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West Bengal police lodge FIR against Rajya Sabha MP Ananta Maharaj: Here is what happened
‘Don’t have time’: Karnataka Congress minister Zameer Ahmed Khan writes to Shivakumar for relief from I-Day flag-hoisting duty
Telangana CM Revanth Reddy boasts that Muslims are biggest beneficiaries of free electricity: Congress continues to justify appeasement as ‘secularism’
Punjab and Haryana High Court stays Pharmacy Officers and State Rural Livelihoods Mission recruitments over irregularities and cheating: AAP, CJP silent
Assam govt ‘reducing’ Eco-Sensitive Zone of Kaziranga: Read how the decision follows Supreme Court order, and how the issue exposes Congress hypocrisy
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Economist vs Economist: The British media house opposes UCC and backs Muslim Personal Law in India, while defending secular law in the UK
Meet Cambridge academic Farah Ahmed: Former Hizb-ut-Tahrir member who called Western secular education ‘a threat to Islam’
Drain of wealth 2.0: Return of ‘Lagaan’ and India’s need for another Swaraj
Telangana CM Revanth Reddy boasts that Muslims are biggest beneficiaries of free electricity: Congress continues to justify appeasement as ‘secularism’
JPSC scam and the national disease called ‘Sarkari Naukri’
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Assam govt ‘reducing’ Eco-Sensitive Zone of Kaziranga: Read how the decision follows Supreme Court order, and how the issue exposes Congress hypocrisy
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Anti-Hindu propagandist Prakash Raj claims his name was deleted from the electoral roll during SIR; Bengaluru civic body debunks his lies
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Former employee accuses ex-Newslaundry manager, who was involved in #MeToo case in 2018, of workplace harassment
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‘Don’t have time’: Karnataka Congress minister Zameer Ahmed Khan writes to Shivakumar for relief from I-Day flag-hoisting duty
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Telangana CM Revanth Reddy boasts that Muslims are biggest beneficiaries of free electricity: Congress continues to justify appeasement as ‘secularism’
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Punjab and Haryana High Court stays Pharmacy Officers and State Rural Livelihoods Mission recruitments over irregularities and cheating: AAP, CJP silent
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Assam govt ‘reducing’ Eco-Sensitive Zone of Kaziranga: Read how the decision follows Supreme Court order, and how the issue exposes Congress hypocrisy
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Economist vs Economist: The British media house opposes UCC and backs Muslim Personal Law in India, while defending secular law in the UK
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Meet Cambridge academic Farah Ahmed: Former Hizb-ut-Tahrir member who called Western secular education ‘a threat to Islam’
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Drain of wealth 2.0: Return of ‘Lagaan’ and India’s need for another Swaraj
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Telangana CM Revanth Reddy boasts that Muslims are biggest beneficiaries of free electricity: Congress continues to justify appeasement as ‘secularism’
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JPSC scam and the national disease called ‘Sarkari Naukri’
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Assam govt ‘reducing’ Eco-Sensitive Zone of Kaziranga: Read how the decision follows Supreme Court order, and how the issue exposes Congress hypocrisy
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‘Amit Shah planned’: CJP cockroach Saurav Das alleges ‘political intimidation’ by Puducherry Police over home visit, police refute claim
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Anti-Hindu propagandist Prakash Raj claims his name was deleted from the electoral roll during SIR; Bengaluru civic body debunks his lies
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Mini truck driver Mohd Azeem dies due to injuries during assault after accident with Mohd Farman’s auto rickshaw ferrying Kanwariyas; The Wire pins sole...
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Newslaundry lied about acting on 4 sexual harassment complaints since 2017: Former employee reveals official documents. Read shocking details
fake encounter
Former employee accuses ex-Newslaundry manager, who was involved in #MeToo case in 2018, of workplace harassment
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Floral showers on Kanwariyas ‘undermine’ secularism: Indian Express peddles Muslim victimhood bogey
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Mini truck driver Mohd Azeem dies due to injuries during assault after accident with Mohd Farman’s auto rickshaw ferrying Kanwariyas; The Wire pins sole...
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‘Respect at workplace isnt a big ask’: Former employee exposes toxic culture at ‘The Print’, says Shekhar Gupta banned office friendships
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Battle of Colachel: How Travancore king Marthanda Varma crushed Dutch colonial power
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When Travancore king Marthanda Varma challenged the Dutch monopoly on the Malabar Coast spice trade
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BJP to launch ‘Samrasta Sankalp Abhiyan’, month-long yatra from Jalandhar to Varanasi: How Ravidassia outreach factors into UP, Punjab polls
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2019 Hyderabad rape and murder case: Supreme Court says police encounter of criminals was fake, cops should be tried for murder
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20 May, 2022
SC appointed panel on Friday said that the four accused of gang-rape and murder of a 27-year-old veterinarian, who was killed in a police encounter in Hyderabad were "deliberately fired upon with an intent to cause their death".
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‘No cash award system’, Indian army refutes media reports that Shopian encounter was staged for Rs 20 lakhs
OpIndia Staff
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12 January, 2021
These reports were widely shared on Twitter, with many rebuking the Indian Army for faking an encounter in lieu of a bribe
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35 years back, an erstwhile king was killed in an encounter in Rajasthan for which 11 policemen were given life imprisonment. Rea
OpIndia Staff
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22 July, 2020
Raja Man Singh and his two associates were killed by a team of police force led by then DSP Kan Singh Bhati
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Central Government ready to prosecute former Home Minister P Chidambaram in Ishrat Jahan affidavit case: Reports
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21 January, 2019
Government to prosecute former Home Minister P Chidambaram, in relation to Ishrat Kajan affidavit change case.
Crime
Sohrabuddin Shaikh and Tulsiram Prajapati case: Special CBI court acquits all accused
OpIndia Staff
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21 December, 2018
The special CBI court today acquitted all the accused in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh encounter case in Mumbai due to lack of evidence.
News Reports
Meerut Police slams journalist for casting aspersions on police for registering fake cases
OpIndia Staff
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5 April, 2018
Meerut Police asks the journalist to fact-check before tweeting.
News Reports
Ex Gujarat DGP Pandey discharged by CBI court in Ishrat Jahan encounter case
OpIndia Staff
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22 February, 2018
He was jailed for almost 19 months for the case
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‘Branded Hindu terrorists, killed in police custody, body disposed of as 26/11 victims’
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5 January, 2017
Affidavit by a suspended police inspector claims shocking details about Malegaon blasts accused.
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