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Private procurements from Adani group helped eliminate middlemen and generate more income, reveals apple farmers from Himachal Pradesh

OpIndia Staff -
Apple Orchard manager Manjeet Singh Dhillon informed that Adani group had been purchasing apples from farmers since 2006.
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News Reports

Eight months after cutting water supply of migrants to drive them away in middle of pandemic, Arvind Kejriwal govt offers free water to protesting...

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi Jal Board VP and AAP MLA Raghav Chadha himself went to Burari to ensure water tankers are available for protesting farmers
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News Reports

‘Shaheen Bagh returns’: Netizens react as protesting ‘farmers’ served biryani at Ghazipur in New Delhi

OpIndia Staff -
Biryani at the ongoing farmers' protest brings back memories of the 'organic' Shaheen Bagh protests
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News Reports

Farmer group bats for ‘middlemen’, hails them as ‘service providers’ while scare-mongering about reforms in agriculture sector

OpIndia Staff -
Protesting farmers say that they are happy to pay commission to middlemen, claims new farm laws are not needed for their protection
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News Reports

Protests against farm laws are based on rumours and misinformation: PM Modi punctures holes in the propaganda surrounding farm laws

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi noted, "The government is consistently addressing the fears and queries of farmers who are anxious about the government's decision."
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Opinions

Not ‘just a municipal election’, a defeat of TRS in the Hyderabad Municipal Elections will alter the political discourse of the state

S. Sudhir Kumar -
Not just top BJP leaders, top TRS leaders are also campaigning hard for the GHMC elections, making it more than just a municipal election
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Social Media

Former PMO official from UPA era gets excited at ‘New Zealand MP supporting farmers,’ except that no MP from New Zealand supported

OpIndia Staff -
The former advisor to Manmohan Singh shared a Tweet by Canadian politician to claim that a 'New Zealand' MP is supporting the Punjab farmers' protest
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News Reports

Bijnor: Youth murdered because his brother had run away with a girl, case filed against the girl’s father Asgar and her brothers

OpIndia Staff -
Shivan murdered by Asgar and his sons because he was supporting his brother Sagar, who was jailed for having affair with Asgar's daughter
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Politics

Odisha: BJD MLA expelled from party for links with ‘vigilance raid’ IFS officer and his son, accused of ‘anti-people activities’

OpIndia Staff -
The BJD MLA's daughter was scheduled to marry the corruption accused IFS officer's son in December.
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Economy and Finance

What they never told you when they said India was the worst performing emerging economy

Abhishek Banerjee -
India’s economy contracted by 23.9%. For comparison, Brazil’s GDP contracted by 11.9% and Russia’s GDP by 8%. So, did they really do better than India?
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News Reports

Assam closes down temporary Covid-19 care centres, gears up to reopen elementary schools as pandemic gets under control

OpIndia Staff -
Assam has been witnessing reduced cases of Covid-19 with recovery rate of 98 per cent and the death rate of 0.46 per cent
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News Reports

Shiv Sena to organise Azaan recitation competition, party leader calls it as important as ‘Maha Aarti’

OpIndia Staff -
Shiv Sena is to bear the cost of the event and will also reward the contest winners.
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News Reports

‘I am like the Laila who has thousands of Majnus’: AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi on BJP’s attacks

OpIndia Staff -
Owaisi claimed he is 'Laila' and there are many 'Majnus' who want to use his name for votes.
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News Reports

Chinese foreign ministry shares a fake image of Australian soldier murdering an Afghan child; PM Scott Morrison demands apology from Beijing

OpIndia Staff -
The fake image was shared in the wake of a report on war crimes committed by Australian forces deployed in Afghanistan
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Editor's picks

’Is that a water bottle?’: AAP candidate Asra Fatima’s poster for Hyderabad municipal elections has netizens in splits

OpIndia Staff -
In a true show of patriarchy, the women's identity of AAP candidate in GHMC polls is reduced to being a wife of party member.
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News Reports

Singapore: Woman who was infected with Covid-19 during pregnancy gives birth to baby with Coronavirus antibodies

OpIndia Staff -
The Singaporean woman was infected with Coronavirus during first trimester of pregnancy, and her newborn child has antibodies
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News Reports

Indian Idol contestant reveals how she faced opposition from conservative Muslim society as singing is ‘not allowed’

OpIndia Staff -
The Indian Idol contestant revealed how women in her society are looked down upon if they try to excel in any field.
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News Reports

As Punjab ‘farmers’ hold the national capital hostage, here is how the central govt was snubbed every time they tried to reach out

OpIndia Staff -
From Prime Minister's national radio address to Home Minister's appeal, the central government has made various attempts to speak to the agitating 'farmers' from Punjab.
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News Reports

Kerala: 2 years after she lost her baby after CPI(M) leader kicked her stomach, Jyotsna Jose to contest panchayat elections on BJP ticket

OpIndia Staff -
Kerala will hold local body elections on December 8, 10 and 12. The results will be declared on December 16.
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Opinions

With an information overdose on social media and deluge of OTT platforms, it is time to be digitally ‘Atmanirbhar’

Priyank -
Getting 'cancelled' or ostracized on social media may seem harmless, but as these technologies weave themselves tighter into our day to day lives, the impacts of such cancellations can be far-reaching.
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News Reports

His family called our children ‘illegitimate’ because I didn’t convert to Islam’: Late music composer Wajid Khan’s wife reveals

OpIndia Staff -
Wajid Khan's wife has stated to Times of India that the late music composer's family never accepted her wedding under the Special Marriages Act because she had refused to convert to Islam.
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Opinions

7 March 1990: When Khalistani terrorists killed 22 Hindus and ruined dozens of families

Anurag -
Abohar is a town in Fazilka, Punjab, near the India-Pakistan border.
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News Reports

Farmer thanks PM Modi for mentioning him during Mann Ki Baat, narrates how the passage of Farm Bills helped him

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi's Mann Ki Baat speech came just as the issue has been raked up once again as ‘farmers’ from Punjab and Haryana have marched towards Delhi to protest against the farm bills.
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News Reports

Rebellion inside Rahul’s Congress grows, Anand Sharma defies party line, hails PM Modi for visit to Coronavirus vaccine hubs

OpIndia Staff -
A day after Congress criticised PM Modi's visit to Coronavirus vaccine hubs, senior Congress leader Anand Sharma has defied the party line
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News Reports

From support for zamindars to ‘protest will help overthrow Modi govt’: A saga of clueless people at farmer protest

OpIndia Staff -
A series of interview of protestors by the team of Know the Nation reveals how many of these protestors are completely clueless about why they are there
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News Reports

SFJ ads appear on YouTube offering $10m support for farmers, in return, wants Sikhs to join ‘Khalistan movement’: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Amid ongoing farmers’ protests in Punjab, Haryana, and Delhi, it is evident that Khalistani supporters have hijacked the protests and now, they are running ads on YouTube
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News Reports

President of farmer organisation says they will block all five entry points to Delhi because Burari park is an ‘open jail’: Details

OpIndia Staff -
The farmers protesting against the Modi government over new farm laws have rejected Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s proposal for a discussion on their grievances.
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News Reports

A year after quitting Congress over ‘petty politics’, Urmila set to join Shiv Sena, to be nominated as MLC

OpIndia Staff -
Urmila Matondkar is expected to be nominated as MLC by the Shiv Sena led Maharashtra government
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Politics

‘Haven’t you seen how they cry, do ‘haye tauba’: Here is what Amit Shah said, responding to Owaisi’s comment about illegal Rohingyas

OpIndia Staff -
Amit Shah said when he takes action against Rohingyas and Bangladeshis back, leaders like Owaisi stand against him in Lok Sabha.
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Cricket

Indian man proposes to his Australian girlfriend during Ind vs Aus cricket match, here is what happened next

OpIndia Staff -
While India's performance has been below par, netizens found happiness in the unusual proposal that became the highlight of the match.
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News Reports

NIA refutes claims about ‘activist’ Stan Swamy’s straw and sipper seized by agency. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
NIA stated that when Stan Swamy's personal search was undertaken in presence of two independent witnesses no such straw or sipper was found on him as claimed by him.
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Politics

France, Germany, UK and all other countries we should boycott for using water cannon and tear gas

Abhishek Banerjee -
As a newly woke nation, we also have a moral responsibility to oppose other countries that carry out atrocities such as using water cannons on protesters.
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News Reports

Farmers’ organisations blocking roads at outskirts of Delhi reject Home Minister Amit Shah’s goodwill gesture of talks

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, the Home Minister in a goodwill gesture had said the government was willing to talk on "every problem and demand". He also urged the farmers to move their protest to a designated spot near Burari in the national capital.
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News Reports

Mann Ki Baat: Canada to return ancient Maa Annapurna idol stolen from Varanasi temple 100 years back, says PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
Emphasising the rich Indian culture and traditions, Prime Minister in his monthly address to the nation said that the World Heritage Week provides a wonderful opportunity to the lovers of culture to revisit the past and to know about the history of these important milestones.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: 18-year-old rape accused force-fed faeces, beaten up in Dholpur

OpIndia Staff -
A man in Dholpur Rajasthan was forced to eat human faeces for allegedly molesting a girl
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News Reports

‘Will not say Jai Hind, will teach lesson to Modi like we taught Indira’: Khalistani protester in presence of AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan

OpIndia Staff -
Sikh protester threatens to teach Modi a lesson in the save way they taught Indira Gandhi in the presence of AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan
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Government and Policy

Mann Ki Baat: PM Modi remembers Guru Nanak, speaks on Farm Bills as Khalistanis try to hijack farmers’ protest

OpIndia Staff -
Amid the farmers' protest, he also asked the agricultural students to inform the farmers about the bills to clear their doubts
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Cricket

Pakistan cricket captain Babar Azam accused of sexually assaulting, exploiting woman for a decade after promising to marry her

OpIndia Staff -
In an explosive press conference on Saturday a woman levelled serious allegations of sexual abuse and assault on Pakistani cricketer Babar Azam.
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Crime

UP registers first Grooming Jihad case under new anti-conversion law, accused, who was forcing Hindu girl to convert, absconding

OpIndia Staff -
A day after UP passed new anti-conversion law to curb menace of Grooming Jihad (Love Jihad), police have registered its first-ever case
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News Reports

Karnataka: Radical Islamist graffiti, calling for beheading for insulting Prophet Muhammad, appears in Mangaluru

OpIndia Staff -
"The only punishment for insulting Prophet Muhammad is beheading of the one accused of blasphemy," the graffiti in Mangaluru read.
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World

UAE punishes Pakistan for not relenting on its anti-Israel stand? Pakistanis lose 3,000 jobs in a week after visa ban: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
While the visa ban by UAE was initially limited to tourist visas, it was later extended to employment and work visas for Pakistan
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Ballia resident Saiyed Ali slits throat of 16-year-old Ritika after she rejects his advances

OpIndia Staff -
In one more case of grooming jihad, a 16-year-old girl named Ritika was brutally murdered by one Saiyed Ali after she refused to reciprocate to his advances.
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News Reports

Puducherry resident Manzoor Ali abuses Hindu deities, priests at a Hindu temple, arrested: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
As the priests and other temple temple workers confronted him and tried to stop him, Manzoor Ali is said to have abused them as well.
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News Reports

Private Secretary to Haryana CM exposes lies and hypocrisy of Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh with records. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Despite a total of 13 calls, the Haryana government did not receive a proper official correspondence from the Punjab Chief Ministers' office.
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World

As Iran vows to avenge their nuclear scientist Fakhrizadeh’s murder, read how 62-member squad planned and carried out his assassination

OpIndia Staff -
The killing of Fakhrizadeh is the latest in the serious high-profile assassinations of people belonging to Iranian regime since the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani.
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News Reports

Actor Deep Sandhu disappoints Barkha Dutt after she provides platform to ‘distance himself’ from OpIndia report that he supports Khalistan

OpIndia Staff -
Barkha Dutt lamented after actor Deep Sidhu refused to condemn Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and to call him terrorist on her YouTube channel
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News Reports

Attorney General declines to allow contempt proceedings against Prashant Bhushan as he has already apologised, slams him for comments against CJI

OpIndia Staff -
Prashant Bhushan had apologised for linking facilities given to CJI by Madhya Pradesh govt with MLA disqualification case at the SC
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News Reports

Hindu Munnani warns of Islamist terror attack in Tamil Nadu after Coast Guard find drugs and arms in a Sri Lankan vessel linked to...

OpIndia Staff -
A couple of days ago, Coastal Guard had intercepted a Pakistan linked vessel smuggling drugs and arms into Tamil Nadu from Sri Lanka
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News Reports

Amidst warnings from New Zealand cricket board for violating isolation protocol, 7th Pakistani cricketer diagnosed with Coronavirus

OpIndia Staff -
The Pakistani cricketers have been confined to a hotel in Christchurch and the team been barred from further training.
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News Reports

Yogi Adityanath campaigns for BJP in Hyderabad for upcoming municipal polls, holds a roadshow in Malkajgiri area

OpIndia Staff -
It may be recalled that after PM Modi, Yogi Adityanath was the most sought after campaigner for the Bihar elections
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