Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Politics
- News Reports
  
  NGO’s bank account frozen and show cause notice issued after Jignesh Mevani sought funds in its name: Details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 11 May, 2021
  
  Jignesh Mevani has claimed political persecution after the charity commissioner of Gujarat ordered the freezing of the NGO's account.
  
  News Reports
  
  After oxygen, AAP govt plays politics over availability of COVID vaccines: Here is how they are wrong
  
  OpIndia Staff - 11 May, 2021
  
  The AAP Govt has begun diverting attention from its poor vaccination efforts by shifting the goalposts
  
  Opinions
  
  Samajwadi Party’s Covid politics: Why they want to derail the vaccination drive in Uttar Pradesh
  
  Shantanu Gupta - 11 May, 2021
  
  Akhilesh Yadav sent a very irresponsible message to his followers, that this is 'BJP’s vaccine' and 'I will not take this vaccine'.
  
  News Reports
  
  34 FIRS, 21 arrests in 5 days over ‘inflammatory’ social media posts in West Bengal talking about post-poll violence in Bengal: Details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 11 May, 2021
  
  Just five days after Mamata Banerjee took oath as the third time Chief Minister of West Bengal, a crackdown on social media posts has begun.
  
  News Reports
  
  Enforcement Directorate books Anil Deshmukh under anti-money laundering law, to probe financial dealings: Details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 11 May, 2021
  
  The case by ED against Anil Deshmukh was made out based on the details of the corruption case filed by the CBI on April 24.
Opinions
- Opinions
  
  Samajwadi Party’s Covid politics: Why they want to derail the vaccination drive in Uttar Pradesh
  
  Shantanu Gupta - 11 May, 2021
  
  Akhilesh Yadav sent a very irresponsible message to his followers, that this is 'BJP’s vaccine' and 'I will not take this vaccine'.
  
  Opinions
  
  As ‘farmer leaders’ distance themselves, Tikri gangrape incident shows the dark side of “activism”
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 11 May, 2021
  
  In today’s world, activism is a full time job in itself. The only thing it is missing is proper regulation, with benefits and protections for everyone involved.
  
  Entertainment
  
  Class privilege at its worst: Farhan Akhtar defends receiving vaccine at center where only senior citizens and specially abled above 45 are eligible
  
  K Bhattacharjee - 10 May, 2021
  
  Farhan Akhtar announced that he had received his first Covid-19 vaccine dose at the Andheri Sports Complex in Mumbai.
  
  Opinions
  
  From dead babies to hushing rapes: How the spectacle of human sacrifice has come to dominate liberal protests
  
  K Bhattacharjee - 10 May, 2021
  
  Yogendra Yadav was aware that a woman had been raped by AAP leaders at the Tikri border farmer protest site.
  
  Opinions
  
  The Liberal ‘Ummah’: How the community stays quiet when one of them is a rapist
  
  Nirwa Mehta - 10 May, 2021
  
  This is how the liberal ‘ummah’ works. They will look out for each other even if it goes against everything they claim they stand for.
Fact-Check
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  News Reports
  
  Did the Modi govt approve Covaxin for 12-year-olds? Here is the truth
  
  OpIndia Staff - 10 May, 2021
  
  As of May 10, a total of 17,01,76,603 vaccine doses have been administered according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
  
  Fact-Check
  
  Did BJP leader Tejasvi Surya ‘apologise’ for his alleged ‘communal’ remarks on the BBMP bed scam? Here are the facts
  
  Shashank Bharadwaj - 8 May, 2021
  
  After Tejasvi Surya took the names of 17 employees in the BBMP case who are Muslims, Congress party and media houses had attacked him
  
  News Reports
  
  Turkish govt-owned news portal publishes misleading photograph with Indian Covid stats
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2021
  
  Photograph of Nepalese cremation ground passed as India's while publishing Covid-19 stats by Turkish News outlet TRT World
  
  Fact-Check
  
  Scroll journalist mischievously shares misleading, old report to insinuate that union govt is funding a trial of using Gayatri Mantra to treat Covid-19
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2021
  
  While AIIMS Rishikesh is testing using gayatri mantra along with usual treatment for Covid-19, fake news claims it as standalone treatment
Media
- News Reports
  
  Washington Post and DW News resort to vulture journalism, criticised by netizens for ‘promoting’ India’s Covid crisis on Twitter
  
  Dibakar Dutta - 11 May, 2021
  
  Social Media users slammed Washington Post and DW for 'selling human tragedy' for cash.
  
  News Reports
  
  How Rajdeep Sardesai, a self-declared vulture, defended UAPA accused Natasha Narwal who is under trial for Delhi anti-Hindu riots
  
  OpIndia Staff - 10 May, 2021
  
  Rajdeep Sardesai and others have been using the death of her father to stir sympathy for UAPA accused Natasha Narwal, claiming that her arrest was wrongful.
  
  World
  
  Chinese state media Editor accuses Subramanian Swamy of being ‘ungrateful’ over ‘war on COVID’, it doesn’t go down well for him
  
  OpIndia Staff - 9 May, 2021
  
  Chinese state media Global Times Editor Hu Xijin on Sunday accused BJP leader Subramanian Swamy of being 'ungrateful' after he tweeted that India is...
  
  Media
  
  Swati Chaturvedi accused of plagiarizing article on Himanta Biswa Sarma by Hindustan Times editor
  
  OpIndia Staff - 8 May, 2021
  
  Swati Chaturvedi has been accused of plagiarizing an article by Zia Haq, Associate Editor at Hindustan Times.
  
  News Reports
  
  Arvind Kejriwal govt expels 7 journalists from Whatsapp group after report critical of govt handling of oxygen crisis, senior journalists keep mum
  
  OpIndia Staff - 8 May, 2021
  
  The Arvind Kejriwal government has been the darling of the media for a long time but it seems to want absolute devotion
Variety
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  News Reports
  
  China: Strong wind blows away floor panels in 100m high glass bridge, tourist left clinging to railings
  
  OpIndia Staff - 11 May, 2021
  
  The incident took place in Piyan Mountain near the city of Longjing in China.
  
  Opinions
  
  Manoj Das the storyteller: Alive forever, in a million smiles and a million memories
  
  Sanghamitra - 4 May, 2021
  
  How does something as insignificant, and as regular as death binds a writer who is alive in a thousand stories.
  
  WTF News
  
  Worried because his hens stopped laying eggs, a poultry farmer in Pune approaches police
  
  OpIndia Staff - 23 April, 2021
  
  The Pune poultry farmer said that his hens stopped laying eggs after consuming the feed manuactured by a particular firm in Ahmednagar
  
  Opinions
  
  Breathing oxygen? Thank a tree hugger in Aarey forest
  
  Sanghamitra - 21 April, 2021
  
  As media reports started going oxygen, oxygen, oxygen in the last few days, the 'liberals' recalled their primary school science lessons.
Specials
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  News Reports
  
  Islamist Sharjeel Usmani jumps on the BDS bandwagon: All you need to know about the movement against Israel
  
  OpIndia Staff - 11 May, 2021
  
  Sharjeel Usmani has jumped on the BDS movement bandwagon and has asked people to boycott brands such as Puma and HP.
  
  News Reports
  
  Activist who raised questions about Hemkunt Foundation’s funding and donations faces abuses, death threats
  
  OpIndia Staff - 11 May, 2021
  
  Yuvraj Pokharna, one of the activists who raised questions against Hemkunt Foundation's fundraiser is getting abuses and threats on social media and phone.
  
  News Reports
  
  Patanjali was the first Indian company to publish a research paper on the new Covid-19 drug approved by DCGI: Read details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 9 May, 2021
  
  Patanjali had published a research paper on use of the drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose for Covid-19 treatment in March 2020
  
  News Reports
  
  Meet AAP’s ‘Delhi ke Nirmata’: Who is Navneet Kalra, the businessman on the run after oxygen hoarding scandal was busted
  
  OpIndia Staff - 7 May, 2021
  
  Oxygen Concentrators have been found at Khan Chacha, Nege & Ju bar and Town Hall restaurants in Delhi, all owned by Navneet Kalra
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