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Accused in Pooja Chavan suicide case, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Rathod to be accorded red carpet reception by supporters in Washim

OpIndia Staff - 23 February, 2021

The former Forest Minister Sanjay Rathod tendered his resignation last week after his name surfaced in the Pooja Chavan suicide case

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AIMPLB to launch Sharia web series, bilingual legal journal and ‘fight’ for Waqf properties

OpIndia Staff - 23 February, 2021

The General Secretary (AIMPLB) informed that the Sharia awareness web series will be created in the form of an interview-discussion.

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WhatsApp says users not accepting the new privacy policy will start to lose access from May 15: Report

OpIndia Staff - 23 February, 2021

In case users do not comply with Whatsapp's new policies, for a short duration they would be able to receive calls and notification, but they won't be able to read or send messages from the app from May 15 onwards.

Crime

Two arrested from West Bengal for raping 66 women, sent to police custody: Here are the details

OpIndia Staff - 23 February, 2021

West Bengal police arrested a delivery boy and his aide from Bandel in Hooghly, accused of blackmailing and raping 66 women.

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Baghpat chaat fight: Man from viral video explains reason behind the brawl. Watch

OpIndia Staff - 23 February, 2021

The man, identified as Harinder, is a chaat vendor along with others got into a fight with other chaat vendors who had opened shop about two months back.

Crime

Republic Day violence: Two more accused arrested from Jammu by Delhi Police special cell

OpIndia Staff - 23 February, 2021

Delhi police have filed around 38 FIRs and have so far arrested over 100 people in connection with the Republic Day violence.

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US President Joe Biden casually drops the N-word during Munich Security Conference, accused of racism on social media

OpIndia Staff - 23 February, 2021

The N-word is considered as one of the hateful words that were first uttered in the 17th century. Its origin can be traced back to the Spanish word 'negro', which is often used by white supremacists to deliberately offend the African-American community.

Social Media Fact-Check

Fact-check: Has Hollywood actor Gerard Butler embraced Hinduism

OpIndia Staff - 23 February, 2021

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

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

OpIndia Staff - 23 February, 2021

The contractor named Mohammad Firoz lives in Zhungi EDN City. The victim's family are migrant workers.

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

OpIndia Staff - 23 February, 2021

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

Politics

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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

Social Media

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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

Law

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

pranavchoudhury - 22 February, 2021

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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'

Politics

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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

Opinions

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

Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar - 22 February, 2021

Dogma and ideological stagnation has percolated through the cracks and crevices of contemporary life, society and politics.

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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.

Opinions

The state-sanctioned Christianisation of Andhra Pradesh: A primer

Sai Priya Chodavarapu - 22 February, 2021

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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.

Entertainment

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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

Crime

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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

WTF News

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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

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 - 22 February, 2021

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

Opinions

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

Sandeep Singh - 22 February, 2021

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.

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 - 22 February, 2021

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

World

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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

World

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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

News Reports

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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

World

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

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

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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