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The British embassy left details of its Afghan staff behind for the Taliban to find: Here is what had transpired

OpIndia Staff -
Conservative MP and ex-Afghan veteran Tom Tugendhat emphasised that the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Select Committee will conduct an inquiry into the matter.
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Opinions

Trump derangement syndrome patient Sam Harris admits he is embarrassed over enthusiastic welcome for ‘adults in the room’ involved in botched Afghan withdrawal

K Bhattacharjee -
Atheist Sam Harris has been one of the most vocal unhinged critics of former US President Donald Trump.
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News Reports

Mumbai Police initiates probe against Amitabh Bachchan bodyguard after allegations of him earning 1.5 crores a year

OpIndia Staff -
Jitendra Shinde has been deployed in Amitabh Bachchan's security since 2015. Amitabh Bachchan is granted X-grade security with two constables always posted with him, one of which was Jitendra.
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Politics

Congress mired in another internal conflict, Chhattisgarh Congress MLAs flock to Delhi amidst widening rift within state unit: What we know so far

OpIndia Staff -
According to speculations, there is a widening rift over power sharing agreement in Chhattisgarh government between factions led by CM Bhupesh Baghel and TS Deo
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Entertainment

A 7 year old song on YouTube is getting comments after meme goes viral: Here is what ‘Mera Yeshu Yeshu’ is all about

OpIndia Staff -
The song that was playing in the background of the funny video from a Christian missionary event is 'Mera Yeshu Yeshu'.
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News Reports

Not just weapons and helicopters, US also left biometric data in Afghanistan, gave the Taliban list of US citizens and Afghan allies

OpIndia Staff -
The Biden administration gave lists of US citizens in Afghanistan and their Afghan allies to the Taliban to ensure their 'security'
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Media

Huawei, the company close to the Chinese govt, sponsors Reuters article praising Kerala for COVID-19 management even as cases soar

OpIndia Staff -
The pro-Kerala propaganda article is written by Reuters correspondent Krishna N Das attempting to give a clean chit to the Kerala government for Covid management while the state remains India's worst affected.
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News Reports

Kabul airport explosion: US President Joe Biden gives clean chit to Taliban, says no evidence to point towards the group’s collusion with ISIS

OpIndia Staff -
Thirteen US Marines and at least 60 Afghans were killed in two bombing attacks carried outside by ISIS outside the Kabul airport
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: After Mirzapur, Aligarh and Mainpuri; proposal sent by Gram Panchayat to rename Miyaganj to Mayaganj

OpIndia Staff -
Yogi Adityanath's government had previously renamed Allahabad to Prayagraj and Faizabad district under which Ayodhya city used to fall to Ayodhya district.
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Crime

Foreign funding diverted for mass conversion to Islam: Gujarat police reaches UP to arrest Umar Gautam and Salahuddin Sheikh

OpIndia Staff -
Sheikh has reportedly diverted Rs 7.27 crore to his network in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Assam to build over 100 mosques in those states.
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News Reports

China: State-owned media Global Times rants against Indian ex-science teacher who investigated the Wuhan lab leak theory

Dibakar Dutta -
Global Times accused the DRASTIC and its core member 'The Seeker' of 'plotting' and 'popularising' rumours against China in the West.
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News Reports

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor pretends to be a doctor at an IYC protest in Kerala against LDF govt

OpIndia Staff -
The state of Kerala has more than 1,81,000 active Covid-19 cases as on August 26.
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OpIndia Explains

Who are the ISKP? The group that has claimed responsibility for Kabul airport attack, active in India too

OpIndia Staff -
Several Indian Muslims had travelled to Afghanistan to join the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP).
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News Reports

Delhi University removes works of Mahasweta Devi English syllabus, teachers’ group backs decision: Here is what the DU said

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi University has come under fire for deleting works of Mahasweta Devi and other Dalit authors from the English syllabus of Semester V of the BA (Hons) English course
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Media

Columnist for Pakistani newspaper suggests USA should consider India a ‘possible suspect’ behind Kabul bombing

OpIndia Staff -
Daily Times (Pakistan) columnist, has suggested that the USA should consider India as a 'possible suspect' behind the Kabul suicide bombing.
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World

American radio host Todd Starnes calls for genocide of Afghans after Kabul bombing, deletes tweet after outrage

OpIndia Staff -
American columnist and radio host Todd Starnes called for the genocide of Afghans after the Kabul bombing.
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World

USA: Republican senators and representatives call for Joe Biden to resign as President after US marines were killed in Kabul bombing

OpIndia Staff -
Calls are being made for US President Joe Biden to resign from his post in the aftermath of the Kabul bombing.
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News Reports

Kabul airport attack: Death toll rises to 103 including 13 US service members, Islamic State Khorasan Province claims responsibility

OpIndia Staff -
After the first explosion hear the Abbey gate of the Kabul Airport, the second blast took place at the the Baron Hotel near the airport
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News Reports

Afghan politician who claimed she was deported by Indian authorities had failed to produce valid documents, say govt officials

OpIndia Staff -
On August 26, the Afghan politician had claimed she was deported to Istanbul from the IGI airport two hours after she reached Delhi.
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Social Media

Quran is WhatsApp University? It is if this Radio Mirchi RJ is to be believed

OpIndia Staff -
Radio Mirchi RJ Sayema declared that Islamic verses prescribing violence against non-Muslims are fake and are from 'WhatsApp University'
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News Reports

West Bengal: 2 arrested in Kolkata for trying to sell radioactive material, could be worth Rs 4,250 Cr

OpIndia Staff -
“Preliminary enquiry revealed that it could be Californium. They were trying to sell it for a few lakh rupees,” police have reportedly stated.
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News Reports

Kerala: Muslim League MLA threatened over anti-Taliban Facebook post, warned of Prof TJ Joseph like fate if not deleted in 24 hours

OpIndia Staff -
MK Muneer, however, has said that he will not take down Facebook post and will not compromise his stand against terrorism and extremism.
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News Reports

Viral video: Taliban seen enjoying ride in a Blackhawk helicopter, though it is not flying

OpIndia Staff -
After the hasty withdrawal of US troops, Taliban has now taken control over a large number of US-supplied military equipment, weapons and aircraft.
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News Reports

CBI registers nine cases related to post-poll violence in West Bengal, in the process of registering more

OpIndia Staff -
After the Calcutta High Court transferred the West Bengal post-poll violence cases to CBI, the agency has started probe
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News Reports

‘No proof of Osama Bin Laden’s role in 9/11, USA used it as an excuse to attack Afghanistan’: Taliban

OpIndia Staff -
“We respect women, they are our sisters.," said the Taliban spokesperson when asked about women and their rights in Afghanistan.
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News Reports

Quad nations Australia, India, Japan, and the United States start Malabar exercise 2021 from today

OpIndia Staff -
Malabar 21 will be held from August 26 to 29 in the Philippine Sea, off the coast of Guam, participated by all four Quad nations
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Sports

Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra clears air over Arshad Nadeem moving around with his javelin on day of final game: Here is what he...

OpIndia Staff -
Controversy erupted after Times of India published an interview with Neeraj Chopra where he spoke about how just before his first throw, his javelin was with Pakistani athlete Arshad Nadeem.
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News Reports

Zambia: Pastor tries to imitate resurrection of Jesus Christ, convinces people to bury him alive

OpIndia Staff -
In the Zambian town of Chadiza, the pastor James Sakara had convinced his followers that he will be resurrected after a 3-day burial, just like Jesus Christ.
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Entertainment

Hotstar rejects grievance complaints against their series on Babur, claims they are not glorifying the Islamic invader: Read what they said

OpIndia Staff -
Hotstar claimed the web series 'The Empire' is based on an adaptation of a novel, Empire of the Moghul – Raiders from the North, written by one Alex Rutherford which fictionalised historical events.
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News Reports

Indian Navy issues fresh Request for Information for procurement of 4 Landing Platform Docks from Indian shipbuilders. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
After scrapping the tender process last year, the Navy has issued the fresh RFI for the procurement of four Landing Platform Docks
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Crime

‘Sex with wife even by force or against her wishes not rape’, Chhattisgarh High Court acquits man on charges of marital rape

OpIndia Staff -
Chhattisgarh High Court upholds a man's acquittal on charges of marital rape, saying forced sex with legally wedded wife is nor rape
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News Reports

Cricket team named ‘Taliban Club C’ found playing in Rajasthan, banned from a tournament after protests erupted

OpIndia Staff -
Protests erupted across Jaisalmer over ‘Taliban Cricket Club' participating in the Alladin Khan memorial cricket tournament
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News Reports

‘Maybe Taliban sent him to India’: Petition filed against Tamal Bhattacharya for praising Taliban after his evacuation from Afghanistan

OpIndia Staff -
One Raj Choudhury from Kolkata filed a petition against Tamal Bhattacharya for praising Taliban after his evacuation from Afghanistan
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News Reports

Stampede at Afghanistan-Pakistan border as thousands try to flee the Taliban regime

OpIndia Staff -
The situations at border posts are same with the Kabul airport, with thousands of people trying to cross the borders to leave Afghanistan
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News Reports

Indore bangle seller case: Here is what Tasleem Ali’s family claims about his second Aadhar card under false name

OpIndia Staff -
Indore Police found another Aadhar card at Tasleem Ali's UP home which he had reportedly got made to get benefits under PM Awas Yojana.
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Media

TOLO News journalist reported dead after Taliban attack says he’s alive, tweets about the brutal attack on him and his cameraman

OpIndia Staff -
After Tolo News reported that its journalist Ziar Khan Yaad was killed by the Taliban, Yaad tweeted that he survived the brutal attack
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OpIndia Scoops

Diksha Shinde used false credentials to apply, not employed, not paid by us: NASA clarifies on Maharashtra teenager controversy

Akshita Bhadauria -
NASA, while responding to OpIndia's queries seeking clarification on the Diksha Shinde saga, said that she is neither employed by NASA nor has been awarded fellowship as that opportunity is only for US citizens.
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Opinions

Why ‘Kerala model’ is the worst form of governance in India

Abhishek Banerjee -
We should have called out the Kerala model a long time ago. Not just last year, but I mean decades ago.
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Social Media

Poet Manoj Muntashir gets ‘cancelled’ by ‘secular-liberals’ for calling out Mughal barbarity and false glorification

OpIndia Staff -
Poet Manoj Muntashir got cancelled by Leftist 'historians' and Islamists for calling Mughals as 'glorified dacoits'.
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Social Media

Kerala Tourism urges people to visit the state amid unhinged COVID pandemic wave, deletes tweet

OpIndia Staff -
The test positivity rate in Kerala was 19.03% on Wednesday. That means, for every 100 people who got tested, 19 came out positive. Last one week's average positivity ratio stands at 17.3% in Kerala.
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News Reports

Radical Islamic outfit PFI expresses hope in Taliban, calls Indian govt to start diplomatic relations with them

OpIndia Staff -
Praising the Taliban for taking over Afghanistan after the withdrawal of the US forces, the Popular Front of India (PFI) leader Parappurathu Koya termed the Taliban's onslaught as a "resistance" against the US occupation.
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News Reports

Afghan woman MP Rangina Kargar who flew from Turkey to Delhi claims she was deported by authorities

OpIndia Staff -
Afghan MP Rangina Kargar was not on any of the evacuation flights from Kabul, Kandahar in Afghanistan but from Turkey via Dubai
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News Reports

UP: Munawwar Rana’s son Tabrez arrested for orchestrating a fake attack on himself, wanted to frame relatives

OpIndia Staff -
Tabrez Rana was wanted by the police since July. He had staged a fake attack on himself to frame his relatives over a property dispute.
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World

UK, US, Australia warn their citizens to stay away from Kabul Airport fearing terror attacks

OpIndia Staff -
With situation in Afghanistan deteriorating rapidly amid Taliban takeover, countries are warning its citizens against going to airport fearing terror attacks
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News Reports

South Dakota’s Gov Kristi Noem accuses Conservative podcast host Matt Walsh of misogyny: All that happened in the Twitter battle

OpIndia Staff -
Governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, accused Conservative podcast host Matt Walsh of misogyny and called him a pig.
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News Reports

Death anniversary of Alfred Kinsey: ‘Father of sexual revolution’ who claimed babies have orgasms, child rape benefits victims

Jinit Jain -
Alfred Kinsey, hailed by a large section of Americans as the "father of sexual revolution", had died on 25 August 1956.
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News Reports

The Taliban accepts women are not safe in their regime, tells Afghan women to stay at home as their soldiers are ‘not trained’ to...

OpIndia Staff -
Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid said that women should not go to work for their own safety as Talibanis may harm them
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Culture and History

Alauddin Khilji’s attack on Chittorgarh: The legend of Rani Padmini and the enduring Islamist legacy of brutalising women

Jinit Jain -
Alauddin Khilji had attacked and captured the Chittorgarh fort on 26 August 1303 in a historic and brutal battle
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Opinions

Rohini Singh of The Wire attracts Islamist attack on Reliance, here is what it says about the mentality

Jinit Jain -
Rohini Singh posted a tweet accusing the Reliance of funding anti-Muslim media network and asked the Governor of Saudi PIF if he endorsed its deal with Saudi oil company Aramco
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News Reports

‘Mughals were the original nation builders’, says director Kabir Khan, says portraying them as murderers is wrong

OpIndia Staff -
“If you do some research and read history, it's very tough to understand why they have to be villainized," claimed Kabir while talking about Mughals.
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