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Media

SP friendly ‘journalist’ blames citizens for rising in COVID cases in Delhi, after hailing Arvind Kejriwal for controlling the pandemic

OpIndia Staff -
Rohini Singh on Friday, attempted to shield the Arvind Kejriwal-led government from any criticism for mishandling the coronavirus crisis
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Social Media

Facebook Oversight Board, which controls content, has a Muslim Brotherhood figure: Details

OpIndia Staff -
A member of the Facebook Oversight Board is a Muslim Brotherhood figure, a terrorist outfit banned in multiple countries.
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Politics

‘One day Karachi will be a part of India’: Devendra Fadnavis chimes in after Shiv Sena bullies Karachi Sweets owner

OpIndia Staff -
The former Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis pitched for the idea of an Akhand Bharat after the Karachi Sweets row
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News Reports

Outrage as Indian Consulate in Canada promotes JLF Toronto involving William Dalrymple, under fire for de-platforming of book on Delhi Riots, and abusive Devdutt...

OpIndia Staff -
Abusive ‘historian’ Devdutt Pattanaik and left-historian William Dalrymple invited by Indian Consulate in Canada for Litfest
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News Reports

Bengaluru merchant pledges Rs. 700 cr for Chottanikkara Temple renovation, including building a super speciality hospital and more: Read details

Dibakar Dutta -
Gold merchant from Bengaluru has offered to donate a whopping ₹700 crores to the famous Chottanikkara temple in Kochi in Kerala
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News Reports

Former Vice President Hamid Ansari, who had attended program by Islamist PFI, now rants against ‘aggressive nationalism’

OpIndia Staff -
Ansari claimed that even before the pandemic, society had become a victim of two other pandemics, to which he referred to as 'religiosity' and 'strident nationalism'.
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World

MPs abused, it was out and out racism: Lord Meghnad Desai quits UK’s Labour Party after they re-admit Jeremy Corbyn days after suspension

OpIndia Staff -
Indian-origin economist Lord Meghnad Desai has resigned as a member of the UK Labour Party after re-admitted Jeremy Corbyn
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World

Historic engagement with USA: President of Tibetan government-in-exile, Lobsang Sangay, visits White House for the first time in six decades

OpIndia Staff -
The visit by Dr Lobsang Sangay, who is the president of Tibetan govt-in-exile to the White House comes as a historic recognition
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World

‘You are all dead’: Month after Samuel Paty was beheaded by man screaming Allahu Akbar, school where he once taught threatened

OpIndia Staff -
In the last month, four people have been killed in France over the Prophet Muhammad cartoon row after Samuel Paty was beheaded
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World

1,300-year-old Temple discovered by Pakistani and Italian archaeologists in Northwest Pakistan, was built in Hindu Shahi period

OpIndia Staff -
Hindu temple, constructed around 1,300 years ago, has been unearthed by Pakistani and Italian archaeological experts in northwest Pakistan.
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World

Mass shooting rocks mall in Milwaukee, USA, 8 people injured including a teenager: Here is what we know so far

Dibakar Dutta -
Shooting incident took place at Mayfair mall, outside northwest entrance to Macy's, in the city of Wauwatosa near Milwaukee in Wisconsin
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World

Hundreds of fishermen contract mysterious skin disease in Senegal, suffer from lesions on the face, extremities and skin rash

OpIndia Staff -
Hundreds of fishermen in Senegal, a small country in West Africa, have contracted a mysterious skin disease recently
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Government and Policy

Uttarakhand govt decides to give Rs 50,000 for interfaith and intercaste marriage, withdraws order following criticism: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Social welfare dept of Uttarakhand govt had passed a controversial order to promote interfaith and intercaste marriages in the state
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News Reports

Tina Dabi and Athar Khan file for divorce: How media and politicians had turned their wedding into a spectacle to peddle their own propaganda

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Gandhi, Barkha Dutt, Kavita Krishnan and several others had congratulated Athar Khan and Tina Dabi on their interfaith marriage
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News Reports

Animal Welfare Board issues notice to producers of Tamil movie Eeswaran for using CGI snake without taking permission

Aditi -
AWB says that producers violated Performing Animals (Registration) Rules, 2001 by using a computer-generated snake in the movie
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News Reports

Vietnam: Facebook bends over backwards to appease communist regime by censoring ‘anti-state’ comments: All you need to know

Dibakar Dutta -
The Vietnamese government has threatened to close down Facebook if it did not censor anti-state political content on the platform
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News Reports

France refuses to upgrade Pakistan’s Mirage fighter jets, submarines, in retaliation to Imran Khan’s diatribes against President Macron

OpIndia Staff -
According to the news reports, France has also asked Qatar to not allow technicians of Pakistani origin to work on French fighter jets
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News Reports

Arvind Kejriwal govt in Delhi returns 50-bed Covid-19 centre provided by BJP MP Gautam Gambhir’s Foundation

OpIndia Staff -
Gautam Gambhir Foundation had provided a 50-bed Covid-19 isolation facility to the Delhi govt, but the govt returned the same
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Media

From India Today to The Wire: ED debunks fake news that claimed the agency had denied links between the PFI and Bhim Army

OpIndia Staff -
The Enforcement Directorate has debunked fake news spread by News18, India Today and The Wire over PFI-Bhim Army links.
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News Reports

Delhi HC orders Sameet Thakkar to remove tweets against India Today Group in the next 48 hours

OpIndia Staff -
A petition was filed by TV Today Network in the Delhi HC seeking directions against Sameet Thakkar, who had allegedly posted derogatory tweets against the network's senior management and staff.
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News Reports

Karnataka: Hoysala-era Mahakali idol at ASI protected Temple found damaged, miscreants suspected to have taken advantage of lack of security

OpIndia Staff -
A Hoysala-era idol of Mahakali at the Doddagaddavalli Temple near Hassan district, Karnataka was found damaged on Friday.
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News Reports

Nine out of Eleven component manufactures of Apple convinced to shift their plants from China to India: Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad

OpIndia Staff -
Taking benefit of the PLI scheme announced by govt of India, several component makers and assemblers of Apple moving to India
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Crime

Baghpat police arrest Akram and his wife Rukhsar for forcing a woman to convert to Islam after sexually exploiting and impregnating her

OpIndia Staff -
Following the victim's complaint, the Baghpat police have arrested accused Akram who was absconding. His wife was arrested by the police yesterday.
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Media

Trouble for India Today? ED to probe TRP case, channels mentioned in initial FIR, which did not name Republic, under scanner

OpIndia Staff -
The ED will investigate money laundering allegations and all channels mentioned in the original TRP case FIR will be probed.
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News Reports

Delhi police team to investigate a complaint filed by a Hindu man against a Muslim woman alleging forceful conversion and circumcision

OpIndia Staff -
The Hindu man had accused the Muslim woman and her relatives of forcefully converting him to Islam and getting him circumcised.
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Law

Abusive ‘comedian’ Kunal Kamra gets one step closer to seeing his desire of being a ‘liberal’ hero fulfilled: Read how

OpIndia Staff -
AG KK Venugopal has given his consent to initiate contempt proceedings against Kunal Kamra for his latest tweet insulting SC
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News Reports

Centre sends eviction notice to artists who have been squatting in govt houses for decades, they cry foul, call it ‘inhumane’

OpIndia Staff -
Union Culture Minister Prahlad Patel informed that the artists have been provided with a time window until December 31 to vacate their government accommodation where they have been overstaying for decades.
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News Reports

Initial probe into October 12 Mumbai power outage suggests it was sabotage, malware detected at the load dispatch centre

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra cyber department have traced malware at Padgha-based state load dispatch centre that caused Mumbai power outrage
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News Reports

Congress President Sonia Gandhi, accompanied by son Rahul Gandhi moves to BJP ruled Goa to get away from pollution in AAP ruled Delhi

OpIndia Staff -
To stay away from pollution in Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi, Sonia Gandhi has now decided to spend her vacations in BJP-ruled Goa
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Government and Policy

Uddhav Thackeray govt does a u-turn after promising inflated electricity bills waiver, BJP holds massive protest: Full details

OpIndia Staff -
Uddhav Thackeray govt stated that there will be no waiver as promised before and the consumers will have to foot the bills on their own.
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News Reports

‘Siddique Kappan a PFI office-bearer, was pretending to be journalist from a closed-down Kerala newspaper’: UP govt in Supreme Court

OpIndia Staff -
The UP government has asserted that Kappan has no locus standi to approach the Supreme Court under section 32 because he is not under illegal confinement but has been kept under judicial custody with an order passed by a competent court.
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News Reports

PM Modi holds review meeting after Nagrota encounter reveals that JeM planning a big terror attack on 26/11 anniversary

OpIndia Staff -
The information of the ‘big terror attack’ of the terror group was obtained after the Nagrota encounter in Jammu and Kashmir
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World

German police barge into the house of anti-lockdown activist Dr Andreas Noack, arrest him during YouTube livestream: Watch video

OpIndia Staff -
Dr. Andreas Noack, was arrested by the German Police on Wednesday in what appears to be a gross violation of personal liberty.
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Social Media

Shekhar Gupta virtue signals media for ‘fake news’ regarding India’s strike on Pakistan, Gen VK Singh reminds him of his own ‘coup story’

OpIndia Staff -
The minister and former army chief reminded Shekhar Gupta of the days when the senior journalist had published a fake story making wild speculations about a so-called 'coup' attempt by the Indian Army in Delhi.
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Media

Kashmir Walla editor Fahad Shah, accused of sexual assault, nominated by RSF for ‘prize for courage’

OpIndia Staff -
Fahad Shah, editor of The Kashmir Walla, has been nominated by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) for the 'prize for courage'.
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News Reports

UP govt to bring law against “Love Jihad”, home ministry sends proposal to law ministry to criminalise hiding identity to lure girls

OpIndia Staff -
The Home Department of the state has forwarded a proposal regarding the law against Love Jihad to the Department of Law of the state.
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News Reports

Sonia Gandhi, accompanied by either Rahul or Priyanka Gandhi, might fly out of Delhi due to rising pollution: Here is what reports indicate

OpIndia Staff -
Congress president Sonia Gandhi will fly out of Delhi on Friday, owing to the deteriorating levels of air pollution and poor air quality
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Opinions

Ashok Gehlot trivialises suffering of non-Muslim women by reducing ‘love jihad’ to interfaith marriages: Here is why he is horribly wrong

K Bhattacharjee -
Ashok Gehlot claimed that Love Jihad was 'manufactured' by the BJP to 'divide the nation' and 'disturb communal harmony'.
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News Reports

‘Tiny terrorist’ stabs inmate in Aussie prison where she is serving a 42-year term for screaming Allahu Akbar and stabbing landlord

OpIndia Staff -
‘Tiny Terrorist’ Momena Shoma was sentenced to 42 years in jail after stabbing her homestay host in the neck in 2018
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OpIndia Explains

When China moved away from Mao, Varavara Rao wanted to keep that flag flying high: Here is a profile of his most deranged thoughts

S. Sudhir Kumar -
The rise of Varavara Rao in the literary world happened at a time when poverty ruled the roost in our country.
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World

Arabs like to hunt Bustards of Pakistan because it is a sport and its meat is regarded as an aphrodisiac: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan government considers hunting of Bustards by Arab elites as "cornerstone" of its relationship with the middle-eastern Arab regimes
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News Reports

Bhutan rejects reports of Chinese village within its territory after NDTV claims of transgression based on Chinese media tweet

OpIndia Staff -
Rejecting media reports of China occupying Bhutanese territories, Bhutan's Ambassador to India clarified that no village has been set up by China inside Bhutan.
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World

London mosque attacker begs for jail time so he can memorize Quran from ‘start to finish’, media had termed attack a product of ‘Islamophobia’

OpIndia Staff -
During the hearing, Daniel Horton asked the court to send him jail rather than a psychiatric hospital so he could memorise the Quran
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Crime

Vikas Dubey’s wife, father, brother booked by SIT for getting arms licenses under fake documents, role of officials under scanner

OpIndia Staff -
18 persons have been booked under charges of fraud, forgery and other offences for getting arms licenses and SIM cards with fake documents and affidavits.
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World

Pakistan first ‘convicts’ UN-designated terrorist Hafiz Saeed for 10 years, then gives him VIP treatment: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Terrorist and Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, is being treated as a VIP in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan after being convicted for 10 years
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Social Media

Delhi Police arrests Instagram ‘influencer’ and her friends for robbing a man and spending lavishly in Goa: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Instagram "influencer" Amrita Sethi and her two friends were arrested from Goa for robbing USD 3,300 from a man in South Delhi
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News Reports

Congress issues notice to Jharkhand leader for criticising Rahul Gandhi and RPN Singh after Bihar election loss

OpIndia Staff -
Ansari had stated that Rahul Gandhi does not have the right kind of people to offer him sound political advice and hence he is failing to connect with the public.
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News Reports

Vatican launches ‘internal investigation’ after the Instagram handle of Pope Francis ‘likes’ a Bikini model’s photo

OpIndia Staff -
Vatican sources have said that the account of Pope Francis is managed by a team of employees and not the Pope himself.
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World

Pakistani religious preacher Khadim Hussain Rizvi dead, had demanded nuclear attack on France for Prophet Mohammad cartoons

OpIndia Staff -
Islamic cleric Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan chief Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi has died in Lahore days after he had threatened France with a nuclear attack.
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News Reports

Grooming Jihad: Muslim man pretends to be Hindu to marry a Hindu woman, demands Rs 25 lakh for ending the relationship

OpIndia Staff -
Muslim Man Sahil Khan. a resident of of Noida sector-15, introduced himself to the victim as a Hindu by changing his name to Sahil Singh.
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