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Republic TV pays NDTV anchor Sanket ₹500 to watch Republic, claims report, top officials claim it was tutorial on how to run a successful...

K Bhattacharjee -
'Eminent' NDTV news anchor Sanket Upadhyay posted pictures of the channel's newsroom on social media on Friday.
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News Reports

Here is how Congress government in Rajasthan is allocating funds for Madarsa development while its leader is opposing Kumbh Mela

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader Udit Raj had recently stoked a controversy saying that a secular government should not spend money in Kumbh Mela.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Congress minister Yashomati Thakur who wanted to ‘warm her pockets’ after coming to power sent to jail for 3 months in a 2012...

OpIndia Staff -
Yashomati Thakur is the same Congress minister who had said her party has just come to power and she is yet to fill her pocket
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News Reports

Bengaluru violence over FB post: Congress leader used groups of Muslims angry over CAA, Ram Mandir to instigate violence, plans were hatched in May

OpIndia Staff -
The charge-sheet filed by the Central Crime Branch (CCB) in connection with the Bengaluru riots case states that the Congress leader Sampath Raj joined hands with radical Islamic organisation such as SDPI to target his own party's Dalit MLA
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News Reports

In 3.5 years of Yogi govt, Encephalitis deaths reduced by 95%, CM says it can be wiped out in another 2 years

OpIndia Staff -
The BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur, which used to see 500-600 cases of hospitalization of children afflicted with Encephalitis in the month of August since the last 40 years, has now seen only 86 cases in August this year.
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Media

Arnab Goswami sent another notice by Maharashtra Assembly to explain ‘derogatory comments’ against Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar: Details

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra Assembly has sent a second notice to Arnab Goswami for making derogatory comments against CM Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar
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News Reports

Hathras Case: Eyewitness says victim was lying on the ground with injury marks on neck, mother and brother were standing nearby

OpIndia Staff -
Eye-witness in Hathras case says he had found victim's mother and brother standing as she lay screaming on ground on the day of the incident.
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News Reports

FIR filed against NDTV for spreading fake news about Tanishq store being ‘attacked by a mob’: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
FIR has been lodged against news channel NDTV for spreading fake news regarding a Tanishq showroom in Gandhidham being attacked by a 'mob' post the outrage against the brand's ad.
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News Reports

‘Neutral’ journalist Ravish Kumar’s brother becomes Congress candidate in Bihar elections, was accused of sexually exploiting a Dalit woman

OpIndia Staff -
A Dalit minor girl, a daughter of a former Congress leader, had named Brajesh Pandey and several others of sexually exploiting her over a period of time. The victim later reached a 'compromise' with the main accused in the case.
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Media

Exclusive: Read the full story behind why Prasar Bharati decided to terminate its association with PTI and save Rs 10 crores annually

OpIndia Staff -
The Prasar Bharti has finally terminated its contract with the Press Trust of India (PTI).
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News Reports

Centre challenges the jurisdiction of the Peace and Harmony Committee of the Delhi Legislative Assembly before the Supreme Court

OpIndia Staff -
Centre told SC that summons issued by Peace and Harmony Committee of Delhi Assembly to Facebook are invalid as it lacks jurisdiction
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News Reports

PTI hides the identity of 3 Muslim men who gang-raped a minor girl and blackmailed her with the video of the act for one...

OpIndia Staff -
The names of three accused Fuzail, Farhan and Rizwan who had raped a minor girl was missing from PTI report carried by media houses
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Crime

Advocate Vibhor Anand arrested by Mumbai police a day after allegedly spreading fake news in Sushant Sigh Rajput and Disha Salian death cases

OpIndia Staff -
Despite court order prohibiting it, Vibhor Anand had named actor Arbaaz khan in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case
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News Reports

CBI refutes media reports that no foul play found in Sushant Singh Rajput death case and going to file a closure report, says it...

OpIndia Staff -
CBI said that the investigation in Sushant Singh Rajput death was still on and reports of filing closure report in the probe are fake
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News Reports

Odisha: A day after OTV published a report questioning CM Naveen Patnaik’s aerial survey of flood, channel’s senior journalist allegedly detained by police

OpIndia Staff -
OTV had published a report based on RTI reply which said the CM's aerial survey of floods in the state took only 19 minutes
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News Reports

‘We don’t know if it is possible but we are issuing notice’: Supreme Court accepts petition seeking regulation of OTT content

OpIndia Staff -
"We don't know if it is possible but we are issuing notice." CJI said on censoring OTT content.
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News Reports

Jack refuses to acknowledge that twitter shadowbans on the basis of ideology right after admitting how it banned anti-Biden report

OpIndia Staff -
An NY Post investigative report exposing link between Joe Biden and Ukraine has been banned by Twitter, preventing users from sharing it
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News Reports

Supreme Court reserves verdict on Hathras case, victim’s family seeks CRPF protection and shifting of the case to Delhi

OpIndia Staff -
Advocate Indira Jaising asked the Supreme court to transfer the trial in the Hathras case from Allahabad to Delhi
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Media

Self-proclaimed ‘fact-checker’ thinks penalising communally sensitive fake news is a ‘misplaced priority’ simply because the channel that peddled it is NDTV

OpIndia Staff -
A prime example of just how delusional and bereft of morality the Left is was displayed today by Pratik Sinha, a self-proclaimed fact-checker and co-founder of AltNews.
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Social Media

Twitter locks Indian journalist’s account for sharing screenshots of NY Post article against Joe Biden that it did not want to be shared

OpIndia Staff -
The NY Post article that had shared details of Joe Biden's meeting with a top Burisma official was censored by Facebook and Twitter.
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News Reports

Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma gives befitting reply to an ‘Islamic Scholar’ on shutting down state-run madrassas

OpIndia Staff -
Himanta Biswa Sarma asked Rehman to cite any statement of Sardar Patel where he said that state should run madrassas
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News Reports

Journo with Independent shares fake, photoshopped tweet to defame columnist Shefali Vaidya, brazens it out even after being caught

OpIndia Staff -
Stuti Mishra shared fake tweet of Shefali Vaidya to imply that those calling to boycott Tanishq can’t afford products of the company
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News Reports

Election drums in Bengal: PM Modi to hold special address ‘Puja ki Baat’, BJP’s women wing to organise Puja in Kolkata

OpIndia Staff -
CM Mamata Banerjee, who usually goes on a Puja pandal inauguration spree every year, is to inaugurate Pujas virtually this year.
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News Reports

NIA suspects Dawood link in the Kerala gold smuggling scam, accused had travelled to D-gang locations in Tanzania: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
Accused Ramees and Sharafudheen had travelled to Tanzania and visited shops in the African country where guns are sold, the NIA told in court.
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Media

Anticipatory bail granted after being opposed for 2 hours, reveals Republic TV journalist Pradip Bhandari, who is being hounded by Mumbai Police

OpIndia Staff -
In a relief to Republic TV journalist Pradeep Bhandari, anticipatory bail has been granted to the journalist after he was summoned under non-bailable sections by the Mumbai Police.
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News Reports

Justice Chandrachud raises concern over Police Commissioners giving TV interviews, police says ‘other channels also summoned in TRP scam’: Here is what happened in...

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court asks Republic TV to approach High Court against summons by Mumbai police over TRP scam reporting by the channel
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Crime

Watch: Delhi traffic police constable dragged on car’s bonnet for 400 metres after attempting to stop an errant driver

OpIndia Staff -
A Delhi traffic police constable was dragged on the bonnet of a car for nearly 400 metres after he tried to stop the vehicle by jumping on top of the car.
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Law

Mohua, are you on Mohua? Calcutta HC dismisses charges against Babul Supriyo over his 2017 remarks against TMC MP Mahua Moitra

OpIndia Staff -
In a big setback to TMC MP Mahua Moitra, Calcutta HC quashed police chargesheet against BJP MP and Union Minister Babul Supriyo
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News Reports

After India Today ‘Fake TRP scam’, BARC to pause weekly television ratings of news channels and review current standards of measuring viewership

OpIndia Staff -
BARC will now stop publishing the weekly individual ratings for all news channels as they review their rating system that will take 8-12 weeks
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News Reports

Can’t appear to be targeting two channels only, let’s add NDTV, India Today, Editors Guild etc to suit: OpIndia accesses internal communication of cine-associations

OpIndia Staff -
CNITAA told Producers Guild that they were surprised to see only two channels in the petition, and asked more channels to be added
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Economy and Finance

Those who brought us Kerala model of health have now come up with Bangladesh model of economy: How they are wrong, so, so wrong

Abhishek Banerjee -
Doesn’t it also predict that India will see a GDP growth of 8.8% next year, making us the world’s fastest growing economy and India will easily pull ahead of Bangladesh in per capita GDP next year?
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Media

Retreat, Retreat! Howls Bollywood: Bollywood production houses change tunes, now say suit against ‘entire media’, not just Arnab Goswami

OpIndia Staff -
Bollywood production houses had filed a suit in the Delhi High Court to stop Arnab Goswami, Republic TV, Pradip Bhandari and Times Now from 'defaming' Bollywood.
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News Reports

Sushant Singh Rajput’s friend Sandip sends defamation notice to Republic TV and Arnab Goswami, seeks Rs.200 Cr in compensation

OpIndia Staff -
Sandip Singh has asked Republic TV and Arnab Goswami to remove all content against him from all platforms and apologise within 15 days.
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News Reports

Here is how even before Rahul Gandhi says something silly, he has already managed to spread fake news

OpIndia Staff -
This morning, when he woke up in the night, Rahul Gandhi achieved a geopolitical breakthrough. He glued the 2 Koreas into one.
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Media

Indian Express mentions Dalit identity of accused Congress leader, but not of Muslim in-laws who drove the Hindu woman to self-immolate

Editorial Desk -
In a horrifying incident, on the 13th of October 2020, a woman self-immolated in front of the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. She has now reportedly succumbed to her injuries.
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Media

CINTAA sets ground for tacit retreat? Passes resolution saying they are ‘free to add’ media channels other than Republic TV

OpIndia Staff -
CINTAA's decision to include other media networks in their suit is now being viewed as an attempt to tacitly retreat from the war against Republic TV and Arnab Goswami
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News Reports

Lucknow: Woman who had set herself on fire near Vidhan Sabha dies in hospital, husband Asif, inlaws accused of harassment, forced conversion

OpIndia Staff -
Anjana Tiwari alias Aisha, who had self-immolated in front of the UP Vidhan Sabha on Tuesday, 13 October, has succumbed to burn injuries.
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Politics

“Facebook and Twitter are not media platforms. They’re propaganda machines”: New York Post says after platforms censor its bombshell expose on Joe Biden

OpIndia Staff -
Facebook and Twitter censored a bombshell report exposing corruption of Joe Biden and son by New York Post.
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News Reports

Hathras investigation: Arrested PFI members were in touch with Delhi Riots accused, had received money from PFI account

OpIndia Staff -
The Jagran report has stated that the arrested persons had also received money from a bank account that belongs to PFI.
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News Reports

NIA questions Congress MLAs Zameer Ahmed Khan and Rizwan Arshad for over 4 hours in the Bengaluru violence case: Details

OpIndia Staff -
The NIA officials questioned the Congress MLAs for over four hours, asked them about they saw on August 11 during Bengaluru violence
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Media

NDTV continues to defend itself after spreading fake news, anchor says they meant ‘strongly disagree’ when they said a ‘mob attacked’ Tanishq store

OpIndia Staff -
Tanishq ad that created a furore and was eventually pulled down after strong disagreements by Hindus was seen as an opportunity by NDTV to peddle its agenda
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News Reports

Woman who self-immolated outside UP Vidhan Sabha alleging harassment by in-laws dies in hospital

OpIndia Staff -
Aisha, who was earlier Anjana Tiwari, had set herself ablaze in from of UP Vidhan Sabha due to harassments from her Muslim in-laws
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OpIndia Explains

Hindu woman married to Muslim man without converting does not have equal rights as others in the family according to Islamic law: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
According to Islamic law, marriage of Muslim boy with idol worshipper or a fire worshipper girl is considered irregular marriage
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News Reports

City sewage plant named after comedian John Oliver because his show is full of crap and garbage: Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton

OpIndia Staff -
After a spat between comedian John Oliver and Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton, the city council votes to rename the sewer plant after John
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News Reports

Video of a person making anti-India comments circulated on social media falsely claiming that it is the founder of Himalaya Drug Company

OpIndia Staff -
Muhammad Manal, the founder of HImalaya Drug Company died in 1986, and the person in the viral video is one Naqi Ahmed Nadwi
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News Reports

Hathras Case: CBI team issues summons to the father and the brothers of the victim again

OpIndia Staff -
CBI to question the father and the three brothers of the Hathras murder and alleged rape victim, issues summons
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News Reports

Gujarat Home Minister orders ‘strict action’ against NDTV for fake news about attack on Tanishq showroom, directs to register a case

OpIndia Staff -
NDTV had today published a fake news claiming a Tanishq showroom in Gandhidham, Kutch, was under attack by an angry mob
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News Reports

Gautam Navlakha had sought mercy for a Pakistani ISI agent in US court: NIA charge sheet

OpIndia Staff -
NIA charge sheet says that urban naxal Gautam Navlakha had written to a US court seeking mercy for Ghulam Nabi Fai
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Crime

UP: Congress leader’s son arrested for provoking Anjana alias Aisha to set herself on fire near Vidhan Sabha

OpIndia Staff -
The woman who has converted to Islam to marry one Asif, set herself on fire outside UP Vidhan Sabha alleging harassment by in-laws.
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News Reports

Twelve days after India Today awarded Kerala as best state in combating coronavirus amid soaring cases, Rahul Kanwal questions, ‘what went wrong?’

OpIndia Staff -
In the first week of October, India Today had awarded 'Healthgiri Awards 2020' to Kerala, today, they wonder what went wrong
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