Thursday, July 9, 2020

Politics
- News Reports
  
  Watch: BJP’s Sambit Patra and Congress’ Gaurav Vallabh hurl Sukanya Devi and Ranga-Billa cases at each other in intense TV debate
  
  OpIndia Staff - 8 July, 2020
  
  When Congress spokesperson equated Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah with Ranga-Billa, BJP's Sambit Patra raised Sukanya Devi rape case
  
  Politics
  
  Jyoti Basu is the mass murderer India forgot
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 8 July, 2020
  
  Please don’t feel bad about speaking ill of the Late Jyoti Basu. If there is another world, be certain that there are (at least) 28,000 voices from the other side backing you up.
  
  Politics
  
  Maharashtra: Chief Minister sits at home while Leader of Opposition tours the state extensively amid coronavirus outbreak
  
  Guest Author - 8 July, 2020
  
  Despite being most affected state in the coronavirus pandemic, CM Uddhav Thackeray has hardly been on the ground taking control of situation.
  
  News Reports
  
  Govt to probe violations by Sonia Gandhi headed Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and others, Home Ministry sets up committee
  
  OpIndia Staff - 8 July, 2020
  
  The committee will coordinate probe into violation of various legal provisions of PMLA, Income Tax Act, FCRA etc by these foundations. Special Director of Enforcement Directorate will head the committee.
  
  News Reports
  
  Gold smuggling case: Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan distances himself and the state government from the raging controversy
  
  OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020
  
  Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan pointed out that the said parcel came to the UAE consulate and that the Kerala government had nothing whatsoever to do with it.
Opinions
- Opinions
  
  Viśiṣṭvividhīkaran: Sanatan Dharma and Qualified Diversification
  
  Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar - 8 July, 2020
  
  Sanatan Dharma has been a coming together of Diversification and paths to the Truth, with various sects and traditions over the millennia
  
  Politics
  
  Jyoti Basu is the mass murderer India forgot
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 8 July, 2020
  
  Please don’t feel bad about speaking ill of the Late Jyoti Basu. If there is another world, be certain that there are (at least) 28,000 voices from the other side backing you up.
  
  Politics
  
  Maharashtra: Chief Minister sits at home while Leader of Opposition tours the state extensively amid coronavirus outbreak
  
  Guest Author - 8 July, 2020
  
  Despite being most affected state in the coronavirus pandemic, CM Uddhav Thackeray has hardly been on the ground taking control of situation.
  
  Opinions
  
  The Cabal Strategizes: Tahir Hussain behind Delhi Riots
  
  Guest Author - 8 July, 2020
  
  Tahir Hussain was the one to put the money to sinister use by mobilizing Delhi Riots in February 2020
  
  Opinions
  
  How Mumbai’s long-awaited dream of IFSC status is nowhere near complete and Gandhinagar secured IFSC status
  
  Guest Author - 7 July, 2020
  
  Manmohan Singh announced in 2004 that Mumbai would be turned into Shasnghai. However, that did not happen.
Fact-Check
- All Media Fact-Check Political Fact-Check Social Media Fact-Check
  
  News Reports
  
  No, Indian PUBG user did not make Chinese player say ‘Hindustan Zindabad’, Times Network’s website fell for satire
  
  OpIndia Staff - 8 July, 2020
  
  Times group's MensXP falls for satire, believes that Indian PUBG user made Chinese player say 'Hindistan Zindabad'
  
  Media Fact-Check
  
  The Wire’s claims that NCPCR saw 8-fold increase in complaints post-Coronavirus outbreak are false: Read details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020
  
  The Wire has recently been trying to milk the coronavirus pandemic to cast aspersions on Modi government
  
  Media Fact-Check
  
  Central govt rejects Business Standard report on the merger of CBDT and CBIC, schools the newspaper on journalism
  
  OpIndia Staff - 6 July, 2020
  
  Business Standard had published an article claiming that the central government is mulling over the merger of CBDT and CBIC as a part of its austerity drive to reduce the costs amidst coronavirus pandemic
  
  News Reports
  
  Guardian falsely claims China built radar tower near Pangong Tso lake in last few weeks: Read details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 4 July, 2020
  
  Satellite images and media reports show that China had built radar station near Pangong Tso lake years ago, not recently as Guardian claims
Media
- News Reports
  
  HRD Minister clears the air about the exclusion of some chapters from CBSE syllabus for current year, calls MSM’s reporting sensationalism
  
  OpIndia Staff - 9 July, 2020
  
  HRD Minister said that news reporter are sensationalizing the removal of chapters from CBSE syllabus due to lockdoown
  
  Media
  
  From Vikas Dubey has reached Nepal to he may be encountered ‘because he knows dirty secrets’: Read how conspiracy theorists spun yarns
  
  OpIndia Staff - 9 July, 2020
  
  As Vikas Dubey was on the run, the journalists kept themselves busy conjuring up various conspiracy theories.
  
  News Reports
  
  No, Indian PUBG user did not make Chinese player say ‘Hindustan Zindabad’, Times Network’s website fell for satire
  
  OpIndia Staff - 8 July, 2020
  
  Times group's MensXP falls for satire, believes that Indian PUBG user made Chinese player say 'Hindistan Zindabad'
  
  News Reports
  
  Delhi HC lifts gag order against media and victims in #MeToo sexual harassment cases against Newslaundry investor Mahesh Murthy
  
  OpIndia Staff - 8 July, 2020
  
  Lifting gag order in sexual harassment cases against Mahesh Murthy, Delhi HC said that defendants have freedom of speech
  
  Media Fact-Check
  
  The Wire’s claims that NCPCR saw 8-fold increase in complaints post-Coronavirus outbreak are false: Read details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020
  
  The Wire has recently been trying to milk the coronavirus pandemic to cast aspersions on Modi government
Variety
- All Books Culture and History Satire
  
  Culture and History
  
  Nindāstuti: A Dharmic Paradigm of Devotion through Apparent Censure
  
  Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar - 7 July, 2020
  
  Nindāstuti is a form of Shleshakavya - a poetic composition that is laden with double-entendres and is looked upon as a form of Dvesha-bhakti
  
  News Reports
  
  Read about the valorous tale of 1965 Param Vir Chakra winner Abdul Hamid – ‘The Tank Destroyer’ – on his birth anniversary
  
  OpIndia Staff - 1 July, 2020
  
  Abdul Hamid is remembered for his extraordinary bravery in the battle of Asal Uttar, one of the fiercest tank battles fought during the 1965 India-Pakistan war.
  
  News Reports
  
  Bahuda Yatra: Lord Jagannath in Puri is returning to his temple today, read about the festival and rituals associated
  
  OpIndia Staff - 1 July, 2020
  
  Bahuda Yatra is the festival where Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra, and Devi Subhadra are brought back to their temple in their respective Rathas.
  
  Culture and History
  
  The battle of Rezang La: When 123 Indian soldiers faced impossible odds against 3000 well-armed Chinese and fought to the last man
  
  Guest Author - 22 June, 2020
  
  On a freezing and unforgiving November night, 123 Indian soldiers – frostbitten, weary, hungry and heavily outnumbered – defied the might of the rampaging Chinese Army. On 18 November 1962, Major Shaitan Singh and men of Charlie Company, 13 Kumaon Regiment, forever passed into the mists of legend.
Specials
- All Interviews OpIndia Explains OpIndia Scoops
  
  Interviews
  
  ‘Turn vegan’ anti-slaughter poster in Lucknow featuring goat not related to Eid, claims PETA in an exclusive interview with OpIndia
  
  OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020
  
  A massive controversy was kicked up after the Islamic fundamentalists vehemently protested against the PETA poster in Lucknow which showed a goat urging people to go vegan
  
  OpIndia Explains
  
  China’s Inner Mongolia reports suspected cases of bubonic plague: Here is all you need to know about ‘Black Death’ plague
  
  Jinit Jain - 6 July, 2020
  
  Authorities in China in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have called for a Level III alarm after cases of 'Black Death' plague, or Bubonic plague, emerged from the region
  
  News Reports
  
  China’s ‘Century of Humiliation’: How period between First Opium War in 1839 and victory of CCP in 1949 shapes China’s view about the world
  
  OpIndia Staff - 4 July, 2020
  
  The Chinese claim to Vladivostok is a stark reminder of the extent to which the 'Century of Humiliation' plays a very crucial role in shaping China's foreign policy.
  
  OpIndia Scoops
  
  Tahir Hussain not only planned and instigated the mob, but was also pelting stones and petrol bombs at Hindus: Chargesheet
  
  OpIndia Staff - 4 July, 2020
  
  While Dilbar Negi was dismembered and burnt alive, Ankit Sharma was mutilated, murdered and dumped in a Chand Bagh drain by a Muslim mob spearheaded by AAP leader Tahir Hussain
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Jyoti Basu is the mass murderer India forgot

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Please don’t feel bad about speaking ill of the Late Jyoti Basu. If there is another world, be certain that there are (at least) 28,000 voices from the other side backing you up.

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