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A large number of people gather outside Taloja Jail to welcome Arnab Goswami, light diyas on the street

OpIndia Staff -
To control the crowd in front of Taloja Jail, police had to deploy extra forces, so that the traffic movement on the road is not disrupted.
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News Reports

“MGB would have lost regardless of AIMIM candidates”: Asaduddin Owaisi punctures Congress’ “vote katua” allegations

OpIndia Staff -
On the seats whered AIMIM contested and NDA won, the margin of victory is more than AIMIN votes, which shows they didn't effect MGB
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News Reports

Delhi Government bans Chhath Puja in public places including riverbanks and temples

OpIndia Staff -
The people have been asked to perform Chhath rituals at homes and rooftops following social distancing norms.
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News Reports

Pro-Beijing administration in Hong Kong disqualifies four pro-democracy legislators, other lawmakers threaten to resign

OpIndia Staff -
National People’s Congress Standing Committee passed a resolution to disqualify those legislators who support independence of Hong Kong
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News Reports

Anti-India sentiment is the ‘Churan’ that sells the most in Pakistan: Imran Khan’s party leader admits on TV

OpIndia Staff -
Firdous Ashiq Awan said that the anti-India sentiment is the 'Churan' that sells the most in Pakistan.
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News Reports

After Shiv Sena lost deposits on all the seats it fought in Bihar, party mouthpiece Saamana says credit must be given to it if...

OpIndia Staff -
Shiv Sena said that due to the split in NDA in Maharashtra, Nitish Kumar will become CM despite JD(U) winning lesser seats then BJP
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Politics

Chirag Paswan and Asaduddin Owaisi are being accused of being vote-katwas and b-team of BJP. But are they?

Editorial Desk -
Vote-katwa or vote-cutter is a very well-known term in Bihar politics and outside Bihar too. It basically refers to candidates who eats into the assumed vote bank or support base of another candidate, thus weakening him or her.
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News Reports

Over 82 lakh paid in legal charges by BMC in Kangana Ranaut bungalow demolition case: Report

OpIndia Staff -
BMC in reply to RTI said they had paid 82.5 lakh to a senior lawyer to represent them in the Kangana case.
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News Reports

Supreme Court grants bail to Arnab Goswami in 2018 suicide case, directs Maharashtra police to release him immediately

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court also slammed the Bombay High Court for not granting bail to Arnab Goswami citing technicalities
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News Reports

Social media user Sameet Thakkar, arrested for making critical remarks against Thackerays, sent to police custody till November 13th

OpIndia Staff -
Mumbai Police had rearrested Sameet Thakkar from the court premises after a Nagpur court granted him bail on November 2
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News Reports

Asaduddin Owaisi flays the Congress party, says their leaders are ‘politically impotent’ to take on the BJP

OpIndia Staff -
Asaduddin Owaisi was responding to the allegations of counter-radicalisation levelled by Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera on an India Today show.
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News Reports

BJP leader brings massive allegation, says Thackerays had land deals worth crores with late Anvay Naik’s wife

OpIndia Staff -
BJP's Kirit Somaiya has shared documents which show land deals worth crores between the Thackerays and the late Anvay Naik's wife.
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News Reports

Two Freudian slips during the hearing of Arnab Goswami’s plea in Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court order denying him interim bail

OpIndia Staff -
During the hearing, Justice Chandrachud that the constitutional courts needed to interfere in the case to avoid treading on a path of destruction.
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News Reports

Online news portals, entertainment content platforms brought under the control of I&B ministry, govt issues notification

OpIndia Staff -
Government brings online content including news portals under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
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News Reports

Bengal: Calcutta HC bans processions and gatherings for Chhath Puja, only 2 per family allowed around water bodies

OpIndia Staff -
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ordered a ban on Chhath Puja processions and directed the state government to enforce a strict ban on fireworks during the upcoming festivities
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News Reports

Rohingya immigrants living in ‘temporary shelters of tarpaulin’ in Bangladesh write congratulatory letter to Joe Biden, say Allah answered their wishes

OpIndia Staff -
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh say that they 'prayed profoundly' for victory of Joe Biden, and happy that Allah answered their prayers
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Politics

From UP to Bihar, Congress has become a burden on its allies

OpIndia Staff -
The disastrous results in assembly elections and bypolls is not the only concern with Congress which is also struggling to have an inspiring leadership.
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News Reports

For Dushyant Dave, Arnab getting an urgent hearing in SC is ‘abuse of power’, but all is well when he himself or friends get...

OpIndia Staff -
In his letter, Dave has written against "selective listing" of matters by the SC Registry and had gone to the extent of calling it as a ‘gross abuse of administrative power’.
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News Reports

Pakistani politician wants Joe Biden to help Kashmiri people, only he thinks Biden is former President George Bush

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistani politician cannot differentiate between Democrat Biden and Republican Bush, but begs for help anyway.
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News Reports

After winning five seats and being accused of being a ‘vote-cutter’ for Congress, Owaisi’s next target is WB

OpIndia Staff -
AIMIM wins 5 seats in Seemanchal region, blames Mahagathbandhan for not forming alliance with his party.
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi cancels his 2-day Jaisalmer vacation due to ‘personal reasons’

OpIndia Staff -
At the first sight of slight discomfort, Rahul Gandhi usually just packs off and goes off to undisclosed foreign locations.
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News Reports

NDA wins Bihar Assembly elections, Nitish to become CM for the fourth successive term

OpIndia Staff -
With 125 seats, NDA gets majority in Bihar elections. Nitish to continue as CM in his fourth successive term.
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News Reports

Live updates: NDA crosses the majority mark as counting of votes continues late into the night

OpIndia Staff -
Live updates of counting day for 243-seat Bihar Assembly elections and bypolls across 11 states for 58 seats.
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Opinions

SC Bar Association President writes letter ‘condemning’ ‘urgent hearing’ for Arnab Goswami: How it’s hypocritical and a product of Dave’s ideology

OpIndia Staff -
President of Supreme Court Bar Association, Dushyant Dave, has written a letter to the Secretary-General SC strongly protesting hearing granted to Arnab Goswami
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Politics

CM Yogi eyes 2022 state elections as BJP sweeps six out of seven assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh by-polls

OpIndia Staff -
CM Yogi said that BJPs's performance in Uttar Pradesh assembly by-polls bode well for the state elections in 2022.
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News Reports

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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