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The Liberal ‘Ummah’: How the community stays quiet when one of them is a rapist

Nirwa Mehta -
This is how the liberal ‘ummah’ works. They will look out for each other even if it goes against everything they claim they stand for.
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Entertainment

As Netizens trend #ArrestMunmunDutta, the actor apologises, says she was misinformed and did not intend to use casteist slur: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Actor Munmun Dutta, most famously known for playing the character of 'Babita Ji in 'Taarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chasmah', today posted a statement on Twitter, apologising
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News Reports

Dogecoin: All you need to know about the cryptocurrency based on a meme

T Waraich -
On crypto data tracker CoinGecko.com, Dogecoin jumped more than 800% over the last month and is now the fourth-largest digital currency, with a market capitalization of $73 billion.
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Opinions

How the Army rose to the occasion to help the nation fight COVID-19, but once the crisis is over, a Herculean task awaits the...

Guest Author -
The Indian army is currently running three major hospitals in Delhi, two of them dedicated to COVID-19, but once the crisis is over, a task awaits
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News Reports

How Rajdeep Sardesai, a self-declared vulture, defended UAPA accused Natasha Narwal who is under trial for Delhi anti-Hindu riots

OpIndia Staff -
Rajdeep Sardesai and others have been using the death of her father to stir sympathy for UAPA accused Natasha Narwal, claiming that her arrest was wrongful.
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Politics

Suvendu Adhikari appointed leader of opposition in Bengal Assembly: What it means for the future of BJP in the state

K Bhattacharjee -
Suvendu Adhikari has significantly augmented his stature in Bengal politics after defeating Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram.
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News Reports

Bengal Governor gives sanction to CBI for the prosecution of 4 former TMC ministers in Narada sting operation case

OpIndia Staff -
The sanction for prosecution of the four TMC leaders in Narada sting case was accorded after the CBI made a request for the same
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News Reports

Gujarat: Extensive campaign launched to test, trace and isolate people in villages to arrest spread of coronavirus pandemic

OpIndia Staff -
Gujarat is currently one of the few states in India which has not gone for a full lockdown.
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Entertainment

YouTuber Rahul Vohra’s wife shares video recorded before his death, alleges medical negligence at Rajiv Gandhi Hospital

OpIndia Staff -
In a Facebook post on May 4, Rahul Vohra had informed his followers that he was Coronavirus positive.
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News Reports

Reliance Group among the top donors in India Inc’s COVID relief response: Read the details

OpIndia Staff -
Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and Reliance Foundation has emerged as one of the largest donors as India Inc expands its relief efforts during COVID-19
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News Reports

SC puts Prashant Kishor’s appointment as advisor to Punjab CM under the scanner, seeks response from Congress-ruled state govt

OpIndia Staff -
Prashant Kishor had recently declared that he is quitting his career as political strategist and would look at an alternate career
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World

Israel under attack from rockets fired from Gaza Strip, fires set using balloon-borne devices

OpIndia Staff -
Israel has been reeling under violence since a week due to constant clashes and confrontations with Palestinian protestors.
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News Reports

BMC chief explains why it is not the Modi govt but the states that need to be blamed for the oxygen crisis

OpIndia Staff -
BMC chief said that mismanagement of states is responsible for the oxygen crisis and increased number of SOS calls
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News Reports

Did the Modi govt approve Covaxin for 12-year-olds? Here is the truth

OpIndia Staff -
As of May 10, a total of 17,01,76,603 vaccine doses have been administered according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
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Crime

Delhi Police issue lookout notice for Navneet Kalra, last location was his Chattarpur farmhouse: All we know so far

OpIndia Staff -
On Saturday, Navneet Kalra fled his Chattarpur guesthouse minutes before Delhi police reached there to nab him.
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News Reports

Yogendra Yadav was aware of the rape of a woman by AAP leaders at the Tikri border ‘farmer’ protest site: Report

OpIndia Staff -
A report published in Dainik Bhaskar says that Yogendra Yadav was intimately aware of the sexual assault of a woman at the Tikri protest site and yet he remained tight-lipped about the incident
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News Reports

Afghanistan: 2 days after bomb blasts that killed 68 people in Kabul, Taliban calls for ‘ceasefire’ ahead of Eid

OpIndia Staff -
On Saturday, multiple blasts outside the Sayed-ul-Shuhada High School at a Shia Muslim dominated locality in Kabul had killed over 68 people and injured 150. Taliban had denied involvement in the blasts.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Boeing to construct a 200-bed COVID hospital in Gorakhpur

OpIndia Staff -
UP state government is rapidly working on expanding medical facilities in the state in collaboration with various corporate and multi-national companies while using all available government resources.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Covid protocols, govt restrictions ignored at the funeral of Islamic leader in Badaun

OpIndia Staff -
Hundreds of people were seen participating in the funeral of cleric Qazi Hazrat Abdul Hameed Mohammed Salimul Qadri at Badaun, UP.
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Opinions

Why do ‘liberal’ celebrities wish death upon ‘Bhakts’ to ‘teach them a lesson’?

Nirwa Mehta -
If you have even tiny bit of humanity in you, you wouldn't wish death upon anyone, especially if you consider them human.
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Crime

Rape and blackmail of a woman at Samyukt Kisan Morcha protest site, two AAP members named as accused

OpIndia Staff -
Woman allegedly gang raped at farmer protest site, two AAP members named as accused.
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Newly elected village head Rakmuddin arrested with four others for cow slaughter

OpIndia Staff -
The newly elected village head Rakmuddin had allegedly promised a beef party for his supporters if elected to power.
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Opinions

Bengal elections: Long term trends that the results held up and why the outcome is not as bad for the BJP as it seems

Guest Author -
The results of just concluded assembly elections in West Bengal have shocked BJP supporters and elated opponents of the party.
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News Reports

Fans pay tribute to YouTuber Rahul Vohra after he succumbs to Covid-19 hours after helpless Facebook post seeking ‘better treatment’

OpIndia Staff -
A day prior to his death, Rahul Vohra wrote his last message. "If I had received proper treatment, then, I possibly would have survived."
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News Reports

Mamata Banerjee wants exemption from taxes on oxygen cylinders, medicines and other items for Covid-19 which are already exempted. Details

OpIndia Staff -
Nirmamala Sitharaman informed Mamata Banerjee that the tax exemptions she is requesting are already in place
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News Reports

MP: Congress secretary arrested by Indore police for selling Oxygen Flow Meters at inflated prices

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader Yatindra Verma was caught selling Oxygen Flow meters for Rs 7,000 each, while market price is Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,000.
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News Reports

Hemkunt Foundation, Rana Ayyub and Jignesh Mevani: How Covid-19 fundraisers could possibly be violating FCRA laws

Anurag -
A deep dive into fundraisers for Covid relief with questionable management which may be violating FCRA laws.
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World

Chinese state media Editor accuses Subramanian Swamy of being ‘ungrateful’ over ‘war on COVID’, it doesn’t go down well for him

OpIndia Staff -
Chinese state media Global Times Editor Hu Xijin on Sunday accused BJP leader Subramanian Swamy of being 'ungrateful' after he tweeted that India is...
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News Reports

JNU administration dispels rumours of fee hike, says semester registration put on hold due to Covid-19

OpIndia Staff -
The JNU administration has clarified that it has not increased its fees for semester registration of students.
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News Reports

Patanjali was the first Indian company to publish a research paper on the new Covid-19 drug approved by DCGI: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Patanjali had published a research paper on use of the drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose for Covid-19 treatment in March 2020
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News Reports

West Bengal: BJP leader Swapan Dasgupta files a complaint with the police on targeted persecution of its party workers

OpIndia Staff -
Dasgupta in his complaint to the police mentioned on record the names of all 260 victims, some of whom have been unable to return home after the TMC goons unleashed violence post their victory in the state.
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Entertainment

‘Won’t last here for a week’: Instagram removes Kangana Ranaut’s post for calling Covid ‘small time flu’

OpIndia Staff -
Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut has said that she believes she will not survive a week on Instagram after a post was removed.
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News Reports

Netizens call out actor Sonu Sood’s claims of arranging for plasma, bed for COVID patients

OpIndia Staff -
After multiple media reports and social media posts on how Sonu Sood was helping out migrants go back home last year amid the nationwide lockdown, Sood had written an autobiography, 'I am no no messiah'.
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News Reports

Kerala: Over 400 Christian priests booked by police for violating Covid-19 regulations at Munnar church gathering

OpIndia Staff -
Over 400 Kerala Christian priests booked under different sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Kerala Epidemic Disease Ordinance
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Cricket

Father of Rajasthan Royals upcoming player Chetan Sakariya dies of COVID-19

OpIndia Staff -
Chetan Sakariya who was bought for Rs 1.2 crore by Rajasthan Royals had diverted his income towards his father's treatment.
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News Reports

Kerala: More than 100 priests have tested positive for Covid-19 after leading religious services, 9 priests died in the last week

OpIndia Staff -
Six of the priest who died due to Covid-19 belonged to the Syro Malabar Church, and three are from the CSI church in Kerala
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Opinions

Here is how The Lancet used dubious sources to blame Modi Govt for the Covid crisis

K Bhattacharjee -
Following the abrogation of Article 370, The Lancet had issued a strong condemnation of the Indian Government.
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Media

Indian diaspora protests against West Bengal post-poll violence in UK, Canada, Australia and United States

OpIndia Staff -
"The State machinery is failing the people of West Bengal as the Hindus are subjected to killings, rapes, and exodus from their homeland," a protestor said.
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News Reports

Union Minister Smriti Irani makes a surprise visit to Amethi to assess the Covid-19 situation, visits residence of deceased BJP MLA

OpIndia Staff -
Union Minister Smriti Irani arrived at the ancestral village of deceased MLA Dal Bahadur Kori,. who died on Covid-19 on Thursday
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Politics

Prashant Kishor to fire 85 percent of his IPAC staff after Bengal election victory, may start a political career in Bihar: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Only the core 100-150 people will be retained to carry out political strategising work that Prashant Kishor ked IPAC does.
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World

Violent clash between Israeli police and Palestinians at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque leaves at least 200 injured

OpIndia Staff -
Al-Aqsa, Islam's third-holiest site which is also revered by Jews as the location of two biblical-era temples was packed with Muslims to offer prayers on the last Friday of Ramadan.
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News Reports

Himanta Biswa Sarma elected as next Chief Minister of Assam after BJP legislative party meeting

OpIndia Staff -
Himanta Biswa Sarma was proposed as the next Chief Minister by outgoing CM Sarbandana Sonowal in the legislative party meeting
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World

China’s ‘out-of-control’ rocket debris disintegrates over the Indian Ocean, lands near the Maldives

OpIndia Staff -
Notably, the rocket which is uncontrollably falling back to Earth is the same space module whose launch was gloated upon by a Chinese Communist Party body to mock India's handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
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News Reports

Afghanistan: Three bomb blasts near a girls’ school in Kabul’s Shia neighbourhood leaves 58 dead

OpIndia Staff -
The Interior Ministry of Afghanistan said that there were a total of 3 explosions, a car bomb attack and 2 IED blasts
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Politics

Himanta Biswa Sarma favourite to become new Chief Minister of Assam, could take oath on 10th May

OpIndia Staff -
Himanta Biswa Sarma, a former Congress leader, joined the BJP in 2015, a year after the general elections.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Ghazipur DM relieves two doctors of district hospital from duty for allegedly denying admission and misbehaving with patients

OpIndia Staff -
The doctor stationed in the emergency ward allegedly claimed that the hospital was facing a shortage of oxygen supply. However, backtracked his statement upon being questioned by the DM.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Minor Hindu girl made to recite Kalma while getting raped, rapist ‘demand custody’ as she can’t return to ‘kafir parents’

OpIndia Staff -
The victim was gang-raped constantly over four days by one Muhammad Tanveer and his aides in Goth Ghulam Muhammad in Karachi in the Sindh province of Pakistan.
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News Reports

‘Dominance of one religious group cannot prevent religious celebrations of other’, says Madras HC after local Muslims object to Hindu procession

OpIndia Staff -
The Madras High court concluded that similar acts of 'resistance' by other religious groups would result in loss of lives, destruction of properties, riots, religious fights and chaos.
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News Reports

“Too much pressure on me, I can give one machine to each Khan Market friends”, Navneet Kalra’s purported audio clip goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi Police has recovered an audio clip in which Navneet Kalra is allegedly heard discussing the allotment of oxygen concentrators to his "friends" in the Khan Market area.
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News Reports

Centre gives nod for experimental use of drones to deliver vaccines

OpIndia Staff -
The Ministry of Civil Aviation in its tweet informed that the trials for delivery of COVID vaccines via drones are expected to commence from May end.
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