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‘Speaking truth to power’ hysterics of propagandists masquerading as comics come crumbling down. Exhibit A: Kunal Kamra

OpIndia Staff -
'Standup comedian' Kunal Kamra had recently shared a picture of himself with Shiv Sena spokesperson Sanjay Raut holding a miniature JCB,
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News Reports

NIA nabs terrorists Abdul and Nasir, had formed ‘Quran circle’ to radicalise Muslims to join ISIS, used to send Islamists from India to Syria:...

OpIndia Staff -
The duo had formed a group called Quran Circle to radicalise Muslims in Bengaluru and fund their trips to Syria to help other ISIS terrorists.
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News Reports

Just wait for 6 months, you can demand ‘cut money’ after 2021 elections are over: TMC MLA to party workers

OpIndia Staff -
In this context, the cut money refers to the bribe that local Trinamool leaders take from people in lieu of implementing government welfare schemes.
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News Reports

Mamata Banerjee orders forensic inspection of truck tyres to prevent Coronavirus spread: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee observed that the disease stopped spreading in her locality after the movement of vehicles were stopped.
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News Reports

‘Not as big as Hathras’: After Ashok Gehlot’s ‘raped girls not forced’ another Rajasthan minister makes an insensitive remark

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In an insensitive statement, Rajasthan Youth Affairs Minister Ashok Chandna said priest murder is not as big as Hathras
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Opinions

Here is how the Tanishq ad is your guide to understand ‘soft bigotry of low expectations’

Nupur J Sharma -
On Friday, Tanishq Jewellery released a new ad of an ‘interfaith’ couple where the woman, decked up in jewellery, is getting ready for a ‘god-bharai’ (baby shower) function.
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News Reports

Hathras case: SC pulls up Kapil Sibal over plea seeking release of PFI member Siddique Kappan arrested for planning to create caste unrest

OpIndia Staff -
The four PFI members, including Siddique Kappan were arested in connection to the Hathras case had been booked under UAPA
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Law

Aamir Khan, Karan Johar, Farhan Akhtar and others join hands to target Arnab Goswami and Republic TV in Delhi High Court: Read

OpIndia Staff -
Bollywood's leading associations and production houses file a suit in Delhi High Court against Republic TV, Arnab Goswami, Pradeep Bhandari, Times Now, Navika Kumar and Rahul Shivshankar.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: CM Yogi Adityanath announces 5% reservation for ex-servicemen in state govt jobs

OpIndia Staff -
The Uttar Pradesh government led by Yogi Adityanath announces 5% reservation for ex-servicemen in state government's Group C jobs.
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Government and Policy

Rs 10,000 special festival advance for govt employees, Interest-free 50-year loans to states: FM Nirmala Sitharaman

OpIndia Staff -
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the Centre will provide Rs 10,000 special festival advance to its employees to stimulate demand in the economy.
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News Reports

Four arrested after Chinese-made grenades hurled at Assam Rifles transit camp at Dhansiri, Nagaland: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Assam Rifles had arrested one suspect initially after the attack following which three more were arrested.
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Opinions

The murder of Rahul Rajput by the family of his Muslim girlfriend: Why the ‘no communal angle’ trope is just that, a hollow trope...

K Bhattacharjee -
There are pertinent lessons to be learnt from the responses to the murder of the 18 year old Rahul Rajput.
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News Reports

Youth who issued rape threats to the 5-year-old daughter of MS Dhoni arrested, confesses to crime

OpIndia Staff -
The threats appeared on MS Dhoni and his wife Sakshi’s Instagram accounts after CSK lost a match to KKR on October 7th.
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Politics

Khushbu Sundar joins BJP, all set to become a filthy, illiterate, physically ret**ded, brain dead, religiously fanatic monkey: Read how

OpIndia Staff -
As Khushbu Sundar quits Congress to join the BJP, her old anti-BJP tweets come back to haunt her
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News Reports

After PM Narendra Modi, UP CM Yogi Adityanath is the most sought after campaigner for Bihar election

OpIndia Staff -
Yogi Adityanath and his Hindu Yuva Vahini has a great influence in Bihar, which makes him the most sought after campaigner for Bihar polls
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Social Media

Mumbai Power Cut: Social media erupts with memes and jokes as the city faces outage due to grid failure

OpIndia Staff -
Every unusual event is an opportunity for memes and humour and the Mumbai power cut was no different.
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News Reports

17-year-old girl escapes human trafficking and walks 200 KMs to Hathras from Delhi

OpIndia Staff -
At least 12 girls from Madhya Pradesh were lured into travelling to Delhi by a man on the pretext of providing them with jobs
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Media

No wonder India Today had to buy TRP: Netizens call out India Today for their cheap ‘fact check’ on Anushka Sharma

OpIndia Staff -
After its lie about the viewership ratings fell flat, India Today is trying to keep itself afloat, by just writing click-baits on Google and its SEO algorithms.
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News Reports

British school book compares Dharma to terrorism, withdrawn after outrage amongst the Indian diaspora

OpIndia Staff -
Giving example of the Kshatriya Arjuna, the textbook stated that some Hindus have turned to terrorism to protect Hindu beliefs.
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News Reports

Electricity grid failure plunges Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai in darkness, trains delayed

OpIndia Staff -
Power outage experienced across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region(MMR) after Kalwa transformer that is the main supply line that provides electricity to Mumbai suffered multiple trippings and failures.
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News Reports

‘Met old friend George Soros’: As Shashi Tharoor fear mongers about Hathras, old tweet hailing man who now wants to destroy nationalists goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday expressed concerns over the Hathras incident where justice for the victim took a back seat as politicians rushed to score brownie points.
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News Reports

China occupying Nepal land in Humla district, has heavy military presence: Says Nepalese Lawmaker

OpIndia Staff -
Nepali lawmaker inspects remote border areas, says China has been encroaching upon Nepalese land.
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Politics

‘Few people on higher level dictating terms’: Congress spokesperson Khushbu Sundar resigns from party

OpIndia Staff -
In her letter addressed to party president Sonia Gandhi, she claimed that she did not join the party for monetary gains as she joined it in 2014 after Congress had lost the general elections.
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Fact-Check

Fact Check: Randeep Surjewala lies about the death of a temple priest in Uttar Pradesh, gets exposed by police

OpIndia Staff -
Surjewala's tweet comes at the backdrop of a social media backlash over the inaction of Rajasthan government against the killers of a temple priest named Babulal Vaishnav in the Bokna village, Sapotra division of Karauli district of Rajasthan.
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News Reports

Donald Trump claims he is ‘immune’ to coronavirus now, Twitter says ‘fake news’

OpIndia Staff -
US President Donald Trump said he cannot get Covid-19 now and cannot infect others. Twitter has marked his tweet as harmful misinformation.
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News Reports

Amid reports of Turkey radicalising Indian Muslim youth with help of Pakistan, video of Robert Vadra holidaying there goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
In the undated video, Vadra, who is dressed in white v-neck t-shirt and black pants can be seen skating on along the river in Istanbul, Turkey
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News Reports

‘Unfortunate decision just to satisfy ego’: Devendra Fadnavis slams Udhhav Thackery for shifting Metro Car Shed from Aarey colony

OpIndia Staff -
Devendra Fadnavis said that building the metro car shed at Kanjurmarg will increase the cost by at least Rs 4000 crore, and delay it by years
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Sports

French Open: Rafael Nadal defeats Novak Djokovic in straight sets to win 20th Grand Slam title, equals Federer’s tally

OpIndia Staff -
Rafael Nadal wins his 13th French Open Title.
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News Reports

TRP Scam: Republic TV top officials questioned for 20 hours in total by Mumbai police, asked how they acquired the Hansa report implicating India...

OpIndia Staff -
Mumbai police questioned CEO, COO and a senior officer of Republic TV for 20 hours in total about the Hansa report in the TRP scam
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News Reports

All eight Indian beaches recommended by Ministry of Environment and Forests awarded the prestigious International Blue Flag Certification

OpIndia Staff -
Foundation of Environment Education, Denmark, upheld a recommendation made by India & awarded Blue Flag certification to 8 beaches
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News Reports

11 incidents of brutal attacks on Hindu sadhus in 2020 in the country that failed to trigger any outrage

OpIndia Staff -
In 2020, there have been several attacks on sadhus, but only a few, like the infamous Palghar lynching, managed to trigger any outrage
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News Reports

Ex-Armyman Balwinder Singh, whose turban was removed by West Bengal police, sent to 8 days of police custody by court

OpIndia Staff -
Security officer Balwinder Singh, who was arrested by West Bengal police after pulling his turban, sent to police custody in arms case
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News Reports

Winner of Penguin Random House’s Harvill Secker Young Translators’ prize calls for Brahmin genocide on social media

OpIndia Staff -
Subha Prasad Sanyal is the winner of Penguin Random House's 2018 Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize.
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News Reports

Finally a Hindu-Muslim union that can be called “interfaith”, and it’s fictional

OpIndia Staff -
The new Tanishq jewellery advertisement projects a fictional 'interfaith' union while in reality a Dipika will have to become a Faiza
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News Reports

Accusations of prolonged unexplained leave and possible ‘Fake Mausi’ in 2018 Sanjali case: More skeletons tumble out about Hathras ‘Fake Bhabhi’

Shashank Bharadwaj -
Hathras fake bhabhi Dr Rajkumari Bansal was absent for job for 8 months without explanation, and became fake mausing in a 2018 case
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News Reports

Petition filed at Rajasthan High Court seeking intervention of a central investigation agency into immolation of temple priest case

OpIndia Staff -
Petition at Rajasthan HC seeks a free, fair & transparent probe into the burning of temple priest incident by a central probe agency
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News Reports

When Rahul Gandhi met a bootlegger pretending to be ‘mother’ of Una victim as part of Dalit outreach

OpIndia Staff -
In 2016, instead of meeting the mother of the victims of Una incident, Rahul Gandhi met and hugged a 'fake mother', a woman pretending to be their mother.
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News Reports

Sleeper coaches in all mail and express trains to be replaced with newly designed AC 3-tier coaches with more berths: Railway Board Chairman

OpIndia Staff -
To increase speed of mail and express trains, all sleeper coaches to be replaced with AC coaches, as non-AC coaches create technical issues at high speed
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News Reports

‘China has deployed 60,000 soldiers at the LAC with India, dialogue and agreements will not change its ways’: USA

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The USA said that it was time to accept that talks will not be enough to make China change its erring conduct.
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Political History of India

Watch: The 1948 Calcutta Maidan speech of Sardar Patel that busts the myth of ‘Muslims chose India’ and is relevant even today

OpIndia Staff -
Sardar Patel, in his iconic speech at Calcutta Maidan, busted an enduring myth of Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb.
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News Reports

West Bengal: TMC leader accused of trying to rape BJP booth President’s wife, fight breaks out between workers of both the parties

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TMC worker Bapan Ghosh accused of trying to rape the wife of BJP Booth President in Kalna in East Burdwan district of West Bengal
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News Reports

BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga files complaint against West Bengal police with minority commission for pulling turban of Sikh security officer

OpIndia Staff -
Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga said that attack on Balwinder Singh and removing his turban is really shameful and condemnable act
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News Reports

Mizoram objects to construction of Temple and community work by Bru Tribals from Tripura at village near inter-state border

OpIndia Staff -
The Mizoram government has registered its objection with the Tripura government to the construction of a Temple at the Phuldungsei village
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News Reports

“Don’t you respect your uniform?” Republic TV Consulting Editor Pradip Bhandari takes on Mumbai CP Param Bir Singh

OpIndia Staff -
Pradeep Bhandari said that Mumbai police is going to file charges under non-bailable sections against him, and he will apply for anticipatory bail
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News Reports

Rahul Rajput murder case: His Muslim girlfriend was present at the spot, urged her brothers to let him go

OpIndia Staff -
Girlfriend of Rahul Rajput reveals that her brothers had obtained his contact number from her to call him to kill him
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News Reports

3 Bhim Army workers were allegedly feeding fake stories to the media, was the fake bhabhi a part of that? Here are details

OpIndia Staff -
The Bhim Army is reported to have planted three of its members in the house of the family of the Hathras victim.
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News Reports

BJP leader Kapil Mishra to hand over ₹25 lakh raised through crowdfunding to the family of the immolated temple priest in Rajasthan

Dibakar Dutta -
Kapil Mishra further informed that he was going to visit the victim's family in Karauli district in Rajasthan and express his solidarity.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: 20-year-old Hindu girl becomes Zoya Sheikh to marry one Salman, family files complaint alleging ‘love jihad’

OpIndia Staff -
Love Jihad: A 20-year-old girl in Kanpur, who was missing for the last five days, has become Zoya Sheikh after marrying one Salman.
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News Reports

NCW takes cognisance of viral video where Congress workers beat up woman after she objects to giving ticket to rape accused Congress leader

OpIndia Staff -
An argument broke out between Congress leader Tara Yadav and party's National Secretary Sachin Naik on Saturday during a party meeting in Deoria ahead of the by-elections in the state.
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News Reports

Taiwanese PM and Foreign Ministry thank India for celebrating Taiwan National Day

OpIndia Staff -
Hailing Taiwan as an independent country, Tajinder Bagga had put up a hoarding that read, “Taiwan – Happy National Day.”
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