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CIA’s nuclear device buried deep in the Himalayas? Read what the lost plutonium generator was, and can it really cause glacier melts and cloudbursts...

Anurag - 16 December, 2025

As climate disasters intensify in Uttarakhand, a long buried Cold War episode involving a lost CIA plutonium powered generator near Nanda Devi returns to public focus, raising questions about secrecy, accountability, and lingering public anxiety.

OpIndia Explains

The Dhurandhars that helped make Bangladesh: How RAW played a crucial role before the 1971 war, and ensured India’s decisive victory

Shraddha Pandey - 16 December, 2025

RAW predicted that the Pakistani forces might resort to violence, which may trigger a revolt and give strength to demands for East Pakistan’s independence.

News Reports

Will Md Moquim’s MLA daughter Sofia Firdous stay in Congress? Odisha drama displays Congress’s old disease: Internal rift and mismanagement from Delhi

Aditi - 16 December, 2025

In his letter, Moquim cautioned that the Grand Old Party is on the verge of losing its legacy owing to internal flaws rather than external defeats.

TMC leader, a close aide of Sheikh Shahjahan, among two arrested in ‘staged’ crash of key Sandeshkhali witness

OpIndia Staff - 16 December, 2025

Police have arrested two men, including a Trinamool Congress zilla parishad member, for their alleged role in a conspiracy to eliminate Bholanath Ghosh, a...

Crime

Christian organisation’s Ahmedabad School, where Hindu student was stabbed to death, taken over by Gujarat Government

OpIndia Staff - 16 December, 2025

The Gujarat government has taken over the Seventh-day Adventist School in Ahmedabad following the August 2025 stabbing death of Hindu student Nayan Santani by a Muslim peer. A probe revealed rule violations, poor management, and minority status issues. The District Education Officer now administers for over 10,000 students; no new admissions allowed.

News Reports

Vice President issues postage stamp for Perumbidugu Mutharaiyar II, the forgotten Tamil king Suvaran Maran who never lost a battle

रोहित पांडेय - 15 December, 2025

Released within a month of a DMK minister’s appeal, the stamp highlights a seventh century ruler whose court hosted Jain and Shaiva scholars, whose victories spanned twelve locations, and whose administrative foresight shaped Tamil polity.

Chhattisgarh conversion case: Pastor booked after prayer meet in Korba district used to push religious conversion

OpIndia Staff - 15 December, 2025

Locals said that in the meeting, it was claimed that prayers could heal diseases and alleviate personal suffering.

Opinions

PM Modi starts 3-nation tour to Jordan, Oman and Ethiopia: Read how India’s relations with these nations underscore business, credibility and co-operation

Divyansh Tiwari - 15 December, 2025

When taken as a whole, the tour portrays an India that is building coalitions, corridors, and capabilities rather than chasing headlines, reducing the risk of trade routes, expanding strategic options in West Asia and the western Indian Ocean, and maintaining the credibility of India's development-first diplomacy in a world of sharper blocs and precarious supply lines.

Crime

‘Pushpa’ gang busted: DRI seizes red sanders worth ₹6.26 crore, four arrested while trying to smuggle restricted high-value wood

OpIndia Staff - 15 December, 2025

“Specific intelligence was developed by the officers of DRI that red sanders were being clandestinely secreted at various godowns in Chennai and its outskirts and the same are being attempted for export from Chennai via Delhi. Accordingly, DRI officers carried out coordinated systematic searches at three premises from 09.12.2025 to 11.12.2025,” a press release issued by the Ministry of Finance reads.