Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Politics
- Politics
  
  Ahead of Punjab Assembly Elections in 2022, CM Amarinder Singh ropes in Prashant Kishor
  
  OpIndia Staff - 1 March, 2021
  
  Four years after helping the Congress party come to power in Punjab, Prashant Kishor is returning to the state
  
  News Reports
  
  After PM Modi took a COVAXIN jab, Asaduddin Owaisi raises aspersions on the efficacy of Serum Institute’s COVISHIELD vaccine
  
  OpIndia Staff - 1 March, 2021
  
  AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi fuelled apprehensions over the effective of Serum Institute's COVISHIELD vaccine after Germany restricted its use to people within the age group of 18-64
  
  Media
  
  After a massively successful Modi Para group rally, The Wire tries to peddle ‘anti-BJP’ narrative in West Bengal: Read how
  
  OpIndia Staff - 1 March, 2021
  
  The Modipara volunteers handcuffed themselves and covered their mouth with black cloths to symbolically protest against TMC.
  
  News Reports
  
  Leftist Historian, who got the book on Delhi riots de-platformed, gives ‘activist’ Malala Yousafzai platform to propagate anti-India narrative
  
  OpIndia Staff - 1 March, 2021
  
  Malala, who had fled Pakistan after being shot at by Talibanis, has continued to peddle Pakistani propaganda against India.
  
  News Reports
  
  ‘Bring resolution against CAA, law for Muslim reservation’: Abu Azmi threatens to protest against Maha govt if demands not fulfilled
  
  OpIndia Staff - 1 March, 2021
  
  Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi has asked the state government to bring a law to provide 5% reservations to Muslims in the state.
Opinions
- OpIndia Explains
  
  Don’t fall for propaganda! WhatsApp will not have to breach end-to-end-encryption to follow the new IT guidelines
  
  RS Govind - 1 March, 2021
  
  We're all well aware that the Govt of India has recently notified the new Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021
  
  Opinions
  
  Gujarat 2002: The iconic photo(s) that were never taken and the question of ‘victimhood’
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 1 March, 2021
  
  How the 59 Karsevaks who were burnt alive were never the victims of violence for the 'liberals'
  
  Opinions
  
  Gujarat 2002: Never forget the carnage and how the media and andolanjeevis perpetuated the ‘Dara Hua Musalman’ bogey
  
  Nirwa Mehta - 1 March, 2021
  
  Never forget that the 'liberals' propagated 'Dara Hua Musalman' narrative while piggybacking on the dead bodies of 59 Hindus killed by Muslim mob.
  
  Opinions
  
  Assamese gamosa, South-Indian nurse and Bharat-made COVAXIN: PM Modi’s vaccine symbolism is bound to burn ‘liberals’
  
  Nupur J Sharma - 1 March, 2021
  
  Opting for COVAXIN, PM Narendra Modi took his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi
  
  Politics
  
  Staring at obliteration, communists find God: Man dressed as Shiva campaigns for uber-secular CPIM and the lessons it has for political parties
  
  K Bhattacharjee - 28 February, 2021
  
  A man dressed as God Shiva was seen campaigning for the CPI(M), a party that postures itself as a uber-secular communist party.
Fact-Check
- All Media Fact-Check Political Fact-Check Social Media Fact-Check
  
  Fact-Check
  
  The Hindu ‘journalist’ Suhasini Haidar puts out misinformation about ISRO satellite launch: Read details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 1 March, 2021
  
  Suhasini Haidar, National Editor of 'The Hindu', put out false information on social media in attempt to mislead the public.
  
  Fact-Check
  
  After Muslim mob set a train on fire in Godhra in 2002, did Hindu mob rape a Muslim woman, slit her stomach and flung...
  
  OpIndia Staff - 1 March, 2021
  
  While Kauser’s death was unfortunate, the lies surrounding it only fanned the bitterness in an already embittered environment.
  
  Fact-Check
  
  Congress IT cell passes off old images of left parties rally to claim lakhs of people attended their rally in Bengal
  
  OpIndia Staff - 28 February, 2021
  
  Several Congress shared images of a political rally claiming lakhs of people had gathered in Kolkata for a Congress rally
  
  Social Media Fact-Check
  
  Covid vaccine to cost Rs 500 in the second phase of the vaccination drive? Here are the facts
  
  OpIndia Staff - 27 February, 2021
  
  The second phase of India's Covid vaccination drive is set to begin from the 1st of March, 2021.
Media
- Media
  
  After a massively successful Modi Para group rally, The Wire tries to peddle ‘anti-BJP’ narrative in West Bengal: Read how
  
  OpIndia Staff - 1 March, 2021
  
  The Modipara volunteers handcuffed themselves and covered their mouth with black cloths to symbolically protest against TMC.
  
  Opinions
  
  Gujarat 2002: Never forget the carnage and how the media and andolanjeevis perpetuated the ‘Dara Hua Musalman’ bogey
  
  Nirwa Mehta - 1 March, 2021
  
  Never forget that the 'liberals' propagated 'Dara Hua Musalman' narrative while piggybacking on the dead bodies of 59 Hindus killed by Muslim mob.
  
  News Reports
  
  Punjabi daily Rozana Pehredar tries to whitewash atrocities of Khalistani terrorist Bhindranwale
  
  OpIndia Staff - 28 February, 2021
  
  Rozana Pehredaar compared Bhindranwale with revered Sikhs like Baba Deep Singh and Amar Shaheed baba Naudh Singh
  
  Media
  
  DIGIPUB, with VC accused of money laundering and links to Gautam Navlakha, wants new Digital Media rules repealed: Details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 27 February, 2021
  
  The letter was signed by Dhanya Rajendran of TNM, Prabir Purkayastha of NewsClick, Ritu Kapur and Abhinandan Sekhri.
  
  News Reports
  
  Turkish Intelligence agency and Pakistan’s ISI creates anti-India propaganda team by hiring Pakistani and Kashmiri journalists through TRT World
  
  OpIndia Staff - 27 February, 2021
  
  Turkish state-owned media houses such as TRT World and Anadolu Agency have hired a large number of Pakistani and Indian Kashmiri journalists
Variety
- All Books Culture and History Satire WTF News
  
  News Reports
  
  Meet Dr Romesh Japra, Prominent Indian-American Cardiologist attacked in the USA for supporting Indian farm laws
  
  T Waraich - 23 February, 2021
  
  Recently, in a viral video, a group of protestors were seen gathered outside the house of prominent cardiologist Dr Romesh Japra in California and raising derogatory slogans.
  
  WTF News
  
  UK HelloFresh food app issues apology after a customer gets bottled-up urine with his order: Read details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021
  
  In the United Kingdom, a HelloFresh app customer was left in shock as he received a bottle full of urine as part of food delivery
  
  Satire
  
  Robert Vadra’s PR stunt, where ‘journalist’ fell off her bicycle, not part of Congress effort to make Rahul Gandhi look smarter, clarify top leaders
  
  K Bhattacharjee - 22 February, 2021
  
  The protagonists in our story are Robert Vadra, Congress party's son-in-law, and Mausami Singh, the 'journalist' who fell off her cycle.
  
  Opinions
  
  Metro is an upper caste male Brahminical, Hindu supremacist patriarchal project, scrap it
  
  Sandeep Kadian - 22 February, 2021
  
  Now that E Sreedharan, also known as Metro Man has joined the BJP, it is time to call out this patriarchal project which has done no good for Indians.
Specials
- All Interviews OpIndia Explains OpIndia Scoops
  
  OpIndia Scoops
  
  Still living in fear, no compensation yet for our losses: A year on, OpIndia spoke to the owner of a parking lot burnt down...
  
  रवि अग्रहरि - 1 March, 2021
  
  The owner of the parking lot that was burnt down by rioters in Delhi's Shiv Vihar said that the cars were ransacked a day before the actual violence gripped the national capital
  
  OpIndia Explains
  
  Don’t fall for propaganda! WhatsApp will not have to breach end-to-end-encryption to follow the new IT guidelines
  
  RS Govind - 1 March, 2021
  
  We're all well aware that the Govt of India has recently notified the new Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021
  
  Opinions
  
  Encryption vs Compliance: The new IT Act guidelines put messaging services like WhatsApp in a tight situation
  
  OpIndia Staff - 27 February, 2021
  
  To comply with the new IT Act guidelines, services like WhatsApp will have to break its famous end-to-end encryption
  
  News Reports
  
  Modi govt tightens noose on social media giants and ‘intermediaries’: What it means, the effects of the provisions and how it could tame the...
  
  OpIndia Staff - 25 February, 2021
  
  The guidelines define the due diligence measures that the social media platforms will have to observe to operate in India
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