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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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’

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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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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Congress leader’s son Sunil Gurjar arrested in animal husbandry scam, had also figured in Bhanwari Devi case

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Rajasthan Congress leader's son, Sunil Gurjar arrested by Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force in animal husbandry scam.
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News Reports

Millions of diyas to light up Ayodhya as Ram Jamnabhoomi to have Deepotsava after five centuries

OpIndia Staff -
A virtual Deepotsav is also planned to ring in the first Diwali after the beginning of construction of Ram Mandir
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Entertainment

Bollywood drug probe: NCB raids Arjun Rampal’s premises

OpIndia Staff -
Intensifying the Bollywood drug probe, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Monday raided the premises of actor Arjun Rampal.
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News Reports

Tejashwi will defeat Nitish like Biden defeated Trump: Shiv Sena’s Saamana goes starry-eyed with Bihar-USA parallels

OpIndia Staff -
The Saamana editorial says Bihar is in the final stage of 'independence' as Tejashwi Yadav is set to become the chief minister of the state.
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World

Donald Trump’s ‘transactional marriage’ may come to an end as Melania Trump may call it quits: Report

OpIndia Staff -
According to former aide Stephanie Wolkoff, she further alleged that the couple had separate bedrooms and had a transactional marriage.
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News Reports

Jammu and Kashmir: Saubhagya Scheme brings electricity to far-flung villages in Nowshera for the first time

Dibakar Dutta -
Saubhagya Scheme reaches far-flung villages along the LoC.
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News Reports

Shah Rukh Khan aide, who has been urging Kashmiri youth to fight against India, calls for assault on other journos after Arnab Goswami

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Ashai stated that with Trump gone, 'good values' will be restored and journalists he doesn't like will soon be pleading for their lives.
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News Reports

Swami Vivekananda statue, which was defaced by JNU goons by painting ‘F*ck BJP’ graffiti last year, to be inaugurated by PM Modi on the...

OpIndia Staff -
Swami Vivekananda statue has been installed on the JNU campus with help of the alumni.
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News Reports

Delhi, are you choking? It could be because of Punjab. Here is why

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Sharp rise in stubble burning cases in Punjab, woman died after scooter enters stubble fire.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: 15 year old girl kidnapped, raped, kept enslaved for six months, accused Shaqib arrested after Hindu group intervened

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A 15-year-old minor girl was reportedly kidnapped and raped for six months from Sidhawali village in which falls under the Kankarkheda police limits in Baghpet, Uttar Pradesh.
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News Reports

Is Arnab Goswami really a ‘right-wing’ and ‘controversial’ journalist as media portrays him to be?

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Despite allegations of being right wing, Arnab Goswami has exposed corruptions and wrong doings by govts run by all parties
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World

‘Joe Biden should tell the Democratic party to support scrutiny into the US election process’: Top US legal analyst

OpIndia Staff -
Jonathan Turley said that there is no evidence of voter fraud as of now but emphasized that Trump's chances are not over yet.
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Law

With Arnab Goswami facing multiple FIRs and remaining in jail, here is how the cases against some other journalists were handled by courts

OpIndia Staff -
While Arnab Goswami unable to get relief, several other journalists were granted instant relief by different courts of the country
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News Reports

Actor Puneet Issar questions why Maharashtra Police officials did not try to save lives of Palghar sadhus from mob lynching

OpIndia Staff -
Months after two Sadhus were lynched to death by a violent mob in Palghar in Maharashtra, actor Puneet Issar questioned police inaction.
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Entertainment

Bollywood: Narcotics Control Bureau raids residence of producer Firoz Nadiadwala, recovers drugs, questions his wife

OpIndia Staff -
It is believed that Firoz Nadiadwala will be summoned soon as his named had propped up during the course of the probe.
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Media

Massive support pours in for Arnab Goswami from across the board as Mumbai Police continues its persecution of the Republic TV Editor

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Support is pouring in from Arnab Goswami from across the board as Mumbai Police continues its state-sanctioned prosecution.
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News Reports

“Main to zinda hoon”: Rebel JDU leader Sanjay Jha fact-checks TOI for declaring him dead

OpIndia Staff -
While independent candidate in Bihar elections Neeraj Jha has died, TOI and others reported rebel JD(U) leader Sanjay Jha has died
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News Reports

Taloja Jail, to which Mumbai Police hurriedly transferred Arnab Goswami, is a hub of terrorists and underworld criminals. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
The Taloja Jail, where Arnab Goswami is currently being kept under judicial custody, houses several Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists
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News Reports

Man gives triple talaq to wife after she developed vaginal infection, demands money from in-laws to marry another woman

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After Siddique learnt that his wife has vaginal infection, he dumped her at hospital, later went to her parent's house to give triple talaq
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Media

The persecution of Arnab Goswami: Judicial intervention is the only recourse available to a citizen when he is the victim of the state

K Bhattacharjee -
The state-sanctioned persecution of Arnab Goswami by the Maha Vikas Aghadi appears to cross new limits with every passing day.
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News Reports

While Arnab Goswami has no account on any social media platform, Mumbai police claim he was ‘active on social media’ in jail

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Maharashtra Police claim they shifted Arnab Goswami to Taloja jail because he was allegedly active on social media using someone's phone
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World

Calm down, Indians, Kamala Harris ‘shattering the glass ceiling’ in the USA is not a win for you

K Bhattacharjee -
Senator from California, Kamala Harris, would soon become the Vice-President of the United States of America.
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World

US Presidential elections: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris hail results as an opportunity to ‘heal’ the country, Donald Trump yet to concede

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Joe Biden claimed that he will strive to be the President who believes in unifying people rather than dividing them.
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News Reports

FCRA violation complaint lodged against evangelist group which claims to make women pregnant with ‘prophetic declarations’

OpIndia Staff -
Allegedly evangelist Ankur Narula received Rs 2.60 crore through a shell company, which is a violation of FCRA norms
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News Reports

Netizens appeal to PM Modi and HM Amit Shah to ensure Arnab Goswami’s safety amidst reports of assault by Mumbai Police

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Earlier today, Arnab Goswami was taken to Taloja jail from the quarantine centre in Alibaug where he is currently in judicial custody over 2018 abetment to suicide case.
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