Archives of OpIndia

Crime

Ex-Cops DG Vanzara and AK Amin absolved of all charges in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case

OpIndia Staff -
On March 26, 2019, DG Vanjara and AK Amin had filed a discharge petition in the court to stop all processings against them in the light government refusal to sanction prosecution
Read more
Opinions

Dear Dr. Manmohan Singh, your sore loser act is fooling nobody

Abhishek Banerjee -
No, Dr Manmohan Singh, the Army did not carry out any surgical strikes during your years in power.
Read more
Government and Policy

Congress did not follow up for listing of JeM chief Masood Azhar: India’s former Permanent Representative to UN

OpIndia Staff -
Hardeep Singh Puri served as Permanent Representative of India to UN from 2009 to 2013.
Read more
News Reports

‘Activist’ who signed mercy petition for Yakub Memon now bats for illegal immigrants, moves petition for CJI to recuse himself from case

OpIndia Staff -
Harsh Mander says that since CJI is interested in mass deportation of illegal immigrants, he should not hear a case on deportation
Read more
Editor's picks

Left-Liberals have no right to shed tears on Gadchiroli massacre when they shamelessly provide Naxals with intellectual cover

K Bhattacharjee -
In a despicable instance of Left-Wing terrorism, 16 security personnel lost their lives after an IED blast at Gadchiroli, Maharashtra.
Read more
Politics

‘Cultured families should keep their children away from such a person’: Smriti Irani on Priyanka Gandhi Vadra watching over as children abused Modi

Nupur J Sharma -
Two days ago, a distressing video went viral where Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, sister of Congress President Rahul Gandhi was seen smiling and watching over as children, coached by Congress, were abusing PM Modi.
Read more
Political Fact-Check

Manmohan Singh lies again, this time about ‘surgical strikes’ conducted in UPA era

OpIndia Staff -
It is rather unfortunate that the leader who chose to remain silent for ten years as a prime minister, lies when he finally decides to speak up
Read more
Law

SC asks EC to check if voting can start at 5 AM after petition saying Muslim voters during Ramzan would face difficulty due to...

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court has asked the Election Commission whether polling can start from 5 AM during the Muslim fasting period of Ramzan.
Read more
News Reports

EU parliament threatens to cut subsidies and trade preferences to Pakistan, warns against persecution of religious minorities

OpIndia Staff -
In a letter addressed to Imran Khan, the EU warns of cut in subsidies and trade preferences unless Pakistan takes substantial measures to ensure basic civil rights for religious minorities.
Read more
Opinions

Love Jihad is not a figment of the ‘right wing’ imagination, it is a real and present danger

Shashank Goyal -
The Love Jihad phenomenon has been dismissed by the self-proclaimed "liberals" as a figment of the "right-wing" imagination. However, what is the truth? Does Love Jihad truly exist? 
Read more
Politics

Congress leaders, including Digvijay Singh and Kamal Nath have a meltdown after UN ban on Masood Azhar

Jhankar Mohta -
Digvijay Singh, who had earlier doubted the Balakot airstrikes and had peddled the 'Hindu Terror' narrative, goes on to cast aspersions on the UN ban on Masood Azhar too.
Read more
Opinions

When PM Modi’s roadshow caused heart burn inside (and among) the ‘left-liberal’ ecosystem

अजीत भारती -
This saffron crowd has only to come to see their leader. These are the people whose dead souls have been revived by the Sanjeevani of Modi.
Read more
Opinions

Ram Guha claims Modi govt has done a surgical strike on science and scholarship, data says otherwise

singhrakeshk -
Ram Guha wrote an article titled “Surgical strike against science and scholarship”, with his target being PM Modi, and he is patently wrong, as usual
Read more
Crime

Stolen idol of goddess Ugratara recovered from Assam village, thieves arrested

OpIndia Staff -
The Ashtadhadu idol of goddess Ugratara was stolen and the temple was vandalised on November 15.
Read more
Politics

Arvind Kejriwal ignores EC notice, repeats ‘accept money offered by other parties but vote for AAP’ remark

OpIndia Staff -
Hours after Arvind Kejriwal for EC notice for putting 'accept money offered by other parties but vote for AAP' comment on pamphlets, he repeats the remark
Read more
Politics

Child rights body writes to EC over video clip where Priyanka Gandhi giggled as children abused Modi

OpIndia Staff -
The NCPCR has observed that the children were making derogatory remarks and using abusive languages in the presence Priyanka Gandhi
Read more
Politics

Star TV confirms that they have not given Congress the permission to use their logo and tagline in political campaigning

OpIndia Staff -
The poster promoting Rahul Gandhi clearly uses the Star TV logo and the tagline used by Star TV, 'rishta wahi soch nahi'.
Read more
Politics

Rahul Gandhi gets EC notice for his ‘Modi made law which allows shooting down tribals’ lie

OpIndia Staff -
Gandhi scion had made a libellous remark claiming that Narendra Modi has legislated a law allowing ‘shooting down’ of tribals
Read more
News Reports

Sadhvi Pragya barred from campaigning for three days by the Election Commission for her Babri demolition remark

OpIndia Staff -
Sadhvi had acknowledged that she had played an instrumental role in the demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, and that she was proud of it.
Read more
News Reports

Masood Azhar’s designation as global terrorist draws contradictory reactions from the usual suspects

OpIndia Staff -
Masood Azhar was designated as a global terrorist on the UN Sanctions List
Read more
News Reports

“People who vote for secular parties get better academic results”, says Karnataka minister referring to SSLC results

OpIndia Staff -
Karnataka PWD Minister HD Revanna said that as Dakshina Kannada district voted for BJP, SSLC results in the region declined
Read more
Fact-Check

India’s dossier to the UN on Masood Azhar mentioned Kashmir and Pulwama categorically, any suggestion to the contrary is a lie

Nupur J Sharma -
While India rejoiced the listing of Masood Azhar as a global terrorist, several vested interested proceeded to spread lies and canards about this historic diplomatic win for India, in their unbridled hatred for PM Modi.
Read more
News Reports

Tamil Nadu: Stolen idol returned after 100 years by grandson of former priest who had stolen it

OpIndia Staff -
A 700 hundred-year-old idol of Dhroupathi Amman has been retrieved
Read more
News Reports

Karnataka Minister GT Deve Gowda says “JDS workers might have voted for BJP”, irks Congress

OpIndia Staff -
Karnataka JDS minister says that in some areas JDS voters may have voted for BJP instead of coalition candidates from Congress
Read more
Politics

Priyanka Gandhi encourages Congress workers to shout down Rajdeep after he asks about work done by Gandhis in Amethi

OpIndia Staff -
Priyanka Gandhi was in Amethi to address election rallies when she urged her supporters to heckle Rajdeep Sardesai as he tried to ask her why Amethi has shown no progress over the years.
Read more
Government and Policy

Another feather in PM Narendra Modi’s cap: Masood Azhar designated as terrorist in UN sanctions list

OpIndia Staff -
The mastermind of the Pathankot terrorist attack and head of Jaish-e-Mohammed, Masood Azhar, has been designated as a global terrorist in the United Nations Sanctions List
Read more
Opinions

True Indology speaks out, hits out on the horde of perpetrators who violated his religious beliefs

Guest Author -
Popular Twitter user True Indology, who prefers to stay anonymous, hits out on those who got his account suspended
Read more
Opinions

Paddy Upton calling Gautam Gambhir ‘mentally insecure’ in his book exposes corruption within mental healthcare services and threat it poses

K Bhattacharjee -
Former mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton has described former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir as “mentally the most insecure”. However, it didn't deter him from becoming one of India's most accomplished batsmen, he added.
Read more
Government and Policy

Modi ministers in five years – Road Transport and Shipping minister Nitin Gadkari

Keshav -
A look at the achievements of ministries under Nitin Gadkari
Read more
Opinions

The voter turnout in the first phases of 2019 elections shows which way the political wind may be blowing

Karan -
There has been a lot of discussion regarding voter turnouts in the current 2019 elections. During the initial phases, it was argued that the voter turn-out, in general, was lower than the 2014 levels.
Read more
Economy and Finance

GST collection registers a record high of Rs 1.13 lakh crores in April 2019

OpIndia Staff -
GST collection for the month of April 2019 is highest since its rollout.
Read more
Opinions

Will the real ‘feku’ please stand up

Saket Suryesh -
With the litany of lies that Rahul Gandhi peddles, one wonders if Rahul Gandhi is the REAL 'feku'
Read more
Politics

West Bengal: CPM polling agent Sheikh Khilafat’s house torched in Birbhum by TMC goons

OpIndia Staff -
The TMC goons under the protection of Mamata Banerjee have been unleashing their unbridled brutality converting West Bengal into a battle zone.
Read more
News Reports

Dastardly IED blast carried out by Naxals claims lives of 16 security personnel in Maharashtra

OpIndia Staff -
After torching 27 vehicles of a construction company, Naxals attacked a convoy of security personnel in Maharashtra
Read more
Politics

AAP failed to fulfill 67 promises it made in its assembly elections manifesto and 3 were misleading: PPRC Manifesto Review

OpIndia Staff -
Public Policy Research Centre (PPRC) has published a comprehensive evaluation of the Aam Aadmi Party's manifesto for the 2015 Assembly Elections.
Read more
Politics

I am more concerned for Hindus than Modi is. Modi kills Muslims: Arvind Kejriwal loses all sense of morality

OpIndia Staff -
Drawing parallels between Modi and Hitler, Kejriwal said Modi will also change constitution after coming back to power, just like Hitler did
Read more
Politics

Lanco debacle : A perfect example of the banking sector mess Congress created

Jain Amitanshu -
Example of what the Narendra Modi led NDA government inherited. Example of what the Modi government cleaned up.
Read more
News Reports

Rahul Gandhi addresses empty chairs in an election rally in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh

OpIndia Staff -
A small number of people attended Rahul Gandhi's rally in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur, and most chairs were empty
Read more
Politics

Appeasement politics had endangered India’s cultural and spiritual glory, we got it admired at the global level: PM Modi in Ayodhya

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi today addressed an election rally at Gosainganj in Sri Ayodhya district which votes under the Ambedkar Nagar constituency.
Read more
Political History of India

Nehru at Kumbh, 1954: When Congress govt burnt bodies, lied about casualties and called a journalist collecting evidence ‘ba***rd’

OpIndia Staff -
Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking at Ayodhya today spoke about the ghastly stampede of 1954 where a 1000 devotees lost their lives.
Read more
Opinions

Here is how Indian ‘liberal’ propaganda over ‘intolerance’ might have caused 100s of deaths in Sri Lanka

Abhishek Banerjee -
Hundreds of innocents have lost their lives in bombings in Sri Lanka. And the global slander campaign against India could have led Sri Lankan officials to view Indian intelligence reports with suspicion.
Read more
News Reports

Nomination of mahagathbandhan candidate Tej Bahadur Yadav, who was jailed and sacked from BSF, cancelled

OpIndia Staff -
As Tej Bahadur was dismissed from BSF in 2017, his candidature was invalid as per Representation of the People Act, 1951
Read more
Social Media

Ex-NDTV CEO Vikram Chandra poses with a Modi lookalike in Varanasi, gets roasted

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier Congress President Rahul Gandhi and Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani were seen posing with Modi lookalikes
Read more
Politics

BJP MP sends Rahul Gandhi a legal notice over his lie that ‘Modi govt passed law allowing shooting down of Adivasis’

OpIndia Staff -
BJP has served Rahul Gandhi with a legal notice for saying that Narendra Modi has passed a law in which a provision has been added that allows shooting down of Tribals
Read more
Crime

After India and Bangladesh’ crackdown, Sri Lankan cable operators block Islamist preacher Zakir Naik’s Peace TV

OpIndia Staff -
The controversial Islamic preacher, Naik is being probed by Indian agencies since 2016.
Read more
Politics

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra admits that Congress has put up candidates to ‘cut votes’ of BJP in Uttar Pradesh

OpIndia Staff -
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that in those seats where Congress is strong, Congress will win, and in others where Congress is weak, the candidates have been selected to ensure that they 'cut votes' of BJP.
Read more
News Reports

Congress’ Ajay Maken already accepts defeat, says without AAP alliance, Congress cannot win ‘all seven seats’ in Delhi

OpIndia Staff -
Congress seems to have already conceded defeat and has even stopped pretending that it believes it will win
Read more
News Reports

Pakistan glorifies Burhan Wani: Imran Khan’s party leader to play the terrorist in a movie based on his life

OpIndia Staff -
Imran Khan led PTI's legislator from Karachi is to play the role of slain terrorist Burhan Wani in the upcoming Pakistani movie.
Read more
News Reports

Sri Lanka ignored Indian intel on suicide attacks as they thought it was a ‘bogey’ to create rift with Pakistan: Report

OpIndia Staff -
Sri Lanka did not heed the alert from India about the possibility of Jihadist attacks as it feared India was trying to create a rift between them and Islamabad
Read more
Politics

Is AAP conceding to Congress’ Ajay Maken in the ‘New Delhi’ constituency? That’s what some BJP karyakartas think

Nupur J Sharma -
One would image that AAP and Congress would be in a fierce battle to defeat BJP in Delhi, but is that really the case?
Read more
1...1,2891,2901,291...1,529Page 1,290 of 1,529