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TRP scam: Mumbai Police arrests main accused from UP’s Mirzapur

OpIndia Staff -
Mumbai Police arrested main accused of TRP Scam from Uttar Pradesh
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Entertainment

What if religions were reversed in the Tanishq ad? Answer is bomb blast. Read why

OpIndia Staff -
When Mani Ratnam tried to show interfaith marriage with religions reversed, things didn't just remain limited to social media outrage.
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Politics

BJP slams Youth Congress leader for remarks against Yogi Adityanath, accuses him of disregarding ‘Natha’ tradition

OpIndia Staff -
Since the Hathras incident came to the fore, Congress has been desperately trying to use against the Yogi Adityanath govt
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News Reports

‘Assamese daughters becoming victim of Ajmal’s culture, boys hiding religious identity will face ruthless punishment’: Himanta Biswa Sarma

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Himanta Biswa Sarma stated that the menace of Love Jihad has spread its tentacles across the state of Assam.
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News Reports

Tanishq removes controversial advertisement glorifying ‘love jihad’ following social media outrage

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An advertisement promoting 'interfaith' marriage and 'love jihad' by Tanishq had sparked massive outrage on the internet
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Media

India Today’s Rahul Kanwal hails Bollywood for hounding Arnab Goswami after blaming Republic TV for a scam India Today is accused in

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Despite being called out so many times in the recent past for the lies, India Today and its so-called senior 'journalists' like the channels news editor Rahul Kanwal seems to be feeling no remorse at all.
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Opinions

Why such desperate attempts to bring down Trump and Modi?

Maria Wirth -
The Western Media demonises Donald Trump in the same manner as they demonise Narendra Modi.
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Political History of India

Espionage Archives: How India’s Communist parties received funding from the Soviet Union during the Cold War

Nivan -
CIA doc reveals India’s parties allegedly took funds from the Soviet Union in exchange for heavy influence on foreign policy.
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News Reports

Hathras Case: Victim’s family wants case transferred to outside of UP, Allahabad HC hearing adjourned till 2nd November

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Allahabad HC hears Hathras Case, victim's family pleads to move hearing outside of UP.
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Politics

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

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'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:...

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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