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Kerala family threatened for criticising Lakshadweep actor Aisha Sultana on her ‘COVID bioweapon’ remark

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The couple revealed that all the calls were made from untraceable telephone exchanges, including one from Bangladesh. Their differently-abled son was also attacked on social media.
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News Reports

Exclusive: Ex-lecturer narrates her 13-year battle against her sexual predators protected by Chennai’s Loyola College administration

Jhankar Mohta -
It's been 13 years since Josephine has been fighting against the mighty administration of Loyola College, Chennai, but to no avail
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News Reports

Sonia Gandhi’s constituency Raebareli among districts with lowest vaccination rate, locals blame Akhilesh Yadav for vaccine hesitancy: Details

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Locals in Raebareli say that vaccine hesitancy among people increased after Akhilesh Yadav said he won't take the vaccine.
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News Reports

UP CM Yogi Adiyanath suspends Electricity Board official for frequent power cuts, warns officials against delays

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The absence of Managing Director of the Purvanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Saroj Kumar left Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in anger.
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News Reports

Who is Vishal Jood? An Indian national arrested for taking on Khalistani extremists in Australia

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Vishal Jood, the 24 yar old from Haryana, has been languishing in a jail in the down in the country for two months now.
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News Reports

Benjamin Netanyahu lost the chair after 12 years because he lost the Israeli ‘caste arithmetic’

Lev Aran -
Everyone thought Benjamin Netanyahu will show his magic and retain his posting as PM of Israel, but it didn’t happen
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News Reports

Exclusive: Agitators not farmers but criminals, says wife of victim burnt alive at Tikri border, farmers harass woman of village, says sarpanch

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Haryana police arrested one of the main accused named Krishna who allegedly set Mukesh ablaze at the Tikri border
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News Reports

TV9 Bharatvarsh documentary shows ISIS bride Shamima Begum holding a document with Congress party’s logo: This is how it happened

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Instead of using original footage, TV9 Bharatvarsh used a digitally altered the image of Shamima Begum from a satire site
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News Reports

Pakistan, where intelligence goes to die: How ISI was trying to ‘honeytrap’ a fake Indian Army officer

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Pakistan's ISI was trying to honeytrap a man who was impersonating as an Indian Army officer and trying to attract the attention of women
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News Reports

OBC benefits for Muslims: How WB Police’s recruitment drive has exposed how parties found a way to make religious reservations

K Bhattacharjee -
The drive was meant to fill vacancies in the OBC-A category in the state. The list showed that apart from one or two individuals, all of them were Muslims.
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News Reports

2 days after China admitted 5 fuel rods were damaged at Taishan nuclear plant, top nuclear scientist found dead under mysterious circumstances

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One of China's top nuclear scientists and the Vice-President of Harbin Engineering University died after falling off from a building
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Crime

UP Police arrests Samajwadi Party leader Umer Pahalwan Idris, accused of inventing fake hate crime over Ghaziabad assault case

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Samajwadi Party leader Umed Pahalwan Idris has been arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police in Delhi on Saturday.
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World

Pakistani clothing brand apologises after sharing morphed picture of Hindu God, Hindu rights activist determined to take legal action

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'Hindu Samata' said that leading Pakistani womenswear brand, Generation, had mocked Hinduism through a morphed image. An apology was issued.
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OpIndia Scoops

Exclusive details: Here are some of the points that the Parliamentary Standing Committee, headed by Shashi Tharoor, raised with Twitter

Nupur J Sharma -
Indian officials of the microblogging site Twitter were questioned by the Parliamentary Panel on Information Technology on various issues.
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News Reports

Oxygen supply of patients not cut during mock drill in Paras Hospital, nobody died due to lack of oxygen, finds audit committee: Read full...

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Committee probing Paras Hospital mock drill case confirms hospital did not snap oxygen, death of patients due to co-morbidities
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News Reports

Days after Rahul Gandhi foul mouths Modi govt over increased dose gap for Covishield, AstraZeneca chief investigator backs the decision

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AstraZeneca scientist says level of protection provided by one dose of vaccine increases in second and third month after the jab
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News Reports

Entire Rapid Response Team of Portland Police resigns after jury indicts officer for stopping rioters during George Floyd protests

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The Portland Police Association has slammed the indictment by the jury saying it is a "politically driven charging decision."
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News Reports

Punjab: Five ministers strongly object to CM Captain Amarinder Singh’s decision to give government jobs to children of MLAs

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Five Punjab ministers accused CM Amarinder Singh of perpetuating VIP culture with the appointment of MLAs' sons to govt posts
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Crime

First FIR in Gujarat under new law: Muslim man pretends to be Christian, blackmails, hurls caste abuse, forces woman to convert to Islam after...

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This is the first forced conversion case in Gujarat which has been registered under the state's new anti-conversion law
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News Reports

Netizens trend #SuspendUrbanDictionary, UP police takes cognisance of the insulting ‘definition’ of Mayawati by one Nazia Khan: What happened

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On Friday, Urban Dictionary sparked a furore on Twitter after it described Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati as an "unmarried pornstar".
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Politics

Kerala Congress President K Sudhakaran hatched a plan to kidnap my children says Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan: Here is the full story

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Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan has claimed that the newly-coronated Kerala PCC President K Sudhakaran had planned to kidnap his children
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News Reports

Mamata Banerjee wants Nandigram results re-evaluated even after winning state, calls Judge ‘BJP member’ to cast doubts on Judiciary as well: Details

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Only recently, Mamata Banerjee had filed a petition in the court demanding that the Nandigram results be re-evaluated.
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News Reports

Ghaziabad Fake Hate Crime: One accused says he was angry as he lost unborn child because of the ‘tabeez’ given by Abdul Samad

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The UP Police which has been investigating the Ghaziabad assault case, is now in the lookout for the absconding local SP leader
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Politics

Andhra Pradesh: BJP leaders arrested for protesting against installation of Tipu Sultan statue by by YSRCP MLA after demands by Muslim community

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A massive political row has erupted in Andhra Pradesh over the installation of a statue of tyrant ruler Tipu Sultan in Proddatur town in Kadapa district.
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News Reports

Mukesh was burnt alive at Tikri Border because he was a Brahmin? Village head thinks so, the family wants speedy justice

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Residents of Kasar village near Tikri border, where Mukesh was burnt alive, demand immediate removal of tents of farmer protestors
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Politics

Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs slams AAP Govt in Delhi for not complying with Food Security Act: Details

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The Central Government has told the AAP Government in Delhi that it is in violation of section 12 of the National Food Security Act, 2013.
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News Reports

“Law of land is supreme, not your policies”: Parliamentary committee to Twitter after its officials said they follow the company’s policies

OpIndia Staff -
When the committee asked what Twitter follows, Indian law or own policies, company officials replied that they follow their policies
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News Reports

Madras HC grants anticipatory bail to man booked for transmitting child pornography, says it was one time offence

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Madras HC gives anticipatory bail to man who had shared child pornography as he had cooperated with police & it was one-time crime
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh ATS arrests four more illegal Rohingya Muslims who ran a sophisticated human trafficking network

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UP Director General of Police revealed that the four arrested accused indulged in human trafficking of fellow Rohingyas.
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News Reports

Watch: Maharashtra police lathi-charge protesting ASHA workers for stopping the car of Deputy CM Ajit Pawar in Osmanabad

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When protesting ASHA workers stopped the car of Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, police did lathi charge on them
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News Reports

TISS research paper calls Kashmir ‘India occupied’, blames Indian Army for domestic violence in Kashmiri society

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A dissertation paper by a student at TISS-Hyderabad has come under the scanner for calling Kashmir "India occupied Kashmir".
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News Reports

Ghaziabad fake ‘hate crime’: Police send notice to Twitter India MD for ‘provoking communal unrest’, ask him to appear within a week

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UP Police had registered an FIR against Twitter India MD and 7 others in the Loni fake hate crime case for spreading lies.
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News Reports

Approval rating of PM Modi highest among world leaders at 66%, ahead of Biden, Trudeau, Merkel and others

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PM Modi continues to remain at the pole position among the list of world leaders with the highest approval ratings
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News Reports

Pakistan foreign minister supports Taliban, insinuates present Afghan Govt and India are responsible for terrorism and violence

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Pakistan Foreign Minister declared that if Afghanistan wants to coexist with Pakistan then it must recognise the Durand Line as international border.
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News Reports

Information about a fictitious train on ‘reliable’ Wikipedia, picked up by websites and academic journals: Here is how it originated

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A 2016 edit about fictional Mashriq-Maghreb Express was removed from the East Pakistan Railway's Wikipedia page in 2020 only
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Media

Republic TV issues statement over Arnab Goswami’s disappearance from the news network: Here is what they said

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Arnab Goswami was last seen on May 2 during a discussion on West Bengal assembly polls. He will make a return on Monday.
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News Reports

Allahabad HC dismisses petition seeking directions to UP govt to cremate dead bodies buried on banks of Ganga

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Noting that there are traditions, customs, and people from various communities reside on the banks of Ganga, the Court asked the petitioner to show the court the contribution he made in this cause before passing any order and asked if he had dug out and cremated bodies himself.
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News Reports

‘Being targeted because I am Muslim’: SP leader Umed Idris plays victim card after giving Ghaziabad incident a communal spin

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SP leader Umed Idris was booked by Ghaziabad police on May 17 for giving the Loni incident a communal spin in his Facebook video.
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Entertainment

Protestors demand change of movie name ‘Prithviraj’, burn Akshay Kumar’s effigy: Here’s the name they want

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All India Kshatriya Mahasabha demands that elders of the community be shown 'Prithviraj' starring Akshay Kumar before release.
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News Reports

4 arrested in Hiranandani society fake vaccine scam, Tips Films, another production house were duped too: Reports

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4 persons have been arrested by the Kandivali Police in the fake vaccination drive case. They have been sent to judicial custody till June 25.
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News Reports

‘Baba Ka Dhaba’ owner Kanta Prasad attempts suicide, admitted to hospital after overdosing on sleeping pills: Details

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Kanta Prasad, owner of the Baba Ka Dhaba, attempted suicide and is currently admitted to the ICU at Safdarjung Hospital.
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News Reports

Mukul Roy refuses to resign from assembly after defecting to TMC, Suvendu Adhikari petitions the speaker to disqualify him

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Suvendu Adhilkari asks assembly speaker to disqualify Mukul Roy as per anti-defection law after Roy quite BJP to join TMC
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World

Pakistan: Mufti sexually abuses student, claims he was drugged by the minor

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The North Cantt police in Lahore has now registered a case against Mufti Rehman under relevant sections of Pakistan law.
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News Reports

After denying permission to BJP to hold a core committee meeting, Kerala govt allows Congress to conduct ceremony to induct Congress President

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While Kerala govt had denied permission for a BJP meeting with 12 people, they allowed a Congress event with more than 1500 people
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News Reports

Shiv Sena workers’ attack BJP protestors, Sanjay Raut says ‘we are certified goondas’: All you need to know

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After BJP called the Shiv Sena workers hooligans for attacking BJP workers, Sanjay Raut said they are 'certified goondas'
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News Reports

‘Muslims must kill 4-6 persons before dying’: Congress’ new minority cell head Imran Pratapgarhi and his hate-filled ‘shayari’. Details

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The newly appointed Congress minority cell head Imran Pratapgarhi is believed to be the favourite of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
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Opinions

FT refers to India as the ‘weakest link’ in the Quad. How their quoted expert denies conclusion and how they got it massively wrong

Shashank Bharadwaj -
Quoting a few experts in foreign policy, FT declared that India is the 'weakest link' of the informal alliance as it had failed to provide necessary vaccines to the nations as it had agreed to in the Quad summit that was held in March.
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News Reports

Man who slapped Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee in 2015 found dead, family says murder: What we know so far

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Devasish Acharya, the man who slapped TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee in 2015, has been found dead under mysterious circumstances in Bengal.
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News Reports

Brand new drama? Now AAP corporator blames BJP for her divorce, says she ‘chose voters over her husband’: What happened

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AAP has made a come back with a fresh new episode of drama with its MLA pinning the blame for her divorce on BJP
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News Reports

UP: Woman alleges harassment, obscene messages by police officer in Sultanpur, SP orders investigation. Details of the case

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After the case was highlighted on the social media, Sultanpur police have informed that they have suspended a constable involved in the case and the accused inspector has been ordered to report at the police lines.
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