Politics

News and views regarding the political landscape of India. From national political parties to regional news, we try and cut through the noise to explain how Indian politics is shaping up.

News Reports

After Pakistan comes out in support of JNU, Pakistani-inspired slogans raised against Delhi Police at JNU protests

OpIndia Staff - 9 January, 2020

Protests have been underway at JNU after violence escalated massively at the campus on the 5th of January.

News Reports

Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha tries to show separatist Azadi slogans did not come from Kashmir. Read how he is wrong

OpIndia Staff - 9 January, 2020

Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha tries to water down the brutal history behind Azadi slogans, tries to obfuscate.

Politics

Shiv Sena toes NCP’s line by seeking a review on FIR against ‘protestor’ who held ‘Free Kashmir’ poster

OpIndia Staff - 9 January, 2020

Shiv Sena leader and Thackeray-scion Aaditya Thackeray had also dismissed the 'Free Kashmir' placard at the protests and said that we need to "look at the larger picture".

Opinions

Siding with ‘Free Kashmir’ through its mouthpiece Saamna: Shiv Sena 2.0

Shriya Gune - 9 January, 2020

Shiv Sena through Saamana supported the 'free Kashmir' posters flashed at Gateway of India in the recent protests

Media

India Today’s Lallantop’s Editor wants BJP supporters to use a ‘condom’ so they don’t procreate, deletes tweet after outrage

OpIndia Staff - 9 January, 2020

It is pertinent to note that Hindi news and opinion website 'Lallantop' is owned by the India Today group.

News Reports

Congress defends goons who had gheraoed and attacked BJP MP Swapan Dasgupta at Visva Bharati

OpIndia Staff - 9 January, 2020

Congress leader Rashid Alvi says that it is not that the Indians do not know how to read and understand laws and if anyone tries to 'teach' them, they'll have to face such consequences.

Politics

Even as Shiv Sena turns ‘secular’, poster boy Umar Khalid mocks Aditya Thackeray, says he wouldn’t share a stage with him

OpIndia Staff - 9 January, 2020

Umar Khalid went on to claim that if Aaditya Thackeray was present at the venue, he would not have shared the stage with him. Further, Khalid said that the young leader of 'secular' Shiv Sena has not stated a clear stand on the issue of the NPR.

Entertainment

“Pooja, what is this behaviour?” Read how Bigg Boss made an appearance after US bombed Iran leader Soleimani in Iraq

OpIndia Staff - 9 January, 2020

Indian reality tv show Bigg Boss, which everyone loves to hate but secretly watches to hate on it, has made it to US bombing Iranian general Soleimani in Iraq and putting the world on the verge of third world war.

News Reports

Kerala: Left-wing ‘activists’ block Nobel laureate Michael Levitt for hours in his houseboat during Bharat Bandh

OpIndia Staff - 9 January, 2020

Levitt, who received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was on a three-day visit to the state. His boat, anchored near Alappuzha after a trip to Kumarakom, was not allowed to leave by CITU protestors, who threatened the crew.

News Reports