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Economy and Finance

India witnesses a record high collection of GST in December: Finance Ministry

OpIndia Staff -
In a major development, India witnessed a record high collection of Goods and Services Tax (GST) for the month of December 2020.
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News Reports

Over 100 benami properties, assets worth Rs 200 crore in driver’s name: Read details of what ED recovered in raid of rape accused SP...

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SP leader Gayatri Prajapati along with the then UP CM Akhilesh Yadav were allegedly involved in the illegal sand mining scam
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News Reports

Shiv Sena leader who vandalised Karachi Sweets seeks to get 55 criminal cases withdrawn: Her is how he plans to use new state policy

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The Maharashtra government has cleared a proposal allowing withdrawal of cases registered for social/political agitations.
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World

Two Hindus found hanging inside police officer’s room in Pakistan’s Sindh, activist says they were tortured before being murdered

OpIndia Staff -
The rampant persecution of minority girls, especially Hindus, has become a recurrent theme in Pakistan and this is just another example
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Media

Associated Press claims ‘Muslims and Hindus live peacefully in Pakistan’, while reporting the Islamist attack on Hindu temple: Details

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AP said in a report recently that a thousand girls from minority religions in Pakistan are forcefully converted to Islam every year.
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World

Former CIA agent reveals how a Jihadi turned Al-Qaeda mole duped US Intelligence services and unleashed a terror attack: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Former CIA agent Marc Polymeropoulos revealed how a jihadi-turned-agent duped the US Intelligence Services
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News Reports

US intelligence reports suggest China paid non-state actors in Afghanistan to attack American troops

OpIndia Staff -
US intelligence reports suggest that China offered to pay non-state actors in Afghanistan to attack American soldiers
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News Reports

Does TMC still have majority? Bengal opposition parties speculate, push Mamata Banerjee for trust vote

OpIndia Staff -
The recent string of resignations has triggered speculations that Mamata Banerjee has lost the numbers in the Assembly.
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News Reports

Suvendu Adhikari’s brother Soumendu Adhikari files petition in Calcutta HC against his removal from Contai Municipality by Mamata Banerjee govt

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Soumendu Adhikari may follow his brother Suvendhu Adhikari and leave TMC to join BJP in the coming days
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World

Pakistan Army Colonel converting UN mission employees, predominantly Christian, to Islam in Congo: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
A Pakistan Army official is accused of converting UN mission employees in Congo where Islam is in minority
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News Reports

Another PR stunt? Deepika Padukone deletes Instagram and Twitter photos, netizens speculate

OpIndia Staff -
Netizens are wondering whether this is another PR stunt by the actress ahead of her upcoming film projects.
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News Reports

Pakistan national Bano Begum becomes Etah district’s gram panchayat head, had forged Aadhar and voter ID: Read details

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Pakistani woman who had come to India 35 years ago to attend a family wedding managed to get elected as the head of the village panchayat
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News Reports

Ex-Army officer faces threats and assault by Shiv Sena goons, Mumbai Police ignoring complaints: Read exclusive details

Jhankar Mohta -
The veteran has stated that local corporator Ghole's threats and attacks started after he tried to complain against an illegal structure being used by local goons for anti-social activities.
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News Reports

From the Sonbhadra case to a Hindu woman being force-fed beef for forced conversion to Islam: Ten gruesome cases of Grooming Jihad in 2020

OpIndia Staff -
As the year comes to a close, let us look back at a few of the most gruesome Grooming Jihad (Love Jihad) cases of 2020
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News Reports

PM Modi’s clocks highest approval rating among the world leaders, with a net rating of 55%: US data firm

OpIndia Staff -
The data, last updated on December 23, puts PM Modi ahead of his counterparts such as Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron, Scott Morrison, Angela Merkel, Jair Bolsonaro and others on the scale of 'net approval'.
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News Reports

Shiv Sena clears proposal to give Rs 9.5 crore waiver to Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, Sena’s own allies see red: Read Details

OpIndia Staff -
Shiv Sena led standing committee of BMC has decided to clear proposal for an almost Rs 10 crore waiver to Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.
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Economy and Finance

Over Rs 70,000 crore economic loss has been caused in the December quarter, thanks to the ‘farmer’ protest: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Farmer protest against the three farm laws enacted by the govt last year have reportedly cost the economy over Rs 70,000 crores
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News Reports

BBMP proposes to name roads in Muslim areas in Bengaluru after Muslims, drops the proposal after BJP MPs oppose it

OpIndia Staff -
Following wide backlash over naming the roads after Muslims, the BBMP decided to revise the list of names.
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Social Media

Journalist’s iPhone gets stolen at farmers’ protests, read how heartless ‘trolls’ reacted

OpIndia Staff -
After Saba Naqvi informed that her iPhone was stolen at the farmer protest site, heartless 'trolls' mock her and her ideology
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News Reports

‘You are not even a Dalit, tried extorting money to settle divorce’: Former husband makes sensational claims about ‘Dalit activist’ Meena Kandasamy

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Dr Dharmaraja has also accused Meena Kandasamy of harassing and pressurising him to provide for Rs 15 lakhs to settle the divorce case.
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News Reports

Pakistani media spreads fake news that Syed Ali Shah Geelani is dead, his family says the reports are false and baseless

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistani media house Daily Times had reported that Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Geelani had passed away due to a serious illness
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News Reports

Did railway officials deboard two passengers because they were ‘low class’? Here is the CCTV footage that exposes the lie

OpIndia Staff -
The CCTV footage showed that the two passengers had reached the station after the train had left, and they were not deboarded
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Crime

Meerut: Javed slit his married girlfriend’s throat while her five children watched

OpIndia Staff -
The accused alleged that the victim who was already married wanted to marry another man named Sonu.
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News Reports

From the Dara Hua Hindus of Maujpur to Manav’s tragic death and Shaheen Bagh ground report: Top 10 exclusive OpIndia news breaks of 2020

OpIndia Staff -
From stories on Grooming Jihad to unmasking 'civil society organizations', OpIndia published a lot of exclusive news stories in 2020.
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News Reports

Ujjain: The colony where Ram Mandir fund collection rally was attacked by Muslim mob to be demolished

OpIndia Staff -
The house used by the mob to attack the Hindu rally in Ujjain with stones was already demolished on the same day by the administration
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News Reports

From Grooming Jihad, Hathras case to exposing ‘drone boy’: Here are the top 10 articles of 2020 by OpIndia

OpIndia Staff -
These are the top 10 articles on OpIndia that you helped go viral and made them the most read this year.
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News Reports

COVID: Healthcare workers to get vaccinated first, followed by frontline workers, India orders 83 crore syringes

OpIndia Staff -
The government of India has clarified that before mass vaccination for the general public, healthcare workers will be vaccinated first, followed by frontline workers.
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News Reports

Rabindranath Tagore or Rabindranath Thakur? Here is the truth

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Zee News anchor Aman Chopra slammed TMC leader Anirban Banerjee for using the name Rabindranath Thakur instead of Tagore
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News Reports

From Pranab Mukherjee, Sushant Singh Rajput to Maradona: A list of 15 celebrities who passed away in 2020

OpIndia Staff -
This year, consistent with the gloom that has surrounded it, has also seen the deaths of quite a few celebrities, both in India and abroad.
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News Reports

‘Love Caravan’ Harsh Mander, ‘Ichchhadhaari protester’ Yogendra Yadav and more: The Top 10 villains for the year 2020

OpIndia Staff -
Our list of the most heinous villains of the year 2020. And since we are an Indian media outlet, this report is from an Indian perspective.
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News Reports

From ‘Dr Aisha’ to WSJ and NYT: The Top 10 Fake News for the year 2020 and their fact-checks

OpIndia Staff -
The year 2020 was the year of Fake News and Fact Checks. Apart from the Coronavirus pandemic, there was an epidemic of fake news as well.
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News Reports

Mexico: Man digs a tunnel to meet married girlfriend, gets caught by husband ‘mud-handed’

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In Mexico, a husband was shocked when he found that his wife's boyfriend has dug a tunnel connecting their houses.
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Social Media

‘Wonder Woman’ Gal Gadot thinks Shaheen Bagh Bilkis was ‘fighting for women’s equality’, deletes story later

OpIndia Staff -
Wonder Woman Gal Gadot faced criticism for calling anti-CAA protestor Bilkis as an activist fighting for 'women's equality'.
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Crime

Andhra Pradesh: Shri Ram idol at Ramateertham temple found ‘beheaded’, opposition attacks Jagan Reddy govt

OpIndia Staff -
Another temple attack in Andhra Pradesh, Ram Idol broken, thrown into pond at Ramateertham, Vizianagaram.
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News Reports

CBI raids residences of Trinamool Youth Congress General Secretary in connection with cattle smuggling case: Details

OpIndia Staff -
CBI conducted raids at several locations in West Bengal including two Kolkata residences of TMC Youth Wing General Secretary Vinay Mishra
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News Reports

While holidaying in Italy, Rahul Gandhi decides to create chaos in India by spreading fake news about loan write-offs: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi does not understand the difference between a loan 'write-off' and a loan 'waiver'
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Social Media

What happens to someone’s Gmail, Facebook and other social media accounts after they die? Here are the answers

Anurag -
Death is evident. It is up to you how you want your social media accounts to be after your death.
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Politics

‘NCP weakening Congress like termites in Maharashtra’: Mumbai Congress fears mass migration from party, writes to Sonia Gandhi

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Congress in Maharashtra asserted that some necessary concrete steps are needed to prevent migration from the party
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News Reports

From West Bengal to Maharashtra, Kerala, Delhi etc: Here are the do’s and don’ts in various states on New Years eve

OpIndia Staff -
Owing to the Coronavirus pandemic, like other festivals, the new years eve celebration will also not be the same this year
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Opinions

Bihar’s female voter is the unsung ‘Person of the Year’, let us give her the respect she has earned: Here is how

Abhishek Banerjee -
A day after Bihar Assembly polls results, a much-flustered intellectual declared: “Elections are no longer the most happening things in our democracy.”
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News Reports

Study by IIT Gandhinagar and Archaeological Department reveals the existence of a three-level structure beneath Somnath temple

OpIndia Staff -
The investigation below the ground around Somnath temple was carried out on the directions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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Opinions

Reservation for govt school students: Is the Odisha govt admitting that they have created a new backward class in the state?

Sambit Nayak -
By announcing reservation for government school students, is CM Naveen Patnaik admitting that in 21 years of his rule, he has created a new backward class in the state?
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Opinions

F*ck you, 2020

Nirwa Mehta -
2020, what a terrible year you have been! You are cancelled.
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News Reports

When Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi vowed to destroy Somnath temple in India

OpIndia Staff -
As Pakistani destroy Hindu temples and continue to persecute religious minorities, a video of Pakistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs vowing to destroy Somnath temple has gone viral.
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Crime

Haryana: Arrested Khalistani terrorists linked to SFJ, wanted to attack Shiv Sena leaders in Punjab. Details

OpIndia Staff -
SFJ's Gurmeet Singh had reportedly asked the two men to attack two Shiv Sena leaders in Punjab for their anti-Sikh statements and had sent them money online.
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News Reports

Khalistani terrorist Sukh Bikriwal connected to Pakistan’s ISI arrested at IGI Airport

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Sukh Bikriwal has been involved in targeted killings of many politicians in Punjab on behest of Pakistan's ISI
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News Reports

Hindu temple razed down in Pakistan, terrorists in J-K lob grenade at temple in Kathua: Details

OpIndia Staff -
The terrorists' attack on a temple in Kathua comes just a day after residents of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Karak district in Pakistan razed down a historic Hindu temple.
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News Reports

Hyderabad: 54-year-old Abdul Lateef marries 16-years-old minor girl, detained by police

OpIndia Staff -
Abdul Lateef, a 54-year-old man from Kerala, has been held for marrying a 16-year-old girl in Hyderabad.
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News Reports

Karnataka’s Rs 620 cr Safe City project, irregularities in tender process, whistleblower D Roopa’s side of the story and links to IMA Gold scam

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Hemant Nimbalkar is Chairman of both Tender Inviting Committee and Tender Scrutinising Committee of the 'Safe City' Project
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News Reports

Karnataka: Watch Radical Islamic outfit SDPI raising ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans during poll celebrations, 15 booked

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Police said they have registered a case against 15 SDPI members for raising Pakistan Zindabad slogans under various sections
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