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‘Hindu terror’ proponent Digvijaya Singh floats new conspiracy theory after stone pelting attacks on Hindu festivals

OpIndia Staff -
Digvijaya Singh accuses BJP of hiring poor Muslims to pelt stones on Hindu festivals, says the claim is not verified
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News Reports

US senator writes to Elon Musk, demands third party audit into past censorship attempts by Twitter. Here is what he said

OpIndia Staff -
"The American people deserve to know the truth about what went on at Twitter for years behind closed doors," Josh Hawley remarked.
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World

Donald Trump’s Truth Social beats Twitter and TikTok on Apple Store

OpIndia Staff -
Truth Social was announced by former US President Donald Trump after he was deplatformed from Twitter following the Capitol Hill siege last year.
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News Reports

Karauli violence: Rajasthan govt attaches property of 4 accused, including Rajaram Gurjar and Saheb Singh Gurjar

OpIndia Staff -
Congress-led Rajasthan government started the process to attach properties of four Karauli violence accused including Rajaram Gurjar and Saheb Singh Gurjar.
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News Reports

Twitter’s top lawyer Vijaya Gadde cries during internal meeting, Elon Musk slams censorship of Hunter Biden laptop story

OpIndia Staff -
Elon Musk called Twitter censorship of NYP over Hunter Biden story 'incredibly inappropriate' .
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News Reports

Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan scraps discretionary quota of MPs for 2022-23 admissions, offers COVID-19 orphans seats over and above class strength

OpIndia Staff -
The MP quota allowed a parliamentarian to recommend a maximum of 10 students from their respective constituencies for admission in classes 1 to 9 of Kendriya Vidyalayas.
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News Reports

Elon Musk mocks ‘wokes’ again after Twitter takeover, calls censoring of Hunter Biden story ‘incredibly inappropriate’

OpIndia Staff -
"I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law," Elon Musk had emphasised.
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Editor's picks

Muslim Personal Law Board says Uniform Civil Code is unacceptable to Muslims, read details

OpIndia Staff -
AIMPLB alleged that Uniform civil code issue has been brought up to divert attention from real issues and promote an agenda of hatred and discrimination
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News Reports

‘Would have attacked PM Modi too if he had challenged us like Kirit Somaiya’: Shiv Sena leader Dipali Sayyed

OpIndia Staff -
Deepali Sayyed brazened out attack against Kirit Somaiya, saying the car would have been attacked even if PM Modi were in it.
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News Reports

Congress panel recommends suspension of Ex-PPCC chief Sunil Jakhar, removal of KV Thomas from all party positions for anti-party activities

OpIndia Staff -
Congress Disciplinary Committee served Sunil Jakhar, KV Thomas, and the five Meghalaya MLAs with a show-cause notice, asking them to explain why action should not be taken against them
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News Reports

Foreign-based organisations linked to Pakistan and ISI lobbying against India on global forums, reveals Disinfo Lab report

OpIndia Staff -
The report says lobbyist and organisations backed by Pakistan influenced UNSCRIF’s decision to add India to the list of ‘Country of Particular Concern'
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News Reports

West Bengal: Police use water cannon to disperse BJP protest rally against Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government

OpIndia Staff -
West Bengal police Tuesday, used water cannons to disperse BJP workers who participated in protest rally against TMC government
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Tech

Google turns woke, launches ‘prompts’ to suggest ‘politically correct’ words

OpIndia Staff -
Google has launched new feature 'prompts' which suggests users to use words that are "politically correct".
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News Reports

Love Jihad in MP: Illegal house of Imran who feigned as Raju to marry a Hindu girl demolished; his brother and a Maulana had...

OpIndia Staff -
The Love Jihad victim revealed that Imran’s family had forced her into prostitution and she was raped by multiple men.
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Editor's picks

Did Prashant Kishor just refuse to be Gandhis’ scapegoat for the 2024 Lok Sabha loss?

Amit Kelkar -
Declining the offer, Prashant Kishor said, "I declined the generous offer of #congress to join the party as part of the EAG & take responsibility for the elections."
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World

Watch: Hijab-clad woman blows up a van carrying Confuscious Institute director Ding Mupeng and 3 others in Karachi attack

OpIndia Staff -
The victims of Karachi attack include Huang Guiping, director of Confucius Institute, two other Chinese citizens—Ding Mupeng and Chen Sa.
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News Reports

‘Too much English on sets, scripts should be in Devanagari’: Nawazuddin Siddiqui criticises lack of Hindi in the Hindi film industry in viral video

OpIndia Staff -
The actor stated that the movie scripts that are printed in English should be printed in Devnagri and that all the actors should demand script in Hindi language.
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Politics

Disgruntled Navjot Singh Sidhu posts selfie with ‘old friend’ Prashant Kishor hours after poll strategist rejected Congress’ offer to join party

OpIndia Staff -
Sidhu was asked to resign from the post of Punjab Congress chief after the 2022 state assembly elections where Aam Aadmi Party won the elections.
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World

Tucker Carlson, censored for referring transgender woman as a man, returns to Twitter after Elon Musk takeover

OpIndia Staff -
Tucker Carlson was censored on Twitter for referring to Assistant health secretary of US, a transgender woman, as a man
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News Reports

Sanjay Raut defends his call for burying the Ranas 20ft deep, accepts it as an open death threat: Here is what he said

OpIndia Staff -
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut has gone on record to defend his call for burying MP Navneet Rana and MLA Ravi Rana 20 feet deep after the Hanuman Chalisa row in Mumbai.
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News Reports

Bhima-Koregaon violence: Bombay HC dismisses plea filed by ‘Urban Naxal’ Gautam Navlakha seeking transfer from Tiloja jail to house arrest

OpIndia Staff -
Bombay HC dismissed a petition filed by Gautam Navlakha seeking to be removed from Tiloja jail and put under house arrest instead
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World

Greenpeace activists chain themselves to a Russian oil tanker in protest, officials clarify the oil was bought before Russian sanctions

OpIndia Staff -
The tanker in question was the Ust Luga tanker parked at the Aasgaardstrand harbor in Norway carrying Russian oil.
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News Reports

Sacked Assistant Professor from Lovely Professional University apologizes for Hinduphobic remarks, claims she was ‘depressed’

OpIndia Staff -
Former LPU assistant professor Gursang Preet Kaur apologized for her derogatory remarks against Bhagwan Ram in a Facebook post.
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News Reports

7 Indian sailors rescued by the Indian government from Houthis’ captivity in Yemen reach India, thank PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
The rescued sailors finally reached Delhi on 26th of April after a nearly 4 months-long ordeal in Yemen.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Explosion near Karachi University, 4 including 2 Chinese nationals dead. Here is what we know so far

OpIndia Staff -
Gulshan SP informed that a probe has been launched to determine whether the attack was an accident or a terror attack.
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News Reports

Poll strategist Prashant Kishor rejects Congress’ offer to join party after giving 600 slide presentation on how to revive it

OpIndia Staff -
Days after giving suggestions to Congress on how to stop itself from vanishing into oblivion, Prashant Kishor rejected party's offer to join it officially.
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News Reports

Govt of India gets Netflix on board to tell stories of Indian women who faced incredible odds to set examples

OpIndia Staff -
Netflix and the I&B Ministry also plan to organize training workshops and masterclasses to encourage filmmakers in India to create inspiring content on various topics under Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.
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News Reports

The region is a ticking time bomb of illegal immigrants, criminal activities and radicalisation: Fact-finding report on Jahangirpuri violence

OpIndia Staff -
The fact finding team of GIA observed that Jahangirpuri is a crime-prone area due to thriving encroachment and illegal trade
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Opinions

Mehdi Hasan, who ranted against non-Muslims, goes on a tirade against Modi and Hindutva, but his propaganda was impeccable: Here is why

Nupur J Sharma -
A classic example of the perfect Goebbels-esque propaganda was the recent diatribe by Mehdi Hasan in MSNBC
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Man playing music on Bluetooth speaker in his own house booked for playing ‘loudspeaker’ in front of a mosque during Azaan time

OpIndia Staff -
Kishore Malkunaik who works as a Railway Sub-Inspector has been booked under IPC sections 505 (B) and (C) intending to incite any class or community of persons to commit any offence against any other class or community and Maharashtra Police clause 135.
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Featured

Which part of the ‘rules-based order’ justifies what the world did in Afghanistan: Dr Jaishankar shows the mirror to the West once again

OpIndia Staff -
Dr Jaishankar pointed out how Europe simply advised India to just do more trade when the same rules-based order was under threat in Asia.
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News Reports

Andhra Pradesh: Islamists attack Hanuman Shoba Yatra in Nellore with beer bottles; BJP demands ‘bulldozer justice’ against miscreants

OpIndia Staff -
The Islamists in Nellore threw beer bottles and displayed uncivilised gestures to Hindus during Hanuman Shobha Yatra
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World

Wokes in India and elsewhere proceed to lose their minds after Elon Musk buys out Twitter

OpIndia Staff -
The cabal, which actively censors individuals for not toeing their line of speech under the pretext of hate, is now threatened by their sudden loss of power.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh govt orders removal of illegal loudspeakers from religious places including mosques across state

OpIndia Staff -
While Eid and the Hindu festival of Akshaya Tritiya are likely to fall on the same day in May, The CM has directed that usage of loudspeakers should not inconvenience others during religious processions of any kind, which should not be taken out without police permission.
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Social Media

Donald Trump not returning to Twitter even after Musk’s takeover, will stick to his personal platform TRUTH Social

OpIndia Staff -
"Twitter became very boring because conservatives were thrown off or got off the platform when I left," Donald Trump complained.
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News Reports

Kerala university distributes answer key instead of question papers to students, Governor seeks report over major exam goof-ups

OpIndia Staff -
Reportedly, none of the students during the exam had reported that they were given the answer keys of 'Signals and Systems' instead of question papers.
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News Reports

Goa Electricity Board’s Twitter account shows the human behind the handle, winning hearts and empathy during a power outage

OpIndia Staff -
The staffer handling the Twitter account of the Goa Electricity Department won hearts on the platform recently, for taking the effort to constantly update consumers about power restoration works after a massive outage.
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News Reports

Jharkhand: Cricketer MS Dhoni’s wife raises voice against power crisis in state

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, the coal crisis in power plants has power crisis in Jharkhand because of which load shedding is done in many parts of the state.
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News Reports

Twitter locks source code, to only allow critical updates temporarily. Here is what we know so far

OpIndia Staff -
Disclose.Tv, claimed that Twitter employees have added an empty public repository titled 'the-algorithm' on Github before the temporary cessation of updates to the platform.
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News Reports

Jignesh Mevani copies ‘Jhukega Nahi’ move from Jahangirpuri riot accused Ansar after being arrested again in Assam, watch

OpIndia Staff -
Jignesh Mevani was being taken by Assam Police after they re-arrested him when he made the signature move from the latest Allu Arjun blockbuster movie Pushpa.
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Media

Silence of the Ecosystem: How ‘fact-checkers’ kept mum over fake claims that Hrithik Roshan contributed to the fund they promoted

OpIndia Staff -
The ecosystem which sought money to help the 'victims' of action against encroachments, conveniently let the rumour of Hrithik Roshan contributing the money do rounds on social media.
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News Reports

Watch: Muslim woman from Jahangirpuri wishes that Allah sends another calamity that would strike only Hindus, not Muslims

OpIndia Staff -
In the wake of the anti-encroachment drive that tore down illegal constructions in violence-stricken Jahangirpuri, Islamists resorted to scaremongering
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Featured

It is official! Elon Musk is finally the new owner of Twitter

OpIndia Staff -
World's richest person Elon Musk is now going to be the 100% owner of Twitter as Twitter's board accepts his proposal to buy out all of Twitter
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IPL

IPL: Punjab survive Ambati Rayudu blitzkrieg to beat CSK by 11 runs

OpIndia Staff -
Punjab's death bowlers, Arshdeep Singh and Kagiso Rabada kept their cool in the face of the onslaught with Rabada finally accounting for Rayudu.
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News Reports

Centre’s ceiling price for jute higher than WB govt’s recommendation: The truth about TMC’s faux outrage on jute price cap

OpIndia Staff -
Centre has set Rs 6,500/quintal for jute while the TMC govt had recommended keeping it Rs 6,000/quintal
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Featured

Veer Kunwar Singh, the legendary king of Jagdishpur who chopped off his own arm at the age of 80 for India’s freedom

Jhankar Mohta -
Kunwar Singh, also known as Babu Kunwar Singh or Kuer Singh, was a prominent leader during the first freedom struggle of 1857
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News Reports

Priyanka Chaturvedi justifies sedition charges slapped against Navneet Rana, claims Hanuman Chalisa recital posed a security threat to PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
Priyanka Chaturvedi said the Hanuman Chalisa recital by Navneet Rana could have posed security risk to PM Modi
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News Reports

Clothing brand removes bikini collection, featuring Hindu deities, after social media outrage

OpIndia Staff -
Sahara Ray is yet to apologise or issue a statement for hurting the religious sentiments of 1.3 billion Hindus.
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News Reports

When communal violence erupts, Aman Committee surfaces: All you need to know about how and why Congress constituted these committees

Anurag -
Peace Committees surface almost immediately after riots. These committees are formed based on guidelines issued by Congress govt. Read details.
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World

Twitter may be sold to Elon Musk as early as today: Here is what we know

OpIndia Staff -
Twitter kicked off negotiations with Elon Musk on Sunday over the possible sale of the social media company.
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