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Crime

Remembering Lalu’s Jungle Raj in Bihar: When an IAS officer’s wife was raped for two years by an RJD leader

अनुपम कुमार सिंह -
During Lalu's Jungle Raj in Bihar, IAS Officer BB Vishwas's wife Chamba Biswas was raped for 2 years by RJD leader Mrityunjay Yadav
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Interviews

“Your outrage against Hinduphobic content on OTT platforms may actually be fuelling more such content”- Here is what an industry insider says

Nirwa Mehta -
OTT platforms are not hit if a movie or a series if boycotted for Hinduphobic content as people have already paid for subscription
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News Reports

Mumbai Police threatens Republic TV executive editor with imprisonment for refusing to reveal source of Hansa report in TRP scam

OpIndia Staff -
Republic TV Executive Editor warned by Mumabi Police that he will be booked under IPC sections 174 and 179 if does not give source of Hansa report
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Media

No, India Today, Katrina Kaif in yellow saree for Navratri is not offensive to Hindus, this is where you got it wrong

Jhankar Mohta -
India Today tries to be holier than thou while trying to paint Hindus as trolls over Eros Now's vulgar Navratri posts
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News Reports

UP: Police find conversion of over 200 people to Buddhism fake, people were asked to sign conversion papers disguised as govt scheme

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After reports of 236 Valmiki community members converting to Buddhisim, police find no evidence of conversion in Karehra village
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News Reports

Lucknow: Jama Mazar caretaker ‘Kale Baba’ caught running sex racket, video goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
The caretaker has allegedly confessed to police that he was sexually exploiting women and engaging them in illicit activities in the name of curing infertility and other ailments.
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News Reports

Meghalaya: Khasi student body puts up racist posters saying “All Meghalaya Bengalis are Bangladeshis”

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The banners put up by Khasi Students Union read, ''All Meghalaya Bengalis are Bangladeshis'' and "Khasiland for Khasis; Foreigners Go Away".
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News Reports

CM Yogi distributes relief amount of Rs 113.21 crore among the flood-affected farmers in Uttar Pradesh

OpIndia Staff -
CM Yogi distributed the relief amount to the flood-affected farmers in 19 districts of the state by online transaction.
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News Reports

UP Police Sub-Inspector Intesar Ali suspended for keeping beard without permission

OpIndia Staff -
SP Abhishek Singh said that police personnel other than Sikhs are allowed to keep a beard only after getting the requisite permission.
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News Reports

‘Mughal Prince Tucy’ lashes out on AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi, calls him ‘Bewakoof, and Gadha’

OpIndia Staff -
Prince Tucy said that when the people of Hyderabad are dealing with horrific floods, MP Asaduddin Owaisi is busy doing poll campaign in Bihar.
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News Reports

Karnataka HC grants bail to Congress MLA’s relative Naveen who was accused of ‘blasphemy’ by Islamic mobs for Facebook comment

OpIndia Staff -
Naveen was booked under sections 153A and 295A of the Indian Penal Code and section 67 of the Information Technology Act over his alleged derogatory comment regarding Prophet Mohammed on Facebook.
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Political Fact-Check

Is Modi govt giving Coronavirus vaccines for ‘free’ only to Bihar? No, that’s not how it works

OpIndia Staff -
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday while releasing the BJP manifesto in Bihar for upcoming elections said that the BJP promises free coronavirus vaccines in Bihar, whenever the vaccine is made available.
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Crime

West Bengal: TMC workers attack BJP workers with lathis in Bardhaman for taking out a rally in support of farm bills

OpIndia Staff -
In the video that has gone viral on social media, it can be seen how TMC workers unleashed attacks on BJP workers with sticks
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News Reports

‘Not a serious crime’: Islamic scholar defends Muslim man who beheaded the French teacher, says it is not something he should be punished for

OpIndia Staff -
Normalising the beheading incident, the Islamic scholar said that the only punishment for insulting the Prophet is death and 'ideally' it should have been carried out by the Islamic State.
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News Reports

Sweden joins other European countries to ban China’s Huawei, ZTE from upcoming 5G networks, calls China biggest threat

OpIndia Staff -
Sweden has become the latest country to ban Chinese telecom groups Huawei and ZTE from its 5G mobile networks.
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Social Media

Eros Now apologises for publishing vulgar Hinduphobic content on Navratri

OpIndia Staff -
After netizens outraged over vulgar posts on Navratri, Eros Now issued an apology.
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News Reports

Government of India issues warning to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey over misrepresentation of Indian map

OpIndia Staff -
Govt tells Twitter that any attempt to disrespect sovereignty and integrity of India is totally unacceptable and also unlawful
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News Reports

INS Kavaratti: ‘Made in India’ ASW stealth corvette to be commissioned into Indian Navy today. All you need to know

OpIndia Staff -
INS Kavaratti is the last of the four Kamorta class indigenously built ASW stealth corvettes.
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Political History of India

All you need to know about Mohammad Shahabuddin, the dreaded mafia don and once Lalu Yadav’s close aide who made Siwan tremble

OpIndia Staff -
The Siwan district, in the 90s and early 21st century, became his fiefdom and Mohammad Shahabuddin was its unchallenged ruler.
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Politics

Bihar Assembly elections: NDA set to return to power as migrant workers may put their weight behind Modi

Nirwa Mehta -
From migrant workers crisis to Citizenship Amendment Act - what will sway the Bihar elections
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News Reports

Do you want courts to conduct proceedings from ‘Chaupals’? Delhi HC raps AAP govt for not giving funds to district courts

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Delhi High Court raps AAP government withholding funds needed for recruitment in District Courts, issued Rs. 2.5 crore from its own funds.
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Opinions

“Islam is in crisis all over the world” and all the other things the French President said

Abhishek Banerjee -
Earlier this month, the French President Emmanuel Macron took the stage at city hall in the Paris suburb of Les Mureaux to deliver one of the most consequential speeches of his career.
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Political History of India

October 22, 1947: The day when Pakistan-backed tribal Lashkars invaded Jammu and Kashmir to plunder, rape and destroy

Jinit Jain -
A two-day national symposium on 'Memories of 22 October 1947' is being organised in Srinagar to create awareness among the Kashmiris about the violence inflicted by Pakistan on their ancestors
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News Reports

France: Charlie Hebdo cartoons projected on government building to express solidarity with deceased teacher who was beheaded by Islamic terrorist

OpIndia Staff -
Days after the barbaric beheading of teacher Samuel Paty on the streets of Paris by a terrorist for showing the cartoons of Prophet Mohammad to his students, support continues to pour in for the deceased teacher.
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News Reports

Another contempt case? Prashant Bhushan targets CJI Bobde again, links his home visit during holidays with Madhya Pradesh MLA disqualification case

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CJI is eligible for state arranged transport during visits to states, but Prashant Bhushan alleged CJI Bobde of taking favors from MP govt
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News Reports

Shahabuddin was a powerful ‘pawn’ under Lalu-led government in Bihar: Read how he dominated Siwan during the jungle raj

रचना कुमारी -
Shahabuddin was fearless because of the backing he got from Lalu Yadav, and in return, he made sure Lalu got votes in the elections
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Uddhav Thackeray government blocks CBI from investigating cases in the state, withdraws general consent

OpIndia Staff -
The Maharashtra government on Wednesday passed an order withdrawing its consent for the CBI to probe cases in the state
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News Reports

Punjab’s new Agriculture Laws are hogwash meant to fool gullible farmers, violates the constitution: Read how

OpIndia Staff -
The Essential Commodities Act passed by the Punjab govt contravenes the constitution, adds opacity and infringes on the centre
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News Reports

Paris: Two Muslim women stabbed under Eiffel Tower by white women shouting “dirty Arabs”

OpIndia Staff -
Two Muslim women were stabbed repeatedly under the Eiffel Tower on Sunday night by two white women who called them "dirty Arabs".
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News Reports

How do Customs officials remove gold concealed in the rectum of smugglers? Things you never thought you’d want to know

OpIndia Staff -
Customs officials convince the smugglers to eject the gold from their rectum, or extract with the help of doctors
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News Reports

Fake news peddler Prashant Kanojia granted bail by Allahabad High Court

OpIndia Staff -
Kanojia was also arrested last year for postin derogatory tweets aimed at spreading hatred.
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News Reports

Youth Congress chief spreads misinformation about Modi govt’s Bihar package, distorts statement of BJP chief JP Nadda

OpIndia Staff -
Youth Congress chief uses only a part of speech of JP Nadda to spread misinformation about Modi govt’s Bihar package
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Opinions

21 October 1943: Netaji Subhash had formed the Azad Hind Government, India’s ‘declaration of independence’

Shashank Bharadwaj -
On October 21, 1943, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose announced the formation of the 'Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind' or the provincial government of free India in Singapore and had declared war on the British Empire.
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News Reports

China fines dairy company for ‘incorrect’ map of its territory in an advertisement, the company issues apology

OpIndia Staff -
China penalised Bright Dairy and Food for not showing 'complete and correct territory' of the country, which is a violation of laws
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Fact-Check

No, going to Dubai to buy the new iPhone 12 Pro is not cheaper than buying in India. Here is how

OpIndia Staff -
Dhruv Rathee criticised the 'Indian Tax System' by claiming that travelling to Dubai for buying an iPhone 12 Pro is cheaper than getting it from India.
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Opinions

Is somebody paying the “experts” to spread spurious narratives on Atmanirbhar Bharat?

Abhishek Banerjee -
A more self-reliant India, with a bigger industrial base, with lesser trade deficits was the need of the hour. Who could object?
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News Reports

Terror-state Pakistan likely to remain in FATF ‘grey list’ as it fails to act against Islamic terrorist groups

OpIndia Staff -
As Pakistan has failed to comply 6 out of 27 points in FATF action plan, it is unlikely to come out of the grey list till June next year
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News Reports

Republic TV gets a big relief in the TRP scam case, plea to restrain the channel from airing the Hansa Research report rejected by...

OpIndia Staff -
Mumbai Court dismissed a plea by Hansa Research seeking injunction against Republic from broadcasting the TRP scam report
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News Reports

Donald Trump’s aide claims laptop of Joe Biden’s son contains explicit images of underage girls, hands it over to Delaware police

OpIndia Staff -
Last week, the New York Post had claimed in its article that the said laptop contains incriminating material against Hunter Biden.
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi to help PFI member and Kerala-based ‘journalist’ Siddique Kappan who is accused of attempting to instigate violence in UP

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress leader met a delegation at Malappuram, Kerala on Monday and promised them to look into the issue of the arrest of 'journalist' Siddique Kappan.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: CM Yogi Adityanath pays tribute to policemen on Police Commemoration Day

OpIndia Staff -
UP CM Yogi Adityanath expressed gratitude to all police personnel who were martyred in line of duty on Police Commemoration Day
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News Reports

Paris beheading case: Video that encouraged radical Islamist to kill a teacher for displaying cartoon of Prophet Mohammed in his class surfaces

OpIndia Staff -
Brahim Chnina, father of a girl who was a student in Samuel Paty's class, had launched a campaign against him that led to his beheading in Paris
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News Reports

India returns captured Chinese soldier to PLA, disengagement talks to continue: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
The Indian Army had earlier informed that they had received correspondence from the Chinese side about the ‘whereabouts of its missing soldier’.
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News Reports

Remember Sheena Bora case? Param Bir Singh was the IG of Konkan range, the site where her body was dumped

OpIndia Staff -
Param Bir Singh knew that Sheena Bora was missing. He had asked Rahul Mukerjea to file a 'missing persons' report. Sheena, however, was never reported as 'missing'.
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Law

Maharashtra government to pay Rs 10 lakhs per hearing to Kapil Sibal in the case against Arnab Goswami

OpIndia Staff -
Kapil Sibal and Rahul Chitnis will be paid Rs 10 lakh Rs 1.50 lakh per hearing by Maharashtra govt in case filed by Arnab Goswami
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News Reports

CBI takes over probe, FIR lodged in TRP fraud case based on complaint filed in Uttar Pradesh: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
The CBI has filed a case to probe the allegations of TRP manipulation against unknown persons after the UP government recommended probe by the central agency.
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News Reports

Pakistan in ‘civil war’ mode after Sindh Police and Army clash after police chief was kidnapped. Read details

OpIndia Staff -
A civil war is brewing in Pakistan after deadly clashes broke out between Sindh police and Pakistani army over the illegal detention of Sindh police chief.
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News Reports

Caught on camera: NCP’s Nawab Malik ‘predicts’ Arnab will commit suicide as he will be ‘trapped’ in TRP case

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik insists that though the BARC letter clears Republic TV's name, the police investigation 'will find evidence' against Arnab.
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Crime

Bilaspur: Mohammad Sharif tried to rape a woman under the pretext of exorcism, arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Mohammad Sharif, an absconding fake 'healer' who had allegedly tried to rape a woman under the garb of exorcism, arrested after a month.
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News Reports

Jharkhand: Muslim youth’s throat slit, killed by members of his own community for trying to prevent cow slaughter, three arrested

OpIndia Staff -
According to the FIR filed by the deceased mother at Sadar Police station in Garhwa, three Muslim youths killed her son for preventing cow slaughtering activities.
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