Specials

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OpIndia Explains

Did you know Indira Gandhi was ‘admired’ by Saddam Hussein and she had visited Libya to meet Muammar Gaddafi

OpIndia Staff - 17 March, 2021

Rahul Gandhi had recently made a reference to tinpot dictators Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi to allege that even they won elections

OpIndia Scoops

Bengal Ground Report: Nandigram is split in the middle between TMC and BJP with advantage Mamata, but all is not lost for Suvendu Adhikari

Nupur J Sharma - 16 March, 2021

Not only did Suvendu Adhikari join BJP, but it was declared that he will fight the 2021 election from Nandigram.

Specials

Even before Waseem Rizvi petitioned for removing 26 verses from Quran, a petition to ban the Quran altogether was filed 36 years ago: Read...

OpIndia Staff - 14 March, 2021

In 1985, a petition was filed in the Calcutta high court seeking direction to the govt to forfeit every copy of the Quran

News Reports

India downgraded by around 25 unknown ‘experts’ working for an organisation advised by JNU leftist and Pakistani politician: Details

OpIndia Staff - 11 March, 2021

The Democracy 2021 report by Swedish organisation V-Dem had downgraded India from a democracy to electoral autocracy

Interviews

Violence in Bengal, election rigging, misgiving of Congress, Abbas Siddiqui, COVID-19 and China: CPI (M) leader Rabin Deb talks to OpIndia

Nupur J Sharma - 6 March, 2021

Rabin Deb, one of the tallest leaders in West Bengal of the CPI (M) talks to OpIndia ahead of the 2021 elections, TMC and BJP

‘Haram or Halal, TMC wants only money’, says West Bengal Congress leader Haji Mohabbat Khan in an interview with OpIndia

OpIndia Staff - 5 March, 2021

The Congress leader said that if 'communal BJP' has to be stopped from winning in West Bengal, then Congress is the only hope

News Reports

‘Freedom House’ downgrades India from ‘free’ to ‘partly free’: Read how it is wholly funded by the US govt and has ties to George...

Nupur J Sharma - 4 March, 2021

Freedom House downgraded India based on facts they did not find convenient and a fallacious narrative woven by left and Islamists

OpIndia Scoops

Still living in fear, no compensation yet for our losses: A year on, OpIndia spoke to the owner of a parking lot burnt down...

रवि अग्रहरि - 1 March, 2021

The owner of the parking lot that was burnt down by rioters in Delhi's Shiv Vihar said that the cars were ransacked a day before the actual violence gripped the national capital

OpIndia Explains

Don’t fall for propaganda! WhatsApp will not have to breach end-to-end-encryption to follow the new IT guidelines

RS Govind - 1 March, 2021

We're all well aware that the Govt of India has recently notified the new Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021

Opinions