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

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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

OpIndia Staff -
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

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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

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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

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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

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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

OpIndia Staff -
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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News Reports

Punjab CM makes a bizarre statement, ties low vaccination in Punjab to ‘people’s anger against farm laws’: What he said

OpIndia Staff -
Amarinder Singh blamed the centre's farm laws for Punjab people's apparent reluctance to take the covid vaccines.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Police arrest 4 Muslim men for putting up posters of Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati, hurling expletives, AIMIM protests

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Balaghat Police arrested four Muslim men for pasting posters against Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati on Jama Masjid Road
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News Reports

Before Ashwini Kumar, there was Vinod Kumar Mehta: How the DCP of Kolkata Police was brutally murdered in Garden Reach in 1984

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Vinod Kumar Mehta, the DCP of Kolkata Police (Port Division), had reached the city's Garden Reach area where he was murdered.
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News Reports

Myanmar army kills more than 80 anti-coup protestors in Bago city, throws the bodies in a Buddhist pagoda

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The Myanmar junta’s armed forces crushed a key protest stronghold in Bago city in a pre-dawn attack on Friday, killing at least 82 people
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News Reports

Moneycontrol.com data breach: Personal details of over seven lakh users up for sale on Hackers forums – Here is what we know so far

OpIndia Staff -
Personal data of over 7 lakh registered users of moneycontrol.com is available on the hackers' forum for just $350
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Politics

‘They came with bombs’: Eyewitness reveals how Anand Burman was killed in West Bengal for working for the BJP

OpIndia Staff -
Anand Burman, a BJP voter, was killed during the violence that ensued in the 4th phase of the elections in West Bengal.
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News Reports

Maharashtra govt to study why COVID-19 cases not surging in election-bound states despite large gathering in rallies

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Maharashtra COVID-19 task force will study why cases are increasing only in the state & not in election bound states with large gatherings
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Media

Watch: Tucker Carlson asks CNN President Jeff Zucker to transition into a woman to fight toxic masculinity

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"We agree, CNN is dominated by lots of dumb men," read the Fox News tucker during the Tucker Carlson Tonight show.
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Opinions

Mithun Da may be a ‘cobra’ but it’s those in TMC that Mamata needs to be concerned about: Why the Clubhouse conversation should worry...

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Prashant Kishor cast a devastating blow to the reelection bid of Mamata Banerjee with his comments during the Clubhouse discussion.
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Opinions

Why Mamata Banerjee should take entire moral responsibility for the violence in Cooch Behar

Abhishek Banerjee -
The way the Bengal election has unfolded, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee clearly feels like she is in a corner
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News Reports

Rafiqul Islam Madani: All you need to know about the Bangladeshi dwarf cleric who preaches Islamic radicalism and wants to capture Delhi

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"If we have to be martyred opposing Modi, then, we are all willing to be martyred", Rafiqul Islam Madani had said ahead of Modi's Bangladesh visit
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Opinions

Lockdowns, ‘Covidiots’ and ‘Responsible’ Citizens

Rajan Laad -
We know of the recent surge in COVID cases all over India, but the simultaneous surge in ‘responsible’ citizens appalled by the irresponsibility of ‘Covidiots’
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Crime

“Is your speech not responsible for the death of 4 people?”: Amit Shah slams Mamata Banerjee for asking people to gherao central forces

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Amit Shah said that Mamata Banerjee is responsible for death of 4 people in CISF firing as she had asked to gherao central forces
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Opinions

Arfa Khanum Sherwani denies the existence of Muslim appeasement in West Bengal, here’s how she is comparing apples and oranges

K Bhattacharjee -
Arfa Khanum Sherwani triggered a controversy after denying the existence of minority appeasement politics in West Bengal.
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News Reports

Mother of Bihar cop dies of shock after her son mob lynched in West Bengal, 7 policemen suspended for fleeing the scene

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Seven Bihar police personnel have been suspended for negligence who abandoned SHO Kumar and fled from the spot of violence
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News Reports

Shambhu priest death case: Protestor dead in police action, shops on temple land to remain sealed and finally Rajasthan govt agreeing to order probe

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A probe has been initiated by Rajasthan government after 10-day agitation led by BJP leader Kirodi Lal Meena
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Crime

Shaheen Bagh Maulana gets kidnapped by his former student, rescued after police raid: Here is what happened

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A case of kidnapping involving a Maulana and his former student at a Madrassa has come to the fore in Shaheen Bagh, Delhi.
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News Reports

Hindu activists in Kerala object to Muslim League flags outside Temple, stop movie shoot, arrested: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
One of the scenes showed a girl dressed in traditional Hindu attire exiting the temple and being attracted to a man of a different religion (Islam).
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News Reports

French tabloid hitjob on Rafale backfired and proved corruption against Congress, serial petitioner ML Sharma runs to Court: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
ML Sharma was one of the petitioners against 2015 Rafale deal, and his petition was dismissed in 2018 by the Supreme Court
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi decides to campaign in West Bengal, but in one constituency, only hours before ‘silence period’ kicks in: How it might impact Congress

OpIndia Staff -
Congress Scion Rahul Gandhi will be visiting West Bengal on April 14 in the hopes to turn around his party's political fortunes.
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News Reports

Farmer Protest supporters demand release of multiple-murder accused Jagtar Singh Johal, use a special ‘Toolkit’ to ‘#FreeJaggiNow’

Anurag -
Supporters of Jagtar Singh Johal are using Farmers Protests for their own agenda demanding release of the multiple murder accused
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