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The ‘iPhone scam’ saga, a US-based businessman, allegations of fraud, hacking and what we know so far: Latest details

OpIndia Staff -
On February 15, 2021, Nishant Singh and Abhimanyu Srana came up with a thread alleging that one Twitter user Neel Patel alias Hitesh Patel has been scamming people for more than 15 years.
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News Reports

Rakesh Tikait attacks Mamata Banerjee over MSP, to move farmer protests to Bengal too

OpIndia Staff -
Tikait wants to take farmer protests to election-bound West Bengal in coming days.
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Crime

Ahmedabad: Teen gang-raped by two men in presence of another woman, all three booked

OpIndia Staff -
The accused has been identified as Sahil Shaikh, a catering contractor and Taskeel Qureshi, his friend.
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News Reports

Did Rahul Gandhi deliberately lie to people of Puducherry about the Ministry of Fisheries

OpIndia Staff -
Gandhi had asked question to the Ministry of Fisheries on February 2, 2021 in Lok Sabha but on February 17 he pretended to be unaware that such a ministry exists.
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News Reports

While Rahul Gandhi continues to rant against Ambani-Adani, Adani group gets control of Dighi Port in Maharashtra

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The Adani Ports and Special Economic Zones Limited is to invest Rs 10,000 crores to develop Dighi Port into a multi-cargo port with world-class infrastructure.
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Opinions

“Soft spoken climate activists”, Khalistanis and why we need to talk about liberal privilege

Abhishek Banerjee -
Privilege is a way that dehumanizes the “other” in an insidious manner - which is why we need to talk about the 'liberal privilege'
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News Reports

Bengal: Bomb attack on labour Minister Jakir Hossain in Jangipur, explosion caught live on camera

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An explosion happened when Jakir Hossain was walking towards Nimtita railway station to board a train.
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News Reports

Ahmedabad: Autodriver Sarfuddin who ‘saved abandoned newborn girl’ from stray dog, was actually the culprit

OpIndia Staff -
As per police, when they tried to question Sarfuddin, he gave illogical answers and upon inquiry found that he had a second wife as well.
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News Reports

Islamic terrorists attack the owner of popular Krishna Dhaba in Srinagar during foreign envoys’ visit for ‘desiring J&K domicile’

OpIndia Staff -
The terrorists shot 22-year-old youth Aakash Mehra, son of Ramesh Kumar Mehra who owns a popular food joint Krishna Dhaba, located in a high-security area of the city.
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News Reports

“Do you have a father?” Rahul Gandhi questions a woman in Puduchery who asked her about his father’s death

OpIndia Staff -
"I am sure many girls here have lost their father", Rahul Gandhi declared when he was asked about Rajiv Gandhi's assassination
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi lost in translation: How Puducherry CM Narayanasamy took the Congress leader for a ride

OpIndia Staff -
While a woman had complained that the Puduchery didn't visit them during the cyclone, the CM mistranslated it for Rahul Gandhi
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News Reports

After Uyghurs, minority Muslim community Utsuls in Hainan Island faces religious persecution by the Communist government in China

OpIndia Staff -
The Utsuls are a tiny community of Sunni Muslims, who live on the Hainan Island in the South China Sea.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Coronavirus cases see a sharp rise, govt warns of another lockdown

OpIndia Staff -
On every day of the second week of February, Maharashtra reported more than 3,000 coronavirus cases, something it had not reported in at least a month.
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News Reports

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra claims a sugarcane farmer in UP has not received payment, the farmer comes forward to fact-check her

OpIndia Staff -
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra claimed that a farmer has an outstanding payment of Rs. 6 lakhs due to him, which turned out to be a lie
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News Reports

Aatish Taseer draws inspiration from Yogendra Yadav, ‘Aandolanjeevis’ now go international

Shashank Bharadwaj -
It is rather funny that Aatish Taseer is now trying to be a free trial version of multi-faceted far-left 'protestor' Yogendra Yadav'. Except, he has now taken the game international.
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News Reports

Crackdown against Islamic extremism: French parliament passes the anti-radicalisation bill in lower house

OpIndia Staff -
The anti-radicalism bill was passed by the French legislators in the wake of Samuel Paty's beheading and a host of Islamist attacks in the country.
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi promises Union Ministry of Fisheries which Modi Govt already delivered in 2019. Here is what happened

OpIndia Staff -
Four time Rahul Gandhi revealed he does not know that an union ministry for fisheries was created by the Modi govt in 2019
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News Reports

USA: Republican Congressman tables resolution urging the US to boycott 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing

OpIndia Staff -
Waltz said that allowing China to host the 2022 Winter Olympics will be immoral, unethical and wrong.
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News Reports

Guwahati: Journalists Taufiquddin and Iqbal arrested for spreading photo of Himanta Biswa Sarma with his daughter with malicious claims

OpIndia Staff -
Editor in chief, News editor of Pratibimba Live arrested for report claiming that Himanta Biswa Sarma was seen hugging an unknown woman
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News Reports

Sexual harassment allegations: Delhi court acquits Priya Ramani in defamation case filed by MJ Akbar

OpIndia Staff -
"The society must understand the impact of sexual abuse and harassment on its victims", the Court said, adding the defendant had the rights under Article 21 that is guaranteed under the Constitution.
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News Reports

The South American connection to Tagore’s armchair, lies about which were peddled by Congress to attack Amit Shah: Read details

Jinit Jain -
Union Home Minister Amit Shah rubbished the allegations levelled by Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and stated that he did not sit on Rabindranath Tagore's chair
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News Reports

US President Joe Biden won’t talk to Saudi Crown Prince Salman, will talk to his ‘counterpart’ King Salman: White House

OpIndia Staff -
The White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced that US is 'recalibrating' its relationship with Saudi Arabia.
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News Reports

Amid rumours of TMC MP Nusrat Jahan’s divorce, her close friend and actor Yash Dasgupta may join BJP

OpIndia Staff -
Jahan, who married businessman Nikhil Jain two years back has reportedly been having a rocky marriage.
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News Reports

UP government gives the power of attaching properties to Deputy Commissioner rank officers under Gangster Act

OpIndia Staff -
The UP government has been taking stringent actions against gangsters in the state by demolishing their illegal properties.
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News Reports

Khalistani terror group SFJ launches website to support Disha Ravi, Deep Sidhu and others, starts email campaign to ban PM Modi in foreign countries

OpIndia Staff -
SFJ has urged its supporters to send emails to foreign ambassadors in India requesting to ban PM Modi from visiting their countries
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News Reports

Middle-aged unfunny ‘comedian’ protects his account after his vulgar tweets on Mamata Banerjee go viral

OpIndia Staff -
Netizens dredged up old tweets of comedian Atul Khatri where he had made obscene comments on West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee
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Fact-Check

Subramanian Swamy joins left-liberal media and Pakistan to peddle misinformation on SII vaccine delivered to South Africa

OpIndia Staff -
Speaking to the media, South Africa's Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said, "I would like to clarify a few media reports that said we had returned the vaccines to India. We have not returned the AstraZeneca vaccines to India".
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News Reports

Sword-wielding Republic Day rioter Maninder Singh arrested from Delhi

OpIndia Staff -
Manidner Singh reportedly motivated violence protestors at the Red Fort by performing sword-dance on the Republic Day.
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News Reports

ED attaches moveable properties of Amnesty India worth Rs.17.66 crore in money laundering case

OpIndia Staff -
ED found that Amnesty created two entities to skip FCRA and receive funds under guise of export of services and FDI.
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News Reports

Congress promises to build anti-CAA memorial if voted to power, promises to ‘respect’ Assam Accord

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi had recently stated that his part will 'respect' the Assam Accord and will not implement CAA if voted to power.
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News Reports

‘Farmer’ from Punjab attacks Delhi Police SHO in inebriated state at Singhu border, tries to snatch cop’s car

OpIndia Staff -
'Farmer' Harpreet from Punjab attacks Delhi Police personnel with sword in inebriated state
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News Reports

Kerala: Four policemen injured after Communist Party workers attack to free CPM leader from custody

OpIndia Staff -
A police team had arrived with court warrant to arrest Ambatt Ashokan, CPM's Nettur branch secretary, when they were attacked by over 50 party workers.
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News Reports

No suo moto contempt of court case against Rajdeep Sardesai, Supreme Court issues clarification

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court website was inadvertently updated to state that suo moto contempt of court proceedings were initiated against Rajdeep Sardesai.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh STF nabs two PFI terrorists with huge cache of explosives, wanted to carry out terror attack on Basant Panchami

OpIndia Staff -
During interrogation, PFI members revealed that they intended to brainwash and train physically strong youth of a 'particular community'.
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Editor's picks

SC takes suo motu cognisance, registers criminal contempt case against Rajdeep Sardesai: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognisance and registered contempt case after Rajdeep Sardesai tweeted undermining judiciary
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News Reports

US-based writer Gayle Kimball removes video of her 2020 interview with arrested ‘activist’ Disha Ravi: Here is what they don’t want you to know

OpIndia Staff -
In the 2020 interview too, Disha Ravi had gone on to spread misinformation and blatant lies to defame India on a global platform
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News Reports

‘We will make sure you are in the clear’: A panic-stricken Disha Ravi had told a panic-stricken Greta Thunberg after the Toolkit was tweeted

OpIndia Staff -
Moments after Greta Thunberg tweeted the "toolkit", climate activist Disha Ravi asked her not to tweet the toolkit as their names were on it and they could face charges under the UAPA
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World

Chinese debt crisis: After Sri Lanka, Venezuela the next target of China’s debt-trap diplomacy?

OpIndia Staff -
After Pakistan and Sri Lanka, Venezuela appears to be the latest in the list of nations staggering under the shadow of China’s crippling debts.
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Politics

Challenge Rahul Gandhi to contest elections from Gujarat: Smriti Irani slams Congress scion for hating on Gujaratis

OpIndia Staff -
Days after Rahul Gandhi threatened to steal money from Gujarat tea traders and give it to tea garden workers in Assam, Smriti Irani has issued a statement
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News Reports

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Rathod submits resignation as demand for his arrest in Pooja Chavan’s suicide case rises: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Is social media posts are to be believed, Pooja Chavan was in a relationship with the Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Rathod
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Social Media

Bollywood: Left trolls attack actor Ranvir Shorey for telling ‘dimwits’ to stop equating a democratically elected govt to the British

OpIndia Staff -
One Aqeel Khan tweeted to Ranvir Shorey saying, "If BJP loses, then, this transgender won't be seen anywhere."
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News Reports

Shantanu Muluk, co-accused in Greta ‘toolkit’ case receives support from his cousin who is a Shiv Sena leader

OpIndia Staff -
Sachin Muluk said that his brother is a 'criminal' only if supporting farmers in their demands to repeal the farm Laws is a crime.
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News Reports

Malayalam novel Meesha that sexualised temple-going women conferred Kerala Sahitya Akademi award

OpIndia Staff -
A conversation in the novel portrayed that women who visited temples to show that they were available for sex.
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News Reports

Karnataka Youth Congress to re-verify votes after allegations of fraud in electing state president

OpIndia Staff -
After alleged counting malpractice, the votes for Karnataka Youth Congress President election will be reverified on February 20 and 21
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News Reports

Project Ramlala: How women artisans in Uttar Pradesh are making khadi outfits for Ram Lalla in Ayodhya

OpIndia Staff -
Under Project Ramlala, women artisans who are working under the initiative have been making the outfits for the Ram Lalla deity in Ayodhya's Bhavya Ram Mandir.
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News Reports

Over 200 YouTube channels mushroomed in the last few months during farmer protests placed under scanner: Report

OpIndia Staff -
The freshly cropped up YouTube channels and social media accounts have been operational in Tikri, Singh and Ghazipur areas around Delhi border, as per reports.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Court denies bail to Ahmadi brothers jailed for ‘having Muslim wives’

OpIndia Staff -
Ever since Ahmadis were declared non-Muslims in 1974, they have been subjected to violence, discrimination and false cases of blasphemy.
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News Reports

Aam Aadmi Party, ‘Farmers protest’, Greta toolkit and Khalistan: The dots that need to be connected

OpIndia Staff -
While Congress fanned a protest with clear Khalistani roots, AAP too, it would seem, was inextricably involved with the global conspiracy against India.
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News Reports

‘Indian history was written by colonisers or their slaves, it is being undone now’: PM Modi inaugurates Maharaja Suheldev Memorial UP

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi virtually laid the foundation stone of Maharaj Suheldev Memorial and a host of other beautification and development projects in UP’s Bahraich.
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News Reports

Exclusive: NCPCR initiates action against pro-AAP YouTuber Dhruv Rathee for illegally obtaining IP location of a minor

OpIndia Staff -
NCPCR wrote to Twitter to take appropriate action against Rathee and sought details within seven days.
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