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The Hindu’s ‘fact-check’ about PM Modi’s address to the nation on vaccines is flawed and self-contradictory. Details

Jinit Jain -
The Hindu recently published an article to assert that India never ,lacked access to vaccines. However there were glaring loopholes in it.
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News Reports

TMC MP Nusrat Jahan says her marriage with Nikhil Jain is not valid in India because they never married formally as per Indian law

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Nusrat Jahan has said that the destination wedding in Turkey was never formalised as per Indian law and hence the marriage was never valid.
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Sports

English cricketer James Anderson deletes old tweet calling Stuart Broad a ‘15-Year-Old Lesbian’, says he is a changed man now

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A tweet by veteran fast bowler James Anderson mocking Stuart Broad on February 20, 2010, has now come under ECB's scanner
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Crime

West Bengal: Doctor assaulted after one Sheikh Ismail dies in Pandua, hospital staff on strike in protest

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Doctor was brutally thrashed by the family members of one Sheikh Ismail after he died at the Pandua Rural Hospital in West Bengal.
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News Reports

Congress leader Jitin Prasada quits party, joins BJP ahead of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections

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Uttar Pradesh Congress leader Jitin Prasad joined BJP at the party headquarters in New Delhi today
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News Reports

USA: Biden administration’s budget proposal refers to mothers as ‘birthing people’

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A pro-abortion NGO supported the stance saying, “…it’s not just cis-gender women that can get pregnant and give birth. Reproductive freedom is for everybody.”
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News Reports

Covid-19 protocols flouted across Maharashtra as the state govt initiates a gradual unlock

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Various places in Maharashtra like Mumbai, Nagpur, Nashik etc say people flouting Covid-19 protocols with gradual unlock.
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News Reports

Former US President Donald Trump congratulates Nigeria for suspending Twitter

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Trump added that he should have also taken similar steps, but Mark Zuckerberg kept visiting him for dinners at the White House and telling him how great he was.
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News Reports

Jammu and Kashmir village becomes the first in the country to get 100 percent vaccinated

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The officials said that vaccination in Weyan village was covered under the Jammu and Kashmir model, a 10-point agenda to vaccinate eligible people with shots at a faster pace.
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News Reports

Pakistan govt refuses to telecast upcoming Pak-England cricket series because Indian companies hold broadcast rights, citizens fume

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Fawad Chaudhry conceded that the PTV and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) would suffer losses due to such a decision.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Patient dies after a security guard posing as a doctor performs surgery

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The ex-security guard performed a surgery on 80-year-old woman to treat her back wound at Lahore's Mayo hospital
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News Reports

DJ, fireworks, dance are ‘un-Islamic’: UP clerics announce no nikah if weddings involve these

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Islamic clerics in Rampur, UP, have refused to read Nikahnama if 'un-Islamic' practices like DJ, music and dowry are part of the wedding.
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Opinions

How to lose a friend to ‘wokeism’ in 5 ways

Nirwa Mehta -
With misinformation and propaganda available on fingertips, almost everyone of us has had that one 'woke' friend who blocked us everywhere for 'being a Bhakt and fascism enabler'.
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News Reports

Hunter Biden’s laptop reveal chat with lawyer, N-word and racist remarks surface

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Hunter Biden's controversial laptop and hard drive were picked up from a Delaware computer repair shop. His association with a Ukrainian gas company and alleged links with prostitution rackets had caused a political controversy.
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News Reports

Ladakh administration reserves all government jobs for locals, fulfils longstanding demand of people

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The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council has welcomed the decision, saying that it was a long standing demand of the people.
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News Reports

“News of 22 deaths baseless,” says Dr Arinjay Jain, owner of Agra’s Paras Hospital refuting claims of deaths due to ‘mock drill’

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“Agra is a small city. There would an outcry if 22 patients die at a hospital. No patients died due to oxygen shortage that day,” informed DM on the Paras Hospital matter.
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Social Media

Baba Ka Dhaba owner shuts down his restaurant and goes back to running his stall. Here is what happened

Jhankar Mohta -
"My financial condition is still very stable. The money I received from the public is safe with me", said Kanta Prasad, the owner of Baba Ka Dhaba
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Opinions

Dear Robert Vadra, this is how you can check which centres are giving vaccines for free, stop spreading vaccine hesitancy

Jinit Jain -
Robert Vadra today raised asinine objections to oppose PM Modi's decision to centralise vaccination procurement and distribution.
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Politics

Congress Minority Dept expresses gratitude to Rahul Gandhi for following on Twitter days after purging his follow list

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The Congress Minority Department was followed back by former party president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday and was jubilant.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: 5-year-old girl dies due to dehydration in Jalore district, BJP lashes out at ruling govt for misplaced priorities

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A 5-year old girl lost her life to dehydration in the Jalore district of Rajasthan on Sunday. Her grandmother was unconscious.
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Politics

Swapna Patker, who accused Sanjay Raut of harassment and torture, taken to police station without written summons, says lawyer

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Dr Swapna Patker had filed a case in Bombay HC against Sanjay Raut, accusing him of 8 years of harassment and torture.
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News Reports

Delhi resident files complaint against Instagram for hurting Hindu sentiments with alcohol-holding God Shiva sticker

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Delhi resident Manish Singh has filed a complaint against Instagram for showing God Shiva in an objectionable manner.
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World

Watch: French President Emmanuel Macron slapped in the face by man shouting ‘down with Macronia’

OpIndia Staff -
A man slapped French president Emmanuel Macron during his walkabout session in Drome region in southeastern France.
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World

China warns the United States against establishing trade deals, diplomatic ties with Taiwan: Read details

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The three US senators, namely, Tammy Duckworth, Dan Sullivan, and Christopher Coons, had visited Taiwan's capital Taipei to announce that they will donate 7.5 lac Coronavirus vaccine doses to the country.
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Crime

‘Mehul Choksi introduced himself as Raj, gifted me fake diamonds’: Alleged girlfriend Barbara Jabarica

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In an exclusive interview with Times Now, Barbara Jabarica said that Mehul considered her as a backup plan and an alibi because she was a tourist.
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News Reports

‘Journalist’ Tavleen Singh thinks only people below poverty line get free ration: Read who is eligible under National Food Security Act

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Tavleen Singh tweeted her confusion over the number of people going to be benefitted under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY)
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Crime

UP govt seals Agra hospital after video of owner admitting to snapping oxygen of patients goes viral

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The action against the Agra hospital was taken after the matter showcasing the hospital's laxity, allegedly leading to the death of 22 patients, came to light.
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News Reports

Akhilesh Yadav concedes defeat already? Goes from ‘will take vaccine by SP govt’ to ‘Made in India’ vaccine ahead of elections

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After months of vaccine hesitancy and spreading panic, Akhilesh Yadav will finally take the jab, weeks after first becoming eligible to take the shot.
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News Reports

Supreme Court questions West Bengal and Delhi for not providing data on children orphaned since March 2020

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Counsel for the Delhi government, Chirag M Shroff, submitted before the Supreme Court that the data could not be uploaded on the NCPCR website owing to problems in 'data collection.'
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News Reports

Actor and model Aisha Sultana claims Govt of India deployed COVID-19 as bioweapon against people of Lakshadweep: Details

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Lakshadweep-based actor model Aisha Sultana has accused the central government of using COVID-19 as a bioweapon against the residents of the Islands
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Entertainment

Bolo pencil, Yami Gautam cancil: ‘Liberals’ cancel the Bollywood actress after ‘stalking’ husband Aditya Dhar

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Yami Gautam was 'cancelled' by liberals after one of them 'stalked' her husband Aditya Dhar, the populr filmmaker.
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News Reports

Bihar: Madarsa ‘explodes’ in Banka, bomb squad arrives to investigate

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Going by a Dainik Jagran report, four people have been allegedly injured in the blast but are missing since the time of the explosion.
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Tech

Reddit, Guardian, NYTimes, Amazon and half the Internet websites went down in major outage

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Many international media websites were down for about half an hour due in a major outage.
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Politics

Newly appointed media advisor to MP CM claims he has turned down the job offer, his ‘gau mutra’ jibe tweets had gone viral

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Tushar's problematic tweets mocking PM Modi as well as Hinduism angered netizens who questioned his appointment by Shivraj Singh Chouhan
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Opinions

Why ‘cow urine’ jibes can’t be defended, whether from the ‘OSD to a BJP CM’ or Mamata’s trolls

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Tushar Panchal was appointed as an officer on special duty to the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, on Monday.
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News Reports

Kerala’s Vishnu Dev Radhakrishnan has been jailed in Saudi Arabia on ‘blasphemy’ charges, his family pleads for help

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On June 7, 2018, Vishnu Dev was arrested by the police on the grounds of 'misusing social media' and for hurting the religious and national sentiments in Saudi Arabia under strict blasphemy laws.
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Opinions

With just 2 per cent active cases ratio, read about the Gujarat Model no one wants to talk about

Jinit Jain -
After reeling under a brutal second wave of the Covid pandemic, Gujarat has scripted a remarkable recovery.
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Opinions

Here’s why rumours of a conflict between Yogi Adityanath and Narendra Modi are only figments of imagination

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Rumours are doing the rounds that there is a supposed conflict brewing between Yogi Adityanath and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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News Reports

Viral video shows Agra hospital owner admitting he switched off oxygen of critical patients, probe ordered

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District authorities in Agra have launched a probe after a video of the incident that took place on April 26 went viral on social media
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World

Kamala Harris tells migrants ‘do not come’ during talks in Guatemala, reiterates they will be turned away. Watch

OpIndia Staff -
US VP Kamala Harris asked migrants not to enter US illegally. When former-President Trump had said so, he was heavily criticized.
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News Reports

Not just numbers: In just one month, over two dozen BJP workers have been killed in Bengal. Read about them here

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Despite a landslide victory by the ruling TMC, political violence has been unleashed upon the BJP workers and supporters in West Bengal
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: CM Yogi Adityanath sets up special ‘pink booths’ to encourage Covid vaccination among women

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The UP government from June 7 is starting 'women special' vaccination booth in all the districts. All mothers and sisters should get the 'tika jeet ka' vaccine as soon as possible," CM Yogi had tweeted.
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Social Media

Twitter user’s account locked for calling Khalistani terrorist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale a terrorist

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While Twitter continues to control the platform at per its whims and fancies, it has asked more time for compliance from the GOI citing 'pandemic' as the reason.
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News Reports

Saudi Arabia bars entry of international travellers who have received Chinese vaccine against Covid: Details

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Saudi Arabia updated its travel restrictions last month to include Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson in its list of approved vaccines.
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News Reports

Khalsa Aid founder slams cricketer Harbhajan Singh for ‘apologising for history’ over Bhindranwale post

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Ravinder Singh, founder of Pro-Khalistani outfit Khalsa Aid, questioned cricketer Harbhajan Singh over his apology.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Samajwadi Party leader Rais Shaikh seeks permission to allow Bakri Eid celebrations, writes to CM Uddhav Thackeray

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Rais Shaikh an MLA from Bhiwandi in the letter also informed that the preparations to purchase goats and other festival-related purchases begin prior to the festival and urged that Bakri Eid be allowed to be celebrated with fanfare.
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News Reports

Central Vista project to save ₹1000 crores on rent each year: Reports

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Last month, the Delhi High Court had dismissed a plea seeking suspension of Central Vista project work and had imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on the petitioners for moving a motivated plea.
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News Reports

South Africa: Mahatma Gandhi’s great-granddaughter jailed for seven years in fraud case

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Lata Ramgobin, the great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi sentenced for seven years in South Africa for securing loan based on fraud and forgery.
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News Reports

Chidambaram spreads lies over vaccine procurement, when caught, says ‘I was wrong, I stand corrected’

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P Chidambaram had to eat his own words as he was provided with the proofs he demanded over chief ministers of states as well as his own party leader Rahul Gandhi demanding freedom to procure vaccines on their own.
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Media

Times of India names Rhea Chakraborty ‘Most Desirable Woman’ for 2020, calls her ‘gladiator wrestling several beasts’

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Times of India glamorises and glorifies Rhea Chakraborty as some sort of hero wronged by the system as she is being probed in the Sushant Singh Rajpur death case.
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