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Derek O’Brien’s Clubhouse interaction exposes how TMC fears the prospect of loss in West Bengal: Three statements made and what they mean

Editorial Desk -
Perhaps to fire-fight what Prashant Kishor said, Derek O'Brien appeared on Clubhouse for a short interaction with select 'liberals'.
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News Reports

Kumbh to be wrapped up by April 17: What this Niranjani Akhada Sadhu says is another reason Kumbh was nothing like Tablighi Jamaat

OpIndia Staff -
Ravindra Puri Maharaj of the Niranjani Akhada has stated that they have asked all Sadhus from other states to go back, keeping in view the pandemic concerns.
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News Reports

Supreme Court directs CBI to probe the fake 1994 espionage case against ex-ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan

OpIndia Staff -
In 1994, Kerala police officers had levelled false charges of espionage against former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan and arrested him
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News Reports

While Arvind Kejriwal’s ‘Corona App’ shows ample beds available for Covid-19 patients, hospitals deny

Jhankar Mohta -
A number of tweets by users and a check by OpIndia has found that the 'real-time' data in the Delhi government's Corona App is far from reality.
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News Reports

Current and prospective students at Rutgers slam varsity for defending anti-Hindu historian Audrey Truschke. Here are 5 testimonials

OpIndia Staff -
Rutgers University had defended Audrey Truschke's vile anti-Hindu bigotry as 'academic freedom'.
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Crime

Bihar: Mohammad Babul’s wife had an affair with her brother-in-law, planned husband’s murder

OpIndia Staff -
"During the interrogation, Ristana confessed to having planned the killing of her husband with Mohammad Chand. It was her adulterous relation, which led to Mohammad Babul’s murder,” said Purnia SP Daya Shankar.
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World

James O’Keefe to sue as Twitter suspends accounts days after Project Veritas exposed CNN Technical Director making shocking claims on video

OpIndia Staff -
Twitter has suspended the accounts of Project Veritas and their founder James O'Keefe after they exposed CNN and their propaganda campaign
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World

Canada: Liberal MP apologizes for getting caught naked during Zoom call, opposition MP says ‘in great shape, but control camera’

OpIndia Staff -
Lawmaker from Canada, left red-faced after showcasing himself naked on a Canadian Parliament Zoom conference call, has now apologized
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Government and Policy

Exclusive: How Maharashtra wasted thousands of tonnes of pulses, in the middle of the pandemic, sent under PM Garib Kalyan Yojana

Nupur J Sharma -
While the central govt gave their approval to the other states to utilise the left-over pulses, Maharashtra was left behind - Here is why
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Media

Aaj Tak to air public apology on 23rd April for sharing fake news on Sushant Singh Rajput, pay Rs 1 lac fine: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Aaj Tak has been asked by the NBSA (News Broadcasting Standard Authority) to air a public apology for fake news on Sushant Singh Rajput
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News Reports

India gets ready to fight with the second wave of COVID-19, several states impose tougher restrictions

OpIndia Staff -
India is going through second wave of COVID-19, with Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka being worst effected
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News Reports

Blast from the past – Now The Print journalist’s complicated relationship with math gets exposed, video goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
In April 2020, during an interview, The Print journalist Jyoti Malhotra got confused about the difference between one million and 85,000
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News Reports

Despite getting bail, former JNU student and Delhi anti-Hindu riot accused Umar Khalid to remain behind bars

OpIndia Staff -
Since Umar Khalid has not yet been granted bail under FIR 59, in which UAPA was invoked, he will continue to be lodged in jail
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News Reports

Migrant workers returning from Maharashtra due to curfew allege extortion by police

OpIndia Staff -
Migrant workers fleeing the Section 144 imposition in Maharashtra accuse the state police of extorting them
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News Reports

Mukesh Ambani sends aid to Maharashtra to help fight Covid-19, supplies oxygen from his refineries for free

OpIndia Staff -
Reliance is diverting some oxygen streams meant for its petroleum coke gasification units to Maharashtra for free
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News Reports

Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut draws ire for holding mega rallies in Karnataka while his party leaders criticise others for election rallies

OpIndia Staff -
After blaming Kumbh mela for CIVUD-19 surge, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut holds election rallies and roadshows in Karnataka
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News Reports

India likely to respond with military force to Pakistan’s provocation under PM Modi’s leadership: US intelligence report

OpIndia Staff -
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) dismissed possibilities of general war between the two countries
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News Reports

DRDO hospitals, ramping up drug production: Centre steps in to help state govts battle covid

OpIndia Staff -
Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) will be reestablishing a Covid-19 hospital with 500 beds equipped with ICU facilities in Delhi Cantonment. The facility will be operational by Sunday with an initial capacity of 250 beds.
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News Reports

‘Idols of Krishna Janmbhoomi lie buried beneath Agra’s Jama Masjid’, PIL filed in Mathura court seeking ground radiology survey by ASI

OpIndia Staff -
The petitioner has asked Mathura court to grant permission for a ground radiology test by ASI at Agra's Jama Masjid
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh: Health workers ferry dead bodies in garbage trucks to cremation grounds amidst Covid-19 pandemic

OpIndia Staff -
Chhattisgarh is currently the second most affected state in terms of active cases.
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News Reports

French Embassy asks its citizens, companies to leave Pakistan following violent anti-France protests over Prophet cartoons

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan is facing a civil war after TLP launched a massive violent protest against arrest of its leader and Muhammad cartoons in France
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News Reports

No hospital beds, healthcare system on the brink of collapse: Covid-19 situation in Maharashtra worsens

Jhankar Mohta -
With the sudden surge in the number of COVID-19 cases, the medical infrastructure in Maharashtra seems to be on the verge of collapse.
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News Reports

As Kejriwal govt announces ‘weekend curfew’ to curb pandemic, netizens resort to self deprecating humour as coping mechanism

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi currently has over 50,000 active coronavirus cases in the state.
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Social Media

“Ministry of Remdesivir”: Netizens put on their funny hat as ThePrint ‘journalist’ ends up mocking herself

OpIndia Staff -
The Print journalist Jyoti Malhotra was surprised to know that drugs like Remdesivir come under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
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News Reports

‘How can a beef eater touch Jyotirling’: MP Nishikant Dubey objects to Congress’ Irfan Ansari’s entry inside Baba Baidyanath temple

OpIndia Staff -
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey stated that by faith, non-Muslims are not allowed entry inside Mecca, then how can a non-Hindu 'beef eater' be allowed inside the sanctum sanctorum of the Baba Baidyanath Jyotirling temple.
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News Reports

Delhi High Court rejects bail plea of Shahrukh Pathan, who open fired at police personnel during anti-Hindu Delhi riots

OpIndia Staff -
The Court remarked that the video clipping and pictures played before this Court have shaken the conscience of this Court
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News Reports

Tension in Aurangabad following death of salon owner Feroz Khan after he was hit by cops for keeping shop open violating Covid-19 norms

OpIndia Staff -
The death of the Aurangabad salon owner in the hands of the two police officers triggered commotion in the area
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Satire

As ESPN goes for gender-neutral terms, here is how Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Capitals match commentary may read like

Sandeep Singh -
The 'Gentleman's Game' is no longer one as gentleman is not an inclusive term and it offends those who put pronouns in Twitter bios.
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News Reports

Dr Ambedkar had wanted Sanskrit as the official language of India, says CJI Bobde

OpIndia Staff -
CJI SA Bobde was delivering a speech at the inaugural ceremony of the new academic building of the National Law University of Nagpur.
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News Reports

Majnu Ka Tila: Kejriwal govt abandons destitute Pakistani Hindu refugee, ‘Seva Bharati’ provides helping hand

रवि अग्रहरि -
RSS and Seva Bharti are providing a helping hand to Pakistani Hindu refugees at Majnu ka Tila camp.
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News Reports

ESPN goes woke, to include gender-neutral cricket terms ‘batter’ instead of ‘batsman’ and ‘Player of The Match’

OpIndia Staff -
ESPN Cricinfo writer Sreshth Shah has informed that the portal will now replace the term 'Batsman' with 'Batter', and 'Man of the Match' will now be 'Player of The Match'.
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News Reports

TMC’s Mahua Moitra claims wishing Hindus on Hindu new year is ‘radicalisation’

OpIndia Staff -
While Moitra wanted to paint everyone who was celebrating the Hindu new year as 'radical', the hate for Hindus was actually more evident in her tweet.
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News Reports

Congress ally who wanted 50 crore Indians to die from ‘Allah’s virus’, claims it was Mamata who ruined ‘Hindu-Muslim bhaichara’

OpIndia Staff -
Abbas Siddiqui claimed Muslims did not ask for a ban on Durga Visarjan because of Muharram and it is Mamata Banerjee who has ended the Hindu-Muslim harmony in the state.
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Opinions

Political opposition amid pandemic has become so devoid of humanity that Modi haters now want Gujaratis dead

Nirwa Mehta -
One would've thought the pandemic would have humbled a few people and made them kinder, but then, 'liberals' would rather dance on dead bodies of Gujaratis if it shows 'Modi failed'
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh: Families of deceased COVID-19 patients will now have to pay Rs. 2,500 for “storage” and “carriage” of the bodies

OpIndia Staff -
After fixing rates for treating moderate, severe, very serious COVID-19 patients, Chhattisgarh introduces dead body handling charges
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World

CNN hoped for higher Covid-19 death toll, hyped pandemic deaths to improve ratings, technical director admits in Project Veritas leak

OpIndia Staff -
CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester went on five Tinder dates with a Project Veritas agent where he made the revelations.
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News Reports

Pakistan on the verge of civil war as it bans TLP for violent protests over the arrest of its leader and Muhammad cartoons in...

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan Government has taken the decision to ban Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) for their violent protests in the country
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News Reports

If we sit quietly, 800 year old history will repeat: Hindu leader explains why he came out on street to support Yati Narasinghanand Saraswati

अनुपम कुमार सिंह -
A Muslim mob came face to face with Hindu organisations who carried out a sit-in vigil in support of Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati
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News Reports

Brazil is building a new Jesus statue, and it is taller than Rio’s Christ the Redeemer

OpIndia Staff -
Christ the Protector statue in Encantado city in South Brazil will be 16 feet taller than Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro
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News Reports

Amdavad Municipal Corporation introduces ‘drive through’ RTPCR testing as COVID-19 cases surge in the state

OpIndia Staff -
First ever drive-through RTPCR testing centre opened in Ahmedabad, Gujarat as the state battles Chinese coronavirus
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News Reports

Top Chinese official admits Chinese vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates”, suggests mixing different vaccines

OpIndia Staff -
A top Chinese health official said that they are considering mixing different vaccines in order to boost their effectiveness
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News Reports

UP govt ramps up measures to fight the resurgent COVID-19 outbreak, airlifts 25,000 doses of Remdesivir using govt plane from Gujarat

OpIndia Staff -
The Uttar Pradesh government is working on a war-footing to blunt the second wave of the COVID-19 outbreak
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News Reports

Covid-19 surge: No space to bury dead bodies in graveyards, graves being dug in advance to save time, crematoriums break down due to overload

OpIndia Staff -
In graveyards in Surat graves are being dug in advance so that people do not have to wait to bury the victims of Covid-19
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News Reports

One more video of a mob calling for beheading Yati Narsimhanand Saraswati for ‘insulting Prophet Muhammad’ goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
Muslims across the country are demanding the beheading of Yati Narsimhanand Saraswati after his comments criticising Islam
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News Reports

US Navy dismisses first-ever woman commander of missile destroyer USS Hopper, cites ‘leadership issues’

OpIndia Staff -
Commander Kathryn Dawley took command of the USS Hopper in April 2020 and was the first-ever woman to do so. According to the Pacific Fleet, her removal from command was “due to a loss of confidence in her leadership.”
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News Reports

Missionaries converted over 1 lakh people amidst the pandemic, claims to have planted more churches than all the 25 years of their work in...

OpIndia Staff -
Missionaries claim they used the distress faced by poor people during the lockdown to convert them to Christianity and build more churches
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News Reports

Tours and travels operators in Mumbai issuing fake COVID-19 negative reports for Rs 300: Report reveals

OpIndia Staff -
As people in Mumbai rush to get out of Maharashtra amidst worsening coronavirus outbreak, travel agents are arranging bogus COVID-negative reports for Rs 300 to Rs 500 to enable their exit.
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News Reports

Maha COVID-19 crisis: Hospital beds and ventilators running short, scarcity in oxygen and Remdesivir supply, and inordinate delays in testing

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra is in a midst of a resurgent coronavirus outbreak as the state has reported over 60,212 fresh COVID-19 cases on Tuesday
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News Reports

From reports of shortages to black-marketing, is Remdesivir really the ‘miracle drug’ to cure Covid?

Anurag -
In November 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) recommended against the use of Remdesivir in Covid-19 patients stating that there was no evidence that the drug can improve survival.
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Opinions

What would Dr. Ambedkar say about Hindu and Muslim societies today?

Abhishek Banerjee -
What do you think Dr. Ambedkar would say today about the relative performance of Hindu and Muslim society in the years since 1947? Can you be as frank and clear in stating your thoughts as he was?
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