Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Politics
- News Reports
  
  Ayodhya: Construction work of Dhannipur mosque to be formally inaugurated with hoisting of the Tricolour on Republic Day
  
  OpIndia Staff - 26 January, 2021
  
  The event will kickstart with the hoisting of the Indian flag. Following this, the members of the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF) will also plant tree saplings to commemorate the day.
  
  Politics
  
  Congress MP and head of AICC’s legal department appeared in MP HC to demand bail for Munawar Faruqui who insulted Hindu Gods: Details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 25 January, 2021
  
  Munawar Faruqui was represented at the Madhya Pradesh High Court by senior advocate Vivek Tankha. He is a Congress MP.
  
  News Reports
  
  Almost 70 representatives from G7 nations pen letter to their leaders, urge them to take ‘allied action’ against China: Details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 25 January, 2021
  
  The G7 countries include Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
  
  News Reports
  
  ‘The wind blowing from Punjab will burn Modi to ashes’: SP leader Abu Azmi instigates protestors to create mayhem
  
  OpIndia Staff - 25 January, 2021
  
  Abu Azmi made incendiary remarks at a protest staged in Mumbai in support of the ongoing farmers' protest. Sharad Pawar was present too.
  
  News Reports
  
  A Maulvi’s job is to teach religion, education of students is the govt’s responsibility: Himanta Biswa Sarma on madarsas
  
  OpIndia Staff - 25 January, 2021
  
  Answering to Badruddin Ajmal's allegations, Himanta Biswa Sarma stated that Hindus do not attack Mosques, it is Ajmal's own ancestors who had attacked and destroyed Hindu temples.
Opinions
- Politics
  
  Republic under siege: How Congress, career-protestors, opposition parties and Khalistanis are setting the stage for violence
  
  K Bhattacharjee - 25 January, 2021
  
  The Delhi Police has granted permission to farmer protesters for their tractor parade at the national capital on the 26th of January.
  
  Political History of India
  
  Impossible man: Why Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose cannot be appropriated by any party and what Indians can learn from him
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 25 January, 2021
  
  Not just within the Indian political context, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose will make almost anyone uncomfortable
  
  Politics
  
  How to be “Godi media”? Learn from American ‘liberals’
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 24 January, 2021
  
  It’s a classic case of projection. Liberals see their opponents as they themselves are. Fawning over their leaders in a way that would rival North Korean state television.
  
  News Reports
  
  NCB busts drug racket based out of Pakistan and Sri Lanka after seizing heroin worth Rs 1,000 crore from a boat
  
  OpIndia Staff - 22 January, 2021
  
  NCB and the Indian Coast Guard had intercepted a vessel near the Tuticorin Port and found 95.87 kg of heroin in November 2020
  
  Opinions
  
  Temples under attack in Andhra Pradesh: Hindus must be granted autonomy and the chance to defend themselves from external attacks
  
  Sai Priya Chodavarapu - 22 January, 2021
  
  The recent series of temple vandalism incidents across Andhra Pradesh have left Hindus all over the country horrified and shaken.
Fact-Check
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  Fact-Check
  
  Is it actor Prosenjit Chatterjee in the portrait of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose inaugurated by President Kovind? A fact check
  
  OpIndia Staff - 25 January, 2021
  
  It was claimed that it was actor Prosenjit Chatterjee in the portrait of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose inaugurated by President Kovind.
  
  News Reports
  
  Media houses spread fake news saying RBI is discontinuing old series of Rs.100, Rs.10 and Rs.5 notes from circulation
  
  OpIndia Staff - 24 January, 2021
  
  PIB said that RBI did not issue any order that says Rs.100, Rs.10 and Rs.5 notes will go out of circulation in March-April
  
  Fact-Check
  
  How Congress spread lies about a woman being beaten up by goons in ‘lawless UP’ while the police did nothing: Read what really happened
  
  OpIndia Staff - 23 January, 2021
  
  Recently, a video of a pleading lady requesting UP Police officers to save her from two assailants was doing the rounds on the internet.
  
  Fact-Check
  
  Here is the truth about the images where medical officers from Karnataka were seen ‘faking’ Coronavirus vaccination for a picture
  
  OpIndia Staff - 22 January, 2021
  
  Did medical officers in Karnataka fake vaccination for camera? Congress makes damaging fake claims to undermine fight against Coronavirus
Media
- Media
  
  As mobs take over during the farmers ‘tractor rally’, Sagarika Ghosh celebrates violence on Republic Day
  
  OpIndia Staff - 26 January, 2021
  
  Sagarika Ghosh, widely known as a propagandist, is in a jolly mood, celebrating the display of mobocracy by farmers during tractor march
  
  Media
  
  Arnab Goswami and his wife to make full financial disclosure, urge owners and editors of other media networks to do the same: Details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 25 January, 2021
  
  Arnab Goswami has announced he and his wife will make public all their financial details since they moved to Mumbai in 2004.
  
  Fact-Check
  
  Is it actor Prosenjit Chatterjee in the portrait of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose inaugurated by President Kovind? A fact check
  
  OpIndia Staff - 25 January, 2021
  
  It was claimed that it was actor Prosenjit Chatterjee in the portrait of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose inaugurated by President Kovind.
  
  Media
  
  Russian Government metaphorically spanks Shekhar Gupta’s The Print for peddling fake news, advises editors to focus on facts, not flashy headlines
  
  OpIndia Staff - 24 January, 2021
  
  MFA, Russia said that The Print's "attempt to create a sensation from nothing failed and looked ludicrous and helpless."
  
  News Reports
  
  Republic TV hits back at Times Now over TRP manipulation scam, alleges political-media conspiracy to target Arnab Goswami
  
  OpIndia Staff - 24 January, 2021
  
  Republic TV pointed out that the ratings of Times Now fell following the implementation of the Outlier policy of BARC.
Variety
- All Books Culture and History Satire WTF News
  
  News Reports
  
  Archaeologist BB Lal who led the excavation revealing existence of a temple at Ram Janmabhoomi site gets Padma Vibhushan
  
  OpIndia Staff - 26 January, 2021
  
  Professor BB Lal had discovered pillar bases immediately south to the Babri structure pointing at the existence of an ancient temple.
  
  News Reports
  
  Here is why the Sikh regiment salutes twice during the Republic Day parade
  
  OpIndia Staff - 25 January, 2021
  
  In Delhi, Gurudwara Sis Ganj Sahib is built at the exact site where Guru Tegh Bahadur was executed.
  
  WTF News
  
  Gujarat: Farmer Ayyub Degiya left high and dry after 6th wife denies sex
  
  OpIndia Staff - 25 January, 2021
  
  Gujarat farmer Ayyub Degiya is looking for a 7th wife after his 6th wife refused to have sex with him after she learnt of his previous five wives.
  
  Entertainment
  
  The Rahul Gandhi blooper collection: When the Gandhi-scion goofed up and made zero sense at public rallies
  
  OpIndia Staff - 24 January, 2021
  
  Rahul Gandhi announced his return to India quintessentially by goofing-up public rallies recently, which has now taken the internet by storm.
Specials
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  News Reports
  
  Farmers threatened to kill if Yogesh didn’t lie and implicate Haryana police, said have already killed others: Watch exclusive confession of ‘masked man’
  
  OpIndia Staff - 23 January, 2021
  
  A person identified as Yogesh, who was detained by the Haryana police on Friday said the farmers at Singhu border threatened to kill him
  
  Media
  
  The hidden chats in the TRP Chargesheet that nobody is talking about, not even the police: India Today and BARC
  
  OpIndia Staff - 19 January, 2021
  
  In the TRP case chargesheet, pages of personal chats between Arnab Goswami and the ex-BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta have been added
  
  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.
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