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Islamic organisations call for ‘peaceful’ bandh in Karnataka to protest against High Court verdict upholding hijab ban in schools

OpIndia Staff -
Several Muslim organisations have called for a bandh to protest against the recent ruling of the Karnataka High Court, stating that the hijab is not "essential religious practice" in the Islamic faith.
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News Reports

Samajwadi Party worker kills himself using country-made gun in Hardoi, was upset with party’s defeat in UP elections

OpIndia Staff -
Upset over Samajwadi Party defeat, party worker Devendra Yadav Bablu committed suicide in Hardoi in, Uttar Pradesh
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Opinions

Separating myth from fact: A simple Q&A on Karnataka High Court and hijab judgement

Abhishek Banerjee -
You have to either accept that Islam does not give the choice to women, or you have to stop saying that the school is legally required to change its uniform for you. You can't have it both ways.
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Crime

UP: Meraj Ahmed and Zeeshan used a gay dating app to lure victims and loot them, one injured in police encounter

OpIndia Staff -
Meraj Ahmed and his associate Zeeshan used to contact people using a gay dating app and call the victims at a deserted place where they looted them. Many victims, out of shame, had not even approached the police.
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News Reports

Shiv Sena mouthpiece calls The Kashmir Files ‘BJP propaganda’, advises Congress to throw away the ‘hijab’ of fake secularism

OpIndia Staff -
Shiv Sena has asked Congress to throw away the 'hijab' of fake secularism and counter the BJP's narrative in an effective manner.
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News Reports

Odisha: Youth beheads his 5-year old niece allegedly to cure his illness by sacrificing the minor girl

OpIndia Staff -
Five-year-old Rojalin beheaded with an axe by her uncle Nagarjuna Bhainsa at Hetkhamar village in Deogarh district in Odisha
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News Reports

Gujarat: Two Bangladeshi women among three caught with fake Aadhaar cards, arrested while attempting to escape

OpIndia Staff -
The women with fake Aadhaar Cards were arrested and sent to Vadodara’s Women Protection Centre. On Tuesday, at around 2:45 am, the ladies attempted to jump over the Centre's wall and escape from the reform home.
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News Reports

‘In a much better position to fight pandemic,’ PM Modi lauds India’s relentless vaccination efforts as inoculation for 12-14 age group started today

Jhankar Mohta -
The Central Government has begun vaccination for children aged 12 to 14 against Covid-19 with Corbevax vaccine
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Opinions

Rahul Dholakia says “hate sells”: How the Left continues to shield Islamists and deny the genocide of Kashmiri Pandits by slandering ‘The Kashmir Files’

Jinit Jain -
Rahul Dholakia, known for glorifying terrorist Abdul Latif in Raees, had also evaded questions on Parzania's lop-sided portrayal of Gujarat riots
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Crime

Biki Ali, prime accused in gangrape of minor girl in Assam, shot dead in encounter after he attacked police and tried to flee

OpIndia Staff -
Rape accused Biki Ali died after he was shot at when he tried to flee from custody in Guwahati
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News Reports

Sell or face consequences: Hindu residents threatened by Muslim mob to sell their flats in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, govt denies

OpIndia Staff -
Reports suggest that a few days back, a 100-150 people strong Muslim mob had descended upon Satvik society in Bhavnagar and threatened residents of about 15 flats to sell and leave their flats or face dire consequences
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News Reports

Navjot Singh Sidhu resigns as Punjab Congress chief ‘as desired by Congress president’, sends one line resignation letter

OpIndia Staff -
In one of the shortest resignation letters, Navjot Singh Sidhu wrote to Sonia Gandhi, “I hereby resign as President (PPCC)”.
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News Reports

‘Come after Holi vacations’: Supreme Court refuses urgent listing of appeal against hijab row verdict by Karnataka High Court

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court refused urgent listing of plea against hijab row verdict by the Karnataka High Court.
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News Reports

AIUDF chief and ex-Congress ally Badruddin Ajmal demands ban on ‘The Kashmir Files’, says the movie will stoke communal tensions

OpIndia Staff -
Badruddin Ajmal, a former ally of the Congress party, demanded the Central government and the Government of Assam must ban the film in order to avoid communal tensions.
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News Reports

‘How can we interfere’: Former MP and senior journalist MJ Akbar recalls Rajiv Gandhi’s reply on the plight of Kashmiri Hindus

OpIndia Staff -
MJ Akbar recalled how Rajiv Gandhi-led government had turned a blind eye towards the plight of Kashmiri Hindus.
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News Reports

Imran Khan gloats, congratulates Muslim Ummah, as UN adopts resolution proposed by Pakistan designating March 15 as ‘International Day to Combat Islamophobia’

OpIndia Staff -
The resolution introduced by Pakistan seeks to 'promote the message of tolerance, peaceful co-existence and interfaith and cultural harmony among all religions, races and nations'.
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News Reports

‘Please marry within Hindu Dharma’: Apoorva Puranik, who was stabbed 23 times by Mohammad Ijaz for leaving him, requests Hindu women

OpIndia Staff -
Mohammad Ijaz in Karnataka had brutally stabbed his wife Apoorva Puranik, alias Arfa Bano, for seeking a divorce after finding out that he was already married and a father of three children.
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News Reports

‘Religiophobias not restricted to Abrahamic faiths, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs face discrimination and violence too’: India at the UN on Islamophobia resolution

OpIndia Staff -
Tirumurti said India had suggested amendments to include the word 'pluralism' in the text, but it was not included by the sponsors of the resolution for 'reasons best known to them'.
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Culture and History

Malhar Rao Holkar: From a valiant warrior who established Swarajya in Malwa to a father-in-law with a difference

Suyash -
Did you know that owing to an old custom among the Dhangars, Malhar Rao Holkar reserved a certain portion of his wealth as a private asset for the women of his house?
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News Reports

Samajwadi Party fields Gorakhpur hospital tragedy accused Kafeel Khan as a candidate for Uttar Pradesh MLC elections

OpIndia Staff -
Dr Kafeel Khan was named as the main accused in the case of multiple deaths of children due to lack of oxygen cylinders at Gorakhpur's Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College in 2017, where he worked as a paediatrician.
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Entertainment

Gujarati film ‘Prem Prakaran’ withdraws itself from theatres voluntarily to make way for Kashmir Files, will be re-released later

OpIndia Staff -
Even though Gujarati film Prem Prakaran was doing well in theatres, the filmmakers withdrew it temporarily so that The Kashmir Files can be allotted more shows
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News Reports

Muslim girl student moves SC after Karnataka HC dismisses petitions saying hijab is not essential religious practice

OpIndia Staff -
A Muslim student named Niba Namaz approached the SC challenging Karnataka HC decision verdict in the hijab case
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Opinions

Karnataka hijab verdict: Drawing false parallels is an older technique, Swara Bhaskar must learn something new to peddle her agenda

Pallav -
Swara Bhaskar has reaffirmed that the degree of reasoning she employs is unfathomable to anybody other than some left-leaning liberals.
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News Reports

‘Ek Bihari 100 Bimari’: TMC MLA goes on a vitriolic rant; Mamata Banerjee had earlier sowed the seeds of Bengali vs outsiders narrative

OpIndia Staff -
A TMC legislator courted controversy after his vitriolic rant against people of Bihar went viral on social media.
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News Reports

State-owned PNB reports borrowing fraud of over Rs 2000 crores in the NPA account of IL&FS Tamil Nadu Power Co. Ltd.

OpIndia Staff -
In a letter to BSE and NSE, PNB reported a a borrowing fraud of over Rs 2000 crores in ITPCL NPA account
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News Reports

SP workers conduct “checks” of govt vehicles with returning officers: Attempt to murder charge slapped against over 100 people

OpIndia Staff -
The miscreants were charged with Section 307(attempt to murder) for obstructing government officials from performing their duties.
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News Reports

After facing a crushing defeat in Assembly polls, Congress President Sonia Gandhi asks all 5 state presidents to resign

OpIndia Staff -
Congress President Sonia Gandhi has asked all these five state presidents to put down their papers after the recent Assembly poll debacle
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Opinions

“One-word” review: The Kashmir Files can be defined in one word – ‘Watershed’

Guest Author -
As far as one word reviews go, let’s first start with the movie The Kashmir Files itself – it’s a 'watershed'.
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Media

Hijab verdict: Leftist portal The Wire loses it after Karnataka High Court order, compares it to death camps under Nazi Germany

OpIndia Staff -
The Wire, got so upset with High Court decision disallowing hijab in schools, that they compared it to Nazi Germany and Hitler's death camps.
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News Reports

Burqa-clad students refuse to write exams after Karnataka HC held that hijab is not an essential practice in Islam

OpIndia Staff -
“We will write our exam wearing hijab. If they ask us to remove hijab, we will not write exams," a Muslim student warned.
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News Reports

Tika Lal Taploo: One of the first murders before the genocide Kashmiri Hindus in 1990, killed for sending bricks and funds for construction of...

OpIndia Staff -
Taploo was believed to be killed as he raised funds and arranged bricks to be sent for the construction of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya
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News Reports

The Kashmir Files: The real stories of brutality presented in the movie

Siddhi Somani -
The film takes viewers back to the year 1989-90, when due to rising of radical Islamism, a huge conflict erupted in Kashmir, forcing the minority Hindus to leave the valley.
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Opinions

Savarkar, Kashmir, Constitution: Books and movies questioning established narrative upsets leftist intelligentsia, here is why

Sneha -
A slow stream of books and movies opposing the established leftist narrative appeared on the horizon. Works challenging the leftist version of events from India's past.
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Media

SC permits Malayalam news channel MediaOne to resume operations, I&B ministry had revoked license based on national security concerns

OpIndia Staff -
The SC Tuesday stayed the Central government's ban on Malayalam news channel MediaOne, allowed it to resume operations
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News Reports

‘147 foreign nationals from 18 countries evacuated under Operation Ganga, evacuation from Kharkiv, Sumy most challenging’: says EAM S Jaishankar

OpIndia Staff -
“Despite the challenges posed by the serious ongoing conflict, we have ensured that about 22,500 citizens have returned home safely,” S Jaishankar said in the parliament.
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News Reports

Teenagers join fight against Russian forces after basic training, Ukraine had earlier provided ‘military’ training to children: Details

OpIndia Staff -
"It is human nature to feel scared, and of course deeply in my soul I feel a bit scared, as no one wants to die, even if it's for your country," remarked 18-year-old Dmytro
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News Reports

Bail to ‘woman’ Ishrat Jahan in Delhi anti-Hindu riots ‘despite embargoes in UAPA, CrPc’: Details and break up of conspiracy charge sheet in 50...

Nupur J Sharma -
Former Congress councillor, Ishrat Jahan, who was arrested on the 26th of February 2020 for her involvement in the Delhi anti-Hindu riots has been given bail by the Karkardooma Court, Delhi.
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News Reports

‘Ever Forward’ vessel now stuck near Washington DC, earlier ‘Ever Given’ of the same company was stuck in Suez canal for a week: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Meanwhile, the Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine Corp had hired divers to inspect the vessel for possible damages and help in refloating the 'Ever Forward'.
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News Reports

Threats, allegations of foul play and sit-in protest: AAP candidate who lost Kapurthala assembly seat ends her 4-day dharna on a bitter note

OpIndia Staff -
AAP candidate Manju Rana threatened Congress' Rana Gurjeet Singh with dire consequences after losing Kapurthala seat
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News Reports

‘The Kashmir Files’ success: Local businesses offer discounts, incentives to encourage people to watch the movie

Suyash -
Incentives from independent businesses have come as an encouragement for the masses to come out and watch The Kashmir Files in large numbers.
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News Reports

PM Narendra Modi praises ‘The Kashmir Files’, says it presents the truth, so certain people are running a campaign against it

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi has slammed the so-called liberals who have tried to dismiss the entire plot of the movie as fiction even though it is based on real events.
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh: Congress again blames BJP for Kashmiri Hindu genocide as BJP accuses the govt of trying to sabotage The Kashmir Files movie

OpIndia Staff -
As the truth of the Kashmiri Hindu genocide comes out in front of the people, Congress is busy trying to pin the blame for the same on the BJP.
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News Reports

Karnataka hijab row verdict: Liberals, Islamists get triggered as judiciary does not take the knee to Sharia

OpIndia Staff -
Most of these 'liberals' are arguing how the courts have banned hijab, but the fact is that the verdict was on petitions whether the hijab is an essential part of Islam.
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News Reports

‘Everything was recorded but the Govt did not act’, says ex-CRPF soldier who worked at control room during Kashmiri Hindu genocide

OpIndia Staff -
An ex-CRPF officer reveals how the administration had turned a blind eye to the atrocities that were being perpetrated on the Kashmiri Hindu in the early 1990s
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World

Maldives lifts health emergency declared during COVID-19, President Solih thanks India for providing vaccines and monetary assistance

OpIndia Staff -
India provided Maldives with over 2 lakh doses of vaccines in early 2021 to boost their fight against COVID-19.
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Entertainment

Shah Rukh Khan announces his own OTT platform, here is what we know

OpIndia Staff -
In September 2021, it was widely speculated that Shah Rukh Khan was to make his OTT debut on Disney Hotstar.
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OpIndia Explains

Meet Asiya Andrabi – a Pakistani agent who sought to free Kashmir from Hindus

Shashank Bharadwaj -
From slaughtering cow at Lal Chowk to raising Pakistani slogans in the valley, meet Asiya Andrabi, the women jihadi leader in the valley
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News Reports

‘Ghar Wapsi’ in Pakistan: Islamists target Trans woman for reverting to Hinduism

OpIndia Staff -
Zakriya Hanif, a Pakistani national and a trans woman, was attacked by Islamists for embracing Hinduism.
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News Reports

High level probe ordered for accidental release of missile during inspection which fell in Pakistan, says Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh in Rajya Sabha

OpIndia Staff -
No loss of lives or property was reported from Pakistan on the accidental firing of missile from India during routine maintenance
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: FIR against one Amir Khan for posting derogatory picture of CM Yogi Adityanath and BSP chief Mayawati

OpIndia Staff -
The accused Amir Khan was charged under sections of IPC and IT Act for posting derogatory content against Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath and Mayawati on his Facebook account
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