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UP Shia Waqf Board returns waqf properties ‘encroached’ by Azam Khan to Rampur’s royal family

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The Board has seized several waqf properties from Azam Khan and handed them over to Rampur's royal family
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News Reports

Punjab: AAP government transfers SSP Dhruman H Nimbale after he cracked down on sand mafias

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SSP Dhruman H Nimbale is well-known for his strict actions against illegal sand miners in Punjab
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News Reports

Pakistan: Videos of sexual exploitation of children sold on dark web to earn dollars; five, including a woman, arrested

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The FIA in Pakistan busted a child pornography racket, which used to sexually exploit children and earn money by selling their videos on dark web
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News Reports

Pope Francis apologises to Indigenous People in Canada after mass graves of children were discovered in Christian schools: Here is everything you need

OpIndia Staff -
Days after meeting the Indigenous leaders of the First Nations, Inuit and Métis delegations, Pope Francis tendered an apology
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News Reports

From Textiles and Pharmaceuticals to Healthcare and Education: Here is how the India-Australia trade agreement benefit India

OpIndia Staff -
The India Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement will benefit several sectors in India and will create employments
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News Reports

Kalicharan Maharaj, arrested for criticizing Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, gets bail after three months

OpIndia Staff -
Kalicharan Maharaj was arrested on 30th December 2021 by Raipur Police for allegedly criticizing Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
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News Reports

India and Nepal vow to expand bilateral ties, PM Modi, PM Deuba flag off India-Nepal rail link, launch RuPay: Details

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Sher Bahadur Deuba lauded India’s management of COVID-19 and said Nepal received its first vaccine aid from New Delhi.
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News Reports

Hyderabad: Person from old city area picked by cyber-crime police for accessing ISIS website

OpIndia Staff -
Whether he accessed ISIS website intentionally or unintentionally couldn't be confirmed at the moment. The questioning in the matter is going on.
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Opinions

Bhagwant Mann’s claims on Pathankot terror attack: Four lies and one cynical truth

Abhishek Banerjee -
We have to deal with the fact that Bhagwant Mann is now the democratically elected chief minister of Punjab.
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News Reports

From Bofors to The Emergency: Read how Arun Shourie watered-down corruption to suspension of civil rights by Congress to target the Modi govt

Dibakar Dutta -
Sreenivasan Jain suggested that despite quashing the Fundamental rights of citizens for 21 long months, Indira Gandhi was a just and lenient ruler.
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News Reports

Media organisations claim “Shakeel assaulted by neighbouring Muslims for raising a BJP flag”: Here’s what UP police said

OpIndia Staff -
Several media organisations published misleading reports stating that a man was assaulted by his Muslim neighbours for hoisting BJP flag
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World

US: DC Police recover five dead fetuses from the house of anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy

OpIndia Staff -
Lauren Handy works for Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising which claims to mobilise grassroots anti-abortion activists.
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News Reports

India, Australia sign landmark free-trade deal, PM Modi calls it a ‘watershed moment’

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With this deal, the bilateral trade between the two countries is expected to rise from existing 27 billion USD to 45 billion USD in the next five years, said Piyush Goyal.
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News Reports

From 55 in 2014 to over 100: BJP becomes the first party after Congress in 1988 to cross 100 seats in Rajya Sabha

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This achievement followed after the BJP won three Rajya Sabha seats in the Northeast on Thursday.
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Sports

Qatar World Cup security official says rainbow flags may be confiscated to “protect” fans for supporting gay rights

OpIndia Staff -
Qatar, where same-sex relations are criminalized, has said that they will welcome LGBT+ community during the World Cup,
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News Reports

Jammu & Kashmir: Former minister in PDP-Congress govt Babu Singh goes absconding after named in a hawala case

OpIndia Staff -
Police suspected that Babu Singh formed political party to manage hawala from Pakistan and other countries.
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News Reports

Aryan Khan drug case: Key NCB witness Prabhakar Sail dies of a heart attack at 37

OpIndia Staff -
Prabhakar Sail, one of the prime witnesses in the Aryan Khan drug case reportedly died on Friday, April 1
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News Reports

Karnataka: Campaign against Halal meat reaches High Court, petition seeks directions to not impose restrictions on Muslim meat traders

OpIndia Staff -
The High Court has refused to hear the matter urgently, saying it will hear the case as per the list.
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News Reports

Google says it won’t allow anti-Ukraine content to make money, removes ads from article talking about Nazi aspects of Azov Battalion

OpIndia Staff -
The tech giant has said that it will not show any ads on pages that has content that in their worldview ‘exploits, dismisses, or condones the war’
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News Reports

Centre slaps eviction notice on Congress to vacate bungalow occupied by Sonia Gandhi’s secretary Vincent George, total unpaid rent over Rs 3 crores

OpIndia Staff -
The Centre has issued an eviction notice to the Congress party, instructing them to vacate C-II/109 Chanakyapuri bungalow occupied by Sonia Gandhi's secretary Vincent George
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Opinions

Imran Khan is like the Kizlar Agha in the Ottoman Court: All Indians can do, at this point, is grab a tub of popcorn

Ganesh R -
Imran Khan proudly declared Pakistan is the cheapest country in the world! If you are ever in the market for a begging bowl or suicide vest, you know where to go.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath orders exemption of water, house tax for Temples, Monasteries, Dharamshalas etc in Ayodhya

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After being sworn in as UP's chief minister for the second time, Yogi Adityanath visited Ayodhya for the first time.
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News Reports

Ahead of the no-confidence motion, Pakistan PM Imran Khan praises Indian foreign policy yet again: Here is what he said this time

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In March this year, Imran Khan had praised India’s independent foreign policy at a public meeting in Malakand in Pakistan.
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News Reports

‘Ajmal Kasab did not ruin name of Islam, but I do because I wear short clothes’: TV actor Urfi Javed, who had said she...

OpIndia Staff -
In an interview with ETimes, Indian television actor Urfi Javed discussed being labelled an 'Anti-Muslim' because of her bold fashion sense
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IPL

Andre Russell and Umesh Yadav power KKR to a comfortable win over Punjab Kings

OpIndia Staff -
KKR ended up with a comfortable win over Punjab Kings thanks to the contributions from their star Jamaican Andre Russell and Indian international Umesh Yadav.
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News Reports

Assam Rajya Sabha Polls: BJP wins two seats despite numbers favouring the Congress party. Here is what happened

Dibakar Dutta -
Reportedly, Himanta Biswa Sarma worked behind the scenes to ensure the victory of the UPPL candidate as the Rajya Sabha MP.
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Politics

Telangana: KCR resorts to appeasement politics, allows Muslim employees to leave early during Ramzan

OpIndia Staff -
K Chandrashekar Rao-led Telangana government announced that all Muslim employees will be allowed to leave offices an hour early during the Islamic month of Ramzan
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News Reports

Mumbai: BJP city president launches agitation against religious conversions in Chandivali, accuses local administration of facilitating them

OpIndia Staff -
Mumbai BJP leader Mangal Prabhat Lodha accused the local administration of facilitating these religious conversions by working with the missionaries.
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News Reports

‘No longer a film but a movement’, filmmaker Karan Johar is all praises for ‘The Kashmir Files’: Here is what he said

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Karan Johar praised 'The Kashmir Files' saying that the film should be a lesson for aspiring filmmakers on how to handle content.
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News Reports

Gurugram: 90-year-old priest found murdered inside a temple, police suspect role of drug addicts behind the murder

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The deceased, Gobind Das, was a resident of Uttarakhand and had been a priest at Baba Mohanram temple for over three decades.
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News Reports

Has AAP already started separatist politics in Punjab? Netizens point out many inconsistencies in Bhagwant Mann’s claims in the assembly

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Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann said Punjab was asked to pay for military deployment during the Pathankot attack
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News Reports

Delhi HC allows the reopening of Nizamuddin Markaz, the first epicentre of the Covid-19 outbreak in India, during Ramzan

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi HC granted permission for reopening of the mosque at Nizamuddin Markaz for the month of Ramzan
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Opinions

Halal is not just a food choice. Why ‘Halal economy’ has to be resisted: 5 things you must know

Amit Kelkar -
While Himalaya is forced to get this halal certification to run their business in several countries, this imposition of halal products on non-Muslims has to be resisted in the larger interest of the Indian society
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World

Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden under the scanner for his financial dealings with China

OpIndia Staff -
Hunter Biden is facing massive allegations of possible tax violations, money laundering, and lobbying for fpreign countries
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News Reports

Kerala based NGO under lens for diverting donations through Jammu and Kashmir to build mosques in Punjab

OpIndia Staff -
The Kerala-based NGO diverted Rs 70 crore for the construction of mosques in Punjab.
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Bareilly: Christian boy and Muslim girl undergo gharwapsi, marry each other as per Hindu rituals

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The gharwapsi and the subsequent marriage of the couple took place at Agastya Muni Ashram in Bareilly on March 30.
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News Reports

Pro-Congress lawyer Satish Uke, who had filed Judge Loya petition, arrested by Enforcement Directorate in a money-laundering probe

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Advocate Satish Uke was also found guilty of criminal contempt by the Bombay High Court in 2017.
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Opinions

Doordarshan antennas become history, as India phases out the last set of analogue terrestrial TV transmitters: All you need to know

Jinit Jain -
On March 31, 2022, Doordarshan phased out the last set of obsolete analogue transmitter antennas
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News Reports

IIM-Ahmedabad clarifies on logo controversy, says Sanskrit phrase to stay, only minor changes in colour, rendition

OpIndia Staff -
In its statement, the IIM-A said that the new logo will continue to retain the legacy of the previous logo and will carry the status line in Sanskrit - 'Vidya Viniyogad Vikasa', and the 'jaali' design with minor changes.
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News Reports

‘I will bombard this Prime Minister’, ’20 sleeper cells active’: Threat to assassinate PM Narendra Modi received, NIA to investigate

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The National Investigation Agency, Mumbai branch has received an e-mail threatening to 'bombard' PM Narendra Modi and kill more than 20 million people
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Culture and History

333 years ago, tyrant Aurangzeb brutally murdered Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj: Read about the torture that he inflicted on the King

Malhar Pandey -
333 years ago today, the Hindavi Swarajya lost its second Chhatrapati, when the Islamic Tyrant Aurangzeb killed Sambhaji Maharaj
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News Reports

‘We are ready to supply India any goods it wants to buy’: Russian FM Sergey Lavrov meets EAM Jaishankar in Delhi

OpIndia Staff -
EAM S Jaishankar, during the meeting, mentioned that India has always favored resolving disputes through diplomacy.
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News Reports

No relief to Rana Ayyub as Delhi High Court seeks status report on pending ED investigation in money laundering case

OpIndia Staff -
Hearing the flea, a Delhi High Court bench of Justice Chandra Dhari Singh noted after Additional Solicitor General SV Raju informed that important documents need to be brought on record in order to explain the case against Rana Ayyub.
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News Reports

Uttarakhand: Doctor resigns after accusing IAS officer of intimidation and forcible transfer. Here is what we know so far

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While speaking about the matter to Jagran, Health Secretary IAS Pankaj Pandey dismissed claims of 'vengeance' in the transfer of Dr Nidhi Uniyal.
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News Reports

Devotees of a temple entitled to have a say in its running: Andhra Pradesh High Court

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The court said, "Devotees of a temple are entitled to have a say in the manner in which an institution or temple is run."
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News Reports

Burqa-clad terrorist who hurled bomb at CRPF camp in J&K arrested, belongs to banned terror outfit Dukhtaran-e-Milat run by Asiya Andrabi

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Burqa-clad terrorist who hurled bomb at CRPF camp in Jammu and Kashmir was identified as Haseena Akhtar, a member of the banned secessionist organisation Dukhtaran-e-Millat
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Media

British media watchdog suspends pro-Khalistan propaganda network Khalsa TV for inciting violence, including murder, to further Khalistani ’cause’

OpIndia Staff -
Ofcom suspended the license issued to pro-Khalistan media network Khalsa Television Ltd or KTV after an investigation found out that the Khalistani channel had breached broadcasting rules.
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News Reports

Mumbai: Milk seller threatened for offering products at discount on ‘The Kashmir Files’ ticket, complaint registered

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Sharma, a Mumbai-based dairy owner, said he started receiving threatening calls after he offered discount on milk to those with ‘The Kashmir Files’ ticket
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News Reports

Seven teachers suspended in Karnataka for allowing students wearing hijab to write SSLC exam, more action to follow: Details

OpIndia Staff -
School administrators have suspended 5 teachers from CS Patil Higher Primary School and 2 from other schools in Karnataka.
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Politics

Bhagwant Mann moves resolution in Punjab Assembly to ‘immediately’ transfer Chandigarh to state

OpIndia Staff -
Newly elected Chief Minister of Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party's Bhagwant Mann has moved a resolution in Punjab assembly for immediate transfer of Chandigarh to the state.
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