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Kashi Vishwanath Corridor: When Shekhar Gupta’s ThePrint tried fuelling misapprehensions about the grand restoration project

OpIndia Staff -
In its interview from Jan 2020 with chief architect Bimal Patel, The print alleged that Kashi Vishwanath Corridor was built after felling ancient temples
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News Reports

Madras HC quashes FIR against YouTuber Maridhas, was arrested after he showed DMK supporters mocked death of Gen Bipin Rawat

OpIndia Staff -
The court said offenses mentioned in FIR were not made in the tweet posted by YouTuber Maridhas
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Opinions

What the “right-wing” and the “left-wing” has meant traditionally and how BJP is transcending binaries with its governance model

Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar -
It is time to discard the tag of Right wing and simply go for that which is right for the country - exactly what the Modi govt is doing
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News Reports

Did your tax money fund the live telecast of Kashi Vishwanath Corridor inauguration on Doordarshan? Here is how DD earns money to spend

Nirwa Mehta -
To claim that the live telecast of the 'Hindu' programme by public broadcaster like Doordarshan in a secular nation like India was on tax-payers' money is actually quite incorrect.
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News Reports

Facebook accepts that its third-party fact checks are nothing but ‘protected opinions’: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Last year, TV journalist John Stossel had published a video on Facebook titled, "Government Fueled Fires' in the aftermath of the 2020 California forest fires. The video was censored by Facebook as 'misleading'.
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News Reports

‘Army needs to move heavy machinery near China border’: SC okays construction of double-lane highways for Uttarakhand’s Char Dham Project

OpIndia Staff -
The government said that in a bid to reduce the risk of landslides in the Himalayan region because of widening of the road, all necessary steps are taken to mitigate disaster.
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News Reports

Gujarat: Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity booked on charges of conversion at shelter home for women

OpIndia Staff -
In the FIR it was stated that the girls staying at the shelter home were forced to read Christian scriptures and attend Christian prayers.
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News Reports

‘Tamils Nadus behind IAF chopper crash because Amit Shah wants to be PM’: Pakistani politician Rehman Malik floats wild theories

OpIndia Staff -
During talk show Rehman Malik alleged India is funding the TTP in Pakistan and Danish Siddiqui was killed because he was there to expose the 'link' between India and Taliban.
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News Reports

Bajrang Dal removes ‘Pakistani Food Festival’ banner in Surat, restaurant owner issues apology

OpIndia Staff -
Meanwhile, the restaurant owner Sandeep Dawer had accepted his mistake and vowed to not use the word Pakistan as it hurt the sentiments of people.
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News Reports

‘Na sounga, na sone dunga’: PM Modi, CM Yogi inspect ongoing work in Kashi Vishwanath, Varanasi in middle of the night

Nirwa Mehta -
PM Modi, who is on a visit to Varanasi for the inauguration of Kashi Vishwanath Corridor, also took time to inspect his constituency and see to it that other works of development are on track.
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News Reports

Varanasi – One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world

Anurag -
Kashi or Varanasi is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and Kashi Vishwanath corridor restores its glory
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News Reports

Terrorists attack police bus near Srinagar in Kashmir, two cops killed and 12 injured

OpIndia Staff -
Terrorists attacked a police bus in Jewan area at the outskirts of Srinagar in Srinagar, killing two policemen and injuring 12
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World

Kim Kardashian clears baby bar exam, just a step away from becoming attorney

OpIndia Staff -
Kim Kardashian recently took to Twitter to inform her followers that she had cleared the baby bar examination
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News Reports

After ordering central forces for Tripura municipal polls, Supreme Court junks BJP’s petition seeking central forces for Kolkata municipal polls

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court of India refused to entertain a petition filed by BJP to deploy central forces for the upcoming Kolkata municipal elections
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News Reports

Did Akhilesh Yadav just wish PM Modi death? Here is what he said about PM Modi’s visit to Varanasi

OpIndia Staff -
'People go to Varanasi to spend their last days', Akhilesh Yadav said on PM Modi visiting the city to inaugurate Kashi Vishwanath corridor
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News Reports

‘Bringing Hindus to power is secular agenda in 2021’: Asaduddin Owaisi slams Rahul Gandhi for hailing India as a land of Hindus

OpIndia Staff -
Owaisi said Congress and Rahul have fertilised the ground for Hindutva, adding that their agenda is to bring Hindus in power
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Opinions

India’s shift to ‘Majoritarianism’: Deal with it

Nupur J Sharma -
Kashi Vishwanath Corridor was inaugurated today with pomp and show and the usual suspects are crying 'Majoritarianism'
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News Reports

Lone survivor of IAF chopper crash Group Captain Varun Singh stable but still in critical condition, skin grafts dispatched

OpIndia Staff -
Group Captain Varun Singh, undergoing treatment in Bengaluru after the chopper crash, is in stable but critical condition
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News Reports

Jacqueline received expensive bags, designer outfits and diamond earrings from Conman Sukesh: ED charge sheet

OpIndia Staff -
Conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, who is linked with actor Jacqueline, is the prime accused in the Rs 200 crore extortion case
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News Reports

Cargo ship capsizes after colliding with another cargo ship in Baltic Sea near Sweden, two missing

OpIndia Staff -
Danish cargo vessel Karin Hoej capsizes after colliding UK vessel Scot Carrier in Baltic Sea, two-member crew missing
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News Reports

Painkillers, not drunk: Journalist Deepak Chaurasia clarifies over viral video where he fumbled on air

OpIndia Staff -
In a video that had gone viral last week, Chaurasia was fumbling live on air while hosting a show on the tragic helicopter crash in which CDS Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife and other personnel of armed forces lost their lives
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News Reports

PM Modi inaugurates Kashi Vishwanath Corridor, asks everyone to take three vows Swachchta, Srijan and Atmanirbharta

OpIndia Staff -
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the newly developed Kashi Vishwanath Dham Corridor on December 13th
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News Reports

‘Chu*iya means stupid’: Sanjay Raut after being booked for making objectionable remarks against women BJP workers

OpIndia Staff -
Sanjay Raut defended himself in a tweet, asserting that “Chu*iya” means “stupid” as per Hindi dictionaries
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Entertainment

Kareena Kapoor, Amrita Arora test positive for COVID, had violated various norms and attended parties

OpIndia Staff -
Kareena Kapoor and Amrita Arora were busy partying last week with their girl gang and also at Karan Johar's place
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News Reports

Yogi Adityanath thanks PM Modi for realising Mahatma Gandhi’s dream of the Kashi Vishwanath corridor

OpIndia Staff -
"Many did politics in the name of Mahatma Gandhi but none could turn his dream into reality (except PM Modi)," Yogi Adityanath said.
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News Reports

‘They are not proud of their PMs, we are’: Kerala HC on plea seeking removal of PM Modi’s pic from vaccine certificate

OpIndia Staff -
Kerala HC asked the petitioner why he was ashamed of PM Modi when millions of Indians elected him to power
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News Reports

Shri Kashi Vishwanath Dham and the significance of Jñānavāpī Koop: Part of Gyanvapi earlier, brought within temple corridor after 352 years

Anurag -
The historic Koop is a part of the Kashi Vishwanath Temple corridor - read about the significance of the well
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News Reports

Watch : PM Modi takes a dip in the holy river Ganga in Varanasi

Kabir Kashyap -
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated the historic Kashi Vishavanath Corridor in Varanasi
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News Reports

‘Babri structure was martyred, Muslim bachelors should get married and raise a family’: Asaduddin Owaisi’s dogwhistles in Mumbai rally

OpIndia Staff -
Asaduddin Owaisi asked Muslim bachelors to get married and have children, along with asking them to shun secularism
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News Reports

PM Modi offers prayers at Kal Bhairav temple in Varanasi, gets showered with petals

OpIndia Staff -
PM Narendra Modi offered prayers at the Kal Bhairav temple in Varanasi ahead of inaugurating the Kashi Vishwanath Dham
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News Reports

Coal shortage haunts Congress-ruled Rajasthan, seeks Centre’s intervention against Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh for opening allocated mines

OpIndia Staff -
Rajasthan has sought support from the union govt for opening two coal mines in Chhattisgarh allocated to it for power plants
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News Reports

‘I can’t think of any other politician who has this kind of experience mix’: Poll strategist Prashant Kishor heaps praise on PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
In same interview with India Today, Prashant Kishor had revealed how he had almost joined the Congress but didn't as he realised it would be counterproductive.
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News Reports

AIMIM leader announces ₹11 lakh reward to thrash ex-Shia Waqf Board chairman Wasim Rizvi with a shoe after he reverted to Hinduism

OpIndia Staff -
Wasim Rizvi reverted to Hinduism and is now known as Jitendra Narayan Swami.
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Entertainment

India’s Harnaaz Sandhu crowned Miss Universe 2021 in the pageant held in Israel

OpIndia Staff -
Prior to Sandhu, Sushmita Sen (1994) and Lara Dutta (2000) have won the beauty pageant representing India.
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News Reports

Bihar: Teacher Sadaf Jahan fired after allegations of throwing Shrimad Bhagwad Gita in the dustbin emerge, FIR lodged

OpIndia Staff -
Kendriya Vidyalaya teacher Sadaf Jahan is also terminated from her job. However, no arrests have been made so far in the case.
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News Reports

Greta ‘toolkit’ activist Disha Ravi now trying to delay the metro project in Bengaluru: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Disha Ravi is the co-author of the anti-India toolkit of the farmer protest, which was inadvertently posted on Twitter by Greta Thunberg.
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OpIndia Scoops

OpIndia exclusive: Shri Kashi Vishwanath Temple Corridor, a new symbol of Hindu pride

अजीत झा -
PM Modi will dedicate Kashi Vishwanath Corridor to the country on December 13.
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News Reports

Kawardha, Chhattisgarh: Hindus unite to hoist a 108-feet tall saffron flag at the place where Islamists had uprooted flag earlier

OpIndia Staff -
The procession was taken out from Ramjanaki temple with 5100 'kalashas' (religious urns) in the presence of various Hindu religious dignitaries including Mahamandaleshwar of 13 Akhadas, Mahants and Shankaracharyas.
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News Reports

France: When politicians and Mayor of a suburb sang the national anthem to protest against street Namaz

OpIndia Staff -
Residents in Gurugram have also been protesting against the practice of blocking public spaces and roads for the Friday namaz.
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News Reports

Lalu Prasad Yadav’s family feud turns uglier, after targeting Tejashwi, mama Sadhu Yadav targets Tej Pratap

OpIndia Staff -
Sadhu Yadav further said that Lalu Yadav is not fit even to be a peon. He also said that he would welcome Tejashwi and his newly wed wife with a garland of shoes.
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News Reports

General Rawat’s final message on the eve of his untimely death in chopper crash tragedy played at ‘Swarnim Vijay Parv’. Watch

OpIndia Staff -
In the prerecorded message, late CDS General Rawat had invited Indians to join the country in celebrations of 50 years of victory in the 1971 India-Pakistan war which culminated into creation of Bangladesh.
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News Reports

Chhaati, chaaku and Hindus: Rahul Gandhi’s ready reckoner on absolute bullshit

Nirwa Mehta -
Earlier in the day, his sister Priyanka Gandhi, too, had addressed a rally, which was largely inconsequential and not as entertaining.
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News Reports

Spain: Catholic bishop marries Satanic erotica writer, Church throws him out

OpIndia Staff -
Youngest Bishop of Spain, Xavier Novell Goma who had earlier left the Roman Catholic Church has married an author who writes Satanic Erotica fiction. 
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News Reports

Punjab Govt tells DCs to prepare list of farmers who own land beyond permissible limit, Jat Sikhs concerned

OpIndia Staff -
For months, the Dalit and Dalit Sikh communities of Punjab have been protesting against the state government for inaction on the demands they had laid down in connection to loan waiver, land ownership, work under NREGA and many more.
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Crime

Karnataka: Man commits suicide after killing family, ‘matchmaker’ named Noorjehan arrested for abetment, attempt to convert

OpIndia Staff -
As per repor the couple had been having frequent fights and Noorjehan had persuaded Vijaylaxmi to leave her husband, saying she would find a new partner for her.
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News Reports

India invites all five central Asian countries as chief guests for Republic Day celebrations in 2022: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, the five central Asian countries have been invited as chief guests for Republic Day 2022
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News Reports

Bihar: Teacher Sadaf Jahan threw Shrimad Bhagwad Gita in dustbin, abused Hindu Gods and Goddesses, class four student says

OpIndia Staff -
The victim student is the son of a priest of ISKCON temple in Gaya and studies at Kendriya Vidyalaya. The child also said that the teacher threatened to skin him if he told anyone about the incident
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News Reports

‘Intellectual terrorists and champions of human rights destroyed the diversity of Kashmir’: Vivek Agnihotri at Harvard Club of Boston

OpIndia Staff -
At Harvard Club of Boston, Vivek Agnihotri called out the duplicity of intellectuals who championed human rights while destroying the diversity of Jammu and Kashmir
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Social Media

Challan, not lugai: UP cops fine Kanpur youth Khalid to the tune of ₹14K for driving to Bollywood music without a helmet

OpIndia Staff -
Some media houses wrongly reported Khalid was fined Rs 9,000 for violations of the act, but he admitted that he was fined Rs 14,000 and he had paid the amount.
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OpIndia Scoops

Gujarat: Burqa clad women offer namaz in public park, man climbs atop a slide and recites azaan, videos viral

Nirwa Mehta -
Another video of the same park has gone viral where an elderly man can be seen reciting the azaan, call to Islamic prayer, while standing atop a slide where children would play in the park.
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