Saturday, May 15, 2021

Politics
- News Reports
  
  NCPCR writes to Assam DMs over rehabilitation of children who fled West Bengal due to post-poll violence
  
  OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021
  
  NCPCR took cognisance of atrocities meted out on children who fled to Assam in the wake of post-poll violence in West Bengal
  
  News Reports
  
  VHP says more than 3500 villages and 40000 plus Hindus affected by Bengal violence, urges judiciary to take note
  
  OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021
  
  VHP urged the Courts to protect the citizens and accordingly direct the Mamata Banerjee government and the local administration.
  
  News Reports
  
  Journalists join hands with Congress trolls to spread propaganda against BJP over Delhi High Court ordered probe by police
  
  OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021
  
  Journalists blame BJP after Youth Congress president Srinivas B V questioned by Delhi Police on the orders of Delhi High Court
  
  News Reports
  
  West Bengal: BJP MP Subhas Sarkar attacked with stones and bricks in Bankura, BJP blames TMC goons
  
  OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021
  
  BJP MP Subhas Sarkar was attacked allegedly by TMC workers while he was going to meet farmers in Patalkhuri village
  
  Editor's picks
  
  ‘Delhi’s govt was just complaining, not trying to handle logistics of oxygen supply’: Director of INOX
  
  OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2021
  
  Jain said that the central government's job is to inform these manufacturers to produce a certain amount of oxygen, which they did and made a chart for each state with specific volume allocation.
Opinions
- Opinions
  
  Massive Eid gatherings show the futility of lockdown during the second wave of the pandemic in India, it is time to lift them now
  
  K Bhattacharjee - 14 May, 2021
  
  The Muslim community across the world is celebrating Eid ul-Fitr today. With it, the holy month of Ramadan comes to an end.
  
  News Reports
  
  Kejriwal govt sets aside Rs 50 crores for free vaccination of Delhi residents, while spending far more on PR: Details
  
  Jinit Jain - 14 May, 2021
  
  While AAP government in Delhi spent Rs 150 crores on PR from Jan to March, it has only allocated Rs 50 crores for the free vaccination of Delhi's 2 crore population.
  
  Opinions
  
  The façade of Indian secularism: How the uncomfortable truth about realities of Sanatanis is hidden by Lutyens ecosystem
  
  Vinayak - 13 May, 2021
  
  The neatly ordered world according to the Nehruvian idea of India is nothing more than brushing the rubbish under the carpet and pretending upon the cleanliness while ignoring the fact that someday the rubbish will overflow the bounds of the rug.
  
  Opinions
  
  Israel: Here is why the average Hindu supports them
  
  mrityunjay - 13 May, 2021
  
  Israel has no history of animosity against India and her citizens and Israel has stood during India in thick and thin.
  
  Political History of India
  
  Jawaharlal Nehru: History has been kinder to him because he rewrote it
  
  Vinayak - 13 May, 2021
  
  Even in the Macaulay tinted version of history parroted by the Congress his contributions pale in comparison to Mohandas Gandhi who too benefited from the same.
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
  
  ‘We were used by media, everyone from DM to CMO helped’: Family of RSS worker who died of COVID denies The Print report of...
  
  OpIndia Staff - 13 May, 2021
  
  Phone call recordings expose lies of The Print alleging that RSS worker didn't get help from govt before dying of Covid-19
  
  Media
  
  Shekhar Gupta’s ThePrint indulges in tragedy porn while emotionally manipulating a grieving family of RSS worker
  
  Jinit Jain - 12 May, 2021
  
  Instead of giving a distressed family some space and letting them grieve the loss of a loved one, Gupta sends his vultures to settle political scores.
  
  Opinions
  
  Here are 12 instances when the leftist media fanned fear against vaccines just before the second Covid wave
  
  Jinit Jain - 12 May, 2021
  
  Leftist propaganda websites hosted articles that raised doubts about Indian vaccines, thereby fuelling vaccine hesitancy in the months leading to the resurgent coronavirus outbreak.
  
  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.
Variety
- All Books Culture and History Satire WTF News
  
  News Reports
  
  Jerusalem conflict: The history of Al-Aqsa Mosque on Temple Mount and the holiest Jewish temple that preceded it
  
  OpIndia Staff - 15 May, 2021
  
  The Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock was built on the same spot where the Second Temple of the Judaism was located
  
  Opinions
  
  Islamists praise Hitler while cursing Israel, but did you know that Hitler wished he were a Muslim too?
  
  T Waraich - 13 May, 2021
  
  "The Mohammedan religion would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?" Hitler is quoted as saying,
  
  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.
Specials
- All Interviews OpIndia Explains OpIndia Scoops
  
  News Reports
  
  While Delhi govt was alleging inadequate oxygen supply, data show it was returning oxygen to suppliers, asked them to store the excess
  
  OpIndia Staff - 13 May, 2021
  
  Due to lack of storage plants and not enough demand, Delhi govt had returned oxygen and asked the suppliers to store them
  
  OpIndia Explains
  
  No documents or ID proof? Here is how the vulnerable section of the society will get their COVID vaccine
  
  Nirwa Mehta - 12 May, 2021
  
  How will the vulnerable population of India who do not have a valid ID proof get Coronavirus vaccine? Ministry has a prescribed procedure for it
  
  News Reports
  
  Herman Knippenberg – The Dutch diplomat who sent the ‘Serpent’ Charles Sobhraj behind bars
  
  Anurag - 12 May, 2021
  
  Herman Knippenberg was a Dutch diplomate in Thailand who had gathered vital information about Charles Sobhraj in Bangkok
  
  News Reports
  
  Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ Air Defence System: What is it and how does it work
  
  Shashank Bharadwaj - 12 May, 2021
  
  To counter the low-cost warfare initiated by Hamas, the Israel Defence Forces has activated its state-of-art air defence system - 'Iron Dome' to protect its civilian population from the barrage of rockets.
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