Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Politics
- News Reports
  
  Mamata Banerjee declares war against Suvendu Adhikari, will contest 2021 polls from Nandigram, latter says ‘challenge accepted’
  
  OpIndia Staff - 18 January, 2021
  
  Mamata Banerjee declared that she would be contesting the upcoming Assembly polls from Nandigram in Purba Medinipur.
  
  Media
  
  From Times of Islamabad to The Hindu: 5 media outlets which ’knew about the Balakot airstrike before it happened’ according to ‘liberal’ logic
  
  Dibakar Dutta - 18 January, 2021
  
  The Mumbai Police leaked the private WhatsApp chats of Arnab Goswami on the internet in order to embarrass the Republic TV Editor.
  
  World
  
  Force the Vote: The churn within the Democratic Party, the ‘Fraud Squad’ and the plank for ‘Medicare for All’ that appears abandoned
  
  brakoo - 18 January, 2021
  
  Progressives within the party want to move the Democratic Party more and more to the left of the political spectrum.
  
  News Reports
  
  Pakistan: Demand for an independent ‘Sindhudesh’ intensifies, placards of PM Modi raised
  
  Dibakar Dutta - 18 January, 2021
  
  The demand for a free Sindh nation, Sindhudesh, has been a long-standing demand of the people of the province.
  
  News Reports
  
  After mouthing platitudes over farmer protest in India, Justin Trudeau’s police cracks down on protestors in Toronto
  
  OpIndia Staff - 18 January, 2021
  
  People in Toronto had taken to the streets to protest against the arbitrary closure of businesses and job loss due to lockdown.
Opinions
- Opinions
  
  ‘Consensual affair’ between minors and adults not a valid defense, says SC: Here’s why it is significant in view of growing Grooming Jihad cases
  
  K Bhattacharjee - 18 January, 2021
  
  The Supreme Court on the 13th of January delivered a very significant judgment in a case involving the kidnapping of a minor.
  
  Opinions
  
  Hinduphobic content on OTT platforms and censorship: The case against it and the ironic case for it
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 18 January, 2021
  
  Content creators don’t stay away from picking on other communities because they fear lawsuits or court cases. They stay away because they fear raw street power.
  
  World
  
  Force the Vote: The churn within the Democratic Party, the ‘Fraud Squad’ and the plank for ‘Medicare for All’ that appears abandoned
  
  brakoo - 18 January, 2021
  
  Progressives within the party want to move the Democratic Party more and more to the left of the political spectrum.
  
  Media
  
  What the Nidhi-Harvard story reveals about our world: Get off your high horse, you are not that special, anyway
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 16 January, 2021
  
  Liberal journalist, Nidhi Razdan, thought she had received an offer from Harvard University to become an Associate Professor of journalism.
  
  Opinions
  
  Firangi lord Rahul Gandhi realises the glory of Hindu festival after witnessing it, makes superb U-turns while making zero sense
  
  Sanghamitra - 14 January, 2021
  
  After Congress tried to ban Jallikattu for years, today Rahul Gandhi has decided that he likes it. Also the lord Gandhi has been kind enough to allow us brown people to continue their traditional festivities on Pongal.
Fact-Check
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  Media Fact-Check
  
  As India starts world’s largest COVID vaccination drive, media organisations resort to spreading lies and fear
  
  Jinit Jain - 18 January, 2021
  
  Several media organisations have published headlines that alluded the ward boy who died of heart attack in Moradabad, had lost his life because of COVID-19 vaccine
  
  News Reports
  
  NDTV’s Ravish Kumar spreads fake news on paddy procurement by govt: Read full details of letter written by govt of India
  
  OpIndia Staff - 15 January, 2021
  
  PIB Additional Director General sent a letter to NDTV after Ravish Kumar used wrong data to accuse govt of lying about paddy procurement
  
  Media Fact-Check
  
  Usual suspects lie and spread propaganda to allege that Centre branded all protesters as Khalistanis in SC: Read details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 12 January, 2021
  
  The left-leaning propagandists twisted AG Venugopal's assertion that Khalistanis have infiltrated the farmers' protests to allege Centre has called all the farmers as Khalistanis
  
  Media Fact-Check
  
  ‘No cash award system’, Indian army refutes media reports that Shopian encounter was staged for Rs 20 lakhs
  
  OpIndia Staff - 12 January, 2021
  
  These reports were widely shared on Twitter, with many rebuking the Indian Army for faking an encounter in lieu of a bribe
Media
- Media
  
  From Times of Islamabad to The Hindu: 5 media outlets which ’knew about the Balakot airstrike before it happened’ according to ‘liberal’ logic
  
  Dibakar Dutta - 18 January, 2021
  
  The Mumbai Police leaked the private WhatsApp chats of Arnab Goswami on the internet in order to embarrass the Republic TV Editor.
  
  Media Fact-Check
  
  As India starts world’s largest COVID vaccination drive, media organisations resort to spreading lies and fear
  
  Jinit Jain - 18 January, 2021
  
  Several media organisations have published headlines that alluded the ward boy who died of heart attack in Moradabad, had lost his life because of COVID-19 vaccine
  
  News Reports
  
  India Today CFO and Distribution Head being grilled by ED again in the fake TRP case: Read details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 18 January, 2021
  
  India Today CFO was earlier summoned by the ED for questioning in the TRP case on January 8.
  
  Media
  
  While Times Now goes hammer and tongs after Arnab Goswami, here is what Times of India published ahead of air-strike
  
  OpIndia Staff - 18 January, 2021
  
  The Arnab Goswami private WhatsApp chats leaked by Mumbai Police have created quite the storm.
  
  Media
  
  Congress admits Mumbai police leaked Arnab Goswami chats: Here are all the wild conspiracy theories they generated
  
  K Bhattacharjee - 17 January, 2021
  
  Prithviraj Chavan has admitted that it was the Mumbai Police which leaked the private WhatsApp chats of Arnab Goswami.
Variety
- All Books Culture and History Satire WTF News
  
  News Reports
  
  Went undercover as ‘Iftikhar Bhatt’, killed two Hizbul terrorists: The story of Major Mohit Sharma
  
  OpIndia Staff - 18 January, 2021
  
  Major Mohit Sharma from the 1 Para Special Forces was martyred in an anti-terror operation in Kupwara in 2009.
  
  News Reports
  
  Kerala state board Class 9 textbook distorts history, claims Abu al-Qasim Al-Zahwari was the ‘Father of Surgery’ instead of Sushrutha
  
  OpIndia Staff - 16 January, 2021
  
  Indian physician Sushrutha, who lived much earlier than Al-Zahwari, is considered to be the 'father of surgery'
  
  News Reports
  
  ASI approves underwater research project to determine how and when the Ram Setu was formed
  
  OpIndia Staff - 14 January, 2021
  
  The research would be carried out to understand the nature and formation of the Ram Setu and its surrounding areas
  
  World
  
  World’s oldest known artwork is of a warty pig, found in Indonesia’s Sulawesi Islands
  
  OpIndia Staff - 14 January, 2021
  
  The warty pig cave painting located in Leang Tedongnge cave in Sulawesi Island is believed to be created by humans using red ochre pigment.
Specials
- All Interviews OpIndia Explains OpIndia Scoops
  
  OpIndia Explains
  
  The vaccine diplomacy: The next battleground between India and China to dominate the global COVID-19 vaccine requirements
  
  Jinit Jain - 18 January, 2021
  
  With apprehensions surrounding Chinese vaccines swelling, India has taken a lead in helping the world to combat coronavirus with its indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccines
  
  News Reports
  
  They’re paying someone in Taloja to torture him till he names Arnab, he’s on death bed: Ex-BARC CEO family speak up, file affidavit
  
  OpIndia Staff - 16 January, 2021
  
  Days after they arrested BARC COO Romil Ramgarhia, they arrested BARC former CEO Partho Dasgupta on the 25th of December 2020.
  
  World
  
  All you need to know about Navdeep Bains, minister who resigned from Trudeau govt: Corruption, Khalistan, immigration scam and lobbying for China
  
  OpIndia Staff - 16 January, 2021
  
  Navdeep Bains is considered to be one of the aggressive Khalistan sympathizers within the Canada government.
  
  OpIndia Scoops
  
  BHU to induct degree course on Hindu Studies with Ancient scriptures, Vedas, Puranas and more: Exclusive details
  
  रवि अग्रहरि - 16 January, 2021
  
  Bharat Adhyayan Kendra of BHU has come up with a structured two-year course on Hindu Studies, scriptures and traditions
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From Times of Islamabad to The Hindu: 5 media outlets which ’knew about the Balakot airstrike before it happened’ according to ‘liberal’ logic

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The Mumbai Police leaked the private WhatsApp chats of Arnab Goswami on the internet in order to embarrass the Republic TV Editor.

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