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‘They should come on two limbs, sent back on four’: SBSP president Om Prakash Rajbhar asks women to thrash Uttar Pradesh BJP leaders

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Ever since Om Prakash Rajbhar was dismissed by Yogi govt amidst 2019 polls, he has launched an offensive against the BJP state govt
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‘Eid relaxation, weekend lockdown unscientific’, union minister V Muraleedharan slams Kerala model for Covid-19 management

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MoS MEA V Muraleedharan said that the relaxation given on Eid during the Covid-19 pandemic by Kerala govt was completely unscientific
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As Mamata dreams of vehicle manufacturing industry, here is how she drove away Tata Motors from West Bengal back in 2008

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CM Mamata Banerjee had led the protests against Tata Motors in 2008 forcing the company to move out of West Bengal.
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Tamil Nadu: Hindu temples atop a hill in Tirunelveli desecrated, ‘Allah’, ‘786’ written on sacred rocks

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The rocks surrounding the Hindu temples on Aththri hills were desecrated allegedly by Muslims, who painted Islamic symbols on them
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Centre intervenes as COVID pandemic in Kerala goes out of control a week after Bakrid celebrations

OpIndia Staff -
Week after Bakrid relaxations, Kerala continues to have unabated Chinese coronavirus infections.
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Sherlyn Chopra accuses Raj Kundra of sexual assault, says she had even filed an FIR against him

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Sherlyn Chopra along with actresses Poonam Pandey had also blamed Raj Kundra of pushing her into the adult film industry.
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Crime

Around 1500 tribals from Tripura become refugees in Assam after Bru refugees from Mizoram living in Tripura attack them

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Around 1500 locals from Tripura fled to neighbouring Assam after they were attacked by Bru refugees from Mizoram living in the state
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Media

Read how NDTV’s Ravish Kumar this time sent ‘hazaar laanat’ to ‘IT cell’ instead of questioning Kerala govt for the state’s Covid crisis

Akshita Bhadauria -
NDTV's Ravish Kumar criticises the 'IT cell' for highlighting Kerala's Covid situation.
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News Reports

Rana Ayyub claims ancient therapy used by Greek physician Hippocrates is ‘Muslim practice’

OpIndia Staff -
In a now-deleted tweet, Ayyub claimed an ancient alternate therapy used even by ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was a traditional Muslim practice
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Crime

Ritu, who was gang-raped by TMC men looking for ‘Hindu women’, threatened by her rapists again, asked to join TMC to save her life

OpIndia Staff -
Ritu, in her second complaint with NHRC wrote that TMC hoodlum Mamun Sheikh again threatened her to either join TMC or get killed.
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Communist leaders in India attend Chinese Embassy event to mark the centenary of China’s Communist Party

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Yechury and other leaders had congratulated Chinese Communist Party on completing 100 years on July 1.
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Media

The Wire uses a ‘US expert’ to blame Modi for the second Covid-19 wave, who in February said the worst of disease has passed

OpIndia Staff -
The Wire tries to push an imaginary number of higher deaths in the country during the second wave of the pandemic in the country
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News Reports

Haryana IPS officer Bharti Arora seeks premature retirement to devote the rest of her life to Bhagwan Shri Krishna

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Bharti Arora, IGP Ambala Range in Haryana, sent her resignation letter on 24 July seeking release from her duties by July 31 to serve Krishna
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Politics

While Opposition parties appear ‘united’ now, they were against each other during COVID crisis and played with our lives

Nirwa Mehta -
These politicians are not coming together because they care for people like you and I. They are coming together to defeat Modi and in doing so, played with our lives.
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News Reports

‘Someone recording the act is proof enough that it was a murder’: Says SCBA president demanding CBI probe into the death of Dhanbad Judge

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Supreme Court Bar Association president says existence of CCTV footage of hit and run death of Dhanbad judge is proof of murder
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BJP MP accuses Mahua Moitra of calling him ‘Bihari Goonda’, had hurled derogatory insults like ‘chotiwala rakshas’ and ‘vanar sena’ previously

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Moitra, however, denied the allegations and said how could she call names to someone who wasn't present in the meeting.
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Imran ‘Taliban’ Khan bats for terrorists in Afghanistan, calls them ‘normal civilians’

OpIndia Staff -
On the allegations of Pakistan's direct support to the Taliban in the ongoing terror and thousands of Pakistanis travelling to Afghanistan to assist the Taliban, Imran Khan claimed that they were not terrorists, but normal civilians, who are returning to their country.
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News Reports

Dear Shashi Tharoor, here is how you can check availability of slots for COVID vaccines on CoWIN

OpIndia Staff -
OpIndia steps in to help Congress MP Shashi Tharoor help find slots for vaccinations on CoWIN dashboard since he seems to be looking at wrong places
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Fact-Check

Fact-check: No, Gita Press Gorakhpur is not shutting down. It is doing very well

Anurag -
Gita Press, the largest publisher of Hindu religious text books, is not closing down. in fact, they are doing very well and they do not need charity.
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News Reports

Jharkhand: CCTV footage of Dhanbad Judge’s ‘road accident’ raises questions, SIT to probe the case

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CCTV footage shows that the auto that hit Judge Uttam Anand had suddenly veered to the extreme left and hit the Judge. The auto fled the scene without stopping for a second.
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Crime

Pakistan: Five men booked for abducting, gang-raping and killing a goat

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Five men - Naeem, Nadeem, Rabb, Nawaz and another accused abducted one goat that belonged to a labourer named Azhar Hussain.
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World

China’s sh*t talker-in-chief Chen Weihua tells US Senator to ‘send the troops’ after he accused China of genocide

OpIndia Staff -
Chen Weihua, associated with Chinese state-affiliated media China Daily, on Wednesday asked US Senator Tom Cotton to 'send the troops'.
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News Reports

Rep. Adam Kinzinger goes from laughing like a clown to crying within seconds during Capitol riot hearing, invites widespread mockery

OpIndia Staff -
Illinois lawmaker Adam Kinzinger went from laughing like a clown to weeping inconsolably within seconds during the Capitol Riot hearing.
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News Reports

Court sanction, police apathy and political patronage to conversions: Human Rights report sheds light on the abysmal state of Hindus in Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
The 2019 report by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan lays bare the pernicious dehumanisation of Hindus underway in the country
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News Reports

3,841 Kashmiri Pandits have returned to the valley in recent years, taken up jobs under the PM’s Rehabilitation Scheme

OpIndia Staff -
The BJP govt had declared that they intend to re-settle all Kashmiri Pandits, who have been displaced from the valley over the years, by 2022
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News Reports

Amidst the ongoing Assam-Mizoram border conflict, bots mostly from the USA trend #ShameOnAssam on Twitter

OpIndia Staff -
#ShameOnAssam was seen trending at number 5 on Twitter, with 98.4K tweets employing it by Wednesday evening
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News Reports

Big Bull Rakesh Jhunjhunwala to foray into aviation sector with low-budget ‘Akasa Air’, plans to add a fleet of 70 aircraft in 4 years

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Rakesh Jhunjhunwala is investong $35 million in his new venture Akasa Air, a low budget airlines with 180 seater planes
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Rakhi Sawant jumps to the defence of businessman Raj Kundra, says he did not force anybody to shoot for porn

OpIndia Staff -
Rakhi Sawant defended embattled businessman Raj Kundra, saying that it is an attempt to blackmail and defame his wife Shilpa Shetty
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Rajasthan: Hindu man forcefully converted to Islam, was threatened at gunpoint and given electric shocks on resisting

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Nitin Pant, a resident of Uttarakhand was lured on the pretext of money and a job, taken to Rajasthan and forcefully converted to Islam
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News Reports

Stubble burning and Covid-19 surge in Delhi: Read what Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology scientists said in their paper

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Researchers found that the virus gets attached to black carbon particles produced by stubble burning, which increased Covid-19 cases in Delhi
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News Reports

Blinken hails Indo-US ties, says India’s democracy is a force for good in defence of a free and open world

OpIndia Staff -
Blinken said US recognizes that every democracy, starting with their own, is a work in progress.
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News Reports

‘Isolated incident’, says Pakistan’s President on Hindu boy forced to chant Allahu Akbar: Here is how his claim is nothing but codswallop

Jinit Jain -
A video of a Pakistani Muslim man threatening and bullying a Hindu boy to chant Allahu Akbar and abuse Hindu Gods had gone viral on social media.
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News Reports

‘Modi only listens to Hindus’: How children from Harsh Mander-linked Children’s homes were fed poison against Modi govt

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NCPCR had said that the management at the homes run by Mander failed to take any action against complaints of child sexual abuse.
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‘Unrealistic, unreliable’: SC slams West Bengal govt over claims that only 27 children were orphaned in the state due to Covid-19

OpIndia Staff -
The SC lambasted the West Bengal Govt after it submitted that only 27 children were orphaned in the state since the start of the pandemic
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Congress MPs throw papers at Chair in Lok Sabha, create ruckus over Pegasus controversy

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Opposition leaders stalled Lok Sabha proceedings, threw papers at the Chair.
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“What is the urgency? Why not wait a week?” Calcutta HC grants West Bengal govt more time to file affidavit to NHRC report

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Despite strong objections be petitioners, Calcutta HC granted more time to West Bengal to respond to NHRC report on violence
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‘Biharis don’t have brains, took away railway jobs because Lalu Yadav helped them clear exams by copying’: Tamil Nadu minister KN Nehru

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DMK's KN Nehru called Biharis brainless while blaming them for taking away jobs in Railways with Lalu Yadav's help.
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Rolls Royce entry tax: Madras HC stays order against Tamil actor Joseph Vijay that had asked him to behave like a ‘real hero’

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A Division Bench of the Madras High Court stayed an order passed by a single-judge bench of Justice SM Subramaniam after Vijay'c counsel submitted that the actor is ready to pay the dues but the remarks against him should be expunged.
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Delhi HC pulls up Twitter over ‘total noncompliance of rules’, grants one more week’s time as last opportunity

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The court directed that the affidvait must clearly set out details of persons who have been appointed as Chief Compliance Officer and Redressal officer.
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Nine-member Taliban delegation visits China to meet Foreign Minister, signals growing China-Taliban ties after US withdrawal from Afghanistan

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Taliban spokesperson Mohammed Naeen tweeted that a nine-member Taliban delegation visited China on an official invitation
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Bakrid celebrations in Kerala turns out to be “Covid-19 Super-Spreader” as state records more than 50% of total new cases in the country

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Despite being worst hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, Kerala govt had allowed relaxations for Bakrid, which caused new cases to double in a week
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Himachal Pradesh: Road milestones in Naina Devi found defaced with Pro-Khalistani slogans

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Pro-Khalistani slogans such as "Khalistan Zindabad", "Join SFJ", "Referendum 2021" were found scrawled on road milestones leading to Naina Devi in Himachal Pradesh
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‘Kutta gum ho gaya’, public announcements made, entire state machinery made to search for top official’s lost dog in Pakistan

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As pet dog of Gujranwala’s Divisional Commissioner Zulfiqar Ahmed Ghuman went missing, entire state machinery was used to trace it
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Crores gone down the potholes? RTI reveals BMC spent Rs 21,000 crore in two decades on potholes in Mumbai

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Reply to a RTI application filed by BJP MLA Ameet Satam informs that BMC has spent more than Rs 21,000 crore in repair of potholes in two decades
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‘LDF MLAs responsible for 2015 vandalism inside assembly must face trial, immunity to lawmakers is not given against criminal law’: SC to Kerala govt

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The apex court while rejecting the Kerala government’s petition observed that immunity for lawmakers can’t be used as immunity against criminal laws.
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News Reports

Mental health in decline, President Joe Biden accuses Russia of violating US sovereignty through election interference

K Bhattacharjee -
Joe Biden has accused Russia and Vladimir Putin of spreading misinformation ahead of the midterm elections in 2022.
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Shashi Tharoor gives gyaan on how to attract industries, weeks after apparel major Kitex exited Kerala over harassment

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Kerala ranks 28 in India in ease of doing business.
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Thousands of Pakistani terrorists enter Afghanistan to help Taliban, attacking Afghan soldiers: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, over 10,000 Pakistani terrorists are active in Afghanistan, providing support to the Taliban.
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Gujarat: 21 families revert to Hinduism in Ghar Wapsi programme arranged by the VHP

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A man who successfully completed his ghar vapsi confessed that they had converted in greed as the other religious organization promised to ward off their difficulties.
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Chhattisgarh: Congress govt to bring a bill to acquire private medical college owned by family of CM Baghel’s son-in-law

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Baghel, however, took to Twitter to dismiss the claims and said the move is to safeguard the future of the medical students of the college.
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