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MDH Masala owner Mahashay Dharampal Gulati passes away at 97

OpIndia Staff -
Mahashay Dharampal Gulati, the owner of the spices brand 'MDH' passed away on Thursday morning following a cardiac arrest.
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News Reports

Darshan Pal, the coordinator of the farmer protests, was a founding member of Maoist organisation PDFI. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Darshan Pal, who demanded special parliament session to repeal farm laws, was convenor of 51-member executive committee of Maoist group PDFI
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News Reports

Govt of India orders Wikipedia to remove an image showing wrong map of Jammu and Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
This matter was flagged by a Twitter user asking government to take action against Wikipedia for displaying a wrong map of India
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News Reports

‘Jinnah did everything that is banned in Islam’: Images of alcoholic drink ‘Ginnah’ named after Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah go viral

OpIndia Staff -
A photo of a gin bottle 'Ginnah', eponymously named after Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, has gone viral on social media websites
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News Reports

Even pandering doesn’t get India Today a free pass: Here is why ‘liberals’ are today cancelling Rajdeep and Rahul Kanwal

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'Liberals' are cancelling India Today, Rajdeep Sardesai and Rahul Kanwal over their coverage of the allegations against Shehla Rashid
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News Reports

Pro-AAP blogger Dhruv Rathee wants foreign interference in country’s internal matters to offer Indians a solution

OpIndia Staff -
Dhruv Rathee claimed that India’s institutions have already been hijacked and have become puppets at the hands of Modi government
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News Reports

Captain Amarinder Singh hits out at Arvind Kejriwal, Kejriwal hits back but ends up making no sense: Read what happened

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Arvind Kejriwal accused Amarinder SIngh of playing 'low level politics', after Singh slammed him for notiyig a farm law they are opposing
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News Reports

Yogi Adityanath responds to Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut, busts claim about UP wanting to take film city away from Maharashtra

OpIndia Staff -
CM Yogi had announced that country's biggest Film City would be established at Gautam Buddh Nagar in Uttar Pradesh.
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Politics

Raut gives bizarre analogy trying to defend party after Azan row: Here are 4 things that he could have meant

OpIndia Staff -
Sanjay Raut came up with an absurd analogy in Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamana to ward off criticism over azaan recitation competition
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News Reports

Zombie Mink: Hundreds of mink carcasses emerge from the burial trenches in Denmark after mass-culling exercise

OpIndia Staff -
Dubbed as Zombie mink, the farm mink that were culled to prevent Covid-19 outbreak have 'emerged from their graves' in Denmark.
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News Reports

The return of ‘Award Wapsi’: As farmers protest continue, former Punjab sportspersons want to return awards

OpIndia Staff -
Punjab sportspersons have claimed that they will go to Delhi on 5th December and put their awards outside Rashtrapati Bhavan
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News Reports

Supreme Court asks UP government to make zig-zag roads to avoid felling of trees for Krishna Govardhan Road Project

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court said that building roads in a zig-zag way would reduce the speed of vehicles which would reduce accidents .
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World

Indonesian radical Muslims change words of Azan from ‘hurry to the prayer’ to ‘rise up for Jihad’: Here is what happened

OpIndia Staff -
A verse of the chant, which originally means “hurry to the prayer”, has been changed to “hayya alal jihad”, or “rise up for jihad” in Azan
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News Reports

China may have ‘planned’ the Galwan Valley faceoff, knowing there would be fatalities, says US security panel report

OpIndia Staff -
US agency claimed China planned Galwan Valley clash of June 15, with an intention to 'use fighting to promote stability'.
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News Reports

Kangana Ranaut served legal notice for mistaking an elderly woman in farmer protests for Bilkis Bano of Shaheen Bagh

OpIndia Staff -
Kangana Ranaut had commented on Twitter that the Shaheen Bagh Dadi was available on hire for appearing in protests. She had deleted her tweet later.
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News Reports

Twitter refuses to delete fake image posted by Chinese official or tag it as ‘manipulated media’ despite official complaint by Australia

OpIndia Staff -
The fake image posted by Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson was created by a Weibo user, but Twitter refuses to remove or tag it as fake
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News Reports

Mask violators to compulsorily serve at COVID-19 community centres: Gujarat High Court directs State to issue notice

OpIndia Staff -
The Gujarat High Court observed that monetary fines were not a sufficient enough deterrence for people to conform to COVID-19 guidelines and protocols
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh govt to scrap controversial scheme that rewarded ‘interfaith’ marriages: Reports

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Uttarakhand, which retained most of the laws from the parent state Uttar Pradesh, had also continued with the controversial 1976 scheme that incentivised interfaith marriages.
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Opinions

After US elections, Facebook and Twitter are getting ready to interfere with Indian elections: Why the centre must take note before 2024

Nupur J Sharma -
With Twitter's admitted Left-wing bias, nobody needs to wonder which side they would choose to censor and the trajectory is rather evident with the censorship of Malviya's tweet.
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Media

“Fact checking” is a new name for same old propaganda journalism

Abhishek Banerjee -
Why did journalists lose all credibility? Because bit by bit, we realized that journalists were just feeding us an agenda, not reporting facts.
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News Reports

Attorney General declines his consent to Congress supporter Saket Gokhale for initiating contempt proceedings against author Shefali Vaidya

OpIndia Staff -
The AG informed Saket Gokhale that as the tweets by Shefali Vaidya are more than one year old, contempt case can't filed against her
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News Reports

Ex-Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh’s father Yograj Singh joins Farmer’s protests, justifies “Indira thok di” comment

OpIndia Staff -
Multiple videos of Yograj Singh, Yuvraj Singh's father, have gone viral on social media where he has been giving provocative speeches amid the ongoing farmer protests
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News Reports

Calcutta High Court orders CAG audit of cyclone Amphan relief distribution in West Bengal amid allegations of wide-scale corruption

OpIndia Staff -
Several petitions were filed in the High Court alleging large scale corruption and irregularities in the distribution of cyclone Amphan relief
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News Reports

Coronavirus: Pfizer/BioNTech wins COVID-19 vaccine licence in UK

OpIndia Staff -
The UK has purchased 40 million doses of Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine which has shown to have 95% efficiency in final trials.
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News Reports

No politicians, farmers only: Centre bars Yogendra Yadav from being a part of farmers’ delegation for the discussions

OpIndia Staff -
Yogendra Yadav, a political activist and self-proclaimed psephologist, had wanted to be a part of the discussion but the government objected to his presence.
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News Reports

Webchutney: A marketing company with a ‘liberal’ CEO that seems to be dragging Swiggy through the mud

OpIndia Staff -
Food delivery app Swiggy recently stoked controversy by responding to a troll account taking an extreme political side
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Politics

As ‘Canadian Pappu’ trends, here is a lowdown on how Rahul Gandhi time and again aped Justin Trudeau’s PR strategy

OpIndia Staff -
While under Trudeau's leadership Liberal Party in Canada won the 2015 elections, under Rahul Gandhi's leadership, Congress had one of its most humiliating defeats in 2019 general elections.
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News Reports

Vienna IS Terrorist wanted to massacre Catholic Youth group inside Church, investigation reveals

OpIndia Staff -
On November 2, heavily armed terrorists had attacked different locations in central Vienna.
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News Reports

Read how protesting farmer union had asked for same things that new agricultural laws provide, but now opposes it for political gains

OpIndia Staff -
The BKU that is now leading the protests against the farm laws had demanded the same things as provided under the laws.
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News Reports

Yogi govt swings into action to help distressed daughter pleading for medical assistance for her father from non-responsive Akhilesh Yadav

OpIndia Staff -
Prateeksha Yadav Preet, a Mainpuri resident, tweeted to Yadav pleading for medical assistance for her father who had met with an accident earlier.
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News Reports

Delhi: Muslim youth flees home, escapes to Mumbai after his parents force him to attend madarsa

OpIndia Staff -
The Muslim boy escaped from Delhi, when he went to attend a class in madarsa, to Mumbai and was found begging on the streets
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News Reports

London: South Hall’s Havelock Road, named after British general who fought Sikhs, renamed as Guru Nanak Road

OpIndia Staff -
The name change of a part of Havelock road in London's Southall district will come into effect early in 2021
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News Reports

Yogi Adityanath to visit Maharashtra to attract investments to UP, Uddhav Thackeray says will not let anyone forcibly take away businesses

OpIndia Staff -
Yogi Adityanath will meet several industrialists and celebrities during his visit to Maharashtra to encourage them to invest in UP
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News Reports

Blocked roads, shut shops, water scarcity: Delhiites suffer due to farmer protests while the state govt welcomes the protesters

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Several roads connecting Delhi with nearby states have been blocked by police due to farmer protests, increasing traffic on other ones
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As Justin Trudeau interferes in India’s internal politics, ‘liberals’ invoke ‘Howdy, Trump’ event to again spread lies on PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
Leftist liberals started hoping on one leg after some social media users slammed Justin Trudeau for interfering in India internal matters
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Indian security forces entered 200 meters inside Pakistan to unearth starting point of the tunnel used by JeM terrorists

OpIndia Staff -
On November 22, a 150-meter tunnel used by terrorists was detected by security forces in Samba sector of Jammu and Kashmir
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News Reports

‘Sanitary Panels clearly implies that SC is biased towards BJP’: Attorney General slams comic artist for assault on courts, allows contempt proceedings

OpIndia Staff -
Webcomic Sanitary Panels founder Rachita Taneja is known for her controversial, hateful and often Hinduphobic Tweets
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News Reports

Meerut: Communal tension after members of Muslim community create ruckus over Facebook post ‘insulting’ Prophet Muhammad

OpIndia Staff -
Police force from several police stations was reportedly called in to control the situation in Meerut.
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Uttar Pradesh: Case under new Love Jihad law filed against two men for trying to convert a married Hindu woman to Islam

OpIndia Staff -
Case filed against Nadeem and Salman for trying to convert their Hindu co-worker Akshay's wife to Islam by regularly visiting her
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News Reports

After brutally suppressing protests by indigenous tribes in Canada, PM Justin Trudeau pontificates over farmers’ protests in India

OpIndia Staff -
Even though Canadian PM Justin Trudeau expressed his "concern" over the farmers' protest in India, Canada had last year moved WTO against India for high MSP rates
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News Reports

After creating trouble during Delhi Riots and Hathras, Bhim Army chief reaches the farmer protests site, now hijacked by Khalistanis

OpIndia Staff -
The so-called farmer protests have already been marred by the presence of Khalistani elements.
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News Reports

After Biriyani and AAP support, Shaheen Bagh’s dadi Bilkis Bano reaches Punjab farmer protest site too

OpIndia Staff -
From 'guest-appearence' protestors to Biriyani, most Shaheen Bagh themes are being repeated at Punjab farmer protests.
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Opinions

Farmer protest: From celebrity protestors hijacking the ‘protest’ to AAP and Congress fighting for credit, the circus is here

Nirwa Mehta -
The farmers protests in Delhi have turned into a Shaheen Bagh redux with the same usual suspects coming together.
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News Reports

Days after mysterious monolith in Utah disappeared following its discovery, similar metal monolith appears in Romania

OpIndia Staff -
The 13 feet high metal monolith has a mirrored surface and was found near the historic landmark of Petrodava Dacian Fortress
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News Reports

PFI is using ’72 hoors in Jannat’ concept to lure Muslim men into Jihadi activities, running terrorist schools: Sufi Islamic Board

OpIndia Staff -
PFI and SDPI are under scanner after the anti-Hindu Delhi Riots and Bengaluru riots earlier this year.
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News Reports

“Ill-informed and unwarranted”: India hits back at Canadian PM Justin Trudeau over his comments on farmer protests

OpIndia Staff -
Canadian PM and Sikh members of parliament in Canada have made statements supporting the ongoing farmers' protests in India
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Crime

Grooming Jihad: Golu Khan lured minor victim by wearing tilak and kalawa, used to visit temples with her

OpIndia Staff -
The victim alleged that Golu Khan introduced himself as 'Raj' and befriended her. He later disclosed his Muslim identity and forced her to convert.
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Editor's picks

Maharashtra: Farmers in four districts record Rs 10 crore out-of-mandi trade with the help of new farm laws

OpIndia Staff -
FPCs in four districts in Maharashtra have made about Rs 10 crores from trade outside mandis after the laws were passed
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News Reports

US govt seeks clearance from court to extradite 26/11 Pakistani terrorist Tahawwur Rana to India

OpIndia Staff -
Tahawwur Rana was charged for waging war, committing a terrorist act, commission of murder and conspiracy in the deadly 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
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News Reports

Instead of answering allegations, Shehla Rashid decides to run away from a live show, calls her father ‘greedy’

OpIndia Staff -
Shehla Rashid, JNU student leader, has been accused by her biological father Abdul Rashid Shora, of taking Rs 3 crore from terror funding accused Zahoor Vatali and Rashid Engineer.
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