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Pandemic, Politics and Propaganda

Saket Suryesh -
The devastations Covid-19 is leaving across the Globe will take centuries to heal and the scars it will leave on human souls will forever torture us.
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News Reports

‘Most affordable vaccine today’: SII CEO Adar Poonawalla issues clarification over Covishield costs after opposition parties cry foul

OpIndia Staff -
SII CEO Adar Poonawalla has issued a statement to address the controversy regarding the cost of Covishield.
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News Reports

‘No shortage of oxygen’, clarifies AIIMS director after communists spread fake news that emergency in AIIMS was closed due to oxygen shortage

OpIndia Staff -
While AIIMS Delhi added more oxygen outlets in emergency ward, communists spread fake news that it has run out of oxygen
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World

Pakistan: Islamic scholar turned politician gets trolled for doing ‘Nagin dance’ and other ‘haram’ things on TV during Ramzan

OpIndia Staff -
Islamic scholar and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) politician Aamir Liaquat Hussain sparked a massive controversy for doing 'haram' Nagin dance on TV during Ramzan transmission.
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Law

‘Have you made any effort to collect the oxygen?’: High Court slams Delhi Govt for failing to ensure supply of medical oxygen

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi Government was rapped in the Delhi High Court on Saturday during the hearing on the supply of medicinal oxygen to hospitals.
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News Reports

Advocate representing Jaipur Golden Hospital slams Delhi Govt in HC, blames them for poor oxygen supply after multiple deaths

OpIndia Staff -
Jaipur Golden Hospital had filed a petition in the court over the shortages of oxygen in the national capital amidst surging COVID-19 cases
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News Reports

Punjab and Haryana High Court closes ‘Illegal Confinement’ case of activist Nodeep Kaur after she opted to use ‘other remedy’

OpIndia Staff -
Counsel of Nodeep Kaur told court that she would avail “other remedy” with regard to "maltreatment" and "custodial torture"
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News Reports

Years after marriage, Haryana woman finds out her husband ‘Ramesh’ is a Muslim, stages sit-in protest after she is pressurised to convert to Islam

OpIndia Staff -
7 years after marriage, Rajwinder Kaur finds out that her husband Ramesh is Muslim, pressurised to convert to Islam after that
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OpIndia Explains

Rutgers Student Association passes historic resolution against Hinduphobia: All you need to know about the lead up to it

OpIndia Staff -
Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA) passed a resolution (No. 1451-XX) to adopt a scholarly definition of Hinduphobia.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: 5 die in Yavatmal after drinking sanitiser in the absence of alcohol

OpIndia Staff -
The relatives of the deceased claimed that the men were addicted to alcohol and in its absence they drank sanitiser to quench their addiction
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Opinions

What does an Indian liberal do with the money they get for writing tragedy porn?

Abhishek Banerjee -
How many European parliaments are discussing how to help India during the Covid-19 crisis like they supposedly did for “farmers” of Punjab?
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Government and Policy

Union govt had asked states to grant permission to industrial oxygen producers to produce medical oxygen in the first week of April 2020

OpIndia Staff -
Within a day of receiving the proposal, the union ministry had issued orders for industrial oxygen makers to produce medical oxygen
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News Reports

Delhi Police resurrects the idle plant in Mundka to address oxygen demand in hospitals: Details

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi Police personnel on Friday stepped up the efforts to help hospitals procure medicinal oxygen.
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Government and Policy

Arvind Kejriwal set up only 1 out of 8 oxygen plants for which Modi govt sanctioned funds through PM CARES in December 2020: Details

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi HC slammed both the Delhi government and the central government due to the oxygen crisis in the National Capital.
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News Reports

As NDTV journalist and others rejoice at the fake news, Baba Ramdev rubbishes claims of a COVID-19 outbreak at Patanjali

OpIndia Staff -
Following the sensational Covid-19 figures presented by mainstream media reports, Yogi Adityanath took to Twitter to issue a clarification
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Media

NDTV journalist casts aspersion on Modi govt transporting oxygen tankers via train: Here are the facts that they forgot to consider

OpIndia Staff -
NDTV journalist Saket Upadhyay took to Twitter to say that he refuses to be an Oxygen Express 'cheerleader' because the entire excise, he believed, was a PR stunt.
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News Reports

Virar hospital in Mumbai where fire tragedy claimed 13 lives did not get a NOC from the fire department: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Investigations have revealed that though a fire audit was conducted in the Virar hospital, they did not get a NOC from the fire department
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Social Media

How ex-Navbharat Times journalist lost sense of decency, called DD journalist a ‘bhakt’ and ‘liar’ for sharing personal story of mother’s COVID-19 recovery

OpIndia Staff -
Senior Doordarshan journalist Ashok Shrivastav slams ex-Navbharat Times journalist Avinish Mishra on Twitter after latter calls Shrivastav a 'liar'
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News Reports

CBI registers FIR against former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh in allegations of extortion made by Parambir Singh: Details

OpIndia Staff -
CBI has registered an FIR against former Maharashtra Home Minister and NCP leader Anil Deshmukh in allegations by Parambir Singh
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Crime

Hindu man beaten for refusing Rs 50,000 handout, by wife and her family, to convert to Christianity, 10 booked in MP: Details

OpIndia Staff -
MP Police lodged a case against a woman and her family members for assaulting and forcing her husband to convert to Christianity
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News Reports

London: Extinction Rebellion activists vandalize windows of HSBC bank protesting against fossil fuel financing, 9 arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Extinction Rebellion members broke windows of HSBC bank in London alleging that bank is financing coal power plants and mines
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Politics

‘Those who remain silent when Hindus are killed in Bangladesh, they are the outsiders’: BJP hits back at Mamata’s ‘Bohiragoto’ jibe in new campaign...

OpIndia Staff -
The West Bengal unit of the BJP has issued a response to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's 'Bohiragoto' (outsider) jibe at the party.
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News Reports

Arvind Kejriwal had promised home delivery of oxygen during the first wave of COVID-19, old comments go viral

OpIndia Staff -
In August 2020, Arvind Kejriwal had promised that his govt would start home delivery of oxygen concentrators for Covid-19 patients
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News Reports

“I was concerned about people coming to my house if they were not happy with the verdict”, says alternate juror in Geroge Floyd death...

OpIndia Staff -
"I did not want to go through rioting and destruction again", said the alternate juror in Geroge Floyd death trial
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World

France: Tunisian migrant kills female police officer in Rambouillet, mother of two children, while screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’

OpIndia Staff -
A female police officer in France was stabbed to death in Rambouillet, a town south west of Paris in France, on Friday.
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News Reports

Delhi HC suggests using CNG cylinders to transport Oxygen, union govt says not possible: Understanding the technical and legal aspects

Raju Das -
Both Gas Cylinder Rules and PESO guidelines on converting cylinders for oxygen do not permit use of CNG cylinders to carry oxygen
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News Reports

Haryana: Oxygen tanker bound for Sirsa goes missing, FIR filed

OpIndia Staff -
A case has been filed in connection with the disappearance of an oxygen tanker that was headed from Panipat to Sirsa.
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Media

PTI spreads fake news, falsely claims 25 patients died at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi due to low oxygen pressure

OpIndia Staff -
The PTI reported on Friday that 25 people passed away at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi due to low pressure oxygen.
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World

Paranoid China wants to tame Elon Musk, will it succeed? All you need to know about the brewing war between China and Tesla

OpIndia Staff -
Elon Musk headed Tesla has been facing a pressure campaign in China with Chinese Communist state-backed media and regulators
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Politics

West Bengal: Another BJP worker found hanging from a tree in the poll-bound constituency of Bardhaman, party alleges murder

OpIndia Staff -
The BJP has alleged that it was a pre-planned murder and that the victim's body had been hung after the victim was killed.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Former FDA commissioner says he had warned state govt, proposed road map to handle Covid surge, but was ignored

OpIndia Staff -
The veteran bureaucrat had earlier worked as Pune municipal commissioner during which he played an instrumental role in the fight against swine flu. He had also served as the Food and Drug Administration commissioner from 2011 to 2014.
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News Reports

‘Economist’ Kaushik Basu attempts to spread panic, claims only 1.5% of the population vaccinated: Here is how he is wrong

Dibakar Dutta -
While India has vaccinated around 9% of population against Coronavirus, Kaushik Basu claimed that the number is only 1.5%
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Politics

Congress leader Chidambaram wants state governments to unionise to haggle over vaccine costs: Here is why that is a bizarre idea

K Bhattacharjee -
P. Chidambaram has managed to come up with another spectacularly braindead idea that does not make any sense.
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News Reports

After chancellor Angela Merkel’s snide remarks on India, German Embassy quickly moves to make amends

OpIndia Staff -
Angela Merkel had earlier regretted that European powers have "allowed" India to become a pharmaceutical manufacturing giant.
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News Reports

Mamata Banerjee skips third Covid-19 meeting called by PM, claims ‘not invited’ after sending chief secretary to represent her

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee also said that 2 lakh central forces brought into the state from 'outside' are spreading Covid-19 in West Bengal
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Government and Policy

Zydus gets emergency approval for the antiviral drug, may reduce oxygen demand among COVID-19 patients: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Zydus has claimed that 91.15 per cent of patients treated with PegIFN were RT-PCR negative by the seventh day
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OpIndia Explains

Cafe on Kabristan: A restaurant in Ahmedabad where people dine among the dead and which was once frequented by painter M.F. Husain

OpIndia Staff -
The New Lucky Restaurant in Ahmedabad is the world's first graveyard cafe, housing 26 graves in total
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Politics

Watch: Arvind Kejriwal apologises profusely after PM Modi admonishes him for live telecasting private meet against protocols

OpIndia Staff -
Prime Minister Modi was not happy with Arvind Kejriwal for breaking protocols and chastised the Delhi CM for it.
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News Reports

Action to be taken against hospitals for not allowing cashless Covid- 19 treatment to eligible policyholders: IRDAI

OpIndia Staff -
IRDAI said that all policyholders who are entitled to cashless benefits at network hospitals, associated with an insurance company, are eligible to get cashless treatment for Covid-19.
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Opinions

The West does not have any moral high ground over China, their conduct during Covid crisis is further proof of it

K Bhattacharjee -
The United States of America has projected its geopolitical rivalry with China as a great conflict between good and evil.
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News Reports

Arvind Kejriwal nosedives into gutter politics, spreads lies during CMs’ video conference with PM, illegally airs private meeting

OpIndia Staff -
As soon as the PM got to know of this fact, he reprimanded Arvind Kejriwal for breaking protocol, and the telecast was immediately stopped. Reportedly, the PM said to Kejriwal, “You have broken a very imp protocol, such private conversation are never televised”.
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WTF News

Worried because his hens stopped laying eggs, a poultry farmer in Pune approaches police

OpIndia Staff -
The Pune poultry farmer said that his hens stopped laying eggs after consuming the feed manuactured by a particular firm in Ahmednagar
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Media

ThePrint’s contributing editor caught on the wrong foot, tries to play vulture politics over death of colleague, gets called out: Here’s what happened

OpIndia Staff -
On Thursday (April 22), 'journalist' Shivam Vij took to Twitter to inform about the death of a college classmate named Shaoli Rudra.
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News Reports

Angela Merkel laments that they ‘allowed’ India to become pharmacy of the world, fears that they will not get Covid-19 medicine

OpIndia Staff -
Angela Merkel said that EU nations didn't treat their pharmaceutical industry so well, and 'allowed' India to become a large pharma producer
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News Reports

At least 57 dead in hospital mishaps in 4 months in Maharashtra: Who is accountable for the loss?

OpIndia Staff -
Here's the list of 4 completely avoidable incidents that took place in Maharashtra in the last few months, amidst the Coronavirus pandemic
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News Reports

Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik is an example for counterparts: Speaks to PM, extends help to other states without political drama

OpIndia Staff -
Odisha CM speaks to PM Modi, promises all possible help in supplying oxygen to other states during Covid crisis.
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News Reports

‘Virar fire, no national news’: Maharashtra Health minister trivialises fire in Mumbai hospital which claimed 13 lives

OpIndia Staff -
The Maharashtra Health Minister probably tried to insinuate that the tragedy was not big enough to be called national news
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World

Algerian Professor jailed for 3 years for ‘insulting Islam’, had questioned animal sacrifice at Eid, Muslims marrying minor girls

OpIndia Staff -
The Algerian professor was convicted for his Facebook posts in which he questioned some hadiths and rituals in Islam
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News Reports

Delhi: Max Hospital gets oxygen, aided by Delhi Police after SOS message, says will need still more

OpIndia Staff -
DCP South Delhi had informed that oxygen tankers have been sent to Max Hospitals.
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Media

Moneycontrol spreads misleading news second time in two days, first about oxygen export, now about Bharat Biotech and the price of vaccine

OpIndia Staff -
Moneycontrol has resorted to spreading misleading news about the pricing of COVID-19 vaccinations by Bharat Biotech and Serum Institute.
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