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Air India pilot fails second drug test: What happened onboard the Phuket-Delhi flight and what it means

Jinit Jain -
Air India’s Phuket-Delhi turbulence scare has taken a serious turn after the Pilot-in-Command failed a second confirmatory drug test, intensifying regulatory scrutiny and raising fresh questions over flight safety and crew fitness.
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Specials

Beyond Kaveri: The tale of India’s aero-engine renaissance

Raju Das -
While everyone talks only about Kaveri engine, Indian defence sector is developing several other jet engines to become Atmanirbhar in jet propulsion.
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Featured

Mini truck driver Mohd Azeem dies due to injuries during assault after accident with Mohd Farman’s auto rickshaw ferrying Kanwariyas; The Wire pins sole...

Shraddha Pandey -
The Wire claimed that a Muslim mini-truck driver Mohammad Azeem (24) died at a hospital due to injuries caused during an attack on 31st July by Kanwariyas in Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur.
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News Reports

How global tech giants are flagging child abuse material and helping to catch criminals

Anurag -
A single abusive file can generate thousands of detections as it circulates online, while platform flags remain only a starting point and cannot by themselves identify victims, offenders or establish criminal responsibility in India independently.
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News Reports

British national booked in Pune under Maharashtra’s anti-conversion law, made misleading claims about Hindu deities while promoting ‘devotion to Jesus’

Shriti Sagar -
According to the police, the accused made claims that illnesses could be cured and rainfall could occur by invoking the name of Jesus.
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News Reports

94,000 government schools shut? How Congress weaponised NITI Aayog data to hide the real story

Shriti Sagar -
In several states, schools with very few students have been merged with larger institutions so that teachers, classrooms, laboratories, libraries, sports facilities and other resources can be used more effectively.
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News Reports

‘Shoot us, but we won’t sing Vande Mataram’: Kerala Congress revives its old opposition to National Song

सौम्या सिंह -
Congress MP Rajmohan Unnithan in Kerala said, “Even if Narendra Modi threatens to shoot us, Vande Mataram will not be sung in full.”
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News Reports

FIR sought against Jamia Registrar Mahtab Alam Rizvi over ‘illegal appointment’: Complaint flags UGC eligibility violations, discrepancies in CV and professional experience

Amit Kelkar -
A criminal complaint filed with Delhi Police alleges serious irregularities in Jamia Registrar Mahtab Alam Rizvi’s appointment, citing discrepancies in his qualifications, experience and recruitment records.
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Crime

ISIS Ricin terror plot: Gujarat NIA court rejects bail plea of accused Jihadi Dr Syed Ahmed Mohiuddin

OpIndia Staff -
The court rejected the defence argument that the ISIS ricin terror plot accused Syed Ahmed Mohiuddin did not know about the weapons.
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Opinions

Melting Arctic ice is opening a window for India, and we need to act soon

Divyansh Tiwari -
A monsoon that sustains more than a billion people is being rewritten, one melting season at a time, in a sea most Indians will never see. That isn’t a metaphor. It’s a data point. It means India’s Arctic stake isn’t mainly about trade or minerals. At its core, it’s also existential, in a way no ally’s is.
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News Reports

Dear non-Left, don’t fall for Leftists shaming Newslaundry for sexual harassment at the workplace; they would celebrate your ordeal the first chance they get

Jinit Jain -
The revelations of workplace harassment and abusive culture at Newslaundry expose a deeper crisis in Indian journalism: when principles become ideological weapons, accountability becomes selective.
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Opinions

AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal casts aspersions on the integrity of Supreme Court Collegium: The dissection of the veiled attack on recent judicial appointments

Shraddha Pandey -
From supporting the Supreme Court Collegium to now casting aspersions on its integrity, AAP and Arvind Kejriwal have weaved alarmist narratives around the judiciary to lend credence to their conspiracy theory that the Modi government is somehow taking over the judiciary
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News Reports

Arfa Khanum questions Rahul Gandhi for criticising ‘his own government’ over Jharkhand student protests: How it exposes the Left’s moral bankruptcy

Jinit Jain -
Arfa Khanum Sherwani’s reaction to Rahul Gandhi exposes the Left’s selective outrage and its willingness to overlook student suffering when political allies are in the dock.
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Economy and Finance

How to plan your monthly budget that supports loan repayment

OpIndia Staff -
Adding small extra payments whenever possible can help you reduce your loan burden faster. However, ensure that prepayments do not affect your emergency savings or essential expenses. A balanced approach allows you to lower interest costs while maintaining financial stability.
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News Reports

Congress’ love for protesting students ends where Parliament begins: How Rahul Gandhi and the Opposition mastered the art of ‘shooting and scooting’

Jinit Jain -
Congress and the Opposition claim to fight for students, but their walkouts and parliamentary theatrics reveal that they are far more interested in weaponising student grievances than actually solving them.
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Opinions

From pellet guns, lathicharge, to media intimidation, everything dubbed wrong during Delhi’s CJP protest becomes ‘normal’ during Jharkhand student protest: The Left-Liberal hypocrisy

Shraddha Pandey -
As the student protest intensifies in Jharkhand, the Ranchi Police has said that it will use pellet guns against student protestors in case of “emergency”.
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Opinions

The human cost of India’s paper leak crisis

Raju Das -
Paper leak incidents have turned India’s high-stakes examinations into a marketplace where money and connections routinely triumph over years of honest effort.
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News Reports

For the left ecosystem, rape now ‘exists on a spectrum’ and rapists need care: Read why this should worry women and children

Aditi -
The blurring of foundational categories of a society is a classic trait of the identitarian left, of which the trans ideology is a sub-part. The ideology treats all categorical boundaries such as man-woman, adult-child and even victim-perpetrator as an artificial construct imposed by a repressive society.
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Editor's picks

As Modi govt cracks down on illegal foreign funding through FCRA Amendment Bill, read about 13 organisations whose licences were cancelled

Shriti Sagar -
Over the years, the government has taken action against several organisations after investigations or inspections exposed financial irregularities, misuse of foreign contributions, violation of FCRA rules or activities beyond their declared objectives.
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Opinions

Newslaundry and Abhinandan Sekhri are sick and twisted: For hours after conviction of Tarun Tejpal, their article and tweet shaming his victim was live...

Shriti Sagar -
The apology by Newslaundry and Abhinandan Sekhri are a scam and a lie - They defended Tarun Tejpal with the article and tweet being live hours after rape conviction
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News Reports

JNUSU, girlfriend Banojyotsana Lahiri and Harsh Mandar lied in the name of Adivasi Divas to glorify Umar Khalid? Why JNU cancelled the event

Aditi -
The request for the booking submitted to the university omitted to mention that the proposed discussion was about Khalid's book.
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Political History of India

Congress loved rapist Tarun Tejpal: How Kapil Sibal donated 5 lakh to help Tehelka launch its print edition, Sonia Gandhi wanted to shield him

Shriti Sagar -
In November 2013, when the sexual assault case against Tejpal was dominating headlines, Sibal told The Sunday Express that he had donated Rs 5 lakh to Tejpal in 2003, when Tehelka was starting its print edition.
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News Reports

Gujarat HC refuses to grant relief to Christian woman who forced ASHA workers to convert: Here is what the court said

OpIndia Staff -
For 3 years, the ASHA workers were asked to stay back after government work and official health-related meetings were over. They were then spoken to about Christianity, encouraged to read the Bible and told that idol worship practised in Hinduism was wrong.
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News Reports

How India is countering expansionist Chinese plan to ‘rename and claim’ strategic locations in Arunachal Pradesh

सौम्या सिंह -
India's official mapping agency, the 'Survey of India', has included 27 highly crucial and strategic locations of the State in the country's official national map. All these places have been recorded with their real, local, and authentic names.
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Fact-Check

TheWire peddles, yet again, its interview with foreign-funded scamster bishop Joseph D’Souza: His lies about FCRA Bill debunked

Aditi -
Concurring with Thapar, D'Souza claimed that if the Bill is passed, it would enable what he termed as "the legalised loot of the Indian Christian community and the global Christian community".
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News Reports

The art of headline construction: How Indian Express conceded no wrongdoing yet insinuated corruption in RDI Fund

Dibakar Dutta -
While 'The Indian Express' has been able to prove nothing, it did win the narrative war temporarily. Their clickbait headline convinced amateur political enthusiasts that a scandal exists where it doesn't.
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Opinions

Women are relegated to the lowest position in the Liberal hierarchy of victimhood: Tarun Tejpal’s victim being shamed by ‘liberals’, including NewsLaundry, is the...

Shraddha Pandey -
While the High Court has now rejected those stereotypes as myths and upheld the victim’s testimony, the initial and prolonged response from sections of the Leftist journalistic and celebrity ecosystem told an opprobrious story of reflexive scepticism and even blaming and protection of Tarun Tejpal, their blue-eyed boy.
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News Reports

Are UPI payments going to be taxed? No, the left-liberal ecosystem and the Opposition are manipulating you

Aditi -
The misleading headlines and posts not only peddled misinformation about digital payments but also cast suspicions on the government by alleging US pressure behind the decision.
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News Reports

Sexual harassment allegations against Newslaundry? As people recount their whitewashing of rapist Tarun Tejpal, former employees speak up

Dibakar Dutta -
The fact that Newslaundry published the rape apologist article, did not feel sorry for the trauma caused to the victim and dared to later remove it with a standard 'self-reflection' note highlighted how the rot ran deep into the system.
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News Reports

‘Attack on one, attack on all’: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye sign Mecca Joint Defence Pact — What it means for India?

विवेकानंद मिश्र -
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement to strengthen collective security amid rising Middle East tensions
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News Reports

US court slaps Meta with $567 million penalty over child safety failures, orders major platform reforms: Details

सौम्या सिंह -
Meta faces global scrutiny after a 567 million New Mexico penalty over child safety, addictive platform features and mental health concerns.
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News Reports

How Congress, which gave birth to FCRA, is now targeting the BJP govt for stopping illegal foreign funding to NGOs

OpIndia Staff -
While Congress is today opposed to the FCRA Amendment Bill of the BJP, it has conveniently forgotten how the legislation came into existence in the first place and underwent major changes during its rule.
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News Reports

Battle of Colachel: How Travancore king Marthanda Varma crushed Dutch colonial power

Rukma Rathore -
Led by Varma and Ramayyan, the Travancore forces managed to strangle the Dutch supplies from all sides.
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News Reports

From Newslaundry to Javed Akhtar: How the left-liberal ecosystem whitewashed and shielded ‘Tehelka’ rapist Tarun Tejpal

Aditi -
The high and mighty, elite sections of society tried to defend Tejpal by downplaying a serious crime like sexual harassment in the workplace.
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News Reports

The victims that Punjab politics chose to forget

Anurag -
Local memorials, police webpages, press-freedom records and family recollections preserve fragments of those killed, while incomplete archives, political commemorations and cultural narratives continue shaping which victims remain visible and which gradually disappear from public memory.
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News Reports

How Punjab Police dismantled Khalistani terror networks

Anurag -
Methods adopted by Ribeiro and Gill restored state control and weakened Khalistani groups through intelligence, mobility and coordination that ended insurgency.
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Specials

The coordinated drumbeat: Tracing the foreign funding targeting India’s Data Centres

Divyansh Tiwari -
Water consumption numbers alone don’t give the full picture if nobody knows what data centre cooling system is behind them
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Specials

Why India’s Data Centres must answer to Indian law, not Washington’s

Divyansh Tiwari -
The first major attempt to develop a comprehensive federal framework for the industry was the Draft National Data Centre Policy
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Specials

Busting the big myth: Why data centres aren’t the water villains they’re made out to be

Divyansh Tiwari -
Data centre cooling towers function by evaporating some of their water, which finally returns to Earth as rainfall
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Specials

Cool by design: How India’s data centres are learning to run on far less water

Divyansh Tiwari -
A data centre cooling tower is a larger version of the desert cooler that millions of Indian homes rely on each summer.
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OpIndia Explains

Data Centres are the new highways: India is racing to build them

Divyansh Tiwari -
Giving data centres the same priority as highways, railroads, and electricity grids by designating them as important infrastructure was the most significant decision of the govt
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Opinions

Shipbuilding for the future world: India’s navigation path

Sanghamitra -
Rajendra Chola was not targeting the top-10 global position. He read the winds of change; he saw the ocean as a highway, and he projected power with all he had. He built his ships strong enough to accomplish his goals. If India is going to reclaim any part of that thousand-year-old legacy, we need to build ships that will accomplish ours.
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Featured

CJP appoints former AAP functionaries to its National Working Committee: Know who they are

Shraddha Pandey -
The CJP indirectly formalised itself as probably the ‘youth wing’ of the Aam Aadmi Party by inducting maximum present or former AAP functionaries into its National Working Committee.
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Specials

From policy to factories and jobs: How India became a hub of new technology manufacturing

Raju Das -
Factories, Jobs and Self-Reliance: How the Modi Government’s policies under Make in India and Atmanirbhar Bharat initiatives transformed India’s new technology manufacturing sector
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News Reports

Are PM Modi’s foreign visits extravagant? Here’s how his global outreach outpaced Manmohan Singh’s without a proportionate rise in travel expenditure

Aditi -
PM Modi's foreign travel has been more frequent, more geographically expansive, organised around shorter itineraries and involving high-frequency diplomatic travel compared to Singh’s.
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News Reports

Is FCRA Amendment Bill anti-Christian? Debunking the lies and setting the record straight

OpIndia Staff -
The disinformation surrounding FCRA Amendment Bill is that it empowers the Indian government to arbitrarily takeover churches and religious institutions. A direct reading of the statutory text demonstrates that this narrative is factually inaccurate.
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OpIndia Explains

India to roll out plastic currency notes: Why is RBI switching to polymer banknotes?

Divya Bharti -
The RBI is launching trials for polymer ₹10 and ₹20 notes to improve durability and security. While more expensive initially, these plastic banknotes last longer, reduce replacement costs, and will circulate alongside existing paper currency.
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News Reports

From ‘Mile Mulayam Kanshi Ram, Hawa Ho Gaye Jai Shri Ram’ to ‘Pandit is also PDA’: Akhilesh Yadav and SP’s election-season reinvention

Jinit Jain -
Akhilesh Yadav's attempt to bring Pandits under the SP's PDA umbrella marks a sharp political pivot, raising questions over whether it reflects a genuine ideological shift or a calculated bid to expand the party's Hindu vote base ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
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OpIndia Explains

Abaan Ahmed, son of slain gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed, dies in road accident: Read about his criminal history

Shriti Sagar -
Abaan Ahmed first came under the police scanner after the murder of Umesh Pal, the main witness in the 2005 murder case of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Raju Pal.
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Opinions

Sonam Wangchuk fasted for 26 days to revive Rahul Gandhi’s political career: Here is how it was squandered away because of his petty ego...

Shraddha Pandey -
Sonam Wangchuk said that his wife Geetanjali Angmo pursued Rahul Gandhi to break his fast. However, the Congress leader gave no positive response.
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