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Activist group accuses Congress supporter Saket Gokhale of using crowdfunding money for drugs, complains to NCB

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Earlier an AAP supporter named Amit Behere has accused Saket Gokhale of cheating people by filing bogus RTIs and petitions.
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Government and Policy

India to be toll plaza-free within a year, GPS imaging to be used for toll collection: Here is what Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said

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Nitin Gadkari said GPS imaging technology will be used in which toll amount will be automatically deducted
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News Reports

West Bengal: PM Narendra Modi meets kins of BJP workers killed in the state, felicitates by giving them shawls

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Addressing the rally, PM Modi said the BJP government would act against all those who killed the BJP workers in the state
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News Reports

‘He had committed unpardonable mistakes’: Maha Home Minister Anil Deshmukh admits Param Bir Singh’s transfer was not a routine one

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Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh was yesterday transferred and posted as DG Home Guard amidst shocking revelations in the Antilia bomb scare
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News Reports

Another incident of spitting on rotis emerges, Delhi Police arrests Mohammad Ibrahim and Anwar who worked in a West Delhi eatery

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Ibrahim and Anwar worked in a hotel in West Delhi and were caught by a customer spitting on rotis, the video of which had gone viral
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News Reports

YouTube removes video interview of Yati Narsinghanand where he spoke about the Dasna temple controversy

OpIndia Staff -
The video where Mahant Yati Narsinghanand spoke about the Dasna temple controversy has been removed by YouTube over violation of policies on 'hate speech'.
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News Reports

TMC divided over anti-dumping duty on newsprint, two Trinamool MPs write to PM Modi opposing and supporting the measure

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TMC Rajya Sabha MP Nadimul Haque opposes anti-dumping duty on newsprint, party's Lok Sabha MP Saugata Roy supports it
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News Reports

Seven unruly passengers deboarded by various airlines for violating COVID-19 protocols

OpIndia Staff -
Airlines de-board passengers following an advisory issued by DGCA which directs to offload any passenger flouting COVID-19 protocols
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News Reports

Maulana Irshad, who had hailed Ghaznavi’s attacks on Somnath Temple, arrested by Gujarat Police from Panipat

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Maulana Rashid, creator of the viral video praising Ghaznavi's destruction of Somnath Temple arrested by Gujarat Police from Panipat.
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News Reports

Bangladesh: Members of hardliner group Hefazat-e-Islami attack Hindus over Facebook post

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Many local Hindus had to flee their homes fearing for life which gave the attackers an opportunity to ransack and loot their homes.
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News Reports

Rioters to compensate for damages: Haryana clears Bill to recover damages to public properties during violent protests

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The bill authorises the Haryana government to confiscate properties and seize bank accounts of rioters till they pay for the damages caused to public properties.
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News Reports

Large number Rohingya Muslims settled in Muslim dominated Mewat area in Haryana: Report

OpIndia Staff -
The VHP claims that the number of Rohingya Muslims settled across the country runs in lakhs and is not 40 thousand as claimed by the MHA.
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Politics

Mamata Says ‘Khela Hobe’, but BJP believes in ‘Vikas Hobe’: PM Modi attacks Mamata Banerjee’s appeasement politics

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned around the ruling Trinamool Congress' campaign slogan of Khela Hobe to criticise the party’s misrule and politics of appeasement for the last decade.
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News Reports

Muslims snatch land used by Hindus to perform puja and convert it into a cemetery during lockdown in West Bengal: Report

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Hindus in Nadia claim that Muslims built a boundary wall on temple land and dug up a few holes to make it appear like a cemetery
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News Reports

Allegations of disproportionate assets to physical and mental torture: A brief profile of Mumbai’s new CP Hemant Nagrale

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Hemant Nagrale, Mumbai's new police chief is a 1987 batch IPS officer and has also served a stint with the CBI.
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Media

‘Delhi, Delhi, Billi, Billi’: NDTV’s Ravish Kumar has an extended meltdown as AAP displays its soft-Hindutva politics

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Ravish Kumar appears visibly upset that Arvind Kejriwal is not aggressively attacking the Centre
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Fact-Check

BJP MP Subramanian Swamy casts aspersions that AstraZeneca vaccine for coronavirus may not be safe. Here are the facts:

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Subramanian Swamy insinuated that Covishield is responsible for at least 70 deaths that allegedly occurred after the vaccination drive
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World

Canadian man jailed for calling his biologically female child as ‘daughter’

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The Canadian man was found to be in contempt of court after he was compelled by the court to conform to his daughter's gender transitioning and told to not call his biological female child his daughter
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News Reports

West Bengal: More than a dozen crude bombs hurled at BJP MP Arjun Singh’s Office-cum residence allegedly by TMC workers

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Arjun Singh said that more than a dozen crude bombs were hurled near his office-cim-residence "Mazdoor Bhawan"
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News Reports

Extremist Sunni group destroys an Ahmadi Mosque with the help of police in Pakistan

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The organisation of Sunni Muslims that demolished the Ahmadi mosque was responsible for Pakistan declaring Ahmadis as non-Muslims
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News Reports

UP: Khalid Noman and Safir Faruqui arrested after video emerged showing them throwing a bomb on road

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Khalid Noman and Safir Faruqui were seen testing a crude bomb on a road in the video shared on Twitter.
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News Reports

Telangana: IPS officer caught spreading anti-Hindu propaganda, his followers attack BJP leaders for protesting against his actions

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According to the activist group - Legal Rights Protection Forum (LRPF), RS Praveen Kumar has been carrying out anti-social activities by promoting the anti-Hindu ideology and corrupting the minds of children studying in schools/hostels.
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News Reports

Yes Bank co-founder Rana Kapoor’s Delhi property sold by Indiabulls Housing Finance to recover part of Rs 240 crores worth of loan

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Indiabulls Housing Finance sold off Yes Bank's Rana Kapoor's property worth Rs 114 crore to recover a loan
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News Reports

‘When I was CM, Shiv Sena tried to pressurize me to reinstate Sachin Vaze’: Devendra Fadnavis

OpIndia Staff -
Devendra Fadnavis revealed that all the high profile cases were directed to CIU only after the reinstatement of Sachin Vaze, raising suspicion.
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News Reports

Yogi Adityanath attacks Congress for supporting illegal immigration, keeping Northeast deprived of development

OpIndia Staff -
CM Yogi accused the previous Congress governments for neglecting the development of the Northeast region.
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News Reports

Rakesh Tikait calls for demolishing godowns being built by private companies if Centre does not repeal Farm Laws

OpIndia Staff -
In another significant update, a plea has been filed in Punjab and Haryana High Court against protestors illegally protesting outside warehouses, resulting in loss of business
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News Reports

Russian media regulator warns Twitter: Remove unlawful content or face country-wide ban in a month

OpIndia Staff -
Russian telecom regulator Roskomnadzor has given one month's time to Twitter to comply to their orders or face a blanket ban in the country.
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News Reports

‘Asif urinated on Shivling, behaved indecently in the presence of women inside the temple,’ Shringi Yadav makes shocking disclosure

OpIndia Staff -
A day after his release, Shringi Yadav has now put out the chain of events that transpired last week inside the Dasna temple in Ghaziabad that has fuelled a massive controversy across the country.
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News Reports

Ritika Phogat, cousin of wrestlers Geeta and Babita Phogat, commits suicide after losing wrestling tournament

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Ritika Phogat was only 17 and had participated in state-level competition at Lohagarh Stadium in Rajasthan.
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News Reports

Man chants ‘Narendra Modi Zindabad’, stuns Rakesh Tikait and his supporters. Watch

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Tikait was recently in Bengal to campaign against the BJP in the upcoming West Bengal elections. He has extended support to the ruling TMC led by Mamata Banerjee who is currently the CM of West Bengal.
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Crime

Jaipur: Islamic fundamentalists vandalise office of publication house after it had apologised for mentioning Islamic terrorism in a book

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The book said that self-sacrifice and unlimited barbarism in the name of religion or Allah has become the characteristic of Islamic terrorism
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News Reports

Questions raised over how TMC MP Aparupa Poddar won election from SC reserved seat after becoming Arfin Ali following marriage

OpIndia Staff -
Aparupa Poddar had changed her birth name to Afrin Ali after her marriage with a Muslim husband on 9th August, 2007
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News Reports

Inching closer to Aatmanirbharta, Chinese investor gives up minority stake in made-in-India Twitter alternative Koo

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Chinese venture capital firm, Shunwei gives up its 9% stake in Koo to exit the company completely
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News Reports

Zomato Controversy: Beauty Influencer Hitesha Chandranee takes off to Maharashtra after FIR lodged against her

OpIndia Staff -
Kamaraj, the Zomato delivery agent, had filed an FIR against Hitesha Chandranee alleging that she had assaulted him with a slipper.
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Politics

Mamata Banerjee lies about vaccination, invokes ‘dharma’ and ‘Jai Shri Ram’ at Jhagram rally

OpIndia Staff -
Within two years, Mamata Banerjee's reason for opposing 'Jai Shri Ram' has gone from 'saving' India's secular fabric to pitting Lord Ram against Maa Durga.
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News Reports

Uddhav Thackeray had asked me to reinstate Sachin Vaze when I was the CM of Maharashtra: Devendra Fadnavis

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Devendra Fadnavis claimed that Shiv Sena had pressurised him in 2018 to reinstate Sachin Vaze into the Mumbai Police force
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News Reports

ED attaches properties of three channels involved in TRP manipulation, Republic TV not named in the statement issued by the agency

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Immovable and movable properties of Fakt Marathi, Box Cinema and Maha Movie were attached by ED in the TRP manipulation case.
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News Reports

Hindu man mistaken for Muslim buried in Saudi Arabia, wife approaches Delhi HC seeking repatriation of mortal remains

OpIndia Staff -
The Delhi High Court slammed the MEA for failing the take up the matter with Saudi Arabia, and asked them to file reply in two days
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News Reports

‘You have no evidence against Republic TV even after 3 months’, Bombay HC slams Mumbai Police in TRP manipulation case

OpIndia Staff -
Bombay HC asked why Mumbai Police is keeping the sword hanging over Republic TV without any evidence in the TRP scam case
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Opinions

‘Bacha Bazi’: The rampant sexual exploitation of minor boys in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Akshita Bhadauria -
'Bacha Bazi' or using minor boys for sexual pleasure has been rampant in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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Crime

Mumbai: Actress and three aides honeytrap web-series producer, extort Rs 1.6 lakh on fake rape charges

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The actress had consensual sex with the web series maker, and demanded money later threatening to file rape case against him
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News Reports

Odisha government to sell 35,000 acres of land owned by Lord Jagannath Temple, encroachers asked to pay

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Odisha government to sell 35,000 acres of land owned by Shri Jagannath Temple, Puri.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Chinese nationals caught with fake Aadhaar card while boarding a flight from Bagdogra airport, had earlier visited Pakistan

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Initial investigation reveal that they entered India through Nepal border at Panitanki in North Bengal. As per their passports, they had visited Pakistan in 2018 and 2019.
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News Reports

Veteran TMC MP Sisir Adhikari set to join BJP in presence of PM Modi, says he will campaign against Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram

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Earlier Sisir Adhikari had said that he will campaign for his son Suvendu Adhikari against Mamata Banerjee if he is asked to do it
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News Reports

Antilia Bomb scare: Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh transferred, Hemant Nagrale to be the new CP

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Speculations were rife that Param Bir Singh would soon be fired after the alleged involvement of Sachin Vaze in the Antilia bomb scare incident became apparent
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OpIndia Explains

Did you know Indira Gandhi was ‘admired’ by Saddam Hussein and she had visited Libya to meet Muammar Gaddafi

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi had recently made a reference to tinpot dictators Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi to allege that even they won elections
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News Reports

‘Take Chinese vaccine’: China tells India and 19 other countries for visa

OpIndia Staff -
Each embassy has issued its own notice that differs in wording. However, the general regulations are that foreigners from certain countries who have been fully vaccinated with Chinese vaccines require fewer documents to apply for visas.
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Politics

‘Don’t campaign against us’: Congress appeals to Sharad Pawar, Tejashwi Yadav for Bengal elections

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Bengal Congress MP writes to its allies not to campaign for Mamata Banerjee after they extended support to her in upcoming elections.
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News Reports

Myanmar: Military regime seizes bank accounts of George Soros’s OSF, issues arrest warrant against staff members

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The military regime in Myanmar has accused George Soros' OSF of violating financial restrictions and aiding the civil disobedience movement in the country.
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News Reports

TMC MP Mahua Moitra insults Hindus with her ‘vanar sena’ jibe to attack Yogi Adityanath: Details

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Mahua Moitra tweeted that Yogi Adityanath's "thok do culture" from his "vanar sena commune" wouldn't work in West Bengal
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