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‘Duty before everything else’ – Two doctors return to work hours after cremating mothers in Gujarat

OpIndia Staff -
Dr Shilpa Patel and Dr Rahul Parmar, two doctors from Gujarat, joined back at work hours after cremating their mothers
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News Reports

Fact-check: Is Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee asking devotees to enter Harmandir Sahib without a mask?

OpIndia Staff -
Last year the SGPC had refused to ask devotees to wear masks at Harmandir Sahib, and had asked who were wearing to remove it
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News Reports

Tata Steel, Jindal Steel, ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel, SAIL announce the supply of liquid oxygen from their plants for COVID-19 patients

OpIndia Staff -
Several Indian steel manufacturers have come forward to divert oxygen for their plants for medical use for treatment of COVID-19 patients
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Media

ABC journalist complains about kids’ cartoon not having queer, disabled or gender diverse dogs of colour, PinkNews calls it ‘important debate’

OpIndia Staff -
ABC network journalist Beverly Wang sparked controversy with a 'woke' article criticising a cartoon for children called 'Bluey'.
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News Reports

US drops extradition request against Dawood Ibrahim’s financer in the UK after Pakistan allegedly manipulated key FBI witness

OpIndia Staff -
US extradition request in the British court had revealed that Jabir Motiwala reported directly to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim
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Politics

While Rahul Gandhi ‘cancels’ public rallies, Congress leaders continue gathering large crowds in West Bengal

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi on Sunday emphatically announced that he was calling off his election rallies in West Bengal.
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News Reports

MNS leader launches an attack on Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik, asks him to condemn MVA leaders for hoarding Remdesivir

OpIndia Staff -
MNS leader and Vice President of MNS's youth wing, Akhil Chitre has alleged that the MVA leaders have also stocked Remdesivir
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News Reports

Karnataka: Police arrest Syed Nasir for burning library with 3000 copies of Bhagavad Gita, was drunk when he lit matchstick for beedi

OpIndia Staff -
The library in Mysuru with nearly 3000 copies of the Bhagavad Gita belonged to a daily wage labourer called Syed Isaac.
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Crime

West Bengal: Dead body of BJP worker recovered after he went missing, party accuses TMC workers of murder

OpIndia Staff -
Body of BJP worker Dilip Kirtaniya found outside his residence in Mandal Para in Roaowari village in the Nadia district of West Bengal
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News Reports

Canadian businessman Bakshish Sidhu ‘shocked’ to learn he is ‘most wanted’ in the US since 2015 for laundering cash for drug cartels

OpIndia Staff -
Lawyer of Bakshish Sidhu said that his client learned of the charges of Hawala operations against him by the US DEA only a week ago
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Politics

Mamata’s party is regularly doing big rallies in Bengal, but they don’t post on Twitter. Here could be the reason

OpIndia Staff -
While Rahul Gandhi's change of heart on election rallies have drawn the eyeballs towards BJP, Mamata Banerjee is going unabated about her way with virtually no criticism.
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News Reports

Did Gen VK Singh have to resort to Twitter to ‘beg’ for bed for his brother suffering from COVID? Here are the facts

OpIndia Staff -
Gen VK Singh's attempt to help a fellow Indian in testing COVID times was used as an opportunity for political mudslinging
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News Reports

Kejriwal government files FIR against four airlines for not checking passengers flying from Maharashtra for negative RT-PCR report

OpIndia Staff -
An FIR has been lodged against four airlines Indigo, Air Asia, Vistara and Spicejet under the DDMA ACT by the Delhi govt
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Opinions

Bollywood and nepotism: Remnants of a Clubhouse rant

Sagar Dubey -
Bollywood and nepotism: Is the content really bad and people have learnt to love it? Or is the industry meeting the audience demand perfectly?
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News Reports

China: Communist regime pressurises Ant Group to ditch its founder Jack Ma and divest his stake in the company

OpIndia Staff -
According to a Reuters report, Chinese govt has directed Alibaba's affiliate Ant Group to take away control from founder Jack Ma
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World

USA: Incest marriage supporters come out in support of parent and child who want to marry, compare it to gay marriage

OpIndia Staff -
Proponents of 'consensual incest' have come out in support of a parent in the United States who wishes to marry their own child.
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News Reports

Congress supporter Saket Gokhale spreads lies to defend Maharashtra govt’s harassment of Bruck Pharma director over Remdesivir supply

OpIndia Staff -
Saket Gokhale alleged that 'private individual' like Devendra Fadnavis is not authorised to purchase Remdesivir from Gujarat
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Social Media

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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