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French Embassy in Pakistan calls out fake news circulated by a Pakistani federal minister claiming that France is bringing new law for Muslim citizens

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Pakistan human rights minister Shireen Mazari had claimed that France will force Muslims to wear special identities like Jews in Nazi Germany
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News Reports

JeM terrorists apprehended in Delhi had connections with Deoband and Pakistani handlers; wanted to spread Islam

OpIndia Staff -
On Monday, the Delhi police had apprehended the two terrorists from Sarai Kale Khan area near Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border.
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News Reports

Politicians, Bollywood and Underworld: The NN Vohra Committee report in 1993 highlighted the unholy nexus that broke India. Read details

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On Friday, Advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court on Friday seeking concrete action on the Vohra Committee Report submitted in 1993 opening a can of worms.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Tension after a group declares Chhath Puja land as Kabristan in Ballia, police says situation under control

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Reportedly, a village resident named Tausif had called for a ban on the Chhath puja celebrations by claiming that the land is a graveyard.
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News Reports

Lieutenant Kanika Rane: Two years after her husband immortalised himself fighting infiltrators at LOC, she pays this fitting tribute to him

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The 29-year-old Major Rane was martyred during an operation in Kashmir in August 2018 with three other Indian soldiers — rifleman Hameer Singh, rifleman Mandeep Singh and Vikramjeet Singh.
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Entertainment

Actress Sana Khan who quit bollywood for Islam marries a Muslim cleric who was introduced to her by hatemonger Ajaz Khan

OpIndia Staff -
Sana Khan married the Muslim cleric in a small intimate ceremony in Surat. The newly married couple also cut a cake after the wedding.
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News Reports

Marriage between first cousins per se illegal under the Hindu Marriage Act, observes Punjab and Haryana High Court

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The high court was hearing a anticipatory bail plea by a man living in live-in relation with a minor girl, both are first cousins
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News Reports

OTV MD Jagi Mangat Panda seeks probe by a national agency on charges against the channel, alleges harassment with false cases by BJD govt

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OTV MD Jagi Mangat Panda said that 20 cases has been filed against OTV and people associated with it, including her 84 year old father
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: How the govt utilised the MGNREGA to revive a river and improved the lives of scores in the process

OpIndia Staff -
The UP Govt has planned on rejuvenating rivers and in the process, generate employment under the MGNREGA.
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News Reports

Pakistan: Deaf-mute minor Christian girl abducted by son-mother duo, forcefully converted, married, and gang-raped by 5 men for 2 months

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The Christian girl said that she was abducted by Kashif and his mother, forcefully converted to Islam and married, and gang-raped by 5 men
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News Reports

“We are not here to promote American values”: Airbnb co-founder to company top executive over the company sharing user data with China

OpIndia Staff -
Airbnb top executive reveals that company shares user details like phone number, email ID, chat messages etc with the Chinese govt
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News Reports

‘References to Kashmir by Biden campaign attempts to garner votes’, ‘India has to highlight Pakistan’s 1947 invasion’: Speakers at webinar discuss Kashmir

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A webinar was conducted by the Usanas Foundation on 20th November which highlighted the Pakistani invasion of Kashmir in 1947.
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News Reports

TMC MP Saugata Roy refutes claims that he is resigning from the party to join BJP, says BJP IT Cell is spreading fake news

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BJP MP Arjun Singh had claimed that TMC leaders including Saugata Roy were likely to resign from the party anytime and join BJP
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News Reports

Hospitals in rural and tribal areas to be handed over to Red Cross: Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope

OpIndia Staff -
Citizens said that handing over hospitals to foreign groups like Red Cross could be suicidal as India is plagued with Naxals & Maoists
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News Reports

Communist govt in Kerala passes ordinance that can get anyone arrested for criticism of anyone on any media platform: Read details

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The ordinance gives unbridled powers for law enforcement agencies in Kerala to curtail freedom of press and arrest anybody
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Politics

Senior journalist close to Congress reveals the real reason why senior party leaders are dissenting: Not change, but to fill a power vacuum

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Rasheed Kidwai said there is a jousting within the Congress party for the post of 'effective party manager' as Ahmed Patel continues to remain critically ill
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News Reports

Tehseen Poonawalla says ‘Love Jihad’ coverage by news channels will lead to genocide, writes to NBA president Rajat Sharma to ‘prevent a catastrophe’

OpIndia Staff -
In his letter, Poonawalla claimed that news channels were vitiating the environment by holding debates on the issue of love jihad.
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News Reports

Haryana BJP leader commits suicide, family says he was under pressure after he and daughter were booked for selling firecrackers on Diwali: Details

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Senior BJP leader named Harish Sharma committed suicide by jumping into the Delhi parallel canal on Gohana road near Binjhol village in Panipat, Haryana.
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News Reports

Man shot dead at a birthday party at Samajwadi Party MLC’s house in Lucknow, 4 people including MLC’s brother arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Others present in the party say that the shot was fired accidentally when they were in a flat belonging to Samajwadi Party MLC
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World

Ethiopia accuses WHO chief Tedros of trying to procure arms for Tigray rebels and providing diplomatic support to them: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been accused of supporting Tigray rebels TPLF in Ethiopia.
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News Reports

The manufacturer of the radio carried by JeM terrorists killed in Nagrota encounter is operated from Pakistani military bases- Read Details

OpIndia Staff -
The Digital Mobile Radio carried by the terrorists is manufactured by Pakistan based Micro Electronics International Pvt Ltd
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Satire

Bharti Singh resisted initially but offered full cooperation once she realised NCB officials were treating her far better than Kapil Sharma ever did: OpIndia...

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The NCB suspects that the widespread use of drugs also explains how movies such as Student Of The Year 2 was ever made.
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News Reports

Bollywood Drug Racket: Comedian Bharti Singh and her husband detained by NCB for questioning

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The residence of comedian Bharti Singh was raided by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Saturday.
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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

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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...

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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’

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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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