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Supreme Court advocate J Sai Deepak pens a heartfelt note about Vivek Agnihotri’s newly released movie ‘The Kashmir Files’

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J Sai Deepak said periodic reinforcement of genocide of Kashmiri Pandits is essential to ensure that the lived experiences of victims are not denied
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News Reports

Schools in Japan ban girls from tying their hair in ponytails, say it can sexually excite men

OpIndia Staff -
Schools in Japan have now banned female students from tying ponytails inside the schools
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News Reports

Punjab CM-elect Bhagwant Mann issues orders to withdraw security of 122 former ministers and MLAs

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Security provided to 122 former ministers and MLAs will be withdrawn on the orders of Punjab CM-elect Bhagwant Mann
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News Reports

NDTV claims Gandhi family to offer resignation tomorrow, Congress denies it, accuses NDTV of peddling “unsubstantiated propaganda”

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Citing sources, NDTV had reported that Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, and Priyanka Gandhi will submit their resignation tomorrow
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News Reports

Pakistan: Shahzaib Khan kills his 7-days-old daughter because he wanted a baby boy, arrested

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Shahzaib Khan, a resident of Mianwali town in Pakistan, killed his newborn daughter because he longed for a baby boy
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News Reports

“We will avenge his act of contempt”: SFJ that claimed AAP used Khalistani funds and votes to win Punjab threatens Arvind Kejriwal

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SFJ chief threatened Kejriwal after a video of Bhagwant Mann touching his feet had gone viral on social media
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News Reports

Accidental firing of missile into Pakistan from India: Islamabad demands a joint probe, wants to know whether ‘rogue elements’ launched it

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Pakistan on Saturday sought a joint probe to establish the facts surrounding the missile firing incident
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Opinions

Congress leader justifying rapes by ‘mards’ of Rajasthan vs the ‘liberal’ reaction to ‘ripped jeans’ statement by Tirath Singh Rawat: The shameless hypocrisy

Jinit Jain -
Liberals' commitment to women's rights and safety is selective as witnessed in their silence on Dhariwal's remarks justifying rapes by 'mards' in Rajasthan
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News Reports

Screening of ‘The Kashmir Files’ cancelled in Jammu theatre, 16-year-old boy assaulted, two girls manhandled: Eyewitness confirms incident to OpIndia

Siddhi Somani -
A court in J&K had restrained the promoters of movie from showing scenes depicting late IAF Squadron Leader Ravi Khanna. This is after Nirmal Khanna, wife of the IAF officer, had approached the court seeking removal of scenes depicting her husband. She had alleged that the scenes showed in the movie were contrary to facts.
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News Reports

Government took every care to protect the interests of employees during disinvestment of Air India: What Madras HC said dismissing plea by Air Corporation...

OpIndia Staff -
Dismissing the plea that claimed disinvestment was done in a non-transparent manner, the Madras HC bench of Justice V Parthiban observed that the government appeared to have taken every care not to jettison the interests of its employees.
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News Reports

Census 2022: MHA appoints 10 directors for census operations, citizens allowed to self-enumerate

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Postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the decadal census in the country may start soon
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News Reports

Read how violence gripped Uttar Pradesh after Akhilesh Yadav won elections in 2012: For 36 hours, SP goons ran amuck

Jhankar Mohta -
In 2012, the day Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav was elected, the state experienced deadly violence for at least 36 hours
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News Reports

Karnataka Congress leader CM Ibrahim resigns, blames poor response from senior leadership: What he said in his letter to Sonia Gandhi

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CM Ibrahim is a senior leader and member of the Karnataka Legislative Council. He is expected to join JD(S).
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Former CM Devendra Fadavis issued notice by police in phone tapping case, asked to appear on March 13

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BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis asked to appear before Mumbai Police in alleged illegal phone tapping case
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News Reports

BJD MLA Prashant Jagdev runs over villagers in an inebriated state, angry mob attacks him: What happened

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The BJD MLA Prashant Jagdev, who was allegedly in an inebriated state, ran his car over a crowd near Banpur village.
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News Reports

Yogendra Yadav admits that he and Rakesh Tikait created a ‘conducive pitch’ to defeat BJP by organizing farmer protests but SP ‘did not bowl...

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Yogendra Yadav said on NDTV that the farmer protests were actually a "Chunavi Andolan" to defeat BJP in polls
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News Reports

Murder accused Olympian Sushil Kumar allowed to give fitness classes in Tihar Jail, former JNU student Umar Khalid joins as a learner

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Sushil Kumar, who is facing trial for the murder of wrestler Sagar Rana is currently lodged in Delhi's Tihar jail.
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News Reports

Abhisar Sharma opening an omelette stall, Ajit Anjum to sell chicken pakoda: Here is what we know about these viral claims

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Alleged journalists Abhisar Sharma and Ajit Anjum are viral on social media for the past 2 days over their alleged predictions related to election results in Uttar Pradesh
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Opinions

As AAP sweeps the state, Punjab offers a clean slate of politics but not without tall challenges: Read how

Anurag -
The results of the Punjab Assembly elections came as a significant shock for the traditional players, including Capt Amarinder Singh
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News Reports

Nepal PM Sher Bahadur Deuba thanks PM Modi for evacuating stranded Nepali nationals from Ukraine

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Nepal PM took to Twitter to express his gratitude to PM Modi for the repatriation of stranded Nepali nationals from Ukraine
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News Reports

‘He’s Modi’s son, not mine’: Emotional father breaks into tears after his son safely returns home from war-hit Ukraine

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Sanjay Pandita said, "We had no hopes given the circumstances in Sumy. I am thankful to government of India for evacuating my son."
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News Reports

India pushes China to resolve remaining friction points in Ladakh in the 15th round of border talks

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India urged China for resolution of remaining friction points in Ladakh in the 15th round of border talks
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News Reports

Women’s World Cup: Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur’s centuries power India to a comfortable win over West Indies

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Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur put together a rollicking 184 runs stand for the fourth wicket to get India's World Cup campaign back on track
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News Reports

Is ‘Wali’ – the world’s greatest sniper fighting in Ukraine – as real as ‘Ghost of Kyiv’? What we know so far

OpIndia Staff -
As per the latest rumours, Wali is one of the world's best snipers. A veteran of the Royal Canadian 22nd Regiment, Wali has arrived in war-torn Ukraine earlier this week to fight the Russian forces.
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News Reports

1993 Mumbai blasts: Bombings planned for Shivaji Jayanti were preponed following the arrest of Gul Mohammad

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Gul Mohammad was one of the 19 people selected and trained for the blasts by mastermind Tiger Memon.
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News Reports

‘O Allah, PM Modi and CM Yogi should not be afraid of anyone in the fight for our rights,’ Muslim women pray in Meerut

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Muslim Women from Meerut prayed for the wellness of their local BJP MLA, CM Yogi. and PM Modi during namaz
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News Reports

Blogger Raif Badawi released after 1000 lashes and 10 years in prison: How criticism of Sharia laws, Kingdom of Saud changed his life

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Raif Badawi had dared to speak his mind, despite being aware of the harsh consequences under the totalitarian regime of the Saudi monarch.
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Russia claims Ukraine destroying evidence of US-funded military biological programmes it was implementing, India urges adherence to convention

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Russia has claimed it has found "some truly shocking facts" about Ukraine regime's emergency clean-up of traces of a military biological programme carried out with US assistance
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News Reports

‘The Kashmir files’ bags box office collection of Rs 4.25 crores on the first day of its release, expected to pocket Rs 14-15 crores...

OpIndia Staff -
The Kashmir Files is running close to 55-60% prime properties and is expected to pocket Rs 14 to 15 cr nett by the weekend at box office
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News Reports

Gurugram sector 31 case: Read how thieves, who broke into the house, reported the presence of grenades, huge cache of arms to the police

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The presence of hand grenades were first found by a couple of thieves who had broken into the house with the intention of stealing valuables.
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News Reports

Allah did not allow us to be neutral as ‘only animals are neutral’: Read why Pakistan PM Imran Khan took a jibe at his...

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As he faces a no-confidence vote, Pakistan PM Imran Khan has launched a stinging rebuke at the Pakistan Army's upper echelons for remaining neutral
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News Reports

Congress gets 2.3% vote share in Uttar Pradesh, loses deposits in 97% contested seats: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Congress ran for 399 seats and won only two, implying that Congress has lost deposits on every seat it has lost.
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Grooming jihad in Jharkhand: Hasnain Ansari becomes Aman Mehto to lure Hindu girl, spikes food, rapes her, leaks video after his identity is revealed

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On March 11, 2022, a video of a 21-year-old girl revealing how she became a victim of grooming jihad in Ramgarh, Jharkhand was shared on Twitter
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Father-in-law of actress Sonam Kapoor duped of ₹27 crores, 10 arrested so far: All you need to know

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DCP said that the police had been working on the case, following a complaint by Harish Ahuja, father in law of Sonam Kapoor
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Setback for TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee as Delhi HC dismisses his petition challenging ED summons in Coal Scam, wife’s in PMLA case: Details

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The ED had accused TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee of being a beneficiary of funds obtained from this illegal trade.
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‘Event for Kindergarteners’: White House meets TikTokers to brief on US’ strategic objective in Russia-Ukraine war and some of them are not happy

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The White House briefed the TikTok creators on "strategic goals in the region" while National Security Council staffers.
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Haryana govt declares Vivek Agnihotri’s latest movie ‘The Kashmir Files’ tax-free, no state GST to be charged on tickets

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The government of Haryana has declared Vivek Agnihotri’s movie ‘The Kashmir Files’ tax-free
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Russia moves to label Facebook’s parent Meta as ‘extremist organisation’ after the company allowed death threats to Russians on its platforms

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Russia opens criminal case against Facebook's parent Meta and moved to designate it as an "extremist organization"
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Hillary Clinton calls the Russian bombing of maternity hospital a ‘war crime’: Here’s the sordid US track record she conveniently glosses over

Dibakar Dutta -
While Hillary Clinton has been upfront in condemning Russia, she has been silent on atrocities committed by the US
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BJP shatters traditional caste equations in UP, makes inroads into Samajwadi Party’s vote bank

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With caste and religion barriers breached, BJP's wins in UP underscores the changing paradigm of traditional Indian politics
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Netizens break into meme fest after India admits to accidentally firing a missile into Pakistan

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Netizens shared amusing memes and videos after India said it accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan
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Bolivian soldier who had shot dead leftist fighter Che Guevara dies at 80 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra

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Bolivian soldier Mario Teran, who had shot dead Che Guevara in 1967, dies at the age of 80
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Minor girl gangraped by ‘boyfriend’ Biki Ali and his 4 friends in Guwahati, case filed after they uploaded video of the crime on social...

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After making video of raping the minor girl, Biki Ali blackmailed her to go to a hotel where he and 4 others gangraped her
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India accidentally fires missile into Pakistan during maintenance, says it ‘deeply regrets’ the incident

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Ministry of Defence said it regrets accidental firing of a missile caused by technical malfunction that landed in Pakistan
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Karnataka: Mohammad Ijaz stabs his wife Apoorva Puranik turned Arfa Bano 23 times after she discovers about his first marriage

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Apoorva Puranik who had converted to Islam and became Arfa Bhanu after marrying Md Ijaz stabbed 23 times by her husband
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RBI bars Paytm Payments Bank from onboarding new customers, orders IT audit

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The RBI has also directed Paytm to appoint an IT audit firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of its IT systems.
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Economy and Finance

As Russian oil sector faces financial issues due to sanctions on banks, Russian Deputy PM speaks to Indian Petroleum minister, invites Indian investment

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Russian Deputy PM Alexander Novak talked with the Indian Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri over telephone
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News Reports

‘EU laws over national laws’: European Union hits Poland and Hungary with sanctions while they deal with over 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees

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European Union has decided to impose economic sanctions on its two member states, Poland and Hungary, even as the two countries deal with influx of over 1.5 Million Ukrainian refugees.
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Opinions

The Hindu ties itself in knots trying to downplay BJP’s victory in 4 states, including Uttar Pradesh: Here is how

S. Sudhir Kumar -
Editorial in The Hindu, “The winning formula”,  begins with us being emphatically told that the BJP won despite accumulating “fatigue and popular disenchantment”
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News Reports

The crash and burn of Jai Bheem Jai Meem: Islamists and liberals abuse Dalits for ‘making BJP win’

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Finding BJP's inexorable rise hard to accept, Islamists and Liberals targeted Dalits for supporting the saffron party
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