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Walt Disney goes full woke, jumps in to oppose Ron DeSantis’ Florida bill that aims to prevent small children taught sexual orientation at school

OpIndia Staff -
Disney makes its position clear about the 'Don't Say Gay' Bill, condemns it officially after LGBTQ employees protest on its campuses against the Florida bill.
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News Reports

Family of Satish Kumar Tickoo, the first victim of terrorist Bitta Karate, moves court for retrial of the murder case 

OpIndia Staff -
Bitta Karate, who led the genocide against Kashmiri Hindus in 1990, had confessed on a live TV program that his first victim was Satish Kumar Tickoo.
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News Reports

NIA files charge sheet in LTTE terror funding case, plans were underway to trigger unrest in TN through ‘Tamil nationalism’

OpIndia Staff -
The NIA has filed a charge sheet against six people In connection with the LTTE terror funding investigation.
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News Reports

Zee Media terminates Zee Punjab editor’s services for favouring a certain political party during Punjab Elections

OpIndia Staff -
Zee Media terminated the services of their editor of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal for allegedly favouring political party during Punjab elections
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News Reports

Pakistan: Imran Khan govt loses support of alliance partner MQM ahead of no-trust vote, likely to resign today

OpIndia Staff -
PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari tweeted early Wednesday morning that the united opposition and MQM have reached an agreement. 
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News Reports

Pakistan: Madarsa teachers kill their colleague ‘because Prophet told them in a dream that she is committing blasphemy and ordered her murder’

OpIndia Staff -
Three women have killed a Madarsa teacher in Dera Ismail Khan because a fourth girl had seen in a dream that the victim was 'committing blasphemy' and was ordered by the prophet to kill her.
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News Reports

Journalist-turned-terrorist among two killed by security forces in Srinagar encounter

OpIndia Staff -
According to the Jammu and Kashmir police, one of the terrorists killed in the counter-terror operation is identified as Rayees Ahmad Bhat, who was a journalist.
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News Reports

Burqa-clad terrorist hurls bomb at CRPF camp in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla

OpIndia Staff -
A video has gone viral on the internet in which it was seen that a burqa-clad terrorist was seen throwing a bomb at a CRPF post.
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News Reports

Washington Post columnist Rana Ayyub, accused of misusing Covid funds for personal gains, stopped from leaving India

OpIndia Staff -
Rana Ayyub is accused of cheating donors of covid relief in a pre-planned manner
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News Reports

AAP goes from damage control to lies after humiliating Kashmiri Pandits, makes false claims over teachers’ jobs: Here is what happened

OpIndia Staff -
Despite Kashmiri Pandit Teachers' Association fact-checking Delhi CM, AAP continued to spread the myth that their govt regularised the services of Kashmiri migrant teachers
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News Reports

Ukrainian foreign minister asks all countries to criminalize the symbol ‘Z’ to boycott Russia

OpIndia Staff -
Critics have dubbed the 'Z' symbol as Putin's version of the Nazi symbol 'hooked cross' (Hakenkreuz).
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News Reports

Indore: Landlord Yakoob Mansoori threatens tenant Mohammed Yusuf Khan asking him to remove PM Modi’s photo from the walls of his house

OpIndia Staff -
It is notable to mention that besides PM Modi's photo, Mohammed Yusuf Khan's house also has photos of MK Gandhi and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
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News Reports

Fact check: Viral message claims arms cache seized from a madrassa in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor

OpIndia Staff -
Bijnor Police quoted its statement issued in November 2020, refuting the viral message as fake and misleading.
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News Reports

Assam and Meghalaya sign interstate boundary settlement ending a 50-year long border dispute: All you need to know

OpIndia Staff -
The states of Assam and Meghalaya have signed an agreement concerning border dispute between the states
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OpIndia Explains

Sri Lanka is teetering on the edge of a financial collapse: Understanding the island nation’s worst economic crisis in its history

Dibakar Dutta -
Experts believe that the ongoing crisis is the result of policy errors made by the Rajapaksa regime between 2005 and 2015.
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News Reports

Punjab: Several injured in Police lathicharge on farmers in Lambi village in Muktsar

OpIndia Staff -
A group of more than 100 farmers were protesting outside the Lambi sub-tehsil on Monday under the banner of Bharatiya Kisan Union
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News Reports

Punjab: Man beaten up in Nagiana Gurudwara Sahib for attempting to steal motorcycle

OpIndia Staff -
A man in Punjab was beaten up in Gurudwara Nangiana Sahib premises for attempting to steal a motorcycle
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News Reports

Babar Ali murder case in Kushinagar, UP: Azimullah, Salma, Tahid and Arif arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Two absconding suspects in the Kushinagar murder case were apprehended by UP police on Monday.
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News Reports

Arvind Kejriwal continues spreading misinformation to cover up AAP’s failure to distribute free rations to the poor in Delhi: Here is what happened

OpIndia Staff -
The subsidised food grains under NFSA are not permissible to be used for the state government schemes. Yet, Kejriwal blames centre for blocking him from distribution free rations.
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Politics

Guj Congress leader Bharatsinh Solanki seeks protection to visit home, estranged wife refuses to grant divorce amid allegations of domestic violence

OpIndia Staff -
Solanki has accused Reshma Patel of house-trespass in his absence and sought police protection to go home to collect important documents like passport and other valuable items.
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News Reports

Naveen Patnaik denies receiving any letter from Mamata, says his priority is Odisha state

OpIndia Staff -
CM Naveen Patnaik said for his party state is the priority.
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News Reports

Congress’ Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury mocks Mamata Banerjee’s letter for a united opposition, says her statements change day and night

OpIndia Staff -
Reacting to Mamata Banerjee's letter to the opposition leaders, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury launched a sharp attack on the CM calling her an untrustworthy person.
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News Reports

34 people from outside Jammu & Kashmir have bought property in the state after abrogation of Article 370, confirms MHA

OpIndia Staff -
Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Nityanand Rai, informed Lok Sabha that 34 persons from outside Jammu and Kashmir have bought properties in the UT
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News Reports

‘If the Assam govt brings NRC again, we will challenge it in Supreme Court’: AIUDF

OpIndia Staff -
The NRC list was published in August 2019. 19.06 lakh people out of 3.3 crore applicants were left out of the list.
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Opinions

Russia-Ukraine war: Anti-imperialist Left’s sudden love for Uncle Sam

Ganesh R -
If you have noticed the Stalinist left “intellectual” and left controlled media coverage of the ongoing Ukraine crisis, you would have noticed one strange thing.
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News Reports

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma says Hindus are the minority in several districts, wants NRC reviewed and done again

OpIndia Staff -
Himanta Biswa Sarma said, "The Muslim community is the majority and is the largest community in Assam. We want the NRC to be done again in the state."
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News Reports

Punjab speaker tenders apology to Akal Takht Sahib after his video of performing gau puja goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
Punjab's Speaker Kultarr Singh Sandhwan submitted written apology at Akal Takht over viral video where he was seen taking blessing from a cow
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News Reports

As Mamata Banerjee’s nephew seeks more time to appear before ED in coal scam case, WB CM asks opposition leaders to unite against BJP

OpIndia Staff -
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has shot out a letter to all Opposition leaders and non-BJP CMs to unite in the fight against BJP.
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Culture and History

Telangana: Magnificient Yadadri Lakshmi Narasimha temple inaugurated, stunning visuals take social media by storm

OpIndia Staff -
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao inaugurated the restored Yadadri temple yesterday.
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News Reports

Upper-caste Muslims attack newly appointed UP Minister Danish Azad Ansari, mock his ‘low caste’ and hurl abuses

OpIndia Staff -
With a Pasmanda Muslim now in charge of the Minority affairs in UP, casteist sentiments have rattled over his appointment as a minister.
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World

YouTube removes the entire archive of the show ‘On Contact’ hosted by American journalist Chris Hedges for the Russian news network

OpIndia Staff -
Chris Hedges stated that YouTube probably removed his show believing it to be hosting pro-Russian content
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Politics

Stay at your own risk in West Bengal if you vote for BJP: TMC MLA initiates ‘Khela’ ahead of bypolls

OpIndia Staff -
In 2016, Narendranath Chakraborty was arrested by the CISF for carrying a pistol, cartridges in his check-in luggage bag at the Kolkata airport
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News Reports

Punjab: 65-year-old Gurudwara priest in Ludhiana arrested for raping a teen with mental disabilities

OpIndia Staff -
The offender, named Sohan Singh alias Sohni, is a priest in the local Gurudwara and was arrested by the Machhiwara police.
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News Reports

‘AAP govt had approached upper courts to stop Kashmiri Pandits from getting jobs’: Teachers’ association fact-checks Kejriwal

OpIndia Staff -
Kashmiri Migrant Teachers dismissed claims of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal that his government gave jobs to them. they shared the timeline of their long struggle to show how Kejriwal govt had actually tried to prevent them from getting permanent jobs.
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World

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich suffered suspected poisoning during Ukrainian peace talks

OpIndia Staff -
Billionaire oligarch Roman Abramovich, suffered suspected poisoning along with at least 2 other peace negotiators from Ukraine
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News Reports

Bharat Bandh: Kerala govt warns public servants against participating in the general strike after HC directive

OpIndia Staff -
The Kerala HC had slammed govt officials participating in strikes, observing that it was illegal for them to do so.
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News Reports

Dr S Jaishankar offers India’s help after hospitals in Sri Lanka suspend surgeries due to a shortage of medicines

OpIndia Staff -
India's Minister for External Affairs dialed Indian High Commission in Colombo to extend all help to the hospital after learning about surgeries getting postponed due to lack of medicines.
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh: 23-year-old Sabir Ali arrested for rape and murder of teenage girl, had written another person’s name on victim’s wrist to portray suicide

OpIndia Staff -
When Sabir Ali found her alone in the house, he went there and raped her. Strangled her to death with her dupatta.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Maulanas and Islamic leaders hold press conference to demand a ban on The Kashmir Files, call the story misleading

OpIndia Staff -
Muttahida Majalis-E-Amal is a combined group of religious and social organizations of Muslims, madarsas, schools, colleges, and other organizations in the Saharanpur district, as per reports.
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Entertainment

“I am a work in progress,” Will Smith apologises to Chris Rock for slapping him during Oscars 2022 ceremony

OpIndia Staff -
Chris Rock had mocked Jada's health condition, alopecia where the patient slowly loses hair. Smith didn't take it too well and walked up on stage and slapped Rock.
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News Reports

Delhi court grants bail to Aumkareshwar Thakur, alleged creator of Sulli Deals App, cites first-time offence and young age

OpIndia Staff -
The Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) of Delhi Police Special Cell had arrested Thakur in January this year. Thakur was nabbed based on the inputs given by the creator of the Bulli Bai app, Niraj Bishnoi.
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News Reports

Cricketer Parthiv Patel faces abuse by Kohli fans on social media. Here is why

OpIndia Staff -
Fans accused Parthiv Patel of driving a wedge between Kohli and Bumrah and divulging private conversations on social media for 'cheap attention.'
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Social Media Fact-Check

Is the viral pic of a man in lipstick at some fashion event that of AAP leader Raghav Chadha? A fact-check

OpIndia Staff -
A photograph of AAP leader Raghav Chadha with heavy makeup and lipstick is circulating on social media. Is that photograph real? Here is what we know
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News Reports

‘An organisation that has 1300 cases against it cannot be defamed further’: Sufi Islamic Board slams PFI for sending defamation notice to them

OpIndia Staff -
Sufi Islamic Board has condemned the radical Islamist organisation Popular Front of India (PFI) for sending a defamation notice to them on March 17.
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News Reports

Congress leader Hardik Patel ‘likes’ abusive tweets directed towards a woman, here is what happened

OpIndia Staff -
Ahead of 2017 Gujarat Assembly elections, Congress leader Hardik Patel was allegedly caught in compromising position after an alleged sex video had gone viral.
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News Reports

Propaganda website AltNews makes a false claim that Kejriwal didn’t downplay atrocities against Kashmiri Hindus

OpIndia Staff -
In an attempt to whitewash Kejriwal denying the genocide of Kashmiri Hindus depicted in the film The Kashmir Files, AltNews has repeated its record of whitewashing Islamic terrorism.
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Featured

‘What strike?’: NYTimes report on ‘Bharat bandh’ claiming India was ‘thrown into confusion’ leaves netizens confused, read details

OpIndia Staff -
Except for Kerala (where state unions started strike last night itself), the strike had very little impact on lives of people otherwise. It was business as usual. But then, NYTimes seems to be living in a parallel universe.
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Politics

‘There are extra-ordinary qualities in PM Narendra Modi that I must appreciate’: NCP leader Majeed Memon; asks opposition to introspect

OpIndia Staff -
Former Rajya Sabha MP from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Majeed Memon has put out a series of tweets praising Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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News Reports

Oscars slapgate: When Kamaal R Khan(KRK) lost his cool after being awarded the ‘Golden Balti Award’ at Zee function

OpIndia Staff -
KRK was visibly irate after being awarded 'Golden Balti Award' at the Zee function held in 2011.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Farukh pressurises his Hindu wife for halala after giving her triple talaq; case registered

OpIndia Staff -
The victim of triple talaq said her husband and in-laws forced her to offer namaz and eat meat during navratri.
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