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Land seized from mafias will be used to build houses for the poor and Dalits: UP CM Yogi Adityanath

OpIndia Staff -
UP CM Yogi Adityanath was speaking in the assembly while announcing the state's supplementary budget.
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News Reports

Shia procession attacked in Pakistan on Muharram, 3 killed and 59 injured in the bomb blast

OpIndia Staff -
Videos of the attack on procession by Shia Muslims in Pakistan have gone viral on social media
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News Reports

Twitter suspends account of Afghan caretaker President Amrullah Saleh’s office, allows Taliban to use its platform

OpIndia Staff -
Twitter has said that it will let Taliban use the platform as long as it does not violate its policies.
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Opinions

‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’ event: Nazi-esque propaganda to justify the genocide of Hindus

Nupur J Sharma -
3-day event cosponsored by 45+ Universities most from the USA is set to take place called 'Dismantling Global Hindutva'
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Media

‘Fact-checkers’ get to work to whitewash Taliban as the Islamist organisation with not so great human rights record takes over Afghanistan

Akshita Bhadauria -
And as if being apologists for homegrown Islamists was not enough, the so-called fact-checkers have now gone international to clean up after the Taliban.
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News Reports

People who support Taliban despite watching the cruelties inflicted on women and children should be exposed’: UP CM Yogi Adityanath in assembly

OpIndia Staff -
Speaking on the floor of the Legislative Assembly, the Chief Minister came down heavily on the "liberals" and the leaders of the opposition parties for glorifying the Taliban, a radical outfit that tramples on the basic rights of women and children.
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News Reports

Agra: Jama Masjid Mufti says Independence Day celebrations at mosque premises is ‘sacrilege’, organisers should ‘fear Allah’

OpIndia Staff -
The Independence Day celebrations at Madarsa Alia inside the Jama Masjid premises was organised by the Local Islamia Agency. UP Miniority Commission chairperson Ashfaq Saifi had hoisted the Tricolour.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: 5 Hindu women seek right to worship Hindu Gods inside Gyanvapi mosque that used to be Kashi Vishwanath temple

OpIndia Staff -
The five Hindu women have filed a petition in court seeking orders to restore their worshipping rights in old Kashi Vishwanath temple that was converted to Gyanvapi Mosque.
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News Reports

Taliban defaces women pictures outside Kabul salon, sales of burqas skyrocket after Islamist group takes over Afghanistan

OpIndia Staff -
As Taliban takes over Afghanistan, restrictions on women are back despite the promise made in press conference that they will have rights 'under Islamic Sharia'
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News Reports

Saudi Arabia releases Karnataka man arrested over ‘blasphemous’ post 2 years ago, was falsely implicated by Abdul brothers for supporting CAA-NRC

OpIndia Staff -
Saudi Arabia police arrested Harish Bangera in December 2019, after a 'blasphemous' post was shared from a Facebook account created in his name
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News Reports

UP Model: 53 districts report zero new Covid-19 cases, 17 districts have zero active cases

OpIndia Staff -
53 districts in UP reported no new cases of Covid-19 while 17 Districts have zero active cases, as per latest health ministry data
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News Reports

Poet Munawwar Rana can go to jail over derogatory comments on Maharishi Valmiki, earlier Rakhi Sawant was in a soup in similar case

OpIndia Staff -
The Valmiki Samaaj, especially those who live in Punjab, disagree with the part of the story that Maharishi Valmiki was a dacoit at any given time.
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News Reports

Joe Biden says, “That was 5 days ago” when asked about Afghans falling off from airplanes in a desperate bid to escape Taliban

OpIndia Staff -
Biden also claimed that there was no way to handle the situation any better and there was “no leaving without chaos ensuing.”
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News Reports

West Bengal post-poll violence: Calcutta High Court orders CBI, SIT probe, orders state govt to proceed compensation for victims

OpIndia Staff -
The cases related to the murder and crimes against women mentioned in the NHRC will be probed by the CBI while other cases will be probed by the SIT.
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News Reports

Watch: India Today shows Arvind Kejriwal’s picture while speaking about Taliban, triggers jokes

OpIndia Staff -
Several netizens mocked the Delhi CM for giving way too many advertisements.
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News Reports

Reality behind ‘press conference’: Taliban brutally assault journalists for covering protests, prevent woman anchor from entering office

OpIndia Staff -
Journalists assaulted by Taliban for covering civilian protests in Jalalabad.
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News Reports

Poet Munawwar Rana likens Taliban to Maharishi Valmiki, claims they fought for ‘freedom of their land’

OpIndia Staff -
Poet Munawwar Rana claims Talibanis are fighting for freedom of their land and claimed that they are 'aggressive' not terrorists.
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News Reports

Afghanistan: Taliban burns down amusement park in Sheberghan, because it had statues and statues are ‘haram’ in Islam

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, videos of Taliban fighters enjoying rides in an amusement park after taking over Kabul had gone viral on social media.
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World

Afghan crisis: France evacuates 21 Indian nationals, the Gurkhas who secured French embassy in Kabul

OpIndia Staff -
Canada, however, had abandoned the Gurkhas who guarded the embassy on its last flight out of Kabul as they were Nepalese citizens.
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News Reports

Ashraf Ghani issues video message from UAE, says he escaped Afghanistan to avoid bloodshed in Kabul, denies escaping with cash

OpIndia Staff -
Ashraf Ghani said that he decided to not cause bloodshed in Kabul, and that’s why fled the country to avoid a huge disaster
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News Reports

While the Taliban promises women’s rights, an Afghan victim who was blinded by the outfit says they feed women’s bodies to dogs

OpIndia Staff -
Afghan woman was shot multiple times by the Taliban last year, she was stabbed several times with knife and her eyes were gouged out
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News Reports

Alt News gives clean chit to Muslims and Muslim leaders in connection with inflammatory posters in UP’s Pratapgarh: Here’s how they are patently wrong

Jinit Jain -
Alt News has made it a routine to employ dubious methods in their efforts to absolve Muslims of any culpability
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News Reports

Complaints registered against Swara Bhasker for hurting sentiments: Here is what happened

OpIndia Staff -
Advocate files a complaint against Swara Bhasker for equating 'Hindutva terror' with the 'Taliban terror' after the Taliban captured Afghanistan
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News Reports

Taliban regime faces a financial crisis as they can’t access central bank funds and Afghanistan has run out of foreign exchange: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Almost all of Afghan central bank funds are in US and international bank accounts, and as a banned group the Taliban can't access it
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Crime

Indore: Faizaan Khan posed as Kabir to trap woman, threatens her to convert and get her child circumcised

OpIndia Staff -
Faizaan has been arrested and a case has been filed against him under relevant sections of sexual assault and forced conversion.
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News Reports

Leave no man behind: Ruby, Maya and Bobby, the ITBP dogs that secured Indian Embassy in Afghanistan return home safely

OpIndia Staff -
The ITBP dogs played a crucial role in securing Indian mission in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Social Media

Twitter refuses to remove accounts of Islamist group Taliban, claims will ‘ensure’ it follows ‘rules’

OpIndia Staff -
Spokespersons for the Islamist group Taliban that took over Afghanistan earlier this week are pretty much active on Twitter giving regular updates.
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News Reports

Congress MPs who were seen attacking marshals in Rajya Sabha cry before media, claim they were injured too

OpIndia Staff -
Rajya Sabha's female security officer Ms Akshita Bhat in her report had mentioned that Opposition MPs Chhaya Verma and Phulo Devi Netam had assaulted and dragged her in order to help their male counterparts break the security cordon.
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News Reports

Taliban shot unarmed Afghans for protesting against the change of national flag, two died in Jalalabad

OpIndia Staff -
Two Afghani locals were killed and ten others were injured when the Taliban shot at them for installing Afghan national flag in Jalalabad
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Culture and History

The phantom of colonialism: Unearthing ‘Discovery’

R S -
How are we truly independent if we let our children learn history written by invaders with their own narrative?
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News Reports

Afghan embassy in Tajikistan requests Interpol to detain Ashraf Ghani for stealing public fund, declares VP Amrullah Saleh as acting president

OpIndia Staff -
Afghan embassy in Tajikistan has requested the Interpol to detain ousted president Ashraf Ghani to recover stolen public fund from him
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Editor's picks

Taliban to give rights to women, but as per Sharia law: Here is what the Islamic law says about women

Jinit Jain -
Let's try to understand what the much touted women's rights under Islamic Sharia mean in real life.
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News Reports

AIMPLB Secretary Maulana Rahmani hails Taliban for capturing Afghanistan, calls it ‘extraordinary success’

OpIndia Staff -
AIMPLB Secretary Maulana Umrain Mahfuz Rahmani tweeted in Urdu praising Taliban for their "extraordinary success" in Afghanistan
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News Reports

Terror funding in the name of MBBS seats in Pakistan: J&K police arrest 4, Hurriyat channels involved

OpIndia Staff -
Responding to media queries, Singh revealed that there were as many as 57 cases of youth from Jammu and Kashmir who went across the border on a student visa and returned as terrorists.
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News Reports

Despite projecting a ‘moderate’ image in TV studios, Taliban kills woman for not wearing burqa, fires at women and children outside Kabul Airport

OpIndia Staff -
While the Taliban is trying to project a 'moderate' image in TV studios, on the street they still remain the same fundamentalist group
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News Reports

Pakistan: Hundreds of men grope, tear clothes of a woman in Lahore, some later defend it saying she was ‘wearing tight clothes’

OpIndia Staff -
Female TikTok star groped and molested by hundreds of men at Minar-e-Pakistan in Lahore on their Independence Day
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News Reports

Islamists attack former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju for his Facebook post, wish him death

OpIndia Staff -
Markandey Katju had posted “Hanumanji u Akbar” on Facebook, which triggered the Islamists to launch an online attack on him
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News Reports

Afghanistan: Amrullah Saleh leads ‘Panjshir Resistance’ against Taliban, working with Ahmed Masood to unite Northern Alliance warlords

OpIndia Staff -
Amidst the complete takeover of Afghanistan by the Islamic terror group Taliban, a resistance force, led by Ahmad Massoud, son of late Afghan politician Ahmad Shah Massoud - known as the "Lion" of Panjshir, are gaining in strength in the Panjshir valley, north of Kabul.
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News Reports

Punjab: Farmer Protesters create ruckus in Rupnagar after seeing a vehicle with PM Modi’s photo, tore posters

OpIndia Staff -
Alleged farmers tore posters of PM Modi on a vehicle that was part of 'Bullet Rani' convoy that was on a trip from Madurai to Manali
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News Reports

Not satire: In a bid to attack PM Modi, ‘Liberals’ in India hail Islamist group Taliban for ‘holding press conference’

OpIndia Staff -
So what if they beat up women, indulge in public flogging and execution, have zero regard for human rights. At least Taliban held a press conference!
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News Reports

Shashi Tharoor discharged by Delhi court in Sunanda Pushkar abetment of suicide case, gets clean chit

OpIndia Staff -
Sessions Court in Delhi discharged Congress Leader Shashi Tharoor in case of abetment of suicide of Sunanda Pushkar, his late wife
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News Reports

Samajwadi Party MP Shafiqur Rehman booked by UP Police for hailing Taliban, equating them with India’s freedom fighters

OpIndia Staff -
Samajwadi Party MP Shafiqur Rehman Barq had on August 16 hailed the Taliban and likened them to the freedom fighters who fought for India’s independence
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News Reports

From choorma and ice-cream to taking a promise from players: Here’s what PM Modi said to the Tokyo returned athletes

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi also requested the players to send written suggestions and letters to him recommending how the infrastructure and training in the country can be bettered.
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News Reports

’20-year Afghanistan mission was foolish, should have ended long ago’: Tulsi Gabbard slams the American ‘elite’ for wasteful wars

OpIndia Staff -
Gabbard blamed the American 'elite', including mainstream media, politicians, defense contractors, for stretching the Afghanistan mission for 20 years.
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News Reports

New York Times lies about Indian govt’s visa policy towards Afghan nationals, makes false claims of religious criteria

OpIndia Staff -
Despite India officially stating that it has decided to grant emergency Visas to the Afghan nationals, the New York Times continues to peddle lies about the Indian government to claim that the Modi government is using a religion as a criteria to bring Afghans
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News Reports

‘Liberals’ attack Shashi Tharoor for ‘revealing’ Malayalis in Taliban, Tharoor proves how Keralites are indeed joining terror groups

OpIndia Staff -
Shashi Tharoor was attacked by 'liberals' for voicing concerns over people from Kerala taking the radicalisation route.
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News Reports

ISIS terrorist Nimisha Fathima, other Keralites among 5,000 prisoners set free by Taliban from Kabul jails: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Fathima’s mother Bindu who is awaiting her return said that if the news of her daughter's release is indeed true then it is nothing but "divine intervention".
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News Reports

West Bengal: Shiv Bhakts thrashed by cops outside Bhootnath temple, BJP compares situation in state to ‘Taliban Raj’

OpIndia Staff -
The Bhootnath temple is of immense significance to Shiv Bhakts during the month of Shravan.
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Entertainment

Spanish radio chat show calls BTS ‘Chinese backstreet boys’, angered fans allege racism and xenophobia

OpIndia Staff -
In a Spanish radio chat show, speakers had derisively referred to BTS band as "Chinese Backstreet Boys".
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World

Vice President of Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh lays claim to the presidency, seeks support as he implores Afghans to ‘join the resistance’

OpIndia Staff -
Vice President of Afghanistan under the Ashraf Ghani government, Amrullah Saleh, has staked claim to the presidency.
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