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Jobless Rakesh Tikait to feature alongside Rihanna in ‘farmer’ edition of hit song ‘Love the way you lie’, expected to request Mia Khalifa for...

K Bhattacharjee -
Rakesh Tikait is suffering an existential crisis after PM Modi announced that the farm laws will be repealed by the govt.
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Politics

Watch: Chandrababu Naidu breaks down into tears, vows not to enter state assembly until elected Andhra CM

OpIndia Staff -
Chandrababu Naidu broke down into tears after MLAs of the ruling party YSRCP insulted his wife.
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News Reports

PM Modi to formally hand over the first made-in-India light combat helicopter to the Indian Air Force

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi will formally hand over the indigenously developed Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) to the Indian Air Force today in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh
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News Reports

Austria becomes first country in Europe to impose a complete lockdown amidst fresh Coronavirus outbreak

OpIndia Staff -
Austria had imposed a strict lockdown for amidst surging coronavirus cases starting Monday, i.e 22 November 2021
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News Reports

‘Uniform Civil Code is long due, govt has to bring it, not any community or court’: Allahabad HC

OpIndia Staff -
The court asked the Central government to consider setting up a panel for implementing the mandate of Article 44 regarding UCC.
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Social Media

After PM Modi repeals farm laws, Islamists and Leftists start throwing ‘Gaumutra’ and ‘gobar’ jibes at his supporters

OpIndia Staff -
After govt repealed farm laws, supporters of PM Modi became the subject of Hinduphobic slurs such as 'Gaumutra'
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Politics

The unceremonious and sudden repeal of farm laws: The lessons the government can learn from it

K Bhattacharjee -
Narendra Mod announced that his govt had decided to repeal the three farm laws which had attracted huge protests.
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News Reports

Sonia Gandhi drops Ghulam Nabi Azad from disciplinary committee days after Azad’s loyalists resign in J and K

Vijay Deo Jha -
The Congress Working Committee member, Ghulam Nabi Azad, is part of the 'G-23 group of the Congress that had asked Sonia for sweeping changes in the party structure.
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World

Chinese tennis player goes missing after accusing top Communist leader of coercing her into sex: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Chinese Tennis player Peng Shuai went missing after she accused former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli of coercing her into sex
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News Reports

Shakira’s hips don’t lie and according to this MP officer, neither do drunkards and hence, no proof of vaccination necessary: Watch

OpIndia Staff -
Video of Khandwa district excise officer RP Kirar has gone viral where he said that drunkards are honest by nature and they don’t lie.
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News Reports

Gurugram: After offering place for Friday Namaz, Gurudwara committee refuses, says space won’t be available due to Gurupurab celebrations

OpIndia Staff -
A day after Gurdwara Singh Sabha Committee of Gurugram offered Muslims space to offer Friday Namaz prayers in the Gurudwara, the committee has gone back on its decision.
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News Reports

‘We failed to convince them, decision taken in the spirit of democracy’: CM Yogi thanks PM Modi on repealing farm laws

OpIndia Staff -
"Keeping up with the spirit of democracy, the decision was made to repeal the farm laws," Yogi Adityanath had said
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Cricket

Tim Paine admits to sending d*ck pic and explicit messages, steps down as Australian captain ahead of Ashes

OpIndia Staff -
In a press conference, Tim Paine admitted to having sent lewd messages to a female co-worker of Cricket Tasmania in 2017.
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News Reports

Noida police Anti Human Trafficking Unit bust prostitution racket being operated via Whatsapp, three arrested

OpIndia Staff -
The Anti Human Trafficking Unit of Gautam Budh Nagar police in Noida have busted a prostitution racket being operated through Whatsapp
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Law

Bombay HC transfers judge to Yavatmal district after he rejected Anil Deshmukh’s plea for home-made food in prison

OpIndia Staff -
Additional Sessions Judge HS Satbhai was reportedly transferred after he rejected Anil Deshmukh's plea for home-cooked food
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Cricket

Pakistani-origin cricketer, who testified about racism in the UK, under scanner for anti-Semitic comments

OpIndia Staff -
The cricketer has come under the scanner for anti-Semitic remarks. The comments were made in 2011, when Azeem Rafiq was 19.
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News Reports

Mundra port: DRI and customs intercept possible radioactive substances sent from Pakistan to China

OpIndia Staff -
The statement by the Adani group informed that the cargo which was intercepted by the DRI and Customs officials at the Mundra port in Gujarat’s Kutch district was en route from Karachi in Pakistan to Shanghai in China.
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News Reports

PM Modi repeals farm laws: Did govt capitulate to violent forces or was it a necessary step to ensure internal stability. What insiders think

Nupur J Sharma -
The farm laws repeal by PM Modi has drawn mixed reactions fo far- but here is what the insiders feel about the move
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News Reports

BKU leader Rakesh Tikait says protests will continue regardless of PM’s announcement to repeal farm laws

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi had announced on Friday morning that his government has decided to repeal all three farm laws.
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News Reports

Bihar: Judge assaulted by police officials inside his chamber, threatened with gun, Patna HC furious

OpIndia Staff -
Officer-in-charge of Ghoghardiha police station Gopal Krishna and sub-inspector Abhimanyu Kumar Sharma barged into the chamber of the judge and assaulted him at gunpoint on November 18.
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News Reports

NASA reveals what the real cause of pollution in Delhi is, and no, it’s not Diwali crackers

OpIndia Staff -
According to Pawan Gupta, who works at Marshall Space Flight Center in NASA, at least 22 million people were affected by smoke produced due to stubble burning on November 11 alone.
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News Reports

Priyanka Gandhi’s personal secretary, 2 other Congress leaders booked for assault, were found loitering around a house at midnight

OpIndia Staff -
Sandeep Singh, Priyanka's personal secretary, two other Congress leaders named Yogesh Kumar Dixit and Shiv Pandey have been booked for assault.
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News Reports

PM Modi addressed the nation, repeals the three farm laws urging protesters to go back home

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi said that the govt had decided to repeal the 3 farm laws that were passed for the benefit of the farmers.
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World

6,754 women abducted in first half of 2021 in Pakistan’s Punjab province, 1,000 Hindu and Christian women converted to Islam every year

OpIndia Staff -
Human Rights activist said over 1,000 girls belonging to Hindu, Christian communities are converted to Islam every year in Pakistan
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Social Media

Kangana Ranaut is so insignificant and talentless that these politicians cannot stop reminding her about it by being sexist for a week now

OpIndia Staff -
The sexist and vile comments against actress Kangana Ranaut continue to flow in after she said that India gained real independence in 2014
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News Reports

BJP leader sends legal notice to Left front leader Aparna Sen for calling BSF ‘rapists and murderers’, asks for an unconditional apology

OpIndia Staff -
BJP leader Anirban Ganguly sends legal notice to filmmaker Aparna Sen for calling BSF personnel "murderers" and "rapists".
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News Reports

Raza Academy offices raided by Maharashtra Police in Malegaon-Nanded riot case, 119 accused arrested so far

OpIndia Staff -
119 arrests made and raids were conducted in Nashik and Nanded district where large-scale violence had taken place last Friday
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News Reports

Akhilesh Yadav vs Science: Here is why the Samajwadi Party chief doesn’t want to get vaccinated

OpIndia Staff -
For Akhilesh Yadav, public health is clearly less important than not seeing PM Modi's photo on his certificate
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh Home Minister bans Vir Das from performing in the state for his ‘two Indias’ monologue

OpIndia Staff -
Narottam Mishra said that like Vir Das, Congress leaders like Rahul Gandhi and Kamal Nath also defame India on foreign lands
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News Reports

Security remains a challenge, Indian govt to decide Team India’s participation in Champions Trophy in Pakistan in 2025, says Anurag Thakur

OpIndia Staff -
Anurag Thakur said the Indian govt would monitor the security situation in Pakistan to decide on the participation in 2025 ICC Champions Trophy
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News Reports

Nehru and Edwina’s secret: UK govt wants to bury Mountbatten documents, spending over 600,000 pounds to protect them

OpIndia Staff -
An author named Andrew Lownie has demanded to see those documents and the British government wants to prevent the author from accessing those. The UK government fears that if made public, those documents can damage the relationship between India, Pakistan and the UK.
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Opinions

Vir Das fiasco: While Vir Das’ ilk gave him the ‘traction’ he was looking for, he turned him into a joke for the rest...

Virender Kapoor -
Actually, Vir Das doesn’t deserve this article ‘par kyaa Karen control he nahi hota’ - and while it is necessary to call him out, he might be laughing at us
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News Reports

Kerala High Court seeks report on the alleged use of halal-certified jaggery to prepare Naivedyam and Prasadam at Sabarimala temple

OpIndia Staff -
Petitioner SJR has said that halal-certified jaggery prepared as per Islamic practices can't be offered to Lord Ayyappa
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News Reports

Gurugram: Mosques available, but Sikhs offer Gurudwara and Hindu man offers shop for namaz, media hails secularism

OpIndia Staff -
In Gurugram, there are dozens of mosques. So why are roads and parks still being jammed for namaz?
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News Reports

‘No protection, no hearing’, Supreme Court asks counsel of Param Bir Singh to first declare his whereabouts

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court has asked Param Bir Singh to first disclose his current location before taking up his plea for protection from arrest
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News Reports

Pak website hails Sidhu for Kartarpur Sahib Gurudwara even as Punjab Congress chief misses visit amid speculations of rift with CM Channi

OpIndia Staff -
A Pakistani website had recently hailed Sidhu for opening up of the Kartarpur Sahib Gurudwara and claimed that it was opened after Imran Khan and Sidhu discussed the same during Khan's swearing in ceremony
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News Reports

After ruling Delhi for 7 years, Arvind Kejriwal says Yamuna River can’t be cleaned in 2 days, announces an ‘action plan’ again

OpIndia Staff -
Prior to this, Delhi's Arvind Kejriwal govt had come up with quite a logic-defying technique of sprinkling water on the river Yamuna to dissipate the toxic foam
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Opinions

Here are a couple of propaganda techniques used to not only blame Hindus for violence by Muslims but also paint aggressors as ‘good samaritans’

Nupur J Sharma -
Violence had gripped the state of Maharashtra this week, most notably the city of Amravati in Vidarbha, following protests by Muslims
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News Reports

Kerala Police recover four blood-stained swords suspected to be used by SDPI goons to murder RSS activist A Sanjith

OpIndia Staff -
The Kerala police probing the murder of the RSS activist A Sanjith have recovered the CCTV footage and the weapons used in the crime
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News Reports

Kerala Devaswom Minister K Radhakrishnan uses Sabarimala temple holy water as hand sanitiser, draws criticism

OpIndia Staff -
Kerala Devaswom Minister K Radhakrishnan used Sabarimala holy water as sanitiser instead of drinking and smearing on his head
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News Reports

NIA arrests Quran Circle operative Shakeel Manna, accused of radicalising Muslim youths and sending them to Syria to fight for ISIS

OpIndia Staff -
NIA arrests one Shakeel Manna, part Quran Circle, who was wanted for raising funds for ISIS and radicalizing Muslim youths to join them
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Economy and Finance

PayTM shares crash after listing on a discount in India’s biggest ever public offering

OpIndia Staff -
Brokerage firm Macquaire Research has written a note to its clients that PayTM's business model lacks 'focus and direction' and initiated coverage with an 'underperform rating'.
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Crime

Pakistan brings new bill to chemically castrate habitual rapists, Jamat-i-Islami senator calls it against Sharia

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistani Senator Mushtaq Ahmed protested against the bill that allowed courts to punish habitual rapists with chemical castration.
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News Reports

Sonam Kinnar gets MoS status in Transgender Welfare Board, curses Akhilesh will never come back to power

OpIndia Staff -
Sonam Kinnar said the Akhilesh government and previous govts did not do anything for the welfare of transgender community in the state.
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News Reports

‘Kangana ko kya kya chaatne se Padma Shri mila hai sab jaante hai’: Shiv Sena MP goes on sexist tirade against national award winning...

OpIndia Staff -
Shiv Sena MP Krupal Tumane also called Kangana 'tuchha' while insinuating she did not deserve the Padma Shri that was conferred upon her.
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Opinions

Violence in Maharashtra: A saga of fake news, an Islamist organisation, organised protest and political patronage

Sandeep K Patil -
Nanded, Malegaon and Amravati in Maharashtra witnessed mob violence on rumours of vandalization of a mosque in Tripura.
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News Reports

Assam CM Sarma slams Times Of India’s fake news regarding talks with Ulfa, says India sovereignty is non-negotiable

OpIndia Staff -
"No Chief Minister can discuss sovereignty of India with anyone. This is non-negotiable," said the Assam CM.
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Opinions

From ‘fire in Mamata Banerjee’s panties’ to rape jokes: Vices that torment India’s comic scene

Jinit Jain -
From objectification of women to innuendos on women's virginity, Indian comedians have a habit of perpetuating immoral behaviour under the guise of “comedy”
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News Reports

Tikait threatens not to let PM Modi and CM Yogi set foot in UP if govt causes any hindrance in Mahapanchayat

OpIndia Staff -
Rakesh Tikait threatened not to let PM Modi and CM Yogi set foot in UP.
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News Reports

Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in New Jersey denies allegations of human trafficking, use of forced labour on construction site

Nirwa Mehta -
In May this year, a group of Indian workers in US had filed a lawsuit alleging human trafficking and forced labour and had claimed they were confined and forced to work for as low as USD 1 on construction of the Swaminarayan temple in New Jersey's Robbinsville.
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