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Ummah over India: From AltNews’ Zubair to WaPo columnist Rana Ayyub to Al Qaeda, how things escalated from defaming India to terror attack threats

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As terror attack threat by Islamist terror group Al Qaeda looms over our head, here is how the trigger can be traced to AltNews cofounder Mohammed Zubair and Washington Post columnist Rana Ayyub amongst other Islamists.
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News Reports

In dire need of wheat, Egypt seeks $500 million from World Bank for its food program, to buy 5 lakh tonnes from India

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Egypt, the largest importer of Wheat globally, imports over 62% of its total annual wheat needs.
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News Reports

Snip, snip, snip: AltNews cofounder Zubair shares selective portions of a debate, had earlier dog-whistled against Nupur Sharma

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Journalist Pradeep Bhandari accuses Alt News cofounder Md Zubair of sharing edited clip of his show on India News
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News Reports

Kashi Vishwanath Temple gets a golden makeover: Gold plating of temple shikhara and door frames completed, restoration of outer artistic walls underway

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An anonymous donor had donated 60 kgs of gold to the Kashi Vishwanath temple months before the inauguration of the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor in December 2021.
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News Reports

‘US could have benefited in Afghanistan if Gilgit-Baltistan was in India and Balochisatan was independent’: Republican politician Bob Lancia

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Bob Lancia said that if Gilgit-Baltistan was in India, Balochisatan was independent, US could have use those regions to supply US troops in Afghanistan
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World

American woman who led all-women battalion for ISIS, planned bomb attacks with ‘maximum possible violence’, pleads guilty to terrorism

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Allison Fluke-Ekren provided more than 100 women and girls including the ones aged as young as 10-years-old with military training on behalf of the ISIS. Her main job was teaching women and children to use AK-47s, grenades, and suicide vests.
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News Reports

Sri Lankan photographer who clicked image of ex-PM Rajiv Gandhi being assaulted by a sailor in Colombo passes away

OpIndia Staff -
Sena Vidanagama worked as an official photographer for many global news agencies, including the AFP French News Service.
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News Reports

Karnataka: Mysore archaeological survey report from 1935 says Anjaneya temple was razed to build Jamia Masjid in Srirangapatna

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The then ruler of Mysore and Srirangapatna, Tipu Sultan had demolished several temples to build mosques in the area. "Jumma Masjid was constructed by Tipu Sultan on top of the Anjaneya temple after filling up latter's ground floor," the old archaeological report had stated.
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News Reports

Jahangirpuri: Hindus expose lies of The Wire, say they would have been killed if Police were not there

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Hindus of Jahangirpuri exposed lies of The Wire, saying the violence was one sided, so action against criminals looks 'one sided' too. They say that Hindus are living in fear from the local Muslims who operate illegal junkyard businesses on encroached land.
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Social Media

New York artist gets two ceramic bowls stuck and entire Twitter has come forward to help her, 4 days and counting since netizens got...

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A small ceramic bowl gets stuck inside a big ceramic bowl and refuses to get unstuck - Twitter users come together to help the New York based artist out.
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News Reports

‘Hindus worship idols, they are dirty’: Muslim boy exposes teachings of Madarsas in Bangladesh

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Muslim children in Bangladesh Madarsas are being taught to hate Hindus.
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News Reports

Gyanvapi survey: Judge who ordered sealing of spot where Shivling was found inside disputed structure gets threats, read details

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Last month, a Shivling was found submerged in the wuzukhana, the place where people who offer namaz, the Islamic prayer, clean their dirty hands and feet and gargle water as a cleansing ritual, inside the complex where the disputed structure called 'Gyanvapi mosque' is.
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News Reports

Al Qaeda threatens suicide attacks in India days after AltNews’ Zubair dog-whistled Islamists against Nupur Sharma

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Al Qaeda said, “We shall kill those who affront our Prophet and we shall bind explosives with our bodies and the bodies of our children to blow away the those who dishonor our Prophet."
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News Reports

Hyderabad gang-rape: AIMIM MLA’s son named as accused, arrested

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The 17-year-old minor girl was gang-raped in a car reportedly owned by a TRS leader in Telangana's capital, Hyderabad.
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News Reports

4 days after Kanpur violence, BJP youth leader arrested for comments on Prophet Muhammad

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Harshit Srivastava, a BJP youth wing functionary, was arrested by the Kanpur police over allegedly inflammatory tweets.
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News Reports

Prophet Muhammad row: Actor Kangana Ranaut backs Nupur Sharma, says she is ‘entitled to her opinions’

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Nupur Sharma was suspended from BJP amid criticism from Arab countries for quoting Islamic Hadiths on Prophet Muhammad
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News Reports

Violence erupts during PFI protest march to Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan’s residence over arrests made in Alappuzha hate speech row

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In a PFI rally at Alappuzha, a Muslim boy had chanted slogans calling for death of Hindus and Christians.
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News Reports

Kolkata Police arrests vlogger Roddur Roy from Goa for ‘derogatory’ remarks against Mamata Banerjee, Abhishek Banerjee

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YouTuber Roddur Roy was arrested by the Kolkata Police in Goa on Tuesday after TMC leader Riju Dutta filed a police complaint against him.
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News Reports

‘Bag containing money sent to CM Pinarayi Vijayan in Dubai’: Swapna Suresh says she has more to reveal in Kerala Gold scam case, alleges...

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Swapna Suresh revealed that in 2016 a bag containing currency notes was sent to CM Pinarayi Vijayan when he was in Dubai
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News Reports

Why did the government act the way it did in the Nupur Sharma episode

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Following BJP's decision to suspend Nupur Sharma, the party leadership including Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been getting a lot of flak from the party's supporters
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News Reports

Brits wave at the hologram of Queen Elizabeth; Prince Harry and Meghan Markle booed: How the UK is celebrating Queen’s 70 years

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The people in the crowd were seen cheering and waving back at the hologram of Queen Elizabeth as it passed through the streets of London
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News Reports

ED raids premises of AAP minister Satyendra Jain, recovers over 2.8 crore cash, 133 gold coins

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The officials stated that the raids, including that at the residential premises of Jain in Delhi and other locations, were being conducted as part of a follow up in the case.
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News Reports

Jamia Millia: Islamists and Leftist students bar ABVP from holding awareness event on waste management, shut campus gates amid chants of ‘Allah-hu-Akbar’

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CFI and DISSC members stopped ABVP members from holding an event on environment claiming the speakers would give 'provocative speech'.
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Opinions

As support for Nupur Sharma grows, an old video of her debating fiercely with Arnab Goswami goes viral: What it says about her

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An old video of Nupur Sharma debating fiercely with Arnab Goswami has been going viral on the internet.
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Opinions

Many Hindus still think what Nupur Sharma said was ‘unnecessary’: Here is a necessary read for them

Nupur J Sharma -
On the 5th of June, BJP suspended the now-former spokesperson of the party, Nupur Sharma, after certain Muslim countries started getting irate about certain comments she had made during a debate
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News Reports

Rape crimes haunt Hyderabad: After the gang-rape of the 17-year-old by kin of AIMIM and TRS leaders, 4 more cases come to the fore

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While the nation continues to be shaken by the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl in the Jubliee Hills area in Hyderabad, four more rape incidents, have been reported in Telangana's capital city.
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News Reports

Six RSS offices including those in Lucknow and Unnao receive bomb threats via Whatsapp, accused Raj Mohammad arrested in Tamil Nadu

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The Tamil Nadu police have nabbed a man named Raj Mohammed who had, on Monday, June 6, sent threatening messages to blow up 6 RSS offices.
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Featured

If any action was taken against Saba Naqvi, Mahua Moitra, or even Economic Times for mocking Shivling, the entire Nupur Sharma episode wouldn’t have...

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Apart from the usual anonymous trolls on Twitter, several "blue ticked" handles joined in to mock Shivling and the Hindu beliefs.
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News Reports

Hyderabad gang rape: Accused had misbehaved with another girl on the same day, their families pressurising victim’s kins to drop charges

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The Hyderabad gang rape accused's family attempted to negotiate with the victim's family through a few influential people, but the survivor's family has been steadfast
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Crime

Maharashtra: 22-year-old Nusrat Imran Qureshi killed for dowry in Jalna, in-laws arrested, 7 others booked

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Nusrat got married to Imran Qureshi in March 2022. After a month or so, the victim's in-laws began to harass her for dowry.
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News Reports

Samajwadi Party sacks Student Wing leader Ankur Yadav for supporting Nupur Sharma

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Samajwadi Party sacked Student Wing leader Ankur Sharma for a FB post supporting Nupur Sharma
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News Reports

Canada: Ex-NHL player calls Toronto Pearson Airport ‘worst place on earth’, was stuck for a day due to delays and mismanagement

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According to Toronto airport authorities, the problem has arisen due to understaffing of management at a time when the terminal is seeing approximately 45,000 international arrivals in a day.
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Crime

West Bengal: Sariful Sheikh chops off wife’s hand to prevent her from taking up a government job, hides severed body part so that doctors cannot...

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A 26-year-old man identified as Sariful Sheikh alias Sher Mohammed chopped off his wife's right hand to prevent her from taking up a government job in West Bengal
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News Reports

Maharashtra: ‘Nupur Sharma deserves the same fate as Kamlesh Tiwari, needs to be silenced’, say MDP chief and Islamic leaders

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"Kamlesh Tiwari was executed years after he made objectionable comments on Prophet Muhammad. People stabbed him to death. Don't think you'll (Sharma) be forgiven. Do not ever play with the 1100 volt current", Mohammad Hamid threatened.
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu YouTuber threatens Delhi Police after spreading fake news on HM Amit Shah and former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma

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Savukku Shankar had alleged that HM Amit Shah congratulated Nupur Sharma over her remarks on Prophet Muhammad
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News Reports

Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders supports Nupur Sharma, cautions India against appeasement of Islamic countries

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Geert Wilders, known for his vocal stand against Islamic ideology in The Netherlands, has stated that what Nupur Sharma stated about Prophet Muhammad is the truth and India should not apologise for it.
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Social Media

Crossover we never imagined: Indonesian filmmaker shares Jethalal gif while speaking about S S Rajamouli’s RRR, read details

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Jethalal OP. This is not the first time Jethalal has gone international.
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News Reports

Washington Post reporter who got away with racism against Indians gets suspended over sexist tweet

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Washington Post suspended reporter David Weigel over a sexist RT. Weigel had got away with racist comments against Indians last year.
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News Reports

Shiv Sena MLAs shifted to a hotel in Mumbai ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls

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The Shiv Sena members were removed to a resort in Malad ahead of Rajya Sabha elections on June 10.
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World

Iraq sentences a British geologist to 15 years in jail for smuggling ancient artefacts, his family says he had ‘no idea it was a...

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A retired British geologist was sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Iraq court on Monday for attempting to smuggle ancient artefacts out of the country
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News Reports

Mumbai Police to summon Nupur Sharma over her alleged ‘blasphemous’ remarks against Prophet Muhammad

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Mumbai Police is going to summon former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma over her alleged blasphemous remarks against Prophet Muhammad and record her statement.
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News Reports

Elon Musk slams Twitter for “resisting and thwarting” his right to information about fake accounts, warns of dropping deal

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Elon Musk has alleged that Twitter is withholding information about active fake accounts on its platform from him.
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Social Media

Shaitan ki behen and ‘Qaafir’: US lawmaker Ilhan Omar faces attacks from Islamists on Social Media for celebrating ‘Pride Month’

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US lawmaker Ilhan Omar was called Shaitan ke Behen and Qaafir for supporting LGBTQ community
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News Reports

Punjab: Hindu organisations protest against growing population of Muslims in Batala; cite the increased crime rate and incidents of eve-teasing

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Hindu Organizations take action against Muslim shopkeepers who were allegedly indulged in eve-teasing in Batala, Punjab
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News Reports

Kanpur violence: UP police releases poster of 40 suspects, had earlier released the names of 36 rioters with Samajwadi Party leader Nizam Qureshi among...

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The Kanpur police on Monday released a poster of 40 suspects involved in the clash that took place on June 3
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Tamil Nadu BJP hits out at DMK MP for his casteist ‘Hindi will make people shudras’ remark

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DMK MP said that Hindi is the language of under-developed states, and it is only spoken in under-developed states like UP, MP, Rajasthan, and Bihar.
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News Reports

‘Why have you come here, to stir conflict?’: Odisha villagers deny entry to ‘activist’ Medha Patkar to area of proposed Jindal steel plant

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The so-called 'environmental activist' who is often accused of stalling infrastructure projects through campaigns, was stopped by Dhinkia villagers from entering the village and was sent back.
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News Reports

Turkey-based organisation that hailed Talibani terrorists and Palestinian jihadists behind Twitter storm over anti-India remarks on Prophet Muhammad

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The IOSPI was the first one to tweet that later went on to become a Twitter storm over remarks on Prophet Muhammad
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News Reports

“Agla Chief Minister NCP se hoga”, says Dhananjay Munde. Congress calls it ‘daydreaming’

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NCP has the 2nd largest number of MLAs among MVA members, and controls several important portfolios like Finance Ministry and Home Ministry.
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News Reports

Hyderabad gang rape case: Waqf board leader’s car was taken to a farmhouse, was wiped clean to destroy evidence, say reports

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The five accused had tried to destroy evidence of the crime by wiping off the white Innova car, in which the 17-year-old girl was raped in Hyderabad, as per reports.
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