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Fact-check: Has Hollywood actor Gerard Butler embraced Hinduism

OpIndia Staff -
Image of Hollywood actor Gerard Butler visiting Rishikesh and Varanasi have gone viral with claims that he has embraced Hinduism
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News Reports

Punjab: Contractor Mohammad Feroz rapes minor daughter of migrant worker for two months, victim found pregnant

OpIndia Staff -
The contractor named Mohammad Firoz lives in Zhungi EDN City. The victim's family are migrant workers.
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News Reports

As Narayanasamy govt in Puducherry collapses, India inches towards Congress-mukt Bharat

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As Congress struggles to find its relevance, it continues to disappear from political landscape of India
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Politics

BJP wins unopposed Gujarat Rajya Sabha seat held by Late Ahmed Patel for Congress

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Congress veteran Ahmed Patel had held the Rajya Sabha seat from Gujarat for the Congress party for five consecutive terms.
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News Reports

Yogi Adityanath chalks up plan to make Uttar Pradesh ‘atmanirbhar’: UP Budget focuses on education, farmers, infrastructure among other things

OpIndia Staff -
The UP finance minister Suresh Khanna today presented Rs 5,50,270 crore budget for the financial year 2021-22 in the state assembly
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Social Media

Video of UP shopkeepers engaging in hand-to-hand combat goes viral, netizens unleash their creative best

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Baghpat Police arrested eight as the clash between two groups broke out in Baraut. An investigation into the matter has been initiated.
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Politics

‘West Bengal people fed up with ‘cut’ culture, made up their mind for ‘asol poriborton’: PM Modi addresses a sea of people in Hooghly

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PM Modi slammed the incumbent TMC govt for endorsing the "cut-cut culture" and the "Syndicate Raj" in the state
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Law

Bombay High Court ‘skin-to-skin’ judgment: Trivialising Statutory Provisions safeguarding victims of sexual assault?

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The Special Court held that the appellant had committed an offence under Sections 354, 363 and 342 of the IPC as well as under Section 8 of the Act.
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News Reports

Republic Day violence: Accused Jaspreet Singh, who climbed on the Red Fort tomb, arrested by the Delhi Police

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The Delhi Police have so far made over 100 arrests in connection with the Republic Day violence that erupted in the national capital during the 'tractor rally'
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi hails Rihanna, who posed topless with a Ganesha necklace, for commenting on farmer protest

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Congress scion Rahul Gandhi hailed popstar Rihanna for her controversial tweet during the anti-farm law agitation in India.
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Opinions

Turiyavād: A Socio-Political Framework Premised on Truth and Transcendence in Life, Society and Politics

Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar -
Dogma and ideological stagnation has percolated through the cracks and crevices of contemporary life, society and politics.
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News Reports

Clean energy, water, health and astronomy: This is how India is spearheading the fight against global challenges

OpIndia Staff -
India is one of the founding members of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) which aims to support the human-centric and responsible development and use of Artificial Intelligence.
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Opinions

The state-sanctioned Christianisation of Andhra Pradesh: A primer

Sai Priya Chodavarapu -
It’s a bit of an open secret now that a vast majority of SC/STs in Andhra Pradesh have converted to Christianity in last couple of decades
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News Reports

Google provides information about IP addresses in the Toolkit case, Nikita Jacob and Shantanu Muluk to join the probe

OpIndia Staff -
As per the information shared by Google with Delhi Police, the toolkit was uploaded from locations in Maharashtra and Karnataka
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News Reports

Cardiologist at Kochi Hospital peddles anti-Upper Caste bigotry as ‘liberal’ meltdown over Metro Man E Sreedharan joining BJP continue

OpIndia Staff -
Ever since Metro Man E Sreedharan joined the BJP, the 'liberals' have gone from calling him names to dismissing his contribution to the metro rail network.
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Entertainment

Mainstream media runs with lie that Kangana Ranaut featured in ‘item number’ to give Swara Bhasker precious ‘befitting reply’ points

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Swara Bhasker claimed that Kangana Ranaut had starred in an 'item number' titled 'Julmi re Julmi' in the movie Rajjo.
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News Reports

‘Stop Police from entering our villages in Punjab, burn their posters’: Farm Union leader instigates against Police

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Haryana BKU leader Gurnam Singh Chaduni urged his followers to burn police posters and stop them from entering in Punjab
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Crime

Odisha: 13 years after the brutal murder of Swami Laxmanananda in Kandhamal, his Jalespata Ashram gets death and bomb threats

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On the evening of Janmashtami festival in 2008, Jalespata Ashram was attacked by over a dozen armed Christian converts and Maoists. They had brutally murdered Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his associates.
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News Reports

Dadra and Nagar Haveli MP Mohan Delkar found dead in Mumbai hotel under mysterious circumstances

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Reportedly, a note in Gujarati, believed to be suicide note, has also been recovered from Mohan Delkar's room.
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WTF News

UK HelloFresh food app issues apology after a customer gets bottled-up urine with his order: Read details

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In the United Kingdom, a HelloFresh app customer was left in shock as he received a bottle full of urine as part of food delivery
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News Reports

Kerala: Yogi calls out Pinarayi govt’s appeasement policies, invokes halal banks to love jihad to Sabarimala ahead of assembly polls

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was addressing a rally in Kerala's Kasargod ahead of state assembly polls.
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Satire

Robert Vadra’s PR stunt, where ‘journalist’ fell off her bicycle, not part of Congress effort to make Rahul Gandhi look smarter, clarify top leaders

K Bhattacharjee -
The protagonists in our story are Robert Vadra, Congress party's son-in-law, and Mausami Singh, the 'journalist' who fell off her cycle.
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Opinions

Metro is an upper caste male Brahminical, Hindu supremacist patriarchal project, scrap it

Sandeep Singh -
Now that E Sreedharan, also known as Metro Man has joined the BJP, it is time to call out this patriarchal project which has done no good for Indians.
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Politics

Rahul Gandhi rarely visited, Smriti Irani is here to stay: Irani fulfils poll promise, starts process to build her home in Amethi

OpIndia Staff -
Union Minister Smriti Irani had promised to the people of Amethi that if she won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, she would build a home in the district and be more accessible to them
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World

‘They attacked a sovereign nation’: Australia refuses to buckle under pressure, says won’t change new legislation despite Facebook block

OpIndia Staff -
Australia's new law requiring social media giants to pay news outlets has triggered a war between Facebook and Australia
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World

From Toshiba to Sony: 12 Japanese companies to snub China for the forcible employment of Uyghur Muslims

OpIndia Staff -
12 Japan companies have decided to cease business deals with Chinese firms involved in forced labour of Uyghur Muslims
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Politics

Smells like ‘How Dare You’ spirit: Shashi Tharoor joins crusade against school after exam question on 26 Jan Riots doesn’t suit ‘liberal’ narrative

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Shashi Tharoor has marked his objection over a question that appeared in the English language examination paper of DAV School Gopalapuram.
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News Reports

Rinku Sharma murder: Eyewitness says ‘Allahu Akbar’ slogans were raised by the accused inside the police station

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Neighbour of Rinku Sharma reveals that accused raised 'Allahu Akbar' slogans inside police station , busting the 'no communal angle' trope
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News Reports

Top-level officials in the Biden administration worked as fellows for a CCP-funded organisation: Report

OpIndia Staff -
A recent investigation by The National Pulse found that Biden's Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Senior Adviser on China in Policy Planning Mira Rapp-Hooper once worked at Yale’s Paul Tsai China Center as fellows
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News Reports

Congress government in Puducherry falls as CM V Narayansamy loses floor test

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Amidst a spate of resignations, Narayanasamy-led Congress government in Puducherry failed to prove majority in the Assembly.
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World

Chinese companies, backed by CCP, exploits pandemic to take over British schools and indoctrinate children: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
In a bid to influence the British education system, several high-profile members of the Communist regime in China have begun investing heavily in British schools.
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News Reports

Bhima Koregaon case: Accused ‘Urban Naxal’ Varavara Rao granted bail by Bombay HC on medical grounds

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The HC has also ordered Rao to be discharged from the Nanavati hospital where he was being treated at the state's expense.
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News Reports

Serum Institute of India asks other countries to be patient with coronavirus vaccines as it prioritises Indian needs

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Pune-based SII has been producing hundreds of millions of doses for AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines.
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World

Canada lawmakers to vote for calling Chinese treatment of Uyghur Muslims as ‘genocide’ after Trudeau expressed reluctance

OpIndia Staff -
Canadian Conservative Party leader Erin O'Toole, in a statement said that Canada cannot remain silent on Chinese govt treatment of Uyghur Muslims.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Online Petition to change the name of ‘Islamabad’ to ‘Islamagood’ goes viral

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The online petition was started by a Bangladeshi-Canadian national named Ayham Abrar.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Acid thrown on a woman in Hapur, accused Rohil Khan arrested

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Accused Rohil Khan was arrested within 6 hours of the crime, the police said.
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News Reports

Shashi Tharoor plays by Greta toolkit, tweets sexually suggestive meme to mock Yoga and demean women while criticising Modi govt

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Shashi Tharoor plays by Greta toolkit, tweets sexually suggestive meme to mock Yoga and demean women while criticising Modi govt
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News Reports

Geo News headquarters in Karachi vandalised by protestors after its journalist called Sindhi people ‘bhukhe nange’

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Geo News claimed that the protestors harassed the staff in the building, which included women employees.
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Politics

In Pictures: ‘Run for Modi’ rally captures the formidable rise of BJP in Bengal

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Dawning saffron T-shirts featuring PM Modi's image, the supporters chanted "Modi asche Modi asche" during 'Run for Modi'.
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Politics

‘Pishi Jao’: BJP releases campaign ad featuring widely popular protest song ‘Bella Ciao’

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The BJP has released a new campaign ad titled 'Pishi Jao', a Bengali rendition of the popular protest song 'Bella Ciao'.
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News Reports

UP Police register case against 8 Twitter handles including Barkha Dutt’s The Mojo Story for fake news on Unnao case

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Barkha Dutt's Mojo Story and others had falsely claimed that victims of Unnao case were raped, & cremated by police without family consent
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News Reports

Days after Rahul Gandhi visited Puducherry, one more Congress MLA resigns from the Congress party ahead of floor test on Monday

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With the latest two resignations, the Congress-DMK ruling alliance in Puducherry has lost 7 MLAs in last one week
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Politics

‘The court said that ‘Love Jihad’ is a conspiracy to make Kerala an Islamic state’: Yogi Adityanath slams CPM and Congress in Kasargod

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UP CHief Minister Yogi Adityanath addressed a rally in Kerala on Sunday ahead of the Assembly Elections in the state.
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News Reports

UP Police debunk fake news, say 7-year-old girl found dead in Baghpat was not raped

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Post mortem of the 7-year-old girl found dead in Baghpat has confirmed that she was not raped,m and she died of injuries
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Politics

‘Our boys will play on the field, there will be no opposition left’: Trinamool leader threatens no one can go vote except party voters

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A video has gone viral on social media where Trinamool Congress leader Modassar Hossain can be seen issuing threats.
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News Reports

Netherlands, Canada and Finland raise concerns over Chinese espionage that can cripple democratic countries

OpIndia Staff -
Finland, Canada and Netherlands have raised concerns over Chinese espionage on government, companies and universities
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Crime

Kerala: 74-year-old pastor, who preaches religious matters, arrested for assaulting minor girl

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Kerala pastor has allegedly sexually assaulted the minor girl in January 2021.
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Politics

CBI summons wife of Mamata Banerjee’s nephew in coal smuggling case, Abhishek cries political vendetta: Details

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Rujira Banerjee, wife of Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee, has been summoned by the CBI over a coal pilferage case.
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News Reports

Prashant Kishor’s I-PAC controls social media accounts several TMC leaders, most of them are not even aware of their existence: Report

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Social media accounts of several TMC leaders were created by I-PAC after 2019 general elections, and the organisation controls the accounts
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News Reports

Al-Badr terrorist Rah Hussain Bhat arrested in connection with IED recovered at Jammu bus stand

OpIndia Staff -
The cops informed that Rah Hussain Bhat was in touch with Pakistani terrorists who were involved in the planning of the IED attack in Jammu.
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