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Farmer org releases unclear video to claim man committed suicide at Tikri border, clearer video shows man accusing ‘farmer’ of setting him on fire

OpIndia Staff -
A man was burnt alive and succumbed to his injuries after visiting the Tikri border where farmers are protesting
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Crime

Darbhanga: Parcel registered in the name of one Md Sufiyan explodes at railway station, investigation on

OpIndia Staff -
The explosion occurred at the Darbhanga Railway station near the GRP station. The parcel had come from Telangana.
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News Reports

New Zealand: Staggered Covid-19 vaccination to begin from end of July, eligible people out of 50 lakh population to be vaccinated by year-end

OpIndia Staff -
New Zealand, that has the population of less than 50 lakh, will be able to vaccinate all eligible citizens only by year-end
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News Reports

Osama Bin Laden’s niece Noor Bin Ladin flies ‘Trump won’ banner in Geneva to protest Biden-Putin summit, calls Biden a ‘senile pedo’

OpIndia Staff -
Noor Bin Ladin claimed she was attacked more for supporting Trump than being linked to Osama Bin Laden.
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Crime

Haryana: Man burnt alive to make him ‘martyr’ against farm laws, villagers demand security from ‘farmers’ at Tikri border

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, casteist slurs were hurled towards Mukesh after which he was set on fire. A video of him being set on fire has gone viral on social media where one can hear casteist abuses being thrown at him before he was set ablaze.
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News Reports

Twitter stock loses nearly 25% in market value ever since it started interfering in Indian political affairs

OpIndia Staff -
The war with sovereign nations has hit Twitter financially as share prices of the micro-blogging site have taken a hit
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News Reports

Case filed against journalist Neha Dixit for accusing RSS affiliate Sewa International of ‘child trafficking’

OpIndia Staff -
In a tweet, Neha Dixit had appealed to NRIs not to donate to RSS affiliate Sewa International, claiming that they are involved in child trafficking.
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Opinions

India and China: The ups and downs of responses by the Asian giants against COVID-19

Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar -
Since China has a humongous population like, we could look at what worked there in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic
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OpIndia Explains

How a personal animosity was turned into defaming ‘Jai Shri Ram’ chant: All you need to know about Ghaziabad incident

OpIndia Staff -
The chronology of what all transpired in the fake 'hate crime' story where an elderly Muslim man claimed he was attacked and forced to chant 'Jai Shri Ram'
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News Reports

AAP celebrates Delhi’s new architectural marvel, the Moti Nagar speed breaker

OpIndia Staff -
AAP's Moti Nagar MLA has recently inaugurated a speed breaker, along with dozens of supporters flouting social distancing norms.
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News Reports

Mamata Banerjee govt recommends suspension of several accounts from Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, for criticising her: What we know

OpIndia Staff -
Sources indicate that Govt of West Bengal recently recommended the suspension of over 200 accounts for criticising Mamata Banerjee
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Books

Earth, space, time, and more: Read how Indian scholars had recorded astronomical facts centuries before they were ‘discovered’ by Westerns

Shashank Bharadwaj -
Based on original Sanskrit texts, the book “Indian Astronomy: A Source-Book” narrates how ancient India excelled in astronomy
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News Reports

Antilia bomb scare: NIA arrests Shiv Sena leader and ex-police officer Pradeep Sharma

OpIndia Staff -
Pradeep Sharma Foundation, an NGO run by Sharma, was also raided by the investigation agency. The raid was conducted along with armed CRPF personnel at around 6 AM.
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News Reports

What is green fungus, and what are its early symptoms? How to prevent infection: All you need to know

OpIndia Staff -
According to experts, one can be affected by Aspergillosis or Green Fungus infection from simply breathing microscopic spores present in the surroundings.
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News Reports

Amidst the Mumbai housing society Covid ‘vaccination drive fraud’, here is how societies can organise vaccination drives

OpIndia Staff -
GOI has issued detailed guidelines for doorstep Covid vaccination drives, which needs to be followed by housing societies
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Politics

The churn in Bengal BJP is normal and on expected lines. Here is why I don’t worry too much about it

Abhishek Banerjee -
Candidates don’t matter so much in Bengal, party affiliations do. The TMC proved this beyond all possible doubt in 2021.
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News Reports

Left-wing terrorists using WhatsApp to recruit cadre, asking Maratha youth to adopt guerrilla warfare against the Indian state

OpIndia Staff -
An incendiary propaganda pamphlet signed by Milind Telumbde alias 'Sahyadri', the secretary of CPI(M), has been doing rounds on social media, as per reports.
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News Reports

Grooming Jihad: Murtaza became Mrityunjay to lure a Hindu girl, forced her to convert to Islam. Details

OpIndia Staff -
Murtaza became Mrityunjay to lure a Hindu girl into a relationship, threatened to leak obscene photos and videos, as per the report.
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News Reports

‘Surrender to us if you want jobs under govt scheme’: TMC leader threatens ISF workers to join his party

OpIndia Staff -
TMC leader Modasser Hossain said that if ISF workers and supporters want benefits of 100 days' job scheme, they have to join TMC
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Media

The Wire tries to force fit a ‘hate crime’ angle in Ghaziabad incident only because victim is a Muslim

Nirwa Mehta -
The Wire lowers its bar, goes from whitewashing Islamist terrorists to defending random 'taveez maker' from rural Uttar Pradesh
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Law

‘Based on social media narrative than evidence and chargesheet: Delhi Police files SLP after Pinjra Tod accused get bail

OpIndia Staff -
On 15th June, the Delhi High Court granted bail to Jamia Milia Islamia student leader Asif Iqbal Tanha, far-left ‘activists’ Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal in the Anti-Hindu Delhi riots case.
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News Reports

Pakistani audience go ballistic over Zee5 web series featuring Muslim girl-Indian Hindu boy love story, call it ‘haram’

OpIndia Staff -
The Pakistani web series features the love story between a Pakistani Muslim girl and Indian Hindu boy who have both lost their fathers to the conflict between the two nations.
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Variety

‘Friend tried to get me married to a gay banker, to avoid controversy over my pregnancy’: Neena Gupta in her autobiography

OpIndia Staff -
In her book titled 'Sach Kahun Toh', Neena Gupta has revealed that when she got pregnant with her daughter Masaba out of a relationship with West Indian legendary cricketer Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, one of her friends had tried to get her married to a gay banker from Mumbai's Bandra.
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News Reports

Ghaziabad Fake Hate Crime: Complaint filed against Swara Bhaskar, Twitter India MD, accused of fanning communal hate

OpIndia Staff -
Despite being called out as fake news, Bollywood entertainer Swara Bhasker continued to spread the lies that she heard the video wherein the men beating up the elderly Muslim man forced him to chant 'Jai Shri Ram'.
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News Reports

UNHRC, which tried to help Prashant Bhushan keep illegal Rohingyas in India, could be compromised by China, UK Parliamentary Panel finds

OpIndia Staff -
UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee is all set to release a report that says that China is on its way to breaking up multilateral organisations
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Social Media

Dhruv Rathee fans mark YouTuber Karolina Goswami for targeted harassment after she exposed his lies

OpIndia Staff -
After Karolina Goswami pointed out the factual errors and mistakes in the Dhruv Rathee video, Rathee's supporters have been harassing and abusing Goswami.
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News Reports

Watch: Bauna Saddam, man who hired Abdul to make ‘tabeez’ reveals details, occult material obtained from Ghaziabad elderly man

OpIndia Staff -
More details emerge in the Ghaziabad fake 'hate crime' case. Occult material, confession of man who hired him for his 'services' show how Abdul lied
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News Reports

Ghaziabad: Samajwadi leader Umed Idris booked for giving false communal twist to assault incident, making victim lie about case

OpIndia Staff -
The FIR registered at Loni Border police station states, “The accused made an unnecessary video with the complainant and, without verifying the facts of the case, carried out religious discussions on his Facebook, which spread animosity in the community.”
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News Reports

Ghaziabad fake hate crime case: Unmuted video of elderly man seconds before he was beaten up released. Watch

OpIndia Staff -
In the video, Abdul can be heard admitting that one Intezar sent some people to him to make the 'tabeez' (occult amulet) and put them in his spell as he had some work from them.
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News Reports

Twitter India MD told Delhi Police he does not know directors and owner of his company, details of his boss: Feigning ignorance or...

OpIndia Staff -
Twitter India MD Manish Maheshwari said he does know who owns Twitter India, and which company his boss Yu Sasamoto belongs to
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Opinions

While Twitter has a policy of removing anti-vaccine tweets, its refusal to remove such posts by Congress leaders shows its bias in India

Jinit Jain -
Even though Twitter has been prompt to remove anti-vaccine tweets, it still allows them when posted by Congress leaders in India
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News Reports

BJP MLA files complaint against Rahul Gandhi, Asaduddin Owaisi, Swara Bhasker seeking FIR under NSA for trying to instigate communal riots using fake news

OpIndia Staff -
Loni MLA Nand Kishor Gurjar said Rahul Gandhi and others were trying to create communai riots by blaming Hindus for the Loni assault case
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News Reports

Did a journalist inadvertently end up revealing real reason why Rahul Gandhi ended his West Bengal rallies?

OpIndia Staff -
COVID-positive Rahul Gandhi cancelled his public rallies in West Bengal, but did not disclose it while announcing the same. He, instead, claimed it was being done in view of raging pandemic.
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News Reports

Loni assault case: FIR does not mention Jai Shri Ram slogan, victim didn’t want to file complaint and local SP leader behind false allegations

OpIndia Staff -
Abdul Samad Saifi didn’t mention Jai Shri Ram in his complaint in the Loni assault case, had said he does not know the attackers
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News Reports

Greta Thunberg-inspired student climate activist group in New Zealand disbands itself for being ‘racist and white-dominated space’

OpIndia Staff -
School Strike 4 Climate Auckland said that they have turned white dominated racist group that ignored BIPOC voices and demands
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News Reports

Islamism apologist profiled by Shekhar Gupta’s ThePrint pushes anti-Semitic content, spreads disinformation claiming human rights violations by Israel in Palestine

OpIndia Staff -
CJ Werleman claimed that 40 per cent of Palestinian children in Israeli custody were raped and almost 100 per cent of them were tortured
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News Reports

Delhi govt to spend Rs 9 crore to make modifications to the residence of Arvind Kejriwal, informs BJP leader

OpIndia Staff -
BJP leader Naveen Kr Jindal showed a Delhi govt order approving the modification of residence of Arvind Kejriwal at the cost of Rs 5 crore
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News Reports

Ruckus in Pakistan parliament: Ruling party and opposition leaders hurl abuses against each other, throw papers

OpIndia Staff -
A video of the ruckus in the Pakistan Parliament has gone viral on the social media wherein the Pakistan legislators are seen abusing each other and throwing the copies of budget.
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News Reports

‘Celebrities project themselves as messiahs’: Bombay HC orders probe on how Sonu Sood obtained Covid-19 drugs

OpIndia Staff -
The AG said that Sonu Sood received the anti-Covid drugs from several pharmacies located inside Lifeline Care Hospital in Goregaon.
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News Reports

UP govt surpasses its own record with the procurement of 53.80 lakh metric tonnes of wheat in the current season

OpIndia Staff -
Uttar Pradesh has bested its previous high of 52.92 lakh metric tonnes of wheat procurement that was achieved in the year 2018-19.
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News Reports

Prices of key commodities come down, edible palm oil down by 19% while pulses see a drop in prices by 8%

OpIndia Staff -
The government apart from considering reducing taxes on vegetable oil imports after cooking oil prices hit record highs last month, is also working at promoting domestic production of oil crops.
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News Reports

Congress student body NSUI expels 7 leaders for posting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on official WhatsApp group, says it is ‘anti-party activity’

OpIndia Staff -
7 NSUI leaders in East Singhbhum unit in Jharkhand expelled by the organisation for posting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on official WhatsApp group
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Sports

Euro 2020 sponsor Coca-Cola loses billions after Cristiano Ronaldo’s ‘Drink water’ stunt

OpIndia Staff -
The video of Cristiano Ronaldo snubbing Coca Cola has gone viral on social media.
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News Reports

Ghaziabad crime: ‘Twitter, other publishers will face action for spreading unverified information, warns UP Police

OpIndia Staff -
Ghaziabad Police has stated that in their investigation, they had found that the accused and victim were known to each other and there was no communal angle.
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News Reports

Indian peacekeepers in South Sudan awarded UN medals for outstanding performance

OpIndia Staff -
135 Indian soldiers award by UN for their outstanding performance in UN peacekeeping missions in South Sudan.
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News Reports

US Catholic bishops unhappy over Biden’s support for gay marriage and abortion, meeting to decide if he deserves communion

OpIndia Staff -
Communion is a sacrament central to the Roman Catholic faith that a priest often administers to Catholics. It is the act of receiving a piece of bread that symbolizes the body of Jesus and a sip of wine representing his blood.
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News Reports

Serum Institute of India all set to manufacture Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine Covovax, trial data demonstrates 90.4 overall efficacy

OpIndia Staff -
Adar Poonawalla, the CEO of SII, plans to launch Novavax's Covovax in India by September contingent upon the regulatory approvals
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News Reports

Kerala-based Maktoob Media gives a bizarre spin to Ghaziabad story, claims Aadil accused of beating the Muslim man was actually ‘rescuing’ him

OpIndia Staff -
Kerala based Maktoob Media peddles another fake news on Loni incident, claims accused Adil was rescuing Abdul Samad Saifi
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Fact-Check

Congress leader spreads vaccine hesitancy again, this time claims newborn calves are slaughtered for their serum. Here is the truth

Anurag -
Covaxin does not contain newborn calf serum. It was used for development of cells to replicate Covid-19 virus in lab to produce vaccine.
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News Reports

Virtual hearing embarrassment: Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi caught attending the court proceedings without pants

OpIndia Staff -
Abhishek Manu Singhvi was caught attending court proceedings in boxer shorts when one of the screens accidentally fell off and showed the naked legs of the senior advocate
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