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Is India’s GDP overstated? As a study claims 20 years of ‘misestimation’, read why it is not that straightforward and all conclusive

Dhruv Mishra -
At its core, GDP is not a directly observable number but an estimate constructed from multiple data sources, surveys, and statistical techniques. In a country like India, where a significant portion of economic activity occurs in the informal sector, measuring output with precision is inherently challenging.
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Politics

Odisha Congress seeks disqualification of own MLAs, targets Sofia Firdous again over Rajya Sabha polls: How the Party has been alienating the State’s first...

Divya Bharti -
The Odisha Congress has moved to disqualify three MLAs, including rising star Sofia Firdous, for cross-voting in the Rajya Sabha polls. The move follows their defiance of a party whip, which led to a victory for BJP-backed candidate Dilip Ray.
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News Reports

NIA arrests a shady US mercenary ‘VanDyke’ for working with Myanmar-based militants and training insurgent groups active in NE India border: What we know...

Divyansh Tiwari -
News videos that had the visuals of NIA officials loading the arrested foreigners into a jail van had one thin, long-haired individual wearing a mask. Soon, the name Matthew VanDyke was all over social media.
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News Reports

Bombay HC quashes 16-year-old SC/ST case as an ‘act of vengeance’: How a woman filed three cases against Mumbai professor for questioning reservation eligibility

Amit Kelkar -
When a credentials dispute leads to three SC/ST cases, each failing on legal grounds, it raises serious concerns about misuse, something the Bombay HC has now explicitly flagged as harassment through legal process.
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Opinions

Operation Roaring Lion: Why the US and Israel chose this moment to strike Iran and how it signals a strategic shift in West Asia’s...

Yaniv Revach -
US-Israel strikes on Iran have triggered a dangerous escalation, with Tehran targeting Hormuz, putting global energy flows, trade, and India’s strategic interests at risk.
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News Reports

‘They came with a huge consignment of European drones, trained with Myanmar militants for ethnic wars in Indian border areas’: NIA investigates 6 Ukrainians...

Shraddha Pandey -
The investigators alleged that the arrested foreigners arrived in India on a visa and then entered Mizoram, which is a protected area. Subsequently, they entered Myanmar and contacted ethnic war groups.
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News Reports

India remembers the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts but the Islamic terror attack in Kolkata remains forgotten: Read how Rashid Khan and his aides killed...

Divya Bharti -
Bowbazar is one of the most crowded areas of Kolkata. At the time of the explosion, about 125 people were believed to be living in the two apartment blocks that collapsed.
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Opinions

USCIRF, led by Pakistani Islamists, seeks sanctions on RSS and RAW: Here is how their report makes false claims and peddles the Islamo-Leftist agenda

Shraddha Pandey -
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has published its annual report for the year 2026, wherein it recommended that the US government impose sanctions on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Research and Analysis Wing (RA&W).
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News Reports

Watching ‘The 50’ reveals an uncomfortable truth: From Faisu’s influencer grooming to Adnaan’s boasting about converting his Hindu wife to Islam before marriage

Anurag -
On The 50, Faisu revealed how agencies groomed influencers in Team 07, while Adnaan Shaikh’s relationship with Riddhi Jadhav, now Ayesha, highlights how admiration, emotional bonds and weak religious grounding can shape identity choices.
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News Reports

Hyderabad preacher instigates Muslims to offer namaz on roads; was arrested in 2020 for misappropriating crowdfunding meant for ailing patients

Shriti Sagar -
Ayub also used a derogatory word for UP CM Yogi Adityanath and criticised the Yogi government, accusing it of creating unnecessary restrictions on Muslims.
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News Reports

MAGA commentator Natasha Chart revives the debunked Cisco’s ‘caste discrimination’ case to demonise Hindus in US Tech: Here’s the truth

Rukma Rathore -
"At Cisco, a Dalit engineer was blocked from promotion, kept off key projects, and eventually pushed out," Natasha Chart wrote..
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News Reports

Benjamin Netanyahu releases video to debunk claims of his death and AI video: Read how journalist Aditya Raj Kaul was falsely accused of helping...

OpIndia Staff -
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday released a light-hearted video from a Tel Aviv coffee shop, directly mocking viral social media rumours that he had been killed in an Iranian missile strike
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News Reports

Protest in Gujarat’s Kheda over housing project for Muslims in Matar taluka: Here’s what local Hindus are saying

ભાર્ગવ રાજ્યગુરુ -
The Hindu organisation suspects that this scheme has been implemented to provide permanent residence to Bangladeshi infiltrators who were evicted from Chandola Lake in Ahmedabad. 
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News Reports

Pakistan faces economic crisis as Middle East conflict disrupts shipping through Strait of Hormuz, fuel prices surge 20% across country

Divya Bharti -
Pakistan's economy is reeling as the Iran-US conflict disrupts oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz. With fuel prices up 20%, the country faces soaring inflation, agricultural distress, and a potential $14 billion hit to its external payments and foreign reserves.
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News Reports

From coercion and fraud to inducement and threats: Maharashtra introduces anti conversion bill with strict punishments, here is what it says

Shriti Sagar -
All offences under the proposed law will be cognisable and non-bailable.
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News Reports

India Today, Laura Loomer and Rajdeep Sardesai: Was the Conclave confrontation a scripted spectacle?

Jinit Jain -
The Laura Loomer controversy at the India Today Conclave increasingly looks less like spontaneous journalism and more like a carefully staged spectacle that conveniently shifted attention away from the original question: why she was invited in the first place.
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News Reports

Why has Bihar’s Saran case turned into a ‘Rajput vs Paswan’ flashpoint? Here’s what has unfolded so far in the gang rape and killing...

शिव -
A minor girl’s gang rape and death in Bihar’s Saran district has sparked outrage and a Rajput–Paswan narrative battle online, even as police await post-mortem findings.
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News Reports

The crisis of illegal hoarding? Read how LPG concerns are being fanned while miscreants are hoarding cylinders to sell for high profit

Aditi -
As consumers are panic buying LPG cylinders amid rumours of shortage, these hoarders are making huge money by selling the cylinders at double the prices.
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News Reports

LPG-loaded tankers cross Strait of Hormuz to come to India: PM Modi’s diplomatic outreach in West Asia secures Indian interests, again

OpIndia Staff -
In the middle of a critical military and trade crisis, PM Modi’s carefully crafted foreign policy is what is preventing panic and scarcity in the nation. For the Modi government, engaging with partners in West Asia, closer to home, supersedes the game of optics Trump administration is currently engaged in. 
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News Reports

Anti-Indian hate surged on X during US immigration debates, small network amplified racist narratives against Indians: Report

Dhruv Mishra -
Many posts made Indians look like economic rivals or demographic "replacers." Some even called for limits on Indian immigration or deportation measures. The study also says that stories about immigration made up most of the dataset.
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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 -
The Samajwadi Party and the Yadav family are notorious for their consistent anti-Hindu positions and statements.
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Economy and Finance

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

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

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

Shraddha Pandey -
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.
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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 -
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.
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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 -
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.
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News Reports

Exclusive: JNU ‘scholar’, once charged for sedition in Manipur, is now a faculty member at Jamia Millia Islamia

OpIndia Staff -
Chingiz Khan has recently been appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Comparative Religions And Civilizations (CCRC) in Jamia Millia Islamia.
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News Reports

TMC moves proposal to ‘impeach’ Chief Election Commissioner before West Bengal election: Read a Bengali’s perspective on how Mamata has mastered the art of...

Dibakar Dutta -
The Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal has rattled the TMC ecosystem, starting from the party's Supreme Leader to the hooligan at the grassroots level.
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Editor's picks

Perplexity launches its ‘always-on AI assistant’ Personal Computer: All you need to know about the persistent digital proxy

Shraddha Pandey -
The company says that Personal Computer builds directly on Perplexity Computer as it merges cloud-based capabilities with local hardware, for what it describes as a persistent, always-on AI experience.
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News Reports

Kharg Island is Iran’s ‘spare heart’: Read why the US and Israel hesitate to strike this tiny island in the Persian Gulf

विशेषता -
Kharg Island, a small coral island in the Persian Gulf, handles nearly 90% of Iran’s crude oil exports and acts as the backbone of its economy.
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News Reports

Death penalty for a rape convict who ripped the vagina of a 5-year-old girl stayed, SC orders his psychological evaluation: Read what the top...

Aditi -
The Madhya Pradesh High Court, in its judgment, had noted that the accused was not suffering from a mental disorder at the time of committing the crime.
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Editor's picks

7-10 years of jail for illegal conversions, up to life for mass conversions: Read the provisions of the Anti-Conversion Bill cleared by the Chhattisgarh...

Shriti Sagar -
The proposed legislation comes in the wake of repeated incidents of forced or induced religious conversions in the state.
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News Reports

Supreme Court permits passive euthanasia for a patient for the first time in India: Read about the draft guidelines regarding the procedure and their challenges

Rukma Rathore -
"Draft Guidelines for Withdrawal of Life Support in Terminally Ill Patients" was declared in 2024 by the central government.
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News Reports

Strait of Hormuz crisis: Why India’s energy transition under PM Modi is crucial for energy security

Jinit Jain -
As oil prices surge amid the Strait of Hormuz crisis, India’s decade-long push for renewable energy, EVs, hydrogen and domestic manufacturing under PM Modi is emerging as a strategic shield against global energy shocks.
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News Reports

Surat Municipal Corporation’s headquarters renamed as “Tapi Bhavan”: Read how it was declared a waqf property in 2021

ઑપઇન્ડિયા સ્ટાફ -
Congress began to resist the decision to alter the name, labeling it a stunt and asserting that the action was unjustified.
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News Reports

Kajal Hindustani vs Sadhvi Ritambhara: UGC row sparks debate on Hindu unity. Read why their statements are going viral and why the argument is...

Shraddha Pandey -
A fresh controversy has erupted over statements made by a Hindu saint and a key figure in the Ram Janmbhoomi Movement and Hindu rights activist Kajal Hindustani.
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News Reports

Debunked Aryan Invasion Theory, Identified Vedic Saraswati River: Who is Padma Shri Michel Danino, the French-born scholar banned by Supreme Court for chapter on...

Raju Das -
Prof. Michel Danino is a prominent French-born Indian author and scholar, known for debunking Aryan Invation Theory.
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News Reports

From Harrow Holi celebrations to Indian restaurants in Wembley, Hindus faced half a dozen attacks by Muslim gangs in March 2026

Shraddha Pandey -
On 5th March, a gang comprising 15 to 20 masked men stormed an Indian restaurant named Manek Chowk Restaurant on Ealing Road in Wembley, smashing furniture, equipment, and windows after 8 pm.
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News Reports

Strait of Hormuz crisis: How Saudi and UAE pipelines are keeping global oil supplies moving despite rising tensions

Rukma Rathore -
"What really worries me is that it’s not particularly difficult to target those pipelines," stated an expert.
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News Reports

Shortage of LPG? Refill delays in several cities affect restaurants in Chennai, Bengaluru, Mumbai as govt announces booking curbs, Essential Commodities Act invoked

OpIndia Staff -
"Since the gas supply has stopped, the hotels will be closed from tomorrow," Bangalore Hotels Association's stated in an official release.
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News Reports

CNN deletes tweet after online backlash: How an ISIS-inspired terror attempt was turned into a humanising story about ‘teenagers enjoying the city’

Jinit Jain -
CNN’s deleted tweet framing ISIS-inspired bomb suspects as teenagers who simply wanted to “enjoy the city” reveals how legacy media’s narrative instincts increasingly prioritise ideological framing over the gravity of terrorism.
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Social Media

Ummah over India? Islamists are targeting Adani-Elbit plant in Hyderabad, spreading hate on India’s defence manufacturing citing Gaza and Iran

Shraddha Pandey -
Islamists are writing posts and making emotional videos, often with exact location details of the Adani-Elbit JV’s Hyderabad drones manufacturing factory.
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News Reports

India’s Sheshnag-150 and Project KAL: Readying for drone warfare through indigenous weapons

Dhruv Mishra -
India has two active strategic fronts against China and Pakistan. India's operational landscape is complex, with high-altitude mountains, deserts, and densely populated border areas. In this kind of terrain, unmanned systems are highly useful because they enable continuous surveillance, rapid intelligence gathering, and precise strikes without risking pilots or large troop deployments.
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News Reports

Ignored warnings, now pleading for evacuation: The self-inflicted crisis of Indian students in war-torn Iran

Shraddha Pandey -
Despite the advisories, Indian students chose to stay put. In fact, the MEA confirmed that even after a full-fledged war broke out, many students refused the Indian embassy’s offer for assistance.
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News Reports

Global oil crisis? India has seen it before, and has found ways to procure enough crude to deal with it, even in the 1970s

Divyansh Tiwari -
Moscow's shipments were halted by Western sanctions, but Indian giants such as Reliance's Jamnagar, the world's largest refinery, devoured Urals grade and turned it into aviation fuel that ironically powered Europe's fleets affected by the restrictions, bringing in $6 billion in refined reward.
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News Reports

Molester, old enmity, brittle social relations and more: How Swara Bhaskar, and other Islamo-leftists try to justify the murder of Hindu youth Tarun Kumar...

Rukma Rathore -
"It’s an awful mirror showing how brittle social relations have become in India between citizens," wrote Swara Bhasker.
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News Reports

As Centre is set to table Electricity Amendment Bill 2025, power engineers announces nationwide strike: What the bill proposes and why it faces opposition

Shraddha Pandey -
The All-India Power Engineers Federation, however, has raised strong objections against the proposed Electricity Amendment Bill. The AIPEF dubs the proposed legislation a move towards backdoor privatisation of the power sector.
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News Reports

Who is Mojtaba Ali Khamenei: Slain Ayatollah’s ‘radical’ son who has just lost most of his family chosen as the next Supreme Leader by...

Rukma Rathore -
Mojtaba Ali Khamenei has been viewed as "a combination of aide-de-camp, confidant, gatekeeper and power broker," in Iran.
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News Reports

PIB debunks AI Deepfake of Army Chief Upendra Dwivedi circulated by Pakistani accounts claiming India helped track the Iranian warship

OpIndia Staff -
PIB has flagged a viral clip of Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi as an AI-generated deepfake spread by Pakistani propaganda accounts, falsely claiming India shared intelligence with Israel about the Iranian warship sunk by an American submarine.
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Editor's picks

Gender stereotype guidelines vilify ‘upper caste men’ in rape cases: Supreme Court recalls handbook prepared under former CJI DY Chandrachud

Anurag -
The apex court asked the National Judicial Academy to constitute a panel of experts to revisit earlier efforts and frame clearer guidelines. The bench stressed that future material must use simple language and reflect Indian social realities.
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