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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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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh government ramps up preparations for Covid-19 surge in the state, five quarantine centres set-up in Lucknow for migrant workers

OpIndia Staff -
UP govt arranges Isolation centres for migrant workers, new oxygen plants, ramped up testing and vaccination etc to combat Covid-19
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News Reports

Aam Aadmi Party shares manipulated media of Amit Shah to claim PM Modi ‘sleeps’ 24 hours a day

OpIndia Staff -
The social media team of Arvind Kejriwal's party trimmed the video and made it look like as if HM Shah was criticizing PM Modi for 'sleeping' the whole day.
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News Reports

Bomb scare on AirAsia flight bound for Delhi from Bengaluru. Here is what we know so far

OpIndia Staff -
The AirAsia flight landed at the IGI airport and was taken to the bay area instead of the operational area. All 159 passengers were asked to deboard along with their handbags.
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News Reports

World Hindu Foundation asks Justice Rohinton Nariman to take back his ‘mischievous’ comments on Vedas

OpIndia Staff -
The World Hindu Foundation has expressed outrage at recent comments on Hinduism made by Justice Rohinton Nariman.
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News Reports

Filmmaker Hansal Mehta challenges for free flight tickets to Pakistan but goes into hiding after Twitter user provides it. Read what happened

OpIndia Staff -
Hansal Mehta's flight to Pakistan via Dubai is scheduled for 20th April, 2021. We shall keep you posted if Mehta goes to Pakistan or will he register his name in long list of paper tigers.
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News Reports

From fake Remdesivir in Sharad Pawar’s constituency to fake RT-PCR reports: Thugs are having a free run in Maharashtra amid pandemic

OpIndia Staff -
Multiple cases of such fake RTPCR and fake Remdesivir have emerged from various parts of the country amid the surge in coronavirus pandemic.
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Politics

After finishing rallies in all poll bound states amid rising COVID cases, Rahul Gandhi ‘cancels’ future rallies in Bengal where Congress has no chance

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi held massive rallies in all poll bound states amid the rising coronavirus cases
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi criticises rallies four days after addressing massively crowded rally in Bengal

Dibakar Dutta -
Congress party has been boasting about large crowds at the rallies of Rahul Gandhi, hoping to project it as the turn of the party's political fortunes.
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News Reports

Uttarakhand BJP leader Suhail Pasha resigns after video shows him boasting about making village ‘Pandit-free’ goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
Suhail Pasha said, "We already have a mosque in place. We don't have any such necessity to (offer prayers in the market) but we will do so to create chaos."
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News Reports

Devendra Fadnavis alleges harassment by Uddhav govt to Remdesivir supplier as Maharashtra struggles with coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
Devendra Fadnavis informed that a Maharashtra minister’s OSD had called company officials and questioned threateningly as to why the provisions were made at the request of the opposition party.
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News Reports

Christian Pakistani rights activist says he may be deported back to Pakistan, was earlier attacked by Jihadists

OpIndia Staff -
Rahat John Austin, a Pakistani rights activist living in South Korea, said on Twitter that he might get deported and sent back to Pakistan where his life is under threat.
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News Reports

Gujarat: Three Bangladeshi intruders arrested from Surat for human trafficking, minor girl rescued from prostitution

OpIndia Staff -
On Saturday, while working on a tip-off, Special Operation team busted the racket and arrested the trio. 17-year-old girl who was rescued was sent to children's home.
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News Reports

Mumbai Police issues order allowing only vehicles with colour coded stickers to run on streets: Details

OpIndia Staff -
The Mumbai Police has issued an order stating that only colour-coded vehicles will be allowed to operate on the streets.
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Media

ABP journalist falls for joke where iPhone user claimed to have started ‘Indu ki Dhaba’ after job loss

OpIndia Staff -
ABP journalist Astha Kaushik bought the iPhone user's fake 'Indu ki Dhaba' claims without any due verification.
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News Reports

Video claiming a dargah was recently constructed on footpath along Sabarmati riverfront road in Ahmedabad goes viral: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Netizens have shared a video claiming that a dargah had mysteriously sprung up along the Sabarmati riverfront in Ahmedabad
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News Reports

Bombing, violence, intimidation and brandishing guns: Here are some incidents of violence that took place during 5th phase of West Bengal polls

OpIndia Staff -
After several deaths in violence during the 4th phase of polls in West Bengal, the 5th phase also saw several incidents of violence
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News Reports

Controversial Mufti Ejaz Arshad Qasmi of the AIMPLB passes away: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Mufti Ejaz Arshad Qasmi of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board has passed away on Saturday.
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News Reports

Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya busts lies peddled by Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik on Remdesivir supply

OpIndia Staff -
Nawab Malik also falsely allaged that central govt has ordered one company to supply Remdseivir to Gujarat state only
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Media

Siddharth Varadarajan of The Wire spreads fake news a day after The Logical Indian apologised for the same: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Siddharth Varadarajan spread fake news again, in fact, the same fake news that the Logical Indians had apologised for just a day ago.
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Political History of India

The assassination of Mahashay Rajpal, the publisher of Rangeela Rasool: How secularism and freedom of expression died along with him

Bhagat Ram -
Pandit Chamupati Lal, a close friend of Mahashay Rajpal, wrote a short biography of the Islamic Prophet, Mohammed.
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Government and Policy

‘Maharashtra suffering from an inept and corrupt government’, Piyush Goyal slams Uddhav Thackeray for ‘gimmicks on oxygen’

OpIndia Staff -
Union Minister Piyush Goyal said that Maharashtra has received the highest share of Oxygen in the country
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News Reports

Food grain smuggling into Punjab to make money out of MSP continues, more than 25,000 bags of wheat smuggled from Bihar seized in Bhatinda

OpIndia Staff -
Wheat is purchased at the rate of Rs 1,100 per quintal in Bihar and other states and sold in Punjab at around Rs 1,925 per quintal as MSP
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News Reports

‘No difference between Islam and Islamic radicalism, its a danger to all religions’: What Yati Narsinghanand said in a recent interview

OpIndia Staff -
Speaking to Goa Chronicle, Yati Narsinghanand did not shy away from presenting his honest views on Islam despite threats to his life
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News Reports

Republic Day violence: Hours after getting bail, Deep Sidhu gets arrested by Delhi Crime Branch

OpIndia Staff -
Only hours after Delhi Court granted bail to Deep Sidhu in Republic Day violence case, Delhi Crime Branch has reportedly arrested him again
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News Reports

TMC admits the audio of Mamata Banerjee promising rally of dead bodies is genuine, demands action on BJP for ‘illegal call recording’

OpIndia Staff -
TMC alleges that BJP illegally recorded phone call of the CM with a TMC worker, and played the recording out of context.
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Media

Former Indian Express journalist has an ‘Allah’s virus’ moment, thanks God for COVID-19, says pandemic saved Muslims from detention camps

OpIndia Staff -
Irena Akbar, formerly with the Indian Express, has thanked God for Covid-19 and attributed the virus to God's plan.
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Opinions

New York Times provides platform to Islamic bigotry, columnist claims onus to convert is on non-Muslims after Hindu boyfriend refuses to convert

K Bhattacharjee -
The New York Times on Friday provided platform to Islamic bigotry in a blog where the author narrates her 'tragic' love story.
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Entertainment

Actor Sonu Sood tests positive for COVID-19, releases statement on Twitter

OpIndia Staff -
Actor Sonu Sood took to social media websites to declare that he has tested positive for the coronavirus, releases statement
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News Reports

Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar blames Kumbh Mela for COVID-19 surge, says returnees will distribute Coronavirus as ‘prasad’

OpIndia Staff -
Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar compared Kumbh Mela with the Tablighi Jamaat's Markaz Nizamuddin event
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Opinions

Panic amid pandemic: Did we get complacent as we thought we got lucky

Nirwa Mehta -
As India struggles in second wave of coronavirus pandemic, a lowdown of how we all got complacent to the Chinese virus
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News Reports

Members of European Parliament take offence to India giving citizenship to Hindus, wants India to not prosecute Amnesty for FCRA violations

K Bhattacharjee -
Members of the European Parliament have expressed 'concerns' regarding the human rights situation in India.
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Politics

Lalu Prasad Yadav granted bail by Jharkhand High Court in fodder scam case: Details

OpIndia Staff -
The Jharkhand High Court has granted bail to former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav in a fodder scam case.
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Government and Policy

This is the best system, earlier, it was in control of Arhtiyas: How Direct Benefit Transfer is changing the lives of farmers in Punjab...

OpIndia Staff -
As of now, payments are being made to farmers through DBT on the basis of the Aadhar cards and the quantity of crops brought by them to the Mandis.
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News Reports

Violence continues during polls in West Bengal: BJP polling agent assaulted allegedly by TMC goons in North 24 Parganas

OpIndia Staff -
Like the first four phases, fifth phase polls for West Bengal Assembly election has also been marred with violence
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News Reports

Kerala MLA PC George reiterates his stand on Grooming Jihad, says 47 girls in his constituency, including 12 Hindus and 35 Christians, were victims

OpIndia Staff -
Poonjar MLA PC George said that love jihad exists and that 47 girls—12 Hindus and 35 Christians—have been the victims of the phenomenon
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News Reports

Christian pastor dupes Jalandhar family of Rs 80,000, converts them to Christianity on the pretext of healing cancer

OpIndia Staff -
Jalandhar Pastor Balwinder Singh duped a family of Rs 80,000 promising to cure a cancer patient, and converted them to Christianity
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Government and Policy

Coronavirus vaccination: Gujarat administers over 1 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses

OpIndia Staff -
The health bulletin released by the Gujarat government last evening revealed that so far over 87 lakh people have been vaccinated with the first dose and over 13 lakhs with both the doses
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Law

Actor Deep Sidhu, accused in the Republic Day violence case, gets bail: What the court said while granting bail

OpIndia Staff -
Actor Deep Sidhu was arrested by the special cell of Delhi Police in February 2021 for his role in instigating violence and riots in New Delhi in the wake of tractor rally
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News Reports

Watch: Muslim mob gathers at Dargah Bazar Ajmer after Friday prayers, demand arrest of Yati Narsinghanand, law against insult to Islam

OpIndia Staff -
Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati has been in the line of fire ever since he made some remarks on Prophet Muhammad
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News Reports

‘Terrorists would have fired into your heart’: Cop in Kashmir arrested under UAPA for glorifying terrorism, resisting search and turning violent

OpIndia Staff -
Jammu and Kashmir police arrested a Special Police Officer (SPO) under the stringent anti-terror law in Frisal village in Kulgam of South Kashmir.
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News Reports

Scores of people, mostly migrant workers, caught on camera running out of Buxar railway station in Bihar to avoid COVID-19 test

OpIndia Staff -
Passengers, mostly migrant workers, including women and young children, were trying to escape the mandatory COVID-19 test in Bihar
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World

Indianapolis mass shooting that killed 8, including 4 Sikhs: Attacker was a former employee at FedEx, was previously arrested twice

OpIndia Staff -
The gunman who killed at least eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis mass shooting, was a former employee of the company.
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News Reports

An hour into the 5th phase of 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections and reports of violence begin to pour in: Crude bombs hurled

OpIndia Staff -
The ruling TMC and the BJP are contesting on all the 45 assembly seats across five districts in phase five of the West Bengal assembly elections today
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News Reports

We respect PM Modi’s call: PM Modi urges for snan at Kumbh to be kept symbolic due to COVID-19, Swami Avdheshanand responds

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi spoke to Juna Akhara Mahamandleshwar, Swami Avdheshanand and requested for 'Shahi Snan' at Kumbh Mela to be kept symbolic.
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Entertainment

Kangana Ranaut slams Karan Johar after Dharma Productions fires Kartik Aryan, tells them not to ‘force him to hang himself’ like SSR

OpIndia Staff -
Kangana Ranaut has hit out at Karan Johar and Dharma Productions after Kartik Aryan was fired from Dostana 2.
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Politics

TMC’s Derek O’Brien opposes EC’s Covid campaign restrictions, says new rules very suitable to ‘Lutyens bungalow’ residents

OpIndia Staff -
TMC leader Derek O'Brien criticized the Election Commission's new Covid restrictions in a press conference today.
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News Reports

Two days after daughter of Ajay Tandon took over father’s campaigning for by-elections as he had COVID-19, the Congress leader seen on the street

OpIndia Staff -
Daughter of Congress leader Ajay Tandon had confirmed that her father had tested positive for COVID-19
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World

Facebook censors media reports of multi-million dollar real estate purchases by BLM co-founder, her group calls criticism ‘White Supremacy’

OpIndia Staff -
Facebook users said that shared links to stories from NY Post and the Daily Mail about BLM co-founder were met with an error message.
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News Reports

EC extends election campaign ban before polls in West Bengal to 72 hours, no campaigning allowed after 7 PM

OpIndia Staff -
In view of the worsening Covid-19 crisis in the country, the Election Commission has extended restrictions on campaigning for polls
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