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‘If criminals try to escape police custody by attacking policemen, shooting should be the pattern’: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

OpIndia Staff -
Addressing police officials of the state, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma has emphasised that there should be no tolerance for cow smuggling cases.
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Opinions

Thou shall not crack this joke – how Vir Das deleting tweet shows what they say is not what matches in action

Nirwa Mehta -
'Comedians' in India cry hoarse that 'Sanghis' are not letting them crack jokes while taking less than an hour to delete 'jokes' on 'wokes'
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News Reports

Triple Talaq cases in Gujarat: In-laws arrested in Surat, another man booked in Ahmedabad

OpIndia Staff -
In Surat, the victim from Limbayat area had alleged that her husband and in-laws have been harassing her over dowry. Her husband reportedly drove her out from the house along with her daughters and gave Triple Talaq over WhatsApp.
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News Reports

‘So far 76 nations have shown interest to use India’s CoWIN portal’: Dr RS Sharma

OpIndia Staff -
Dr Sharma on Monday said he is proud that CoWIN has become the fastest tech platform in the world.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Mob attacks cops after cow smuggler Jamil Qureshi alias Takla jumps off building to evade arrest and dies

OpIndia Staff -
Jamil Takla alias Qureshi was wanted in a case registered at a police station in Gujarat where he allegedly helped change registration plates of a vehicle suspected to have been used for cattle smuggling.
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Specials

Dalai Lama’s 86th birthday: How the Tibetan spiritual leader escaped persecution and outsmarted China to cross over to India 62 years ago

Jinit Jain -
Dalai Lama XIV or Tenzin Gyatso as he is known with his worldly name was born on 6 July 1935 to a small farming family in the small hamlet of Taktser, Amdo, which is in northeastern Tibet.
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News Reports

NCPCR orders action against Twitter India and Telegram for allowing terrorists to use platform to reach children: Full details

OpIndia Staff -
NCPCR has asked J&K authorities to take action against Telegram, which along with Twitter is guilty of providing a platform to terror organisations.
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Fact-Check

UP convicted murder’s photo circulated to claim ‘inhuman treatment’ to dead ‘Urban Naxal’ Stan Swamy

OpIndia Staff -
The photograph of a convicted murderer from Etah, UP is being circulated to claim 'inhuman treatment' to Stan Swamy.
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Cricket

Former Sri Lankan performance analyst Sanath Jayasundara banned for 7 years for corruption: Details

OpIndia Staff -
The anti-corruption tribunal of the ICC found Sanath Jayasundara guilty of breaching its anti-corruption code.
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Crime

Halwai Tehseem’s son throws hot oil on minor Naushad’s face during fight over masks at Kachori shop, case registered

OpIndia Staff -
The Meerut police are in the lookout for the minor son of the kachori shop owner, who has been on the run ever since the incident took place.
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News Reports

Woman abandons infant for Facebook lover, two female relatives behind prank commit suicide: Details

OpIndia Staff -
In January 2021, two relatives of a woman from Kollam pranked her by posing as a Facebook friend and asking her to abandon her newborn infant.
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News Reports

Twitter is yet to fully comply with IT Rules 2021 despite three months granted for the same, GOI tells Delhi HC

OpIndia Staff -
On June 5, GOI issued a final notice to Twitter for compliance with the new IT Rules 2021, still latter has not complied with the new rules
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News Reports

TMC leaders write to President Kovind, demand the sacking of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta

OpIndia Staff -
Accusing the Solicitor General of India of 'grave impropriety', the TMC leaders claimed that his alleged meetup casts doubts on his 'professional integrity.'
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OpIndia Explains

Bhima Koregaon violence accused Stan Swamy dies at 84 as undertrial: Read who he was and his tainted antecedents

OpIndia Staff -
Stan Swamy, an undertrial in the Bhima Koregaon Violence case, died on Monday while undergoing treatment at the Holy Family hospital in Mumbai
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: 25.5 million saplings planted in mass plantation drive, forest cover increases by 3% in past 4 years

OpIndia Staff -
UP Forest Minister Dara Singh Chauhan informed that the survival rate of saplings has increased to 80% in the last 4 years due to better care and methods like geo-tagging of trees.
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News Reports

Delhi Bar Council suspends advocate Iqbal Malik’s license for using his chamber for religious conversion and Nikah: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Bar Council of Delhi has suspended the license of advocate Iqbal Malik for using his chambers to perform religious conversions.
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News Reports

PM Modi announces CoWIN platform to be open source, available to any and all countries

OpIndia Staff -
On July 5, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed CoWIN Global Conclave where he announced that CoWIN platforms would be soon available as open-source, and they will be available to any and all countries.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: 12 BJP MLAs suspended for a year by Speaker Bhaskar Jadhav, Fadnavis says political plan to reduce numbers

OpIndia Staff -
Denying all the accusations, Fadnavis said, “The government has created a story out of the incident and suspended 12 of our MLAs. Our MLAs didn't abuse the Speaker."
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Politics

Fight for the ‘19%’ – UP assembly elections becomes a battleground of opposition parties for Muslim votes

Anurag -
As the most populous state in India gears up to vote early next year, the political landscape in Uttar Pradesh is just heating up.
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News Reports

Psychedelic drugs such as LSD and ‘Magic Mushrooms’ to treat depression and PTSD? Research investigates effects on mental health

K Bhattacharjee -
Since the 1960s, psychedelics have been heavily stigmatised in the public arena. However, with the passage of time, things are changing.
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News Reports

‘Twitter allowing terrorist groups to promote terrorism in India using kids’: Activist group files complaint with NCPCR

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi based activist group has filed a complaint with NCPCR against Twitter India MD and Public Policy Manager Shagufta Kamran .
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Cricket

Dinesh Karthik apologises for his controversial commentary, says ‘Got a lot of stick from my wife and my mum’

OpIndia Staff -
Dinesh Karthik's 'neighbour's wife' comment during second ODI between Sri Lanka and England did not go down too well.
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News Reports

Bhima Koregaon violence accused Stan Swamy passes away during imprisonment, informs lawyer

OpIndia Staff -
Father Stan Swamy, accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, has passed away, his lawyer informed the Bombay High Court.
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News Reports

After denying switch over, ex-President Pranab Mukherjee’s son Abhijit Mukherjee set to join TMC: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Reports say that Abhijit Mukherjee, the former MP from Jangipur, will join TMC at 4 pm today.
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News Reports

Asaduddin Owaisi attacks RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for propagating Hindu-Muslim unity

OpIndia Staff -
Retorting to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's remarks on 'mob lynching', Asaduddin Owaisi claimed that 'this hatred is a product of Hindutva'
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Opinions

Sangh and Hindu interests: A note on the RSS by a Sanghi who never went to a Shakha

Rahul Roushan -
Does the Sangh not see even the existentialist threats the Hindu society faces?
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News Reports

Gomti riverfront development scam: CBI files a fresh FIR and conducts raids at 42 locations

OpIndia Staff -
The CBI has filed a fresh FIR, naming 189 people as accused in the Akhilesh Yadav-era Gomti riverfront project.
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Politics

‘Like Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao, not India-Pakistan’: Sanjay Raut on relationship between Shiv Sena and BJP

OpIndia Staff -
Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao on Saturday announced that they will be getting divorced.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Arif posed as Aditya to befriend victim, raped, assaulted and pressurized to convert into Islam

OpIndia Staff -
The victim, a widowed daughter of a former IAS officer, has alleged that the accused had assaulted her and has been forcing her for conversion.
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Social Media Fact-Check

Fact-Check: Viral ‘news clip’ claiming Aamir Khan & Barkha Dutt seeing each other is not related to actor’s latest divorce

OpIndia Staff -
A news clip has gone viral with claims that Barkha Dutt and Aamir Khan are in a romantic relationship and that could have been reason behind his divorce with Kiran Rao
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News Reports

Punjab Army man lynching case: Khalistani links of accused and supporters emerge

OpIndia Staff -
Khalistani links of accused in Gurdaspur lynching case have emerged.
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News Reports

Doctors of Ahmedabad’s SVP Hospital give a tribute to the nation on National Doctor’s Day, win over the internet

OpIndia Staff -
The 18-storied state-of-the-art super-specialty hospital with air-ambulance continues is linked with Ayushman Bharat.
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News Reports

Maharashtra govt splurged ₹155 crores on publicity and ads during COVID pandemic, reveals RTI

OpIndia Staff -
Anil Galgali contended that the expenditure on publicity could be higher than what had been presented by the Directorate General of Information and Public Relations.
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News Reports

US media outlets like Washington Post, NYT, Wall Street Journal etc have been receiving millions of dollars from China: Report

OpIndia Staff -
China has spent a total of $11,002,628 on advertising in US newspapers, and another $265,822 on advertising with Twitter, as per reports.
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News Reports

Gujarat govt officer threatens to curse state with drought if he is not given Rs 16 lakh salary and gratuity, calls self Kalki avatar

OpIndia Staff -
Referring to govt employees as 'demons' Rameshchandra Fefar claimed that he will unleash drought if his salary is withheld.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Mahila Congress chief misbehaved with by party leaders during Priyanka Vadra’s virtual address, party says they didn’t recognise her

OpIndia Staff -
Uttar Pradesh Mahila Congress (Western) Preeti Tiwai said that state Congress leaders physically stopped her from attending a training session
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Crime

Ghaziabad fake hate crime case: UP Police file chargesheet, 11 booked for assaulting elderly man

OpIndia Staff -
The Uttar Pradesh Police has filed a chargesheet in the Loni assault case against 11 people for assaulting an elderly man.
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Crime

Rajasthan: 12-year-old minor girl gang-raped by Aazad, Waseem and Razzak, two arrested by police

OpIndia Staff -
A 12-year-old girl gang-raped by three youths while she had gone to feed cattle on June 29, threatened her to keep silent
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World

‘Have not committed that big a crime’: Grooming gang child rapists in UK invoke human rights to oppose deportation to Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
Adil Khan and Qari Abdul Rauf were convicted of involvement in a grooming gang that raped nearly 50 girls in Rochdale, UK.
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News Reports

Murder of Army personnel in Gurdwara over alleged blasphemy: Radicals continue to justify the crime, demand strict law against disrespect of religion

OpIndia Staff -
Republic Day riots accused Deep Sidhu and others support Daljit, accused of killing army man Deepak Singh for alleged blasphemy in Gurdwara
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News Reports

Muslim population explosion in Assam: Increase of voters in 40 minority-dominated constituencies in 10 years ranges from 30% to 55%

OpIndia Staff -
An analysis of voter numbers in 40 Muslim dominated constituencies in Assam shows high growth of voters in those constituencies in last 10 years
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News Reports

Kangana Ranaut slams Priyanka Chopra for allegedly changing political stance, calls her ‘Secular Puppy’

OpIndia Staff -
Kangana Ranaut said on Instagram that Priyanka Chopra has gone from being a nationalist to secular puppy
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News Reports

The Life and Times of Audrey Truschke: Links to dubious Hinduphobic groups, accusations of stalking and other controversies

K Bhattacharjee -
'Historian' Audrey Truschke, who teaches at Rutgers University, is one of the most unpopular academicians in India today.
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News Reports

Kerala-based journalist reveals Islamist organisation Jamaat-e-Islami is receiving funds from Saudi Arabia universities to ‘Islamise’ India

OpIndia Staff -
Journalist MP Basheer reveals that Jamaat-e-Islami receiving funds from King Abdul Aziz University in Saudi Arabia to promote Islam in India
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News Reports

Adhir Ranjan Choudhjury may be removed as leader of Congress in Lok Sabha to placate Mamata Banerjee, Sonia Gandhi to replace him: Report

OpIndia Staff -
As Adhir Ranjan Choudhury was critical of TMC during West Bengal elections, Congress to remove him as leader of LS to placate Mamata Banerjee
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Politics

‘Religious conversions matter of national security, team of 500 officials on it’: Yogi Adityanath in triumphant mood after Zila Parishad victory

OpIndia Staff -
Yogi Adityanath announced that BJP will continue its winning streak, despite any alliances created to topple him from the CM 's throne.
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Economy and Finance

Kitex group receives offers from 10 states after it withdrew ₹3500 crore investment in Kerala citing harassment, TN promises subsidies and freebies

OpIndia Staff -
Tamil Nadu has sent a formal invitation to Kitex group to invest the state after it withdrew projects in Kerala citing harassment by officials
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News Reports

People come together to fund hair removal of Gaurang aka Prakriti, so that she feels complete in her identified gender

OpIndia Staff -
A doctor’s letter identifies Prakriti as ‘male to female’ transgender person who described a desire to be treated like a member of the opposite sex since early childhood.
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World

Philippines military plane carrying 85 people crashes while landing, 40 rescued

OpIndia Staff -
The burning wreckage of the C-130 was found near Sulu province by the villagers, who said that the military aircraft crashed during its landing on the Jolo islands after it missed the runway.
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News Reports

Leftists lose their cool over Delhi CM Kejriwal again as Ambedkar University fines AISA office-bearer for ‘disrespecting’ him

OpIndia Staff -
YouTube comment on live streaming of convocation by 'student activist' against Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal triggers Ambedkar University to fining her.
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