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‘I still fear for what Aamir Khan did to me, he wanted my signatory rights,’ says Faisal Khan

OpIndia Staff -
Faisal Khan has directed a film Factory whose trailer was recently released. The film is expected to hit theatres on September 3.
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News Reports

Biden administration deletes data of Afghan weapons from Federal websites while Taliban parade captured US military equipment

OpIndia Staff -
Biden govt has justified its move to delete data of Afghan weapons from websites by saying that ‘it is a move to protect Afghan allies.’
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News Reports

Byju’s and more: The unrealistic goals, the mad rush and the ed-tech boom in India. Do we need to be worried?

OpIndia Staff -
Byju's promises a better future for the children. But its sales tactics and methods are rising concerns among many.
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Social Media

Indian Muslims attack veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah for advising them to be peaceful, non-violent and not to support Taliban

OpIndia Staff -
The timely video of Naseeruddin Shah advising the fellow Muslims against cosying up to the radical Islamists outfits such as the Taliban has created an outrage in the Muslim community.
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News Reports

The son of the lion: Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Massoud follows into his father’s footsteps in fighting the Taliban

Jinit Jain -
Ahmad Massoud has chosen to follow the footsteps of his father Ahmad Shah Massoud in fighting against the Taliban
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Social Media

Fake video claiming death of actor Sidharth Shukla captured by CCTV goes viral: Here is the truth

OpIndia Staff -
Minutes after actor Sidharth Shukla's death was reported, a video went viral on social media where a man in workout gear can be seen having a heart attack and falling unconscious.
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News Reports

China plans to control “terrorism” in Xinjiang by shrinking the number of Uyghur Muslims using “population optimisation strategy”

OpIndia Staff -
Report by German researcher based on official documents reveal China's “population optimisation strategy” to decrease number of Uyghur Muslims
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News Reports

Jharkhand: Cops thrash army jawan in Chatra for not wearing mask, video goes viral

Vijay Deo Jha -
An Indian army jawan Pawan Kumar Yadav was badly beaten up in Chatra district in Jharkhand on Wednesday for not wearing mask by cops who were themselves not wearing one
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Entertainment

Actor Sidharth Shukla dies of heart attack in Mumbai

OpIndia Staff -
Sidharth Shukla gained popularity by his role in serials like Balika Vadhu and also emerged as winner in reality show Bigg Boss 13.
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News Reports

Supreme Court orders status quo on Patna HC order for demolition of Waqf building, next hearing on Oct 18

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court stayed demolition of Waqf board building constructed in close proximity of Patna High Court.
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Entertainment

Priyanka Chopra’s Bvlgari mangalsutra photoshoot triggers ‘feminists’, call it ‘symbol of patriarchal oppression’

OpIndia Staff -
More Hindu symbols of matrimony were mocked because Priyanka Chopra wore a mangalsutra.
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OpIndia Explains

Syed Ali Shah Geelani: A lifetime of peddling Pakistan’s agenda in Jammu and Kashmir. A profile

OpIndia Staff -
A vocal supporter of Pakistan and its designs in the Kashmir valley, Geelani had made it clear that his agenda is Islamism, packaged and delivered as per Pakistan's wishes. "Hum Pakistani hain aur Pakistan Hamara Hai", was his famous slogan.
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News Reports

‘We are the custodians of Taliban, they got shelter and home in Pakistan’: Says Pakistani minister Sheikh Rashid

OpIndia Staff -
Welcoming the Taliban and snubbing the US, Rashid in another interview last week had also revealed that Pakistan is unwilling to shelter the US troop for a long time.
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News Reports

The Pioneer Editor and former BJP MP Chandan Mitra passes away, condolences pour in

OpIndia Staff -
Chandan Mitra a former BJP member had switched to the Trinamool Congress in 2018.
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News Reports

Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani buried within hours of his death even as Pakistan scrambled to instigate locals

OpIndia Staff -
Security arrangements were made for the final rites of Geelani (92), who was buried at Srinagar's 'Martyrs' Graveyard'. The police allowed only a limited number of his relatives to attend the funeral.
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News Reports

Indian student in Australia Vishal Jood to be released on October 15, was wrongly accused of false crimes by Khalistani elements

OpIndia Staff -
Vishal Jood reportedly pleaded guilty to three minor charges of altercations that happened between September 16, 2020, and February 14, 2021.
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News Reports

Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani dies at the age of 92 in Srinagar

OpIndia Staff -
Geelani was a key hardliner separatist leader in Kashmir, who had played a major role in the increase in separatist activists in the region
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News Reports

Radical Islam apologist profiled by Shekhar Gupta’s ThePrint spreads fake news claiming that Hindutva radicals destroyed a Muslim graveyard

OpIndia Staff -
Activists, admin and police demolish illegal majar on govt land, The Print columnist claims Hindutva radicals destroyed a Muslim graveyard
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News Reports

After Khel Ratna, Rajiv Gandhi loses national park in Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma govt drops his name from Orang National Park

OpIndia Staff -
In weekly cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Assam govt decided to rename Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park to just Orang National Park.
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News Reports

‘Would have pulled out of the competition if not for Bhagavad Gita’: High jumper Sharad Kumar credits the Hindu scripture for his bronze medal...

OpIndia Staff -
Sharad Kumar was dejected owing to his knee injury but reading Bhagavad Gita helped him overcome his anxiety at the Paralympics
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News Reports

Kathavachak Bhai Davinder Singh hails Taliban during preaching in Gurudwara, urges Sikhs to revolt against Indian govt

OpIndia Staff -
It is our misfortune that our 11-year-olds are getting a haircut, while the Taliban gave their 11-year-olds loaded pistols, said Davinder Singh
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News Reports

“Don’t forget me here,” pleads Afghan interpreter left behind in Afghanistan who had saved Joe Biden 13 years ago

OpIndia Staff -
Mohammed's visa application to leave Afghanistan was delayed after the defence contractor he worked for lost all the required records
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World

Watch: Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan refuses to call Taliban an enemy

OpIndia Staff -
The National Security Advisor of the United States, Jake Sullivan, says "It is hard to put a label on Taliban".
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News Reports

Rupa Tirkey death case: Jharkhand HC orders CBI probe, family alleges involvement of CM’s close aide

Vijay Deo Jha -
Rupa Tirkey, a native of Ranchi was posted as officer in-charge of Mahila police station in Sahebganj district in Santhal Pargana division. On May 3 she was found hanging at her official quarter in Sahebganj.
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OpIndia Explains

Meet Amrullah Saleh: The face of the Afghan resistance against the Taliban and one of the fiercest critics of Pakistan

Jinit Jain -
Amrullah Saleh, 48, the face of the Afghan resistance, believes the Taliban would crumble without Pakistan's support. He has been vocal about Pakistan's tacit support to Taliban radicals.
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News Reports

Biden admin has no update on 24 California students who remain stranded in Afghanistan after withdrawal of US troops

OpIndia Staff -
24 students of the San Juan Unified School District in California have not yet returned from Afghanistan since the semester began
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OpIndia Explains

Did you know ‘Yeshu Yeshu’ pastor Bajinder Singh was once arrested for raping a woman: Here’s his brief profile

Akshita Bhadauria -
From serving jail time on allegations of murder to arrest over rape charges to 'bringing a dead girl alive': The long and short of 'prophet' Bajinder Singh
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News Reports

PM Modi asks ministries to submit a list of infra projects delayed due to court and NGT orders, loss to taxpayers: Report

OpIndia Staff -
As many as 504 projects are running behind schedule and another 483 infrastructure projects reported cost overruns, as per an ET report.
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News Reports

Covid scare in Karnataka after 65 Kerala students carrying negative certificates test positive in Kolar college

OpIndia Staff -
As many as 65 students from Kerala have tested positive for Covid-19 in a nursing college in Kolar, Karnataka, creating panic in the city about a possible wave of infections in Karnataka, which has so far successfully contained the Covid-19 pandemic.
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News Reports

‘Not against religion’: Says Maha CM Uddhav Thackeray after Mumbai police filed 11 FIRs and detained 85 for Dahi Handi celebrations

OpIndia Staff -
After a muted Dahi Handi, BJP MLA Ashish Shelar issued a warning on Tuesday saying if the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government tries to stop the Ganeshotsav, there will be retaliation from the party.
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News Reports

Taliban holds mock funeral with coffins wrapped in US and NATO flags amid Allahu Akbar chants

OpIndia Staff -
Taliban celebrated the exit of U.S Military forces from the Afghanistan soil with coffins draped in US and NATO flags.
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Media

Kashmir Police denies reports claiming 60 youth gone missing from Kashmir since the Taliban took over Afghanistan

Anurag -
Various media outlets like NDTV, News18 and online portals like The Kashmiriyat had reported that 60 youths from Kashmir went 'missing' as Taliban took over Afghanistan
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News Reports

“We know that the SIT is not functional,” says Calcutta High Court on Bengal post-poll violence case

OpIndia Staff -
The SIT was to be formed to look into the cases of post poll violence other than cases of murder and sexual assault assigned to the CBI for investigation.
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News Reports

Mangaluru: Police inspector Albert Lasrado stops Hindu activist’s car, asks him to remove religious sticker

OpIndia Staff -
Albert Lasrado, who stopped the car for allegedly checking the documents, demanded that the Hindu activists pay a fine for putting up religious stickers on the car, claiming that the stickers were against the law.
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News Reports

Moplah massacre: Classical dancer Kalyanikutty Amma’s granddaughter recounts how their ancestral home is now occupied by Muslims

Shashank Bharadwaj -
Amidst the ongoing campaign to "secularise" the Moplah massacres and portray it as a freedom struggle, Smitha Rajan has put out a Facebook post recounting how legendary Mohiniyattam performer Kalyanikutty Amma and her family had to flee from their own house in Kerala during the Moplah massacres in 1921.
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World

Former Afghan President Ghani had informed Biden that Taliban was advancing with ‘full Pakistani support’. Read excerpts

OpIndia Staff -
Ashraf Ghani had informed Biden that not just logistical support from Pakistan's government, the Taliban also had thousands of Pakistani terrorists among their ranks.
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Opinions

No, Chetan Bhagat, you don’t get to take credit for India’s record breaking vaccination numbers

Nirwa Mehta -
Many pointed out to Chetan Bhagat how it was inappropriate to gloat over an article that was more like rooting for Pfizer and Moderna vaccines while dismissing Indian government efforts on vaccination.
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Crime

Bengal post-poll violence: 10 more cases registered by CBI after orders of Calcutta High Court came, total cases now 31

OpIndia Staff -
This comes shortly after the CBI made the first two arrests on August 28 of Biju and Aasima Ghosh, charged with the murder of BJP worker Dharma Mondal and two others in West Bengal’s Nadia district.
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News Reports

Ghaziabad: 3 FIRs filed against Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati for his vile remarks against women in viral video

OpIndia Staff -
Narsinghanand defended his comments made in the video saying they were taken out of context and that the video was “heavily edited”.
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News Reports

Al-Qaeda congratulates ‘Islamic Ummah on Victory’ as Taliban takes over Afghanistan, calls for ‘liberation’ of Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
The congratulatory message from Al Qaeda comes on a day US President Joe Biden claimed the terror organisation has been decimated in Afghanistan after Osama Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan
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Opinions

Why do real investors have hope in India even if ‘opinion writers’ don’t?

Abhishek Banerjee -
The day your prestige runs out, the money does too. If nothing else, the Chinese are canny with doing business. So, going forward, don’t count on Huwaei to sponsor articles on the greatness of Kerala model.
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News Reports

‘Taliban’ accounts mock USA and western culture with Pepe the Frog and other ‘edgy’ memes

OpIndia Staff -
Taliban is mocking the United States with memes of Pepe the Frog and other memes after the end of the 20 year Afghan war.
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News Reports

India beats previous record of highest single-day coverage, administers more than 1 crore vaccines doses in a day for second time

OpIndia Staff -
India on Tuesday once again administered more than 10 million vaccine doses in a single day, according to CoWin.
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News Reports

Dismantling Global Hindutva claims ‘Hinduphobia is a distraction’, while Hindus have suffered genocides and persecution continues to this day

Jinit Jain -
Dismantling Global Hindutva dismissed Hinduphobia as mere distraction after it was accused of furthering anti-Hindu bigotry.
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World

Facebook, Instagram ‘removes’ account of mother of slain US marine who slammed Joe Biden in wake of her son’s death

OpIndia Staff -
In her post Shana Chappell had expressed her belief that it was US President Joe Biden who was responsible for her son, Kareem Nikoui's death.
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World

USA: Nearly 90 retired Generals and Admirals call for Joe Biden’s Sec Def and chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff to resign over Afghanistan...

OpIndia Staff -
The resignation was demanded over the disastrous withdrawal of US Forces from Afghanistan that saw Americans stranded.
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Editor's picks

Bhim Army leader claims ‘RSS goons’ thrashed youth, forced him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’: Here is the truth

Jhankar Mohta -
Bhim Army Bharat Ekta Mission Delhi district president made the false claim against RSS in the early hours of August 31st.
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News Reports

Punjab: Congress leader’s anti-Hindu remarks spark protests in Bathinda on Janmashtami, organisations demand police action against him

OpIndia Staff -
Hindus organisations demanded that a case under IPC section 295(A) be registered against Punjab Congress leader Sukhraj Aulakh.
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News Reports

India witnesses the highest-ever quarterly expansion as GDP grows by 20.1 per cent in April-June quarter

Jinit Jain -
India registered a stunning economic rebound during the first quarter of FY21 despite being hit by the second wave of COVID-19 outbreak
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News Reports

Indian ambassador to Qatar meets Sher Mohammad Stanikzai, the head of the Taliban’s political office in Doha: Details

OpIndia Staff -
The Indian Ambassador to Qatar discussed the safety, security and early return of stranded Indian nationals in Afghanistan with Taliban.
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