Editor's picks

HM Amit Shah reveals in Parliament how a 50 km Naxal terror zone in Telangana-Chhattisgarh border was dismantled: Read about Operation Black Forest

OpIndia Staff - 1 April, 2026

“Operation Black Forest was conducted on a hill spread over 50 km in length and 37 km in width on the Telangana-Chhattisgarh border. The Naxalites had established a permanent camp there with arrangements to sustain fighting for 5 years - including weapons, solar lights, factories for making a large number of IEDs, and food grains stocked for 5 years. Besides this, 400 to 500 cadres were gathered there,” Shah said.

News Reports

‘War may end soon’: Donald Trump says US forces may wind up campaign against Iran within two-three weeks, possibly without any deal with Iranian...

Shraddha Pandey - 1 April, 2026

During a media interaction at the White House on Tuesday, Trump said, “We'll be leaving very soon. I would say within two weeks, maybe three. We knocked out a tremendous amount of missile-making facilities.”

Crime

Muslim scrap dealer and his associates pelt stones at Hindus for demanding their money back in Mathura, threaten ‘we will bury you here’: Read...

OpIndia Staff - 1 April, 2026

The FIR names several accused, all are Muslims, including Kale, Farukh, Sahil, Furkhan, Anwar, Arman and Faizan, all residents of the Vyapariyan Kasba area in Farah.

Israel brings new law with death penalty to convicted terrorists in 90 days, UN says applying it to Palestinians will be ‘war crime’

OpIndia Staff - 1 April, 2026

Israel has used the death penalty only once since its foundation in 1948, when it hanged Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1962.

News Reports

Mamata resorts to erasing Bengali with Urdu to appease Muslims: Read how the TMC chief is dividing Hindus and rallying Muslims using her language...

OpIndia Staff - 31 March, 2026

Mamata Banerjee is using language politics to consolidate specific voter bases while simultaneously labeling non-Bengali Hindus as "outsiders" to create a social divide.

News Reports

From peddling fake news and cropped videos to misleading narratives: A deep dive into the propaganda handles that were restricted in India

Dhruv Mishra - 31 March, 2026

The debate surrounding the restriction of these accounts has largely been framed in terms of free speech versus censorship. However, such a binary framing overlooks the underlying context.

Opinions

Iran’s proxy force Houthis join the war, threaten to disrupt Bab al-Mandeb strait: Read what it means for global trade with Strait of Hormuz...

Divyansh Tiwari - 31 March, 2026

Between December 2023 and early 2024, container shipping across the Red Sea decreased by 90%. Large shipping companies like Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd, and MSC diverted their ships around the Cape of Good Hope, resulting in an additional 14 days and more than $1 million in fuel expenses per trip.