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Top Maoist terrorists dying of Covid-19, several leave terror group due to fear of infection

OpIndia Staff -
Maoists are dying in the 'Red Corridor', as it is witnessing a drastic surge in the number of Wuhan Coronavirus cases. Others have left.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Local administration in Hardoi demolish a 10-year-old Muslim shrine that was illegally constructed on encroached land

OpIndia Staff -
The illegally constructed Muslim shrine in Hardoi was removed by the encroacher Sagir Ahmed himself, in the presence of heavy police force
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News Reports

NCPCR writes to Rajasthan govt to conduct an enquiry against illegal arrest and harassment of anti-conversion activist by Jaipur police

OpIndia Staff -
NCPCR seeks enquiry after anti-conversion activist Bawi Singh was arrested by Rajasthan police
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News Reports

Kerala govt calls vandalism of Assembly ‘Parliamentary privilege’, moves SC seeking permission to withdraw vandalism cases against CPM leaders

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Kerala govt wants to withdraw cases against CPM leaders for vandalism in assembly in 2015, says vandalising house is parliamentary privilege
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Opinions

If Delhi government was exaggerating oxygen demand, why there was an oxygen crisis in April? All your questions answered

Raju Das -
While oxygen demand in Delhi was exaggerated, the city faced oxygen crisis due to gross mismanagement and inefficiency of Delhi govt
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News Reports

PM Modi talks to CM Yogi Adityanath, discusses plans to develop Lord Ram’s Ayodhya: Here is what he said

OpIndia Staff -
During the meeting, PM Modi emphasised that Ayodhya should be developed through futuristic infrastructure such that it matches our human ethos.
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Entertainment

Kangana Ranaut likens her passport renewal woes to the ban on singer Kishore Kumar during the Emergency

OpIndia Staff -
Kangana Ranaut had recently shared a tweet on her Instagram story comparing her passport ordeal to Kishore Kumar's plight.
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News Reports

Protestors against farm laws violate Covid-19 safety norms, breaks barricades in Chandigarh, attempt to enter Raj Bhawan

OpIndia Staff -
'Farmers' resorted to vandalism on the streets of Chandigarh on Saturday as they broke police barricades to enter Raj Bhawan
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Books

24 years ago, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was published the first time: How the author’s pandering has shaped its legacy

K Bhattacharjee -
Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone marked the beginning of the boy wizard's story and was published on 26th June, 1997.
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Politics

Maharashtra: BJP launches state-wide protests demanding restoration of OBC quota; Congress protests against BJP

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra is facing a turmoil as OBC community is on the verge of losing their political reservations in the state.
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News Reports

Mass conversion racket: Umar Gautam reveals how they targeted non-Muslim girls from rural areas as it is easier to lure, brainwash them

OpIndia Staff -
Umar Gautam told ATS that it was easier to lure village girls with money as they came from lesser privileged families
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Muslim man poses as Hindu to lure girl and rape her multiple times, kin of man threaten to leak her videos

OpIndia Staff -
A girl from Balipur village, Uttar Pradesh has approached the police with a complaint against a Muslim youth for posing as a Hindu to befriend her.
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News Reports

Pakistani woman appeals to Indian govt to grant travel visa to marry her Indian boyfriend, who she met on Facebook

OpIndia Staff -
After waiting for more than a year to meet her partner living in India, Pakistani national Suman Rantilal has appealed to the Modi government
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Law

Bombay HC summons The Udaipur Times for ‘impermissible reporting’ on trial related to Dawoodi Bohra community: Details

OpIndia Staff -
The Bombay HC took objection to editorial comments passed by The Udaipur Times on a trial related to Dawoodi Bohra community.
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World

UFO report calls UAP potential national security threat to USA, says stigma prevents data collection: Read the startling admissions

OpIndia Staff -
The UFO report does not rule out extraterrestrial origin and says there is probably not a single explanation for all the sightings.
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Law

As the SC commission report places the blame on Delhi govt, here are the SC observations that netizens are now questioning

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court had taken upon itself to issue orders regarding oxygen supply at the time of the second wave of Covid-19.
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World

Nike CEO says brand is ‘of China, for China’ as company faces boycott calls in China over their statements on Xinjiang human rights abuse

OpIndia Staff -
Nike CEO John Donahoe called the sportswear apparel giant a "brand of China" this week after raising concern over China's forced labour
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News Reports

Yogi Adityanath govt’s crackdown on notorious criminals: Illegal properties worth Rs 1,128 crore confiscated in 15 months, 5,558 cases registered

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The Yogi Adityanath govt has seized illegal properties worth over 1128 crore belonging to at least 25 gangsters in 15 months
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News Reports

Enticement, deceit used to convert women and children to Islam, UP Police tries to trace victims of ISI-funded conversion racket: What we know so...

OpIndia Staff -
The ATS is now probing the larger conspiracy in the case and the funding trail of the institution Islamic Dawah Centre, which was run by the accused.
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Government and Policy

Yogi Adityanath government increases Jain representation in UP minority commission: Here are the changes

OpIndia Staff -
The UP government on Friday announced a new 8-member minority commission headed by Agra based Ashfaq Saifi
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News Reports

Munger case: Amarnath Poddar, whose son Anurag Poddar was killed in police firing during Durga Puja procession, paid compensation of ₹10 lacs

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Bihar government paid a compensation of ₹10 lacs to the father of 18-year-old Anurag Poddar, who was shot during Munger incident
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Crime

Umar Gautam and Mufti Jahangir Qasmi may have received funding from terrorist Hafiz Saeed to run conversion racket: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Forced religious conversion racket case has now taken a massive turn as Uttar Pradesh ATS suspects Pakistan and Hafiz Saeed hand behind it
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News Reports

Post for which Twitter locked IT Minister RS Prasad’s account: A DMCA notice, an International Federation and Sony Music

OpIndia Staff -
Twitter came under the scanner for blocking Union Minister of Law and Justice, Electronics and IT RS Prasad for violating copyright act
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News Reports

ED raids former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh’s residence after establishing Rs 4 cr extortion trail, arrests two aides

OpIndia Staff -
ED arrested two close aides of former Maharashtra Home Minister and NCP leader Anil Deshmukh in connection with the Rs.100 crore extortion case
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News Reports

Interfaith couple goes to Ajmer collectorate to seek protection, Rajasthan police drag the couple out and arrest them: Read what happened

OpIndia Staff -
Rajasthan police dragged interfaith couple out of collector's office and arrested them, while the officials kept looking on
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News Reports

Matt Hancock love affair: British health secretary apologises for breaking social distancing norms after pictures of him kissing his aide surface

OpIndia Staff -
Britain's health secretary Matt Hancock was caught on camera kissing his aide millionaire lobbyist Gina Coladangelo in his office
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News Reports

America’s NIH removed gene sequence of early COVID-19 cases from Wuhan at the request of Chinese researchers: Report

OpIndia Staff -
3 months after the gene sequence were submitted to the NIH database, US officials removed them at the insistence of Chinese researchers
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News Reports

Fake IAS officer who duped Mimi Chakraborty seen with other TMC leaders in photos, his name appears with ministers on an inauguration plaque

OpIndia Staff -
Debanjan Deb, prime accused in Kolkata fake vaccine scam, found to have links with many TMC leaders, had attended Tagore bust inauguration
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News Reports

Watch: UP Security guard shoots man for not wearing a mask inside bank premises

Dibakar Dutta -
The victim, Rajesh Kumar, had sustained a gunshot wound to his thigh after he was shot by a security guard in Bareilly, UP.
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News Reports

Journalist’s ‘robbed at gunpoint’ story untrue, he invented hoax after dinner with female friend due to ‘family reasons’: Read what Noida Police says

OpIndia Staff -
Noida police said Atul Agarwal spent a night in an OYO room after his wife called him up and asked him to come home.
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News Reports

Moga Massacre: When 25 Swayamsevaks sacrificed their lives to Khalistani terrorists while defending the RSS flag 32 years ago

OpIndia Staff -
On the 25th of June every year, a lot of people visit Shahidi Park to pay homage to the RSS martyrs who lost their lives in the Moga massacre
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News Reports

‘My statements calling out the high-handedness of Twitter have clearly ruffled its feathers’: Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad

OpIndia Staff -
The Union Minister of Information Technology took to Indian app Koo to share that his Twitter account had been blocked for about an hour by the global tech giant.
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Specials

The spike that never came: How media made unfounded claims of 2020 festive season sparking a renewed Covid-19 surge

Jinit Jain -
Media published a host of articles predicting that the festive season in 2020 would spark a COVID-19 surge. But it never happened.
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News Reports

Arvind Kejriwal continues his drama after SC committee report proves how he artificially created a higher oxygen demand while other states suffered

OpIndia Staff -
While Manish Sisodia says Oxygen Audit Interim does not exists, Arvind Kejriwal says it is election campaigning by BJP
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News Reports

NCPCR takes cognisance of OpIndia’s report on Fatehpur teacher’s revelations of mass conversion racket spearheaded by Umar Gautam

Jhankar Mohta -
OpIndia reported the startling revelations made by the Fatehpur teacher about the mass conversion racket spearheaded by Umar Gautam.
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News Reports

The Oxygen Audit Interim Report that AAP claims does not exist was sent to Delhi govt official on 4th June: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi govt Principal Secretary (Home) is member of oxygen audit committee, and AIIMS director had sent the interim report to him on June 4
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Media

The Wire journalists booked by Barabanki police for spreading communal hate and fake news are Jamia students: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Uttar Pradesh Police said on Thursday that they have registered an FIR against leftist portal The Wire and three of its journalists.
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Politics

Twitter locks Ravi Shankar Prasad’s account amidst tussle with Indian Govt, IT Minister accuses platform of violating more laws: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad posted a tweet saying something highly peculiar happened to his Twitter account.
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Politics

Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha skipped son’s wedding to attend PM Modi’s all-party meeting

OpIndia Staff -
Manoj Sinha had skipped his son's wedding to attend the crucial all-party meeting with Prime Minister to discuss the future of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Crime

Tamil Nadu: Science teacher Habeeb Mohammad arrested for sexually harassing class 9 student

OpIndia Staff -
A Habeeb Mohammad, a 38-year-old science teacher has been arrested by Tamil Nadu police for sexually harassing a class 9 through obscene phone calls.
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News Reports

Twitter operated without committee against sexual harassment as required by the Indian law for more than six years: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Twitter India operated for over six years without a committee on sexual harassment to address grievances of employees.
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News Reports

Arvind Kejriwal govt tries to cover tracks, says Oxygen Audit Interim Report does not exist: Here is how they are lying blatantly

OpIndia Staff -
An affidavit submitted in Supreme Court shows that a copy of the interim report of Delhi's oxygen audit was sent to Delhi govt
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Politics

Kerala Women’s Panel chief MC Josephine resigns from post after rude behaviour towards violence victim sparks outrage

OpIndia Staff -
Josephine had rudely told a victim of domestic violence to "suffer" as she had not lodged a police complaint over the violence she was facing in the hands of her husband and mother-in-law.
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News Reports

After suicide attempt, Baba Ka Dhaba owner accuses YouTubers of pushing him into depression

OpIndia Staff -
Karan Prasad, the son of the owner of Baba ka Dhaba, had claimed that his father fell unconscious after taking sleeping pills with alcohol.
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Social Media

Islamists defend Mohd Umar Gautam, who was running ISI-funded conversion racket targeting differently-abled children and women

OpIndia Staff -
Umar Gautam, who is a convert himself, had earlier revealed that he would convert around 250-300 people every year.
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News Reports

Young women speak up against ‘hate sex’ and the conspiracy of silence against sexual targeting of ‘Sanghi’ women

OpIndia Staff -
A Clubhouse discussion had gone viral where liberal participants expressed their desire to have 'hate sex' with Sanghis.
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News Reports

“I went with Mantosh Saini on my will, no one pressurised me”, Fazilat Khatoon clears the air about the Madhubani ‘kidnapping’ case

OpIndia Staff -
Fazilat Khatoon said her parents had asked her to elope with Mantosh Saini as he is from wealthy family, and charges of kidnapping are wrong
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News Reports

After John McAfee’s mysterious death in jail, US whistleblower Edward Snowden warns Wikileaks founder Julian Assange ‘could be next’

OpIndia Staff -
Julian Assange is currently lodged in Britain's harshest jail, HMP Belmarsh, and is wanted in the United States on an 18-count indictment
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Crime

Delhi Police arrests Nazir Hussain, Zulfikar Wazir, Aiaz Hussain and Muzammil Hussain in connection with the Israel Embassy blast

OpIndia Staff -
In a joint operation with the Ladakh police, the Special Cell officers arrested these alleged students from Kargil in connection with the conspiracy to plan and execute terror activities in the national capital and brought them to Delhi on transit remand for further questioning.
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Politics

SP leader Abdul Ansari urges Akhilesh Yadav to adopt TMC’s ‘Khela Hobe’ slogan, which inspired violence, ahead of 2022 UP elections

OpIndia Staff -
While the original slogan is in Bengali, Samajwadi Party adopted the Bhojpuri version of 'Khela Hobe'.
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