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Krishna Janmabhoomi: Mathura Court rules that Places of Worship Act is not applicable to suit seeking removal of Shahi Idgah

OpIndia Staff -
Mathura court said that Places of Worship Act, 1991 is “not applicable” in Krishna Janmabhoomi - Shahi Idgah case as per section 4(3)(b) of the act
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News Reports

Aurangzeb’s descendants living in abject poverty: Wife of Mughal ‘prince’ lives in Howrah slum, survives on govt pension

OpIndia Staff -
As the debate over Mughal tyrant Aurangzeb's destruction of Kashi Vishwanath Mandir rages on, an image of one of the last surviving Mughals has gone viral.
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News Reports

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu finally surrenders, heads to Patiala jail

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Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu has finally surrendered in the road rage case where he was sentenced to 1-year imprisonment.
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News Reports

Gyanvapi case: ‘Diamond was embedded in the Shivling found in the structure, extracted after possession’, says lawyer of the Hindu side

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On top of original Shivling in Gyanvapi structure there was a place to keep diamonds, said advocate Harishankar Jain
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News Reports

‘Gyanvapi not a mosque, property vests with deity Adi Vishweshwar since time immemorial’: Hindu side in SC

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According to the submissions, the property has belonged to Adi Vishweshwar for centuries and centuries, even before the Islamic rule in India
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Nihal Khan hides religion and traps physiotherapist into relationship, refuses to marry unless she converts to Islam, case registered

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FIR filed against one Nihal Khan for trapping a Hindu woman hiding his identity, and then refusing to marry unless she converts to Islam
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News Reports

“Farmers know they received money in their accounts”: R Madhavan hails PM Modi’s push for micro-economy at Cannes, says this is ‘new India’

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At Cannes, R Madhavan lavished praises on PM Modi for the country's embrace of digital economy
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News Reports

Over 1200 people turn up for Namaz at Gyanvapi, enter through the gate of Kashi Vishwanath Temple, police on alert

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Now that Shivling has been reportedly discovered inside Gyanvapi Mosque, a large number of people came to offer Namaz on Friday.
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News Reports

Gyanvapi case: SC says Places of Worship Act does not bar determining the religious character of a place, refuses to overturn orders

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Supreme Court refused to overturn Varanasi court's orders directing survey of Gyanvapi mosque and subsequent sealilng
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Opinions

Bhojshala: An educational centre and a historic temple of Goddess Saraswati. How it became the Kamal Maulana mosque

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Alauddin Khilji massacred 1200 Hindu students and teachers at Bhojshala for refusing to convert to Islam, and demolished the temple complex.
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News Reports

Bengal SSC Scam: TMC Education Minister Paresh Adhikari’s ‘teacher’ daughter loses job, Court orders refund of tenure salary

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Paresh Adhikari was summoned by CBI for illegally recruiting teachers in government-aided schools and also for allotting job to his daughter
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News Reports

Rajasthan HC grants interim relief to Arnab Goswami on Pawan Khera’s complaint over a news show on temple demolition in Alwar

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Rajasthan HC Friday granted interim protection from arrest to Arnab Goswami in a case registered against him by Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera
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Crime

2019 Hyderabad rape and murder case: Supreme Court says police encounter of criminals was fake, cops should be tried for murder

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SC appointed panel on Friday said that the four accused of gang-rape and murder of a 27-year-old veterinarian, who was killed in a police encounter in Hyderabad were "deliberately fired upon with an intent to cause their death".
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News Reports

Calcutta HC orders CBI-NIA probe into forceful conversions in Malda: VHP demands a strong anti-conversion law

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There have been allegations of explosives in this incident. Therefore, CBI and NIA have been given the responsibility to jointly probe the incident.
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News Reports

Rajdeep Sardesai outraged during Hardik Patel’s ‘exit interview’, asks him who dictated the resignation letter to him

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'Journalist' Rajdeep Sardesai appeared to take exit interview of Hardik Patel as the latter resigned from the Congress party.
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News Reports

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu seeks more time to surrender after being sentenced for homicide in road rage case, CJI refuses to entertain plea

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Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu killed a man in a road rage case back in the 1980s.
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News Reports

Assam: School headmistress arrested for serving beef to staff members during annual Gunotsav evaluation of the school

OpIndia Staff -
The headmistress of a school in Assam was booked and arrested after she brought cooked beef and served it to staff members
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh assembly set to go paperless under national E-Vidhan project, installs 416 tablets for members

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The paperless digital assembly will be inaugurated on May 20 at the hands of Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. He would also launch a new app for the Assembly.
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News Reports

‘Elladaru Iru, Enthadaru Iru’: Canadian MP Chandra Arya speaks in Kannada in Canadian Parliament, wins hearts

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Chandra Arya, who was re-elected to the Parliament in the 2019 federal election, shared a video of him speaking in his mother tongue Kannada.
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News Reports

Kanpur: Pakistani national sold Ram Janki temple land to Mukhtar Baba who razed it, converted it to ‘Baba Biryani’, action initiated under Enemy Property Act

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Mukhtar Baba demolished the Ram Janki temple in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh and erected a non-veg restaurant named Baba Biryani on the temple site
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News Reports

Advocates Hari Shankar Jain and Vishnu Shankar Jain: The father-son duo devoted to the cause of reclaiming occupied Hindu sites

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There are as many as 102 cases in which either or both Vishnu Shankar Jain and Hari Shankar Jain have represented the Hindu side in courts.
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News Reports

Gyanvapi dispute: Masjid committee appeals people not to crowd the site for Friday prayers, 2000 litres water, 50 mugs arranged for Wuzu

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The Anjuman Intizamia Masajid committee Varanasi has asked people not to crowd the mosque for Friday namaz.
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News Reports

Here is why the Haryana govt cancelled the licence of the company Sky Light Hospitality, owned by Robert Vadra

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BJP-led-Haryana govt cancelled licence of Sky Light Hospitality Pvt Ltd, company owned by Robert Vadra for real estate development
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Crime

Madhya Pradesh: Bulldozer runs on illegal houses of Farhan, Junaid, Sohail, and others who attacked a Dalit groom’s wedding procession

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The Rajgarh district authorities carried out anti-encroachment drive in Jirapur Mataji and razed down illegal homes after a mob attacked baraat of a Dalit
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News Reports

Mumbai: BMC floats tender for 12.8 crores Urdu Centre at Mazgaon ahead of elections, ignores Marathi medium teachers protesting for 4 months over jobs

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Urdu Centre is the brainchild of the Shivsena party who announced its construction last year and had made a monetary provision of Rs 1.5 crore in the budget.
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World

Pakistan bans imports of luxury goods as Pakistani Rupee plummets to an all-time low against the US Dollar

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PM Shehbaz Sharif claimed that the ban on imports of luxury products will save foreign exchange for Pakistan.
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News Reports

Reality of Rahul Gandhi at ‘Cambridge University event’: Organisers, partner outfit stuffed with Congress leaders, Oxfam and Amnesty connections

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The impression that one gets from the poster is that the Rahul Gandhi event has been organised by the University of Cambridge.
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News Reports

Sufi Islamic Board says PFI operates on instructions of Al-Qaeda, instigating Indian Muslims to become radicals

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Sufi Islamic Board had also alleged that the PFI is backed by terrorist organisations and is running 'schools' to radicalise Muslim youths to carry out jihad.
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News Reports

Former Punjab Congress chief Navjot Sidhu to surrender before Patiala court after SC orders one-year jail term in 1988 road rage case

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The Supreme Court of India sentenced Sidhu to one year in jail for a 1987 road rage case on Thursday.
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News Reports

Karnataka: Melkote temple administration writes to Muzrai department seeking name change of ‘Salaam Aarti’ ritual that was imposed by Tipu Sultan

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Many Hindu activist groups and devotees had recently urged the district administration to change the name of 'Salaam Aarti' ritual to 'Sandhya Aarti' at the Melkote temple in Mandya.
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News Reports

Land for jobs scam: CBI raids multiple locations linked to Lalu Yadav and Misa Bharti, Lalu’s tenure as Railway Minister under probe

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India Today reported that the case is linked to a 'land for job scam' wherein jobs were offered in exchange for lands and plots when Lalu was the Railways Minister.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Congress MLA Praniti Shinde warns NCP Minister Datta Bharne for diverting water from Solapur to Baramati & Indapur

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Congress MLA Praniti Shinde opposes Mahararashtra govt's decision to give Ujani dam water Indapur and Baramati
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News Reports

Bodies reappear in Ganga, proving that last year’s media claims of bodies in the river due to unaccounted Covid deaths were wrong

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There is a sharp decline in Covid-19 cases this year, still there are dead bodies seen in Ganga and on its banks
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News Reports

China slams US Under Secretary Uzra Zeya’s meeting with Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, calls it interference in internal affairs

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China condemns US Under Secretary Uzra Zeya's meeting with the 14th Dalai Lama in Dharamshala in India
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News Reports

Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw makes test 5G call, services to be launched soon using made-in-India 5Gi stack that has been adopted by global telecom...

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After the launch of 5G testbed in the country, telecom minister Ashwini Vaishnaw makes test 5G call at IIT Madras
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News Reports

Leftist media portal The Wire journalist claims Red Fort sold off to Dalmia Group, here is how she is wrong

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Sumedha Pal, working for the leftist propaganda website The Wire has asserted that the Modi govt 'sold' off the iconic Red Fort to the Dalmia Group
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News Reports

Delhi HC strikes down Arvind Kejriwal’s doorstep ration delivery scheme, says Delhi govt can’t use centre’s foodgrain for own scheme

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Delhi HC said that Delhi govt can run the scheme using its own foodgrain, but can't use foodgrain under National Food Security Act.
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News Reports

Odisha government renovates the Tara Tarini Shakti Peetha: Here are some stunning pictures from the majestic riverside temple

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The Maa Tara Tarini Temple in Odisha, one of the ancient Shakti Peethas in the country, has gone through a complete transformation.
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Entertainment

Bollywood, the pretence that they don’t even see the success of South Indian cinema and how the wheels are turning

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Ajay Devgn might cook up a verbal brawl with Kannada star Kiccha Sudeep on Twitter over Hindi being a superior language so everyone must learn it but the incident only reinstates brewing insecurity amongst these elitist celebrities
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News Reports

A love jihad victim, who had accused one Akram Qureshi of ‘trapping’ her by faking his identity and forcing her to convert to Islam,...

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32-year-old grooming jihad victim named Neetu Yadav was found dead in her house Loni, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
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News Reports

USA: Crampton Brophy, author of ‘How to murder your husband’ is on trial for murdering her husband

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American author Crampton Brophy, the author of "How To Murder Your Husband", is accused of killing her 63-year-old husband, Daniel Brophy.
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News Reports

‘He enticed victim when she was 13’: In a Grooming Jihad case, Allahabad HC rejects bail of Anwar Ali who forced a minor to...

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Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court recognised the menace of Grooming Jihad and rejected the bail plea of a married Muslim man who lured a Hindu minor girl
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News Reports

Former Punjab Congress Chief Sunil Jakhar joins BJP, says ‘Congress supports casteism, BJP offers equality’

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The 68-year-old Punjab politician had announced his shock resignation from the grand old party on May 14.
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News Reports

Apple adopts UPI for payments and subscriptions for India market, will no longer use credit and debit cards

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In a recent communication with Apple products users, the company has asked them to shift to UPI or Net Banking for payments.
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News Reports

Europe, US on alert over detection of Monkeypox cases: What is the virus, symptoms and its transmission across the globe

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Several cases of Monkeypox infection have been reported from various countries in Europe, raising concerns
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News Reports

As Subramanian Swamy targets Modi govt for not repealing Places of Worship Act, read how he had supported it in parliament while BJP had...

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Supporting the Places of Worship Act, Subramanian Swamy had questioned the claim of Ram Jannmabhoomi
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News Reports

‘Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra’: Ajmer’s oldest mosque stands over the ruins of a Sanskrit pathshala with Hindu and Jain temple features

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Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra Mosque was built on a Sanskrit College and Saraswati Temple site. It used temple materials of around 25-30 Hindu and Jain temples
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Government and Policy

‘Bhagwan Sri Krishna Virajman’: Mathura district court reverses civil court order, allows petition seeking removal Shahi Idgah disputed structure

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Mathura court Thursday allowed the plea to seal the disputed structure of the Shahi Idgah Mosque over the Krishna Janmabhoomi land.
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News Reports

Supreme Court awards one-year jail term to Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu in 1988 road rage case

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Supreme Court reverses its order on Navjot Singh Sidhu in 1988 road rage case, sends him to jail for one year
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News Reports

Yasin Malik convicted by special NIA court for terror funding activities in Jammu and Kashmir, charged under UAPA

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Yasin Malik pleaded guilty to all charges, including those under the stringent Unlawful Activities and Prevention Act (UAPA).
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