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Swad Official’s Gaurav Wasan refutes allegations of fraud levelled by YouTuber Lakshay Chaudhary, says he has given all the donations to ‘Baba Ka Dhaba’

OpIndia Staff -
Gaurav Wasan said that he has collected Rs 3.35 lakhs through the campaign, and he gave it to Baba ka Dhaba by cheque
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News Reports

Munger Police deactivates its Twitter account amidst claims of SP Lipi Singh being suspended over Durga Puja violence

OpIndia Staff -
SP Munger had earlier defended police action on devotees during the Durga Visarjan procession, claiming they provoked the force by pelting stones
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News Reports

NIA raids offices of Greater Kashmir and ‘activist’ associated with NGO that called Amarnath Yatra ‘militarised pilgrimage’

OpIndia Staff -
The NIA also carried out raids at the offices of another dubious NGO called 'Athroat', a houseboat named 'HB Hilton' in the Dal Lake and on the residence of 'activist' Khurram Parvez.
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu: UPA ally VCK MP Thol Thirumavalavan says upper-caste women go behind men of other castes as ‘their’ men do not have any...

OpIndia Staff -
hol Thirumavalavan belongs to a Dalit community and is notoriously known for making vile comments against other communities.
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News Reports

Kerala Gold Scam: Former Secretary to Kerala CM denied anticipatory bail by Kerala High Court, taken into custody by the ED

OpIndia Staff -
M Sivasakar was suspended after his named emerged in the Kerala Gold Scam. Prime accused Swapna Suresh had given his name to ED.
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh: Police lathi-charge on Durga puja procession in Bilaspur for playing music, seize vehicles carrying idols for immersion

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Police stopped vehicles carrying Durga idol from further carrying the procession in Bilaspur, lathi charged on people for playing music
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News Reports

Alwar: Dalit person says he was forced and lured to convert to Islam, forced to attend Jamaat

OpIndia Staff -
Mein Chand, a Dalit man from Rajasthan says he was forced to convert to Islam and wants to reconverted to Hinduism
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News Reports

BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai’s widow writes to Priyanka Gandhi urging her to stop shielding Mukhtar Ansari, accused of killing her husband

OpIndia Staff -
Mukhtar Ansari is currently lodged in a jail in Punjab which is governed by Congress party, which has refused to transfer him to UP
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News Reports

Chinese state-run channel shows the portrait of Prophet Muhammad, netizens ask if Muslim nations will boycott China

OpIndia Staff -
Arslan Hidayat, an Uyghur Rights Activist, took to Twitter shared a video of a Chinese TV series on Twitter in which it was depicted that an Arab ambassador visiting China during the rule of Tang dynasty gifts a portrait of the Prophet Muhammad to the Chinese emperor.
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Editor's picks

French nationalist leader Marine Le Pen thanks India for support as Pakistan and Turkey lead anti-France sentiments

OpIndia Staff -
French Nationalist leader Marine Le Pen has thanked India in her tweet for showing support against anti-French sentiments.
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News Reports

Charlie Hebdo mocks Turkish President Recep Erdogan in its latest cartoons, shows him lifting a skirt of woman wearing ‘hijab’

OpIndia Staff -
The front-page caricature of Wednesday's edition of Charlie Hebdo that was released online on Tuesday night depicts Erdogan in a white T-shirt and underpants, drinking a can of beer and lifting up the skirt of a woman wearing a hijab to reveal her naked bottom.
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Crime

Touseef’s mother called her and asked her to convert to Islam, Nikita Tomar’s family reveals

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Tauseef's mother reportedly called Nikita several times asking her to convert to Islam
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Crime

Delhi resident Sushil slaughtered by knife from meat shop over petty quarrel, four including prime accused Chand arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Shahnawaz, Aafaq, Chand and Haseen stab Sushil and his two brothers in north-west Delhi.
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu: Thol Thirumavalavan’s VCK members stab an office-bearer of Hindu organisation Indu Makkal Katchi

OpIndia Staff -
Manikandan, who is critical after sustaining injuries, has been admitted to the Dindigul Government Hospital and is currently undergoing intensive treatment.
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News Reports

Deepika Padukone’s manager Karishma Prakash goes untraceable after NCB raids her house, seizes drugs including charas

OpIndia Staff -
The NCB carried out raids at Karishma’s Versova residence and recovered 1.7 grams of charas and at least 2 bottles of CBD oil.
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News Reports

Watch: Moment when firing broke out and an eyewitness who narrates exactly what happened

OpIndia Staff -
The horrific violence that broke out during Durga Visarjan in Munger, Bihar last night has left people wondering as to what transpired that led to the death of an 18-year old boy and left many injured
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Media

ABP quotes uncle of murderer Tauseef to whitewash the religious angle in the heinous murder of Nikita Tomar

OpIndia Staff -
Javed Ahmed out rightly denied any angle of religious conversion in the Nikita Tomar murder and said that he respected all religions.
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News Reports

Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions receives show cause notice for dumping garbage, bio-medical waste used during a film shoot in Goa on roadside

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Goan activists threatened of taking Dharma Productions and Karan johar to court for breaking the laws of the land.
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News Reports

Weeks after being targeted by opposition parties and media for allegedly favouring BJP, Ankhi Das quits Facebook

OpIndia Staff -
Ankhi Das was mired in controversy lately after a WSJ article accused Facebook India of showing bias towards BJP.
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Crime

Nikita Tomar murder: Main accused Tauseef belongs to a family of influential Congress politicians from Nuh in Haryana

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The prime accused Tauseef's grandfather, uncles and cousin brothers are all infuential Congress politicians from Haryana's Nuh
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News Reports

While Munger video shows devotees protecting Maa Durga’s Murti in silence as the police unleashed blows, SP claims they shot their own

OpIndia Staff -
Violence erupted in Bihar’s Munger as police resorted to brute force against devotees participating in Durga Visarjan.
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World

Waqar Zaka of Pakistani Roadies fame calls for ‘Digital Jihad’ against President of France

OpIndia Staff -
Waqar Zaka of Pakistani Roadies fame called for Digital Jihad against French President Emmanuel Macron.
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Politics

‘Unacceptable’, ‘highway robbery’: Opposition suffers meltdown after central government makes way for any Indian to buy land in J&K

OpIndia Staff -
Following the passage of the new land law, opposition parties, as expected, are up in arms against the central government.
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News Reports

Pakistan’s National Assembly passes resolution to bring back its envoy from France, but there’s a catch

OpIndia Staff -
Currently, there is no Pakistani envoy in France as the last envoy was transferred to China three months back. The post has been lying vacant since then.
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News Reports

Bihar Elections Ground Report: Years after the media hype over Bill Gate’s visit, Musahar Tola in Jamsaut village is still waiting for development

OpIndia Staff -
It has been almost 10 years since Bill Gates visited this village but nothing changed here.
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Media

Hansa Research says it has no business dealings with Republic TV, Mumbai Police’s leak to Economic Times falls flat

OpIndia Staff -
Hansa Research has categorically denied claims made by Mumbai Police which were quoted in a report in The Economic Times.
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Entertainment

Bollywood: Actress Malvi Malhotra stabbed for rejecting marriage proposal of Facebook friend

OpIndia Staff -
Malvi Malhotra was returning home from a coffee shop when the accused said that he wanted to speak to her
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News Reports

India-US 2+2 talks: Geo-spatial defence pact signed, US extends its support to India amidst border aggression from China

OpIndia Staff -
The BECA pact will arm India with sensitive satellite and sensor data and enable it to keep a closer watch on the Chinese warships in the Indian Ocean.
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Politics

Anti Bengali posters in Meghalaya: BJP MLA seeks Himanta Biswa Sarma’s help to withdraw FIR against KSU president

OpIndia Staff -
Sanbor Shullai has sought assistance from Himanta Biswa Sarma in withdrawing an FIR filed against KSU president.
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Crime

“Hindu ki beti hai toh koi bhi kuch bhi karega?” Nikita Tomar’s brother demands strict and swift punishment for her killers

OpIndia Staff -
Nikita Tomar's brother demands swift justice, says the administration's reaction and efficiency would have been different had the victim been a Muslim.
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News Reports

Delhi doctor provides free cataract Surgery for ‘Baba ka Dhaba’ couple

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi doctor provides free eye surgery to Baba Ka Dhaba couple.
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Opinions

Two Hindu families see the death of the child, one because she dared to refuse Islam, one, because he wanted to bid goodbye to...

K Bhattacharjee -
By any measure, the Faridabad incident and the Munger shooting are indeed absolutely shocking.
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Media

Come clean or face legal action: Republic TV calls out fake news peddled by ET ‘prima facie planted by Mumbai Police’

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Republic TV sends notice to Economic Times and Mumbai Police over fake news on TRP scam
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News Reports

Delhi anti-Hindu riots: Bail plea of Jamia student Asif Iqbal Tanha dismissed, Court calls charges against him prima facie true

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi court dismissed the bail plea of Asif Iqbal Tanha in connection with the Anti-Hindu Delhi riots, which took place in February this year.
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News Reports

Hathras case: SC says Allahabad High Court to monitor the CBI probe

OpIndia Staff -
The apex court passed the order after several petitions were filed seeking for an independent probe, transfer of the case outside of Uttar Pradesh to Delhi and assurance of witness protection in the case.
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News Reports

New land law allows citizens from across the country to buy land in Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Article 35A allowed Jammu and Kashmir legislature to prohibited outsiders to buy land in the then state.
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News Reports

Deoband Ulema condemns UP Police SI for returning to job after shaving beard, calls it a ‘crime’ under Shariat

OpIndia Staff -
Maulana Lutf-ur-Rehman said that Sub-Inspector Intesar Ali should have left the job instead of shaving the beard.
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News Reports

Single parent male Govt employee entitled to child care leave: Union minister Jitendra Singh

OpIndia Staff -
The child care leave (CCL) which would be provided to a 'Single male parent' will be treated as an earned leave
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Media

CBI responds to OpIndia story on tape showing potential witness tampering by Mumbai Police in TRP scam case: Here are the details

Nupur J Sharma -
CBI has responded to OpIndia about the story where a witness alleged he was being pressured by the Mumbai Police to name Republic TV in the TRP scam
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News Reports

Nikita Tomar murder: Taufeeq was pressurising her to embrace Islam family alleges

OpIndia Staff -
On Monday, 21-year-old Nikita Tomar was shot to death in broad daylight outside the Aggarwal college in Ballabgarh, Faridabad
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News Reports

Ex CBI director who investigated the Gujarat riots reveals how PM Modi’s rivals hounded him: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
RK Raghavan, who had led the SIT probe into Gujarat Riots, has recounted his experiences in his autobiography "A Road Well Travelled".
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Political History of India

Infantry Day: On 27 October 1947, the Day Pakistani looters and rapists invading J and K met ‘The Wall’ called Indian Army

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Infantry Day – The historic day when the first troops of independent India landed in J&K to fight off Pakistani invaders
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News Reports

18-year-old dead as police open fire at Durga Puja Visarjan procession in Munger, Bihar: Here is everything you need to know

OpIndia Staff -
An 18-year-old youth has reportedly been killed and several others injured in the firing that took place on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday in Munger, Bihar
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News Reports

Pakistan: 7 killed and at least 70 injured in a huge explosion inside Peshawar madarsa

OpIndia Staff -
Preliminary investigation hints at improvised explosive device(IED) being used for the explosion in Peshawar madrasa.
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Crime

Kerala gold scam: Key fugitive Rabins Hameed brought back from UAE, arrested by NIA

OpIndia Staff -
The main accused in the case, Swapna Suresh and another former employee of the UAE consulate named Sarith were arrested in July for using forged papers to claim diplomatic immunity and smuggling gold from UAE.
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News Reports

Citizens of parody country Pakistan want Imran Khan to nuke France for calling out radical Islam

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistan-based bots including its citizens now want their country led by Imran Khan, to 'Do Atomic Attack' on France.
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News Reports

Faridabad: A month after college student Nikita files molestation complaint against Taufeeq, he shoots her dead

OpIndia Staff -
As per reports, the accused initially wanted to abduct the victim but killed her when she resisted him.
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Interviews

9 key takeaways from Union Minister Prakash Javadekar’s exclusive interview with OpIndia. Read the details here

OpIndia Staff -
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar gave an exclusive interview to OpIndia wherein he spoke on a range of issues such as Bihar elections, relentless hounding of Republic TV, environment woes in Delhi and many others.
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Politics

“He tried to kill me three years back”: Sushil Kumar Modi accuses Lalu Prasad Yadav of indulging in black magic

OpIndia Staff -
Ahead of voting, Bihar Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi levels allegations of black magic and superstition on Lalu Prasad Yadav.
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News Reports

YouTuber Lakshay Chaudhary levels serious allegations of fraud against Gaurav Wasan of Swad Official whose video on ‘Baba ka Dhaba’ had gone viral

OpIndia Staff -
Gaurav Wasan of Swad Official had uploaded a video about the financial difficulties faced by the elderly couple of 'Baba ka Dhaba'.
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