Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Politics
- News Reports
  
  Metro car shed: Maha govt says it is ready to pay for disputed Kanjurmarg land, months after claiming it cost Rs 0
  
  OpIndia Staff - 3 March, 2021
  
  The disputed Kanjurmarg land, which the Maharashtra government and Aaditya Thackeray boasted of being acquired for free of cost, is currently under litigation.
  
  News Reports
  
  Rahul Gandhi attacks RSS, compares schools run by them with madarsas operated by radical Islamists in Pakistan
  
  OpIndia Staff - 3 March, 2021
  
  Rahul Gandhi alleged that RSS is doing something "fundamentally different" to destroy the education system of India.
  
  Editor's picks
  
  Hours before the model code of conduct set in, Mamata Banerjee grants Rs 2.60 crore for Furfura Sharif shrine
  
  OpIndia Staff - 3 March, 2021
  
  Furfura Sharif's cleric Abbas Siddiqui has forged an alliance with the Congress and the Left after floating his own political party named Indian Secular Front.
  
  News Reports
  
  Ex Maha CM and Congress leader spreads misinformation about COVID vaccination. Here are the facts about pricing
  
  OpIndia Staff - 3 March, 2021
  
  Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan spreads misinformation about Covid-19 vaccine pricing and allocation.
  
  Opinions
  
  ‘Standing up for the national anthem is enforced nationalism’: Here’s how The Wire is fanning separatism in J and K
  
  Jinit Jain - 3 March, 2021
  
  In essence, The Wire, in its article, has toed the separatists and terrorists' line in blaming the university for "enforcing" nationalism on students by simply asking them to comply with the university protocols, which include standing up for the national anthem, among other activities.
Opinions
- Opinions
  
  ‘Standing up for the national anthem is enforced nationalism’: Here’s how The Wire is fanning separatism in J and K
  
  Jinit Jain - 3 March, 2021
  
  In essence, The Wire, in its article, has toed the separatists and terrorists' line in blaming the university for "enforcing" nationalism on students by simply asking them to comply with the university protocols, which include standing up for the national anthem, among other activities.
  
  Opinions
  
  Brown Sahib’s colonial hangover: How Congressis are perpetually in awe of Gandhi siblings mingling with gareeb Indians
  
  Jinit Jain - 2 March, 2021
  
  The Congress sympathisers and leaders have displayed unwavering support in building a cult around the Gandhi siblings
  
  Opinions
  
  Rahul Gandhi has made his choice: He prefers street power to political power
  
  Nupur J Sharma - 2 March, 2021
  
  Congress, the Left and ISF have now formed a 'secular' alliance to fight the Bengal polls and are in the process of finalising their seat-sharing formula
  
  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'
Fact-Check
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  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
- News Reports
  
  PM Modi and his mother abused live on air by a caller on a BBC radio show on Sikhs in the UK
  
  OpIndia Staff - 3 March, 2021
  
  BBC edited the program and the host offered apology after caller abused PM Modi and his mother during a live radio show
  
  Politics
  
  As Congress allies with rabid Islamist in Bengal, sympathetic journalists try to shift focus to Assam Congress
  
  OpIndia Staff - 2 March, 2021
  
  While Rohini Singh desperately tried to sideline G23 rebel Congress leader Anand Sharma and promote Gaurav Gogoi, it must be pointed out that the latter, who is supposedly 'not entitled', is the son of the late Congress leader and former Assam CM Tarun Gogoi.
  
  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
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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Love Jihad

Politics

‘Love jihad’ laws not anti Muslim, says Yogi Adityanath, narrates story of Dilshad who pretended to be Amit to marry Hindu woman

OpIndia Staff - 28 February, 2021

Yogi Adityanath speaks on 'love jihad' laws, law and order situation in UP and Bengal elections

Crime

Father of 6, Mehtab Rana, abducts minor by shrouding her in Burqa, had abducted the girl twice in 2018, role of in-laws, family suspected

OpIndia Staff - 27 February, 2021

Kidnapping of a 17-year-old girl in Agra, where accused made her wear a 'burqa', has sent shockwaves and resulted in outrage

Crime

Tipu Sultan pretended to be Satish Rai to try and marry, convert a 19-year-old, was nabbed because of alert villagers: Read what happened

OpIndia Staff - 26 February, 2021

Grooming Jihad: A married Muslim man has been arrested in Jharkhand, for faking his identity and trying to lure a Hindu girl

News Reports

Kerala: Yogi calls out Pinarayi govt’s appeasement policies, invokes halal banks to love jihad to Sabarimala ahead of assembly polls

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was addressing a rally in Kerala's Kasargod ahead of state assembly polls.

Politics

‘The court said that ‘Love Jihad’ is a conspiracy to make Kerala an Islamic state’: Yogi Adityanath slams CPM and Congress in Kasargod

OpIndia Staff - 21 February, 2021

UP CHief Minister Yogi Adityanath addressed a rally in Kerala on Sunday ahead of the Assembly Elections in the state.

News Reports

Grooming Jihad in Meerut: A tutor changes his identity to trap a Hindu girl, kidnaps and forces her to convert to Islam

OpIndia Staff - 5 February, 2021

In this new case of Grooming Jihad, the teenager from Meerut confessed that Amaan forced her to convert at a mosque in Delhi

News Reports

Tauseef, who was caught on camera shooting Nikita Tomar, claims she was killed by her own family in ‘honour killing’

OpIndia Staff - 24 January, 2021

Advocate Mehak Sahni on behalf of Tauseef has claimed that the investigation against him is politically motivated and he is being 'wrongly dragged' in the 'love jihad' angle.

Crime

Grooming Jihad: Sohail becomes ‘Sunny’ to harass 22-year-old in Madhya Pradesh, first arrest under new law

OpIndia Staff - 19 January, 2021

Grooming Jihad: A man named Sohail Mansuri arrested under the new law against Grooming Jihad, is accused of abusing a 22-year-old woman to forcefully convert her.

News Reports

In a bid to oppose UP’s anti-forced religious conversion law, ‘Liberals’ end up endorsing paedophilia

OpIndia Staff - 13 January, 2021

Contrary to the reports that the youth was in a relationship with the Hindu girl, in reality, the youth had only talked with the girl a few times on social media. However, there was no relationship between the two.

Crime