Thursday, August 6, 2020

Politics
- News Reports
  
  ‘As a CM I have no problem with any religion, but as a yogi, I will not go for a Mosque’s ground-breaking ceremony’: Yogi...
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 August, 2020
  
  When asked whether he will attend ground-breaking ceremony for the mosque at Ayodhya, Yogi Adityanath said that he will not be invited
  
  News Reports
  
  ‘Supporting Ram Mandir is like bowing low for temporary success’: Kerala Congress MP TN Prathapan writes to Sonia Gandhi opposing party’s endorsement of Ram...
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 August, 2020
  
  Kerala Congress MP TN Prathapan objects to Congress leaders endorsing Ram Mandir construction, writes to Sonia Gandh
  
  Opinions
  
  Ram Janmabhoomi movement: Three sacrifices that can never be forgotten
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 6 August, 2020
  
  Five hundred years of struggle went into Ram Janmabhoomi moment. There would be so many heroes that it is impossible to remember them all.
  
  Politics
  
  Read about Raja Suhaldev, who was mentioned by PM Modi in his speech after Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan in Ayodhya
  
  OpIndia Staff - 5 August, 2020
  
  During his speech at the Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan ceremony, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a reference to Raja Suhaldev
  
  News Reports
  
  Veer Savarkar’s prophecy ‘The day Hindus unite, Congress leaders will wear janeu over the coat’ comes true as they celebrate construction of Ram Mandir
  
  OpIndia Staff - 5 August, 2020
  
  Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Kamal Nath and Manish Tewari have posted tweets, welcoming the Bhoomi pujan ceremony and extending their support for the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya
Opinions
- Government and Policy
  
  15th EU-India Summit: Promising an opportunity for India in the post-COVID world
  
  Shishir Bajoria - 6 August, 2020
  
  The 15th EU-India Summit was held in the virtual space, which can be called the Covid-19 era normal. Before the pandemic made its presence felt, this Summit was planned to be held in March in Brussels.
  
  Culture and History
  
  Is being a Hindu acceptable but having faith in Hindutva ‘dangerous’? Quite the contrary
  
  Maria Wirth - 6 August, 2020
  
  Is being a Hindu acceptable while faith in Hindutva is not? Is it even dangerous? Many Hindus seem wary to be associated with Hindutva
  
  Opinions
  
  Muslims chose to stay back in India: An analysis of the mythical, unsubstantiated trope that is used to make Hindus feel guilty
  
  Nupur J Sharma - 6 August, 2020
  
  Muslims who stayed back in India after the partition, did not primarily do so out of their innate love for mother India
  
  Opinions
  
  Ram Janmabhoomi movement: Three sacrifices that can never be forgotten
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 6 August, 2020
  
  Five hundred years of struggle went into Ram Janmabhoomi moment. There would be so many heroes that it is impossible to remember them all.
  
  Opinions
  
  Ram Mandir, a symbol of cultural continuity: Northeast India and Sanatan Dharma
  
  Guest Author - 5 August, 2020
  
  After a decade long historical, political and legal dispute and with a Supreme Court intervention brought to closure in the matter of construction of Ram Mandir and, finally, Lord Rama shall get its abode to live
Fact-Check
- All Media Fact-Check Political Fact-Check Social Media Fact-Check
  
  Media Fact-Check
  
  Is ED violating its guidelines by registering money laundering case in connection with SSR’s death? Here’s how NDTV journalists peddled fake news
  
  OpIndia Staff - 3 August, 2020
  
  The Enforcement Directorate has recently lodged a case of money laundering in connection with the alleged suicide of Sushant Singh Rajput.
  
  Social Media Fact-Check
  
  Did Mughals give birth to Raksha Bandhan in India? Fact-check
  
  OpIndia Staff - 3 August, 2020
  
  Raksha Bandhan is a Hindu tradition celebrating the love, care and bond between the siblings and its origins dates back to several millennia
  
  Social Media
  
  The curious case of Dr Aisha: How the quest to find the perfect ‘Muslim’ victim of the Wuhan Coronavirus fell flat on its face
  
  OpIndia Staff - 2 August, 2020
  
  Dr Aisha supposedly lost her life to the Wuhan Coronavirus after being put on ventilator on the occasion of Eid-al-Adha.
  
  Social Media Fact-Check
  
  Congress shares images from West Bengal to attack Nitish Kumar-led govt over floods in Bihar
  
  OpIndia Staff - 2 August, 2020
  
  In a hurry to attack the Nitish Kumar-led government in Bihar, the Bihar Congress on Friday resorted to passing-off an old image from flood-hit areas of West Bengal as that of Muzaffarpur, Bihar Sharif, Bhagalpur and Patna in Bihar.
Media
- Media
  
  From being bigoted, kids are ‘hope of secularism’. The Wire’s Rohini Singh explains how
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 August, 2020
  
  The Wire journalist Rohini Singh on Wednesday took to Twitter to share an image wherein she claimed that her child drew a mosque and a temple side by side and wrote an essay on tolerance.
  
  News Reports
  
  The Wire shares article citing discredited ‘experts’ to falsely claim older mosques existed beneath the Babri structure, not a temple
  
  OpIndia Staff - 5 August, 2020
  
  The Wire cites 'experts' who had claimed no temple was found below Babri Masjid, but they were not present during ASI digging
  
  News Reports
  
  From ‘nothing new about Shilanyas’ to ‘I will not find Ram there’, Bhoomi Pujan ceremony of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya triggers a meltdown...
  
  OpIndia Staff - 5 August, 2020
  
  The liberal intelligentsia is having a hard time digesting the fact that the dream of millions of Hindus of a Ram Mandir in Ayodhya is finally turning into a reality
  
  Politics
  
  BJP slams Times Now for claiming 21 BJP leaders, including 4 MPs and 1 MLA, ‘likely to join TMC’, calls it fake news
  
  OpIndia Staff - 3 August, 2020
  
  West Bengal unit of the BJP slammed Times Now for claiming in a report that 21 of its leaders were 'likely to join' Trinamool Congress
  
  Media
  
  Barkha Dutt interviews Sushant Singh Rajput’s therapist, who breaks client confidentiality to give a clean chit to Rhea in middle of investigation
  
  OpIndia Staff - 2 August, 2020
  
  Barkha Dutt and Susan Walker Moffat breaks patient confidentiality by releasing mental illness history of Sushant Singh Rakput
Variety
- All Books Culture and History Satire
  
  Culture and History
  
  Is being a Hindu acceptable but having faith in Hindutva ‘dangerous’? Quite the contrary
  
  Maria Wirth - 6 August, 2020
  
  Is being a Hindu acceptable while faith in Hindutva is not? Is it even dangerous? Many Hindus seem wary to be associated with Hindutva
  
  News Reports
  
  Soil from ancient Sharda Peeth in PoK was also used in Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan: Read how VHP and some dedicated devotees managed that
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 August, 2020
  
  This Sharada Peeth is significantly important for Hindus because it is said to be one among the 18 Maha Shakti Peethas.
  
  Opinions
  
  Ram Mandir, a symbol of cultural continuity: Northeast India and Sanatan Dharma
  
  Guest Author - 5 August, 2020
  
  After a decade long historical, political and legal dispute and with a Supreme Court intervention brought to closure in the matter of construction of Ram Mandir and, finally, Lord Rama shall get its abode to live
  
  News Reports
  
  ‘I, Narendra Damodardas Modi, on behalf of my country and its people’: Read what the PM’s ‘Sankalpa’ at Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan meant
  
  OpIndia Staff - 5 August, 2020
  
  PM Modi today did the Shilanyas and Bhoomi Pujan for the proposed Ram Mandir at the Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya.
Specials
- All Interviews OpIndia Explains OpIndia Scoops
  
  OpIndia Scoops
  
  ‘Aaj Dekh Lenge Hinduon ko’: The tale of Faizal Farooqui, Rajdhani and DRP school and what Chargesheet number 1 says
  
  Nupur J Sharma - 3 August, 2020
  
  The Delhi Police and the Special Cell have filed numerous chargesheets in the Delhi riots that pertain to several different incidents of violence that led to carnage and destruction over a period of the two days.
  
  News Reports
  
  Had it been Pakistan, would have taken her from your house: The full story of what happened when Nazmul kidnapped Dinesh’s daughter at gunpoint
  
  Jhankar Mohta - 31 July, 2020
  
  A minor girl was abducted on gunpoint while she was returning from the market with her father. The alleged incident took place on July 26 in Begusarai’s Bhikan Chak village that falls under Bachhwara police station.
  
  OpIndia Explains
  
  The saga of Wikipedia bias continues: ‘Jai Shri Ram is a war cry’
  
  OpIndia Staff - 31 July, 2020
  
  The Wikipedia page of the sacred chant 'Jai Shri Ram' has been distorted to paint a completely ant-Hindu picture and call the chant a war cry
  
  Political History of India
  
  The Nanoor Massacre: When CPI(M) workers slaughtered 11 landless labourers and then blamed ‘evil’ landlords for their crimes
  
  OpIndia Staff - 28 July, 2020
  
  The Nanoor Massacre occurred on the 27th of July, 2000 in the Birbhum District of West Bengal. 11 labourers lost their lives.
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CBI registers case against Rhea Chakraborty, her family and aides in Sushant Singh Rajput death case

OpIndia Staff - 6 August, 2020

CBI files case against Rhea Chakraborty, her father, mother, brother and 2 others in Sushant Singh Rajput's death case

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‘As a CM I have no problem with any religion, but as a yogi, I will not go for a Mosque’s ground-breaking ceremony’: Yogi...

OpIndia Staff - 6 August, 2020

When asked whether he will attend ground-breaking ceremony for the mosque at Ayodhya, Yogi Adityanath said that he will not be invited

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Complaint filed against Maulana Sajid Rashid for inciting Muslims to demolish Ram Mandir at Ayodhya

OpIndia Staff - 6 August, 2020

President of the All India Imam Association Sajid Rashidi had said that a mosque will be rebuilt after demolishing the Ram Mandir

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15th EU-India Summit: Promising an opportunity for India in the post-COVID world

Shishir Bajoria - 6 August, 2020

The 15th EU-India Summit was held in the virtual space, which can be called the Covid-19 era normal. Before the pandemic made its presence felt, this Summit was planned to be held in March in Brussels.

News Reports

Dalit organisation lodges a complaint with MHA seeking an FIR against AIMPLB for intimidating and hurting the faith of Hindu Dalits

OpIndia Staff - 6 August, 2020

AIMPLB had issued a menacing threat yesterday hinting at converting the Ram temple back into a mosque

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Here is why #BabyPenguin is trending on Twitter, and why Aaditya Thackeray is called so by some

OpIndia Staff - 16 July, 2020

Yuva Sena registered complaint against twitter user for calling Aaditya Thackeray "Baby Penguin" and Uddhav Thackeray "Aurangzeb"

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Twitter user arrested by Maharashtra police for criticising the Uddhav Thackeray govt on social media

OpIndia Staff - 6 August, 2020

Mumbai Police arrested Twitter user Sunaina Holey for posting against Maharashtra CM and his son, to be presented in court today

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‘Situations do not last forever’: All India Muslim Personal Law Board issues a menacing threat on the eve of Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan

OpIndia Staff - 5 August, 2020

Comparing Babri Masjid to Turkey's newly converted mosque 'Hagia Sophia', the Muslim Personal Board said, "Babri Masjid was and will always be a Masjid".

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NASDAQ billboard at NYC’s Times Square not to beam Lord Ram’s image after petitions by Muslim groups

OpIndia Staff - 4 August, 2020

Muslims groups in New York have objetected to the plan of displaying the images of Lord Ram on the large LED screens of Times Square on Bhoomi Pujan day.

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TV actor Sameer Sharma found hanging from the kitchen ceiling, case of accidental death registered

OpIndia Staff - 6 August, 2020

After body of Sameer Sharma was recovered from his house, a case of accidental death has been registered by the Malad police

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