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MHA declares Hafiz Talha Saeed, son of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed as a designated terrorist, says ‘actively involved in propagating jihad against India’

OpIndia Staff -
MHA said that Hafiz Talha Saeed has been actively involved in the recruitment, fund collection, planning, and executing of attacks by the LeT in India
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Entertainment

Delhi Police starts questioning over 30 house staff after Sonam Kapoor’s house was robbed in Feb, involve the Forensics lab in ‘investigation’ too

OpIndia Staff -
The house of actor Soman Kapoor in New Delhi's Amrita Shergill Marg had been robbed and cash and jewellery worth Rs 1.41 Crore were stolen
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Crime

Navi Mumbai Police to launch a parallel probe to ascertain Gorakhnath Temple attacker Abbasi’s links with local Maulana, rule out a possible threat

OpIndia Staff -
The Navi Mumbai police have also launched a parallel investigation to know the history of the accused and his acquaintances in Mumbai.
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News Reports

Aam Aadmi Party suffers a major blow, President of Himachal Pradesh unit defects to BJP right after Arvind Kejriwal’s ‘rath yatra’

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Besides Anoop Kesari, AAP Una President Iqbal Singh and Organisation General Secretary Satish Thakur too joined the BJP.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh police books Dr Farooqui Kamal for converting his employee to Islam, had forced the latter to recite the verses of the Quran 

OpIndia Staff -
The Uttar Pradesh police Friday booked a doctor named Dr Farooqui Kamal based on a complaint lodged by his employee, accusing the doctor of forcefully converting him to Islam
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News Reports

J&K police initiate action against Islamists who raised Azadi slogans, hailed terrorist Zakir Musa at Jamia Masjid in Srinagar

OpIndia Staff -
A video went viral on the internet in which Kashmiri Muslims were seen chanting Azadi and anti-India slogans at the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar
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IPL

Tewatia returns to haunt Punjab as Gujarat Titans edge home in a last-ball thriller

OpIndia Staff -
Needing 12 off the last 2 balls against Odean Smith, Tewatia managed to hit 2 maximums in a row over the deep mid-wicket region.
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News Reports

Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga FIR case: Punjab and Haryana HC pulls up Punjab Police, warns them against violating SC guidelines

OpIndia Staff -
Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga had filed a petition challenging the FIR registered against him by the Punjab police.
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Fact-Check

Congress supporters confuse loan underwriting with write off and waive off, wrongly accuses SBI of waiving loan to Adani group

OpIndia Staff -
SBI has approved a Rs.12,770 crore loan to Adani group, Congress supporters accused the bank of waiving off the loan
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News Reports

Jammu and Kashmir: Anti-India, Azadi slogans raised at Jamia mosque in Srinagar, stones pelted at security officials

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Police forces deployed outside the Jamia mosque in Srinagar were attacked with stones after the Friday prayers
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News Reports

Karnataka: Hindu ice-cream shop asked to remove Halal certificate or face boycott, Muslim businessman feel threatened, seek help

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Muslim vendors and businessmen in Karnataka complain that Muslim community is being targeted in the state
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News Reports

‘Have enough bombs to blow up the entire village in 10 minutes’: TMC panchayat leader Shakir Ahmed caught on camera

OpIndia Staff -
In the viral video, TMC leader Shakir Ahmed is heard saying he has a huge stockpile of bombs to blow up an entire village
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News Reports

Hostages were forced to sing ‘Hotel Osama’, a depraved parody of ‘Hotel California’: French journalist held by Islamic State in Syria reveals in court

OpIndia Staff -
ISIS terrorists had forced their hostages to sing Hotel Osama, says French journalist in trial of British ISIS terrorist
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Aadil and Shakib threaten to fire bullets, incite riots, arrested after video goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
In a video that has gone viral, Aadil and Shakib were seen issuing threats of firing bullets and inciting riots in the Loni region of Uttar Pradesh
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News Reports

‘Likely stopped because my book criticises Modi’: Aakar Patel after being stopped from flying abroad in connection with FCRA case

OpIndia Staff -
A LOC was issued against Aakar Patel over a case registered against Amnesty International India for committing alleged FCRA violations
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News Reports

Assam: Muzammil Sheikh, Nazibul Sheikh and Farouk Rahman awarded death sentence for rape and murder of two minor tribal girls

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Three persons convicted of rape and murder of two minor girls in Kokrajhar in Assam, and awarded death sentence
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Protesting State Transport workers pelt stones and slippers at Sharad Pawar’s residence

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Hundreds of enraged State Transport workers broke into the residence 'Silver Oak' of NCP chief Sharad Pawar
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News Reports

Islamic terrorist Hafiz Saeed sentenced to 31 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
An anti-Terrosim court in Pakistan has sentenced Islamic terrorist Hafiz Saeed to 31 years in jail. As per reports, the Pakistan government has been ordered to confiscate all assets of Saeed.
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News Reports

Rajasthan Police tries to blame Hindus for Karauli violence, says stones pelted because songs played were ‘objectionable’

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"The way the Nav Samvatsar procession was carried out was dubious and objectionable songs were played, that's why stone pelting took place", the Police said.
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Opinions

Indian liberals rush to save their favoured elites and GHQ as poor Sri Lankans suffer: Will they now blame Brahminical patriarchy? RSS? Modi?

Ganesh R -
As Sri Lanka suffers its worst economic nightmare in memory, some analysts even calling it “burning”, the rush to save favourites is obvious.
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi predicts violence and chaos in India, thanks to politics he himself has been playing

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi claimed that BJP is dividing the country among various groups, and the pain from it will lead to violence
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Entertainment

‘The Kashmir Files’ continues its record-breaking spree, set to cross 250 crores mark in the domestic market

OpIndia Staff -
The Kashmir Files, continues its record-breaking spree at the box office as it is set to breach the 250 Crores mark in the Indian market.
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News Reports

Fierce clashes between Taliban and Pakistan Army after Taliban shoots down Pakistani helicopter: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
The Taliban's attack on Pakistan's helicopter led to serious injuries to a Pakistani Army General, as per reports.
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News Reports

‘Permitting inflow of foreign donations is a state policy’: SC affirms the constitutional validity of the FCRA Act, 2020

OpIndia Staff -
Upholding the FCRA Act, 2020, the top court said receiving foreign donations is an not an absolute right.
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News Reports

‘Had goosebumps, saw people brushing off death’, says reporter who captured the iconic image of a cop rescuing a girl during Karauli violence

OpIndia Staff -
Constable Nitesh Sharma had rescued 3 women and a child from the burning houses in Karauli in Rajasthan
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News Reports

‘Don’t spare criminals and mafia, don’t touch the poor’: CM Yogi Adityanath’s orders on the bulldozer use

OpIndia Staff -
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has given clear instructions that bulldozer will not run on the shops, huts of the poor.
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Opinions

Dear liberals, here is how you can stop the BJP – written by a BJP supporter

Abhishek Banerjee -
The BJP not only retained Uttar Pradesh, but it also did so by a huge margin - leaving their opponents feeling defeated
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News Reports

Birbhum violence: Serajul, Mohammad and 2 others arrested from Mumbai; brought back to Kolkata

OpIndia Staff -
The four accused had fled Birbhum following the violence. They were tracked down using mobile tower locations.
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Crime

Karnataka: Another Hindu youth, Madhu, stabbed by a mob that was led by one Tauseef

OpIndia Staff -
The 22-year-old Madhu, a resident of New Mandli locality in Shivamogga, was returning home after delivering flowers to a merchant
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News Reports

Aakar Patel can’t leave India yet, his happiness lasts just a day as CBI court stays Delhi court order

OpIndia Staff -
Special CBI court in Delhi stayed the ACMM order allowing Aakar Patel to travel abroad
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News Reports

Bengaluru: Several schools get bomb threats over e-mail, premises searched after evacuation

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The Bengaluru City Police, along with a bomb disposal squad, rushed to the areas to conduct additional searches.
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News Reports

American Airlines announces ‘buses-as-flights’ plan to combat pilot shortage and high fuel prices, netizens remind them, ‘they are just buses’

OpIndia Staff -
So basically, while the tickets will be sold by the AA as flight tickets, passengers will check-in in Allentown or New Jersey airports and travel to Philadelphia by bus, provided by the airline.
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News Reports

‘Those who do not work and become an obstacle for public work will be transferred’: Sikkim govt creates a new department for lazy employees

OpIndia Staff -
Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh has announced that all nSikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang, better known as PS Golay, who has been advocating harsh measures against employees who arrive late for work or skip work, announced earlier this week that non-performing government employees will be transferred to the newly created department
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News Reports

Calcutta High Court directs a CBI probe into ‘murder’ of TMC leader, Bhadu Sheikh, that sparked Birbhum violence. Here is what it said

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The Court reiterated that the investigation would be easier if one agency was to probe both Sheikh's murder and the incident of Birbhum violence.
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World

Ukraine: 30 dead and over 100 injured as rockets strike escaping Civilians in Kramatorsk station

OpIndia Staff -
30 people were killed and over 100 were injured in a Russian rocket strike on a railway station in east Ukraine today.
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News Reports

From protest against French President Macron to support for Triple Talaq: Who is Arif Masood, Congress leader who attacked his own party for “Hindu...

OpIndia Staff -
After starting his career in Congress party, Masood switched to Samajwadi Party in 2003. However, he returned to Congress after 2007
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News Reports

Meta removes a network of Russian accounts from Facebook for allegedly mass reporting Ukrainian accounts

OpIndia Staff -
Meta said they have purged hacking campaigns, influence networks and scam operations amidst the ongoing war in Ukraine.
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News Reports

Haryana: 182 Kashmiri Pandit families get land ownership papers after 30 years, under CM Khattar’s ‘Mission Vachanpurti’

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About three decades ago, 209 families had purchased a total of 10 acres of land in Sector 2 of Bahadurgarh but HUDA had acquired the land and they could not get ownership.
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News Reports

‘You are Kaafirs for betraying Islam and supporting the BJP’: Locals attack a Muslim family for backing BJP in Uttarakhand assembly polls

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A Muslim family residing in Uttarakhand's Rudrapur was attacked by locals for extending their support to BJP
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News Reports

Delhi Police arrest one Babu Wasim who had supplied weapons to Shahrukh Pathan during anti-Hindu Delhi riots in 2020

OpIndia Staff -
Babu Wasim admitted that he supplied the pistol flashed by Shahrukh Pathan during the anti-Hindu Delhi riots
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News Reports

‘Not surprised’: Karnataka CM orders probe into the Al-Qaeda video lauding pro-hijab protester Muskaan

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Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai ordered a probe into a video by Al-Qaeda in support of pro-Hijab protests
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News Reports

MP: Relatives and friends of theatre artist gherao cops to oppose arrest, probe ordered after journalist, others, detained and stripped at the police station

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Reportedly, the police first resorted to using force against the mob before detaining them under the IPC Section 151.
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News Reports

Kanpur: Policeman slaps one Mehtab Alam 5 times in seconds, know the story behind the viral video

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On Thursday, April 7, a video of ACP of Colonelganj in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, thrashing a youth named Mehtab Alam after catching him harassing a girl on the road went viral.
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News Reports

‘AAP using Punjab Police to target BJP workers’, says BJP leader Naveen Jindal after FIR filed against him over video of Arvind Kejrwal

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Punjab Police file FIR against BJP leader Naveen Jindal for allegedly sharing doctored video of Arvind Kejriwal
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News Reports

‘Muslims shut shops just before Karauli violence started’: Another Hindu exodus looms large. Here is what the victims said

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The victims of the recent Karauli communal clashes, where the mob mercilessly attacked Hindus on the day of the Hindu new year, said they do not feel safe in Karauli and planning to move to other secure location with their families.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Sabir Mirza arrested for abduction, forced conversion and ‘nikah’ of an 18-year-old girl, Maulvi’s role being probed too

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Sabir Mirza kidnapped the girl and took her to a mosque in Banda district. He allegedly married her after converting her to Islam.
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Opinions

Founding editor of TheWire, Siddharth Varadarajan, his fictitious tales and agenda journalism: How he spun a yarn yet again

Alok Bhatt -
“I’m not easily given to pessimism” declared Siddharth Varadarajan this morning while doing, what he does best - manufacture an imagined story
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News Reports

Karauli anti-Hindu violence: Rajasthan Police books BJP leader Somya Gurjar’s husband, Gurjar community protests, demands CBI inquiry

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The Gurjar community says that if Rajaram Gurjar's name is not released from the FIR, they will stage protests.
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News Reports

Ex-Amnesty chief Aakar Patel claims he was stopped at airport again, CBI to challenge the court order that set aside the Look Out Circular

OpIndia Staff -
Given that the Rouse Avenue Court issued its directives only on April 7, it is possible that the CBI did not receive the written copy of the court order by the time Patel tweeted about being stopped at Bengaluru airport.
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News Reports

Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal recounts how a drunk Mumbai Indians player had him dangling outside a balcony on the 15th floor of a hotel: What...

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Yuzvendra Chahal recalled a terrifying incident that occurred in 2013 while he was playing for Mumbai Indians in the IPL.
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