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After Taliban praises burqa-clad women in Karnataka, ‘feminist’ organisations extend support to students demanding to wear Hijab in colleges

OpIndia Staff -
Letter signed by 1850 people claims that the hijab is only the latest pretext to impose apartheid on Muslim women
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News Reports

Personal expenses, fixed deposit in father’s name, transfers to her sister out of public funds: Details as ED attaches assets worth Rs 1.77 crores...

Nupur J Sharma -
The Enforcement Directorate has attached assets worth Rs 1.77 crores of alleged journalist Rana Ayyub under the money laundering act
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News Reports

‘Hijab is the most visible symbol of oppression, we need to bring down this wall’: Watch what Iranian anti-hijab crusader Masih Alinejad had said

OpIndia Staff -
Anti-hijab crusader Masih Alinejad had challenged female politicians who legitimise Iran's barbaric laws by wearing hijab
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News Reports

Hijab row: Karnataka High Court orders students not to wear any religious clothing in colleges till the matter is disposed

OpIndia Staff -
Karnataka High Court said that students would not be allowed to wear hijab to colleges till the matter is in court
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News Reports

‘This is just trailer, movie is still left’, prosecutor reveals what Sharjeel Imam said during Shaheen Bagh protests, opposes bail plea

OpIndia Staff -
The prosecutor, opposing the bail plea of Sharjeel Imam, said the plan of the Delhi riots accused was to overthrow the govt and throw the country into complete anarchy.
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News Reports

‘Our women won’t remove hijab, you (Hindus) go and stop women who enter temples wearing Chaddis: Congress leader Ahmed Patel in Kalburgi

OpIndia Staff -
"You people go and stop your ladies who are entering Mandirs and Matts wearing Chaddis and shorts. Do not provoke us," asserted Karnataka Congress leader Ahmed Patel.
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News Reports

Journalist Tunku Varadarajan roots for the secession of southern states from India, spews hate on ‘cowbelt’

OpIndia Staff -
Tunku Varadarajan spews hatred on India, referring to it as the "benighted cowbelt" and advocating for secession of Driavidian states
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News Reports

‘They called him Sadak ka Gunda, now seeking votes in his name’: PM Modi slams Congress for using CDS Bipin Rawat’s name in Uttarakhand...

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi said that Congress had played politics when Bipin Rawat was appointed CDS, now using his name in Uttarakhand polls
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News Reports

‘When BJP started receiving support from Muslim women, the Thekedars of their votes got scared’: PM Modi in Saharanpur, UP

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi in his rally in Saharanpur, UP has stated that the people who used to dictate voting choices of Muslim women are now scared because the women have started liking the BJP.
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News Reports

Nobody can stand against Hindus, those who tried to destroy Hindus are fighting amongst themselves: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

OpIndia Staff -
Mohan Bhagwat says no one has strength to stand against Hindus and Sanatan Dharma has been intact for 5000 years
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News Reports

Nobody questions when girls attend colleges ‘topless’, why question the dress code of Islam: Maulana Sajid Rashidi on Karnataka hijab row

OpIndia Staff -
Defending Burqa in colleges, Maulana Sajid Rashidi made the bizarre claim that girls attend colleges topless
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News Reports

RTI reveals Congress has not paid rent for Lutyens Delhi bungalows for almost a decade, rent worth crores pending

OpIndia Staff -
RTI application has revealed that The Congress party and Sonia Gandhi have failed to clear their rent dues for the properties possessed in Lutyens Delhi since a decade.
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News Reports

‘Hijab is Allah’s order for women, they have to obey’: Javed Akhtar says he doesn’t support burqa, gets attacked by Islamists

OpIndia Staff -
Javed Akhtar had tweeted that he doesn't support hijab or burqa but he has 'nothing but deep contempt' for 'hooligans' who are intimidating the girls in Karnataka.
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Books

Harvard students get a lesson on Yogi Adityanath, biographer Shantanu Gupta tells them how he’s different from his predecessors

OpIndia Staff -
Students from Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School and Harvard Education School joined the discussion on Yogi Adityanath with his biographer Shantanu Gupta
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News Reports

Kishan Bharwad murder case raised in Rajya Sabha, BJP MP Kailash Soni talks about other Hindus who were on the ‘hit list’

OpIndia Staff -
BJP MP Kailash Soni raised the Kishan Bharwad murder issue in Rajya Sabha during zero hour on Thursday
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News Reports

Pakistan summons India’s diplomat over burqa row, toes Congress’ anti-RSS, BJP rhetorics

OpIndia Staff -
On Wednesday, Pakistan summoned India's Charge d'Affaires to its Ministry of Foreign Affairs and conveyed the government's "grave concern" over the ongoing Hijab protests by a section of Muslim students in Karnataka.
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Politics

Arvind Kejriwal deploys wife, daughter to campaign for AAP CM candidate Bhagwant Mann in Punjab

OpIndia Staff -
Arvind Kejriwal's wife and daughter will attend AAP CM candidate Bhagwant Mann's 'Jansabha' in Punjab
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu: Petrol bomb hurled at BJP office in Chennai, arrested suspect says it was over NEET issue

OpIndia Staff -
One person named Vinodh has been arrested by the police on the basis of CCTV footage. As per reports, he has confessed that the attack was in retaliation to BJP's stand on the NEET issue.
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Social Media

Burqa clad protesting ‘student’ argues with teacher at Udupi college, calls it ‘bullshit’ when asked to not disturb students studying inside

OpIndia Staff -
A Muslim student protesting outside the MGM college in Udupi can be seen arguing with a teacher in a video
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News Reports

Karnataka burqa row: Congress leader Kapil Sibal seeks SC intervention, apex court refuses

OpIndia Staff -
Sibal's plea sought transfer of case from Karnataka High Court to Supreme Court before the Chief Justice of India (CJI) led bench.
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Editor's picks

Taliban supports Karnataka burqa girls, praises their love for hijab and says Islamic values are bigger than any national culture

OpIndia Staff -
Inamullah Samangani said it is pleasing to see Muslim women stand for their religious values and make sacrifices to defend it in various ways, especially in a secular country like India
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News Reports

‘Hijab is discriminatory, it divides students into Muslims and non-Muslims’: Hindu students in Karnataka explain why they want uniform dress code

OpIndia Staff -
The girl student also stated that they hope the court will uphold justice and will not show bias towards Muslims. She also stated that they have no objection to the Muslim girls wearing hijabs or burqa outside the college or even at their homes. "But in the campus, the uniform dress code has to be followed by all students", she asserted.
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News Reports

‘This is attack on Sharia’ Delhi riots accused Asif Iqbal Tanha talks about mobilising Muslims across India in burqa row, audio viral

OpIndia Staff -
Asif Iqbal Tanha could be heard saying that the burqa controversy is an 'attack on Muslim women, Muslim identity and Sharia'.
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News Reports

Murder of Rupesh Pandey during Saraswati Puja Visarjan: Case registered against 27 Muslim men and 100 unknowns in Hazaribagh in Jharkhand

OpIndia Staff -
Aslam, Anis, Kaif, Gufran, Chand, Osama, Ehtam, Nahid among 27 accused named in Rupesh Pandey murder case
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News Reports

‘BJP will defy the trend of political parties not returning to power in UP’: PM Modi exudes confidence in his party’s victory in assembly...

OpIndia Staff -
Exuding confidence, PM Modi said BJP will be victorious in assembly elections in all 5 states
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News Reports

Pakistan faces a high risk of genetic disorders caused by inbreeding due to cousin marriages: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Inbreeding due to cousin marriages in Pakistan causing severe genetic disorders among children
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News Reports

Punjab: Converted Dalit Christians face an identity crisis while availing benefits of various schemes as Dalits

OpIndia Staff -
Many Dalits who practice Christianity in Punjab have not converted officially so that they can avail benefits for Dalits
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News Reports

‘Construction of Statue of Equality predates Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’: Union Minister G Kishan Reddy responds to Rahul Gandhi’s ‘China-Nirbhar’ barb

OpIndia Staff -
Union Minister G Kishan Reddy responds to Rahul Gandhi’s ‘China-Nirbhar’ barb on Statue of Equality
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News Reports

Petition filed in Madras HC seeking directions against Tamil Nadu govt’s discriminatory demolition policy towards temples

OpIndia Staff -
The petitioner argued that the current demolition drive by Tamil Nadu government targeted the temples only.
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News Reports

Shamsuddin kidnapped a minor girl from Dehradun and took her to Ludhiana where he raped her for three months

OpIndia Staff -
Shamsuddin had kidnapped a 16-year old minor girl from Dehradun and took her to Ludhiana, raped her repeatedly
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News Reports

Congress propaganda on the burqa row gets support from Pakistan again, Shah Mahmood amplifies the misinformation spread by Priyanka Gandhi

OpIndia Staff -
Priyanka Gandhi had earlier conflated the Karnataka hijab row with women's rights issues, falsely insinuating that the hijab-clad girls are being denied their 'constitutional rights'. The reality is that the college administration in Udupi has been trying for weeks to convince the girls to follow the dress code and start attending classes.
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News Reports

Shiv Sena, RPI and MNS leaders oppose BJP leader Ram Kadam’s demand for Lata Mangeshkar Memorial at Shivaji Park

OpIndia Staff -
Shiv Sena leader Priyanka Chaturvedi criticised the demand for the memorial stating that such demands cannot be made at the time of national mourning.
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Crime

Kerala Catholic Bishop and five priests arrested for illegal sand mining in Tamil Nadu

OpIndia Staff -
Sabitha, the then Assistant Director of Minerals, has been accused of permitting the sand robbery. Her husband Mohammad Sameer was arrested in Chennai on January 23 in connection with the scam.
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News Reports

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra loses her cool, intimidates a journalist for asking why is she promoting bikini in schools

OpIndia Staff -
Priyanka Gandhi tried to intimidate journalist when he questioned why she talked about bikini in schools
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News Reports

‘Hijab first, books later’: Banners supporting Hijab come up in Beed in Maharashtra

OpIndia Staff -
Banners supporting Hijab and Burqa were seen Beed in Maharashtra on Tuesday, which were removed later
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News Reports

From SIMI to Popular Front of India: Islamic radicalisation in college campuses has been going on for decades

Shashank Bharadwaj -
Popular Front of India, which is now leading the fresh wave of radicalisation in the country, is considered a resurrection of the banned outfit Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).
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News Reports

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party worker sticks party sticker on burqa-clad woman’s back

OpIndia Staff -
Samajwadi Party worker pasted party sticker on the back of a burqa-clad woman in Lucknow West
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Opinions

Karnataka burqa row: The politics of religious identity

A Satya -
A piece of cloth that is used to assert one's religious identity has taken an ugly, political turn in the current burqa row in Karnataka.
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News Reports

Karnataka: Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind announces Rs.5 lakh reward for Burqa-clad protestor who shouted provocative “Allahu Akbar” at Hindu students

OpIndia Staff -
Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind announces Rs.5 lakh for Bibi Muskan Khan for shouting "Allahu Akbar" in at a group of students
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News Reports

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan opens her personal library to people, invites book lovers to read the books for free

OpIndia Staff -
Sumitra Mahajan has urged people to visit the library buit at her residence in Indore and read books for free
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Opinions

Priyanka Gandhi supports burqa and bikini, she should tell that to her brother and party leaders as charity begins at home

Nirwa Mehta -
Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, have had a history of commenting on women's choice of clothes as well as leaving sexist comments displaying their toxic masculinity.
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News Reports

Religious Leaders ask Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg to drop Instagram Kids quoting verses from Bible, Quran and other scriptures

OpIndia Staff -
A group of 70 Religious leaders have written to Mark Zuckerberg requesting to not launch Instagram kids
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News Reports

‘Education is secondary, hijab is the first priority’: Muslim girls in Karnataka college

OpIndia Staff -
Speaking to a reporter, the girls protesting in Karnataka for not allowing hijab in classes said hijab is their priority and not education.
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News Reports

Nepal govt report says Chinese encroachment along border areas, civil society group approaches UN over the issue

OpIndia Staff -
Civil society in Nepal handed over memorandum to United Nations urging the international community to take action against Chinese land grabbing activities
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News Reports

Cities in Canada may impose curfew amid ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests: Indian High Commission in Ottawa issues advisory

OpIndia Staff -
Indian High Commission issued an advisory for Indian citizens in Canada over traffic disruptions and shortage of essential items due to the ongoing truckers' protests.
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News Reports

How Nehru and Congress had betrayed Goa: Declined to send armed forces, denied support to liberation efforts

Suyash -
From declining sending troops in the struggle for Goa to stopping Indian revolutionaries entering the Portuguese ruled state, Nehru had messed up the liberation of Goa on many levels.
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News Reports

Hyderabad: 101 goats sacrificed for AIMIM chief Owaisi’s long life

OpIndia Staff -
Owaisi was allegedly fired upon in UP while travelling from Meerut to Delhi on February 3
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CFI and Jamaat-e-Islami Hind counselling us in the row, we started wearing Hijab only in December, said Burqa clad women

OpIndia Staff -
The Muslim students who are protesting against uniform regulations in the state and had begun the protest were in contact with radical Islamic outfit CFI.
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News Reports

‘Yogi govt stopped hooliganism, we have received all govt benefits without any discrimination: Ground report from Muslim-dominated Deoband seat

अजीत झा -
BJP's Brijesh Singh Rawat is the sitting MLA from Deoband. He had defeated BSP's Majid Ali by over 29,000 votes in 2017. AIMIM has fielded Umar Madani while SP has nominated Kartikeya Rana.
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News Reports

Kerala: MediaOne channel goes off air, high court upholds Centre’s decision to revoke licence, had backed Islamist outfit Jamaat-e-Islami

OpIndia Staff -
The Kerala high court has upheld the Centre's ban on Malayalam news channel MediaOne on Tuesday
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