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Experts question Joe Biden’s mental health after he confuses facts about his son during interview, raise concerns about dementia: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Health experts have once again questioned the cognitive abilities of Joe Biden after he bungled his way through an interview.
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News Reports

Bihar: Car stuck in Muharram procession attacked with sticks and rod, cash and phones of Masood Alam’s family in the vehicle looted

OpIndia Staff -
The family of Mohd Masood Alam who were returning from Purnia in Bihar were seriously injured in the Muharram procession assault
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News Reports

Indore: 15-year-old girl ends her life after being told that those who die on Muharram go to heaven

OpIndia Staff -
A 15-year-old girl in Indore committed suicide after asking her mother whether one attains martyrdom and heaven after dying on Muharram
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Politics

Congress leader Udit Raj again trolled by Islamists for comments against Burkha and Taliban, trend #उदितवा_नंगा_है on Twitter: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Udit Raj was trolled by Islamists on Saturday, days after he was abused on Facebook for a post on Afghan women.
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News Reports

Sunanda Pushkar verdict completely exposes Shashi Tharoor and his affairs with a Pakistani journalist: Key takeaways from the judgement acquitting him

OpIndia Staff -
The Sunanda Pushkar verdict reveals how Shashi Tharoor had frequent fights with her over his extra marital affairs with Mehr Tarar
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News Reports

Surat: AAP corporator’s brother accused of raping a divorced woman, arrested by police

OpIndia Staff -
Surat Police lodged a case of rape against Mehul Vavalia, brother of AAP councillor Dharmendra Vavalia, after a divorced woman filed a case
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World

Australia: Police resort to tear gas and rubber bullets as thousands of people across the country hit the streets against the strict lockdown

OpIndia Staff -
Australian police on Saturday employed harsh measures, including the use of rubber bullets and tear gas, to disperse crowds that had gathered on roads in a nationwide protest to oppose the imposition of lockdown by the government.
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Politics

‘Unstable politician’: Navjot Singh Sidhu slammed for silence over advisor Malwinder Singh Mali’s separatist remark on Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
The controversy erupted after Malvinder Singh Mali, an advisor of Navjot Singh Sidhu, wrote that Kashmir is a separate country.
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News Reports

Andhra Pradesh Congress suspends party leader for frying “Twitter bird” in public, says he tarnished image of the party

OpIndia Staff -
G V Sriraj had fried a quail in the name of 'Twitter bird' to protest against locking of Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account for violating rules
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Opinions

The return of Taliban: The key mistake by the USA and the potential ramifications for India

Priyank -
In order to examine the potential ramifications of the re-establishing of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, one must first address the speed of the reconquest.
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Entertainment

Sony Pictures moves Bombay High Court to quash FIR against ‘Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story’: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Karad Urban Co-Operative Bank has filed a defamation case against the makers of 'Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story'.
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World

Sweden Armed Forces wanted to use Afghanistan War to increase ‘marketability’ of their fighter aircraft, reveals Wikileaks

OpIndia Staff -
A Wikileaks cable has revealed that Sweden Armed Forces wanted to use the Afghanistan war to market their fighter jets.
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News Reports

14 people including several maulanas and a medical student arrested in Assam for social media posts supporting the Taliban

OpIndia Staff -
14 people arrested from 10 districts in Assam for their social media posts hailing the victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan
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News Reports

Exclusive: Indians feared kidnapped by Taliban in Kabul are safe, being evacuated safely on a flight

OpIndia Staff -
Local journalists in Afghanistan had claimed that around 150 Indians had been kidnapped by the Taliban from the Kabul Airport.
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News Reports

I-T Dept attaches Mumbai’s Al-Jabriya Court under Benami Property Act, the house has been under scanner in probe against Chhagan Bhujbal

OpIndia Staff -
Al-Jabriya Court has also been under the ED scanner in a money laundering case against out on bail NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal
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OpIndia Explains

Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai: One of the top 7 Taliban leaders who had once served as Afghan army soldier and trained at IMA before...

Jinit Jain -
One among the top seven leaders of the Taliban, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai was trained at the Indian Military Association in Dehradun under the Afghan-Indo defence cooperation in the 1970s
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World

Afghanistan journalists claim 150 people, mostly Indians, have been kidnapped by Taliban in Kabul, Islamic outfit denies reports

OpIndia Staff -
Taliban has denied claims in the media that they abducted around 150 Indians from the Hamid Karzai International airport in Kabul.
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Crime

MP: Crowd chants ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ during Muharram procession in Ujjain, six arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Crowd in Muharram Procession in Ujjain shouts Pakistan Zindabad slogans after the procession was stopped by police for Covid-19 norms
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News Reports

Terror group Haqqani network takes control of Kabul’s security, Khalil Haqqani, with a $5m bounty on his head, seen roaming the streets: Full details

OpIndia Staff -
Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, is currently taken control by nearly 6,000 cadres of the Haqqani Network led by Khalil al-Rahman Haqqani, brother of Jalaluddin Haqqani the founder of the network.
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News Reports

Palghar Tribal man, who had borrowed Rs 500, kills himself after being enslaved by a close aide of an NCP MLA: Details

OpIndia Staff -
A case has been registered against NCP MLA Sunil Bhusara’s close aide Ramdas Ambu Korde for enslaving a tribal man for a mere Rs 500.
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News Reports

Afghan national Noor Mohammed, deported from India last year after staying illegally for 10 years in Nagpur, joined Taliban: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Days after Taliban took control of Afghanistan, it has now come to light that an Afghan man who was earlier deported from India had joined the radical Islamist organisation.
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Crime

FIR filed against Munawwar Rana for his rant likening Maharshi Valmiki to Taliban, case registered under SC/ST Act: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Controversial poet Munawwar Rana has been booked by the Uttar Pradesh Police for his derogatory comments against Hindus by drawing false equivalence with radical Islamic organisation Taliban
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Entertainment

Watch: Young CISF officer stops Salman Khan at Mumbai Airport, asks him to complete mandatory security check first, Netizens hail ‘real hero’

OpIndia Staff -
A video of Bollywood actor Salman Khan has gone viral on the internet where he was stopped by a CISF officer to first complete the security check before entering the Mumbai airport
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News Reports

Convoy of BJP leader Kirit Somaiya targeted in Maharashtra, he accuses Shiv Sena goons of attacking him: Details

OpIndia Staff -
BJP leader Kirit Somaiya was on his visit to Washim when his convoy was attacked with stones and black ink allegedly by Shiv Sena workers
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News Reports

Sikhs staying at a Kabul Gurudwara, who wanted to be evacuated to USA or Canada, shifted to a safe place for evacuation to India

OpIndia Staff -
Sikhs and Hindus staying at Gurdwara Singh Sabha in Karte-Parwan in Kabul have shifted to a safe place before their evacuation to India
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News Reports

Zydus-Cadila’s ZyCoV-D becomes sixth vaccine to receive EUA in India, world’s first DNA based Covid-19 vaccine, will need 3 doses: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Zydus-Cadila ZyCoV-D Covid-19 vaccine has received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the DCGI.
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News Reports

Hospitals in the United States denying organ transplants to patients because they are not vaccinated for Covid-19: Report

OpIndia Staff -
A Washington state patient said on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that hospitals were refusing organ transplants to non-vaccinated people
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World

Resistance forces recapture three districts in Afghanistan from the Taliban: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Pol-e-Hasar, Deh Salah and Banu districts in the Baghlan Province have fallen to the anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan.
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Opinions

Dear “fact-checkers”, date, time, precise geographical location doesn’t matter, radical Islamic terrorism is still radical Islamic terrorism

Sanghamitra -
People are sharing information, images and videos not because they are a part of some political campaign against the Taliban, not because they don't want the Taliban to win the next elections in Afghanistan or they just don't want to vote for them (as if that was even an option). They are sharing images and videos because they are scared.
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News Reports

Donald Trump hits out at former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, says “Ghani was a total crook, never had confidence in him”

OpIndia Staff -
Donald Trump said that Ashraf Ghani spent all his time wining and dining US senators, alleged Ghani fled the country with cash
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News Reports

Hindu American Foundation asks universities sponsoring “Dismantling Global Hindutva” conference to distance themselves from the Hinduphobic event

OpIndia Staff -
Hindu American Foundation asked students, alumni and citizens to write to universities urging not to sponsor “Dismantling Global Hindutva” event
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News Reports

‘Don’t justify terrorism, don’t glorify terrorists’: What India told China at UNSC about the communist nation shielding Islamic terrorist Masood Azhar

OpIndia Staff -
EAM S Jaishankar on Thursday took a swipe at China, warning that countries should refrain from indulging in double-dealing and making distinctions between terrorists based on their political and geopolitical aims
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News Reports

Shefali Vaidya, Pune based author known for her ‘saree swag’, now a member of special committee constituted by the Ministry of Textiles

OpIndia Staff -
Pune-based author and speaker Shefali Vaidya has been appointed as a member in a specially constituted committee formed by the Ministry of Textiles.
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News Reports

‘Taliban victory in Afghanistan should be celebrated by all Muslims’, says Tamil Nadu based Maulana

OpIndia Staff -
The radical Maulana claimed that the Taliban has been wrongly portrayed as a terrorist group by the "prostitution media".
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News Reports

No democracy, only Sharia: Taliban spokesperson clarifies that Afghanistan will be run exactly as it was 20 years ago

OpIndia Staff -
Although Hashimi conceded that there were issues regarding how the country would be run, he clarified that Afghanistan would not remain a democracy.
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Politics

Union Minister says Owaisi should be sent to Afghanistan after AIMIM chief says Govt should focus on women in India instead

OpIndia Staff -
AIMIM supremo Asaduddin Owaisi has been saying that the Indian Government should hold a dialogue with the Taliban.
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Government and Policy

India anticipated Afghanistan crisis: Planned exit 6 months in advance, evacuated Indians only after Kabul fell as it wanted to be last to leave

OpIndia Staff -
Did India foresee the crisis currently unfolding in Afghanistan? Probably yes as India planned evacuation 6 months before Taliban took Kabul over
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News Reports

Twitter has agreed to 70% of the conditions, ban to be lifted by year-end when all conditions are met: Information minister of Nigeria

OpIndia Staff -
Nigeria to lift the ban on Twitter by the year end after the company agrees to all the terms and conditions set up by the government
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News Reports

‘Humanity always wins over terrorism, Lord Shiva helps creation sprout even from ruins’: PM Modi launches key projects at Somnath

OpIndia Staff -
Hailing the cultural and religious significance of Somnath and the 12 Jyotirlings of India, PM Modi stated that it is Lord Shiva who lets the seeds of development sprout and grow even from the ruins of destruction.
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News Reports

Son of Khalistani Bhindranwale’s nephew and former Jathedar of Akal Takht arrested in Punjab by NIA: Details

OpIndia Staff -
The son of Jasbir Singh Rode, the nephew of Khalistani terrorist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, has been arrested by the NIA.
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News Reports

‘Journalist’ justifies Taliban killing those trying to escape Kabul, says they colluded with USA in killing Muslims, had earlier celebrated Kamlesh Tiwari murder

OpIndia Staff -
Journalist Ali Sohrab were found gloating over the misfortune and adversity faced by the Afghans wanting to escape Afghanistan.
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Politics

Facebook and Instagram remove Rahul Gandhi’s post where he had disclosed the identity of minor rape victim

OpIndia Staff -
Instagram and Facebook have removed the post where Rahul Gandhi shared photographs with the parents of the minor girl.
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News Reports

Maharashtra teenager Diksha Shinde’s claims were false, ANI withdraws story after NASA said she used fake credentials

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra teenager Diksha Shinde has claimed she has been selected in the NASA MSI programme, but her claims do not add up
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Media

Even as Indian ‘journalists’ hail the Taliban for holding a press conference, this is how they mercilessly killed the relative of a journalist: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Following the attacks against the journalists, the DW and other German media organisations have called on the German government to take swift action to help their Afghan staff.
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News Reports

Who was the Afghan footballer who fell to his death from the US C-17 plane while trying to escape Taliban rule. Details

OpIndia Staff -
Young Zaki Anwari was a student of the Esteqlal High school and hailed from a low-income household. He was a member of Afghan national soccer team.
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News Reports

Taliban raided and searched closed Indian consulates in Kandahar and Herat for clues on Afghan spies, took away parked cars: Report

OpIndia Staff -
The Taliban carried out searches inside the building and took away parked vehicles parked outside both embassies.
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News Reports

Taliban order Imams to not let people flee Afghanistan, instruct using Friday namaz to counter ‘enemy propaganda’

OpIndia Staff -
Taliban has reportedly told Imams across the country to talk to people during Friday prayers and persuade them not to flee.
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News Reports

MP: Cases of Love Jihad on rise, four cases of Muslim men changing identity to lure Hindu girls reported in just 2-3 days

OpIndia Staff -
Within a span of 2-3 days, four cases of harassment and sexual exploitation of Hindu girls by Muslim men using fake identities have been reported in Madhya Pradesh.
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News Reports

Yogi Adityanath govt tables SC-appointed probe panel report in Vikas Dubey encounter case: No evidence from public or media, clean chit to govt

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court-appointed Commission found no suspicion or doubt about the police version of the events that led to encounter of Vikas Dubey
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Crime

Calcutta HC takes notice of BJP worker Avijit Sarkar’s murder: Read what Court said about the second autopsy, the police’s refusal and more

OpIndia Staff -
Calcutta High Court ordered Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal govt to hand over autopsy report and other sealed cover documents of Avijit Sarkar to CBI
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