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Congress leader Rita Yadav, who was shot in Sultanpur, had planned the attack herself to get a ticket in the UP elections

OpIndia Staff -
Sultanpur Congress leader Rita Yadav had got herself shot by her associates to raise her political status so that she is given a ticket by the party
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BJP MLA asks UP Police to book Rohini Singh under IT act for conspiring to defame him: Details

OpIndia Staff -
In a tweet, Ravindra Nath Tripathi asked UP police to book Rohini Singh for spreading rumours and conspiring to defame him
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Turkmenistan President orders officials to find a way to extinguish the fire at ‘Gateway to Hell’, the gas grater that is burning for half...

OpIndia Staff -
For economic and environmental reasons, Turkmenistan President ordered officials to extinguish the fire at 'Gateway to Hell'
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Hyderabad: FIR against Tamil actor Siddharth on the complaints of Hindu Jana Shakti for his crass comments on Saina Nehwal

OpIndia Staff -
Actor Siddharth has been booked by Hyderabad Police station and Cyber Crime City Police for his comments against Saina Nehwal
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News Reports

Anti-China sentiments in Nepal rising over Beijing’s interventionist and expansionist policies: Report

OpIndia Staff -
The report, published in Khabarhub, said protests against Chinese hegemony has been a daily affair in Nepal
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Ladakh: Revenue Dept scraps Urdu as mandatory language for govt jobs after BJP MP wrote to Amit Shah

OpIndia Staff -
Ladakh administration replaces graduation with Urdu knowledge as qualification for several govt jobs with just graduation
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UP: Arrest warrant issued against Swami Prasad Maurya, a day after he resigned from cabinet minister post

OpIndia Staff -
An arrest warrant against Maurya has been made over alleged objectionable statements made by him on Hinduism and Brahmins in 2014.
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Another UP Minister Dara Singh Chauhan resigns from Yogi Adityanath cabinet, Akhilesh Yadav welcomes him to SP

OpIndia Staff -
UP Minister Dara Singh Chauhan resigned a day after minister Swami Prasad Maurya resigned to join the Samajwadi Party.
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Doctors in USA successfully transplant a genetically modified pig heart onto a human patient: All you need to know

OpIndia Staff -
“It was either die or do this transplant. I want to live", said David Bennett before the surgery.
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Bulli Bai creator Niraj Bishnoi belongs to a family of Congress supporters, media misinformation leads villagers to believe he bought and sold women

OpIndia Staff -
The father of Bulli Bai app creator Niraj Bishnoi said that while the family is Congress supporter, his son's political views are different
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News Reports

Omicron spreading: Health Ministry instructs states to stock medical oxygen, keep life support equipment ready in hospitals

OpIndia Staff -
As the third wave rises in India, union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan has written a letter to various states and union territories to ensure that all the hospitals have sufficient stocks and supplies of medical oxygen.
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News Reports

Home Ministry releases advisory to ensure safety and rights of Transpeople in prisons

OpIndia Staff -
The MHA guidelines ask states to ensure rights of Transgenders including right to self-identity, safety and healthcare in prisons.
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Devdutt Pattnaik has a meltdown after his National Youth Festival session could not be streamed due to ‘technical difficulties’

OpIndia Staff -
Devdutt Pattnaik event had become unavailable after netizens demanded the Centre to drop him as a speaker from Youth Festival
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‘Sneaky a**hole’ – Journalists criticise Djokovic for hiding COVID info in declaration form in a viral clip

OpIndia Staff -
The newsreaders' rant was a reaction to the reports that Djokovic has admitted there were errors in his travel documents for the Australian Open.
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‘Pakistan wants peace with India, but not under Modi govt’: Pakistan to unveil its first-ever National Security Policy

OpIndia Staff -
While Pakistan says it does not want hostility with India for 100 years, it says rapprochement with India not possible when Modi govt is in power
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Devdutt Pattnaik event goes missing and unavailable after netizens outrage over govt invitation to him for Youth Festival

OpIndia Staff -
Netizens highlighted abusive tweets by Devdutt Pattnaik after he was invited as a speaker at National Youth Festival
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SSB raises concern over increase in mosques and madrasas along Nepal border in UP, months after reports of their terror links

OpIndia Staff -
According to SSB , construction of mosques and madrasas has seen an increase of about 26% in last 3 years along Nepal border in UP
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PM security breach: Justice (retd) Indu Malhotra to lead SC appointed panel, NIA chief, DG(security) of Punjab included

OpIndia Staff -
The Judicial Panel will probe causes of security breach, people responsible for it and measures that need to be taken for preventing security lapses of VVIPs in future.
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Devdutt Pattnaik invited by Govt to speak at Youth Festival, Netizens share screenshots of his vile, abusive tweets

OpIndia Staff -
Sharing screenshots of his abusive and sexually derogatory tweets, Netizens urged Union Minister Anurag Thakur to remove Devdutt Pattnaik from the speakers' panel at the Youth Festival.
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Opinions

“Rayta” vs “Trad”: The power of disunity and how liberals bent to forces beyond their control

Abhishek Banerjee -
The “trad” vs “rayta” debate should go mainstream, and occupy the center of the political discourse. Move over, liberals and watch from the sidelines.
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News Reports

‘Punjab Police knew that PM’s convoy will be blocked, villagers were called from Gurudwara: India Today investigation

OpIndia Staff -
Intelligence inputs were forwarded on time about the possible road blockage but no action was taken, a DSP has informed India Today.
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United Nations experts ask USA to close Guantanamo Bay detention centre, call out ‘relentless human rights violations’

OpIndia Staff -
“Twenty years of practising arbitrary detention without trial accompanied by torture or ill-treatment is simply unacceptable for any government, particularly a government which has a stated claim to protecting human rights,” the statement by the UN experts has said.
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Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Twitter account compromised, briefly changes name to that of Elon Musk

OpIndia Staff -
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Twitter account has since been restored.
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Rajasthan: Minor, specially abled girl gang-raped, left bleeding on flyover in Alwar

OpIndia Staff -
Few men drove down the flyover on Tuesday night and dropped off the minor girl who was left bleeding and in unconscious state.
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Actor Siddharth ‘writes a letter’ to Saina Nehwal for ‘subtle cock’ joke, calls himself ‘staunch feminist’

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Siddharth has since deleted his distasteful tweets on Saina Nehwal as well as Times Now's Navika Kumar
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Filmmaker Manish Mundra comes out to help Zomato executive Salil Tripathi’s family after his death in an accident by police car

OpIndia Staff -
Salil Tripathi, a Zomato delivery executive, died on Saturday, January 8, after an SUV driven by a police constable rammed into him
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“Exposed to a cocktail of pathogens”: IIT professor slams BMC for poor facilities and hygiene at a quarantine centre

OpIndia Staff -
The professor accused the BMC of taking the Omicron variant lightly, adding that he was not tested for the latest COVID-19 variant
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Today it is 12, tomorrow it can be 120: SC slams Maharashtra govt for suspending 12 BJP MLAs, leaving constituencies unrepresented

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court slams that Maharashtra govt over suspension of 12 BJP MLAs for one year saying allowing such a precedent would put democracy in jeopardy
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UP: Cabinet minister Swami Prasad Maurya resigns, Akhilesh Yadav welcomes him into SP

OpIndia Staff -
Reports have stated that Swami Prasad Maurya wanted an MLA ticket for his son Utkrusht Maurya.
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BCCI ends association with Chinese mobile maker Vivo as IPL title sponsors, finds new partner in Tata group of companies

OpIndia Staff -
BCCI has decided to exit the partnership with Chinese mobile manufacturer Vivo as the title sponsor of IPL once and for all and instead collaborate with the Tata Group
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Tamil Nadu: DMK Govt demolishes Anjaneyar temple citing it was ‘illegally constructed’; 20 protesters detained

OpIndia Staff -
The DMK govt in Tamil Nadu demolished Anjaneyar Swamy temple in Chennai citing encroachments on Adyar riverbed
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Opinions

A letter to those from IIMs who wrote a letter to the PM about ‘hate-filled voices’: Do you not hear these voices?

Maria Wirth -
An article in the Indian Express from 8th January, 2022 caught my attention. It was titled “Your silence emboldens hate voices: Faculty, students of IIMs to PM”. 
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Patriotic Pakistanis are hating Saudi Arabia, and they have solutions for all problems: Nukes and opium

OpIndia Staff -
Patriots of cash-strapped Pakistan are full of hatred against about Saudi Arabia, for asking a loan payback.
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Opinions

The Left’s refusal to condemn Siddharth and Kanhaiya Kumar for their innuendos reveals their hollow commitment to feminism

Jinit Jain -
Even as the Left fashions itself as the champion of "feminism", their silence on innuendos by Siddharth and Kanhaiya Kumar betrays their hypocrisy
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Fugitive arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari suing French company over unpaid commission of Rs 92 crores for UPA era deal

OpIndia Staff -
Sanjay Bhandari has claimed that the French company owes over 92 crores to him for a defence transaction signed in India a decade ago, during the UPA regime.
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Delhi High Court issues notice to Twitter and Govt over Arti Tikoo’s petition: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
The court requested a response from the Centre and Twitter, while also providing three weeks to file a counter-affidavit
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Open Ajanta Ellora caves with 50% capacity like theatres, gyms: Aurangabad tourism body writes to MH govt

OpIndia Staff -
Aurangabad Tourism Development Foundation has said that the caves are naturally ventilated and are at lesser risk of multiplying the COVID spread.
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Karnataka: 33-year-old Wasim Hazaratsab Mullah sets the branch on fire after bank rejects loan over low credit score

OpIndia Staff -
The fire has caused damage worth Rs 12 lakh including computers, fans, lights, passbook printer, cash counting machine, documents, CCTVs, and cash counters, which were all destroyed.
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Bihar: Madarsa cleric rapes and impregnates minor student, records act and uses it to further rape her

OpIndia Staff -
The cleric, Maulvi Tabrez raped and impregnated a minor girl, who came to study at his Madarsa in Sitamarhi district in the Mithila region of Bihar
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Sports

Djokovic’s participation in Australian Open still unsure as threat of deportation persists, Australian minister mulls personally considering his case

OpIndia Staff -
The government's counsel soon hinted that Hawke was mulling over to revoke Djokovic's visa again
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‘Sushil Kumar fired at dogs, threatened wrestlers at Chhatrasal Stadium’: Delhi Police charge sheet

OpIndia Staff -
Sushil Kumar was furious that all his routine activity details were being leaked by some wrestlers to Sagar Dhankar, the charge sheet says.
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Smriti Irani condemns sexual innuendos directed at Saina Nehwal, asks if ‘women get explicitly objectified only through one app?’

OpIndia Staff -
Smriti Irani pointed out the social media harassment Saina Nehwal went through while talking about the broader issue of women being denied dignity on social media to The Indian Express
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Opinions

Congress-Left’s mortal threat, BJP’s opportunity: Mainstreaming the ‘Nationalist Muslim’

Ganesh R -
What if BJP can turn the left’s biggest threat into its opportunity? - A project to mainstream decent Muslims is what will make BJP unstoppable
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Pfizer CEO Bourla says COVID vaccines offer limited protection ‘if any’, adds third dose gives less protection against infection

OpIndia Staff -
Speaking exclusively to CNBC, Pfizer CEO Bourla stated that the vaccine against Omicron will be available in March.
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Coronavirus research deemed too dangerous by DARPA was approved by Fauci, EcoHealth Alliance conducted it at Wuhan: Report

OpIndia Staff -
A proposal by EcoHealth Alliance, asking for funding for gain of function research into coronavirus was rejected by DARPA, but was approved by Fauci, the report by Project Veritas says.
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‘If he wins the elections, he will become PM candidate’: Akhilesh Yadav on CM Yogi Adityanath’s second term

OpIndia Staff -
Akhilesh Yadav, however, was quick to add that it is the BJP leaders who think that if Yogi Adityanath wins second term he will become the PM candidate.
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Kerala: Youth Congress worker taken in custody in connection to murder of SFI worker

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Youth Congress worker Nikhil Paili on Monday was taken into custody in connection to murder of SFI worker Dheeraj Rajendran at Government Engineering College, Idukki.
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Kerala Gov Arif Mohd. Khan shocked over VC’s language: All you need to know about controversy over conferring D.Litt on President Kovind

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Khan's proposal for bestowing D.Litt on President Kovind was turned down by Kerala University VC without consulting Syndicate.
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‘Jinnah sabotaged the cause of Indian Muslims’: Maulana Mahmood Madani slams Akhilesh Yadav for his remarks on Jinnah

OpIndia Staff -
Mahmood Madani went on to say that because Akhilesh is leader of a party, he must have admired certain aspects of Jinnah's life.
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Opinions

‘Apple can’t leave China’ is a myth that has already been broken by India

Gopal Tiwari -
Doug Guthrie, in his recent podcast, claimed that Apple can't leave China, belittling the tech giant's growth in India, Vietnam
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