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Motley of ‘international NGOs’ join Hathras politics, demand dismissal of Yogi govt

OpIndia Staff - 4 October, 2020

With the 'international NGOs' throwing their hat in the ring, the justice for the deceased woman now seems to have taken a backseat as politicians rush in for their 15-seconds of fame.

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‘Bombs hurled, women karyakartas molested’: BJP pro-farm Bills rally attacked by TMC goons in West Bengal, Dilip Ghosh alleges political terrorism

OpIndia Staff - 4 October, 2020

The video of the incident has gone viral on social media. TMC workers could be seen chasing BJP supporters with sticks.

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Watch: PM Modi pauses his speech at Manali after a woman security personnel faints, asks his medical team to attend her

OpIndia Staff - 4 October, 2020

After a woman security personnel fainted during his speech in Manali, PM Modi asked his medical team to attend her.

Entertainment

Hathras case: Bahujan support group accuses Bollywood entertainer Swara Bhaskar of hogging limelight, calls her ‘parasite’

OpIndia Staff - 4 October, 2020

Bahujan support group on Facebook, "Revolutionary memes for Bahujan teens" which has over 32,000 likes, has accused Bollywood entertainer Swara Bhaskar of trying to hog limelight in the Hathras case.

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Hathras Case: CM Yogi Adityanath orders CBI probe to investigate the matter

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath has ordered a CBI probe into the Hathras case.

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Images of a BJP leader used by opposition leaders to spread fake news that father of an accused in Hathras case is close to...

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

An image of BJP leader Dr Shyam Prakash Dwivedi with BJP leaders used to claim that he is father of one accused in Hathras case

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‘Yahi mauka hain’, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor responds to the charge of Congress doing politics on Hathras case

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

Responding to allegations of playing politics on Hathras case, Shashi Tharoor said political parties can do politics in democracy, & it is the opportunity

Crime

Begulsarai: Mob tried to lynch Bajrang Dal workers trying to protect a woman from abusive husband Aftab, around 400 gathered with weapons

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

Bajrang Dal leader Shubham Bharadwaj and others were attacked by mob when they were rescuing a Hindu woman from abusive husband Aftab

News Reports

Media and politicians spat on us, we are ready for narco test, if impartial investigation proves our kids innocent, release them: Viral video of...

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

A Jagran report claims that charges of eve teasing and rape were added to the Hathras Case after a Congress leader met the victim.

News Reports

Media circus: Times Now wonders if Republic will ‘introspect’ for a story they themselves pursued for weeks

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

While Times Now itself had claimed that Sushant Sinsh Rajput was murdered, now they want others to introspect for claiming murder

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“Opposition wants to stir riots”, UP minister Ramapati Shastri alleges conspiracy behind politicisation of Hathras case

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

BJP leader and UP minister Ramapati Shastri questioned on The Hathras case, "Why is the Opposition against narco and polygraph test?"

Opinions

The media, its doorstep journalism and why it hates Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mahant Yogi Adityanath

Shantanu Gupta - 3 October, 2020

Only because UP led by Yogi Adityanath gives them TRPs, Media also shed tears on Hathras, but don’t care about other daughters of India.

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Media and Congress succeed in their agenda: Agra sees stone-pelting by Valmiki community against police personnel

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

The members of Valmiki community in Agra took to streets to hurl stones at the police personnel deployed to maintain law and order in the city

Media

India Today blocks Twitter users questioning them over Hathras Tape where their journalist was caught tutoring victim’s family

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

After being left red-faced over the Hathras Tapes yesterday, India Today now seems to be taking offence at netizens questioning them and blocking anyone they can

News Reports

AajTak drama: Claims victory of reportage while running frantically towards Hathras village while media got permission due to completion of SIT probe

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

Restriction to media from entering Hathras was lifted after the completion of SIT probe, but Aaj Tak claimed victory for the same

News Reports

Foreign Imams not to be allowed to teach, home-schooling to be restricted to avoid ‘indoctrination’: France to bring laws to tackle ‘Islamic separatism’

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

French President Emmanuel Macron stated that a bill would be laid in the Parliament to fight homegrown Islamic separatism

News Reports

India Today does u-turn after their journalist was exposed in Hathras tape? Now says one accused was not in the village during incident

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

A day after Hathras Tapes, India Today seems to have done a u-turn in the case and is now saying that one accused was not in the village during incident

News Reports

“Public understands their visit to Hathras is for their politics and not justice”, Smriti Irani tears into Congress for politicising the case

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

"The public is aware of Congress' tactics, is why they ensured a historic win for BJP in 2019 polls", said Smriti Irani

Politics

Congress shares video of Rahul Gandhi laughing his way to cash in on ‘god given opportunity’ in Hathras, allegedly, to express solidarity with family

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

Senior Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi are on their way to meet the family of the Hathras gang rape victim.

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The country witnessed a time when national security was compromised: PM Modi at the inauguration of Atal Tunnel in Himachal Pradesh

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

PM Modi said that the work of the Atal Tunnel was moving at a very slow place during the previous governments.

News Reports

War memorial to commemorate the sacrifice of 20 soldiers who evicted Chinese PLA troops from Galwan Valley

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

A new war memorial to honour the sacrifices of 20 Indian soldiers who lost their lives while evicting the Chinese PLA forces in Galwan Valley

News Reports

California: Gov. Gavin Newsom signs law introducing diversity quota in corporate boardrooms among other pro-LGBT laws

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law that introduces reserved quotas for the LGBT community and racial minorities.

News Reports

While TMC leaders go berserk over Hathras case, the party had dismissed rape case in West Bengal as political conspiracies and ‘shajona ghotona’

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

TMC and Mamata Banerjee have dismissed several rape cases in West Bengal in the past as conspiracy by opposition parties

Opinions

Hindus Under Siege: From ancient history to modernity, and the changing nature of the foes of our Civilisation

Geetha G - 3 October, 2020

A Hindu nationalist government with absolute majority in power, in the second most populous country on earth, for the second consecutive term. Can we ever be under threat?

Media

Journalist Afsar Ali alias AK Chaudhry held for extorting money by secretly filming people and then threatening to upload video: Details

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

The Noida based fraud journalist has cases registered against him in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh between 2010 and 2015

News Reports

Big relief by Modi govt for those who stopped paying EMIs during lockdown, no need to pay extra interest accumulated during this period

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

MSME, education, housing, vehicle, personal loans etc upto Rs 2 crore will attract only simple interest during the moratorium period

News Reports

Hathras incident: Victim’s family says no for a CBI probe, reject undergoing the narco test

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

The victim of mother has said that her family wants a Supreme Court judge-monitored team to investigate the incident

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Congress supporter Saket Gokhale goes to court to stop Narco test orders given by Yogi government in Hathras case

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

Saket Gokhale said in his petition that the narco test in the Hathras case is a means to coerce the family and intimidate them

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Hathras case: SDM denies claim of India Today that phones of victim’s family were taken away, SIT probe complete, media to be allowed

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

According to Sadar SDM Prem Prakash, the SIT probe in the Hathras case has been concluded and the administration is now allowing the media to enter the village

Politics

Political vulturism continues: Rahul Gandhi and gang to make another attempt to go to Hathras, Akhilesh to reach Hathras from London

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

SP leader Akhilesh Yadav, in a bid to solidify the OBC vote bank, has decided to reach Hathras on October 4, after returning to Delhi from London in the United Kingdom.

Media

India Today panics after Hathras Tapes, admits authenticity of the conversation where their journalist was pestering victim’s family to allege ‘pressure’

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2020

India Today took to Twitter to release an "Important and Urgent" statement where they admitted the authenticity of the Hathras tapes.

News Reports

Hathras case: SP, DSP and other police officials suspended, polygraph test ordered for all complainant, accused and cops involved

OpIndia Staff - 2 October, 2020

The Chief Minister's Office has directed the Narco Polygraph test of the accused, complainant and the cops in the Hathras case

Interviews

Standing against forced conversions and regressive exclusivism: In conversation with the Nationalist Hindustani Christians’ Manch

Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar - 2 October, 2020

The Hindustani Christians’ Manch aims to to demolish the false narrative that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is anti-Christian

News Reports

After being stopped from meeting the family of Hathras victim by police, TMC leaders file a complaint against Hathras SDM

OpIndia Staff - 2 October, 2020

The TMC MPs who had gone to meet the family of the Hathras victim has accused the police of manhandling them.

News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Samajwadi Party leader Tanveer Khan booked for sexually assaulting a Dalit woman, forcing to change religion

OpIndia Staff - 2 October, 2020

Shahjahanpur SP chief Tanveer Singh and 3 others booked for forcing a Dalit woman to change religion and sexually assaulting her

News Reports

In the times of Coronavirus, freight loading by Indian Railways go up by 15% in September, crosses 100 million tonnes

OpIndia Staff - 2 October, 2020

In just one year, the average speed of freight rains of Indian Railways have almost doubled from 24 kmph to 47 kmph

Government and Policy

NCPCR directive on Child Care Institutions – A welcome decision

Suren - 2 October, 2020

Vested interests are using CCIs as a means of earning money and to gain control of large numbers of the young. The action taken by the NCPCR is a welcome step.

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