News Reports

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News Reports

Iran’s Ambassador to India says vessels bound for India through the Strait of Hormuz will be granted safe passage, because ‘India is a friend’

OpIndia Staff - 13 March, 2026

Iran's Ambassador to India, Mohammad Fathali, has confirmed that Tehran will grant safe passage to vessels bound for India through the Strait of Hormuz,...

News Reports

Akhilesh Yadav meets Swami Avimukteshwaranand: Read how Mulayam’s police attacked him during a protest and the anti-Hindu history of his family, Samajwadi Party

OpIndia Staff - 13 March, 2026

The Samajwadi Party and the Yadav family are notorious for their consistent anti-Hindu positions and statements.

Economy and Finance

From Pakistan to Vietnam: How the Strait of Hormuz crisis is triggering an energy shock across Asia

Dhruv Mishra - 13 March, 2026

The Strait of Hormuz is one of the most strategically important energy chokepoints in the world. It is Located between Iran and Oman. T

Opinions

India’s strategic tightrope in the US-Israel war against Iran: As a closed Strait of Hormuz threatens energy supplies, will PM Modi play the peacemaker?

Divyansh Tiwari - 13 March, 2026

In the middle of the smoke and confusion, all eyes are on New Delhi. India, a developing powerhouse with deep, ancient civilizational ties to Iran as well as a powerful, modern strategic engagement with Israel and the United States, is currently walking the closest diplomatic tightrope of its modern history.

Government and Policy

SC refuses to entertain plea challenging MP govt’s circular implementing UGC Regulations saying 2026 regulations already stayed, allows filing petition against 2023 regulations

OpIndia Staff - 13 March, 2026

The apex court bench led by CJI Surya Kant engaged the petitioner Sarthak Bhagat and Ajeet Bharti’s lawyer on their specific challenges. The court, while referring to the stay order issued in February, refused to hear petitions challenging the 2023 and 2026 UGC guidelines together.

Opinions

Is the US facing an increased domestic terrorism threat while Trump fights a war 7,000 miles away in Iran?

Shraddha Pandey - 13 March, 2026

On 12th March 2026, a vehicle-ramming attack was carried out by a rifle-armed Islamic jihadi named Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a Lebanese-born naturalised American citizen, at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township near Detroit, Michigan.

Law

Supreme Court rejects petition seeking mandatory menstrual leave for working women, says this can be harmful to their growth and no one will hire...

OpIndia Staff - 13 March, 2026

Supreme Court stated, "Nobody will give them responsibilities, even in judicial services, a normal trial will not be assigned to them."

News Reports

LPG, LNG, and the host of other oil products that run the world: Read the differences and how India acquires them

Raju Das - 13 March, 2026

Natural Gas is compressed by cooling it to 161°C, at which temperature it becomes liquid and called Liquefied Natural Gas. LPG or Liquefied Petroleum Gas is one of the products derived from both crude oil and natural gas.

Opinions

Fighter jets, Stratotanker crashing, billion-dollar radars blown up: How US military has lost high-value assets despite its ’superiority’ flexing in a war nobody wanted

Sanghamitra - 13 March, 2026

The current war with Iran could have been avoided. US aggression in attacking a country thousands of miles away from their shores, is choking the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial bridge to global trade, is risking millions of people living in the Gulf nations, and destroying infrastructure at an alarming scale.

Crime