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Tucker Carlson slams ADL for being concerned about Israel’s demography but demonizing him for concerns about USA’s

OpIndia Staff -
Tucker Carlson highlighted how ADL had objected to the influx of Palestinian refugees in Jewish-dominated Israel in 2010.
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Social Media

It’s a lung… it’s a burnt toast… it’s a duck pic… No! It’s a painting by Mamata Banerjee

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Mamata Banerjee did not appear in any election rallies or gave any statement regarding the ongoing Assembly elections in West Bengal after Election Commission banned her from campaigning for 24 hours
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Opinions

Here’s why lockdown is no longer an option and imposing another at this point makes no sense at all

K Bhattacharjee -
Not imposing a lockdown may be a bad choice but imposing it to combat Covid-19 will prove to be infinitely worse.
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News Reports

Telangana: TRS books all hotels, warns local not to provide accommodation to BJP workers ahead of bypoll in Nagarjunasagar

OpIndia Staff -
the Telangana Rashtra Samiti leaders have allegedly booked all the hotels and resorts in Nagarjunasagar to dissuade BJP workers from campaigning in the poll bound area and have also threatened the locals who offered accommodation to the BJP workers.
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News Reports

Japan to release treated water from Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean: USA, IAEA support, China condemns

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Japan has long delayed the decision to dispose of the wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant over criticisms and safety concerns.
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Government and Policy

One Nation, One MSP, One DBT: With Punjab govt finally implementing DBT, all farmers in India to get MSP directly in their account

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Union Minister said farmers will get direct payments in their accounts. It will make the system more transparent.
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News Reports

Indian Govt fast tracks emergency approvals for foreign produced Covid-19 vaccines that have received EUAs abroad: Details

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The Central Government on Tuesday has expedited the process of emergency approvals for foreign produced Covid-19 vaccines.
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Government and Policy

The direct fall-out of not implementing farm laws: Punjab Farmers say Arhtiyas asking for signed blank cheques for helping in crop procurement

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Farmers across Punjab are being told by their arhtiyas to furnish "signed blank cheques" if they want to get their produce auctioned in the mandis
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News Reports

Scam convict Lalu Yadav’s daughter Rohini to keep Roza during Ramzan for her father’s health, will pray to Allah too

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On being called out for playing religious politics, Rohini Acharya said, "I am unaffected by hateful ideologies borne out of venomous society. Happy Chaitra Navratri "
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News Reports

Karimganj, Assam: Narsimha temple robbed, gold ornaments and cash looted, priest and family tied and beaten up

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A temple of Narsimha was attacked at Baliya in Karimganj, Assam by dacoits on Sunday. The priest was beaten up.
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News Reports

What happened in Chhabra after Hindu man was stabbed by Muslim men: Call for peace, attack on a Hindu the next day and more

Anurag -
On April 12, the administration extended curfew for one more day at Chhabra, Baran district in Rajasthan after the communal riot
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News Reports

Punjab: Lawyer files petition against ‘Prince Harry Middleton’ for not marrying her despite ’email promise’

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The petitioner had also claimed that she had sent social media messages to Prince Harry's father Prince Charles, claiming that she is engaged to his son.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Gyanvapi mosque management committee seeks a stay on ASI survey, Sunni board supports them

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The Gyanvapi mosque management committee had filed an urgent petition in Allahabad High Court seeking a stay on ASI survey of Gyanvapi mosque complex.
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News Reports

India has to become a ‘Hindu Rashtra’, or it will be turned into an Islamic nation by 2030: Kerala MLA

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"Can we let this nation (go) to any particular community? This needs to be discussed. Somebody has to speak up," PC George emphasised.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: FIR against Congress leaders for threatening, heckling a government doctor on duty

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The Congress leader along with his party workers barged into the JP hospital after the demise of a 35-year old patient and started verbally abusing and threatening the doctor on duty.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Viral video shows corpses of Covid patients wrapped in garbage bag and polythene being taken for cremation

OpIndia Staff -
One of the corpses had a black garbage bag taped over it while the face was wrapped in a polythene bag.
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News Reports

West Bengal: 14 crude bombs recovered from Murshidabad district ahead of 5th phase polling

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Mamata Banerjee has been banned from campaigning for 24 hours by the EC for her comments instigating violence.
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News Reports

Pfizer wanted Brazil, Argentina to put military bases, Federal reserve as collateral: Why India kept Pfizer away and how the usual suspects are wrong

Jinit Jain -
Pfizer has been accused of countries in Latin America of pledging their sovereign assets, military bases and financial reserves to protect itself from any adverse fallout of the vaccine
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News Reports

CBI summons former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, SP-rank officers to interrogate him

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Ex-Mumbai top cop Param Bir Singh has levelled serious charges of corruption against former Maha Home Minister Anil Deshmukh
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News Reports

Kanpur: AIMIM’s posters calling for the beheading of Yati Narsinghanand and Wasim Rizvi removed, FIR registered

OpIndia Staff -
AIMIM in Kanpur has put up posters calling the for the beheading of Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati and Wasim Rizvi.
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WTF News

Woman’s fear of cockroaches leads couple to change houses 18 times, husband files for divorce

OpIndia Staff -
A couple in Bhopal has changed 18 houses in three years of marriage due to the wife's fear of cockroaches.
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Politics

Election Commission bans Mamata Banerjee from campaigning for 24 hours: Details

OpIndia Staff -
The Election Commission has banned West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from campaigning for 24 hours
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News Reports

Amid rising cases of COVID-19, Delhi HC allows Nizamuddin Markaz, once a hotspot, to be made operational for devotees

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On March 24, the Union govt told the Delhi HC that 50 people chosen by the Waqf Board can offer prayers inside Nizamuddin Markaz.
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Politics

Actress Mahima Chaudhry rallies for both TMC and BJP candidates in West Bengal: Here’s her explanation for the unusual event

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Actress Mahima Chaudhry was spotted campaigning for the BJP in the North 24 Parganas district.
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OpIndia Scoops

OpIndia Exclusive: Tata Communications suffers data leak, hackers claim to have sold access to company’s servers, over 50GB data still up for sale

Anurag -
As per two posts by hackers on a hackers' forum, they have gained access to Tata Communications servers and sold them.
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Social Media

‘Victim card’: Netizens react as ‘comedian’ Munawar Faruqui vows to quit social media, political jokes

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Munawar Faruqui has now announced that he would quit making political jokes and leave social media platforms.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Jalgaon factory owned by Amjad Mansoori found stuffing discarded masks inside mattresses

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Piles of face masks lying around the premises which were to be used to stuff the products were set on fire by the police.
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News Reports

US, Europe withholding critical raw material needed for COVID-19 vaccine production: SII CEO Adar Poonawalla

OpIndia Staff -
In an interview with India Today, Adar Poonawalla said the COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers are finding it difficult to ramp up production because the US, Europe are holding back critical raw material exports.
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OpIndia Explains

While opposition leaders claim credit for Sputnik-V vaccine approval, here’s how it is the latest step in a process that began in Sep 2020

OpIndia Staff -
The approval for Sputnik-V vaccine today has suddenly given some people cause to fall prey to their own false notions.
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News Reports

Mosque loudspeakers used to instigate the mob to attack SHO Ashwini Kumar in West Bengal: Reports

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Prime accused Mohammad Israel and Mohammad Abdul used the public address system of neighbourhood mosque to instigate a mob into attacking the Bihar cop, say reports.
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News Reports

SEC gives emergency use approval to Russia’s Sputnik-V to combat Covid-19 in India: All you need to know about the vaccine

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Sputnik-V will become the third approved Covid-19 vaccine in India if the Drugs Controller General of India approves the recommendation.
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News Reports

Muslim children raising ‘sar tan se juda’ slogans against Yati Narsinghanand for his remarks against Muhammad: Watch

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In the video, the children are also seen carrying a poster of Swami Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati garlanded with footwears.
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News Reports

Kerala Lokayukta finds Education Minister KT Jaleel guilty of nepotism and abuse of power, asks CM Pinarayi Vijayan to take action: What had happened

OpIndia Staff -
Minister of Higher Education and Minority Affairs KT Jaleel was found guilty of tweaking qualifications to favour his relative
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Politics

Wife of former MLA and convict Kuldeep Sengar not to contest Uttar Pradesh Panchayat polls after BJP cancels ticket

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Sangeeta, the wife of suspended MLA Kuldeep Sengar had been earlier fielded from Ward No. 22 of the Fatehpur Chaurasi seat
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News Reports

Mumbai Police suspends API Riyazuddin Qazi, close aide of Sachin Vaze, after his arrest by NIA: Details

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Mumbai Police has suspended API Riyazuddin Qazi, close aide of Sachin Vaze, after he was arrested by the NIA.
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News Reports

Indigenous Muslims in Assam to conduct their own ‘NRC’, object to being identified with immigrant ‘Miya’ Muslims: Report

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“Our religion and names may be the same but the indigenous Muslims have a distinct identity, given by the Ahom and Koch kings,” says Aowal while talking about distinguishing themselves from the migrant Miya population
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Opinions

Attempts to draw false equivalence between the Kumbh Mela and Tablighi Jamaat congregation do not make sense: Here’s why

K Bhattacharjee -
Attempts are being made to draw false equivalences between the Kumbh Mela and the Tablighi Jamaat congregation last year.
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Law

Supreme Court imposes a fine of Rs 50,000 on Former UP Shia Waqf Broad Chairman for his PIL to remove verses promoting Jihad from...

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SC imposed Rs 50,000 fine on Syed Wasim Rizvi for his PIL to remove 26 verses of the Quran for promoting terrorism and jihad.
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World

Parents of a Pakistani Muslim girl in Italy threaten her with death for dating an Indian Hindu boy, girl rescued by cops: Details

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Italian police rescued a Pakistani Muslim girl after she was put under house arrest for dating an Indian Hindu boy
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Economy and Finance

Adani announces deal with Flipkart for new data centre and logistics facility, ‘Ambani-Adani’ social media warriors now want to boycott Flipkart

OpIndia Staff -
Adani Group's chairman Gautam Adani announced on Twitter that in the two-prog partnership, AdaniConneX will build Flipkart's new Tier 4 data centre and Adani Logistics, India's leader in logistics, will build Flipkart's 534,000 sqft fulfilment centre.
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News Reports

After TMC leader Sujata Mondal Khan labels Dalits as ‘beggars’, BJP writes to National Commission of SC, demands inquiry

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TMC leader Sujata Mondal Khan labels Dalits as ‘beggars by nature’, claims that they sold themselves to the BJP
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World

Twitter censors criticism of Black Lives Matter co-founder for purchasing home worth $1.4 million in White neighbourhood

OpIndia Staff -
Twitter is censoring criticism of the co-founder of the Black Liver Matter movement Patrisse Khan-Cullors on its platform.
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News Reports

Gangster Mukhtar Ansari, who was suffering from illness in Punjab, recovers miraculously in UP but has been trying to ‘fall ill’ again ever since

OpIndia Staff -
On Monday (April 12), Mukhtar Ansari will be presented before a Court in Uttar Pradesh. The case pertains to the assault of a janitor and Deputy jailor in Lucknow.
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News Reports

‘This is a conspiracy and I demand CBI probe’: Daughter of Bihar cop Ashwini Kumar who was lynched by a mob in West Bengal

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The daughter of the Bihar police officer Ashwini Kumar who was lynched by a mob in West Bengal has demanded a CBI probe
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Crime

Bareilly: Patient Abdul Rehman beats another patient to death after argument over hospital bed

OpIndia Staff -
A patient named Abdul Rehman beat a fellow patient to death after an argument over hospital bed.
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News Reports

50% of the Supreme Court staff tests positive for COVID-19, Judges to work from home

OpIndia Staff -
As the nation grapples with the second wave of the Chinese virus, 50% of Supreme Court’s staff has tested positive for coronavirus
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News Reports

Shops burnt, stones pelted on police in Baran, Rajasthan after 3 Muslim men stabbed one Kamal Singh: What we know so far

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Shops burnt, police personnel injured, stone pelting, fire department vehicles attacked in Chhabra, Rajasthan.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Illegal arms manufacturing unit with bombs, gunpowder and bullets recovered in a constituency that goes to poll on 22nd April

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EC has intensified vigilance across West Bengal especially post Cooch Behar’s violence to ensure peaceful polls in West Bengal
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News Reports

Islamists ‘misuse’ mosques for terror attacks, says J and K IGP Vijay Kumar. Here are 3 such incidents

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On Friday (April 9), five terrorists were gunned down by Indian security forces in Shopian in the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
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News Reports

After explosive Clubhouse confessions, Prashant Kishor starts building ground to blame only Mamata Banerjee if Bengal is lost: Here’s how

OpIndia Staff -
While trying to fire-fight fall-out from Clubhouse conversation, Prashant Kishor has set narrative to blame Mamata Banerjee and TMC for West Bengal loss
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