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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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Media Fact-Check

Shashi Tharoor spreads fake news about death of former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Hindustan Times apologises too: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor spread fake news about death of ex-Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, several others joined in
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News Reports

Mumbai: 13 patients dead after fire breaks out in the ICU of COVID-19 hospital in Virar, CM Thackeray orders probe

OpIndia Staff -
CM Uddhav Thackeray has ordered an inquiry into the incident after 13 people died in the fire at a Covid-19 hospital in Virar West, Mumbai.
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Politics

West Bengal Assembly polls: EC bans roadshows, vehicle rallies for remaining phases, expresses anguish over COVID-19 protocols being flouted

OpIndia Staff -
EC has banned roadshows and vehicle rallies in the state of West Bengal that has just finished 6th phase of polling, with immediate effect
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World

‘Sacred’ monument comes up at spot where George Floyd died, has special instructions for White people who seek to enter

OpIndia Staff -
The George Floyd Square quickly turned into a memorial for Floyd and was renamed in his memory shortly after his death.
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Politics

Election Commission cracks down on road shows, pad yatras, cycle rallies; allows public meetings for up to 500 people

OpIndia Staff -
The new norms from the Election Commission will significantly impact campaigning for the West Bengal elections going forward.
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News Reports

Nithyananda bans Indians from entering Kailasa citing Covid-19, issues guidelines for ’embassies’ around the world

OpIndia Staff -
Sri Nithyananda of Kailasa has banned travelers from India into his fledgling nation amidst the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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News Reports

Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust to fund construction of two oxygen plants in Ayodhya

OpIndia Staff -
The Shri Ram Teerth Janmbhoomi Kshetra Trust has decided to help install nan oxygen plant at the cost of Rs 55 lakhs.
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Politics

As PM Modi cancels Bengal rallies to hold COVID-19 meet, here is how many times Mamata Banerjee attended the review meeting in past few...

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee, over the course of the past 3 months, has not attended even a single meeting between Chief Ministers and the Prime Minister.
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Crime

TikTok Star Funbucket Bhargav, of OMG fame, arrested for raping minor girl

OpIndia Staff -
TikTok Star 'Funbucket Bhargav' arrested for raping a minor. Fans of actor Nithya wrongly assumed she was the victim.
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Government and Policy

In the last few days, availability of Liquid Medical Oxygen increased by 3300 MT per day: Here’s what was discussed in PM’s high-level meeting

OpIndia Staff -
The high-level meeting was attended by the Cabinet Secretary, Principal Secretary to PM, Home Secretary, Health Secretary & Officials from Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Ministry of Road Transport, Pharmaceuticals, and NITI Aayog members.
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News Reports

Rakesh Tikait organises Iftar party while protesting, declares Ghazipur border his ‘home’ even as COVID-19 cases continue to rise

OpIndia Staff -
"Nobody met with each other, no one shook hands,” Tikait said justifying the event despite the video showing otherwise.
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Law

Bombay High Court considers temporary ban on cigarettes citing Covid-19

OpIndia Staff -
Bombay High Court questioned if there is any data available on the number of smokers who succumbed to Covid-19.
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Editor's picks

Prime Minister Modi cancels political rallies on 23rd April in West Bengal, to hold a high-level meeting to review COVID-19 situation

OpIndia Staff -
Amidst the raging second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter and informed that he was cancelling his political engagements in West Bengal tomorrow
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News Reports

Indian Air Force, Railways step in to transport oxygen cylinders, essential medicines to combat COVID-19

OpIndia Staff -
In a recent virtual meeting, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh was briefed about the measures taken by the Armed Forces in order to combat COVID-19
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Fact-Check

Congress’ attack against Covishield continues, now spreads fake news of ‘one vaccine, 3 rates’ from official Twitter handle

Sanghamitra -
The previous low price was a part of SII's commitment to GOI and some other countries for sharing the risk of production. After the current 'under contract' 110 million doses are delivered, SII will sell to GOI at Rs 400 per dose, same as states.
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News Reports

18+ can register for Covid vaccination from April 28. Here is the procedure

OpIndia Staff -
Registration for Covid-19 vaccine phase 3 for 18-45 years age group to begin on April 28
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Media

Shekhar Gupta’s ThePrint gives space to Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel to spread falsehoods over Coronavirus pandemic

OpIndia Staff -
Despite publishing a PTI report detailing the Central Government's warning to Chhattisgarh in January, ThePrint fails to pushback against CM Baghel's claims.
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Media

NDTV journalist Gargi Rawat Ansari shows how she is willing to sacrifice human lives so propaganda continues to reign supreme

OpIndia Staff -
NDTV journalist Gargi Rawat Ansari is married to Yusuf Ahmad Ansari, the great-grandson of former Congress President Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari
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News Reports

Cipla issues caution against Remdesivir scammers: Preying on the vulnerable and how you can save yourself

OpIndia Staff -
Cipla has issued an advisory for the public to beware of the scammers who are defrauding people on pretext of arranging Remdesivir injections
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News Reports

Railway pointsman who saved child of a visually impaired woman donates half his prize money to the family

OpIndia Staff -
Mayur Shelke has also appealed that all the people who have contacted to meet him and offer rewards to him should instead donate to the child's family or others who are in need.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee holds massive rally in Dakshin Dinajpur, refers to PM, HM as “goons”

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West Bengal goes into 6th phase of voting in current assembly elections.
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World

Pfizer and 10 other corporates donated $1 million each to Joe Biden’s inaugural committee, totalling $61.8 million: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
U.S. President Joe Biden’s inaugural committee raised $61.8 million from contributions by corporations like Pfizer and Uber, labour unions and other wealthy individuals for his inauguration events
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News Reports

After Rakesh Tikait got vaccinated himself, BKU issues another threat to the Modi govt amid the Coronavirus pandemic: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
After so-called farmers deciding to march from Punjab to Delhi yet again, Rakesh Tikait led Bhartiya Kisan Union has been issuing threats, warning the BJP government to not make any attempts to vacate the protesting site
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Media Fact-Check

Hindustan Times publishes a misleading article by Congress worker Praveen Chakravarty: Has India inoculated only 7% of its population?

Nupur J Sharma -
Hindustan Times today published an opinion piece by 'Data analyst' Praveen Chakravarty, who is a Congress party worker.
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Opinions

Fake stories of suffering by social media ‘influencers’ amidst COVID-19 outbreak: What it says about our moral compass?

Jinit Jain -
Many social media 'influencers' have been caught sharing fake stories of sufferings to gain followers and funds amidst raging COVID-19 pandemic
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News Reports

Late-night urgent hearings by Delhi and Bombay high courts on oxygen and Remdesivir shortage

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi High Court instructed centre to curtail production state-run steel and petroleum industries to meet oxygen demand.
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Opinions

I am tired and extremely disoriented: How I got the Chinese virus and lived to tell the tale

Nirwa Mehta -
OpIndia Editor Nirwa Mehta takes you through her journey of surviving COVID.
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News Reports

‘Sterlite Copper can produce over 1000 MT oxygen per day, allow us to open’: Vedanta writes to TN govt, Health Minister

OpIndia Staff -
“We would be grateful to be allowed this opportunity to support the nation’s needs. Our staff stands prepared to get these two plants operational in the shortest possible time and begin dispatching oxygen to the critical areas as per your direction,” the letter continued.
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News Reports

Priyanka Gandhi’s Twitter faux pas, takes three attempts for condolence tweet

OpIndia Staff -
At 10:38 AM, four minutes after her first tweet, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tweeted correct condolence message to correct intended recipient on third attempt.
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News Reports

Sri Lanka asks ship carrying nuclear material for China to leave Hambantota, had docked after developing technical snag

OpIndia Staff -
A top official of the Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Authority informed, “The ship failed to declare its dangerous cargo - uranium hexafluoride and we decided to order it to leave our waters immediately.”
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Crowd gathered in Jaipur’s Jama masjid pelts stones on police team, vehicles damaged

OpIndia Staff -
The stone pelting incident reportedly happened at the Jama Masjid in Jaipur's Sanganer area.
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News Reports

Sitaram Yechury’s son passes away due to Covid-19

OpIndia Staff -
The CPI(M) General Secretary in his tweet thanked all the medical staff who treated his son Ashish Yechury
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News Reports

Action under NSA and Gangster Act against black marketers of oxygen cylinders, Covid-19 medicines, warns UP CM Yogi Adityanath

OpIndia Staff -
Yogi Adityanath took aim at black marketers trying to make a profit through the illegal sale of oxygen cylinders and COVID-19 medicines
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News Reports

As ICMR study proves high efficacy of made in India Covid vaccines, read how politicians and media had stoked vaccine hesitancy against Covaxin

OpIndia Staff -
For many months, doomsday predictors had fuelled vaccine hesitancy by making all kinds of baseless claims about Covaxin
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News Reports

Is Serum Institute really making a huge profit and charging discriminatory price from states for Covid-19 vaccine? Read details

Raju Das -
Serum Institute had offered GOI a discount for 1st 100 million doses, it will not be making huge profits from states as alleged
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News Reports

‘Remdesivir is not magic bullet, 85 percent of Covid patients do not need hospitalisation: Top doctors issue advisory

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Doctors from AIIMS, Narayana Health and Medanta issued advisory amidst rising number of coronavirus cases.
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News Reports

After lobbying for foreign vaccines, Rahul Gandhi calls Serum Institute’s Adar Poonawalla ‘Modi’s friend’, claims few industrialists will earn profit from vaccine

OpIndia Staff -
After relentless attack on Ambani and Adani, Rahul Gandhi now targets Adar Poonawalla, calls him Modi's friend
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Fact-Check

TMC, Kashmiri Journalist and propagandists found posting fake images and videos amidst Covid-19 crisis

OpIndia Staff -
TMC's campaign handle 'Banglar Gorbo Mamata' was found spreading deliberate lies and fake news during the Covid pandemic.
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News Reports

Moneycontrol deletes report, NDTV brazens out misleading reports on oxygen export after central government calls out malicious propaganda

OpIndia Staff -
After central government slammed media for spreading falsehoods about oxygen exports, Moneycontrol takes down its report
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News Reports

India becomes the fastest country in the world to administer over 13 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses: Centre

OpIndia Staff -
India becomes the fastest country to administer 13 crore COVID-19 doses.
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News Reports

Netflix stock dips due to a dramatic slowdown in subscriber addition, company blames production delays due to Covid-19

OpIndia Staff -
Netflix is seemingly unfazed by this dramatic underperformance, and expects to bounce back in the latter half of 2021.
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News Reports

‘Chacha mayor hain hamare’: Raipur mayor’s nephew Shoaib Dhebar misbehaves with cops when caught without mask, video viral

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An image had surfaced on social media claiming that Shoaib was fined just Rs 5, whereas the fine for not wearing a mask is Rs 500 in Chhattisgarh. Later another image had surfaced which showed a Rs 500 fine.
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News Reports

Kerala professor compares Modi with Hitler and right-wing with Nazi Germany in lecture to students, spews venom on Hindus and ‘Hindu parties’

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Kerala professor Gilbert Sebastian give hateful lessons against RSS & PM Modi, compares rise of right wing with Mussolini & Hitler
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News Reports

After mishandling the coronavirus outbreak in Maharashtra, the MVA government to import foreign Covid-19 vaccines

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra health minister Rajesh Tope said that the state will be importing COVID-19 vaccines from abroad and launch an extensive inoculation drive.
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News Reports

Nashik: Oxygen leaks from tanker, 22 patients dead as ventilators were stopped

OpIndia Staff -
The incident occurred at Dr Zakir Hussain Hospital in Nashik.
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News Reports

Haryana Health Minister accuses Kejriwal-led Delhi Government of ‘looting’ oxygen tanker

OpIndia Staff -
Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij stated that they are being 'forced' to give their oxygen to Delhi.
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News Reports

No, Indian govt did not export medical oxygen as country grappled coronavirus pandemic. Here are the facts

OpIndia Staff -
India did not export 9884 MT of medical oxygen between January to March 2021 amid raging coronavirus pandemic
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News Reports

Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin effective against double mutant Covid-19 strain: ICMR study

OpIndia Staff -
The ICMR on Wednesday released the results of a study that proves that Covaxin neutralizes multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2 including the double mutant strain.
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News Reports

Gujarat Congress leader gets schooled by Reliance Group President for trying to shame company over oxygen supply

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader tries to shame Mukesh Ambani for helping Maharashtra with oxygen and not Gujarat, Reliance fact-checks
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