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Conflict of interest? Advocacy group funded by Twitter, Facebook, Google and western governments criticises new Indian social media regulations

K Bhattacharjee -
Access Now has spoken out against the social media regulations ushered in by the Indian Government on Thursday.
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News Reports

A day after Mamata Banerjee’s scooter ride becomes a meme, Smriti Irani rides one with ease in BJP’s roadshow

OpIndia Staff -
A day after the famous scooter ride by the Bengal CM, BJP MP and Union Textile Minister Smriti Irani was seen riding a scooter with apparent ease during BJP's roadshow in Bengal.
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World

‘We should be outraged!’: Senator Rand Paul grills Biden’s nominee as Dr Levine refuses to condemn sex change procedure for little children

OpIndia Staff -
U.S. Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky grilled Dr. Rachel Levine at her confirmation hearing in the U.S. Senate.
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World

Meet British MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi: Khalistani connections, pro-Pakistani stance on Kashmir and vocal during ‘farmer protests’

OpIndia Staff -
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, or Tan Dhesi as he is addressed sometimes, is a Labour MP from Slough in the United Kingdom.
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News Reports

PFI member Rauf Sharif, accused of stirring unrest in Hathras, refuses to sit in UP Police vehicle

OpIndia Staff -
An overwhelming sense of fear grips criminals in Uttar Pradesh following the encounter of gangster Vikas Dubey by UP police in July 2020
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Media

Varun Gandhi warns YouTube news channel for spreading fake news against him, the media group apologises

OpIndia Staff -
Varun Gandhi objected to videos published by SPN9 News and said it was important to take a stand and put an end to conspiracy.
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News Reports

‘Jab kutte pe sassa aaya, tab Badshah ne shehar basaya’: Read the fascinating trivia about Ahmedabad on its 610th Foundation Day

OpIndia Staff -
The Ahmedabad city in Gujarat was founded by Sultan Ahmed Shah on 26 February 1411 AD
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News Reports

Our govt has freed over 67,000 acres of land from clutches of land mafia since 2017: CM Yogi Adityanath

OpIndia Staff -
UP CM Yogi Adityanath stated that the lands will be utilised to develop sports facilities for youth in rural areas.
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Fact-Check

Rahul Gandhi lies about India clearing millions of dollars of Chinese FDI after a 9-month freeze: Here are the exclusive details

Nupur J Sharma -
Rahul Gandhi shared a report that relied solely on sources, to claim that after a 9 month-long freeze, India had started clearing FDI from China
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News Reports

China forces US diplomats to undergo anal swab tests, Biden administration calls it undignified: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
The Chinese authorities later acknowledged carrying out such tests and assured that they would not be using anal swabs on American diplomats to test for COVID-19 in the future.
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Crime

Tipu Sultan pretended to be Satish Rai to try and marry, convert a 19-year-old, was nabbed because of alert villagers: Read what happened

OpIndia Staff -
Grooming Jihad: A married Muslim man has been arrested in Jharkhand, for faking his identity and trying to lure a Hindu girl
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Social Media Fact-Check

Did Aamir Khan’s daughter Ira Khan elope with her Hindu servant? Here is the truth

OpIndia Staff -
The image that is being used to claim that Iran Khan has 'eloped with her Hindu servant' was originally shared by Nupur Shikare, her fitness trainer. The two were posing on the occasion of Diwali.
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News Reports

Watch: BJP Party President JP Nadda gives his own spin to ‘Pawry Ho Rahi Hai’ meme at West Bengal rally

OpIndia Staff -
BJP President JP Nadda seems to have put his own spin on the 'Pawri' meme during a rally at West Bengal ahead of 2021 Assembly elections
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News Reports

‘His opinion less than objective and reliable, his conduct questionable’, says UK court about justice Markandey Katju in Nirav Modi extradition order

OpIndia Staff -
The UK Court rejected Justice Katju's argument that Nirav Modi will not get fair trial in India, and exposed his hypocrisy
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News Reports

‘Hindi filmmakers repeatedly insult Hindu Gods and Goddesses’: Remarks Allahabad HC rejecting bail of Amazon Prime’s Aparna Purohit in Tandav case

OpIndia Staff -
Aparna Purohit is accused of hurting religious sentiments through scenes mocking Hindu gods in the web series 'Tandav' on Amazon Prime
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News Reports

Did the Congress party pay fishermen in Kerala Rs 30,000 to swim with Rahul Gandhi? What we know

OpIndia Staff -
CPIM owned Deshabhimani quoeted fishermen claiming Rahul Gandhi swimming in sea in Kerala was a drama staged by paying them
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Economy and Finance

Indian social media platform ShareChat eyeing to raise $200 million from Chinese tech giant Tencent

OpIndia Staff -
ShareChat is reportedly aiming at raising $200 million from Chinese technology giant Tencent via optionally convertible debentures
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Social Media

Memes galore after Mamata Banerjee loses balance and nearly falls while riding an electric scooter in Howrah

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee has spent her entire day today travelling on an e-scooter in Kolkata to protest against the rising fuel prices
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Social Media

Allegations of fraud emerge against Congress supporter, who collected lakhs to raise an RTI army: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Behere said he was categorically calling Saket Gokhale as "grade A fraud" and said that he was now suffering from 'buyer's remorse' for donating money to Saket Gokhale
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Opinions

I worry about Yogendra Yadav’s mental health and his The Print article on the 2021 Bengal elections proves I am not wrong

Nupur J Sharma -
As BJP rises in Bengal, a panic attack was detailed in The Print, written by our very own Icchadhari protestor, Yogendra Yadav.
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News Reports

Modi govt tightens noose on social media giants and ‘intermediaries’: What it means, the effects of the provisions and how it could tame the...

OpIndia Staff -
The guidelines define the due diligence measures that the social media platforms will have to observe to operate in India
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News Reports

‘Barrack 12 at Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai is fit for Nirav Modi’: UK court approves extradition to India

OpIndia Staff -
"Barrack 12 at Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai is fit for Nirav Modi," said the UK judge while ordering his extradition
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News Reports

Watch: Off-duty police officers shake a leg on the dance floor, video goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
Haryanvi song and off-duty police officers: a delightful combination
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News Reports

‘Follow Indian law, no more double standards’: Full details of new guidelines for tech-giants, OTT platforms and digital media

OpIndia Staff -
"Social media platforms are welcome to do business in India but they need to follow the Constitution and laws of India", said Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
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News Reports

‘Puducherry’s Congress CM was an expert in lifting the slippers of his party leaders’: PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
In the 'lifting slippers' remark, PM Modi was probably referring to an incident in 2015 when Rahul Gandhi was touring a flood-hit Puducherry and Narayanasamy was seen holding his slippers.
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News Reports

Govt removes safety net that allowed platforms like Twitter to not take responsibility for their misuse, officials can be penalised

OpIndia Staff -
If social media platforms don’t comply with the provisions of new guidelines, this will attract penal provisions under the IT Act
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Law

Central govt opposes petition to allow same-sex marriage under Hindu Marriage Act, seeks dismissal of petitions: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Central government has opposed a petition to legalise same-sex marriage under the Hindu Marriage Act, as moved in Delhi Court. T
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News Reports

Exclusive: Bajrang Dal in Kanpur starts a signature campaign against the usage of loudspeakers during Azaan

OpIndia Staff -
Rashtriya Bajrang Dal started the campaign on February 22 and aims to collect the signature of 1 lakh people from Kanpur.
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News Reports

How disability rights activist Virali Modi came back from the dead thrice and went on to inspire millions over the years

Guest Author -
Disability rights activist and motivational speaker Virali Modi on how she came back from the dead, thrice and her other struggles and victories.
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News Reports

As Mamata Banerjee and Asaduddin Owaisi fight over Muslim votes in West Bengal, state police deny permission for the first rally of AIMIM

OpIndia Staff -
The entry of Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM into the West Bengal politics is a big jolt to Mamata Banerjee who is eyeing at her third term
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News Reports

Netizens hail Mamata Banerjee for inadvertently highlighting PM Modi’s focus on use of renewable source of energy by riding an e-scooter

OpIndia Staff -
Netizens were amused that since e-vehicles are a more environmental friendly mode of transport, riding it to protest against rising fuel prices is quite a meta.
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News Reports

UK: BBC criticised for ‘hostile’ interview of Zara Mohammed, the first female leader of British Muslim Council

OpIndia Staff -
In the interview, the host Emma Barnett had confronted Mohammed on various issues of Islam, including the number of female imams in the country.
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News Reports

Delhi Riots Chargesheet: Police use animation to show how rioters had destroyed CCTV cameras in a 3 km radius as per pre-planned strategy

OpIndia Staff -
AI-aided animation shows how rioters systematically destroyed CCTV cameras during anti-Hindu Delhi Riots
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News Reports

‘Even toddlers in UP call people with red caps as goons’: CM Yogi tells Samajwadi Party

OpIndia Staff -
Even toddlers in UP know that the people with red caps are goons: CM Yogi in assembly
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News Reports

Maharashtra dethrones Kerala as new Covid hotspot, together account for 77% of new cases in India

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra registered 8,807 new coronavirus cases and 80 deaths in the last 24 hours, the highest in the country.
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News Reports

Relatives of Liyaqat and Rihasat Khan give death stares: Hindu man whose garage was gutted by Muslim mob during Delhi anti-Hindu riots a year...

रवि अग्रहरि -
An eyewitness of the horrifying Delhi riots OpIndia spoke to revealed that fear still pervades among the Hindus residents of the region
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News Reports

Delhi: Labourers get angry at AAP after they are not paid Rs 500 promised to attend Kejriwal’s rally

OpIndia Staff -
While making poll promises for municipal bypolls, Kejriwal broke payment promise made to people to attend his rally
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Crime

Kerala: RSS worker Nandu Krishna hacked to death, 3 more seriously injured by SDPI goons

OpIndia Staff -
Nandu alias Rahul Krishna, a 22-year-old RSS Karyakarta was hacked to death by SDPI goons in Kerala's Alappuzha.
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News Reports

Workers of Khalsa org and Kejriwal govt discriminated against Hindu victims: An eyewitness account after 1 year of Delhi anti-Hindu riots

रवि अग्रहरि -
The eyewitness claimed that the Khalsa organisation predominantly helped the Muslim victims of the Delhi riots
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News Reports

Gujarat: AIMIM to focus on Godhra while AAP on Saurashtra as Congress continues to fight for relevance during second round of local body polls

OpIndia Staff -
Buoyed by the recent performance, AIMIM and AAP are quite confident in round two of Gujarat local body polls
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News Reports

Nathuram Godse’s devotee Hindu Mahasabha leader Babulal Chaurasia joins Congress in presence of Kamal Nath

OpIndia Staff -
Chaurasia had rebelled from Congress before the last municipal elections after being denied a ticket. He had then joined Hindu Mahasabha and had defeated the Congress candidate in Ward No 44 of Gwalior.
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News Reports

Adani Pavilion and Reliance Pavilion at Narendra Modi Stadium: All you want to know about naming stadiums and pavilions

OpIndia Staff -
The stadium was named after PM Modi as he was a former president of GCA, and Reliance & Adan won bids to sponsor two pavilions
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News Reports

Rinku Sharma-like lynching averted after a Muslim mob tried to barge inside a Hindu house in Mumbai’s Malwani: Legal activist group gives details

OpIndia Staff -
A group of 15-20 Muslims reportedly tried to barge inside the house of a Hindu youth in Malwani in Mumbai baying for his blood
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News Reports

Naushad’s video of spitting on Tandoori Roti might be just the tip of the iceberg, several similar videos emerge on social media

OpIndia Staff -
UP Police is investigation to see if Naushad was an alone in spitting on Rotis he was making or there is a nexus indulged in such activities
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi spreads fake news about train ticket fares being doubled: Here is the truth

OpIndia Staff -
Sources in Indian Railways said that do discourage crowding at passenger trains, their fares have been slightly increased
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News Reports

Now private sector banks can conduct government transactions, union government lifts embargo

OpIndia Staff -
Private sector banks will be able to conduct govt-related transactions such as taxes, pension, small savings schemes etc
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World

Blocked by Trump, unblocked and followed by Biden and then unfollowed by Biden: Love-hate relationship of TV star Chrissy Teigen and POTUS

OpIndia Staff -
How Trump-hater Chrissy Teigen won a follow from POTUS Biden on inauguration night to eventual unfollow a month later on Twitter.
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News Reports

COVID vaccination: Senior citizens, 45 years and above with co-morbidities to get free doses from March 1

OpIndia Staff -
Senior citizens above 60 years of age and persons above 45 years with co-morbidities will receive vaccines from March 1 onwards.
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News Reports

West Bengal: CID detains Bangladeshi national for the bomb attack on Minister Jakir Hossain

OpIndia Staff -
Jakir Hossain is being treated in a government hospital in Kolkata after receiving serious injuries in the attack.
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News Reports

Yogi Adityanath to meet Miss India runner-up Manya Singh and athlete Priyanka Goswami, two women who battled all odds

OpIndia Staff -
Manya Singh's father Omprakash Singh said that he and his daughter wanted to meet Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath
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