Thursday, October 29, 2020

Politics
- News Reports
  
  Samajwadi Party fumes over toilet tiles at Gorakhpur Railway Hospital. Here is what happened
  
  OpIndia Staff - 29 October, 2020
  
  The National Eastern Railway issued a clarification saying that the tiles had no connection with any political party and that they were fixed years ago under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
  
  News Reports
  
  SC raps West Bengal police for issuing summons to Delhi resident over her Facebook post ‘criticising’ Mamata Banerjee government
  
  OpIndia Staff - 29 October, 2020
  
  Delhi resident Roshni Biswas was summoned over her Facebook post criticising Mamata Banerjee government for implementing lockdown norms strictly and allowing a large congregation in Raja Bazar area.
  
  News Reports
  
  Here are ‘liberals’ who hailed Imran Khan’s benevolence for releasing Abhinandan, while he was shaking in his boots, thinking of Modi going to war
  
  OpIndia Staff - 29 October, 2020
  
  The usual suspects declared Imran Khan 'won' despite the fact that it was Indian Armed Forces that destroyed terror camps in Pakistan.
  
  News Reports
  
  ‘Modi, Modi’ slogans inside Pakistan National Assembly: Here is what happened
  
  OpIndia Staff - 29 October, 2020
  
  The name of PM Modi echoed on Monday as members of Pakistan's opposition members chanted 'Modi, Modi' slogans inside Pakistan National assembly
  
  Politics
  
  Bihar: The shocking story of Jungle Raj hidden in voter turnouts
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 28 October, 2020
  
  The shocking story of Jungle Raj in Bihar no one told you.
Opinions
- Opinions
  
  Why is Europe locking down instead of copying globally famous Kerala model?
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 29 October, 2020
  
  The state of Kerala, under the visionary leadership of health minister Shailaja “Teacher” has a solution to Covid-19. Why wouldn’t the world just copy the Kerala model?
  
  Politics
  
  Bihar: The shocking story of Jungle Raj hidden in voter turnouts
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 28 October, 2020
  
  The shocking story of Jungle Raj in Bihar no one told you.
  
  Opinions
  
  Two Hindu families see the death of the child, one because she dared to refuse Islam, one, because he wanted to bid goodbye to...
  
  K Bhattacharjee - 27 October, 2020
  
  By any measure, the Faridabad incident and the Munger shooting are indeed absolutely shocking.
  
  Opinions
  
  This time for Dussehra, feminists turn Laxman Rekha into a symbol of ‘patriarchy’: Here is why they are batshit crazy
  
  Editorial Desk - 26 October, 2020
  
  The occasion is Dussehra and along expected lines, feminists are out in numbers in their attempt to prove that Ramayana, the tale of Maryada Purushottam Rama, reeks of misogyny.
  
  Opinions
  
  How Indian ‘liberals’ decided to embrace Hindutva!
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 26 October, 2020
  
  At his traditional Vijaya Dashami rally in Mumbai yesterday, Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray put it clearly. One must take lessons in Hindutva from RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.
Fact-Check
- All Media Fact-Check Political Fact-Check Social Media Fact-Check
  
  News Reports
  
  Aarogya Setu fiasco: All information sought in RTI query already in public domain, govt to take action against incompetent officials for wrong reply
  
  OpIndia Staff - 29 October, 2020
  
  Despite all information on Aarogya Setu app in public domain, the RTI reply had wrongly said that the NIC and Ministry has no information
  
  Media Fact-Check
  
  Dainik Bhaskar uses NITian Anita Bharti’s image in an article about actress Preetika Chauhan’s arrest by NCB in drug case
  
  OpIndia Staff - 26 October, 2020
  
  Anita Bhati is a student of NIT Patna, who had recently started an online portal of 'TuOn', providing free coaching to students from 7th to 12th grade and those preparing for competitive exams
  
  News Reports
  
  Alt News selectively cites coronavirus statistics to criticise PM Modi alleging he used selective data
  
  OpIndia Staff - 24 October, 2020
  
  Alt News published an article alleging that PM Modi selectively cited coronavirus numbers to give a rosy picture of country’s fight against the pandemic
  
  News Reports
  
  Rahul Gandhi claims China has occupied half of India as he says that Chinese forces have intruded 1200 km into Indian territory
  
  OpIndia Staff - 23 October, 2020
  
  Rahul Gandhi said that soldiers of China have occupied up to 1,200 km deep inside into India's territory, that would mean half of India
Media
- News Reports
  
  NBSA summons Zee News editor Sudhir Chaudhary for “divisive” report on the different types of Jihad, says it targets the Muslim community
  
  OpIndia Staff - 29 October, 2020
  
  NBSA asked Zee News Editor-in-chief Sudhir Chaudhary to appear for a hearing on November 26 via video conferencing
  
  News Reports
  
  Mumbai police intensifies witch-hunt, now wants details that would give him almost unfettered access to the Republic TV newsroom: Read details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 29 October, 2020
  
  Mumbai police have demanded access to the newsroom of the channel including the contact details, addresses and login IDs of journalists.
  
  News Reports
  
  Witch-hunt continues: Parambir Singh sues Goa Chronicle and RVS Mani, wants to know if portal made money by publishing interview ‘defaming him’
  
  OpIndia Staff - 29 October, 2020
  
  RV Subramani had said in Goa Chronicle that a corporate house was behind appointment of Param Bir SIngh as Mumbai police commissioner
  
  News Reports
  
  Here are ‘liberals’ who hailed Imran Khan’s benevolence for releasing Abhinandan, while he was shaking in his boots, thinking of Modi going to war
  
  OpIndia Staff - 29 October, 2020
  
  The usual suspects declared Imran Khan 'won' despite the fact that it was Indian Armed Forces that destroyed terror camps in Pakistan.
  
  News Reports
  
  Republic TV issues statement condemning Mumbai Police summons to their investors in relation to the TRP scam
  
  OpIndia Staff - 28 October, 2020
  
  Republic TV said that crime branch has asked all investors of the channel to produce all financial transactions relating to last five years
Variety
- All Books Culture and History Satire
  
  News Reports
  
  Adivasis and family of Gond tribal leader Komaram Bheem objects to his Muslim look in the upcoming ‘RRR’ movie
  
  OpIndia Staff - 28 October, 2020
  
  Komaram Bheem’s grandson Sone Rao said that the movie RRR depicting Bheem as Muslim is nothing but a 'distortion'
  
  Opinions
  
  This time for Dussehra, feminists turn Laxman Rekha into a symbol of ‘patriarchy’: Here is why they are batshit crazy
  
  Editorial Desk - 26 October, 2020
  
  The occasion is Dussehra and along expected lines, feminists are out in numbers in their attempt to prove that Ramayana, the tale of Maryada Purushottam Rama, reeks of misogyny.
  
  News Reports
  
  Reducing Navratri to ‘mating dance’, comparing Holi with terrorism— how the Indian media has turned Hinduphobic
  
  OpIndia Staff - 22 October, 2020
  
  After Eros Now posted series of vulgar messages associated with Navratri, far-left site Arre posted a Hinduphobic tweet on Durga puja
  
  Opinions
  
  The social hierarchy of Muslim society: Is the caste system a problem unique to Hindus?
  
  Nivan Sadh - 20 October, 2020
  
  Often ignored by the media, there is wide scale discrimination present in Muslim society between two factions- Ashraf and Ajlaf.
Specials
- All Interviews OpIndia Explains OpIndia Scoops
  
  Interviews
  
  9 key takeaways from Union Minister Prakash Javadekar’s exclusive interview with OpIndia. Read the details here
  
  OpIndia Staff - 27 October, 2020
  
  Union Minister Prakash Javadekar gave an exclusive interview to OpIndia wherein he spoke on a range of issues such as Bihar elections, relentless hounding of Republic TV, environment woes in Delhi and many others.
  
  News Reports
  
  ‘What Mumbai Police is doing is wrong,’ I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar speaks up on the hounding of Republic TV and Arnab Goswami exclusively to...
  
  OpIndia Staff - 26 October, 2020
  
  Prakash Javadekar gave an interview to OpIndia Hindi Editor, Ajeet Bharti, where he answered questions on a host of issues.
  
  News Reports
  
  Meet Sachin Vaze, the ‘encounter specialist’ cop leading the investigation against Arnab Goswami who was once suspended for custodial murder
  
  OpIndia Staff - 24 October, 2020
  
  Sachin Vaze was suspended from the police force over the custodial death of a 27-year-old software engineer in 2003
  
  OpIndia Scoops
  
  Exclusive: Conversation that shows how Mumbai Police is trying to coerce witness into naming Republic TV in TRP scam
  
  Nupur J Sharma - 23 October, 2020
  
  While Hansa Research report and the FIR filed named India Today in TRP scam, in less than 24 hours, Mumbai Police had seemingly made up its mind that Republic TV was the culprit
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