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Gujarat Government renames dragon fruit as ‘Kamalam’. Here is why

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi had mentioned dragon fruit and its cultivation in Gujarat in his Mann Ki Baat episode in July 2020.
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World

Day before US President elect Joe Biden takes office, Trump administration declares China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims as ‘genocide’

OpIndia Staff -
The Trump administration, in in last few hours of being in power, has declared that China is committing 'genocide and crimes against humanity' against the Uyghur community group.
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Entertainment

‘Will implemented changes to address concerns raised against Tandav, thank Ministry of I&B for guidance,’ says Director Ali Abbas Zafar: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Ali Abbas Zafar, the director of Tandav, has announced that the makers of the controversial web series will implement changes.
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Politics

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav tries to cash in on India’s great cricket victory, leaves netizens in splits with his bizarre poll promise: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Akhilesh Yadav posted a rather bizarre tweet promising to recognise "Tennis Cricket" if it is elected to power.
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World

‘Today Malaysia kept our aeroplane, tomorrow someone will keep the PM over non-payment of loans’: Pakistani lawmaker takes a dig at Imran Khan

OpIndia Staff -
The Pakistan lawmaker asserts that the day is not far when the Prime Minister will be detained for non-payment of loans.
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Crime

Kerala: Police registers 32 cases against 44 men for molesting a 17-year-old girl for over five years

OpIndia Staff -
Kerala police registered 32 cases against 44 men for molesting and raping the 17-year-old girl over five years.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Yogi Adityanath govt takes back Azam Khan’s Jauhar University land

OpIndia Staff -
Some conditions were set at the time of the sale of this particular land, which the Jauhar University trust has flouted.
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News Reports

Woman accused of stealing Nancy Pelosi’s laptop during Capitol Hill Riots arrested, suspected of trying to sell it to Russians: Details

OpIndia Staff -
The woman, identified as one Riley June Williams, was arrested on Monday from the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
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Entertainment

‘Comedian’ uses Kashmiri Pandit genocide to peddle propaganda about Munawar Faruqui

OpIndia Staff -
Samay Raina posted a tweet trivialising the horrors faced by exiled Kashmiri Pandits to oppose incarceration of Munawar Faruqui
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Politics

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee says she will ‘send people to disturb BJP meetings’: Here is what happened

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee claimed that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is sending its workers to Trinamool Congress's (TMC) meeting
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News Reports

Padma Shri awardee UK MP moves motion to commemorate 31st anniversary of the genocide of Kashmiri Pandits

OpIndia Staff -
Conservative MP Bob Blackman tabled a motion in the UK Parliament, commemorating the 31st anniversary of the genocide of Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley.
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Government and Policy

Food subsidy at Parliament canteen has been completely removed: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla

OpIndia Staff -
Last year too, the Members of Parliament, by a consensus, had decided to do away with food subsidy at Parliament canteen
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Political Fact-Check

Rahul Gandhi lies to claim PM Modi has no geopolitical understanding, Surjewala declares himself Joe Biden

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi lied that PM Modi had endorsed Donald Trump's candidature for the 2020 US presidential elections
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh police busts sex-trafficking racket, arrests Aftab who lures, rapes and sells victims after forced conversion to Islam

OpIndia Staff -
The Uttar Pradesh police said that this gang has implicated many vulnerable Hindu girls and sold them to their Muslim buyers
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Opinions

The paper-tigers of the Indian comedy circus: How mocking Hindus is a free hit but other faiths is a no-go

Jinit Jain -
Indian comedians have displayed evangelical zeal in poking fun at Hindus and their faith but they have not exhibited the same alacrity in sneering at Islam and Christianity
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News Reports

Canadian Politicians nominate Khalistani org Khalsa Aid for Nobel Peace Prize: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Canadian Parliamentarians have nominated Khalistani organisation Khalsa Aid for the Nobel Peace Prize for 'humanitarian work'.
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Cricket

Brisbane Test: Stadium reverberates with chants of ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’, Australian coach says can’t underestimate Indians

OpIndia Staff -
The loud cheer and the subsequent sloganeering reverberated in the stadium that even the audience, watching the live telecast, had a 'goosebump' moment.
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Opinions

How this New Yorker Article represents Deep-Rooted White Western Racism against ‘Brown Indians’

Saket Suryesh -
The New Yorker published an article by Bill McKibben, titled – Gandhi, History, and the Lessons of the Events at the Capitol.
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Politics

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh’s latest publicity stunt: Makes donation for Ram Mandir construction to score political brownie points

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"Religion is no test of nationality but a personal matter between man and his God", Digvijaya Singh quoted Mahatma Gandhi.
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Opinions

Shivraj Singh Chouhan never called for “tracking working women”: How liberals made a story out of nothing

Abhishek Banerjee -
You must have heard - MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan is planning to register and track every movement of working women - that is fake news
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Entertainment

‘Doob maro. If you have the courage, try doing something similar with people of other religion’, Raju Srivastav tears into makers of Tandav

OpIndia Staff -
Comedian Raju Srivastav also weighs in on the ongoing controversies linked with Saif Ali Khan starrer web series Tandav
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Fact-Check

Has China constructed a new village inside Arunachal Pradesh? Not quite: How NDTV misled with its ‘exclusive’ report

Maj Manik M Jolly, SM -
Report China building a village inside Arunachal Pradesh was bought out by NDTV yesterday - and it turned out to be fake news
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News Reports

‘Different policy for Indian and European users serious concern’: GoI directs WhatsApp to withdraw proposed privacy policy changes

OpIndia Staff -
The GoI has written to Will Cathcart, the CEO of WhatsApp, regarding privacy concerns and urged him to withdraw them.
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News Reports

UP: Somnath Bharti released from jail, AAP workers welcome him with ‘Modi-Yogi murdabad’ slogans

OpIndia Staff -
Somnath Bharti was sent to 14 days judicial custody for dishing out death threats to Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath and threatening police officers.
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News Reports

‘This is our global approach’: After CEO Jack Dorsey, Twitter legal head Vijaya Gadde floats ‘deamplification’ and more account suspensions

OpIndia Staff -
Project Veritas, has released a video where Vijaya Gadde, the legal and policy head of Twitter, discusses further censorship.
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Cricket

Watch: The historic moment when India secured the victory at Gabba, congratulations pour in from all quarters

OpIndia Staff -
BCCI announced Rs.5 crore bonus as India wins Gabba test by 3 wickets due to stellar knocks from Rishabh Pant and Shubman Gill.
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Cricket

India Vs Australia: Ajinkya Rahane’s gesture after fighting a bitter series wins hearts

OpIndia Staff -
Indian Cricketer Ajinkya Rahane, before taking the trophy gifted Australian cricketer Nathan Lyon a signed t-shirt.
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Cricket

Bruised but not broken: Indian creates history in Gabba, defeats Australia in its own bastion after 32 years

OpIndia Staff -
A predominantly inexperienced Indian side defeated Australia in its own bastion at the Gabba cricket stadium in Brisbane.
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News Reports

Terror group SFJ plans to plunge national capital into darkness, calls for destroying electric grids in Delhi on Republic Day

OpIndia Staff -
Terror group Sikh For Justice which is demanding Khalistan, has called to destroy power grid on Republic Day.
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Media

The hidden chats in the TRP Chargesheet that nobody is talking about, not even the police: India Today and BARC

OpIndia Staff -
In the TRP case chargesheet, pages of personal chats between Arnab Goswami and the ex-BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta have been added
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Politics

‘When will Rahul Gandhi and Congress stop lying on China?’: BJP Pres JP Nadda tears into Rahul Gandhi’s jibe on Arunachal Pradesh land

OpIndia Staff -
While taking a dig on PM Modi, senior Congress leader tweeted how PM Modi had promised he wont let the country bow down.
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News Reports

‘Mamata Banerjee is a Bangladeshi, working for Islamic terrorists’: UP minister Anand Shukla

OpIndia Staff -
Uttar Pradesh Minister Anand S Shukla termed Mamata Banerjee as the 'biggest threat to the nation'.
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Social Media

In 2013, NCERT had admitted they have no documents to back claims on Qutab Minar made in textbooks

OpIndia Staff -
NCERT's reply to a 2013 RTI query says they have no documents or epigraphic evidence to back the claims made regarding the Qutab Minar in their history textbook.
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Political Fact-Check

‘Locations you are referring to were under Chinese occupation since very long Congress regimes’: Kiren Rijiju schools Rahul Gandhi

OpIndia Staff -
China has built a village on Arunachal Pradesh land that was occupied by it in 1959 when Jawaharlal Nehru was India's Prime Minister
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News Reports

Actor Gurmeet Choudhary, who played the role of Lord Ram, shares video requesting all to donate for Ram Mandir

OpIndia Staff -
"I want to request all of you to come forward and donate for this noble cause," Gurmeet Choudhary said.
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World

Trouble for Pakistan increases as UAE may demand repayment of USD 3 billion loan like Saudi Arabia: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
It must be mentioned that UAE had also announced $3 billion worth of deferred oil payments for Pakistan but soon cancelled it.
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Crime

Grooming Jihad: Sohail becomes ‘Sunny’ to harass 22-year-old in Madhya Pradesh, first arrest under new law

OpIndia Staff -
Grooming Jihad: A man named Sohail Mansuri arrested under the new law against Grooming Jihad, is accused of abusing a 22-year-old woman to forcefully convert her.
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News Reports

Delhi: Woman approaches court after husband gives triple talaq after severe torture for want of a male child

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According to Hashim, she was also forced to undergo several abortions.
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Editor's picks

Mamata Banerjee declares war against Suvendu Adhikari, will contest 2021 polls from Nandigram, latter says ‘challenge accepted’

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee declared that she would be contesting the upcoming Assembly polls from Nandigram in Purba Medinipur.
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Media

From Times of Islamabad to The Hindu: 5 media outlets which ’knew about the Balakot airstrike before it happened’ according to ‘liberal’ logic

Dibakar Dutta -
The Mumbai Police leaked the private WhatsApp chats of Arnab Goswami on the internet in order to embarrass the Republic TV Editor.
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News Reports

California pauses the use of a huge batch of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine: Read why

OpIndia Staff -
Prior to this, a doctor in Boston had developed a severe allergic reaction after receiving Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
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Entertainment

‘Took his penis out and asked me to feel it’: Actress Sherlyn Chopra accuses Sajid Khan of sexual harassment

OpIndia Staff -
Sherlyn Chopra has come forward and alleged that Sajid Khan took his penis out of his pants when she went to meet him in 2006
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Entertainment

Director of ‘Tandav’ issues ‘unconditional apology’ for hurting Hindu sentiments after UP Police registers an FIR: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Ali Abbas Zafar, the director of the recently released controversial web series Tandav, has issued an "unconditional apology".
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Opinions

‘Consensual affair’ between minors and adults not a valid defense, says SC: Here’s why it is significant in view of growing Grooming Jihad cases

K Bhattacharjee -
The Supreme Court on the 13th of January delivered a very significant judgment in a case involving the kidnapping of a minor.
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Entertainment

BBC ‘Death in Bollywood’ documentary: Jiah Khan’s sister narrates how Sajid Khan harassed the actor, says ‘he asked her to take off her top’

OpIndia Staff -
BBC recently come out with a documentary series titled 'Death in Bollywood' that traced the mysterious death of late actress Jiah Khan
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Media Fact-Check

As India starts world’s largest COVID vaccination drive, media organisations resort to spreading lies and fear

Jinit Jain -
Several media organisations have published headlines that alluded the ward boy who died of heart attack in Moradabad, had lost his life because of COVID-19 vaccine
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News Reports

India Today CFO and Distribution Head being grilled by ED again in the fake TRP case: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
India Today CFO was earlier summoned by the ED for questioning in the TRP case on January 8.
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News Reports

‘Gaadi se layenge farzi comedian ko’: UP Police reaches Madhya Pradesh to take custody of Munawar Faruqui

OpIndia Staff -
UP Police has sought custody of 'comedian' Munawar Faruqui in a 2020 case pertaining to allegations of insulting Hindu gods and goddesses.
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Opinions

Hinduphobic content on OTT platforms and censorship: The case against it and the ironic case for it

Abhishek Banerjee -
Content creators don’t stay away from picking on other communities because they fear lawsuits or court cases. They stay away because they fear raw street power.
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News Reports

As ‘Tandav’ controversy erupts, an email written by Amit Malviya to Amazon surfaces

OpIndia Staff -
Malviya's email and shared an OpIndia report on the open ideological and political bias of Aparna Purohit, the creative head of Prime Videos.
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