Thursday, December 3, 2020

Politics
- News Reports
  
  Darshan Pal, the coordinator of the farmer protests, was a founding member of Maoist organisation PDFI. Read details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 2 December, 2020
  
  Darshan Pal, who demanded special parliament session to repeal farm laws, was convenor of 51-member executive committee of Maoist group PDFI
  
  News Reports
  
  Captain Amarinder Singh hits out at Arvind Kejriwal, Kejriwal hits back but ends up making no sense: Read what happened
  
  OpIndia Staff - 2 December, 2020
  
  Arvind Kejriwal accused Amarinder SIngh of playing 'low level politics', after Singh slammed him for notiyig a farm law they are opposing
  
  News Reports
  
  Yogi Adityanath responds to Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut, busts claim about UP wanting to take film city away from Maharashtra
  
  OpIndia Staff - 2 December, 2020
  
  CM Yogi had announced that country's biggest Film City would be established at Gautam Buddh Nagar in Uttar Pradesh.
  
  Politics
  
  Raut gives bizarre analogy trying to defend party after Azan row: Here are 4 things that he could have meant
  
  OpIndia Staff - 2 December, 2020
  
  Sanjay Raut came up with an absurd analogy in Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamana to ward off criticism over azaan recitation competition
  
  News Reports
  
  No politicians, farmers only: Centre bars Yogendra Yadav from being a part of farmers’ delegation for the discussions
  
  OpIndia Staff - 2 December, 2020
  
  Yogendra Yadav, a political activist and self-proclaimed psephologist, had wanted to be a part of the discussion but the government objected to his presence.
Opinions
- Opinions
  
  After US elections, Facebook and Twitter are getting ready to interfere with Indian elections: Why the centre must take note before 2024
  
  Nupur J Sharma - 2 December, 2020
  
  With Twitter's admitted Left-wing bias, nobody needs to wonder which side they would choose to censor and the trajectory is rather evident with the censorship of Malviya's tweet.
  
  Media
  
  “Fact checking” is a new name for same old propaganda journalism
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 2 December, 2020
  
  Why did journalists lose all credibility? Because bit by bit, we realized that journalists were just feeding us an agenda, not reporting facts.
  
  Opinions
  
  Farmer protest: From celebrity protestors hijacking the ‘protest’ to AAP and Congress fighting for credit, the circus is here
  
  Nirwa Mehta - 1 December, 2020
  
  The farmers protests in Delhi have turned into a Shaheen Bagh redux with the same usual suspects coming together.
  
  Opinions
  
  Not ‘just a municipal election’, a defeat of TRS in the Hyderabad Municipal Elections will alter the political discourse of the state
  
  S. Sudhir Kumar - 30 November, 2020
  
  Not just top BJP leaders, top TRS leaders are also campaigning hard for the GHMC elections, making it more than just a municipal election
  
  Economy and Finance
  
  What they never told you when they said India was the worst performing emerging economy
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 30 November, 2020
  
  India’s economy contracted by 23.9%. For comparison, Brazil’s GDP contracted by 11.9% and Russia’s GDP by 8%. So, did they really do better than India?
Fact-Check
- All Media Fact-Check Political Fact-Check Social Media Fact-Check
  
  Fact-Check
  
  Fact-check: Is Prasar Bharati shutting down AIR radio stations in Kerala?
  
  OpIndia Staff - 1 December, 2020
  
  Prasar Bharati CEO took to Twitter to reply to allegations that AIR stations are being shut to cut down cost.
  
  Political Fact-Check
  
  The truth about the viral picture, shared by Rahul Gandhi, where police can be seen ‘beating up’ an old farmer
  
  OpIndia Staff - 28 November, 2020
  
  Congress leaders share cunningly edited version of a video to allege brute force is being used by security officials to quell the 'farmer' protest
  
  Social Media Fact-Check
  
  Is the central govt recruiting Rohingya Muslims who have illegally infiltrated into India? Not really: Here are the facts
  
  OpIndia Staff - 27 November, 2020
  
  Earlier today, a concerning message went viral on social media claiming that RAW was recruiting Rohingya Muslims
  
  News Reports
  
  Congress leaders and supporters use old photographs to attack Modi government on farmer protests
  
  OpIndia Staff - 26 November, 2020
  
  The pictures used by Youth Congress and then mechanically copied by rest of the Congress coteries are actually from the year 2018
Media
- News Reports
  
  Even pandering doesn’t get India Today a free pass: Here is why ‘liberals’ are today cancelling Rajdeep and Rahul Kanwal
  
  OpIndia Staff - 2 December, 2020
  
  'Liberals' are cancelling India Today, Rajdeep Sardesai and Rahul Kanwal over their coverage of the allegations against Shehla Rashid
  
  Media
  
  “Fact checking” is a new name for same old propaganda journalism
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 2 December, 2020
  
  Why did journalists lose all credibility? Because bit by bit, we realized that journalists were just feeding us an agenda, not reporting facts.
  
  News Reports
  
  After Barkha Dutt failed to whitewash Khalistan supporter Deep Sidhu, Shekhar Gupta’s The Print picks up the pieces
  
  OpIndia Staff - 1 December, 2020
  
  Actor Deep Sidhu continues to refuse to call Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale a terrorist while he keeps participating in farmer protests
  
  News Reports
  
  Prannoy Roy, Radhika Roy, Vikram Chandra, others barred from capital market for insider trading of NDTV shares: Read details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 28 November, 2020
  
  NDTV Promoters & senior executives had done insider trading by trading in NDTV shares while holding unpublished price sensitive information
  
  Media
  
  The Wire’s faux analysis: How it went from ‘Modi can’t get crowds in his rally’ to ‘Bihar admires Modi’ in 48 hours flat
  
  OpIndia Staff - 27 November, 2020
  
  As NDA emerged victorious in Bihar, the left-liberals, who had hoped for a victory of RJD-Congress-Communist alliance were perturbed.
Variety
- All Books Culture and History Satire
  
  News Reports
  
  Mann Ki Baat: Canada to return ancient Maa Annapurna idol stolen from Varanasi temple 100 years back, says PM Modi
  
  OpIndia Staff - 29 November, 2020
  
  Emphasising the rich Indian culture and traditions, Prime Minister in his monthly address to the nation said that the World Heritage Week provides a wonderful opportunity to the lovers of culture to revisit the past and to know about the history of these important milestones.
  
  Satire
  
  Bharti Singh resisted initially but offered full cooperation once she realised NCB officials were treating her far better than Kapil Sharma ever did: OpIndia...
  
  K Bhattacharjee - 21 November, 2020
  
  The NCB suspects that the widespread use of drugs also explains how movies such as Student Of The Year 2 was ever made.
  
  News Reports
  
  ‘It is an open secret that Pakistani military had ties with Taliban and possibly even Al Qaeda’: Former US President Barack Obama in his...
  
  OpIndia Staff - 18 November, 2020
  
  Barack Obama writes in his memoir that Pakistan was not informed about the Abbottabad mission as its military had links with terror groups
  
  Culture and History
  
  The Dravidian Movement and the Devadasi Abolition Act: Did a ‘Brahiminical conspiracy’ oppose reforms to the practice as alleged?
  
  Suren - 17 November, 2020
  
  The Dravidian movement has long claimed a contribution to the Devadasi Abolition Act. But how true is their claim?
Specials
- All Interviews OpIndia Explains OpIndia Scoops
  
  News Reports
  
  Twitter refuses to delete fake image posted by Chinese official or tag it as ‘manipulated media’ despite official complaint by Australia
  
  OpIndia Staff - 2 December, 2020
  
  The fake image posted by Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson was created by a Weibo user, but Twitter refuses to remove or tag it as fake
  
  News Reports
  
  Webchutney: A marketing company with a ‘liberal’ CEO that seems to be dragging Swiggy through the mud
  
  OpIndia Staff - 2 December, 2020
  
  Food delivery app Swiggy recently stoked controversy by responding to a troll account taking an extreme political side
  
  News Reports
  
  Who is the man in farmer protest video, lying about ‘govt snatching farmland’: Profile of an actor and Khalistan supporter
  
  OpIndia Staff - 28 November, 2020
  
  Khalistan supporter Punjabi actor Deep Sidhu has been seen spreading the lie that govt will snatch farmer's land using the new farm laws
  
  OpIndia Explains
  
  Door-to-door campaign luring Sikhs, grant of $1 million to protesting farmers, pro-Khalistan slogans now: SFJ tentacles analysed
  
  OpIndia Staff - 28 November, 2020
  
  The farmer protest started in September, and in that month itself, Khalistan org SFJ had started spreading its tentacles
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No politicians, farmers only: Centre bars Yogendra Yadav from being a part of farmers’ delegation for the discussions

OpIndia Staff - 2 December, 2020

Yogendra Yadav, a political activist and self-proclaimed psephologist, had wanted to be a part of the discussion but the government objected to his presence.

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