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IMA calls Ramdev anti-national who does not deserve mercy, attempts to whitewash president Jayalal’s Christian missionary comments

OpIndia Staff -
The letter from the Indian Medical Association (IMA) called Baba Ramdev a "traitor" and an "anti-national".
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Media

Netizens criticise Hospital administration after Barkha Dutt engages in vulture journalism from ICU

OpIndia Staff -
Barkha Dutt reported from inside the ICU of a hospital amidst the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic.
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News Reports

West Bengal: 600 academicians condemn post-poll violence in the state, demand SC-monitored SIT probe

OpIndia Staff -
More than 600 academicians have signed a letter condemning the post-poll violence in West Bengal.
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News Reports

Amidst concerns that Covid third wave could have devastating impact on children, read what medical experts have to say

OpIndia Staff -
Experts believe that though children remain susceptible to infection, it is “highly unlikely that the third wave will exclusively affect children".
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Cricket

Pakistan’s cricket team captain Babar Azam set to marry his cousin next year

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistani cricket team captain Babar Azam recently got engaged to his cousin, who he will marry next year, but kept the news secret.
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News Reports

Amartya Sen only Bharat Ratna to avail Air India’s free travel offer, travelled 21 times between 2015-2019: RTI

OpIndia Staff -
The RTI has further revealed that Amartya Sen is the only Bharat Ratna awardee who has been a beneficiary of the scheme.
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Politics

From why send vaccines abroad to why not: Congress’ stand on vaccines is more confused than Rahul Gandhi

OpIndia Staff -
Shashi Tharoor attacked the Union Government for halting exports of Covid-19 vaccines in light of the second wave of the pandemic.
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News Reports

Back to square one? State govts’ global tenders for vaccine find no bids, now they want the Centre to buy vaccines for them

Jinit Jain -
Several states, including Odisha, Punjab, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, have received no responses to the global tenders floated by them to procure COVID-19 vaccines.
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Cricket

After revealing his ‘diet with eggs’, Indian cricketer Virat Kohli clarifies he is a vegetarian, not vegan

OpIndia Staff -
Virat Kohli had landed himself in a controversy after the self-proclaimed vegan cricketer revealed that he continues to consume eggs in his diet
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News Reports

Shashi Tharoor envies Malaysian MPs for their swanky Parliament but opposes Central Vista. Read why even his new excuse is flawed

Dibakar Dutta -
When his 2018 tweet praising the swanky new Malaysian parliament went viral, Tharoor came up with a new excuse to defend his position. However, his 'solution' is also flawed. Read how.
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OpIndia Scoops

Licypriya Kangujam’s Ketto campaign: A possible violation of FCRA and questionable association with Noble Citizen Foundation

Anurag -
From allegations of faking achievements to a possible violation of FCRA norms while collecting foreign funding in name of COVID relief, the long and short of 'child activist' Licypriya Kangujam and her conman father.
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News Reports

Viral video: Mayhem at UK stadium for vaccination, thousands gather only to be denied vaccine after waiting for hours

OpIndia Staff -
“This is the moment the pen changed from being socially distanced, to a stampede!” the user said in his Tweet sharing a video of people flocking the stadium in large numbers.
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Editor's picks

Yogi Adityanath announces ‘Mission June’, plans to inoculate 1 crore beneficiaries across 75 districts this month

OpIndia Staff -
UP CM Yogi Adityanath urged everyone to take their jab "Tika jeet ka" and help defeat Covid-19
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Politics

The Chief Secy Saga: 5 statements that prove Mamata Banerjee’s antics over Alapan Bandyopadhyay is self serving drama

OpIndia Staff -
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been indulging in moral grandstanding over the Chief Secretary controversy.
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News Reports

Rajasthan Coronavirus vaccine wastage saga: From threats of legal action to ‘vaccines were expired’, here is what happened

OpIndia Staff -
Rajasthan Health Minister warned Dainik Bhaskar with legal action for reporting on wastage of coronavirus vaccines
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News Reports

8,000 children test Covid-19 positive in May in a single district in Maharashtra

OpIndia Staff -
While announcing an extension of lockdown, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said, "I don’t know when and what date the third wave will come. So we should not let our guard down.”
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Politics

Mamata Banerjee’s statements after she made the PM wait for a cyclone Yaas review meeting are full of loopholes: 4 examples

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee stirred the hornet's nest when she decided to make a massive hue and cry about a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to assess the aftermath of cyclone Yaas.
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Entertainment

Scripted praise, planned fights: Reports say controversies in Indian Idol are faked to boost TRP after Kishore Kumar episode sparks row

OpIndia Staff -
Controversies on Indian Idol are 'planned gimmicks' to boost TRPs for the show, a report on Bollywood Hungama says.
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News Reports

‘Can’t endure the constant harassment anymore, please kill us with a single machete stroke’: Kerala journalist tells CPIM

OpIndia Staff -
The Communist supporters on social media began maligning her husband and claimed that he was found in 'suspicious circumstances, as per the journalist.
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi unfollows 8 accounts on Twitter, netizens wonder if it is to make ‘pet pidis’ appear independent

OpIndia Staff -
Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today unfollowed propagandist Kunal Kamra and self-described fact-checker Pratik Sinha on Twitter
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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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