Friday, November 15, 2024

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Dalit-Muslim clashes in Pilibhit after casteist slurs thrown in petty fight

OpIndia Staff -
Police has been deployed in the area after the communal clashes and current situation is under control.
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Opinions

Three traits of an Indian pseudo liberal – an easy guide to identify them

Srivy Anand -
Three Ds - disguise, disenchantment, denial - are the quintessential 'qualities' of an Indian pseudo-liberal.
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Media

Data vs Data – is India really ‘Lynchistan’?

Editorial Desk -
A response by Anand Ranganathan about use of data to prove whether mob lynchings have gone up.
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News Reports

Goat belonging to Hindu strays into farm belonging to Muslim, four injured in ensuing violence

OpIndia Staff -
The incidents of goat related violence are unfortunately very rampant
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Government and Policy

Man depressed as he runs out of ‘full forms’ to coin for GST

Hemant Bijapurkar -
A calamity of the highest order has hit the man named Venky Nayadu.
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News Reports

Indian money parked in Swiss banks hits all time low

OpIndia Staff -
The current amount in Swiss banks is even less than one-third of the amount reported in 2014.
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News Reports

India-China border face-off intensifies over Chinese road constructions in Bhutan

OpIndia Staff -
Both India and China are strengthening their respective positions by reportedly deploying around 3,000 troops each.
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News Reports

Court denies bail to Congress leader accused of inciting riots over beef rumours

OpIndia Staff -
Violent protests had taken place in Jamshedpur over wrong claims about Muslims being lynched over beef.
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News Reports

Shopkeepers close shops for 2 days in a Mumbai market in wake of death of Mumbai blasts convict

Hemant Bijapurkar -
Mustafa Dossa died on Wednesday due to a cardiac arrest, he was convicted for his role in the blasts.
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News Reports

How China is intruding both into Bhutan and India by constructing a road

Saswat Panigrahi -
China is constructing a road in an area it claims as its territory, which has led to tensions with India.
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News Reports

Haryana’s Waqf Board gets embroiled in land scam allegations

OpIndia Staff -
Waqf boards in other states of India too have been involved in similar scams.
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Media Fact-Check

How #NotInMyName morphed into an anti-Hindu campaign

OpIndia Staff -
Many protesters failed to hide their real agenda of politics and hate while pretending to care for 'humanity'.
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News Reports

Truth about extra paperwork and manhours breaking the back of businesses post GST

Ashutosh Muglikar -
Don't fall for rumour mongering or scaremongering about GST. Here is debunking one myth.
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News Reports

Price of life saving drugs to come down after GST roll-out

OpIndia Staff -
Price of a number of drugs is reported to increase marginally, however this category will see drop in prices.
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Politics

JD-U leader says party was more comfortable with BJP as an alliance partner

OpIndia Staff -
KC Tyagi said that JD-U was much more comfortable with the BJP during their 17-year-long partnership.
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News Reports

Seperatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s son-in-law detained in terror fund probe

OpIndia Staff -
Two other Hurryat leaders have also been arrested
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Politics

From ‘Church attacks’ to ‘Muslims lynched’ – how the narrative plays part in politics

Rahul Roushan -
They may not be directly sponsored or conceived by the party, but read why such narratives help the Congress.
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Social Media

Famous Bengali presenter Mir Afsar Ali abused for equating his father with Allah

OpIndia Staff -
Mir Ali had written 'My father.. My Allah' on Facebook for his father, which was alleged as being against Islam.
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News Reports

US designates Syed Salahuddin a global terrorist – a brief history of the terrorist

OpIndia Staff -
The terrorist had even tried to content assembly elections from Jammu and Kashmir.
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News Reports

China accuses Indian Army of stopping them from constructing road near border areas

OpIndia Staff -
The standoff has happened near Sikkim-Bhutan-Tibet border. China accuses that Indian Army crossed over the LAC.
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News Reports

Al Qaida threatens attacks on Indian military to establish Sharia in Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
This isn't the only time the sectarianism in Kashmir has been linked with a battle for an Islamic State
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News Reports

Mob tries to burn down police station in Meerut after offering Eid prayers

OpIndia Staff -
The crowd even reportedly fired at the police station
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Opinions

The return of Islamic terrorism in Kashmir

Saswat Panigrahi -
The terrorists are turning their attention to Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu & Kashmir.
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News Reports

Outrage has started only now, but find out how Hindi was ‘imposed’ in 2011

Manithan -
Almost every step that is now being decried as 'Hindi imposition' was proposed during the UPA government.
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News Reports

After ‘Church attacks’ and ‘Growing intolerance’, usual suspects declare ‘Lynchings’ as new narrative

Hemant Bijapurkar -
This the latest narrative launched to benefit those who patronised the 'journalists' and 'activists' for decades.
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News Reports

The Congress party’s war on freedom : Ten years of Emergency you never heard about

Abhishek Banerjee -
Emergency of 1975 was not a one time mistake. It was was culmination of a long term project by the Congress party.
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News Reports

25 Muslim families denied entry in Mosque because they had joined BJP

OpIndia Staff -
The incident happened in Tripura, and local CPM leadership is also involved in this matter.
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Opinions

The needless controversy over Hindi presence in Bengaluru Metro signboards

Sambit Nayak -
It's important to distinguish facts from narratives to let people take an informed stand on this subject.
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News Reports

Election Commission rejects plea of AAP MLAs in the Office of Profit case

Hemant Bijapurkar -
The commission will continue to hear the case and if found guilty, 20 MLAs could be disqualified.
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Opinions

Presidential poll : Liberals are fighting on the wrong side of history

Abhishek Banerjee -
If the Hindu Right manages to communicate a larger design for unity that goes beyond caste, it will be historical.
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News Reports

‘Bihar ki beti’ Meira Kumar has been chosen only to lose: Nitish Kumar

OpIndia Staff -
Kumar also said that nomination of Meira Kumar as candidate will have impact on 2019 Parliamentary elections.
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News Reports

Some interesting facts about Presidential Elections of India you may not be knowing

OpIndia Staff -
Did you know that a special pen will be used during the voting? And that it’s a preferential voting?
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News Reports

Man applies for a week’s leave to eat a lot of chicken before Shravan starts

Hemant Bijapurkar -
No this is not Satire, and hopefully not a fake news.
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News Reports

Bangalore police arrest 4 illegally residing Bangladeshis accused of Murder

OpIndia Staff -
They incidentally had their own Aadhar card, Voter card and PAN card.
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News Reports

How NDTV tried to whitewash lynching of Kashmiri policeman outside Mosque

OpIndia Staff -
Even though details were available, NDTV pushed out a headline and details that didn't show the real picture.
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News Reports

Tribes in Indonesia are accepting Islam to get govt facilities, and they are not the only one

OpIndia Staff -
Marginalized and poor minority groups in Muslim majority countries appear to have no other choice but to convert.
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News Reports

Dhingra Commission recommends probe against former Haryana Chief Minister Hooda

OpIndia Staff -
The former Chief Minister of Haryana could face probe regarding land deals that benefited Robert Vadra.
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News Reports

Kashmiri woman leader faces obscene comments for performing Yoga ‘despite being a Muslim’

Ashish Tickoo -
Trolls with Islamist streak attacked and abused Dr. Hina Shafi Bhat, a BJP woman leader from Kashmir, on Facebook.
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News Reports

Did UPA govt let off Pakistani suspects in Samjhauta blast to further ‘Saffron Terror’ theory?

Hemant Bijapurkar -
A Times Now expose has given a new dimension to the whole affair
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News Reports

90% petrol pumps in Maharashtra might be tampered to dispense less fuel, police suspects

OpIndia Staff -
Thane crime branch has recently busted a state-wide petrol pump racket where customers are being duped.
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News Reports

Security forces eliminate 3 more terrorists in South Kashmir

OpIndia Staff -
This is in line with the army's sustained efforts to eradicate terrorism from the valley
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News Reports

India joins UN convention to position itself as a trading and transit hub

OpIndia Staff -
The step will help the country to boost trade through smoother movement of goods across territories.
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News Reports

No, Tuberculosis patients who don’t have an Aadhar card will not be denied free treatment

Hemant Bijapurkar -
This theory is being spread on social media
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News Reports

Race for Raisina Hill: Parties break opposition ranks to support Ram Nath Kovind

Saswat Panigrahi -
Support for Ram Nath Kovind has come from non-NDA parties too and he may just win the race.
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Media

For the elitist Indian media, Ram Nath Kovind does not have the ‘class’

Rahul Roushan -
When the Bihar governor was announced as presidential candidate, the elitist media reacted with scorn.
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Opinions

This article from 2002 written by Sagarika Ghose gave me cancer

Abhishek Banerjee -
No, it’s not about the 2002 her husband Rajdeep Sardesai is famous for, it is about Dr. Kalam.
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News Reports

TMC suffers serious political setback in hills due to the ongoing Gorkhaland agitation

OpIndia Staff -
The ongoing agitation in the hills is taking a political toll on the Trinamool Congress (TMC).
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News Reports

Trump hardens stance towards Pakistan after Afghan war review

OpIndia Staff -
Trump administration appears ready to harden its approach towards Pakistan.
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News Reports

Church backed activism fueled the Kudankulam protest: Republic TV report

Hemant Bijapurkar -
The details have been uncovered in a sting operation by the Republic TV
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News Reports

Big loan defaulters could soon be facing music as RBI plans to use insolvency laws

OpIndia Staff -
Reserve Bank of India is planning to use insolvency laws against the big loans defaulters.
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