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Punjab: Now Hindu religious texts suffer sacrilege, but no lynchings reported

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Torn copies of Shri Garuda Purana, Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta and other Hindu scriptures were found outside Police Commissioner's office in Ludhiana
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News Reports

Stalker son of one Asraf Ali brutally stabs school girl for opposing molestation bid in Gopalganj, Bihar

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Stalker Gudda, son of one Asraf Ali brutally stabs school girl for opposing molestation bid in Bihar.
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News Reports

Kolkata municipal elections: Massive sweep for TMC, other parties left far behind

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According to a report by The Indian Express, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has a vote share of 74.2% while the BJP and CPI (M) have 8% and 9.1% respectively.
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News Reports

Kerala HC bins another petition seeking removal of PM Modi’s photo from vaccine certificate, imposes fine of Rs 1 lakh on petitioner

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The Kerala HC said citizens are duty-bound to respect the Prime Minister of the country while dismissing the plea.
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World

Pakistan: Hindu temple desecrated, idols destroyed in Karachi

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A man identified as Muhammad Waleed Shabbir has reportedly been arrested as per Pakistani media. He was found destroying the idols with a hammer.
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News Reports

Those who are averse to development and friends with criminals find my work ‘unupyogi’, says CM Yogi Adityanath at TOI conclave

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"Earlier electricity outages, bad roads, criminals calling the shots were common in the state. It has changed now," said CM Yogi
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News Reports

Govt blocks two websites, 20 YouTube channels linked to Pakistan for spreading anti-India propaganda

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Govt of India said the websites and YouTube channels were part of a dangerous digital campaign by Pakistan against India
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Politics

Jaya Bachchan ko gussa kyun aata hai: When actress-politician got triggered over things she had turned blind eye to earlier

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Jaya Bachchan has often made headlines for her angry responses in front of the media or any other public forum
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News Reports

UK Sikh MP calls Golden Temple lynching victim a ‘Hindu terrorist’, deletes Tweet after outrage

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UK MP Preet Kaur Gill deleted the tweet after uproar and tried to play victim saying right wing Hindus have been 'attacking' her on social media.
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Editor's picks

“Sarkar ki Dalali mat kijiye”: Rahul Gandhi rebukes media after being questioned about accountability of Punjab lynching incidents

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Rahul Gandhi lost his cool after being questioned over his tweet where he said lynchings was unheard of before 2014
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News Reports

Two days before Golden Temple lynching, SFJ’s Gurparwant Pannu sought Imran Khan’s help for Khalistan Referendum and ‘Fall of Delhi’

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Sikh For Justice's Gurparwant Pannu has said that the referendum for Khalistan will take place alongside upcoming Punjab state assembly elections.
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News Reports

Odisha: Spurned bride is adamant to live at in-law’s house, husband wants divorce, section 144 imposed

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Odisha woman continues Dharna outside her in-laws' house, section 144 imposed after local women break gates and barge inside.
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Opinions

Rahul Gandhi hadn’t heard of ‘lynching’ before 2014, here is a ready reckoner of India’s bloodied history featuring his family members

Nirwa Mehta -
Rahul Gandhi is smart, he knows how to use the ecosystem when you are losing the narrative war.
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News Reports

Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar ditches ‘friend’ Umar Khalid, ‘liberals’ and Islamists call it a lesson for Muslims

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Kanhaiya Kumar in his recent interview gave short shrift when asked if Umar Khalid is his friend.
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News Reports

Lakshadweep administration cancels Friday ‘jumma’ holiday in schools, local politicians object

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PP Abbas that a majority of the people on the island were Muslims and that Friday Namaz is an 'unavoidable religious practice' and Friday should be holiday for schools.
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News Reports

Lynching at Kapurthala Gurudwara: Bihar woman says victim was her brother, viral video suggests he was probably mentally unwell

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A viral video showed a man in same attire of the deceased in Kapurthala lynching Case, possibly mentally challenged and a destitute.
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News Reports

Bharatsinh Solanki’s wife alleges he has illicit relationships with multiple women, wants to destroy Congress, shoots letter to Sonia, Rahul, Priyanka

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Reshma Solanki, Bharat Solanki's estranged wife, has accused her husband of having affairs with women as young as 22 years old.
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News Reports

Kapurthala lynching victim was just hungry, looking for some food at Gurudwara: Reports

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The man who was killed in Nizampur, Kapurthala Gurudwara was reportedly hungry and looking for food. He was spotted taking some Rotis in the kitchen, say reports.
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News Reports

R Madhavan says ‘3 Idiots’ was better than the book, Chetan Bhagat hits back saying he prefers Pulitzer over ‘Pan Masala Award’

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A seemingly nasty online spat between R Madhavan and Chetan Bhagat was a gimmick to promote their new Netflix show Decoupled
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News Reports

Delhi HC affirms father-uncle duo’s sodomy conviction, sets aside gang rape charge saying there was no penile-vaginal penetration

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The Delhi HC said sexual violence against minors is always abhorrent, adding that it slides into depravity when it happens within the father-daughter relationship.
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Government and Policy

Banks have recovered approximately Rs 13k cr from asset sale of defaulters like Nirav Modi, Vijay Mallya: FM Nirmala Sitharaman

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FM informed that banks have collected roughly Rs 13,109 crore from asset sales of defaulters such as Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi, and Vijay Mallya
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News Reports

The Wire and Congress try to malign Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma with ‘land grabbing’ allegations: Read how the lies fell flat

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Congress and The Wire have accused Himanta Biswa Sarma of helping land mafia in taking over the land, meant for the needy.
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Social Media Fact-Check

Viral message says PM Modi touched feet of IAS officer Aarti Dogra, calling her ‘chief architect’ of Kashi Vishwanath Corridor: Here is the truth

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The divyang lady who met PM Modi at Kashi Vishwanath Corridor was not IAS officer Aarti Dogra but Shikha Rastogi from Kashi
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News Reports

‘Aapke bure din jaldi aayenge…I curse you’: SP MP Jaya Bachchan loses her mind as ED questions Aishwarya Rai in Panama Papers case

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Jaya Bachchan lashed out at the treasury bench in the Rajya Sabha for making "personal remarks" against her
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News Reports

In a first, Tripura to export Pineapples to Germany using waterways

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The pineapples would be exported to Germany from the industrial growth centre located at Kumarghat in Tripura
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News Reports

Muslim women who are treated unequally after second marriage of husband must be allowed divorce: Kerala HC

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Kerala HC said Quranic injunctions are violated if a Muslim man refuses to treat his first wife equally after second marriage
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Opinions

Priyanka Gandhi, sitting in her ivory tower, thinks providing access to LPG cylinders and toilets is not women empowerment

Jinit Jain -
Priyanka Gandhi recently proclaimed that LPG connections and toilets are not women empowerment.
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News Reports

VHP leader’s murder in Jharkhand: Accused Yunus Ansari arrested, another named Prince Khan absconding

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Jharkhand police have arrested one Yunus Ansari in the murder of VHP leader Mukesh Soni, who was shot dead in Ranchi, Jharkhand on December 15.
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News Reports

Gujarat: Aam Aadmi Party leader Isudan Gadhvi detained, accused of misbehaving with BJP woman worker in drunken brawl

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Isudan Gadhvi has been taken into custody and brought to civil hospital where he would undergo medical checkup and checked for alcohol.
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News Reports

Election Laws Amendment Bill, which seeks to link Aadhar with voter ID, passed in Lok Sabha: Details

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"It is against the Supreme Court verdict and one which violates our privacy," claimed Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.
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News Reports

‘Hang them’ – Congress’s Navjot Singh Sidhu calls for Taliban-style public hanging of sacrilege accused

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It is noteworthy that Sidhu has made such demand at a time when all leaders, irrespective of the party lines, have shied away from condemning the lynching of the man accused of sacrilege at Golden Temple as well as in Kapurthala Gurudwara.
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Opinions

The state of lawlessness: Political murders and lynchings that nobody is outraging about

Jinit Jain -
Punjab, West Bengal and Kerala epitomise lawlessness as political murders and mob lynchings in these states continue unabated
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News Reports

J and K assembly: Delimitation panel proposes 7 additional seats, STs to get 9 reserved seats for the first time

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The panel has proposed 6 additional seats for the Jammu region and one additional seat for the Kashmir Valley. As such, the Jammu region will now have a total of 43 assembly seats while the Kashmir Valley will have 47 seats.
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News Reports

Video clip from R Madhavan starrer #Decoupled goes viral where he is seen arguing with a man doing Namaz at airport

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In the scene, Arya Iyer, a successful novel writer, is seen entering a 'prayer room' at the Delhi airport to find a space to do some stretching exercises because he has been suffering from back pain.
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World

Chinese media claims tennis player Peng Shuai has denied sexual assault allegations

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35-year-old Peng is a Wimbledon and French Open doubles champion. In November, she published a lengthy post on the Chinese social media platform Weibo in which she accused Chinese former premier Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault.
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi asks journalist if he’s working for the government when asked about opposition disrupting parliament

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Questioned over the stalemate in parliament over the Lakhimpur issue, Congress senior leader Rahul Gandhi lambasted a journalist asking him whether he works for the government
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News Reports

Enforcement Directorate summons Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the 2016 Panama Papers leak case

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ED asked Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to dispose before its office in Delhi on December 20 to record her statement in the 2016 Panama Papers leak case
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Opinions

No, “ch*tiya” Sanjay Raut, comparing roads to women’s cheeks is not ‘respect’

Nirwa Mehta -
What makes such sexist jibes worse is that the flagbearers of feminism are silent on it because the ones on the receiving end are 'Sanghis' who anyway are considered dispensable.
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News Reports

USA: Police in Fairfax say Muslim girl’s allegations were false, no racial comments were made during fight between 2 students

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The City of Fairfax Police Department in Virginia has dismissed the Muslim girl's claims that the assault was motivated by hate towards her race or religion.
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News Reports

‘Not in good taste,’ BJP MP Hema Malini hits out on those who compare roads to her cheeks

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Shiv Sena leader Gulabrao Patil on Sunday compared roads outside his house to Hema Malini's cheeks. MP Sanjay Raut endorsed it saying that such comparison shows respect to her.
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News Reports

Kapurthala lynching: How Punjab police did u-turn after a mysterious phone call during the presser, booking dead victim instead of mob

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Punjab police had at first confirmed that a case had also been registered against the accused in Kapurthala lynching case, but later backtracked during the press conference after they received repeated phone calls.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Mathura MP Hema Malini bats for Bhavya Mandir, hopes for something on the lines of Shri Kashi Vishwanath Corridor

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Last year in August PM Modi conducted Bhoomi Pujan of the Bhavya Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, months after the Supreme Court ruled in favour of Ram Lalla Virajman
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News Reports

Kolkata: BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari protests at EC office, says he was physically stopped by cops from meeting Governor

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In a video shared by ANI, Suvendu Adhikari was seen having a heated discussion with officials inside the premises of the State Election Commissioner Office.
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News Reports

Gujarat: Ambaji Mandir administration takes back order banning loudspeaker in hawanshala

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Hindu community had warned that if the order banning loudspeakers in Ambaji Mandir was not withdrawn, all loudspeakers in mosques across Gujarat will be taken down.
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News Reports

Punjab: State govt forms SIT to investigate alleged sacrilege at Golden Temple

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Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, who also holds the state’s home ministry portfolio, said on December 19 that the identity of the deceased person was yet to be revealed as he was not carrying any identification documents.
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News Reports

Three children die after consuming cough syrup administered at Mohalla Clinic in Delhi, over a dozen kids hospitalised

OpIndia Staff -
16 children were poisoned after consuming a drug which was administered by a Mohalla Clinic in Delhi, 3 of them died
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News Reports

2300-year-old Buddhist Temple discovered in Northwest Pakistan by a joint Italian-Pakistani team

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A 2300 years old Buddhist Temple has been discovered in Northwest Pakistan along with several other Buddhist artefacts
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News Reports

England: Social services had ignored repeated complaints of cruelty on 16-month-old child by evil lesbian couple before they killed the kid

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Lesbian couple Savannah Brockhill and Frankie Smith found guilty of killing Smith's 16 months old child Star Hobson in Keighley, England
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News Reports

Political conspiracy, ISI-Khalistan, caste clashes and others: Theories fly after two lynching cases in Punjab over sacrilege charges

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Several theories have been floating around as possible reasons of increase in lynching cases linked to sacrilege in Punjab
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News Reports

‘Chor ki daadhi mein tinka’ Yogi Adityanath hits out on Akhilesh Yadav after IT raids on his aides, Yadav cries ‘phone taping’

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Yogi Adityanath dared Akhilesh Yadav to come clean on the issue of corruption after IT raids on people close to Akhilkesh
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