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How did USA’s CIA let its staffers get away with the sexual exploitation of children? Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Buzzfeed News found that although evidence of sexual crimes was unearthed, no charges were filed by the federal prosecutors.
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News Reports

USA: All public schools in Chicago go ‘woke’, gender-neutral toilets made mandatory for students

OpIndia Staff -
The new signages indicate the fixtures available inside the restroom and announce that it is open to users of any gender identity and expression.
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News Reports

Another case of casting couch: Brother of film producer arrested in Mumbai for seeking sexual favours from a struggling actress

OpIndia Staff -
Mumbai police have arrested a 35-year-old man, who is the brother of a film producer, for asking sexual favours in exchange for work
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Government and Policy

Shiv Sena led BMC posts pic of manual scavenger without protective gear after it approved Rs 15 cr for upkeep of Aditya Thackeray’s penguins

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BMC courted controversy after it responded to a citizen complaint with the picture of a BMC worker indulging in manual scavenging
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News Reports

Buzzfeed News offers a 1% annual guaranteed salary increase, employees walk out for a day as the company votes to go public

OpIndia Staff -
The union also alleged that Buzzfeed management wants to regulate the creative works the employees do outside their work
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News Reports

“Only if we shun hunger for secularism, India will become truly secular”: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma speaks at News18 India Chaupal

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Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma spoke to journalist Aman Chopra on 'News18 India Chaupal- Desh Ka Sabse Bada Manch' program
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Economy and Finance

As Gautam Adani meets Mamata Banerjee for ‘investment potential’ in Bengal, here’s a reminder of Tata’s fate, ‘Adani-Ambani’ jibe and Gujarati hate

Nirwa Mehta -
Businessman Gautam Adani today met West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata to discuss investment opportunities in the state
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News Reports

India slams UN human rights body OHCHR for making baseless, unfounded statement about situation in J&K

OpIndia Staff -
India advised OHCHR to develop a better understanding of the negative impact of terrorism on human rights
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News Reports

Kerala CPI(M) member arrested for circulating nude video of party member sexually assaulted by party leader, party suspends victim for filing complaint

OpIndia Staff -
Kerala CPI(M) suspended the woman member from the party who filed sexual assault complaint against the Party leader
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News Reports

Adhir Rajan Chowdhury goes unhinged on Mamata Banerjee on her ‘Congress finished’ jibe, accuses her of hiding illegal funds abroad

OpIndia Staff -
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury charged Mamata Banerjee of being ungrateful saying she is forgetting that Congress had supported her in past
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News Reports

Former Mumbai Police Commissioner and state home guard DG Param Bir Singh suspended for irregularities and lapses

OpIndia Staff -
The file to suspend disgraced cop Param Bir Singh was signed by Chief Minister Uddhav Thakeray on Thursday
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News Reports

Bihar minister Jivesh Mishra threatens to get cops suspended after his car was stopped to give way to convoy of DM and SP

OpIndia Staff -
Minister Jivesh Mishra said that he would not join the assembly session till the actions are taken against cops that sopped his car
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News Reports

Actor Brahma Mishra, who played the role of Lalit in web series Mirzapur, found dead

OpIndia Staff -
Semi-decomposed body of actor Brahma Mishra, who played the role of Lalit in Mirzapur, was found in his Mumbai apartment earlier today.
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News Reports

Two cases of Omicron variant of Covid-19 detected in Karnataka by INSACOG network, contact tracing and testing on

OpIndia Staff -
Health ministry said that two cases of Omicron infection were detected in Karnataka by the INSACOG network of the union health ministry
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Opinions

Why being a Hinduphobic pays? Tracking the roots of hate that helps builds careers

Ganesh R -
The gist of this unwritten understanding is that in exchange for acting as enablers for draconian laws, naked fascism, corruption, nepotism, lavish lifestyles and power lust of these dynasties, left was allowed to infiltrate and takeover academics and media
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News Reports

Schools shut down in Delhi from tomorrow after Supreme Court slams Arvind Kejriwal govt for reopening them amid air pollution

OpIndia Staff -
The Apex court wondered why the Delhi government made work-from-home for adults but children have to attend the school despite high air pollution
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News Reports

Twitter user shares images of attack on a Hindu temple in Bangladesh, Bengal police flags it as ‘violation of Indian law’

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Twitter told Sinha that West Bengal Police have flagged his tweet about attack on a Hindu temple in Bangladesh stating it violated Indian Law.
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News Reports

Delhi: Hindu man stabbed to death by Faran and Shahalam over alleged love affair with Faran’s sister

OpIndia Staff -
Dablu Singh was brutally stabbed to death in Raghubir Nagar area in Delhi by Faran and Shahalam over an alleged love affair with Faran's sister.
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News Reports

Punjab CM Channi calls AAP a party of Kale Angrej and outsiders, says they are trying to grab Punjab after Gore Angrej were ousted

OpIndia Staff -
Punjab CM Channi said that kale angrej are trying to take over Punjab after gore angrej were ousted from the country
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News Reports

Hackers take control of Congress leader Kapil Sibal’s Facebook page, changed to an Australian skincare company’s page

OpIndia Staff -
Kapil Sibal's verified Facebook Page was hacked and it was changed to an Australian skincare company Dermalyana
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Social Media Fact-Check

Is ‘Mera Yeshu Yeshu’ fame pastor Bajinder Singh admitted in hospital for piles treatment? Truth of viral screenshot of news report

OpIndia Staff -
We can neither confirm nor deny whether Pastor Bajinder Singh is indeed suffering from piles (bawasir) and is admitted in hospital or not as that is between his doctor and his Lord.
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News Reports

No chance of the Congress getting a majority in 2024 elections: Ghulam Nabi Azad

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"I can’t make false promises hence I avoid talking about Article 370,” Azad said.   
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News Reports

‘Mathura ki taiyari hai’: UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya’s tweet kicks up a storm

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Mathura in Uttar Pradesh is the birth place of Lord Krishna and a structure, Shahi Idgah Mosque, stands next to the temple of Krishna Janmabhoomi.
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News Reports

Mumbai: Complaint filed against Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee for disrespecting the National Anthem

OpIndia Staff -
While a complaint has already been filed by Mumbai BJP leader Vivekanand Gupta, another complaint would be filed today by BJP leader Mohit Kamboj Bharatiya.
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News Reports

CPI (Maoist) expels former central committee member Kobad Ghandy for leaning toward spiritualism and criticising Marxism

OpIndia Staff -
Kobad Ghandy has been accused of espousing the path of spiritualism and denouncing Marxism as having no good values
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News Reports

No record of the death of farmers during protests against farm laws, hence no question of compensation: Govt informs Parliament

OpIndia Staff -
Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar informed the Parliament that the govt has no record of farmers who died during the protests
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News Reports

Mother of irony: Swara Bhasker appeals to Mamata Banerjee, one of the most authoritarian leaders of our times, to save democratic principles

Dibakar Dutta -
Swara Bhasker appealed Mamata Banerjee to protect the freedom of expression who has been jailing people for memes and cartoons
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News Reports

Twitter suspends account of ‘Stories of Bengali Hindus’ for sharing ignored stories of the trauma faced by persecuted Bengali Hindus

OpIndia Staff -
Twitter has once again singled out and suspended a non-left Twitter account named @storiesofBHs which shares attacks on Bengali Hindus
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News Reports

CBSE promises strict action for ‘inappropriate question’ on Gujarat riots asked in class 12 sociology exam

OpIndia Staff -
CBSE said it acknowledges the error and will take strict action against responsible persons for the inappropriate question in exam
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News Reports

‘My name is Sudhir Chaudhary and I’m not an Islamophobe’ – Editor-In-Chief of Zee News speaks his heart out on Twitter over allegations

OpIndia Staff -
Sudhir Chaudhary said despite of campaign against him and terming him as Islamophobe and terrorist, he spoke at the ICAI event.
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News Reports

“There is no UPA”: Mamata Banerjee hints at opposition alliance without Congress, Congress says defeating BJP without it is only a dream

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Benerjee hinted the united opposition in 2024 would be without Congress as she said that there is no UPA now
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Opinions

Kolkata to be India’s next comedy capital? Mumbai ‘comedians’ and actors line up before Mamata Banerjee

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Swara was seen earlier today introducing the Bengal CM to some comedians who were kicked out of gigs over the recent months for various fiascos and have collectively blamed it all on BJP and RSS, like Rahul Gandhi and Imran Khan do, almost every week.
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News Reports

The News Minute journalist dehumanises the death of legendary Telugu lyricist Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry, deletes Tweet later

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The News Minute journalist Tweeted that legendary poet Sastry was an 'extremist with ties to the RSS' and had views like any 'average Brahmin Sanghi'
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Editor's picks

Manjinder Singh Sirsa quits Akali Dal and joins BJP, has also resigned from the post of Chairman of DSGMC citing personal reasons

OpIndia Staff -
 Akali Dal leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa has joined the Bhartiya Janata Party today in the presence of Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
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OpIndia Scoops

Meet Ajay Singh from Aligarh Muslim University, who was rusticated and debarred from further studies in varsity for raising voices of Hindu students

Anurag -
Singh told OpIndia that he wanted to appeal against the decision in the court but could not because of some family emergency. He is, however, planning to approach the High Court soon. 
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News Reports

Jharkhand: Hemant Soren government charges for blood given to Ayushman Bharat beneficiaries in private hospitals, activists protest

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Saying that pvt hospitals are charging money for blood they get for free from govt blood banks, Jhakhand govt has started to charge for the same
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Crime

Kerala HC reduces jail term for rapist Christian priest who had got a minor girl pregnant and made her own father take the blame

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The trial court had sentenced Robin Mathew Vadakkumchery to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment in February 2019. He was also fined ₹2 lacs.
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News Reports

Kangana Ranaut files FIR against Bathinda resident for ‘openly threating to kill ker’ on social media

OpIndia Staff -
Actor Kangana Ranaut on Tuesday confirmed that she has filed an FIR after allegedly receiving threats over her posts on farmers protests
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Opinions

Tripura : Dear opposition, there is no crying in politics

Abhishek Banerjee -
The media never told you how much Tripura was suffering under the CPI(M) boot. And now they make you wonder how the BJP swept 329 out of 334 municipal wards.
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News Reports

Not targeted for religion: Kunal Kamra pours water on Munawar Faruqui narrative by ‘liberals’ as his Bengaluru shows get cancelled

OpIndia Staff -
Kamra today took to Twitter to claim that he had shows scheduled over next 20 days in Bengaluru and now they all stand cancelled.
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News Reports

Plea filed in SC to censor all future social media posts of actor Kangana Ranaut to ‘maintain law and order’ in the country

OpIndia Staff -
Advocate Charanjeet Singh Chanderpal has filed a plea in SC saying that all future social media posts of Kangana Ranaut should be censored
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News Reports

Main accused in Jorhat mob lynching case dies after hit by a vehicle while trying to escape from custody, Assam DGP quotes Newton’s third...

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Niraj Das, main accused in lynching of Animesh Bhuyan in Jorhat. was hit by an escort car after he jumped out of police vehicle to escape
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News Reports

Delhi: AAP MLA accused of sending goons to beat up a woman in Shalimar Bagh, shocking visuals emerge

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The incident took place on November 19, 2021 at around 10 PM in Delhi's Shalimar Bagh area
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Abdul Mobeen becomes Rajesh Yadav to lure a minor Hindu girl, forcefully converts her to Islam after marriage

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Abdul Mobeen was married three times before luring the minor Hindu girl from Hamirpur UP pretending to Hindu Rajesh Yadav
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Crime

Maharashtra: Bhiwandi Police arrest 40 illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, fake Indian IDs seized

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Maharashtra Police arrested 40 illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, recovered fake Aadhaar cards and other documents.
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News Reports

UP: Samajwadi Party worker files case against Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook parody page mocking Akhilesh Yadav

OpIndia Staff -
The Uttar Pradesh police later withdrew the name of Mark Zuckerberg from the FIR.
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News Reports

50 km jurisdiction: Demographic imbalance in border districts due to infiltration, state police will be helped, says BSF DG

OpIndia Staff -
BSF DG said that over a period of time the demographic balance in border states like West Bengal and Assam has been upset due to infiltration.
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News Reports

Gujarat fully vaccinates 70% of its population as it readies itself for Omicron threat

Jhankar Mohta -
Gujarat state administration has been preparing for the third wave as well as the Omicron threat looming in the coronavirus pandemic.
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News Reports

Siddhivinayak Temple: Agents misusing online booking app to cheat devotees, doctor exposes scam

OpIndia Staff -
Siddhivinayak Temple devotees being cheated by agents outside temple. Money being asked for Darshan that is supposed to be free.
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News Reports

Aligarh Muslim University scholar claims that his PhD degree was revoked for praising PM Modi, varsity denies allegations

OpIndia Staff -
AMU had asked Danish Rahim to return the 'incorrect degree' for replacement within 7 days of the issuance of the letter.
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