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While Arnab Goswami spends his 7th night in jail for a closed case, wife of Firoz Nadiadwala arrested for possessing drugs gets bail by...

OpIndia Staff -
NCB had arrested the wife of Bollywood producer Firoz Nadiadwala on Sunday after it recovered drugs from her residence
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Media

‘We are living in house arrest like conditions for the past 10 days’: OTV MD Jagi Mangat Panda’s father seeks protection from HM Amit...

OpIndia Staff -
OTV MD Jagi Mangat Panda has alleged that her organisation is being targeted for fearless coverage of govt corruption.
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World

Pakistan: Christian mother and her son brutally lynched to death by an Islamist mob over blasphemy

OpIndia Staff -
Imran Khan's incendiary statements rationalising violence over blasphemy seems to have emboldened Islamic fundamentalists in Pakistan.
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Politics

Bihar elections: Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury says Asaduddin Owaisi’s party AIMIM a vote cutter, calls it BJP’s ‘tact’

OpIndia Staff -
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury warned all "secular" parties to beware of Asaduddin Owaisi saying that his party AIMIM is a vote cutter.
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News Reports

Meet Pushpam Priya Choudhary and the Plurals party, which was likely dumped by its own workers in Bihar elections

OpIndia Staff -
The story of Pushpam Priya Choudhary and the Plurals party is the most heartbreaking story in the Bihar elections.
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Politics

The importance of Dubbaka, BJP’s win in the by-elections and how Raghunandan Rao achieved the impossible

S. Sudhir Kumar -
While most people in the country were interested in the results of the Bihar elections and probably MP by-elections too, a very gripping story was building up in the bye-election results of the Dubbaka constituency in Telangana
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News Reports

Goa: College teacher compares women wearing Mangalsutra to chained dogs, FIR registered

OpIndia Staff -
Following the outrage caused by her Facebook post, Shilpa Singh said that she considered herself an intellectual and that her views were taken out of context.
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Law

SC to hear bail plea of Republic TV’s editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami on Wednesday, Sessions Court postpones hearing to Thursday: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Arnab Goswami had moved SC after the Bombay HC dismissed his petition for interim bail in 2018 abetment to suicide case on Monday.
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News Reports

Unable to accept her party’s dismal performance, Congress leader fumes on Bihari voters, calls them ‘poor and greedy’

OpIndia Staff -
"Poor greedy voters voted NDA for free Covid vaccine" claimed Congress Leader.
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OpIndia Explains

Kishanganj and how BJP’s Hindu candidate in a 70% Muslim dominated area will give sleepless nights to Mamata Banerjee: 35 seats at stake

Editorial Desk -
The Kishanganj story at the Bihar Elections 2020 holds some lessons for Mamata Banerjee and the West Bengal Elections to come.
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Political History of India

Gujarat Congress concedes defeat as BJP gets landslide victory in by-elections, Kamal Nath in Madhya Pradesh follows suit

OpIndia Staff -
Congress in Gujarat and MP abandon all its hopes to concede defeat even as the results of the by-polls are not yet out
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News Reports

Digvijay Singh cries ‘EVM tampering’ while Karti Chidambaram says stop blaming EVMs whenever results are not favourable

OpIndia Staff -
The Election Commission has in a presser, informed that there has been an absolutely glitch-free counting process so far. It confirmed that the EVMs are robust and safe
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Media

From ‘people are angry’, to ‘wait to see how villages vote’ to ‘BJP wins every election’: Changing colours of Ravish Kumar as Bihar trends...

विभव देव शुक्ला -
Ravish Kumar and his flip-flop journalism changed colours several times during the entire discussion of Bihar poll results
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News Reports

Arrested Republic TV executive brought with a black cloth around his face, here is what Mumbai Police told the court to get his 3-day...

OpIndia Staff -
In the remand order, Mumbai Police has mentioned the testimony of previously arrested in the TRP manipulation case to allege that Ghanshyam Singh paid them money to drive up Republic TV channels' TRPs.
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Politics

Did the Munger shooting dampen NDA prospects in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020? Here is what current trends suggest

K Bhattacharjee -
It was expected that the events of Vijaya Dashami in Munger will affect polling for the Bihar Assembly Elections.
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News Reports

63% increase in polling booths in Bihar due to COVID, absolutely glitch-free process: Election Commission slams EVM conspiracy theorists

OpIndia Staff -
The EC has in a presser, informed that there has been an absolutely glitch-free counting in Bihar so far.
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News Reports

Pfizer vaccine trials show a 90% success rate, ultra-cold storage requirements may haunt distribution

OpIndia Staff -
Pfizer vaccine trials show a 90% success rate, as per reports.
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News Reports

Gujarat: Mobile medical units launched to provide healthcare to underserved mining villages

Aarti -
A first of its kind telehealth project for dissemination and outreach of Primary healthcare services in rural areas was launched in Gujarat earlier this month.
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Politics

Death, taxes and EVM conspiracy theories, some things are certain in life: As NDA pulls ahead in Bihar, opposition cries foul

OpIndia Staff -
Justifications for the EVM manipulation conspiracy theories were quite creative this year with Udit Raj leading the way.
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News Reports

Bihar elections: Rajdeep Sardesai’s flip-flop on caste politics and polarisation as trends show BJP in lead

Dibakar Dutta -
Rajdeep Sardesai, who was earlier seen crediting the people of Bihar for reposing their faith in the economic concerns raised by Tejashwi Yadav, soon changed tunes and claimed that NDA's leads are due to 'polarisation'.
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News Reports

Mumbai Police leads Republic TV’s Assistant VP to court with his head covered in black cloth, Arnab Goswami moves SC challenging Bombay HC order

OpIndia Staff -
Republic TV Assistant VP Ghanshyam Singh was arrested by Mumbai Police this morning in connection with the TRP manipulation case
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Politics

Yogendra Yadav just admitted that politics is not just elections, and he is right, here is what all politics really is

K Bhattacharjee -
Yogendra Yadav is busy on news channels on the day that results of the Bihar Assembly Elections are declared.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh by-election: While Congress predicted a win for itself in all 28 seats, BJP is ahead in 21, set to retain power

OpIndia Staff -
Congress had predicted three days before the by-elections, that it would bag 28 out of 28 seats in Madhya Pradesh
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News Reports

BJP headed for a landslide victory in Gujarat by-polls, leads in all 8 seats: Details of seats and vote-share

OpIndia Staff -
According to the Election Commission website, BJP is leading in all 8 seats that are in play during the by-elections.
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News Reports

10-member police team interrogates Arnab Goswami after CJM grants permission to grill him for 3 hours daily: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Raigad CJM had granted permission to the Mumbai police to interrogate Arnab Goswami for 3 hours daily in Taloja prison.
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Politics

Trends show Shiv Sena performing worse than NOTA in 21 out of 22 seats in Bihar: Read details of all seats

OpIndia Staff -
The Bihar Assembly Election 2020 vote counting is underway and the result might be a massive upset from what the Exit polls predicted.
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News Reports

Bihar Elections: Early trends show NDA crossing the majority mark, 23 seats have leading candidate ahead by less than 500 votes

OpIndia Staff -
The NDA alliance is leading on 128 seats in the 243-assembly seats in Bihar which is well past the majority mark of 122.
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News Reports

Witch-hunt continues: After Arnab being dragged and jailed, Mumbai Police arrests Republic TV’s Assistant VP

OpIndia Staff -
Ghanshyam Singh, Republic TV's AVP Distribution for the Western Region has been arrested by the Mumbai Police today morning.
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News Reports

Punjab, ruled by Congress, becomes the eighth state to withdraw general consent from CBI: Read the notification

OpIndia Staff -
The notification for the withdrawal of consent to the CBI to conduct probe in the state was issued by Punjab on November 8
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News Reports

Mozambique: Islamist terrorists with links to ISIS burn village chanting Allahu Akbar, behead over 50 people

OpIndia Staff -
Eyewitnesses have testified that the terrorists had abducted several villagers, including women and children, to a football field and used it as an 'execution ground' to behead the victims.
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Crime

Husband of BJP leader shot dead just a day before Bihar Assembly Election result day: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
On Monday, just a day before Bihar elections counting, the husband of the BJP leader was shot dead by unknown assailants
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh govt’s unique idea: Unnao district farmers exchange stubble for cow dung manure from Gaushalas

OpIndia Staff -
5000 quintals of stubble already procured in Unnao so far under "Parali Do, Khad Lo" initiative of the district administration.
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Politics

As Shiv Sena calls Tejashwi Yadav ‘Joe Biden’ of Bihar, here is what the party mouthpiece has said about Bihari migrants over the years

OpIndia Staff -
Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamana’s newfound enthusiasm for Bihar elections is in sharp contrast to its attitude towards Bihari migrants.
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News Reports

‘Mama ji rocks’: No cracker ban in MP, CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan urges people to celebrate Shri Ram’s return to Ayodhya with firecrackers

OpIndia Staff -
Shivraj Singh Chouhan has bucked the nationwide trend and declared that there will be no ban on crackers in the state.
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Media

Alibaug Sessions Court shifts bail plea hearing of Arnab Goswami to Tuesday, CJM grants Mumbai police permission to question him for 3 hours daily

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, Bombay HC refused to grant interim relief to Arnab Goswami who has been claiming that his life is under threat.
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News Reports

This Diwali, India goes ‘Atmanirbhar’ as governments, brands go vocal for local with #Local4Diwali. Read how

OpIndia Staff -
This Diwali, PM Modi has urged people to go 'vocal for local' and buy local and promote local businesses.
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News Reports

Good news for festive season: India sees consistent decline in active and new cases of Coronavirus since mid-September

OpIndia Staff -
Observing trends, panel of doctors and scientists also claim that coronavirus in India can be controlled by end of February 2021.
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News Reports

NGT could destroy local cracker industry even as politicians preach ‘vocal for local’, orders severe Diwali restrictions nationwide

OpIndia Staff -
The order passed by the NGT will end up affecting the livelihoods of lakhs of people employed in the firecracker industry.
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Social Media

‘Tanishq, you failed to understand the essence of Diwali’: Here is how netizens reacted to the dull, bizarre ad

Dibakar Dutta -
Social media users criticised the Tanishq ad for being 'preachy' while failing to capture the joy and excitement of Diwali.
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Politics

Congress leader Jitu Patwari imagines Joe Biden’s swearing-in ceremony and invites Manmohan Singh as chief guest, gets mocked on Twitter

OpIndia Staff -
The misadventures of Congress leader Jitu Patwari continue as he shared fake news yet again, this time about Joe Biden.
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World

Days after the Kabul university attack killed 25, suicide car bomber kills 4, injures 40 in Afghanistan

OpIndia Staff -
A suicide bomber killed at least 4 and wounded 40 in an attack on a police base in southern Kandahar province, Afghanistan.
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Media

Delhi HC hears Bollywood suit against Republic TV and Times Now, praises media’s work but asks not to use ‘sharp words’

OpIndia Staff -
On October 12, leading associations and production houses of Bollywood had filed a suit in Delhi HC against Republic TV and Times Now
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News Reports

Chemical found from ex-AAP councillor Tahir Hussain’s house was acid, video clips of him on the rooftop were undoctored: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
The Forensic Dept has confirmed that the chemical found at the house of Tahir Hussain was "acidic and lethal for human body".
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News Reports

How NGOs and Media, like The Wire, came together to stall doubling of railway tracks in Goa and how they are wrong

OpIndia Staff -
The infrastructure project is related to the double-lining of tracks between Hospet in Karnataka and Vasco da Gama in Goa.
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News Reports

Sameet Thakkar case: Bail rejected, sent to judicial custody

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, the Mumbai Police had arrested Sameet Thakkar from the court premises after a Nagpur court had granted him bail.
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News Reports

Punjab Railway blockade: Shekhar Gupta ignores Punjab govt’s inability to clear tracks, blames Modi for cancelling trains

OpIndia Staff -
The Indian Railways has cancelled freight train services in Punjab as the protestors in the state have been squatting on tracks threatening the safety of goods and loco pilots.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Two ST workers commit suicide within 12 hours, blame Uddhav Thackeray govt for non-payment of dues, reduced salaries

OpIndia Staff -
The Uddhav Thackeray government has displayed their misplaced priorities by going after the dissidents such as Arnab Goswami and Kangana Ranaut but not addressing the financial woes suffered by the government employees
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Opinions

Bombay HC refuses to grant interim relief to Arnab Goswami

OpIndia Staff -
The Bombay HC has asked Arnab Goswami's counsel to approach the sessions court and avail other remedies.
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News Reports

Kapil Sibal’s son admits in court that the high TRP of Republic TV is accurate, while Maha govt alleges ‘scam’

OpIndia Staff -
Kapil Sibal's son Akhil Sibal, while arguing in Delhi HC against the Bollywood slandering, submitted that Republic TV and Times Now together represent over 70% of English visual media.
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Politics

After Rahul Gandhi claimed Facebook India was controlled by RSS, Kapil Sibal appears in Court for the social media giant

OpIndia Staff -
Facebook was made a party to the suit as well and the social media giant appears to have hired Kapil Sibal to represent them at the Court.
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