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Punjab: Protesting ‘farmers’ have laid seize to Future Group’s storage facility for 4 months, company approaches HC

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Future Supply Chain Solutions Ltd has submitted in court that food items Wirth Rs 66 lakhs have already been destroyed and items worth Rs 1.5 crores will perish soon f the blockade continues.
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News Reports

Did Priyanka Gandhi really arrange for oxygen at Medanta Hospital, Lucknow from Chhattisgarh? Here is what we know

OpIndia Staff -
A Delhi-based NGO had arranged for oxygen tanker at Medanta Hospital, Lucknow, when the levels were at critical stage
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News Reports

Param Bir Singh slapped with SC/ST Act, weeks after writing letter exposing Maha Home Minister

OpIndia Staff -
Ghadge claims Singh had filed five FIRs against him to get him suspended after he refused to obey Singh's illegal instructions.
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News Reports

TV actor Sushant Singh abuses mental health experts who wanted Covid patients not to be exposed to negative news

OpIndia Staff -
Television actor Sushant Singh on Wednesday abused the mental health experts who suggested that the media should have some restrain and focus on reporting facts instead of sensational and hysterical reportage.
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World

‘White supremacist terrorism most lethal threat’, says US President Joe Biden as he dismisses Wall Street’s contribution to America

OpIndia Staff -
US President Joe Biden gave his first speech to the US Congress on April 28.
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News Reports

Loksatta, Indian Express ‘fact-check’ 85-year-old Swayamsevak’s supreme sacrifice amid Covid pandemic, his daughter sets record straight

OpIndia Staff -
After the story went viral on social media, mainstream media seem to have taken it upon themselves to 'fact-check' the grieving family
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News Reports

No, UP Police did not take away oxygen cylinder man arranged for his mother in critical condition for ‘VIP’, viral video claims fake

OpIndia Staff -
Viral video claimed that the oxygen cylinder was forcefully taken away for a 'VIP' in Agra.
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Opinions

The claims that actual COVID-19 deaths in India are 10 times the reported numbers defy logic, circulated to spread panic

Kushal Mehra -
Claim that Covid-19 death toll is twice the govt figure is understandable but the 10 times claim fails to pass basic smell test
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News Reports

US govt officials purchased body parts of aborted babies for ‘science’, reveals emails between FDA officials and human tissue procurement firm

OpIndia Staff -
The US FDA made payments to human tissue procurement firm ABR for body parts of aborted babies from Planned Parenthood
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News Reports

Top mental health experts ask media not to create panic around Covid-19, criticise negative reporting from crematoriums

OpIndia Staff -
NIMHANS Director, other mental health professionals release open letter asking media to avoid “panic-inducing coverage” on Covid-19
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News Reports

Australian Porsche driver who filmed and mocked four policemen dying after hit by a truck sent to prison, judge describes the act as “heartless...

OpIndia Staff -
Richard Pusey had filmed 4 dying policemen who were hit by a truck when they were considering impounding his Porsche for overspeeding
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News Reports

White House chief medical advisor Dr Fauci says Covaxin is effective against the B.1.617 variant of Coronavirus found in India

OpIndia Staff -
The B.1.617 variant is one of the known variants of SARS-CoV-2 virus, which was first identified in India
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News Reports

No, Ghaziabad girl who ‘donated from piggy bank for PM CARES fund’ did not die ‘waiting for oxygen’, is alive and healthy, father reveals

OpIndia Staff -
The UP police had last week filed an FIR against social media users for spreading rumours of fake COVID-19-related deaths
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News Reports

After booking five-star hotel for judges, Delhi govt books 240 rooms in 4 hotels for Covid-19 treatment of government officials

OpIndia Staff -
Hotel rooms booked for Covid-19 treatment of officials of Delhi govt, autonomous bodies, corporations, local bodies and their family members
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News Reports

Gujarat: Reliance Industries to set up 1000-bed Covid hospital with oxygen supply facility in Jamnagar

OpIndia Staff -
Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani had requested billionaire Mukesh Ambani to help the state in the fight against Covid.
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News Reports

Adar Poonawalla announces reduction in Covishield vaccine price, will be available for state govts for Rs 300 per dose

OpIndia Staff -
Terming it as a philanthropic move, Poonawalla informed the price of Covishield has been slashed to Rs 300/ dose for the states effective immediately.
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News Reports

Covid-recovered Kerala ‘journalist’ Siddique Kappan to be shifted to Delhi hospital from Mathura jail for treatment on SC order

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court said that Kerala ‘journalist’ Siddique Kappan can move a lower court seeking bail, ordering to shift him to Delhi
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News Reports

The Scroll publishes misleading headline to attack the UP govt for filing FIR in fake oxygen SOS case in Amethi

OpIndia Staff -
The concerned person had created sensation over a false emergency. The police served him a notice under section 41 of the CrPC and has let him go with a warning.
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News Reports

Serial petitioner Saket Gokhale approaches Allahabad HC against Yogi Adityanath based on misleading media reports. Read Details

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Saket Gokhale alleges that UP CM has ordered criminal cases against social media posts calling for oxygen and other medical helps
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Social Media

Journalist who sought toilet routine of Mamata Banerjee in a Clubhouse discussion finally concedes BJP has worked on the ground in Bengal: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Journalist Sakshi Joshi recently admitted in a discussion on Twitter Spaces that BJP has worked on the ground in West Bengal
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News Reports

CoWIN portal crashes as registration for vaccination begin for 18+, few lucky ones manage to register

OpIndia Staff -
While the vaccination drive will be open for 18+ people from 1st May, the registration started on April 28
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Remedesivir distribution using state govt machinery causing chaos, say private hospitals

OpIndia Staff -
Doctors at private hospitals in Rajasthan have been angry ever since the State government's decision to take over the Remedesivir supply and authorize bureaucrats to handle the distribution to private hospitals.
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News Reports

Union govt allows conversion of liquid nitrogen tankers to liquid oxygen tankers, PESO issues detailed guidelines

OpIndia Staff -
PESO said that traditionally conversion of nitrogen tankers into oxygen tankers was not agreed due to risks associated with it
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News Reports

Nearly 64000 beds and 4000 covid care coaches readied by Railway Ministry for utilization by states

OpIndia Staff -
The railways will also carve out a space for utility area for medical personnel in line with MoU along with taking care of sanitation and catering arrangements.
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News Reports

Even as Maharashtra continues to be the worst affected state, Sonia Gandhi says she is satisfied with the way MVA govt handled the Covid-19...

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra Congress chief Balasaheb Thorat said that Sonia Gandhi talked to him praising the state govt for Covid management
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Fire breaks out in pharma company in Ratnagiri district, no casualties reported

OpIndia Staff -
Hours after a fire in Thane hospital claimed four lives, fire breaks out in a pharma company in Ratnagiri district
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News Reports

Maharashtra govt had fired 25% of contractual health workers in January thinking Covid-19 is over, faces shortage of staff now

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra govt fired the health workers who were hired on a contract basis in April last year under National Health Mission
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News Reports

CM of India’s richest state yet to take decision on free vaccines as the nation gears up for Chinese coronavirus vaccination

OpIndia Staff -
The BMC on Tuesday announced that inoculation of beneficiaries from the 18-44 age group will be carried out only at private vaccination centres in Mumbai.
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News Reports

BJP MLAs demand Tripura DM’s suspension over wedding raid till investigation is completed, CM Biplab Deb asks for report

OpIndia Staff -
Tripura DM Shailesh Kumar Yadav was seen in a viral video chasing out guests at a wedding, thrashing them, pulling the groom by his collar.
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News Reports

LG Anil Baijal becomes the ‘government’ in Delhi as Centre notifies amended GNCTD Act: Details

OpIndia Staff -
The Centre has notified the Government of NCT of Delhi (Amendment) Act passed last month which grants primacy to Lieutenant Governor over the elected government in the city.
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News Reports

Shocking visuals emerge after a massive earthquake hits Assam

OpIndia Staff -
An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 hit Assam earlier this morning at Sonitpur, Assam.
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News Reports

Congress corporator accompanied by Maha INC chief threatens govt employees, says they deserve to be ‘burned down’

OpIndia Staff -
Nagpur Congress corporator Bunty Shelke along with Maharashtra INC Chief Nana Patole stormed into Nagpur’s Municipality Corporation’s office and were seen threatening the employees.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Dr Altamash, Akram, Jazib Ali arrested for black marketing Remedisvir, 70 injections, Rs 36 lakh recovered

OpIndia Staff -
70 Remdesivir injections, 2 Actemra injections and Rs 36 lakh in cash was recovered from Dr Altamash.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Major fire breaks out in Thane hospital killing four, fourth such incident in recent times

OpIndia Staff -
The series of fire incidents in Maharashtra hospitals continue to raise questions over the condition of the health infrastructure in the state.
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News Reports

Dasna priest Yati Narsinghanand not arrested, viral video is old. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
After the video went viral, Yati Narsinghanand took to Twitter to clarify that he has not been arrested and he is fine.
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News Reports

‘Don’t talk like a bloody villager, I am your bloody DM’: Abusive Tripura DM justifies thrashing guests at wedding, invokes ‘principles of natural justice’

OpIndia Staff -
Tripura West District Magistrate (DM) Dr Shailesh Kumar Yadav came under severe criticism after raiding a wedding.
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News Reports

Watch: Tripura District Magistrate raids wedding, thrashes guests, beats up Purohit, grabs groom by collar

OpIndia Staff -
In the viral video, the Tripura West DM is seen pulling the groom by his collar, thrashing the priest at a wedding in Agartala.
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News Reports

UK variant of COVID-19 more prevalent in Punjab and other northern states: Report

OpIndia Staff -
The genome sequencing data from the NCDC reveals that the UK strain is more pervasive in the north Indian states, including Punjab
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News Reports

‘Pull Up Your Socks, Get your house in order, enough is enough’: Delhi High Court pulls up Delhi Government

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi High Court directed the Delhi government to take over plants of suppliers who fail to comply to orders
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News Reports

Despite not wearing a mask herself, transgender Congress councillor thrashes two Hindu Sadhus: Watch

OpIndia Staff -
"Where is your mask?" she threatened after seizing the stick from one of the Sadhus. "Put the mask on," she ordered and proceeded to hit a Sadhu with the stick in her hand.
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News Reports

Registration for COVID-19 vaccination for people above 18 to start from 4 PM on April 28

OpIndia Staff -
India is all set to embark on the fourth phase of the COVID-19 vaccination drive starting May 1 and anyone from 18 years and above stand eligible to get the vaccine
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News Reports

‘India has always been a second home for me’: Former Australian pacer Brett Lee donates 1 Bitcoin, or Rs 41 lac, for oxygen supplies

OpIndia Staff -
Brett Lee thanked Australian pacer Pat Cummins for starting the initiative as he announed his decision
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News Reports

Agra: Septicemia patient Irfan’s rumoured death triggers anger, relatives vandalise hospital, assault nurse

OpIndia Staff -
Agra police informed that the patient Irfan was admitted to the hospital as he was suffering from Septicemia.
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Politics

EC sab record karti hai: TMC’s Anubrata Mondal to be kept under surveillance, yet again

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The EC on Tuesday announced that TMC leader Anubrata Mondal would be kept under surveillance from 5 pm on April 27 to 7 am on April 30 to ensure free and fair polling
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News Reports

Delhi HC makes startling revelations, says they never requested for rooms at 5-star hotel, hint at ‘appeasement’ by AAP Govt: Read what they said

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi High Court has slammed the Delhi Government over its order to reserve a hundred rooms at a five star hotel.
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News Reports

Congress MP wants PM Modi to allow oxygen corridor with Pakistan to tackle COVID-19 crisis in Punjab

OpIndia Staff -
Punjab Congress MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla sparked a controversy after he asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to open an 'oxygen corridor' with Pakistan
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News Reports

Delhi: Woman out on parole shot dead by husband Waseem who had affair with victim’s sister

OpIndia Staff -
Shaina who got parole just two days ago was shot dead by Waseem, her third husband who had an affair with Shaina’s sister Rihana.
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News Reports

Coronavirus crisis in Maharashtra: Ambulance forced to stuff 22 dead bodies together, police stop eyewitnesses from taking pictures

OpIndia Staff -
When two relatives of a deceased began filming the ambulance and taking pictures of the dead bodies, the police seized their phones.
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News Reports

Amidst the COVID-19 surge, French President Emmanuel Macron shares a message in Hindi with Indians: Here’s what he said

OpIndia Staff -
Emmanuel Macron today uploaded a Facebook post in Hindi, expressing solidarity with India and promising medical equipments, including oxygen generators to fight the pandemic.
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Editor's picks

Watch the ad that made Congress workers go on a rampage, vandalising Storia Foods office in Mumbai

OpIndia Staff -
Storia Foods had to pull down the ad after Congress workers rampaged their Mumbai office
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