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CBI registers FIR against former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh in allegations of extortion made by Parambir Singh: Details

OpIndia Staff -
CBI has registered an FIR against former Maharashtra Home Minister and NCP leader Anil Deshmukh in allegations by Parambir Singh
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Crime

Hindu man beaten for refusing Rs 50,000 handout, by wife and her family, to convert to Christianity, 10 booked in MP: Details

OpIndia Staff -
MP Police lodged a case against a woman and her family members for assaulting and forcing her husband to convert to Christianity
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News Reports

London: Extinction Rebellion activists vandalize windows of HSBC bank protesting against fossil fuel financing, 9 arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Extinction Rebellion members broke windows of HSBC bank in London alleging that bank is financing coal power plants and mines
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Politics

‘Those who remain silent when Hindus are killed in Bangladesh, they are the outsiders’: BJP hits back at Mamata’s ‘Bohiragoto’ jibe in new campaign...

OpIndia Staff -
The West Bengal unit of the BJP has issued a response to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's 'Bohiragoto' (outsider) jibe at the party.
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News Reports

Arvind Kejriwal had promised home delivery of oxygen during the first wave of COVID-19, old comments go viral

OpIndia Staff -
In August 2020, Arvind Kejriwal had promised that his govt would start home delivery of oxygen concentrators for Covid-19 patients
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News Reports

“I was concerned about people coming to my house if they were not happy with the verdict”, says alternate juror in Geroge Floyd death...

OpIndia Staff -
"I did not want to go through rioting and destruction again", said the alternate juror in Geroge Floyd death trial
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World

France: Tunisian migrant kills female police officer in Rambouillet, mother of two children, while screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’

OpIndia Staff -
A female police officer in France was stabbed to death in Rambouillet, a town south west of Paris in France, on Friday.
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News Reports

Delhi HC suggests using CNG cylinders to transport Oxygen, union govt says not possible: Understanding the technical and legal aspects

Raju Das -
Both Gas Cylinder Rules and PESO guidelines on converting cylinders for oxygen do not permit use of CNG cylinders to carry oxygen
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News Reports

Haryana: Oxygen tanker bound for Sirsa goes missing, FIR filed

OpIndia Staff -
A case has been filed in connection with the disappearance of an oxygen tanker that was headed from Panipat to Sirsa.
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Media

PTI spreads fake news, falsely claims 25 patients died at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi due to low oxygen pressure

OpIndia Staff -
The PTI reported on Friday that 25 people passed away at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi due to low pressure oxygen.
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World

Paranoid China wants to tame Elon Musk, will it succeed? All you need to know about the brewing war between China and Tesla

OpIndia Staff -
Elon Musk headed Tesla has been facing a pressure campaign in China with Chinese Communist state-backed media and regulators
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Politics

West Bengal: Another BJP worker found hanging from a tree in the poll-bound constituency of Bardhaman, party alleges murder

OpIndia Staff -
The BJP has alleged that it was a pre-planned murder and that the victim's body had been hung after the victim was killed.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Former FDA commissioner says he had warned state govt, proposed road map to handle Covid surge, but was ignored

OpIndia Staff -
The veteran bureaucrat had earlier worked as Pune municipal commissioner during which he played an instrumental role in the fight against swine flu. He had also served as the Food and Drug Administration commissioner from 2011 to 2014.
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News Reports

‘Economist’ Kaushik Basu attempts to spread panic, claims only 1.5% of the population vaccinated: Here is how he is wrong

Dibakar Dutta -
While India has vaccinated around 9% of population against Coronavirus, Kaushik Basu claimed that the number is only 1.5%
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Politics

Congress leader Chidambaram wants state governments to unionise to haggle over vaccine costs: Here is why that is a bizarre idea

K Bhattacharjee -
P. Chidambaram has managed to come up with another spectacularly braindead idea that does not make any sense.
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News Reports

After chancellor Angela Merkel’s snide remarks on India, German Embassy quickly moves to make amends

OpIndia Staff -
Angela Merkel had earlier regretted that European powers have "allowed" India to become a pharmaceutical manufacturing giant.
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News Reports

Mamata Banerjee skips third Covid-19 meeting called by PM, claims ‘not invited’ after sending chief secretary to represent her

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee also said that 2 lakh central forces brought into the state from 'outside' are spreading Covid-19 in West Bengal
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Government and Policy

Zydus gets emergency approval for the antiviral drug, may reduce oxygen demand among COVID-19 patients: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Zydus has claimed that 91.15 per cent of patients treated with PegIFN were RT-PCR negative by the seventh day
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OpIndia Explains

Cafe on Kabristan: A restaurant in Ahmedabad where people dine among the dead and which was once frequented by painter M.F. Husain

OpIndia Staff -
The New Lucky Restaurant in Ahmedabad is the world's first graveyard cafe, housing 26 graves in total
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Politics

Watch: Arvind Kejriwal apologises profusely after PM Modi admonishes him for live telecasting private meet against protocols

OpIndia Staff -
Prime Minister Modi was not happy with Arvind Kejriwal for breaking protocols and chastised the Delhi CM for it.
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News Reports

Action to be taken against hospitals for not allowing cashless Covid- 19 treatment to eligible policyholders: IRDAI

OpIndia Staff -
IRDAI said that all policyholders who are entitled to cashless benefits at network hospitals, associated with an insurance company, are eligible to get cashless treatment for Covid-19.
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Opinions

The West does not have any moral high ground over China, their conduct during Covid crisis is further proof of it

K Bhattacharjee -
The United States of America has projected its geopolitical rivalry with China as a great conflict between good and evil.
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News Reports

Arvind Kejriwal nosedives into gutter politics, spreads lies during CMs’ video conference with PM, illegally airs private meeting

OpIndia Staff -
As soon as the PM got to know of this fact, he reprimanded Arvind Kejriwal for breaking protocol, and the telecast was immediately stopped. Reportedly, the PM said to Kejriwal, “You have broken a very imp protocol, such private conversation are never televised”.
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WTF News

Worried because his hens stopped laying eggs, a poultry farmer in Pune approaches police

OpIndia Staff -
The Pune poultry farmer said that his hens stopped laying eggs after consuming the feed manuactured by a particular firm in Ahmednagar
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Media

ThePrint’s contributing editor caught on the wrong foot, tries to play vulture politics over death of colleague, gets called out: Here’s what happened

OpIndia Staff -
On Thursday (April 22), 'journalist' Shivam Vij took to Twitter to inform about the death of a college classmate named Shaoli Rudra.
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News Reports

Angela Merkel laments that they ‘allowed’ India to become pharmacy of the world, fears that they will not get Covid-19 medicine

OpIndia Staff -
Angela Merkel said that EU nations didn't treat their pharmaceutical industry so well, and 'allowed' India to become a large pharma producer
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News Reports

At least 57 dead in hospital mishaps in 4 months in Maharashtra: Who is accountable for the loss?

OpIndia Staff -
Here's the list of 4 completely avoidable incidents that took place in Maharashtra in the last few months, amidst the Coronavirus pandemic
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News Reports

Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik is an example for counterparts: Speaks to PM, extends help to other states without political drama

OpIndia Staff -
Odisha CM speaks to PM Modi, promises all possible help in supplying oxygen to other states during Covid crisis.
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News Reports

‘Virar fire, no national news’: Maharashtra Health minister trivialises fire in Mumbai hospital which claimed 13 lives

OpIndia Staff -
The Maharashtra Health Minister probably tried to insinuate that the tragedy was not big enough to be called national news
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World

Algerian Professor jailed for 3 years for ‘insulting Islam’, had questioned animal sacrifice at Eid, Muslims marrying minor girls

OpIndia Staff -
The Algerian professor was convicted for his Facebook posts in which he questioned some hadiths and rituals in Islam
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News Reports

Delhi: Max Hospital gets oxygen, aided by Delhi Police after SOS message, says will need still more

OpIndia Staff -
DCP South Delhi had informed that oxygen tankers have been sent to Max Hospitals.
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Media

Moneycontrol spreads misleading news second time in two days, first about oxygen export, now about Bharat Biotech and the price of vaccine

OpIndia Staff -
Moneycontrol has resorted to spreading misleading news about the pricing of COVID-19 vaccinations by Bharat Biotech and Serum Institute.
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Media Fact-Check

Shashi Tharoor spreads fake news about death of former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Hindustan Times apologises too: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor spread fake news about death of ex-Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, several others joined in
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News Reports

Mumbai: 13 patients dead after fire breaks out in the ICU of COVID-19 hospital in Virar, CM Thackeray orders probe

OpIndia Staff -
CM Uddhav Thackeray has ordered an inquiry into the incident after 13 people died in the fire at a Covid-19 hospital in Virar West, Mumbai.
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Politics

West Bengal Assembly polls: EC bans roadshows, vehicle rallies for remaining phases, expresses anguish over COVID-19 protocols being flouted

OpIndia Staff -
EC has banned roadshows and vehicle rallies in the state of West Bengal that has just finished 6th phase of polling, with immediate effect
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World

‘Sacred’ monument comes up at spot where George Floyd died, has special instructions for White people who seek to enter

OpIndia Staff -
The George Floyd Square quickly turned into a memorial for Floyd and was renamed in his memory shortly after his death.
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Politics

Election Commission cracks down on road shows, pad yatras, cycle rallies; allows public meetings for up to 500 people

OpIndia Staff -
The new norms from the Election Commission will significantly impact campaigning for the West Bengal elections going forward.
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News Reports

Nithyananda bans Indians from entering Kailasa citing Covid-19, issues guidelines for ’embassies’ around the world

OpIndia Staff -
Sri Nithyananda of Kailasa has banned travelers from India into his fledgling nation amidst the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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News Reports

Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust to fund construction of two oxygen plants in Ayodhya

OpIndia Staff -
The Shri Ram Teerth Janmbhoomi Kshetra Trust has decided to help install nan oxygen plant at the cost of Rs 55 lakhs.
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Politics

As PM Modi cancels Bengal rallies to hold COVID-19 meet, here is how many times Mamata Banerjee attended the review meeting in past few...

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee, over the course of the past 3 months, has not attended even a single meeting between Chief Ministers and the Prime Minister.
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Crime

TikTok Star Funbucket Bhargav, of OMG fame, arrested for raping minor girl

OpIndia Staff -
TikTok Star 'Funbucket Bhargav' arrested for raping a minor. Fans of actor Nithya wrongly assumed she was the victim.
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Government and Policy

In the last few days, availability of Liquid Medical Oxygen increased by 3300 MT per day: Here’s what was discussed in PM’s high-level meeting

OpIndia Staff -
The high-level meeting was attended by the Cabinet Secretary, Principal Secretary to PM, Home Secretary, Health Secretary & Officials from Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Ministry of Road Transport, Pharmaceuticals, and NITI Aayog members.
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News Reports

Rakesh Tikait organises Iftar party while protesting, declares Ghazipur border his ‘home’ even as COVID-19 cases continue to rise

OpIndia Staff -
"Nobody met with each other, no one shook hands,” Tikait said justifying the event despite the video showing otherwise.
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Law

Bombay High Court considers temporary ban on cigarettes citing Covid-19

OpIndia Staff -
Bombay High Court questioned if there is any data available on the number of smokers who succumbed to Covid-19.
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Editor's picks

Prime Minister Modi cancels political rallies on 23rd April in West Bengal, to hold a high-level meeting to review COVID-19 situation

OpIndia Staff -
Amidst the raging second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter and informed that he was cancelling his political engagements in West Bengal tomorrow
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News Reports

Indian Air Force, Railways step in to transport oxygen cylinders, essential medicines to combat COVID-19

OpIndia Staff -
In a recent virtual meeting, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh was briefed about the measures taken by the Armed Forces in order to combat COVID-19
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Fact-Check

Congress’ attack against Covishield continues, now spreads fake news of ‘one vaccine, 3 rates’ from official Twitter handle

Sanghamitra -
The previous low price was a part of SII's commitment to GOI and some other countries for sharing the risk of production. After the current 'under contract' 110 million doses are delivered, SII will sell to GOI at Rs 400 per dose, same as states.
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News Reports

18+ can register for Covid vaccination from April 28. Here is the procedure

OpIndia Staff -
Registration for Covid-19 vaccine phase 3 for 18-45 years age group to begin on April 28
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Media

Shekhar Gupta’s ThePrint gives space to Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel to spread falsehoods over Coronavirus pandemic

OpIndia Staff -
Despite publishing a PTI report detailing the Central Government's warning to Chhattisgarh in January, ThePrint fails to pushback against CM Baghel's claims.
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Media

NDTV journalist Gargi Rawat Ansari shows how she is willing to sacrifice human lives so propaganda continues to reign supreme

OpIndia Staff -
NDTV journalist Gargi Rawat Ansari is married to Yusuf Ahmad Ansari, the great-grandson of former Congress President Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari
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