 'Har Ghar Tiranga' campaign of PM Modi.
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