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‘You don’t keep hammering and chiselling after a murti is formed’: Aaditya Thackeray offers ridiculous analogy to explain Shiv Sena’s departure from Hindutva

OpIndia Staff -
Speaking on Shiv Sena abandoning Hindutva, Aaditya Thackeray said a sculpted murti does not need hammering and chiselling.
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News Reports

Detention of ‘activist’ Khurram Parvez, who dubbed Amarnath Yatra ‘militarised pilgrimage’, extended by 50 days: Here is what you need to know

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NIA found that Khurram Parvez worked as 'LeT operator' and actively recruited overground workers from different states in India.
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Politics

Yogi Adityanath takes oath as Uttar Pradesh CM for the second time: Here is the list of ministers in the newly-formed government

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Yogi Adityanath took oath as the UP CM for a second consecutive term along with 52 cabinet ministers in the new term.
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News Reports

‘US-UK funded media and PR organisations running Ukraine’s propaganda ops, lobbyists working to send more weapons to prolong the conflict’: Report

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While the Russian Language News Exchange claims to be 'independent', Cohen writes that it is a project by Free Press Unlimited, funded by the Dutch government and European Commission.
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Opinions

No blue eyes, no blond hair: Is that why victims of war in Ethiopia and Yemen are children of a lesser God?

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While the west focuses on humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ukraine, it has turned a blind eye to sufferings of victims in Ethiopia and Yemen
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News Reports

Parth Jindal, MD of JSW Sports and chairman of Delhi Capitals endorses Arvind Kejriwal’s derisive remarks on ‘The Kashmir Files’

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Parth Jindal had retweeted a video of Arvind Kejriwal making disparaging remarks for ‘The Kashmir Files’ in Delhi Assembly
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News Reports

Thousands of birds rescued by Delhi Police in a raid on illegal bird market near Jama Masjid

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The illegal bird market in Delhi has been around for a long time and is located near the Jama Masjid.
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Law

Chhattisgarh: Shivling of a temple uprooted and carried on a hand cart to the Tehsil office to appear before a Court for a summon

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Shivling of a Shiva temple in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh, was uprooted and brought to the Tehsil office to appear before the Court
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News Reports

Unprecedented increase in Muslim population in West Bengal has forced many Hindus to migrate, some areas in rural Bengal have 70:30 demographic: Report

OpIndia Staff -
The Organiser, in its ground report describes how demographic imbalance has become a growing cause of concern in West Bengal
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News Reports

Days after Birbhum violence, cops seize 200 crude bombs from Margram: Here is what we know so far

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On Tuesday (March 22) night, a group of enraged miscreants set ablaze around 12 homes which resulted in the gruesome death of eight people including women and children in Birbhum’s Rampurhat. 
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News Reports

‘No, relationship with China is not normal’: EAM Jaishankar says after 3-hour long meeting with Chinese FM Wang Yi, China’s statement on Kashmir discussed

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Dr. Jaishankar said that India's current relationship with China is unhealthy and present situation is a 'Work in Progress.'
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News Reports

Who is Anarul Hossain?: All you need to know about the TMC leader arrested in connection with the Birbhum violence case

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Anarul Hossain is said to be close to TMC (Rampurhat) MLA and the Dy Speaker of West Bengal Legislative Assembly, Ashish Banerjee
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Municipal clerk Akram caught using fake signatures, forged documents to change Dalit girl Puja’s name into ‘Sana Khan’, arrested

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Shamli police in Uttar Pradesh have arrested one Akram Babu, a clerk working in the Kandhla Municipality in Shamli District on accusation of forgery.
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News Reports

SC dismisses a petition seeking measures to monitor activities of Christian missionaries

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The top court rejected the petition citing Madras HC's order on religious conversions by Christian missionaries
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan extends help to set up a genocide museum to highlight the Kashmiri Pandit exodus

OpIndia Staff -
Vivek Agnihotri had expressed his desire to establish a Genocide Museum in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
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World

NOT satire: Russia gets banned in tree competition, Poland wins ‘European Tree of the Year’ award

OpIndia Staff -
Poland won the European tree of the year competition this year after Russia was disqualified over its invasion of Ukraine.
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News Reports

‘West Bengal is no more liveable, mass killings happening there’: BJP MP Roopa Ganguly breaks down in Rajya Sabha over Birbhum massacre

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Rajya Sabha member Roopa Ganguly made an emotional appeal to impose President's rule in West Bengal after the Birbhum massacre
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News Reports

Allahabad HC to hear Kashi Vishwanath Temple-Gyanvapi mosque dispute on a regular basis starting March 29

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The Allahabad HC order came in the matter related to a plea seeking removal of Gyanvapi mosque and restoration of the land to Hindus.
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News Reports

Muzaffarnagar: Woman gang-raped by a gang of 10, masterminded by one Osman, husband tortured, police arrest 10

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According to the Muzaffarnagar Police, one of the accused, Osman, is the mastermind behind the gang rape.
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News Reports

Karnataka: Youtuber Shahbaz Khan calls BJP leaders including CM Bommai as ‘son of a b*tch’ and ‘dog’, calls Hindus as ‘sons of prostitutes’

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A week after Karnataka High Court delivered the judgement stating that wearing the hijab is not an integral part of Islam, the Youtuber CM Shahbaz Khan threatened CM Bommai and referred to him as a 'Son of a b*tch'.
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News Reports

‘Necessary to have a fair investigation’: Calcutta HC takes away the investigation of Birbhum massacre from Mamata govt, hands it over to CBI

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Calcutta HC has transfers the investigation into the violence in the Birbhum district of West Bengal to the CBI
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News Reports

Indore and Khandwa have the maximum number of love jihad cases in Madhya Pradesh; tribal girls are the primary targets: Report

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The cities of Indore and Khandwa have recorded highest number of cases of love jihad in Madhya Pradesh.
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News Reports

Indian American Muslim Council posts a long rant against Uttarakhand govt wanting to implement UCC, says it would lead to “erasure” of Muslims

Editorial Desk -
Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) has posted a statement against the Uttarakhand govt's decision to introduce UCC
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Crime

Uttarakhand police nab one Ayaan as he attempts to flee with the dead body of a girl stuffed in a suitcase, video viral

OpIndia Staff -
Kaliyar police in Uttarakhand have apprehended a youth named Ayaan after he attempted to flee a hotel with the dead body of a girl stuffed in a suitcase.
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News Reports

Delhi riots accused declares Jamia Millia a sovereign nation? As Safoora Zargar goes on a rant, here is how the university was used to...

OpIndia Staff -
In August 2020, Additional Solicitor General Aman Lekhi made submissions on behalf of the Delhi police in front of a division bench comprising Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan. The Delhi Police had asserted that action taken by the police was necessary and proportionate to the violence unleashed by the mob during the anti-CAA protests.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh govt issues show-cause notice to IAS officer Niyaz Khan for his rants against movie ‘The Kashmir Files’: Here is what had happened

OpIndia Staff -
Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra said that IAS officer Niyaz Khan had crossed and violated the limits set for government officials, and hence the government issued a notice for the IAS officer.
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News Reports

UP Board makes recital of National anthem mandatory in madrassas, decision taken to end nepotism in recruitment of teachers: Reports

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Uttar Pradesh Board of Madrassa Education announced that singing of national anthem along with other morning prayers will be mandatory for students in madrassas
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News Reports

India says no to ‘high-powered’ UK delegation planning to visit Delhi to persuade govt against Russia, trip cancelled last minute

OpIndia Staff -
Initially, the delegation was to visit to discuss the UK-India free trade deal, however, the purpose of their visit changed after Russia launched its special military operations in Ukraine in February.
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News Reports

‘Bitta Karate killed us in open, he killed us in Delhi Assembly’: Kashmiri Hindus react, slam Arvind Kejriwal for calling The Kashmir Files a...

OpIndia Staff -
While talking in the Delhi Assembly, Kejriwal responded on the demand to make The Kashmir Files tax free in Delhi
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News Reports

‘Mr. Trudeau, you are a disgrace to any democracy, spare us your presence’, ‘dictatorship’: How Canada PM faced humiliation in EU Parliament

OpIndia Staff -
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the EU Parliament to deliver a speech and faced humiliation over truckers protest
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News Reports

Harsha Bhogle mysteriously disappears from live Instagram interview leading to netizens worry about him, later reveals it was a promotional stunt

OpIndia Staff -
Cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle disappeared while talking to a sports portal on Instagram, which turned out to be a stunt
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News Reports

Google Trends show more Indians are now wanting to know about the Kashmiri Hindu genocide: Here are the most searched keywords

OpIndia Staff -
The Kashmir Files seems to have touched a raw nerve, as Google searches on genocide of Kashmiri Pandits have increased
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News Reports

Birbhum violence: TMC leader Anarul Hussain arrested after victim’s kin accuse him of masterminding the carnage, NHRC issues notice to Mamata govt

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Anarul Hussain, the TMC block president of Rampurhat, was arrested earlier today in connection with Birbhum killings.
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News Reports

‘I believe in Lord Shiva’, says Khushi Ahmed a year after a Muslim mob attack in Delhi following her marriage with a Dalit man

राहुल पाण्डेय -
Khushi Ahmed who has now become a Khushi Kudiya says that she is happy with Sumit and his family
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News Reports

Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Dhananjay Munde’s second wife Karuna accuses him of hiding multiple affairs, six children

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Karuna Sharma Munde, second wife of Dhananjay Munde, says he has several other wives and 6 hidden children
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News Reports

‘The state itself should have allowed CBI to investigate’: Supreme Court slams Thackeray govt as it transfers Param Bir Singh case to the CBI

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Supreme Court has taken away the case against Param Bir Singh from the Maharashtra police and handed it over to the CBI.
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News Reports

Chattisgarh: ‘Ghar Wapsi’ of 1250 people in Mahasamund organised by BJP leader Prabal Pratap Judev

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Prabal Pratap Singh Judev is the son of Dilip Singh Judev, a former minister in the Vajpayee government.
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Entertainment

Arvind Kejriwal calls ‘The Kashmir Files’ a “jhoothi” film, refuses to make it tax-free, had earlier made movies like ’83, Saand Ki Aankh tax-free

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Arvind Kejriwal led Delhi government refuses to make The Kashmir Files tax-free, a move that could have reduced ticket prices making film on Kashmiri Hindu genocide accessible to wider audience
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Tech

Love pours in after creator of GIF file format Stephen Wilhite passes away at 74

OpIndia Staff -
In 1987, while working as an information manager at Compuserve, Stephan Wilhite invented the Graphics Interchange Format or GIF which later became an important tool of memetic conversation.
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News Reports

Karnataka: Hindu seers watch ‘The Kashmir Files’ in Belagavi, says the movie is attached to emotions of Hindu community

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After watching the movie, the Hindu seers in Belagavi in Karnataka requested the people to watch The Kashmir Files
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Hindu women stopped from carrying out ‘Basauda Pujan’ for Sheetala Mata near Idgah mosque in Mathura

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Basauda Pujan is also called as 'Sheetala Saptami' or 'Sheetala Ashtami' and is celebrated every year around the Ashtami date of the Krishna Paksha of Chaitra month of Hindu calender.
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News Reports

TMC demands removal of West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar for raising his voice against the Birbhum massacre

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TMC demands removal of West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar saying his work is against the constitutional system
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Editor's picks

Preparing ground to blame Centre for non-fulfilment of AAP’s freebie promises? Punjab CM asks for Rs 50,000 crore aid per year

OpIndia Staff -
Punjab CM met PM Modi and sought Rs 50,000 crore package per year for two years to "stabilize financial condition" of the state
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News Reports

Kashmiri Hindus demand the restoration of over 200 destroyed temples that were attacked by Islamists in the 1990s

OpIndia Staff -
2012 Government figures show that over 438 temples in the valley, around 2018 had been damaged over the years. 57 temples were vandalised in Srinagar alone, while 56 faced damage in the Anantnag district.
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News Reports

Delhi: UDF MPs from Kerala fight with Delhi Police during a protest against Pinrayi Vijayan govt’s Silver Line project

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UDF leaders from Kerala protested against Silver Line project in Delhi when Kerala CM was in Delhi to meet PM Modi
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News Reports

Ravindra Jadeja succeeds MS Dhoni as captain of the Chennai Super Kings

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Ravindra Jadeja is now regarded as one of the best all-rounders in the world and one of the finest players in the IPL.
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News Reports

Massacre in Bengal: Autopsy report reveals victims were brutally beaten up before being burnt alive

OpIndia Staff -
the autopsy report of the eight victims who were charred to death in Bogtui village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district has revealed that they were mercilessly beaten up before the carnage.
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News Reports

Islamists and ‘liberals’ have a meltdown after Delhi court rejects Umar Khalid’s bail plea under UAPA

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi Police apprehended Umar Khalid on September 13, 2020, and charged him on November 22, 2020, under several provisions of the UAPA and the Indian Penal Code. In July 2021, Khalid filed a bail application.
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Politics

Bihar: Three MLAs of NDA ally Vikassheel Insaan Party quits party and joins BJP, making it the single largest party

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With the joining of the three VIP MLAs, the total number of BJP MLAs has risen to 77 from the existing 74 in Bihar
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News Reports

‘Rape is rape, marriage doesn’t give any special privilege’, Karnataka HC declines to drop rape charges against man accused of raping his wife

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Karnataka High Court says that a man raping his wife will have to face rape charges, marriage won't protect him
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