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Crime

Bangladesh: Hindu temple attacked, Maa Kali idol burned down

OpIndia Staff -
The incident happened in Uttargaon village of Thakurgaon's Ranisankail Upazila.
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Entertainment

Priyanka Chopra talks to Oprah Winfrey, reveals how Islam, Christianity and Hinduism formed a part of her upbringing: Watch

OpIndia Staff -
American show host Oprah Winfrey will be hosting Indian actress Priyanka Chopra in her Super Soul Sunday this week.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Illegal bombs manufactured ahead of elections to terrorise public, says CRPF

OpIndia Staff -
The poll-bound state of West Bengal is infamous for the incidents of political violence and bomb attacks that frequently come to light from the state
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News Reports

Joe Biden refers to VP Kamala Harris as ‘President Harris’, fuels dementia speculations again

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, before he assumed office, Biden had once referred to Harris as 'President-elect'.
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Crime

Video shows Mansukh Hiren was with Sachin Vaze in a car owned by Shiv Sena leader a day after his bomb-laden Scorpio was parked...

OpIndia Staff -
Sachin Vaze, accused in the Antilia bomb case, was seen arriving at the Crime Branch unit in a Land Cruiser Prado along with Mansukh Hiren.
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News Reports

‘Welcome to our Temple only if you want to pray to our Gods and perform penance for your actions’: VHP to MLA Aslam Chaudhary

OpIndia Staff -
MLA Aslam Chaudhary had claimed that the Devi Temple in Dasna belongs to his ancestors and Muslims will enter.
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Crime

‘Mansukh Hiren’s body had injuries on head and neck, assault before death suspected’: Maha ATS

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The Maharashtra ATS is reportedly seeking a second opinion from a forensic laboratory in Haryana.
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News Reports

‘Preachers lead lavish lives while teaching poor to stay poor’: Pasmanda activist Faiyaz Ahmad Fyzie about casteism in Muslim community and Tablighi Jamaat

OpIndia Staff -
Activist Faiyaz Ahmad Fyzie speaks on his past association with Tablighi Jamaat, caste, class discrimination among Muslims and the blind 'secularism' in India that fails to address the issues.
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Opinions

After 4 years of Yogi-Raj, I feel proud to be a UPwallah Bhaiya: Here is why

Shantanu Gupta -
When BJP named Yogi Adityanath as the CM, after their landslide victory, political pundits wrote him off - and how wrong were they
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Politics

They could not solve Uri and Pulwama, but are after 20 gelatin sticks: Sanjay Raut casts doubt on NIA, downplays Antilia bomb case

OpIndia Staff -
After giving clean chit to Sachin Vaze, accused in the Antilia bomb scare case, Sanjay Raut cast aspersions against the NIA
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News Reports

Faculty members of Rutgers university defend controversial ‘historian’ Audrey Truschke, say students should be intellectually challenged

OpIndia Staff -
The faculty members claimed Audrey Truschke is doing critical examination of Hindutva, and it is not the same thing as Hinduphobia
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News Reports

NIA seizes 2 more luxury SUVs linked to Sachin Vaze in Antilia Bomb Scare case, one of them owned by a Shiv Sena leader

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NIA seized a Mercedes Benz ML 250 CDI and a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado owned by a Shiv Sena leader in the Antilia bomb scare case
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World

USA: Local judge and former president of foundation that runs ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ for children arrested on 7 counts of child pornography

T Waraich -
Milwaukee County Judge Brett Blomme was arrested on Tuesday and charged on seven counts for possessing child pornography.
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News Reports

Shree Jagannath Temple Administration clarifies on selling 35,000 acres land, calls media reports misleading and distorted

OpIndia Staff -
"The lands, which are occupied or are under the possession of various persons since long but belongs to Shree Jagannatha Mahaprabhu; are being settled by Temple Committee as per the “Unified Policy”, framed for the purpose in the year 2003," the Temple administration stated.
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News Reports

CNN viewership down 47% in key 24-54 age group, loses a million viewers on average since the Biden inauguration

OpIndia Staff -
CNN bas lost a million viewers on average since the Joe Biden inauguration on January 20th this year
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News Reports

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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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:

OpIndia Staff -
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’

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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

OpIndia Staff -
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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