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Who are ‘Dimagi Naxals’ PM Modi warned the nation about in his Independence Day speech?
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
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‘Anti-Muslim hate machinery’: TRT World publishes propaganda documentary vilifying India, Hindus and peddling ‘Islamophobia’ propaganda
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’
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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
‘Amit Shah planned’: CJP cockroach Saurav Das alleges ‘political intimidation’ by Puducherry Police over home visit, police refute claim
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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Private thrust: How Indian start-ups are building aero-engines from scratch
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Who are ‘Dimagi Naxals’ PM Modi warned the nation about in his Independence Day speech?
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West Bengal police lodge FIR against Rajya Sabha MP Ananta Maharaj: Here is what happened
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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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‘Anti-Muslim hate machinery’: TRT World publishes propaganda documentary vilifying India, Hindus and peddling ‘Islamophobia’ propaganda
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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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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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‘Anti-Muslim hate machinery’: TRT World publishes propaganda documentary vilifying India, Hindus and peddling ‘Islamophobia’ propaganda
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Another ex-employee of Newslaundry, Bhadra Mahapatra, narrates how she was made to compromise her safety in the organisation
Hug
Newslaundry lied about acting on 4 sexual harassment complaints since 2017: Former employee reveals official documents. Read shocking details
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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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Floral showers on Kanwariyas ‘undermine’ secularism: Indian Express peddles Muslim victimhood bogey
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Battle of Colachel: How Travancore king Marthanda Varma crushed Dutch colonial power
Culture and History
When Travancore king Marthanda Varma challenged the Dutch monopoly on the Malabar Coast spice trade
News Reports
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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How Hindus are reclaiming the Adina Temple , which was converted into a mosque by invaders
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Free online coaching, civil defence, nuclear energy, Saptadhara, and more: Major announcements made by PM Modi during Independence Day speech
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Fact-check: Did Coronavirus spread in Italy due to a Pakistani or due to ‘hug a Chinese’ campaign?
OpIndia Staff
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13 March, 2020
With the outbreak of the deadly COVID-19 coronavirus in Italy, social media has been abuzz with news that the patient zero in Italy has been identified as a Pakistani immigrant who refused to self-isolate.
News Reports
‘Rahul Gandhi is the biggest buffoon in the country’: Telangana CM K Chandrashekhar Rao
OpIndia Staff
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6 September, 2018
The Telangana Cabinet dissolved the state assembly earlier today.
News Reports
While Captain Amarinder Singh slams Sidhu, Punjab Congress Chief supports the Sidhu-Bajwa hug
OpIndia Staff
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21 August, 2018
Sidhu was seen sitting next to the President of PoK and hugging Pakistan's Army Chief at Imran Khan's oath-taking ceremony
Opinions
Rahul-Kejriwal saga: What the Lutyens Media didn’t tell you
Ashish Shukla
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15 August, 2018
The Lutyens Media does know how to cover their tracks.
News Reports
Rahul caught on camera winking again, this time at a rally in Rajasthan
OpIndia Staff
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12 August, 2018
There are reports of rifts within the party over its Chief Ministerial candidate for the upcoming elections.
Opinions
AAP, which was embarrassed by Lalu hugging Kejriwal, wants Rahul to hug their supremo
Nirwa Mehta
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9 August, 2018
AAP seems terribly confused about hugs and people they have previously criticised.
Opinions
The embarrassing embrace by the entitled man-child and the quick rescue team of Rahul Gandhi
Saket Suryesh
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27 July, 2018
Rahul Gandhi believes in his superiority. He also believes that Modi is a mistake the nation has made
News Reports
Modi should get medically tested if he was poisoned, Subramanian Swamy on Rahul Gandhi’s hug to PM
OpIndia Staff
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22 July, 2018
He called the embrace 'unethical' and said that such behaviour should be discouraged.
News Reports
This is how Lok Sabha Speaker, Sumitra Mahajan, slammed Rahul Gandhi for his ‘hug and wink’ move
OpIndia Staff
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20 July, 2018
The Lok Sabha speaker was not happy with what transpired in the Parliament
Opinions
Media Pidis fail to understand why Rahul Gandhi isn’t a people’s man
Abhishek Banerjee
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20 July, 2018
A man who, at nearly 50 years of age, is demanding credit for “trying harder.”
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