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Unless Mohua Moitra is a Hindu from Pakistan, her comment on CAA makes no sense: Here is how the TMC leader made a fool...

OpIndia Staff -
The Citizenship Amendment Act does not affect the Indian citizens but TMC MP Mahua Moitra said she would not furnish her papers for the CAA
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Political History of India

The MP who was sentenced to death: In Bihar elections, Anand Mohan Singh’s wife and son are now RJD candidates

OpIndia Staff -
Son and wife of Anand Mohan Singh, first-ever MP to get death sentence, are contesting in upcoming Assembly Elections in Bihar
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News Reports

ISIS terror magazine calls to avenge Babri demolition, instigates Muslims to wage ‘Jihad’ against India

OpIndia Staff -
The digital publication named 'Voice of Hind' instigates Muslims to wage war against India to 'avenge' Babri.
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Politics

Kamal Nath refuses to apologize despite Rahul Gandhi’s rebuke, suggests RaGa never understood the context of ‘item’ remark

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier too, Kamal Nath had brazened it out by saying his comment was distorted to deviate public discourse from 'main issues'
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News Reports

Congress strategy of appeasement thwarted: Karnataka HC stops construction work on ‘tallest Jesus statue’ being built on government land

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Karnataka HC stops construction work on tallest Jesus statue in Kanakapura.
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Government and Policy

Captain Amarinder Singh tables resolution in Punjab Assembly to oppose Centre’s farm laws: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Captain Amarinder Singh added that the farm laws, passed by the Parliament were against the Indian Constitution, as agriculture falls under State subject (Entry 14 List-II)
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News Reports

UP Police team returns empty-handed again after Punjab govt puts mafia don Mukhtar Ansari on ‘bed-rest’ for 3 months

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Punjab govt cites medical problems for jailed don Mukhtar Ansari, avoids handing him over to UP police
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Media

Former adviser to Manmohan Singh, Pankaj Pachauri brazens it out after being caught spreading fake news about Indian trade with China

OpIndia Staff -
Pankaj Pachauri claimed Indian imports from China had increased by 27% during tension between the two countries at the LAC.
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Social Media

From DDLJ to IPL: Netizens come up with hilarious ideas about what PM Modi might say today at 6 PM in his address to...

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi today announced on Twitter that he is going to address the nation at 6 pm today, sparking amusing responses from social media users.
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News Reports

FT publishes damning investigation implicating China, WHO and their role in the spread of Coronavirus: Here are 7 takeaways

OpIndia Staff -
The Financial Times carried out an investigation about China's initial mismanagement and complacency that led to a global coronavirus pandemic
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Media

After Mumbai Police harasses Arnab Goswami, ex-cop Iqbal Shaikh approaches court to stop Republic TV from reporting on TRP scam: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Iqbal Shaikh accused Arnab Goswami and Republic TV of engaging in a smear campaign against Mumbai Police.
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News Reports

Karnataka Magistrate receives bomb threats demanding release of accused in Sandalwood drug case and Bengaluru riots: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
While the Congress party has claimed that it has no connection with the deadly riots in Bengaluru, an exclusive Times Now report has unearthed the links of the party with the riots.
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News Reports

Srinagar: Govt-allotted office building of Kashmir Times sealed by authorities 5 years after allottee’s death, current Exec Editor calls it ‘vendetta’

OpIndia Staff -
Estates Department informed that they just took possession of the property after serving notices to Kashmir Times to vacate the premises.
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News Reports

Kathua lawyer links sex crimes with worshipping Devi to target and guilt trip Hindus during Navratri, Congress joins in

OpIndia Staff -
Deepika Singh Rajawat raked up the Kathua case during Navrati in order to dampen the festive fervour among Hindus.
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News Reports

Accused in Ratan Lal murder was in touch with lawyer right after committing the crime: Read how ‘targeted for being Muslim’ trope is crumbling

OpIndia Staff -
That narrative was yet against shattered in court when the bail plea of an accused in the constable Ratan Lal murder was denied by the judge after his lawyers had claimed that he was targeted for being a Muslim.
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News Reports

Coronavirus has already peaked in India, can be controlled by the end of February 2021, says expert panel

OpIndia Staff -
The panel also claimed that if all protocols are followed, the pandemic can be controlled by end of February 2021 with minimal active symptomatic cases.
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Political History of India

The indomitable Lokmanya Tilak: His political activism, activities in Mumbai, camaraderie with Swami Vivekananda and legacy

Devendra Pai -
The prefix "Lokmanya" comes from the fact that Lokmanya Tilak was modern India's first mass leader looked up to by the masses.
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News Reports

BSP MLA Vinay Shankar Tiwari and wife booked by CBI in Rs 750 crore bank fraud case

OpIndia Staff -
Vinay Shankar Tiwari from BSP is the sitting MLA from Chillupar, Gorakhpur.
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Sports

Times of India spreads fake news about PV Sindhu quitting national camp due to fall-out with family and coach: Here is the truth

OpIndia Staff -
Badminton world champion PV Sindhu has left the national camp meant for Olympic hopefuls and travelled to London to work on her recovery and nutrition.
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News Reports

UK: Conservative party’s Israel body condemns BBC’s attempt to portray convicted Hamas terrorist as a victim, asks to apologise

OpIndia Staff -
CFI urges BBC to apologize to victims of 2001 Jerusalem bombing for showing Tamimi as a victim. The US has a 5 million USD bounty on Ahlam Tamimi.
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Social Media

Twitter first says Leh a part of China, then, they say technical glitch, gets it horribly wrong even after fixing it: Read how

OpIndia Staff -
Nitin A Gokhale found that the microblogging platform had not fixed the technical glitch, despite being well aware of the sensitivity around it.
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Media

Anti-Trump legal analyst of CNN and The New Yorker contributor suspended after masturbating on Zoom call

OpIndia Staff -
Jeffrey Toobin has offered an apology for masturbating on the Zoom video call and said that he thought he had put the video and audio on mute.
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News Reports

ABP News team attacked, stones pelted at crew in RJD held constituency of Arwal

OpIndia Staff -
RJD's Ravindra Singh is the sitting MLA from Arwal. ABP's Sumeet Awasthi had shared that a local IYC leader has been threatening to beat up anchor Akhilesh Anand.
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Crime

Hyderabad: Hindu woman confronts boyfriend Syed Mustafa over marriage promises, stabbed to death by him and his brother

OpIndia Staff -
24-year-old Hindu woman was brutally stabbed to death by her lover Syed Mustafa and his brother on Saturday night at Rein Bazar neighbourhood of Hyderabad
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World

Days after an Islamist brutally beheaded a teacher, France Govt prepares to expel 231 religious extremists from the country

OpIndia Staff -
France is planning to come down hard on religious extremists after an Islamic youth beheaded a teacher recently
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Politics

Congress, media target Varun Gandhi for unwillingness to speak to a stranger late at night: Here is who the man was and why he...

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress party has decided to go after BJP MP Varun Gandhi after a leaked version of his conversation found its way to the media.
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Government and Policy

India formally invites Australia to join the 2020 Malabar trilateral naval exercise, Australia confirms full participation: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
It will be the first time all members of the regional grouping known as the Quad will participate in the Malabar naval exercise
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Crime

Rajasthan: Two minor girls gang-raped, police shift victims to the hospital in an auto-rickshaw instead of ambulance

OpIndia Staff -
Two minors gang-raped by six in Rajasthan. Police conducting raids at various locations in search of accused.
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Social Media

Dance moves by Dr Arup in Silchar, Assam wins Internet, inspires Hrithik Roshan

OpIndia Staff -
The Assam doctor's dance video has gone viral on social media, gaining thousands of likes and comments.
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News Reports

Family of girl murdered in terror attack condemns BBC for providing platform to terrorist Ahlam Tamimi, painting her as a victim: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Ahlam Tamimi was convicted and sentenced for 16 years her role in a pizza parlour bombing in Jerusalem in 2001 before her imprisonment was cut short in a prisoner-exchange deal with Hamas
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Media

Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami to sue Param Bir Singh for Rs 200 crore after Maha Govt’s admission in Mumbai High court

OpIndia Staff -
Maha Govt and Mumbai police distances itself from the allegations meted out at Republic TV by PC Param Bir Singh
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Politics

Frustrated with “rants” of Shashi Tharoor, MP Nishikant Dubey requests Lok Sabha speaker to put him in a committee where there is no Tharoor

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor yesterday ranted against Republic TV and Times Now, issuing 'moral sermons' to the corporates who financed the aforementioned news channels
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OpIndia Explains

When murders, kidnappings were an ‘industry’, only Shahabuddin and ‘the family’ ruled: The infamous saga of ‘Jungle Raj’ in Bihar

अनुपम कुमार सिंह -
15 years of Lalu Raj: When crime and chaos ruled Bihar
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News Reports

Rajdeep Sardesai and India Today secure a gag order against social media user who had said they took 8 crores for Rhea interview

OpIndia Staff -
Issuing an order on India Today petition, the Delhi HC has ordered Twitter to suspend the man named Anurag Srivastava, and Google to remove the content from search results.
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World

Watch: Antifa anti-Trump protesters spread Hinduphobia, eat US President’s heart in symbolic ritual while chanting ‘Kali Maa’

OpIndia Staff -
A video has emerged where anti-Trump Antifa protesters could be seen eating Trump's heart symbolically while chanting 'Kali Maa'
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Opinions

Jinnah’s ideology: Prof Brij Narain, a strong supporter of Pakistan’s creation, was hacked to death by an Islamist mob in Lahore in 1947

Jinit Jain -
Prof Brij Narain, an enthusiastic exponent of Pakistan, was hacked to death in broad daylight by a Muslim mob even as he kept pleading them to stop ransacking his house in Lahore in the wake of partition .
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News Reports

India-China standoff: Indian army captures PLA soldier, probing espionage angle

OpIndia Staff -
The army stated that the PLA personnel will be handed over to the Chinese officials at Chushul-Moldo meeting point, following the completion of formalities.
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Media

Those who remained silent when Congress filed FIR against journalists for China report now chest beat over termination of PTI contract

OpIndia Staff -
A report on the Economic Times in September 2009 asserted that two ITBP Jawans were injured in Chinese firing.
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Opinions

If Congress comes back to power, it will be impossible to utter a word against them

Abhishek Banerjee -
This time, they will have a third and most potent weapon: technology and dominance in the digital space.
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News Reports

SC stays Orissa High Court order banning traditional animal sacrifice, which had relied on Wikipedia for information

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court ordered an interim stay on an Orissa High Court judgment banning animal sacrifice during the Chatar Yatra.
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News Reports

‘Arnab Goswami is not an accused’: Bombay HC says if Mumbai Police wants to question him, they will have to issue summons

OpIndia Staff -
The Bombay HC also stated that if the Mumbai Police wants to question Arnab Goswami in the case, they may issue summons.
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News Reports

‘Uddhav Thackeray has formed a special team to bring down Republic TV, Arnab has to be locked up’: Explosive sting reveals MVA govt plot

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"The strategy is to lock him (Arnab Goswami) behind bars. Nobody can save his channel from being banned," the Congress leader said.
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News Reports

Assam-Mizoram Border clash: Violence erupts after hut on Mizoram side set on fire, Mizo MLA claims over 80 per cent in border areas illegal...

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Clashes erupted at the Assam-Mizoram border between the people of the two states on Saturday night, injuring several people.
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News Reports

After showing Leh as part of China, Twitter claims ‘technical issue’ resolved, issues statement

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Twitter issues statement after showing Jammu and Kashmir as part of China in location tag for live broadcast, says error has been rectified
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Media

TimesNow joined the Left in condemning Republic TV to hell, now, the Left is gunning for them too

Editorial Desk -
The 'TRP scam' started off when Mumbai Police Commissioner Parambir Singh named Republic TV and hid the fact that the FIR which was filed, based on the Hansa Research Report, named India Today
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News Reports

Muslim doctor denied German Citizenship because he refused to shake hand with a woman as she ‘posed a threat of seduction’

OpIndia Staff -
The German court described the Muslim doctor as "fundamentalist" for his denial to shake hand
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Media

“I see no reason why BARC cannot make a public statement”: Here is what the email exchange between BARC and Republic TV said

OpIndia Staff -
The BARC CEO had privately confirmed to Republic TV on an email correspondence that the channel was not found guilty of any malpractice and thus no disciplinary action was initiated against them
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News Reports

West Bengal: Notorious criminal Abdul Hossain, partying at TMC leader’s apartment, jumps to death after a police raid

OpIndia Staff -
According to the police, Hossain was drinking at the apartment with his colleagues, which included a police official, driver and cook of the apartment owner.
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News Reports

During 26/11 Mumbai attack, Param Bir Singh refused to be on ground and take on terrorists, then Mumbai CP Hasan Gafoor had said

OpIndia Staff -
Hasan Gafoor, who was the Mumbai Commissioner of Police during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, had accused senior police officials, including Param Bir Singh of not taking on the terrorists.
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Entertainment

Live streaming of ‘Ayodhya ki Ram Leela’ on DD National’s YouTube channel gains over a million digital views

OpIndia Staff -
The live telecast of the event was launched by Neelkanth Tiwari, Tourism, Culture, Religious Affairs Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and Pravesh Sahib Singh Verma, MP Uttar Pradesh.
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