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Article describing “The Benefits of World Hunger” published by the UN goes viral, netizens confused whether it is real or satire

OpIndia Staff -
The article titled “the Benefits of World Hunger” written by Hawaiian professor George Kent was published on UN Chronicle in 2008
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News Reports

Kerala: State cabinet minister Saji Cheriyan resigns after controversy erupts over his remarks on the Indian Constitution

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Saji Cheriyan had said that Constitution was written in such a manner so as to facilitate the loot of maximum number of people.
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News Reports

‘Say that you were drunk, it will be easy to save you’; Rajasthan police caught coaching arrested Salman Chishti who wanted to kill Nupur...

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Rajasthan Police tells Salman Chishti, "Just say that you were drunk or high, it will be easy".
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News Reports

‘Will launch such a big agitation that India will shake’: Sarwar Chishti of Ajmer Dargah Committee threatens over remarks on Prophet Muhammad

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Sarwar Chishti said, "We will launch such a massive agitation that the whole Hindustan will shake."
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News Reports

DGCA issues show cause notice to SpiceJet over ‘poor internal safety oversight’ following 8 technical issues in 18 days

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DGCA has given SpiceJet 3 weeks to explain why action should not be taken against it for repeated technical issues with its flights
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Hindus protest against murder of Kanhaiya Lal, community Hanuman Chalisa recital in Pali, demonstrations in Jaipur

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The bar association, the transport association and the chemist association of the Pali district supported the bandh called by Sarv Hindu Samaj to protest the murder of Kanhaiya Lal.
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News Reports

Alt News’ old Instamojo donation page is still active, and accepts donations, read details

OpIndia Staff -
Instamojo accepts international payment as per their website on case to case basis. It is not yet clear whether Alt News has accepted foreign funding through its Instamojo page.
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News Reports

Bhopal: FIR filed against TMC MP Mohua Moitra for her indecent comments on Goddess Kaali, had earlier mocked Shivling at Gyanvapi

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Mahua Moitra is booked under section 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage reli­gious feelings) of the IPC.
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News Reports

Contempt of court complaint filed against Rahul Gandhi for violating rules by posting video of court proceedings

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VHP leader Girish Bharadwaj writes to Karnataka HC seeking action against Rahul Gandhi for posting video of court proceedings
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News Reports

National Scheduled Caste Commission summons Jamia University VC over caste-based atrocities and refusing SC/ST reservations

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Jamia VC summoned by National Scheduled Caste Commission over atrocities against SC/ST community
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News Reports

Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann to get married at a private ceremony in Chandigarh on July 7

OpIndia Staff -
the Punjab CM will get married on July 7 in a private function at CM residence in Chandigarh to Dr Gurpreet Kaur.
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OpIndia Explains

Marking Nupur Sharma as a ‘blasphemer’, cheering backlash against India, watching while Islamists rioted and killed: Zubair’s Twitter in 1 month

OpIndia Staff -
An in-depth analysis of tweets of last one month of Mohammed Zubair of Alt News starting from dog-whistling against Nupur Sharma over 'blasphemy' to his eventual arrest on similar charges.
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News Reports

‘Those who can’t win arguments are trying to scare with swords’: BJP’s Dilip Gosh on violence over Nupur Sharma’s remarks

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BJP MP Dilip Gosh called out Islamists saying that those who can't win with arguments are trying to win by swords.
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News Reports

Kerala: Opposition MLAs protest against Minister Saji Cheriyan for his objectionable remarks on Constitution, demand resignation

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After Kerala minister Saji Cheriyan said that constitution was written to loot people, opposition demand his resignation
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News Reports

Did TMC leader Mahua Moitra unfollow her party’s Twitter handle after being condemned over her comments on Maa Kaali? Here’s what we know so...

OpIndia Staff -
TMC had distanced itself and condemned Mahua Moitra for her disparaging remarks on Goddess Kaali.
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News Reports

Gujarat: Lawyer receives death threats from Islamists after he used image of Nupur Sharma as WhatsApp status for 3 minutes

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Lawyer Krupal Raval lodged a police complaint after he received threats from Islamists for supporting Nupur Sharma
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News Reports

Bihar: Hindu boy brutally assaulted by a Muslim mob for sharing social media post in support of Nupur Sharma

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In Arrah, Bihar, a Hindu boy was assaulted by a Muslim mob for a social media post in support of Nupur Sharma.
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News Reports

Jharkhand: IAS officer Syed Riyaz Ahmed arrested for sexually assaulting an IIT student intern in Khunti

OpIndia Staff -
Syed Riyaz Ahmed had invited all the interns at his house for a dinner event and insisted everyone to drink. The victim student has mentioned in her complaint that the SDO had started forcibly kissing her saying he has a condoms.
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News Reports

Kerala: Muslim cleric Waseem Al Hikami booked for passing derogatory remarks against Jesus Christ on social media, was booked earlier in January too

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Waseem Al Hikami in December 2021 had published a YouTube video in which he passed derogatory comments about Jesus Christ's birth.
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Crime

Arrested Ajmer Dargah Khadim Salman Chishti is history-sheeter with over 13 cases against him, police claim he was drunk when he made the video

OpIndia Staff -
Ajmer Dargah Khadim Salman Chishti published a video last week in which he claimed that he would hand over his house to anyone who would cut Sharma’s head.
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News Reports

Canada: Aga Khan Museum tenders apology for hurting religious sentiments of Hindus, stops screening of Hinduphobic film ‘Kaali’

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Aga Khan Museum issued apology over screening of Hinduphobic film 'Kaali'
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News Reports

Alt News tries to spin statement of Razorpay as ‘clean chit’ for themselves, but here’s how they’ve got lots to answer

Nirwa Mehta -
Razorpay has said that while they reached out to Alt News before sharing their data with law enforcement agencies they did not receive any response from them.
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News Reports

Petition to initiate impeachment proceedings against SC Justices for remarks against Nupur Sharma, 10k signatures achieved in less than 12 hours

OpIndia Staff -
Petition to initiate Impeachment Proceedings of Supreme Court judges for their oral remarks against Nupur Sharma gained over 10,000 signatures in less than 12 hours
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World

US ‘liberals’ attack comedian Trevor Noah for seeking accountability from the Democrats: Details

OpIndia Staff -
"Make the Democrats show you what they’ve done, and then you donate to their cause,” Trevor Noah sought accountability from the party.
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News Reports

Indian cricket fans racially abused during IND vs ENG test at Edgbaston, ECB launches investigation

OpIndia Staff -
Some Indian fans were racially abused during the fifth test match between India and England held at Edgbaston.
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News Reports

‘Rapid work underway to hold social media accountable’: Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw

OpIndia Staff -
The announcement by Ashwini Vaishnaw came after Twitter approached Karnataka HC against GoI’s take down notices.
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News Reports

Double whammy for SpiceJet: After unscheduled landing of plane in Karachi, cracked windshield of another plane leads to emergency landing in Mumbai

OpIndia Staff -
SpiceJet has recently come under fire for a slew of mishaps that have raised concerns about passenger safety.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Cow for slaughter hoisted to rooftop ahead of Eid-al-Adha, onlookers call the animal cruelty ‘enjoyment’

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The viral video from Pakistan shows a cow hoisted to the rooftop ahead of Eid-al-Adha amid cheers from onlookers.
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News Reports

TMC condemns comments on Goddess Kaali by its own MP Mahua Moitra, distances itself from her remarks

OpIndia Staff -
Distancing itself from Mahua's controversial comments, the party said that the comments were made by Mahua Moitra in her personal capacity and were not endorsed by TMC.
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News Reports

Kerala Governor intervenes after State Fisheries Minister Saji Cherian says Indian Constitution helps to loot and plunder the people

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The Kerala minister criticised the country's Constitution, stating that it supports exploitation of common people.
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News Reports

Twitter approaches Karnataka High Court against GoI ‘take down’ orders

OpIndia Staff -
Twitter has approached Karnataka High Court against GoI take-down orders that required action against accounts or content violating Indian law.
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World

Pakistan: Suicide bomber rams bike into a military convoy in North Waziristan, 10 soldiers left injured

OpIndia Staff -
The incident happened late on Monday night when the military convoy was near the Khadi Market in Mirali and was on its way to Miran Shah in North Waziristan.
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News Reports

New York ‘influencer’ says spending parents’ money is her job, spends 50,000 USD in a day on Gucci, Prada, Dior

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The "stay-at-home daughter" has stated that spending her parents' money is like a full-time professional job for her.
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News Reports

‘Aapda mein avasar’: Congress uses Assam floods to promote Rahul Gandhi, distribute relief material with his pictures stuck on it

OpIndia Staff -
The relief material distributed by Congress in flood-affected regions of Assam had pictures of Rahul Gandhi pasted on it.
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News Reports

Prashant Bhushan shares a morphed picture of President candidate Draupadi Murmu to label her as ‘RSS rubber stamp’

OpIndia Staff -
Two different images were clubbed and mirrored to create the morphed picture, which was tweeted by Prashant Bhushan.
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Crime

FIR filed against Ajmer Dargah Khadim Salman Chishti, had offered his own house as bounty to kill Nupur Sharma

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The Ajmer police have registered a case of abetment to murder against Ajmer Dargah Khadim Salman Chishti for his video calling for the murder of Nupur Sharma.
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Sports

English Premier League footballer due to represent his country in World Cup later this year arrested in North London over suspicion of rape

OpIndia Staff -
The footballer is reported to be 29 years old which set off a round of speculation over all the 29 years old players playing for North London clubs.
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Editor's picks

Farooq Abdullah once again pushes the fake claim that a Muslim man spotted Shiva Lingam in the ancient Amarnath cave, here is how he...

OpIndia Staff -
Farooq Abdullah has once again pushed the myth of the Amarnath caves being discovered by a Muslim named Buta Malik.
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News Reports

‘The observations virtually exonerate the Udaipur beheading’: Retired judges, bureaucrats, and armed officers slam SC Judges over remarks on Nupur Sharma

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The open letter, signed by over 115 signatories, criticised the oral observations made by SC judges against Nupur Sharma.
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News Reports

Enforcement Directorate raids 44 locations during the probe against Chinese mobile manufacturing company Vivo under provisions of PMLA

OpIndia Staff -
ED conducted raids at 44 places in money laundering probe against Chinese mobile manufacturing company Vivo
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After OpIndia and Nupur J Sharma, AG gets letter to initiate contempt proceedings against retired Justice Dhingra and two others

OpIndia Staff -
The letter alleged that the use of 'unparliamentary and derogatory' language against the Judiciary fell within the scope of the Contempt of Courts.
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News Reports

UP: Talib Hussain sells chicken wrapped in paper with images of Hindu deities, attacks the police team that went to arrest him

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UP police arrested Talib Hussain over complaint that he was selling chicken wrapped in paper bearing images of Hindu deities
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Rajasthan: Rajkumar, Pavan, and three others arrested by Police for circulating Kanhaiya Lal’s murder video

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Rajasthan Police had urged the public not to share the video of the murder of Kanhaiya Lal.
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Uttar Pradesh: Kanpur Police arrests builder Haji Wasi, accused of funding prime suspect Zafar Hayat Hashmi in Kanpur violence

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Haji Mohammad Wasi of Kanpur is also accused of erecting unlawful buildings valued at 100 crores.
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News Reports

Karnataka: ACB books Congress MLA BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan in a disproportionate assets case, raids his 2 offices and 3 residential properties

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Earlier, Congress MLA BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan was raided by ED in Rs 4000 crore IMA Ponzi Scheme run in the name of halal investment
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Social Media Fact-Check

Karnataka: Islamists share a stabbing incident at Chitradurga with a fake communal angle, here is the truth

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An incident of murder over personal animosity shared with fake communal angle on social media.
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News Reports

CM Eknath Shinde narrates the ‘worst’ 2.5 years with MVA, says ‘Shiv Sainiks could not speak about Hindutva, Veer Savarkar’

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EM Eknath Shinde said that Congress during the period of 2.5 years had insulted Veer Savarkar but they could not speak anything against Congress as Shiv Sena was in alliance with the party.
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News Reports

BJP leader Kapil Mishra receives death threats days after he visits slain Hindu Kanhaiya Lal’s family, one Akbar Alam threatens to shoot him dead

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, ex-BJP leader Naveen Jindal had also received death threats by one Akbar Alam who threatened him with Kanhaiya Lal like fate over his alleged remarks on Prophet Muhammad.
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News Reports

‘Liberals’, Islamist apologists rally behind Sushant Singh’s Team Saath, demand ‘unsuspension’ of Twitter account which indulges in targeted harassment

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'Liberals' rush in to support suspended troll account Team Saath.
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News Reports

Jharkhand: Muslim community in Garhwa got school prayer changed as ‘they are 75% of population’, even stopped children from folding hands

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Government administration has reportedly been made aware of the local Muslim residents of the village forcefully getting the school prayer changed. The administration has said an investigation regarding the same will be carried out.
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