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Government and Policy

Parliamentary Panel summons Twitter India officials to explain allegations of anti right wing bias

OpIndia Staff - 5 February, 2019

Twitter has been accused of silencing right wing voices by either blocking them or shadow banning them, thereby limiting their reach.

News Reports

Silent protests held at Delhi against Twitter’s left-wing bias and deliberate silencing of opposite ideology

OpIndia Staff - 3 February, 2019

An organisation named Youth for Social Media Democracy (YSMD), which has a right-of-centre ideological leaning conducted a silent protest from Delhi's Saket to Lado Sarai where the regional office of Twitter is situated.

News Reports

Congress continues showcasing its shallow mentality by insulting Manohar Parrikar

OpIndia Staff - 3 February, 2019

The Congress has left no opportunity to mock the ailing Minister since the time he has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer

News Reports

Congratulations, finally someone in Congress could do arithmetic right

OpIndia Staff - 1 February, 2019

While the President of the Congress party could not ever be accused of possessing a high degree of intellect, it appears his creative ideas are rubbing off on other members of the party as well.

Government and Policy

As extraditions continue, Vijay Mallya claims DRT has attached more than he owed, alleges harassments by banks’ UK lawyers

OpIndia Staff - 1 February, 2019

Mallya was declared a fugitives economic offender in early January.

News Reports

Complaint registered against Congress leader Shashi Tharoor for hurting Hindu religious sentiments

OpIndia Staff - 31 January, 2019

Shashi Tharoor had earlier denigrated Hindu demand of building Ram Temple in Ayodhya by claiming that no 'good Hindu' would want to build a temple there.

News Reports

Welcome to Jinn YouTube: If you think Taher Shah was the worst thing to have come out of Pakistan, think again

K Bhattacharjee - 28 January, 2019

This region of YouTube, I don't quite know what to call it, I propose the name for the sake of simplicity 'Jinn YouTube' (Jinn YT)

News Reports

Javed Akhtar defends Ram Guha after his hypocrisy gets exposed, turns out, he is the biggest hypocrite of them all

OpIndia Staff - 28 January, 2019

Javed Akhtar launches a personal attack on a Twitter user, gets exposed for his own hypocrisy.

News Reports

Twitter suspends young boy’s account after he was doxxed and harassed by AltNews founder Pratik Sinha and Islamists

OpIndia Staff - 26 January, 2019

Altnews founder Pratik Sinha today stirred a hornet’s nest after he doxxed several unsuspecting users on Twitter simply because he did not agree with their political views.

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