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“Pilot’s imagination isn’t blocked by roads, railway lines,” and other gems of Rahul Gandhi in this bizarre monologue where he blames his uncle for...

Nirwa Mehta -
"It is easy to kill yourself," Rahul Gandhi says about how his uncle Sanjay Gandhi died because he had similar flying hours as Rahul Gandhi does now
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News Reports

Australia imposes draconian measures to curb Covid-19, passes surveillance bill giving unprecedented power to cops

OpIndia Staff -
The Australia Government has adopted drastic measures in the name of Covid-19 that are a direct threat to democracy and freedom
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News Reports

Supreme Court rejects bail plea of anti-Sikh riots convict Sajjan Kumar, says he can’t be treated as a VIP

OpIndia Staff -
The order came after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed a response saying Kumar’s medical condition was stable and that he had been showing signs of improvement.
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News Reports

Heartbreaking visuals from actor Siddharth Shukla’s last rites: Friend Shehnaz Gill, others arrive at Mumbai crematorium

OpIndia Staff -
Apart from Shehnaaz, Shukla’s ex-colleague and co-contestant Rashmi Desai, Asim Riaz and Vishal Singh were also spotted arriving to attend his last rites.
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Politics

Congress MP Manish Tewari hails alleged sexual predator Tarun Tejpal, claims he was ‘politically persecuted’, ‘honourably exonerated’

OpIndia Staff -
Senior Congress leader Manish Tewari took the first step on Friday to rehabilitate sexual harassment accused Tarun Tejpal.
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu: Pastor arrested for fanning communal tension, had made objectionable remarks against Vinayak Chaturthi

OpIndia Staff -
The pastor has been remanded to 14 days of judicial custody and is currently lodged in the Central jail.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: AC mechanic Abdul Samad arrested for posing as a woman on Instagram and luring minor girls to send obscene photos and videos

OpIndia Staff -
Abdul Samad, who posed as women to lure minor girls, was arrested by the UP police by tracing him through electronic surveillance
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News Reports

Pakistan NSA Moeed Yusuf claims India is a threat to world peace, compares Hindutva Govt to Nazi Germany

OpIndia Staff -
Moeed Yusuf compared the Government of India to Nazi Germany and demanded that the world take cognizance of it.
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News Reports

Delhi HC grants bail to 5 people accused of murdering head constable Ratan Lal during anti-Hindu riots

OpIndia Staff -
Head constable Ratan Lal was murdered on February 24 when he was shot at by rioters while patrolling along with his seniors
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News Reports

Made in Pakistan: Scissor fails to cut ribbon, so minister uses his teeth, and people can’t stop imagining what next

OpIndia Staff -
Pak Minister Fayyaz-ul-Hassan Chohan said that he was inaugurating a shop in his constituency and the blunt scissor would not work. So he displayed his skills on ribbon cutting.
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News Reports

Malayalam movie ‘Vaariyamkunnan’ glorifying the Jihadis behind Moplah Hindu genocide in Kerala shelved after outrage

OpIndia Staff -
Vaariyamkunnan is based on lives of Variamkunnath Kunhamed Haji and Ali Musaliar, Jihadis behind genocide of Hindus in Kerala in early 1920s
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News Reports

Supreme Court stays the 4th FIR against OpIndia by the vindictive Bengal Government: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Nupur J Sharma, the editor-in-chief of OpIndia and Rahul Roushan, the CEO were summoned for interrogation by the CID on a Friday earlier this month.
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News Reports

No stone pelting, no violent clashes: Swift actions by administration prevent unrest in Kashmir after Geelani’s death

OpIndia Staff -
Following the death of separatist patriarch Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Jammu and Kashmir administration imposed restrictions to prevent violence
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News Reports

‘You are too pretty for this to have happened to you’: Biden had once said to the young widow of a martyr. Details

OpIndia Staff -
The family of the US marines killed in an ISKP suicide attack in Kabul have slammed Joe Biden for insensitive behaviour.
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News Reports

Auckland: ISIS-inspired man stabs six in a mall, PM Jacinda Arden calls it ‘terrorist attack’

OpIndia Staff -
The attack in New Zealand was carried out by a Sri Lankan national who had arrived in New Zealand in October 2011
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News Reports

JDU MLA says he was moving around in underwears inside train because he had upset stomach

OpIndia Staff -
Gopal Mandal's friend Kunal Singh came to the rescue of JDU MLA, saying that Mandal is a diabetes patient and was travelling to Delhi for some "urgent business".
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News Reports

Punjab police lathi-charge, use water cannons on protesting farmers in Moga as clashes turned violent

OpIndia Staff -
The severe action against farmers comes days after Punjab CM Amarinder Singh had called the Haryana Police's actions on farmers as 'brazen brutality'.
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OpIndia Explains

From ‘arararara’ to ‘Mera Yeshu Yeshu’ to exorcism in slow motion: Funny Christian conversion videos which are no joke

Shashank Bharadwaj -
The Christian preachers have left no opportunity to trap innocent Hindus by organising mass evangelical camps, healing events etc.
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News Reports

Delhi: Mysterious tunnel connecting Legislative Assembly to Red Fort discovered, what we know

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi Assembly building was constructed in 1912 during British rule and Red Fort was commissioned by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in 1638.
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Opinions

The problem of non-linearity: What Chetan Bhagat and other liberals keep getting wrong on India’s vaccination rates

Abhishek Banerjee -
Congratulations, Chetan. You now have Sadanand Dhume defending your intellectual contribution. And doing it more eloquently than you ever could.
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News Reports

We have the right to speak for Muslims in Kashmir or anywhere else in the world: Taliban Spokesperson Suhail Shaheen

OpIndia Staff -
Suhail Shaheen said that being Muslims, the Taliban has the right to raise their voice for Muslims in India, and any other country.
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News Reports

Worship Mamata Banerjee as ‘Goddess Durga’ this Pujo? 3 committees collaborate for her idol

OpIndia Staff -
Recently, Calcutta High Court ordered a court monitored CBI probe into the human rights violations in the large scale post poll violence that took place in the state after TMC’s Mamata Banerjee returned to power on May 2.
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News Reports

Three Palestinians die after Egyptian Army pumped toxic gas into smuggling tunnel between Egypt and Gaza Strip

OpIndia Staff -
Smuggling Tunnel between Sinai Peninsula in Egypt and Gaza Strip targeted by Egypt using toxic gas, three Palestinians die
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News Reports

‘Cow protection is a fundamental right of Hindus’: Allahabad High Court says cow should be declared as the national animal

OpIndia Staff -
Only beef eaters don't have the fundamental rights, those who worship cows also have the rights, the Allahabad High Court said
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News Reports

Taliban displays its plundered weaponry, suicide bombers in a victory parade broadcast on national TV

OpIndia Staff -
In a parade, the Taliban displayed one of its showpiece weaponry - suicide bombers to the elders of the radical Islamic outfit
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News Reports

Congress party forms ‘agitation committee’ led by Digvijay Singh with Priyanka Gandhi, Udit Raj and others as members

OpIndia Staff -
Congress president Sonia Gandhi forms a committee under the leadership of Digvijay Singh to plan sustain agitations on the national level
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Opinions

‘Liberals’ can live only as slaves of Islamists, or they will be ‘cancelled’: Naseeruddin Shah is an example

Sanghamitra -
In the case of Indian 'liberals', all their intellect, their thought process, and talks of progressive ideologies lie firmly at the feet of Islamist radicals.
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News Reports

Karnataka ramps up testing, vaccination in areas bordering Kerala where coronavirus pandemic is unhinged

OpIndia Staff -
The Karnataka government headed by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has taken a decision for a massive vaccination drive on priority basis within a 20-km radius on the borders with Kerala.
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News Reports

When a journalist asked tough questions to Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani it led to threats and intimidation. Watch

OpIndia Staff -
In 2011, journalist Aditya Raj Kaul had exposed the links of separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani with terror handlers in Pakistan
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Entertainment

‘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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