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Job in Paytm is haram, mobile recharging halal, talking on phone allowed but not taking photos: More answers to modern questions by Darul Uloom

OpIndia Staff -
On the website of Darul Uloom, a slew of inquiries seeks solutions from the Deobandi school on various modern issues
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News Reports

Marathi Actor Kiran Mane removed from ‘Mulgi Zali Ho’ for abusive behaviour, not for criticising Modi, clarifies TV channel, producer and co-actors

OpIndia Staff -
Other artists from TV Serial 'Mulgi Zali Ho' have accused actor Kiran Mane of misbehaviour, targeting and use of abusive language on set
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News Reports

Taliban sets musical instrument on fire, musician seen crying in a viral video

OpIndia Staff -
Taliban burn a musical instrument in front of the musician in Paktia province in Afghanistan, video goes viral
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News Reports

Shashi Tharoor hails Under-19 Badminton Player Tasnim Mir for securing top spot in World Junior Rankings, gets the facts wrong

OpIndia Staff -
Shashi Tharoor claimed Tasmin Mir is first Indian under-19 badminton player to secure top position in junior rankings, which is incorrect
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News Reports

Journalist who had slammed Modi govt alleging slow evacuation after she was rescued from Afghanistan, goes back to Taliban controlled area via Pakistan

Dibakar Dutta -
Months after journalist Kanika Gupta was evacuated from Afghanistan, she returns to the Taliban ruled country through Pakistan
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News Reports

Private Muslim Fund that promised Sharia-compliant service vanishes after duping Muslims in Bijnor, promoter Md Faizi flees with crores

OpIndia Staff -
'Al Faizan Muslim Fund Limited,' a facility by one Mohammed Faizi offering Sharia banking vanishes with crores of deposing money
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News Reports

Imran Khan offers to send ‘professionals’ to help Afghanistan, ends up offending Afghans who say they already have skilled manpower

OpIndia Staff -
After Pakistan PM Imran Khan offered to send manpower and technical assistance to Afghanistan, the Taliban regime has declined the offer
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News Reports

Novak Djokovic to miss Australian Open as he loses appeal against the cancellation of visa, to be deported soon

OpIndia Staff -
Australian federal court dismisses appeal of Novak Djokovic against cancellation of his visa by immigration minister
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News Reports

‘Useless’: Congress leader opposes construction of Sanskrit University in Karnataka, Islamists and regionalists join in

OpIndia Staff -
Congress, PFI and Dravidian regionalists oppose construction of permanent campus for Sanskrit University in Karnataka
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OpIndia Explains

#1YearOfVaccineDrive: Despite vaccine hesitancy and dirty politics India shined in world’s largest vaccination programme

Anurag -
India has truly lived the motto of the vaccine सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः (may we all be free from the disease) in letter and spirit.
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Opinions

Ravish Kumar’s removal of a 10-year-old critical tweet on Virat Kohli demonstrates how real performance is rarely a factor for the Left-liberals when choosing...

Pallav -
It just goes out to show that the 'liberals' don't really care about his real performance as an athlete, but as long as his views fuel their propaganda, Kohli is just a useful tool for them.
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News Reports

UP elections: SP leader Aditya Thakur attempts self-immolation for not getting ticket for Aligarh, ticket given to ex-MLA Jafar Alam

OpIndia Staff -
Aditya Thakur attempted self-immolation in front of the Samajwadi Party office after he was denied a ticket by the party
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News Reports

Indian economy projected to grow faster than other major emerging economies, thanks to Modi government’s PLI scheme, says World Bank report

OpIndia Staff -
While World bank retained India's growth rate estimate at 8.3% f02 2021, it has forecasted that economy will grow by 8.7% in 2022
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News Reports

Muslim body in US had demanded release of Aafia Siddiqui two months before the Texas hostage crisis, had also been opposing ‘Hindutva’

OpIndia Staff -
CAIR identifies itself as Muslim civil rights organisation in the United States which claims to be protecting 'civil rights, enhance understanding of Islam, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.'
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News Reports

Uttarakhand Police arrest Yati Narasinghanand for making derogatory remarks against women

OpIndia Staff -
Narasinghanand was arrested from Sarvanand Ghat in Haridwar where he was holding a hunger strike to protest the arrest of Waseem Rizvi alias Jitendra Narayan Tyagi.
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Media

NPR journalist deletes her racist tweet against India, here is how western media has a history of problematic behaviour

OpIndia Staff -
Western media has had a racist attitude towards India and the hate has only gone up since Modi came to power in 2014.
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World

Texas: Hostages in synagogue rescued safely, hostage taker, who demanded to free ‘lady al-Qaida’ Aafia Siddiqui of Pakistan origin, dead

OpIndia Staff -
On different occasions, the Taliban and Islamic State had sought her release in exchange for American and European hostages.
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News Reports

Election Commission issues notice to Samajwadi Party for violating COVID guidelines by holding public gathering at party office

OpIndia Staff -
Election Commission issues notice to Samajwadi Party saying that it violated guidelines by holding a physical rally at its office
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News Reports

Devdutt Pattnaik admits he believed in using rape as revenge, offers an insincere apology for his misogynistic tweets

OpIndia Staff -
Netizens drew attention towards vile tweets posted by Devdutt Pattnaik after he was invited at Indian Youth Festival
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News Reports

Marathi actor Kiran Mane who abuses PM Modi and other BJP leaders removed from a TV show, NCP accuses the channel of cultural terrorism

OpIndia Staff -
After Marathi actor Kiran Mane was removed from Star Pravah serial 'Mulgi Jhali Ho', he met Sharad Pawar and hoped that it will be resolved
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News Reports

75-year-old Hasnuram Ambedkari to contest his 94th election in UP, says ‘want to lose as the winning politicians forget the masses’

OpIndia Staff -
74-year-old Hasnuram Ambedkari, who has contested 93 elections and lost all of them, again contesting in UP assembly elections
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News Reports

ED seizes assets worth Rs 48 lakhs from journalist Rajeev Sharma in Chinese espionage case

OpIndia Staff -
Rajeev Sharma had supplied confidential and sensitive information to the Chinese intelligence officers in lieu of money
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News Reports

‘Jan Ki Baat’ opinion poll: 56% favour Yogi Adityanath as UP Chief Minister, AAP may win Punjab

OpIndia Staff -
Opinion poll by 'Jan Ki Baat' predicts BJP will retain Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, while AAP is predicted to replace Congress in Punjab
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News Reports

Atmanirbharta in Indian Army: Indigenisation of defence manufacturing is helping to build a new and strong India

Saurabh Dwivedi -
A reflection on the indigenization process of the Indian Armed Forces under Make In India campaign, particularly the Indian Army
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Cricket

Virat Kohli steps down as India Test captain following series defeat in South Africa

OpIndia Staff -
The decision to quit as captain came following the defeat in test series against South Africa where India lost to the host 1-2
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News Reports

Election Commission extends ban on physical political rallies and roadshows till Jan 22

OpIndia Staff -
The EC has instructed all political parties to abide by the provisions of MCC and the broad guidelines of Covid
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: SP MLA Nahid Hasan arrested under gangster act a day after filing nomination from Kairana for assembly elections

OpIndia Staff -
Police arrested MLA Nahid Hasan under the gangster act and presented him in court. On court orders, he was sent to 14-day judicial custody.
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News Reports

‘No God but Jesus’: 4 arrested for threatening, offering money to a Hindu villager in Madhya Pradesh to convert to Christianity

OpIndia Staff -
The accused have been charged under section 3 and 5 of the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act.
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News Reports

Growth in imports from China slows down during Modi govt while India’s trade with other countries increase at a much higher rate

OpIndia Staff -
The growth rate for India’s trade with China is even less than the growth rate of India’s total international trade, which increased by 50%
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News Reports

‘Will teach you a lesson once our govt comes to power’: Md Ashraf arrested for threatening UP traffic police in viral video

OpIndia Staff -
Ashraf was heard threatening traffic police with dire consequences once "his government came to power" in Uttar Pradesh
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News Reports

Financially doomed Pakistan to grant permanent residence to wealthy international investors including Chinese and US-based Sikh nationals

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistani government aims to attract large investments from affluent Afghans who are already investing in Iran, Turkey, and Malaysia.
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News Reports

As countries rally to join diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics, Pakistan PM Imran Khan set to visit China for opening ceremony

OpIndia Staff -
China is facing 'diplomatic boycott' from many western nations over its gross human rights abuses
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News Reports

PM Modi declares January 16 as ‘National Start-up Day’, praises industry, says number of operative start-ups went from 550 to 60,000

OpIndia Staff -
This decade is being called as 'techade' of India to strengthen the innovation and entrepreneurship, PM Modi said.
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News Reports

Jharkhand Congress MLA Irfan Ansari makes a sexist jibe, promises to make roads ‘smoother than cheeks of Kangana Ranaut’

OpIndia Staff -
Jharkhand Congress MLA Dr Irfan Ansari has released a video wherein he has vowed to make roads of his assembly constituency, Jamtara, smoother than the cheeks of Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut
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News Reports

FIR filed against 2500 Samajwadi Party workers for flouting covid norms: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Despite EC's order prohibiting public rallies in the wake of COVID upsurge, SP had organised a joining-in function to welcome rebel leaders
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News Reports

‘Muslims most secure and happy under BJP rule’, says Muslim Rashtriya Manch appealing to the minority community to vote for BJP

OpIndia Staff -
The MRM said that the Muslims have suffered a lot during the Congress regime and that they were looked at by Congress merely as a vote bank.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Goons open fire at Kannauj District Panchayat member and BJP leader’s car for refusing to join Samajwadi Party

OpIndia Staff -
Uttar Pradesh BJP leader Bhupendra Shakya told the police that the 4 accused had been pressuring him to join the Samajwadi Party.
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News Reports

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Aazad puts a full stop over possibilities of an alliance with SP, says Akhilesh Yadav only wants Dalit vote bank

OpIndia Staff -
Bhim Army chief Aazad said that an alliance with SP would be impossible since Akhilesh Yadav just wants the Dalit vote bank
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News Reports

Arvind Kejriwal wanted to become Punjab CM by staging in-party feud: BJP shares video of once-loyal aide Kumar Vishwas, exposing AAP politics

OpIndia Staff -
The video was earlier shared in February 2020 by BJP IT Cell Head Amit Malviya during the Delhi elections.
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News Reports

Cache of explosives including Tiffin bombs recovered from Malkangiri in Odisha, after similar recoveries in Punjab, Delhi and Srinagar

OpIndia Staff -
The Police in Punjab, J&K and new Delhi also recovered explosives that were about to explode and cause huge damage on Friday
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News Reports

Slaughterhouse politics: Congress candidate for UP’s Moradabad makes promises about slaughterhouses, says Yogi govt ‘harasses’ Qureshi community

OpIndia Staff -
Rizwan Qureshi, the Congress candidate for Moradabad city, claimed that if he wins the upcoming election from his constituency the first thing he would do is reopen the slaughterhouses that remain shut in the state
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News Reports

IAF inquiry rules out failure or sabotage, blames weather for helicopter crash killing CDS General Rawat

OpIndia Staff -
General Rawat, his wife Madhulika, and 12 armed forces officers died in a helicopter crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu in December 2021
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News Reports

Hamid Ansari’s nephew Mukhtar Ansari, who once terrorized Purvanchal, now fears for his own life: How his empire of crime was shattered by Yogi...

OpIndia Staff -
Mukhtar Ansari had become a synonym for terror not only in Purvanchal but in entire Uttar Pradesh - but Yogi govt has shattered his empire
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News Reports

10th century Yogini idol repatriated to India from the UK, 40 years after it was stolen from a temple in Uttar Pradesh

OpIndia Staff -
Yogini idol stolen from a UP village 40 years ago spotted at a private home in the UK by stolen art recovery expert Christopher Marinello
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News Reports

New Jersey Police arrests Mohamed Hassanain in hate crime against Sikh taxi driver, Sikh Coalition thanks police for swift action

OpIndia Staff -
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department has arrested one Mohamed Hassanain in the hate crime case where he had assaulted an Indian-origin Sikh taxi driver
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News Reports

Mumbai court denies interim relief in defamation case filed by Salman Khan against neighbour in 2018: Here is what happened

OpIndia Staff -
Salman Khan was accused by his neighbour in 2018 of disrupting him to build a house on his land adjacent to his farmhouse
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News Reports

Denied ticket as couldn’t pay bribe to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s secretary: UP Mahila Congress leader after accusing party of being anti-women

OpIndia Staff -
UP Mahila Congress leader Priyanka Maurya has alleged that she was denied an election ticket as she refused to pay a bribe for the same
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Media

‘I was assaulted’: Former ‘ScoopWhoop Unscripted’ anchor Samdish Bhatia speaks out about why he quit and how ScoopWhoop turned a blind eye

OpIndia Staff -
Three months after quitting Delhi-based digital media company ScoopWhoop, journalist Samdish Bhatia spoke out about his ex-employer's indifference to an alleged incident of assault that resulted in a traumatic experience.
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News Reports

As protests grow, Rajasthan police now say that Alwar victim, found bleeding profusely, was not abducted or raped: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Rajasthan police claim that the specially-abled girl who was discovered severely injured and bleeding from her private parts abandoned at Tijara flyover in Alwar, Rajasthan, was not raped
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News Reports

Acquittal of Bishop Franco Mulakkal: Kerala cop, who investigated the case, calls verdict ‘shocking’, former HC judge says ‘miscarriage of justice’

OpIndia Staff -
Many people, directly or indirectly linked to the case, are not too pleased with the Kerala Court's verdict to acquit Bishop Franco Mulakkal of the Catholic Church in the nun rape case
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