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Uttar Pradesh: Dr Altamash, Akram, Jazib Ali arrested for black marketing Remedisvir, 70 injections, Rs 36 lakh recovered

OpIndia Staff -
70 Remdesivir injections, 2 Actemra injections and Rs 36 lakh in cash was recovered from Dr Altamash.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Major fire breaks out in Thane hospital killing four, fourth such incident in recent times

OpIndia Staff -
The series of fire incidents in Maharashtra hospitals continue to raise questions over the condition of the health infrastructure in the state.
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News Reports

Dasna priest Yati Narsinghanand not arrested, viral video is old. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
After the video went viral, Yati Narsinghanand took to Twitter to clarify that he has not been arrested and he is fine.
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News Reports

‘Don’t talk like a bloody villager, I am your bloody DM’: Abusive Tripura DM justifies thrashing guests at wedding, invokes ‘principles of natural justice’

OpIndia Staff -
Tripura West District Magistrate (DM) Dr Shailesh Kumar Yadav came under severe criticism after raiding a wedding.
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News Reports

Watch: Tripura District Magistrate raids wedding, thrashes guests, beats up Purohit, grabs groom by collar

OpIndia Staff -
In the viral video, the Tripura West DM is seen pulling the groom by his collar, thrashing the priest at a wedding in Agartala.
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News Reports

UK variant of COVID-19 more prevalent in Punjab and other northern states: Report

OpIndia Staff -
The genome sequencing data from the NCDC reveals that the UK strain is more pervasive in the north Indian states, including Punjab
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News Reports

‘Pull Up Your Socks, Get your house in order, enough is enough’: Delhi High Court pulls up Delhi Government

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi High Court directed the Delhi government to take over plants of suppliers who fail to comply to orders
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News Reports

Despite not wearing a mask herself, transgender Congress councillor thrashes two Hindu Sadhus: Watch

OpIndia Staff -
"Where is your mask?" she threatened after seizing the stick from one of the Sadhus. "Put the mask on," she ordered and proceeded to hit a Sadhu with the stick in her hand.
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News Reports

Registration for COVID-19 vaccination for people above 18 to start from 4 PM on April 28

OpIndia Staff -
India is all set to embark on the fourth phase of the COVID-19 vaccination drive starting May 1 and anyone from 18 years and above stand eligible to get the vaccine
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News Reports

‘India has always been a second home for me’: Former Australian pacer Brett Lee donates 1 Bitcoin, or Rs 41 lac, for oxygen supplies

OpIndia Staff -
Brett Lee thanked Australian pacer Pat Cummins for starting the initiative as he announed his decision
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News Reports

Agra: Septicemia patient Irfan’s rumoured death triggers anger, relatives vandalise hospital, assault nurse

OpIndia Staff -
Agra police informed that the patient Irfan was admitted to the hospital as he was suffering from Septicemia.
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Politics

EC sab record karti hai: TMC’s Anubrata Mondal to be kept under surveillance, yet again

OpIndia Staff -
The EC on Tuesday announced that TMC leader Anubrata Mondal would be kept under surveillance from 5 pm on April 27 to 7 am on April 30 to ensure free and fair polling
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News Reports

Delhi HC makes startling revelations, says they never requested for rooms at 5-star hotel, hint at ‘appeasement’ by AAP Govt: Read what they said

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi High Court has slammed the Delhi Government over its order to reserve a hundred rooms at a five star hotel.
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News Reports

Congress MP wants PM Modi to allow oxygen corridor with Pakistan to tackle COVID-19 crisis in Punjab

OpIndia Staff -
Punjab Congress MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla sparked a controversy after he asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to open an 'oxygen corridor' with Pakistan
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News Reports

Delhi: Woman out on parole shot dead by husband Waseem who had affair with victim’s sister

OpIndia Staff -
Shaina who got parole just two days ago was shot dead by Waseem, her third husband who had an affair with Shaina’s sister Rihana.
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News Reports

Coronavirus crisis in Maharashtra: Ambulance forced to stuff 22 dead bodies together, police stop eyewitnesses from taking pictures

OpIndia Staff -
When two relatives of a deceased began filming the ambulance and taking pictures of the dead bodies, the police seized their phones.
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News Reports

Amidst the COVID-19 surge, French President Emmanuel Macron shares a message in Hindi with Indians: Here’s what he said

OpIndia Staff -
Emmanuel Macron today uploaded a Facebook post in Hindi, expressing solidarity with India and promising medical equipments, including oxygen generators to fight the pandemic.
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Editor's picks

Watch the ad that made Congress workers go on a rampage, vandalising Storia Foods office in Mumbai

OpIndia Staff -
Storia Foods had to pull down the ad after Congress workers rampaged their Mumbai office
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News Reports

China’s U-turn: A day after suspending cargo flights to India, Chinese airlines to ‘discuss’ new plan to resume services

OpIndia Staff -
Just a day prior, Sichuan Airlines had announced that it would suspend all cargo flights to India.
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Government and Policy

UP govt announces free Remdesivir injections to critically ill, 44 arrested in black-marketing of life-saving drugs, oxygen cylinders

OpIndia Staff -
Yogi Adityanath has ordered police to take stringent action under the NSA Act against people found indulging in the illegal sale of life-saving drugs and oxygen cylinders
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News Reports

Arfa Khanum Sherwani’s Amethi SOS, her tweets after patient’s death, Police says death due to heart attack, not Covid: What we know so far

OpIndia Staff -
Arfa Khanum Sherwani on Monday shared an SOS from a person called Shashank and said that he urgently required an oxygen cylinder.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Thousands gather to mourn death of minister Saleh Mohammad’s father as Covid guidelines go for a toss. Watch video

OpIndia Staff -
Maulana Ghazi Fakir was a spiritual leader of Sindhi Muslims living in Jaisalmer and Barmer districts of Rajasthan.
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World

Australian academic cites anonymous report to rubbish Chinese oppression of Uyghur Muslims, calls forced sterilisations ‘family planning’, slammed

OpIndia Staff -
The Australian academic had cited an anonymous report claiming that it "debunked" assertions of China committing genocide against Uyghurs
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News Reports

Yogi Adityanath decides to rope in retired doctors and para-medical staff to deal with the COVID-19 crisis in the state

OpIndia Staff -
The decision to rope in retired medical staff was taken to help with the shortage of manpower amid rising coronavirus cases.
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Editor's picks

News18 retracts graphic misquoting UP CM Yogi Adityanath on coronavirus pandemic and oxygen crisis, issues apology

OpIndia Staff -
The mainstream Hindi channel plugged a wrong graphic misquoting the CM when he was sharing an update on the medical oxygen supply in the state.
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News Reports

Bhutan to send liquid oxygen to India from a new plant. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
The Indian Embassy stated that 40MT of liquid oxygen will be produced everyday at the Bhutanese oxygen Plant, which will then be transported to Assam via cryogenic tankers.
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News Reports

Did Shahid Siddiqui inadvertently reveal that Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were hoarding Remdesivir? Here is what happened

OpIndia Staff -
Shahid Siddiqui thanked senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi for securing Covid-19 drug Remdesivir for him.
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News Reports

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama pledges contribution to PM CARES Fund amid Chinese coronavirus pandemic

OpIndia Staff -
Taking cognizance of the work being done by the frontline workers, the Dalai Lama in his official statement lauded them and added, “I pray that the pandemic threat will end soon."
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Law

‘It is a national need’, SC rejects TN govt’s plea that Vedanta should supply oxygen only to the state: What SC said

OpIndia Staff -
The SC's decision came after Tamil Nadu govt allowed Sterlite copper plant owned by Vedanta to restart its operations temporarily
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News Reports

Pakistan: Hindu girl who was kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam seen in a video pleading for help

OpIndia Staff -
Social media is awash with a video of a Hindu woman who was kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam and married to a man in February 2021 crying for help
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Crime

Kannada actress Shanaya Katwe and boyfriend Niyaz Ahemed arrested for murdering her brother, had decapitated his head too: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Kannada actress by the name of Shanaya Katwe was arrested by the Hubballi Rural police in connection to the gruesome murder of her brother.
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Entertainment

Korean band BTS fans trend dairy brand AMUL on Twitter. Here is why

OpIndia Staff -
BTS, the Korean pop band, announced single "Butter", netizens hope for a collaboration with Amul
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News Reports

Pakistan: Muslim man poses as Sikh to give hateful statements against France, European Sikh leaders angry

OpIndia Staff -
As per the TOI report, the man who goes by the name Qasam Dogar is on the payrolls of Pakistan’s pro Khalistani leader Gopal Singh Chawla.
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Media

NYPost uses old image to claim people are dying on streets from COVID-19 in India, replaces it with funeral pyre after being called out:...

OpIndia Staff -
Though the misleading image has been replaced, the NY Post is yet to update the title of the article which still reads that people in India are dying on streets due to COVID-19 outbreak
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Opinions

I asked whether Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi have made contributions amid coronavirus pandemic. Here is the response I got

Nirwa Mehta -
From death threats to wishing I and my family get COVID and we suffer for medicines and oxygen: Congress supporters and leaders attacked me as I questioned The Gandhi family
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News Reports

‘Our trucks are being diverted midway’: INOX informs Delhi HC that Rajasthan govt had held up 4 oxygen tankers meant for Delhi

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Sachin Dutta, appearing for Jaipur Golden Hospital, said, “the bureaucratic machinery of Delhi government has completely failed.”
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Political Fact-Check

Fact-check: Did BJP spokesperson praise AAP for not politicising the COVID-19 crisis? Aam Aadmi Party shares manipulated media

OpIndia Staff -
AAP shared manipulated video to claim that BJP MP Aparajita Sarangi praised them for not politicising the oxygen crisis in the National Capital.
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News Reports

Amidst rising COVID-19 cases, Election Commission bans victory processions on May 2, both during and after counting

OpIndia Staff -
The Election Commission has taken the decision keeping in mind the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in India
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Opinions

From incompetence, negligence to misplaced priorities: How Kejriwal govt contributed to the worsening of Covid crisis in Delhi

Jinit Jain -
Arvind Kejriwal's priorities remained tweeting, advertisements and political goal scoring, not actually arranging for the transportation of medical oxygen.
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News Reports

85-year-old COVID-positive RSS Swayamsevak gave up his bed and life so another person can live

OpIndia Staff -
The 85-year-old swayamsevak's daughter struggled to find a hospital bed for him as his condition got critical, however suggesting that he has lived his life, he gave his bed to a 40 something young man.
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News Reports

Himachal Pradesh: Mosque caretaker attacked by Muslim mob for asking them to follow Covid guidelines for Namaz

OpIndia Staff -
The victim informed that government rules dictate that not more than 5 people can offer Namaz at one time at the masjid.
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News Reports

Delhi: As ‘aam aadmi’ struggles to find bed, Kejriwal books luxurious hotel Ashoka as Covid facility for Delhi HC judges

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100 rooms at the five star Ashoka Hotel have been reserved by the Delhi govt to be run as Covid care facility for Delhi HC judges, judicial officers and their family members.
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News Reports

Did UK variant of Chinese coronavirus in Punjab spread to Delhi through ‘farmer protests’? Here is what we know

Nirwa Mehta -
In March, about 80% of coronavirus samples in Punjab had the UK variant which may have come through the NRIs visiting their ancestral homes. Delhi recently reported 50% samples had UK variant.
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World

Tunisian migrant who killed a policewoman in France watched jihadist videos right before the attack

OpIndia Staff -
Gorchene watched multiple videos of songs praising jihadist fighters and glorifying Jihad moments before the attack in France.
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Crime

Nidhi Paswan murder case: Cops arrest stalker Haider Ali and two aides for slitting the throat of teenager

OpIndia Staff -
The murder of Nidhi Paswan took place in Krishnanagar street number-20 of Roorkee in Uttarakhand.
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News Reports

Prashant Bhushan now slyly pushes “vaccines don’t work” theory after Twitter removed his ‘masks don’t work’ tweet

T Waraich -
Prashant Bhushan has been called out time and again for his bad COVID-19 takes. However, he does not stop.
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Cricket

‘Liberals’ express unhappiness over Australian cricketer Pat Cummins donating to PM Cares Fund, spread lies to claim his donation is wasted

OpIndia Staff -
Australian cricketer Pat Cummins donated AUD 50,000 to the PM Cares Fund which amounts to little over INR 29 lakhs.
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OpIndia Explains

All you need to know about the Big Basket data breach: Hackers allegedly release data of 20 million Big Basket users for free

Anurag -
On April 25, a hacker group identified as ShinyHunters allegedly released data of 20 million Big Basket users for free on a hacker forum.
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News Reports

NDTV’s ‘charlatan’ Harvard ‘Covid expert’ who claimed 5 M people will die in India by August not an infectious disease expert: Details

Dibakar Dutta -
Eric Feigl-Ding was warned 'many times' to stop promoting himself as someone equipped with 'specialised knowledge'.
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News Reports

An article by OpIndia columnist Abhishek Banerjee got Congress sympathisers to lose their minds: Here’s what it said

OpIndia Staff -
OpIndia columnist Abhishek Banerjee is the new target of Congress trolls and 'journalists'.
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