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IRS Babu questions ‘legality’ of arranged marriages, netizens give befitting reply

OpIndia Staff -
Calling them 'regressive' IRS officer Piyush Thorat wondered how the system of 'arranged marriages' was continuing to be so strong.
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Social Media

Twitter censors tweets that exposed liberal hypocrisy over Danish Siddiqui’s photograph, calls it ‘abuse’ and ‘harassment’

K Bhattacharjee -
Twitter is finding new ways to censor political opinion it is not fond of. This time, it is related to a photograph of Danish Siddiqui.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Villagers catch father-daughter in compromising position, demand police action after the man attacked them with stones

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After catching a father-daughter duo having sex, the villagers thrashed them and called for a panchayat meeting on the following day.
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News Reports

Harish from Udupi spent 2 years in Saudi jail for fake Facebook post made by Abduls, might finally be released and return to India

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Two brothers from Moodabidri - Abdul Huyez and Abdul Thuyez had created a fake account on Facebook in the name of Harish Bangera to posted derogatory comments on the Saudi Crown Prince and Mecca, the holy site of Muslims across the world, for which Saudi Arabia police had arrested Harish Bangera in December 2019.
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Politics

Akhilesh Yadav proves while picture may speak a thousand words, it may not always be truth: Read details

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Akhilesh Yadav tries to pass off attack on cops by family members of one accused as cop assaulting woman through a misleading image
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Media

ED probe reveals Chinese funding to NewsClick, Elgar Parishad case accused Gautam Navlakha also one of the beneficiaries: Details

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The curious case of dubious funding received by Newsclick and its China connection.
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News Reports

Case registered against impersonator for posing as Rajkumar Hirani’s son on Instagram and making casting calls

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An imposter had created an Instagram account in the name of Rajkumar Hirani's son and invited casting calls for a fake movie '3 Teenage'
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News Reports

Video of photojournalist Danish Siddiqui’s TED Talk offering a one-sided view of Kashmir conflict and shielding Islamic terrorists goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
A video of photojournalist Danish Siddiqui offering a lopsided view of Kashmir conflict is doing the rounds on social media websites
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News Reports

Six months after Greta Toolkit expose, Justice DY Chandrachud says Greta Thunberg had brought change when she was 15

OpIndia Staff -
Justice DY Chandrachud praises Greta Thunberg for her activism, says age is no bar for bringing change
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News Reports

Superstitious beliefs such as ‘miraculous’ treatment drives members of Mahadalit community in Bihar to embrace Christianity: Details

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A large number of people from Mahadalit community in Bihar's Gaya district have abandoned their faith and adopted Christianity.
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Editor's picks

Munawwar Rana threatens to leave UP if Yogi is reelected CM, gives unique reason behind Muslims having 8 children: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Munawwar Rana has said that he will leave Uttar Pradesh if Mahant Yogi Adityanath is reelected the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
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News Reports

Abduction of Afghan ambassador’s daughter in Pakistan: Medical report shows Silsila Alikhil has rope marks on hands and legs, injury on the face

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Abduction of top Afghan diplomate's daughter in Pakistan marks another low in the rapidly deteriorating Pakistan-Afghanistan relationships
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Entertainment

Salman Khan starrer ‘Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai’ fails to earn Rs 3 lakhs in 6 weeks at Box Office: Here’s how much it...

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Salman Khan starrer 'Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai' has failed to earn even Rs. 3 lakhs in a total of six weeks at the Box Office.
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News Reports

The left continues its war against women: ‘Vagina Museum’ account suggests alternative ways to describe ‘people who menstruate’

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The most bizarre part of the tweet by Vagina Museum was the claim that 'anyone could menstruate' regardless of gender.
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Crime

UP ATS makes three more arrests in Umar Gautam conversion racket case, Adam, Kaushar Alam and Arsalan arrested

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The Uttar Pradesh ATS has arrested three more individuals related to the conversion racket involving Umar Gautam.
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News Reports

‘Islam is evil’: Several anti-Muslim graffiti appear in Surrey in Canada, police launch probe to catch the culprits

OpIndia Staff -
The Canada police believe that these incidents are linked and the same person or group who may have painted these anti-Muslim graffiti
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News Reports

Won’t hold live streaming of Chardham Yatra because it is not written in the Vedas: Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami

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The Uttarakhand government aver that live streaming of the religious ceremonies inside the sanctum sanctorum would violate the sanctity of the rituals
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News Reports

Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology claims that the Taliban, which murdered Danish Siddiqui, is better than ‘sangh’

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Gaurav Sabnis suggested that Taliban had showcased more humanity than Sangh despite being the killer of the Danish Siddiqui
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News Reports

Andhra Pradesh: Villagers pass resolutions at Gram Sabha to stop conversion activities of Christian missionaries, seek to remove an illegal church

OpIndia Staff -
The villagers of Gurujala has passed five resolutions at Gram Sabha recently to prevent Christian missionaries conversion activities in the village
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News Reports

Odisha: Police book 2 from ISKCON for Covid norms violation during Rath Yatra, had shared video of watching procession from balcony

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Odisha Police detained 10 for allegedly violating Covid-19 norms during the Rath Yatra in Puri, including 2 from ISKCON.
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News Reports

Maoist Milind Teltumbde says he was inspired by brother Anand Teltumbde to further activities of banned CPI(M): Details from the court order

OpIndia Staff -
According to key witnesses in the case, Milind Teltumbde was inspired by his brother Anand Teltumbde and used the Maoist literature provided by the latter to further the activities of banned organisation CPI(M)
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News Reports

Rajasthan SDM kicks farmer demanding compensation for highway project land, scuffle breaks out between police and farmers: Details

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Clashes broke out between farmers and police in Rajasthan after SDM Bhupendra Yadav kicked one of the protesting farmers.
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Social Media

A day after the death of photo-journalist Danish Siddiqui, strange behaviour is noticed on his Twitter account

OpIndia Staff -
On Friday, award-winning Reuters photo-journalist was murdered by the Taliban as he was covering the conflict in Afghanistan
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News Reports

After the Taliban killed Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, pictures of his family being sold on Getty for Rs 23,000 each

OpIndia Staff -
Incidentally, Getty Images had hosted pictures of funeral pyres of Covid victims in India at the same price as that of the relatives of Danish Siddiqui
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News Reports

Urban Naxal Anand Teltumbde uses the same emails as his defence that leftist media had claimed were ‘planted’ uwing malware: Full story

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Leftist media had claimed that emails found on computers of Urban Naxals were planted, Anand Teltumbde uses same mails in defence
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Politics

Media quotes sources to claim Yediyurappa may resign, Karnataka CM denies

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A day after Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, rumours began to spread.
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu: Hindu groups intensify protests against the demolition of seven temples in Coimbatore, including one 100-year-old temple

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Hindu activists members of Hindu Munnani protested to condemn the civic body for the demolition drive.
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News Reports

Jammu and Kashmir administration clarifies there is no cow slaughter ban ahead of Bakra-Eid, media had misreported its order

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Jammu and Kashmir administration had issued an order to ban illegal slaughter of bovine animals, media had reported it as full ban
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News Reports

US-based Christian NGO spreading communal disharmony: MP HC asks State govt, NCPCR to respond to the complaint filed. Read details

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The Christian NGO 'Persecution Relief' accused of tarnishing India's image internationally by giving communal twists to incidents of crime
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Politics

Uroosa Rana, Munawwar Rana’s daughter, says UP Congress Chief Ajay Kumar Lallu misbehaved with her when she went to meet Priyanka Gandhi

OpIndia Staff -
Urooa Rana, the daughter of controversial poet Munnawar Rana, said that she had gone to meet Priyanka Gandhi during a protest
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News Reports

‘Crude’ murder of BJP worker who was close to Arjun Singh’s son: A video, TMC conspiracy theories and police ‘probing all angles’

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In order to portray the murder of Joy Prakash Yadav as an 'internal conspiracy' by the BJP, the TMC claimed that accused Tuntun Choudhury was close to Pawn Singh's father Arjun Singh.
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Media

A bullet killed Danish Siddiqui, not the Taliban? Ravish Kumar writes a Facebook post, does an NDTV video, but forgets the truth

OpIndia Staff -
NDTV news anchor Ravish Kumar took to Facebook to express his condolence to Danish Siddiqui, a Reuters photojournalist killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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News Reports

UP Congress workers thrash unemployed graduates from Rajasthan for protesting outside Priyanka Gandhi’s office: Read details

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Congress workers in Uttar Pradesh thrashed several computer graduates from Rajasthan for protesting outside Gandhi-scion Priyanka Gandhi office
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News Reports

Oxford Hinduphobia row: Rashmi Samant vindicated as internal investigation confirms how she was vilified, harassed and forced to resign

OpIndia Staff -
Months after first female Indian President-elect of Oxford University Student’s Union, Rashmi Samant, was forced to resign, an internal investigation by the university has vindicated her
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News Reports

‘Nobody should trust Wikipedia’, warns its co-founder Larry Sanger, says the site is taken over by leftists who reject content that doesn’t fit their...

OpIndia Staff -
Larry Sanger said that there are teams of Democratic party leaning editors on Wikipedia who remove content that they don’t like.
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News Reports

Saket Gokhale voluntarily deletes tweets he vowed not to voluntarily delete, all tweets on Lakshmi Puri removed: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi fanboy Saket Gokhale has deleted the tweets where he made unfounded allegations against Lakshmi Puri.
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News Reports

Elgar Parishad case: NIA court denies bail to accused Anand Teltumbde, says charges against him prima facie true

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NIA court said there is sufficient material to conclude that the accusations made against Anand Teltumbde are prima facie true
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News Reports

Liberals refuse to call out Taliban over Danish Siddiqui’s killing, make it seem as if he died due to natural causes

OpIndia Staff -
Danish Siddiqui was killed in Kandahar province while he was on a reporting assignment embedded with Afghan security forces.
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News Reports

Enforcement Directorate hands over shares worth ₹792 cr to SBI-led-consortium from assets of Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, and Mehul Choksi

OpIndia Staff -
The ED had confiscated the assets of the fugitives Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi under the stringent Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
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Government and Policy

Modi govt places single largest order of 66 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses, targets to vaccinate 94.4 crore people by December

OpIndia Staff -
Indian government placed an order for 66 crores Covid-19 vaccine doses worth Rs 14,505 crore with Serum Institute and Bharat Biotech
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News Reports

Imran Khan and Rahul Gandhi always find the same opponent, same organisation to blame for their own failures: Read details

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Confronted by an ANI journalist, Imran Khan tried to repeat his favourite rant, blaming RSS for halt in bilateral dialogue between India and Pakistan.
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News Reports

Madras High Court comes down heavily on Tamil Nadu govt for failing to recover encroached temple lands, warns strong action

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Madras High Court said that it will have to come down hard if the Tamil Nadu govt does not recover temple land occupied by encroachers
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News Reports

FIR registered against T-Series MD Bhushan Kumar after woman complaints that he had raped her promising to give job

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Mumbai Police books Bhushan Kumar after a 30-year-old woman accused that he had raped her under the pretext of getting her a job in T-Series
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News Reports

‘A flight to remember’: When BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy piloting his flight to Chennai, with many colleagues, including DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran

OpIndia Staff -
DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran was pleasantly surprised when he found his colleague Rajiv Pratap Rudy, with whom he participated in a parliamentary meeting, to pilot his flight to Chennai
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan holds the wedding ceremony of his three adopted daughters

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MP chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and his wife Sadhna Singh married off their adopted daughters in a simple ceremony in a temple in Vidisha.
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Media

There are no rules anymore: How journalists have only themselves to blame for the viral photo of Danish Siddiqui’s corpse

K Bhattacharjee -
Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was killed in Afghanistan during clashes with Taliban and a photo of his dead body is now viral.
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News Reports

Exclusive: “Please let me meet my son”, cries Tarlochan Sandhu who filed case against wife, in-laws for trying to convert him and his child...

Akshita Bhadauria -
From throwing his turban to thrashing him for resisting conversion. Read the ordeal of Sandhu as his wife and in-laws try to convert him to Islam
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News Reports

Ram Mandir to open for devotees by the end of 2023, says Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust

OpIndia Staff -
The much-awaited Shri Ram Mandir in Ayodhya on Ram Janmabhoomi will open to devotees for worship by the end of 2023.
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Interviews

South African MP Shameen Thakur-Rajbansi talks to OpIndia: Racist attacks against Indians, the Indian govt’s help, a ‘toolkit’ and a people in distress

Nupur J Sharma -
"Whenever there was a crisis in power in South Africa, one of the communities that has always got the brunt of violence has been the Indian community", says Shameen Thakur-Rajbansi.
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News Reports

‘Women who go out after 9 pm are prostitutes, they deserve to be raped’: Kerala’s Islamic cleric Swalih Bathery

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In the controversial video, Salih reportedly justified rapist Govindachamy who had raped and killed a girl in 2011.
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