Archives of OpIndia

News Reports

Supreme Court takes suo moto cognizance in the heinous Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case

Sanghamitra -
State government shelter homes run by Brijesh Thakur's NGO was functioning as a brothel, 34 underage girls were raped
Read more
News Reports

Jyotiraditya Scindia asks Muslim woman leader to step down from stage during press conference

OpIndia Staff -
Scindia is fighting a internal battle with veteran Kamal Nath to take control of the state Congress unit
Read more
News Reports

Senior HRCE official arrested in connection with misappropriation in making gold idols

K Bhattacharjee -
HRCE officials have claimed that they are being unfairly targeted by the Idol Wing of the Police.
Read more
News Reports

Mehul Choksi had ‘loose alliance’ with Congress, says his lawyer David Dorsett: Republic

OpIndia Staff -
India has recently sought to extradite Mehul Choksi from Antigua
Read more
Opinions

Liberals want Bharat ke tukde so that they can feed the pieces to Bangladeshi illegals

Abhishek Banerjee -
But don’t you dare call a Bangladeshi illegal an infiltrator. Haven’t you heard that the world is one big family?
Read more
News Reports

NRC fallout: 2 TMC leaders from Assam quit, accuse Mamata Banerjee of speaking without knowledge

OpIndia Staff -
Mamata Banerjee has drawn flak for her comments on the NRC from various quarters.
Read more
News Reports

Christian Convent in Gujarat punishes girl student for wearing henna, later apologizes

OpIndia Staff -
Earlier, a government school run by an evangelical Christian affected an order on girl students not to wear flowers and bindi.
Read more
News Reports

Amidst rampant idol thefts from temples, Tamil Nadu govt to transfer all such cases to CBI

OpIndia Staff -
About 1200 ancient idols are believed to have been stolen between 1992 and 2017
Read more
Opinions

NRC draft has come as a death knell for the already dwindling common sense of opinion makers

Nirwa Mehta -
A narrative seems to be being built to guilt Indians on the illegal immigrants' issue
Read more
News Reports

As BJP men are killed, 80 members flee Bengal to take shelter in Jharkhand claiming threats

K Bhattacharjee -
The recently held Panchayat elections in the state were mired in violence.
Read more
News Reports

Sabarimala Temple Case: Petitioner says she now understands and respects the Temple traditions

OpIndia Staff -
Two female petitioners say they did not understand the temple traditions and were triggered by media hype over the Jayamala controversy
Read more
Opinions

Assam’s NRC: All that the media doesn’t tell you

Ashish Shukla -
Anyone can be overwhelmed by the fear-mongering in the media
Read more
News Reports

College affiliated to Malankara Church refuses to publish magazine with a poem about sex abuse by godmen

OpIndia Staff -
The four line poem reportedly refers to the Kottoyoor rape case where father Robin had allegedly raped and impregnated a minor girl
Read more
News Reports

Talib Hussain, the ‘Braveheart’ seeking justice for Kathua rape victim arrested on rape charges

OpIndia Staff -
A case has been registered against him under section 376 (rape) of Ranbir Penal Code (RPC) and 4/25 Arms Act.
Read more
News Reports

Activist Tommy Robinson who was arrested for reporting about paedophile gangs, released on bail

OpIndia Staff -
The court has ordered a retrial after releasing him on bail
Read more
News Reports

NC MLA threatens: ‘If changes made to Article 35A and 370, Indian Flag won’t be seen in Kashmir’

OpIndia Staff -
The National Conference is known to be controversial, as he had earlier abused the security forces
Read more
News Reports

Cow smugglers in Rajasthan shoot at cops, break barricades to try and flee with the bovines

OpIndia Staff -
The truck carrying the bovines was later nabbed by the police
Read more
News Reports

Amit Shah dares Mamata Banerjee to arrest him, Kolkata police says permission for rally already granted

OpIndia Staff -
The BJP Yuva Morcha had stated earlier that Kolkata police is yet to respond to the formal application for the August 11 rally
Read more
Opinions

Understanding the Assam conflict : The NRC final draft is out and the rhetoric is not helping

K Bhattacharjee -
We have to be realistic about current circumstances.
Read more
News Reports

Narendra Modi government provides Supreme Court collegium a ‘proof’ for nepotism in judiciary

OpIndia Staff -
At least a third of the recommended advocates for the judgeship are related to sitting or retired judges
Read more
News Reports

Mamata Banerjee’s double-standards over the illegal immigrants in Assam unveiled

OpIndia Staff -
On 4th August 2005, when Banerjee was in the opposition and the state was under the CPI(M) rule, she held very differing views on the issue
Read more
News Reports

Seeing Shankaracharya insulted and arrested ‘cured’ Subramanian Swamy of his anti-RSS hate

OpIndia Staff -
Swamy said that he misjudged RSS but the arrest of the Hindu saint ‘on orders of Sonia’ opened his eyes.
Read more
News Reports

Pope Francis and Catholic Church shamed after Chile gets tough against child sexual abuse scandal

Sanghamitra -
Authorities in Chile have initiated aggressive actions against the Catholic Church on allegations of child sexual abuse
Read more
News Reports

Husband threatens to kill wife if she doesn’t withdraw petition against Nikah Halala and polygamy

OpIndia Staff -
She is one of the petitioners in the case being heard by the Supreme Court
Read more
News Reports

Over 1000 illegal immigrants apprehended while trying to enter Meghalaya from Assam, claims Khasi Students Union

OpIndia Staff -
There was a heated argument with the Police over the matter as well, claimed KSU President.
Read more
News Reports

Yogi Adityanath tightens noose on corruption, seeks records of over 100 tainted officials

OpIndia Staff -
The UP CM has also asked for files of cases of corruption which took place during the SP and BSP rule.
Read more
News Reports

Bangladesh: ‘Modi govt capable of handling NRC situation judiciously, no connection with Bangladesh’

OpIndia Staff -
The draft included the names of nearly 2.89 crores leaving out more than 40 lakh applicants.
Read more
News Reports

Case registered against Mamata Banerjee for ‘civil war’ and ‘blood bath’ comment after NRC draft

OpIndia Staff -
The NRC has been drawn on the instruction of the SC
Read more
News Reports

Maulana accused of sexual assault accused of beating Pune Madarsa kids with stick and pipe: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
12 of the inmates of the madarsa have accused the Maulana of physical assault
Read more
News Reports

NIA raids Manipur Congress MLA’s residence, recovers arms

OpIndia Staff -
One of the pistols which went missing from state armoury also recovered
Read more
News Reports

Employee of ‘NGO’ that donated to Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, chargesheeted for furthering ISIS propaganda

OpIndia Staff -
India had banned Zakir Naik's Islamic Research Foundation in 2017
Read more
News Reports

Congress President Rahul Gandhi eerily smiles as he meets ailing DMK patriarch Karunanidhi

Nirwa Mehta -
He has a knack of smiling at inappropriate times, embarrassing himself.
Read more
News Reports

Sexual slurs and abuses hurled at Twitter user after she cracks a joke on Arvind Kejriwal

OpIndia Staff -
Even prominent leftist handles attacked her
Read more
Opinions

Saba Naqvi’s conduct in a recent TV debate is the real, makeup-less face of the quintessential ‘left liberal’

Rohan -
The scariest fact about them is that they undertake the duty of moral policing in our society
Read more
News Reports

In a big boost to Indo-US relationships, US designates India as a STA-1 country

OpIndia Staff -
The Narendra Modi led foreign policy has yielded substantial results in terms of India's strategic calculations
Read more
News Reports

The other side of Tuticorin plant case: a Twitter user claiming to be an employee shares insight

OpIndia Staff -
Vedanta claims that the Sterlite Copper plant did not violate any environmental norms, says allegations of causing pollution and cancer are baseless
Read more
News Reports

Hinduphobe journalist of Washington Post now tries to lie about ‘censorship on media’ in Kashmir

Nirwa Mehta -
Because why do we even need external enemies when the internal enemies are doing a great job.
Read more
News Reports

Remembering Udham Singh, the brave heart who avenged Jallianwala Bagh massacre

OpIndia Staff -
He was convicted of murdering Michael D'wyer, the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab when the Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place
Read more
News Reports

Heavily armed Muslim mob attacks Hindu man’s house after he elopes with a Muslim girl

OpIndia Staff -
The mob was believed to be 200 strong
Read more
News Reports

Playing dress-up: After playing Krishna, Tej Pratap Yadav now dresses up as Lord Shiva

OpIndia Staff -
This is not the first time Tej Pratap Yadav has displayed such bizarre behaviour
Read more
Opinions

Rahul needs to know of Mahatma Gandhi and Capitalists

Ashish Shukla -
When Rahul Gandhi today accuses of Modi government siding with the Capitalists, it appears as such a sham
Read more
News Reports

As Maratha agitation turns violent and opposition adds fuel to fire, Devendra Fadnavis faces a mammoth task

OpIndia Staff -
The Marathas, an affluent and powerful community, have been demanding caste-based reservations for a long time
Read more
News Reports

NIA raids residence of separatist Asiya Andrabi following her arrest for waging war against India

OpIndia Staff -
Andrabi was sent on a 30 day judicial custody in mid July
Read more
News Reports

Congress IT cell member who enjoyed the ‘full support of Congress’, arrested for sexual harassment

OpIndia Staff -
Congress social media in-charge Divya Spandana had earlier vouched for the accused and blamed the victim
Read more
Fact-Check

The Wire’s lack of editorial standards is just as apparent as their latest lie

Nupur J Sharma -
It is apparent that The Wire's editorial standards are near absent.
Read more
News Reports

After Assam, BJP wants to publish National Register of Citizens in Bengal

OpIndia Staff -
TMC has called the move of publishing the draft of NRC an 'inhuman' move
Read more
News Reports

Congress mouthpiece accepts Bofors was a scam

OpIndia Staff -
Acceptance of the scam elated Twitter users
Read more
News Reports

Bengaluru: Miscreants tried to steal a cow, flee leaving the trapped cow dying with its legs tied

OpIndia Staff -
A case Under Section 379 has been registered
Read more
News Reports

AAP government yet to pay cash reward to Table Tennis star Manika Batra for her Commonwealth heroics

OpIndia Staff -
Batra had won four medals including two golds at the event
Read more
News Reports

Dayanidhi Maran and six others to face trial in BSNL illegal telephone exchange case: Supreme Court

Shashank Bharadwaj -
The alleged scams committed by the then UPA government led by Sonia Gandhi has been finally falling into judicial scrutiny
Read more
1...1,4081,4091,410...1,528Page 1,409 of 1,528