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As Commonwealth Games Village turns into a Covid-19 facility, here is the chronology of the 2010 Congress scam

Dibakar Dutta -
According to an RTI filed by the Indian Express in 2020, over 50 cases of payment disputes related to the Commonwealth Game scam still remain pending.
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News Reports

Former Indian PM Manmohan Singh tests positive for COVID-19, admitted to AIIMS

OpIndia Staff -
The former prime minister Manmohan Singh was on Monday hospitalised at AIIMS after testing positive for the coronavirus
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World

Imran Khan says ‘Inshallah, there will come a time that in Western countries, people will fear insulting Prophet’, but says rioting hurting Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan PM Imran Khan addressed the recent violence by Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) which enveloped Pakistan
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Law

Allahabad HC imposes restrictions in five cities till April 26, Govt of UP refuses complete lockdown as suggested by court: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Allahabad HC issued a list of strict restrictions in five UP cities Prayagraj, Lucknow, Varanasi, Kanpur Nagar, and Gorakhpur till April 26
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News Reports

Pakistan violence: Imran Khan government fails to control riots that erupted from protests against France

Anurag -
TLP is getting support in Pakistan from all sections, including armed police and military personnel.
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News Reports

42-year-old nun found dead in a well, suicide note found: What we know so far

OpIndia Staff -
A 42-year old nun was found dead in a well at a convent in Kureepuzha on Friday. The deceased identified as Mable Joseph was a native of Karunagappally in the Kollam district of Kerala.
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News Reports

Covid in JNU: 74 students and staff members, Swara Bhaskar’s mother test positive

OpIndia Staff -
Two students have been admitted at Fortis while one has been admitted at BL Kapoor Hospital in a critical condition. The rest have been shifted to Jhajjar AIIMS and Sultanpuri quarantine centre, as per reports.
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh notorious Salman Ghazi gang members dance on a terrace with pistols, Meerut police respond after video goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
The Salman Ghazi gang is involved in various cases of extortion, loot and plunder in the city of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh
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News Reports

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter takes maiden flight on Mars, completes first-ever powered flight on another planet

OpIndia Staff -
Ingenuity is a mini 4-pound (1.8 kg) robotic helicopter flown to Mars with the Perseverance rover.
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News Reports

Delhi and Maharashtra governments leave migrant workers in the lurch as they return to their native places in the wake of second wave of...

OpIndia Staff -
Migrant labourers in Delhi are leaving the city for their native places as Arvind Kejriwal announced a strict 6-day curfew to control the spread of the coronavirus
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News Reports

Pro-AAP vlogger Dhruv Rathee spreads fake news about only BJP campaigning for Bengal elections, gives clean chit to TMC, Left, and Congress

OpIndia Staff -
While TMC, Congress and the Left are all continuing with rallies and crowded election campaigns, Dhruv Rathee made a ranting Facebook post blaming only the BJP. He did not share it on Twitter.
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Opinions

Understanding the hate factory: How Rohan Joshi and his hateful post against Hindus gives us an insight into the ‘liberal’ mind

T Waraich -
Comedian Rohan Joshi tells Bhakts, "I have nothing but contempt for them and nit a shred of empathy" as he mocks Coronavirus deaths
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News Reports

Indian Railways starts ‘Oxygen Express’ to take Oxygen-loaded trucks to required areas: All you need to know

OpIndia Staff -
The Indian Railways has charted out key corridors in the country and has created a green corridor at the railway stations for the fast movement of the train to ensure uninterrupted supply of oxygen.
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News Reports

Maharashtra Remdesivir ruckus: Saket Gokhale brazens his lies by filing complaint against Fadnavis, BJP returns favour. Details

OpIndia Staff -
A complaint has been filed against Saket Gokhale by a BJP member in which the complainant has accused the Congress supporter of lying and waging a war against the state in the midst of a pandemic
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News Reports

Coronavirus: People queue up outside liquor stores as Kejriwal govt announces week-long lockdown

OpIndia Staff -
The weeklong curfew will begin tonight 10 PM till April 26 (Monday) in view of the rising Covid-19 cases in Delhi.
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News Reports

Delhi couple abuses cops over masks in viral video, husband blames wife after arrest

OpIndia Staff -
Police have booked and arrested a Delhi couple after the duo misbehaved with the personnel over masks. The video went viral.
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News Reports

‘Why are you trying to please Kaafirs?’: Viral videos show revolt within Pakistan Army, personnel attack Imran Khan for letting TLP rioters die

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistani army personnel were earlier seen raising Islamist slogans along with the members of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).
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News Reports

Fact-Check: Did the centre terminate the insurance cover for healthcare workers killed in the line of Covid duty?

OpIndia Staff -
Some reports have suggested that GoI has cancelled the insurance scheme for Health workers. In reality it was extended for one month and new plans will be announced soon.
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News Reports

Congress leaders, others share old picture of Yogi and Amit Shah in Kumbh, accuse them of spreading Coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
Alka Lamba shares old picture of Kumbh to malign Yogi Adityanath and BJP, Netizens follow suit
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News Reports

CBI moves HC against Rajiv Saxena’s bail in VVIP chopper scam, says he misled probe agencies and refuses to co-operate: Details

OpIndia Staff -
CBI had alleged in Delhi High Court that Rajiv Saxena had misled the probe agencies and kept them in the dark about his attempts to seek foreign citizenship
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Government and Policy

Yogi Adityanath steps ups efforts to ensure supply of medical oxygen, asks officials to maintain sufficient stock of Remdesivir and other medicines

OpIndia Staff -
The UP government has ordered the setting up of 10 oxygen plants for an unabated supply of medical oxygen to all hospitals in the state
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News Reports

Jharkhand: 60 ventilators procured under PM CARES fund lie unused, state govt demands more, report says

OpIndia Staff -
While the already procured ventilators lie locked in hospital rooms or without oxygen supply, the Jharkhand’s health department has demanded an additional 1,500 ventilators for Covid-19 patients from the Centre.
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Politics

‘Congress leaders shamed the vaccines in public but took doses in private, quietly’: Dr Harsh Vardhan shows Manmohan Singh the mirror

OpIndia Staff -
Dr Harsh Vardhan has responded to the letter from former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed to his successor Narendra Modi.
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World

Pakistan: ‘Banned’ Islamists abduct police officials, release them after govt negotiation, had brutally tortured the DSP

OpIndia Staff -
A day after the Islamist party Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) abducted 11 police officials in Lahore in Pakistan, it has now released the hostages following negotiations with the provincial government of Punjab.
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News Reports

NCP leader Nawab Malik’s false claims about Remdesivir supply punctured by Kirit Somaiya: Details

OpIndia Staff -
The approval letter by Maharashtra FDA dated April 17 grants permission to Bruck Pharma for distribution of drug under emergency in the state.
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Politics

CPI(M) continues to hold massive political rallies in West Bengal days after claiming it won’t arrange due to COVID surge

OpIndia Staff -
CPI(M) leader Md Salim on April 16 announced that his party wouldn't organised any mega political event in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, but a day later he was found attending a huge roadshow
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Opinions

Filmmaker Hansal Mehta goes after an Indian in UAE, asks cops to ‘take action’ because he couldn’t take a joke

Akshita Bhadauria -
Hansal Mehta ridiculing everyone is kosher, but someone making a joke on him gets him so riled up he complaints to cops in Middle East.
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News Reports

Medical oxygen supply to Delhi increases 2.4 times, but CM Kejriwal claims ‘Delhi quota diverted to other states’

OpIndia Staff -
The allocation of oxygen is dynamically decided. As per the union government, Delhi got 2.4 times oxygen on April 17 compared to April 16.
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News Reports

Bengal: BJP’s Malda candidate shot at during campaign trail by miscreants, sustains neck injuries

OpIndia Staff -
Gopal Chandra Saha had gone to attend a meeting of party workers at Sahapur. He was shot at by some unidentified persons when he was entering his car.
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News Reports

As Centre steps in to rescue Delhi, AAP crawls out to take credit for Covid care facility

OpIndia Staff -
Netizens also called out Kejriwal government's shamelessness at rushing to take credit for facilities set up by Central government
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News Reports

250 ventilators sent by central govt lied unutilized in the state of Punjab amid the second wave of coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
250 ventilators sent by the central government to Punjab for use in government hospitals were lying unused till late March.
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Opinions

When ‘comedians’ double up as doctors and believe ‘Bhakts’ deserve the misery as Chinese coronavirus rages

Nirwa Mehta -
You will never see them questioning how many mosques have opened up their gates as medical facilities. Because, everyone likes to keep their heads.
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News Reports

‘Duty before everything else’ – Two doctors return to work hours after cremating mothers in Gujarat

OpIndia Staff -
Dr Shilpa Patel and Dr Rahul Parmar, two doctors from Gujarat, joined back at work hours after cremating their mothers
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News Reports

Fact-check: Is Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee asking devotees to enter Harmandir Sahib without a mask?

OpIndia Staff -
Last year the SGPC had refused to ask devotees to wear masks at Harmandir Sahib, and had asked who were wearing to remove it
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News Reports

Tata Steel, Jindal Steel, ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel, SAIL announce the supply of liquid oxygen from their plants for COVID-19 patients

OpIndia Staff -
Several Indian steel manufacturers have come forward to divert oxygen for their plants for medical use for treatment of COVID-19 patients
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Media

ABC journalist complains about kids’ cartoon not having queer, disabled or gender diverse dogs of colour, PinkNews calls it ‘important debate’

OpIndia Staff -
ABC network journalist Beverly Wang sparked controversy with a 'woke' article criticising a cartoon for children called 'Bluey'.
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News Reports

US drops extradition request against Dawood Ibrahim’s financer in the UK after Pakistan allegedly manipulated key FBI witness

OpIndia Staff -
US extradition request in the British court had revealed that Jabir Motiwala reported directly to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim
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Politics

While Rahul Gandhi ‘cancels’ public rallies, Congress leaders continue gathering large crowds in West Bengal

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi on Sunday emphatically announced that he was calling off his election rallies in West Bengal.
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News Reports

MNS leader launches an attack on Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik, asks him to condemn MVA leaders for hoarding Remdesivir

OpIndia Staff -
MNS leader and Vice President of MNS's youth wing, Akhil Chitre has alleged that the MVA leaders have also stocked Remdesivir
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News Reports

Karnataka: Police arrest Syed Nasir for burning library with 3000 copies of Bhagavad Gita, was drunk when he lit matchstick for beedi

OpIndia Staff -
The library in Mysuru with nearly 3000 copies of the Bhagavad Gita belonged to a daily wage labourer called Syed Isaac.
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Crime

West Bengal: Dead body of BJP worker recovered after he went missing, party accuses TMC workers of murder

OpIndia Staff -
Body of BJP worker Dilip Kirtaniya found outside his residence in Mandal Para in Roaowari village in the Nadia district of West Bengal
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News Reports

Canadian businessman Bakshish Sidhu ‘shocked’ to learn he is ‘most wanted’ in the US since 2015 for laundering cash for drug cartels

OpIndia Staff -
Lawyer of Bakshish Sidhu said that his client learned of the charges of Hawala operations against him by the US DEA only a week ago
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Politics

Mamata’s party is regularly doing big rallies in Bengal, but they don’t post on Twitter. Here could be the reason

OpIndia Staff -
While Rahul Gandhi's change of heart on election rallies have drawn the eyeballs towards BJP, Mamata Banerjee is going unabated about her way with virtually no criticism.
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News Reports

Did Gen VK Singh have to resort to Twitter to ‘beg’ for bed for his brother suffering from COVID? Here are the facts

OpIndia Staff -
Gen VK Singh's attempt to help a fellow Indian in testing COVID times was used as an opportunity for political mudslinging
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News Reports

Kejriwal government files FIR against four airlines for not checking passengers flying from Maharashtra for negative RT-PCR report

OpIndia Staff -
An FIR has been lodged against four airlines Indigo, Air Asia, Vistara and Spicejet under the DDMA ACT by the Delhi govt
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Opinions

Bollywood and nepotism: Remnants of a Clubhouse rant

Sagar Dubey -
Bollywood and nepotism: Is the content really bad and people have learnt to love it? Or is the industry meeting the audience demand perfectly?
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News Reports

China: Communist regime pressurises Ant Group to ditch its founder Jack Ma and divest his stake in the company

OpIndia Staff -
According to a Reuters report, Chinese govt has directed Alibaba's affiliate Ant Group to take away control from founder Jack Ma
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World

USA: Incest marriage supporters come out in support of parent and child who want to marry, compare it to gay marriage

OpIndia Staff -
Proponents of 'consensual incest' have come out in support of a parent in the United States who wishes to marry their own child.
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News Reports

Congress supporter Saket Gokhale spreads lies to defend Maharashtra govt’s harassment of Bruck Pharma director over Remdesivir supply

OpIndia Staff -
Saket Gokhale alleged that 'private individual' like Devendra Fadnavis is not authorised to purchase Remdesivir from Gujarat
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Social Media

Gorakhpur tragedy accused Dr Kafeel Khan asks people to use steroids as ‘self medication’ to manage COVID

OpIndia Staff -
Kafeel Khan prescribed inhaled budesonide (steroid) 2 puffs twice a day and Dexamethasone (steroid) 6 mg daily for 10 days.
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