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Britain comes to a standstill thanks to the biggest rail strike in over 30 years

OpIndia Staff -
With the inflation hitting double digits in Britain thanks to high food and fuel prices, the workers are demanding a 7% hike in their pay, while the rail companies are offering them a 2% increase.
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News Reports

TMC VP Yashwant Sinha deletes old abusive tweet after being declared Presidential candidate of ‘United Opposition’

OpIndia Staff -
Yashwant Sinha has deleted his old tweet in which he was seen retorting back to a user with a Hindi slang 'Ch*tiya'
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News Reports

CBI arrests Joint Drugs Controller for accepting Rs 4 lakh bribe to clear Biocon Biologic’s diabetes drug, company denies allegations

OpIndia Staff -
Officers of the CBI identified the detained men as S Eswara Reddy, Joint Drug Controller posted at the CDSCO headquarters in New Delhi, and Dinesh Dua, Director of Synergy Network India Pvt Ltd.
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Politics

BJP likely to send its 106 Maharashtra MLAs to Ahmedabad, Devendra Fadnavis along with top party brass likely to meet rebel Eknath Shinde, group

OpIndia Staff -
Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis will now be reaching Ahmedabad to meet the rebel Shiv Sena faction led by Shinde.
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World

Pakistan horror: Newborn baby beheaded, head left inside Hindu woman’s womb by govt hospital staff in Sindh province

OpIndia Staff -
A staff of a government-run Rural health centre (RHC) in Sindh, Pakistan, cut off the head of a newborn child and left it in the womb of a Hindu woman
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News Reports

Pakistan-origin Australian woman murdered with an axe by her father-in-law in Sargodha while her father watched

OpIndia Staff -
A Pakistan-origin Australian woman named Sajida Tasneem was brutally hacked to death by her father-in-law, Mukhtar Ahmad in Sargodha, Pakistan.
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News Reports

Guru Rahman: The educator under scanner for allegedly inciting violence over the Agnipath scheme

Dibakar Dutta -
Guru Rahman is accused ginning up a mob that laid siege on the Danapur Railway station and set trains on fire.
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News Reports

Maharashtra MLC Elections: What exactly happened, and what does it mean politically for the BJP and MVA? Explained

Suyash -
the victory of BJP's fifth candidate Prasad Lad came as a surprise when he managed to securre 28 votes, indicating cross voting from the MVA faction.
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News Reports

NSA Ajit Doval hails the Agnipath scheme as a game-changer, says ‘no question’ of rollback

OpIndia Staff -
NSA Ajit Doval hailed the Agnipath scheme as a game-changer and asserted that there will be no rollback.
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News Reports

Will never compromise on Hindutva for power, says ‘rebel’ Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde, Shiv Sena removes him from post of legislative party leader

OpIndia Staff -
Eknath Shinde, whose phone was apparently unreachable, used his phone to tweet that he will not compromise on Hindutva for power.
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World

Elon Musk’s son becomes trans woman, appeals to cut all ties with ‘her’ father

OpIndia Staff -
The son of billionaire Elon Musk has filed a plea in court to change his name in accordance with his new gender identity
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Politics

KCR and his national ambitions: How and why he thinks he is showing the way

S. Sudhir Kumar -
How does anyone trust KCR? His U-turns on issues and people are now legendary. His vitriol, especially on the BJP and its leaders, has isolated him from a lot of apolitical folks in the state.
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Social Media

‘Yoga is shirk’, ‘not allowed in Islam’: Islamists on Twitter ask Muslims not to practice Yoga, deride the ancient Hindu practice

OpIndia Staff -
Apart from disrupting the Yoga day event in Maldives, Islamists from the country could be seen on Twitter flagging the event as 'anti-Muslim'.
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News Reports

ED opposes transfer of conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar out of Tihar, says he wanted to build a nexus of officials in another jail

OpIndia Staff -
The ED said Sukesh Chandrasekhar wanted to build a nexus of officials in another prison to facilitate his illegal businesses.
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News Reports

Multiple websites went down as Cloudflare system faced issue, read details

OpIndia Staff -
Websites such as OpIndia, Zerodha, Shopify, Zendeck, Upstoxx, Groww and many others faced outage after Cloudflare was down.
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News Reports

Anish Khan murder: Calcutta HC refuses to transfer case to CBI, asks state-formed SIT to continue with the investigation

OpIndia Staff -
The Calcutta HC on Tuesday refused to transfer the murder case of Anish Khan to the CBI, asking the SIT to continue its probe.
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News Reports

Kerala journalist who complained against CM Pinarayi Vijayan in corruption case, now booked for ‘making porn’

OpIndia Staff -
The journalist had earlier exposed CM Vijayan in SNC-Lavalin case. The Police states that he also is behind Suresh's allegations against CM Vijayan.
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News Reports

Watch: Islamists disrupt Yoga Day celebrations organised by Indian Govt, President Solih says probe initiated

OpIndia Staff -
Islamists disrupted Yoga Day celebrations in Maldives, probe initiated.
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News Reports

‘Should Kashmir be handed over to Pakistan’: MP Civil service exam question paper sparks row

OpIndia Staff -
The incident led to a political furore in the State, prompting the Seva Aayog to take action against the individual who set the questions for the civil services.
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Politics

Yashwant Sinha for President? TMC VP nudges party chief Mamata via a sly tweet

OpIndia Staff -
In a cryptic tweet, Yashwant Sinha seems to have nudged Mamata Banerjee to put his name forward as Presidential candidate from 'United opposition'.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Shiv Sena’s Eknath Shinde and 13 other MLAs ‘unreachable’, Uddhav Thackeray calls urgent meeting

OpIndia Staff -
Minister Eknath Shinde and others reported unreachable after rumours of cross-voting in Maharashtra MLC elections on Monday.
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News Reports

Maharashtra MLC elections: Congress workers protest against own party after cross-voting leads to loss of Dalit figure

OpIndia Staff -
While the saffron party bagged 5 seats, NCP got 2, Congress got 1 and Shiv Sena secured 2 seats only in the MLC elections.
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News Reports

Sterlite Copper up for sale: Vedanta Group seeks EoI for its Thoothukudi Copper Plant that has been closed by the TN govt since 2018

OpIndia Staff -
Vedanta Group sought EoI for sale of its Sterlite Copper plant that has been closed since 2018.
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World

Former wife of Imran Khan Jemima Goldsmith shares picture of his abandoned love child Tyrian White on Father’s Day, deletes it later

OpIndia Staff -
Tyrian White was born to Imran Khan out of wedlock with Sita White, daughter of a British Industrialist.
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News Reports

Lucknow: No casteist angle in the Zomato delivery executive ‘assault’ incident as reported by media, here is what we know

OpIndia Staff -
The customer, Ajay Singh, himself belongs to the OBC (Other Backward Castes) category and hence the question of caste discrimination does not arise.
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News Reports

Pro-Khalistan author blames Hindus and Nupur Sharma saga for the attack on Sikhs in Afghanistan. Here is why he is wrong

Dibakar Dutta -
The Sikh community in Afghanistan has been victimised by Islamic terrorists for a long time.
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News Reports

Kannada actress Swathi Sathish ends up with swollen face after a botched root canal; pictures go viral

OpIndia Staff -
Swathi Sathish has accused the clinic where she underwent surgery of medical negligence and is considering taking legal action against them.
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Social Media

Days after deleting his Facebook account once his Hinduphobic posts went viral, Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair deletes dozens of tweets

OpIndia Staff -
28 Tweets have gone missing from the Twitter account of Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair
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News Reports

Did you know India has ‘Shariah Indices’ for companies, like BSE SENSEX? How ‘Islamic investment’ is thriving though RBI disallowed Islamic banking

Anurag -
India has Shariah Compliant indices in NSE and BSE, along with Mutual Funds that offer ‘Halal’ way of making investments.
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News Reports

Odisha: BJD MLA ‘forgets’ to arrive for his own wedding, fiancee says he is running a sex racket

OpIndia Staff -
An MLA of the ruling BJD in Odisha landed up in trouble after he failed to arrive at his own wedding.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Shocking mass suicide in Sangli, 9 members of a Doctor’s family found dead

OpIndia Staff -
The bodies recovered from the doctor's house include 4 males and 5 females.
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Social Media

Actress and reality shows star Mandana Karimi twerks in a burqa, draws flak from Islamists for disrespecting burqa

OpIndia Staff -
Islamists also used derogatory and misogynist labels for Mandana Karimi, including 'Nachaniya', 'Madarjat' and 'Chinaal'
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Crime

Man kills a 16-year-old girl, injures her mother after the girl denied his Facebook friend request, attempts suicide after the crime

OpIndia Staff -
In his complaint, the victim's father alleged that Ravi killed his daughter as she did not accept his friend request on Facebook.
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World

Germany to restart coal power plants to conserve natural gas: Four years ago, German leaders had laughed at Donald Trump’s warning

Jinit Jain -
Germany has decided to restart its coal power plants to conserve natural gas amid cutbacks from Russia over Ukraine war.
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News Reports

Hitler Ki Maut Marega: Veteran Congress leader Subodh Kant Sahay uses derogatory language for PM Narendra Modi

OpIndia Staff -
Shehzad Poonawalla condemned the Congress for not reprimanding its leaders for making abusive and derogatory remarks against PM Modi.
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News Reports

PIB fact-checks fake Ministry of Defence letter on the Agnipath scheme circulating online mentioning revised terms of service for recently enrolled cadres

OpIndia Staff -
Ever since the Government launched Agnipath scheme for recruitment in the Armed Forces, along with violent protests, a lot of misinformation is also being spread against the scheme
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News Reports

‘Target railways’ toolkit activated: Congress workers stop train while protesting against Rahul Gandhi’s ED questioning and Agnipath Scheme

OpIndia Staff -
Indian Youth Congress has shared the video of the ruckus they created at Delhi's busy Shivaji Bridge railway station.
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Social Media

Videos of a drunk woman abusing police, her cab driver, and creating ruckus on the road in Mumbai go viral, here is what we...

OpIndia Staff -
In one of the videos, the woman could be seen holding a Mumbai police officer by his collar and threatening him with abuses
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World

France: President Emmanuel Macron loses Parliament majority as Far-Left and Far-Right gain in French elections

OpIndia Staff -
The left alliance has emerged as the main opposition for Emmanuel Macron winning 131 seats while Le Pen's Rally Party has jumped from 8 to 89 seats.
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News Reports

‘Muslim girl above 16 is competent to marry any person of choice’: Punjab and Haryana HC cites Sharia to justify child marriage

OpIndia Staff -
The Court said a Muslim marriage is governed by the Muslim personal law, which allows marriage above the age of 16.
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News Reports

Buy one, get one free: Congress holds 2-in-1 dharna at Jantar Mantar, read details

Jhankar Mohta -
The Congress is protesting against ED's questioning of Rahul Gandhi and the Centre's Agnipath Recruitment Scheme.
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News Reports

Al Jazeera spreads fake news over Maulvi’s death in Bihar, blames Hindus while local reports suggest family’s property dispute

OpIndia Staff -
Al Jazeera spread fake news about murder of Maulvi in Bihar. Blamed Hindus for the murder.
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Opinions

Finding Manaf: The Kaushik Basu syndrome that is plaguing the country like a storm

Nirwa Mehta -
But at least we got one learning. That when it comes to saving the dignity of women, chaiwallahs are the ones who are rising to occasion.
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News Reports

Islamist raise pro-Pakistan slogans to greet AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi at Ranchi airport: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
As per Times Now, multiple people may have been involved in the anti-national sloganeering.
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News Reports

Mahindra Group will welcome skilled and trained Agniveers after 4 years in Armed Forces: Anand Mahindra

OpIndia Staff -
Anand Mahindra announced that Mahindra Group will be interested to hire skilled Agniveers after 4 years in the Armed Forces.
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News Reports

Karnataka: Over 30 Congress workers detained by police ahead of PM Modi’s visit, were planning to ‘Gherao’ the PM

OpIndia Staff -
Karnataka Police detained 30 KPCC workers planning to Gherao the PM ahead of PM Modi's 2-day visit to the state.
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World

Washington: 15-year-old dead, 3 injured including a police officer in yet another mass shooting, here is what we know so far

OpIndia Staff -
The shooting occurred during the Moechella event, a music festival conducted to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved African Americans (Juneteenth).
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News Reports

Was Manmohan Singh lobbying for an individual during coal block allocation? Rasheed Kidwai claims so in his latest column

OpIndia Staff -
Rasheed Kidwai wrote, "When the Congress-led UPA was in power at the Centre, telephone calls and oral messages from Vora and Ahmed Patel carried more weight than those of the Prime Minister’s Office."
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News Reports

Centre bans 35 WhatsApp groups for spreading misinformation on Agnipath scheme, 10 arrested for fake news

OpIndia Staff -
The govt is tracking people spreading misinformation on the Agnipath scheme, and banned 35 WhatsApp groups
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News Reports

Muzaffarnagar: Insult to the National Song in municipal council meeting, 4 burqa-clad women remain seated as the house stands in honour of Vande Mataram

OpIndia Staff -
In the video, it is seen that when Vande Mataram is being played, all the councilors are standing in honour of the national song but 4 burqa clad women are sitting.
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