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Politics

Tripura: CPIM leader and ex-Finance Minister resorts to fear mongering, incites violence against BJP

OpIndia Staff -
The CPIM leader insinuated that there was a supposed threat to the lives of the people. Using that as a bait, he incited people to unleash anarchy and take up arms against the ruling government.
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World

The Roman Protasevic saga: How the USA and western govts are supporting neo-Nazis to score foreign policy goals against Russia

K Bhattacharjee -
Roman Protasevich was arrested soon after and his arrest was condemned as an attempt to silence dissidents.
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World

China reports the first-ever case of H10N3 avian influenza in humans, the disease was limited to birds until now

OpIndia Staff -
Yang Zhanqiu, a deputy director of the Pathogen Biology Department at Wuhan University informed that there might be a possibility of the virus spreading through respiratory droplets among the animals, just like the flu and COVID-19.
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News Reports

Mehul Choksi case: Opposition parties in Dominica, Anitgua slam govts, accuse them of complicity in the kidnapping drama

OpIndia Staff -
The opposition leader in Dominica Lennox Linton has accused the Antiguan government and Dominican government of complicity in the arrest of Mehul Choksi.
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OpIndia Explains

Hart Island: Once a psychiatric institution and now the resting place for Covid patients in New York

Dibakar Dutta -
Interestingly, Hart Island had witnessed a spike in burials during the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, although the scale was much lower than the one caused by the Wuhan Coronavirus.
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Media

Troll newspaper The Telegraph’s latest wisdom – Lakshadweep will become Kashmir because tree trunks are being painted

Nirwa Mehta -
This deranged piece in The Telegraph was triggered after Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan passed a resolution in Kerala Assembly demanding that the Lakshadweep administrator Praful Khoda be recalled.
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News Reports

Hemant Soren does a Kejriwal: After announcing free vaccines for all in Jharkhand, now wants center to pay for it

OpIndia Staff -
According to the data available with the Union Home Ministry, Jharkhand has wasted an overwhelming 37.3% of the vaccine doses provided.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Geo News anchor Hamid Mir taken off air for exposing the Pakistan army’s atrocity on journalists. Here is what he said

OpIndia Staff -
We are up against a cowardly enemy which believes that we don't know them. We know who you are," Hamid Mir had criticised the Pakistani military establishment recently.
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News Reports

‘Padhe likhe moorkh’: Union Minister Hardeep S Puri’s reply to ex-IAS officers over Central Vista is going viral. Watch

OpIndia Staff -
Puri said, “These are not educated fools but a disgrace to the country.” He further added, “I will not put my signatures on a letter that talks about superstitious belief.”
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News Reports

UP govt orders genome sequencing to study virus mutation to be better prepared for the next waves of pandemic

OpIndia Staff -
In an attempt to enhance health infrastructure ahead of the third wave which is said to affect children, CM Yogi Adityanath has directed the health department to complete the setting up of pediatric ICUs (PICU) and mini PICUs in hospitals by June 20 along with other measures.
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News Reports

6-year-old Kashmiri girl’s cute appeal to ‘Modi Sahab’ gets online class load reduced

OpIndia Staff -
The video went viral on social media, winning hearts, bringing a smile to everyone's face amid the gloom and doom of the pandemic.
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Crime

Maharashtra: 41 animals including cows, calves rescued in illegal slaughterhouse raid, five arrested

OpIndia Staff -
The rescued animals were sent to a gaushala (cowshed) in Bhiwandi, Thane district.
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Politics

‘Not possible to cremate dead bodies quietly,’ Yogi refutes allegations of Covid data fudging, explains tradition of Jal Pravah

OpIndia Staff -
Yogi Adityanath spoke on varied issues, from Covid to the recently concluded gram panchayat polls in an interview with Economic Times.
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Crime

House aides of Sushant Singh Rajput turn witnesses in drugs case against Rhea Chakraborty, her brother Showik and others

OpIndia Staff -
House aides of Sushant Singh Rajput have turned witnesses in a case against actress Rhea Chakraborty and others.
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Crime

Shiv Sena MLA gets 6 months jail in connection with 2018 communal riots in Aurangabad: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Shiv Sena MLA Pradeep Jaiswal was accused of threatening polices and vandalising the Kranti Chowk police station in Aurangabad.
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News Reports

Mamata Banerjee announces retirement of Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay, will continue as Advisor to CM

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee has stooped down to playing dirty games over chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay.
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News Reports

Woman who accompanied Mehul Choksi to Dominica may not be his girlfriend, was part of team that ‘abducted’ him: Report

OpIndia Staff -
It was widely reported that Mehul Choksi was on a romantic trip with his girlfriend to Dominica where he was arrested.
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News Reports

After waiting for a year, police constable Amit Rana’s wife reminds Arvind Kejriwal of compensation, asks why the discrimination

OpIndia Staff -
The wife of Amit Kumar Rana, who had succumbed to the infection on May 5, 2020, asked Arvind Kejriwal why the discrimination.
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News Reports

UP: ‘On sale’ signs put outside homes as Dalits consider fleeing Noorpur citing persecution by hooligans from Muslim community, police denies claims of migration

OpIndia Staff -
Noorpur is a Muslim-majority village in Western Uttar Pradesh with 125 Hindu families and about 800 Muslim families.
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Politics

Watch: OpIndia CEO Rahul Roushan explains why ‘Congress toolkit’ being marked as manipulated media is bad news for Congress

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Roushan said that no Congress supporter can deny that the propaganda mentioned in the toolkit matches the deeds of the party.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Liquor sellers display ‘no alcohol without vaccine certificate’ to promote vaccination

OpIndia Staff -
“We’re selling liquor only after checking the vaccination certificate of the customer,” said a shopkeeper, as per reports.
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World

China: Social media celebrity who mocked Chinese soldiers killed in Galwan Valley clash sentenced to prison

OpIndia Staff -
Qui Ziming, an internet celebrity in China, was arrested in February 2021 for smearing PLA soldiers killed in the Galwan Valley clash.
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Politics

#BengaliPrimeMinister: As TMC makes it clear that Mamata Banerjee has national ambitions, here are its implications for 2024

K Bhattacharjee -
Mamata Banerjee wishes to sweep away her rivals from other parties in the possible grand alliance while the wind is still in her favour.
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Opinions

Hindus need to shift the Overton window to make their voices heard

Priyank -
Hindus need to make their voices heard to bring about a political shift.
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News Reports

The tussle between Baba Ramdev and IMA has become an ‘Ayurveda Vs allopathy’ debate. It doesn’t need to be

Jinit Jain -
As India grapples with the resurgent coronavirus outbreak, both the Ayurveda and allopathy practitioners and supporters need to realise that both treatments can coexist simultaneously, without the need to discredit the other.
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OpIndia Scoops

Who is Sohail Hashmi, the ‘historian’ who got fined for filing a motivated petition against Central Vista project

Akshita Bhadauria -
It is interesting to note how both the Hashmi siblings, Sohail and Shabnam, appear to be going out of their way to spread the narrative of the very party whose leaders killed their own brother.
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News Reports

Meet Archbishop KP Yohannan: Asia’s richest evangelist infamous for diverting ‘charity funds’ for purchasing real estate

Dibakar Dutta -
In June 2015, the Kerala government had issued orders to recover land illegally owned by the Believers Eastern Church.
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Entertainment

Kartik Aryan dropped from another movie after Dostana 2 and Freddie, reports say Karan Johar may have ‘influenced’ decision

OpIndia Staff -
Kartik Aryan has lost yet another project after Karan Johar’s Dostana 2 and Shah Rukh Khan’s production, Freddie.
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News Reports

Claims of TN Finance Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan being a US citizen go viral, here is what we know

OpIndia Staff -
Saravanaprasad Balasubramanian, Editorial Member of News Portal Mediyaan, alleged in a Twitter post that on scanning American Citizenship Records, it was found Thiagarajan is a US citizen.
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News Reports

Aligarh empty vaccine case: Initial investigation reveals nurse Niha Khan had criminal mindset, could hamper vaccination drive. Details

OpIndia Staff -
Niha Khan confessed to inserting injections inside the body of the vaccine recipients but taking them out without releasing the vaccine.
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Entertainment

Actress Juhi Chawla files lawsuit against 5G technology in India, claims it is injurious to health and safety

OpIndia Staff -
Bollywood Actress Juhi Chawla has filed a lawsuit against the implementation of 5G technology in India.
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News Reports

‘Why women are not safe in AAP’, member questions Kejriwal after party councillor assaults her, FIR filed

OpIndia Staff -
The AAP woman worker alleged that Ramesh Matiala directed two women party workers to slap her in front of him
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News Reports

The origins of Covid-19: A laboratory-made virus and a massive cover-up by culpable parties? An analysis

OpIndia Staff -
After almost 1.5 years since pandemic broke, it is still unclear how Covid-19 originated, thanks to irresponsible behavior of some scientists and the Chinese government.
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Communal tension after minor Dalit girl raped at gunpoint in Moradabad

OpIndia Staff -
The police have also deployed additional teams in the area to contain the law and order situation that might flare up owing to the rape of a minor Dalit girl by perpetrator of another community.
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Crime

Father of child ‘activist’ Licypriya Kangujam arrested by Police in connection with fraud

OpIndia Staff -
Father of child activist Licypriya Kangujam, Kangujam Kanarjit aka Dr KK Singh, has been arrested in connection with fraud.
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Opinions

Tamil Nadu’s opposition to ‘one state, one vote’ in GST council opens a Pandora’s Box where the state stands to lose

Venkat Goli -
Was the Finance Minister of Tamil Nadu Panivel Thiaga Rajan ignorant of the precedents and the consensus that went into framing the one-state-one-vote rule?
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News Reports

Mamata refuses to relieve Chief Secretary, calls the order ‘wholly unconstitutional’ in a letter to PM

OpIndia Staff -
WB CM Mamata Banerjee has refused to release Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhya claiming the order of his transfer was unconstitutional.
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News Reports

Delhi HC dismisses plea to stall Central Vista project, petitioner fined for moving a motivated plea

OpIndia Staff -
A joint petition was filed by Anya Malhotra, a translator, and Sohail Hashmi, a 'historian' and documentary filmmaker who claimed the work does not fall in the essential category and can be put on hold.
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News Reports

While Gehlot govt denies vaccine wastage in Rajasthan, 500 vials with around 2500 doses found in garbage

OpIndia Staff -
News outlet Bhaskar found over 500 vials with 2500 doses that were discarded in the garbage in 35 vaccination centres across 8 districts in Rajasthan.
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News Reports

From discussion on ‘piles’ to ‘PS5’: Comment section of Uddhav Thackeray’s live sessions are lit

OpIndia Staff -
From urging the Chief Minister to go from Netflix to wanting him to arrange PS5, the netizens kept the viewers entertained.
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Crime

Grooming Jihad: Father of 7 children Abid poses as ‘Inspector Aditya’, blackmails, marries Hindu woman and forcefully converts to Islam

OpIndia Staff -
Abid Hawari posed as police officer Aditya Singh to cheat Hindu women in Uttar Pradesh.
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Media

Washington Post journalist deletes his racist tweet against Indians, blocks everyone who calls out his racism

OpIndia Staff -
Washington Post's Dave Weigel's problematic tweets raise eyebrows, netizens call out the racism.
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News Reports

UK: ‘Former’ Islamic terrorist files complaint against Pakistan-origin parents for radicalising him as a child

OpIndia Staff -
"They taught me to hate this country and the West, and not make friends with non-Muslims," the former terrorist recounted.
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Cricket

‘Vegan’ Virat Kohli reveals he has eggs in his diet, netizens amused

OpIndia Staff -
Virat Kohli had turned vegan in 2018 where he had said he gave up meat, milk, eggs to improve his fitness.
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News Reports

NCPCR asks Delhi Police to file FIR against Twitter India for lying that it is not related to Twitter Inc, violating POCSO Act

OpIndia Staff -
When NCPCR asked Twitter India to remove Child Sexual Abusive Material, they said Twitter Inc is responsible for it and not them
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News Reports

The long and short of chaos created by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in the middle of a raging pandemic

OpIndia Staff -
Arvind Kejriwal govt in Delhi has been fighting against the central govt when the entire country is fighting the Covid-19 pandemic
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News Reports

When ‘activist’ Teesta Setalvad was accused financial fraud and embezzling money meant for Godhra riot victims

OpIndia Staff -
Teesta Setalvad is accused of siphoning off funds contributed for the welfare of those affected by the Gujarat riots.
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News Reports

West Bengal: BJP worker found hanging from a tree in Cooch Behar, party blames TMC of political vengeance

OpIndia Staff -
BJP worker Anil Barman found hanging from a tree in Sitai in Adabari in the Cooch Behar district of West Bengal
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Social Media

Netizens trend #Gandhi4Lakshadweep demanding installation of Gandhi statue in Lakshadweep following opposition by local Muslims

OpIndia Staff -
People on social media are raising their voices for the installation of a Mahatma Gandhi statue in Lakshadweep.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: 350 workers died because of COVID-19 while on duty, but the state govt doesn’t believe it

OpIndia Staff -
Rajasthan govt has given compensation to just 6 health workers out of the 350 who succumbed to Covid-19 on duty
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