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The cradle of Islamic terrorism: New German documentary shows Pakistan’s ISI sponsoring terror attacks in Europe

OpIndia Staff -
A documentary by DW explores who was financing, planning and commissioning terror attacks in Europe
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Political History of India

Sanjay Gandhi death anniversary: How three attempts were made to kill him before he died in a plane crash

OpIndia Staff -
Sanjay Gandhi died in a plane crash on June 23, 1980 at the age of 33.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Blast near terrorist leader Hafiz Saeed’s house in Lahore leaves 2 dead, 12 injured

OpIndia Staff -
Investigations are on whether the blast was due to pipeline burst or cylinder or it was just an inadvertent bomb blast near terrorist leader's home.
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News Reports

Kerala govt gives govt jobs to wives of CPI(M) members accused of killing Congress workers, after going to Supreme Court to protect them

OpIndia Staff -
Among the 4 vacancies at a govt hospital in Kerala, 3 jobs given to wives of CPI(M) workers in jail for murder of Congress workers
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News Reports

Kerala, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu continue to be the epicentre of Covid-19, account more than half new cases in the country

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As many as 12,617 new Covid-19 were reported in Kerala in the last 24 hours. Maharashtra has recorded 8,470 cases in the last 24 hours.
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News Reports

‘Yogi can get me killed too’: Poet Munawwar Rana goes on deranged rant over mass religious conversion case

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Calling the mass conversions case a plot by Yogi Adityanath to win the upcoming state assembly elections, Rana mocked Hindus for getting converted for a small amount of money.
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News Reports

Kerala CPM expels Christian member who questioned conversion of his wife and son to Islam

OpIndia Staff -
He had alleged that Nazeera, a Panchayat member, and her husband Younus, an employee of Calicut University were the masterminds behind the alleged forced religious conversion.
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News Reports

After Bahrain and UAE, Mongolia and Seychelles which relied on Chinese vaccines see a spike in Covid-19 cases

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Fresh covid outbreaks in countries which have extensively used Chinese vaccines on a significant percentage of populations fuel doubt over efficacy of these vaccines.
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News Reports

Md Umar and Jahangir Qasmi wanted to use converted, brainwashed differently abled children as human bombs: Report

OpIndia Staff -
The Jeddah chapter of the Aligarh Muslim University in 2018 had felicitated Mohammad Umar Gautam with an award for propagating Islam.
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News Reports

Unconscious Patient in ICU bitten by rats at BMC-run hospital, authorities say ‘injuries are superficial’

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The 24-year-old Srinivas Yellappa had undergone eye surgery recently at a BMC-run hospital in Ghatkopar. Rats had bitten on his face while he was lying unconscious.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: One Dilshad caught breaking idols in Hindu temple in Kannauj, accomplice Umar says they were instructed to do so

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Kannauj Police superintend Dr Arvind Kumar informed that a case will be filed under NSA against the main accused and others.
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News Reports

Coronavirus: Health Ministry issues advisory to Maharashtra, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh on Delta Plus variant

OpIndia Staff -
Delta Plus variant has been detected in samples collected from Maharashtra, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh, which is a cause of concern.
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News Reports

Rana Ayyub tells Harvard University students how to speak ‘truth to power’, after spreading fake news over Ghaziabad fake hate crime

Jinit Jain -
Rana Ayyub interacted with the students of Harvard University over challenges facing journalism and 'speaking truth to power'.
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Sports

UEFA refuses to allow Munich Mayor to make LGBT rainbow political statement against Hungary during match vs Germany: Details

OpIndia Staff -
UEFA gas denied a request by the Munich Mayor to light up Allianz Arena in rainbow colours to protest a law passed in Hungary.
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Politics

Mamata Banerjee, after promising monthly stipends for women, faces ‘financial shortage’ in keeping her poll promise

OpIndia Staff -
West Bengal government might have to cut down on fund allocation to other Departments to keep Lakshmi Bhandar scheme afloat.
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News Reports

Google to face investigation by EU Antitrust Regulators, GoI plans to prohibit flash sales by e-commerce platform: Details

Anurag -
EU Commission will look into Google adtech business while the Indian Government has introduced rules for e-commerce platforms.
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News Reports

After being slammed by Bombay HC for lack of evidence, Mumbai police names Arnab Goswami as an accused in second TRP chargesheet

OpIndia Staff -
Republic TV had submitted before Bombay HC that Mumbai Police have deliberately not named Arnab Goswami in charge sheet to keep the investigation open
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World

Dr Peter Daszak, who helped brand lab leak hypothesis a ‘conspiracy theory’, recused from Lancet commission investigating Covid origins

OpIndia Staff -
Dr. Peter Daszak has recused himself from a UN backed Lancet Commission to look into the origins of SARS-COV-2.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Forced mass religious conversion accused Mohammad Umar Gautam was felicitated by AMU alumni for ‘spreading Islam’

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Mohammad Umar Gautam and his associated at the Islamic Dawah Centre(IDC) preyed on vulnerable and poor people, those with listening and speaking disabilities, and converted them to Islam
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OpIndia Explains

The MVA report card: Maharashtra government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic

Akshita Bhadauria -
10-min read: As the Maha Vikas Aghadi struggles to keep itself afloat, here's a snapshot on the Maharashtra government's handling of the pandemic.
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Crime

2-year-old raped in UP’s Bahraich district, accused shot at while trying to flee: Details

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A 2-year-old girl was kidnapped by a 35-year-old who raped her and left her bleeding in a school’s toilet.
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News Reports

‘It is time to free India from the evils of conversion’: VHP demands nation-wide enactment of anti-conversion law to get rid of ‘conversion-jeevi’

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On June 22, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) issued a press release demanding the enactment of central law to stop illegal conversions.
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News Reports

Man with ‘Peter Pan Syndrome’ granted bail after lawyer argues relationship with 14 year old was ‘consensual’: All you need to know about the...

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A man with the Peter Pan Syndrome was granted bail by a Mumbai Court on Monday in a case of kidnapping and sexual assault.
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News Reports

Editor-in-chief of Hindi Khabar news channel, Atul Agarwal, robbed and assaulted at gunpoint in Noida

OpIndia Staff -
Atul Agarwal was assaulted and robbed on the intervening night of May 19 and 20. No arrests have been made so far
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Politics

Congress Toolkit team now comes up with a ‘white paper’ on COVID management, here is how it is flawed

Jinit Jain -
Congress has released a white paper cautioning on the third wave of COVID-19, which appears as an extension of the toolkit that was exposed last month
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Opinions

86 lakh vaccinations: Why BJP had the most perfect day yesterday

Abhishek Banerjee -
Rahul Gandhi has done the BJP a favour, as usual when it comes to criticising the recordbreaking number of COVID vaccination.
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News Reports

After MC Kode, Vastavik Muhfaad abuses Lord Krishna while dissing another rapper, songs laced with expletives and drug promotion

OpIndia Staff -
In another ‘high on abuses’ song, Muhfaad refers to Hindu gods Ram and Sita in a similar depreciative manner.
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World

Thousands of people want Jeff Bezos to stay in space, multiple petitions welcome the new way to ‘financial equality’

OpIndia Staff -
Thousands signed petitions to make Jeff Bezos stay in space after the Amazon founder announced that he is taking a trip beyond Earth.
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News Reports

Kashmiri separatist Shabir Shah colluded with Pakistan to fuel unrest in Kashmir, was in touch with UN-designated terrorist Hafiz Saeed: ED

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Kashmiri separatist Shabir Shah was in regular touch with Jamat-ud-Dawah's Hafiz Saeed,"said ED in a Delhi Court
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News Reports

More controversial TISS papers surface: ‘India controlled Kashmir’, ‘Military Occupation’, romance with a research subject and embracing Islam

OpIndia Staff -
The 'pro-Azaadi' paper was authored by one Sreyasi Mukherjee and submitted at the Guwahati campus of TISS.
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News Reports

Court directs former PM Deve Gowda to pay Rs 2 crores for defaming construction firm: Here are the details of the case

OpIndia Staff -
Former PM HD Deve Gowda has been directed to pay a sum of ₹2 crores to an infrastructure services firm for causing ‘loss of reputation’
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News Reports

They tortured me physically, mentally, abused my religion and my God: Read how women in Mamata Banerjee’s West Bengal are being victimised

OpIndia Staff -
Ground report by Organiser reveals the horrifying stories of sexual assault on women in the post-poll violence in West Bengal
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News Reports

NCW takes cognisance of OpIndia’s report on Loyola College ex lecturer’s struggle against sexual predators, asks Chairman Provincial to take action

OpIndia Staff -
NCW has taken cognisance of OpIndia's report about the 13-year long battle of an ex-lecturer of Loyola College against sexual harassment
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News Reports

First Bengal violence and then Narada: Second Supreme Court judge from Bengal recuses from hearing the case against Bengal govt

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During the hearing, Justice Hemant Gupta informed that Justice Aniruddha Bose has some reservations about the case.
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News Reports

UP CM Yogi Adityanath invokes NSA against Noida mass conversion accused, links to those who entered Dasna temple with poison emerge

OpIndia Staff -
After mass conversion racket was busted in Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath has instructed the agencies to invoke NSA against accused.
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Politics

Gupkar Gang will attend PM Modi’s all party meet, Mehbooba Mufti and Farooq Abdullah to be present

OpIndia Staff -
The Gupkar Alliance in Jammu & Kashmir has announced that it will participate in the all-party meeting called by PM Modi.
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News Reports

Gujarat: Police books one Imran Ansari under anti-conversion law for abduction, forced marriage and rape of a Jain girl

OpIndia Staff -
The accused coerced the victim into having a physical relationship and attempted to convert her to Islam for nikkah (marriage).
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News Reports

Facebook restricts account of user who shared news report about rape and torture of women in Mamata Banerjee’s Bengal

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While violence in Bengal should be a story everyone talks about, Facebook is actively suppressing information about post-poll violence
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Media

Ravish Kumar appears massively frustrated as India administers 85 lakh COVID vaccines in single day, this is why he does not make sense

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Ravish Kumar goes on a ranting spree to hate on PM Modi by camouflaging propaganda as 'criticism' over COVID-19 vaccination
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News Reports

Kerala: Suspected gold smugglers and SDPI members killed in a road accident. Here is what we know

OpIndia Staff -
It has come to light that the 5 men were members of the radical Islamist outfit Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI). SDPI, however, has claimed the members were expelled earlier.
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News Reports

Pakistan planning to infiltrate farmer agitation to spread unrest on June 26: Details

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, Pakistan plans to infiltrate these protests and provoke the security agencies to take action against the farmers which could lead to escalated tensions.
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Crime

Punjab: Father dies after being assaulted by son for not giving money for drugs

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A 55-year old man in Punjab, Sukhchain Singh, was assaulted by his son Jaswinder Singh following which he died on Monday.
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World

‘Degenerate’ Imran Khan does it again, blames women for rising sexual violence in Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan PM Imran Khan held women's clothes responsible for the sexual violence committed against them
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Government and Policy

India secures milestone in Coronavirus vaccination drive, administers over 86 lakh doses in a single day: Details

OpIndia Staff -
CoWIN app showed that Madhya Pradesh administered a whopping 13,71,180 lakh vaccine doses alone on Monday.
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News Reports

West Bengal: NHRC forms 7-member committee in accordance with Calcutta High Court order to probe post-poll violence

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On June 18, Calcutta HC had asked NHRC to form a committee to probe the post-poll violence in West Bengal
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Politics

Modi critics Jean Dreze, Arvind Subramanian, Raghuram Rajan to be part of Tamil Nadu’s Economic Advisory Council

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The appointment of Congress loyalists to the Tamil Nadu Economic Advisory Council comes days after Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi met with CM MK Stalin
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Politics

Congress plays by Greta Thunberg toolkit, undermines Yoga to attack the Modi government

Jinit Jain -
Senior Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, followed the Greta Thunberg toolkit to belittle Yoga and attack the Modi government.
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News Reports

Despite the victim’s dying declaration, Rakesh Tikait continues to lie about Mukesh, who was set on fire by farmer at Tikri border

OpIndia Staff -
The BKU chief lies despite Mukesh clearing stating in his dying declaration that he was burnt alive at Tikri border protest site
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Cricket

How Venkatesh Prasad is winning hearts with his ‘Sanghi’ posts, one tweet at a time

OpIndia Staff -
Venkatesh Prasad demonstrated the Surya Namaskar for his followers, performed in deference to the Sun God.
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World

German media giant Axel Springer asks its anti-Israel employees to find another job, states Israel’s right to exist as an essential values

OpIndia Staff -
Axel Springer's CEO asked employees to look for another job if they have problem with Israel's flag outside headquarters
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