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Assam BJP disbands its minority cell after failing to make inroads in the Muslim-dominated areas in assembly elections

OpIndia Staff -
BJP said that the party has won fewer votes than the 20-member booth committees present in the minority dominated areas in Assam
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News Reports

Exodus of BJP workers with families from Bengal to Assam continues due to violence by TMC, state govt and BJP provide shelter, food, essentials

OpIndia Staff -
All the people who have entered Assam are from Cooch Behar district in West Bengal, where BJP won 7 out of 9 assembly seats
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Opinions

How the ‘Liberal’ press is whitewashing Bengal’s post-election violence

T Waraich -
Online publications like The Wire and Scroll.in seem to have more of a problem with BJP's characterization of the post-election violence, than the actual post-poll violence itself.
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News Reports

While Delhi govt demands more oxygen, numbers show its demand is four times the consumption by Mumbai for similar Covid-19 cases

Raju Das -
Mumbai is using 200-250 MT of oxygen for around, but Delhi is demanding 700 MT for similar number of active Covid-19 cases
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News Reports

‘Over 9000 tonnes of medical oxygen being produced per day, capacity increased 300%’: INOX chief

OpIndia Staff -
The excess demand for medical oxygen was unprecedented as even during the peak of the first COVID-19 wave in India, maximum demand was not more than 3,000 tonnes a day, the report said.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: State Health Minister’s home district got huge surplus of vaccine doses while other areas suffered from scarcity

OpIndia Staff -
With Jalna sitting on around 50,000 doses around April 07, 25 vaccination centres in Mumbai were shut down due to shortage.
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News Reports

Karnataka: Bribe for Bed scam unearthed, BJP’s Tejasvi Surya accuses BBMP officials of allotment of beds against money, says many lives lost

OpIndia Staff -
BBMP officials found taking bribes in exchange of beds, ventilators for COVID-19 patients because of which thousands of patients have not been able to get beds in Benglauru.
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News Reports

India’s N440K variant found in Andhra Pradesh said to be 15 times more lethal than the double mutant

OpIndia Staff -
The new N440K strain was found in almost 20 to 30 percent of the samples in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Telangana and found to be more dominant than previous variants during cell culture.
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News Reports

Covid-19: The alarming case fatality rate of Punjab and its possible connection to farmer protests

OpIndia Staff -
Rural areas in Punjab are showing an alarmingly high death rate due to Covid, much higher than the national average.
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Economy and Finance

RBI drafts a COVID fight plan, including term liquidity facility and support to small firms and borrowers amid second coronavirus outbreak

OpIndia Staff -
RBI governor Shaktikanta Das today announced a slew of measures to ameliorate the strain on economy due to the resurgent COVID-19 outbreak
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News Reports

‘Out of control’ Chinese rocket falling back on Earth and no one knows where it is going to crash: Details

OpIndia Staff -
After launching space station hub, China's Long March 5B is doing 27,600km/h in failing orbit, with eventual crash site unknown.
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News Reports

Bengal post-poll violence: TMC goons attack BSF jawans, set their homes on fire, Network 18 journalist reveals

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, TMC Chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had demonised the central paramilitary forces. She had even urged the party supporters to 'gherao' them during elections.
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News Reports

Bengal: Calcutta Khilafat Committee awaits state govt nod for hosting one of India’s biggest Eid-ul-Fitr prayer congregations

OpIndia Staff -
The Red Road gathering is said to be the biggest congregation in the nation to offer special prayers on the occasion of Eid-ul- Fitr.
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News Reports

‘Covid-19 is a shared global crisis. What others describe as aid, we consider it as friendship’: EAM S Jaishankar

OpIndia Staff -
Speaking on receiving help from foreign countries, S Jaishankar said that he would do everything in his power to help people in India to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
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News Reports

Banished by Twitter and Facebook, former US President Donald Trump launches his own communications platform

OpIndia Staff -
Trump's senior advisor Jason Miller additionally informed that this is not the social media platform they talked about and that the plans to launch the same remain intact.
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News Reports

Kerala: Over 100 Christian priests test positive for coronavirus, two die after annual retreat gathering in Munnar

OpIndia Staff -
The annual retreat, a conference of priests and community members, was held at the CSI Christ Church in Munnar from April 13 to 17 amid the second wave of coronavirus pandemic.
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Government and Policy

India excludes Chinese-giant Huawei from 5G trials

OpIndia Staff -
Huawei and ZTE are under scrutiny for allegedly installing "backdoor" vulnerabilities to spy for the Chinese government
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News Reports

Birbhum SP denies reports of rape of polling agents in Bengal’s post-poll violence

OpIndia Staff -
In light of the bloodshed and unspeakable atrocities committed against its party workers, the BJP has announced a nationwide dharna on May 5.
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Opinions

Alt News, Boom Live promote old videos in the name of ‘fact check’ to insinuate there is no post-poll violence in Bengal, prove netizens...

Jinit Jain -
Alt News 'fact-checks' an old video of violence from Odisha to imply that post-poll violence in West Bengal is hyperbole.
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Media

Media uses comments by bureaucrat with the same name to spread mischievous propaganda against Union Minister Piyush Goyal

OpIndia Staff -
Media used comments made by bureaucrat with the same name to spread propaganda against Union Minister Piyush Goyal.
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Politics

Hundreds of BJP workers flee Bengal, find sanctuary in Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma asks Mamata to stop ‘demonocracy’

OpIndia Staff -
Himanta Biswa Sarma clarified that the BJP karyakartas had crossed over from Bengal to Dhubri in Assam and are being provided shelter.
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Politics

‘Muslim vote went to TMC, Hindus to BJP, for us, nothing left’: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury calls Congress rout in Bengal ‘humiliating loss’

OpIndia Staff -
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury reflected on the embarrassing defeat of the Congress party in the West Bengal assembly elections.
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Politics

‘I am willing to sacrifice my life to serve my Dharma’: BJP’s Arjun Singh condemns violence, says state leaders should resign if they cannot...

OpIndia Staff -
Arjun Singh said that if he cannot protect the workers of the party, then he has no right to remain an elected representative.
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Politics

National Commission for Women takes suo motu cognizance of violence by TMC against women in Nandigram, sends a team

OpIndia Staff -
NCW Chief Rekha Sharma has also dispatched a team to West Bengal for further inquiry. Rekha Sharma will reportedly lead the team herself.
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World

Chinese man seeking ‘freedom and equality’ navigates the Taiwan Strait in a rubber dinghy

OpIndia Staff -
The man reportedly bought a small dinghy on a Chinese e-commerce website and fitted it with a motor to cross the highly militarised Taiwan Strait
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Government and Policy

Uttar Pradesh: Yogi Adityanath directs officials to start community kitchens to provide food for the poor amid lockdown

OpIndia Staff -
Yogi Adityanath has ordered to operate community kitchens so that no one in the state starves during the coronavirus-induced lockdown period
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News Reports

8 Asiatic lions test positive for Coronavirus infection in Hyderabad, develop dry cough, nasal discharge

OpIndia Staff -
After the case came to light, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) issued an advisory on April 30 to shut down all national parks, zoos, sanctuaries.
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News Reports

1000 Hindu families in Birbhum have left their homes to escape TMC mob in West Bengal: Former MP Swapan Dasgupta

OpIndia Staff -
Former Rajya Sabha MP and the BJP candidate from Tarakeswar Swapan Dasgupta had tweeted about the alarming situation in Birbhum on Monday.
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Opinions

Bengal post poll violence: Stages in which journalists, politicians, fact checkers and historians will cover this up

Abhishek Banerjee -
The first step is creating an enabling environment. This is why they use the ‘fascist’ label for every BJP supporter, every BJP worker and every BJP leader. To dehumanize them all.
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News Reports

Bengal violence: Indic collective moves SC citing deliberate inaction by Mamata, BJP’s Gaurav Bhatia demands CBI probe

OpIndia Staff -
The Indic Collective Trust has moved the Supreme Court over the post-poll violence that has erupted in West Bengal.
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Opinions

Orphans of Bengal: Disillusioned. Resigned. Defeated. Broken

Nupur J Sharma -
Media reported on democracy, finally triumphing over 'tyranny' and 'fascism' as Mamata Banerjee decisively defeated BJP
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu: DMK workers ransack Amma canteen in Chennai, suspended from party

OpIndia Staff -
DMK leader Ma Subramanian said that the party has removed the workers who were involved in this act of vandalism.
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Cricket

Indian Premier League suspended indefinitely after multiple players test positive for COVID-19

OpIndia Staff -
Reports say that it is possible for the IPL to resume and conclude this season with sports journalists reporting that the IPL will shift to Mumbai, and if cleared, will resume after a week.
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News Reports

If state, central govt do not take immediate action, Hindus will have to defend themselves: VHP on Bengal violence

OpIndia Staff -
VHP has stated that the central government should immidately step in to stop the political violence in Bengal.
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Politics

PM Modi calls Bengal Governor Dhankhar over post-poll violence, expresses anguish over breakdown of law and order

OpIndia Staff -
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar and expressed his concerns over violence.
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News Reports

Congress leaders hail Mamata Banerjee’s victory in Bengal even as their ground workers continue to get attacked by TMC goons

Jinit Jain -
Congress NSUI workers have been subjected to assault, their houses ransacked and vandalised, but Kapil Sibal and Shashi Tharoor have flattering words of praise for Mamata Banerjee for her recent victory
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News Reports

EXCLUSIVE: Kangana Ranaut speaks after her Twitter suspension – ‘keep the focus on Bengal, my Twitter account doesn’t matter’

OpIndia Staff -
Kangana Ranaut has said that she can come back via other platforms, but the focus must remain on the violence happening in West Bengal.
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OpIndia Scoops

Banned Khalistani outfit Sikhs For Justice mints misery of Covid patients, promises cash and oxygen

OpIndia Staff -
SFJ has tried to lure Covid-19 patients to join the organization in return of money for treatment
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News Reports

BJP worker forced to flee West Bengal after TMC thugs vandalised his resort

OpIndia Staff -
BJP worker Ganesh Ghosh was compelled to flee West Bengal after Trinamool Congress goons wrought havoc at his Resort in Bolpur.
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Entertainment

Twitter permanently suspends Kangana Ranaut’s account for demanding action against ‘monster’ Mamata Banerjee for Bengal violence

OpIndia Staff -
Twitter has suspended the account of Bollywood superstar Kangana Ranaut for demanding action against 'monster' Mamata Banerjee.
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News Reports

Kejriwal announces two months ‘free ration’, two weeks after Central govt already announced it

OpIndia Staff -
On April 23, the Central Government had announced that it will provide free food grains under the PM Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana for the months of May and June 2021. Under this plan, 5 kilograms of free food grains would be provided to the beneficiaries which amount to around 80 crore people in the nation.
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News Reports

Veteran journalist Kanchan Gupta loses his father to Covid, family gave up ventilator so others could live

OpIndia Staff -
Kanchan Gupta informed that much of his father's working life was spent installing oxygen units in hospitals.
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi goes from ‘lockdown won’t work’ to ‘lockdown only solution’ for the raging coronavirus outbreak

Jinit Jain -
From staunchly opposing the lockdown to combat the COVID-19 outbreak, Rahul Gandhi has now passionately proposed the government to impose a full lockdown to stop the contagion
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News Reports

Life of scientist Gobardhan Das in danger as TMC mob attacks houses of BJP supporters, hurl crude bombs

OpIndia Staff -
Scientist Gobardhan Das was BJP's candidate from Purbasthali Uttar constituency. The party workers in his village and his family home are under attack by TMC goons.
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World

New documentary reveals Hitler liked women urinating on him during sex, had incestuous relationship with his niece

OpIndia Staff -
The new documentary 'Hitler's Secret Sex Life' makes some startling claims about the German mass-murderer.
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News Reports

‘You have only 4 days left’: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath receives death threat

OpIndia Staff -
A complaint was filed with the Sushant Golf City police station. The police have launched a probe into the matter and are now trying to trace the accused.
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News Reports

Victim blaming to brazening it out: TMC top leadership responds to the violence unleashed by goons after poll result

OpIndia Staff -
West Bengal has been engulfed in post-poll violence as numerous BJP and Left workers are attacked, beaten up and also killed.
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Opinions

Manoj Das the storyteller: Alive forever, in a million smiles and a million memories

Sanghamitra -
How does something as insignificant, and as regular as death binds a writer who is alive in a thousand stories.
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News Reports

ISIS-inspired bomber who detonated pipe bomb in crowded New York subway tunnel sentenced to life in prison

OpIndia Staff -
Ullah was convicted of his charges in 2018 which included using a weapon of mass destruction, bombing a public transportation system, and providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, ISIS.
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News Reports

Ex J&K Governor and saviour of Kashmiri Pandits, Jagmohan Malhotra, passes away

OpIndia Staff -
Jagmohan Malhotra was the governor of J&K when the Kashmiri Pandits suffered ethnic cleansing at the hands of Islamic fundamentalists and were forced to flee their homes in 1990s.
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