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The Print, headed by the chief of Editors Guild, maintains stoic silence as Bengal burns with poll violence

K Bhattacharjee - 30 April, 2019

Media outlet run by the Chief of the Editors Guild himself, The Print, hasn't found the time to highlight the matter of the journalists who were attacked yesterday and the violence in West Bengal

News Reports

Read why Tej Bahadur Yadav, the mahagathbandhan candidate against PM Modi, was jailed four times and sacked from BSF

OpIndia Staff - 30 April, 2019

Tej Bahadur Yadav was sacked from BSF for making false claims, and earlier he was jailed four times for misbehaving with seniors

Fact-Check

‘Journalist’ lies to draw false equivalence between convicted Indian Mujahideen terrorist Yasin Bhatkal and Sadhvi Pragya

Shashank Bharadwaj - 30 April, 2019

Rana Ayyub attempted to equate convicted Islamic terrorist Yasin Bhatkal and Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, who is incidentally still an accused and was given a clean chit by NIA in a case and was a victim of severe brutality

Opinions

Here is why India needs to start fact-checking its election ‘experts’

Abhishek Banerjee - 30 April, 2019

This is about a larger problem of a certain caravan of ‘election astrologers’: journalists posing as ‘experts’, speaking with little regard for the truth and getting away with it

News Reports

MHA issues notice to Rahul Gandhi, cites British company documents to seek response within 15 days over citizenship

OpIndia Staff - 30 April, 2019

Home Ministry has issued a notice to Congress President Rahul Gandhi over the citizenship controversy that erupted a few weeks ago.

Politics

“Nahi hai jo Mohammad ka, humara ho nahi sakta”: Here is why Congress leader Pramod Krishnam has no right to call himself ‘Acharya’

OpIndia Staff - 29 April, 2019

Pramod Krishnam, who runs Kalki foundation and the Peethadheswar of Sambhal Peeth has been listed as one of the 'fake babas' of the country by All India Akhara Parishad after it released its third such list.

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