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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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Culture and History

When Travancore king Marthanda Varma challenged the Dutch monopoly on the Malabar Coast spice trade

Rukma Rathore -
Marthanda Varma promoted a policy of strengthening his kingdom and expanding its borders. This angered the Dutch and led to the conflict.
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News Reports

Why did the Stock Market suddenly reverse on Wednesday? Inside SEBI’s new closing auction system that has traders on edge

Jinit Jain -
SEBI's new Closing Auction Session has fundamentally changed how India's markets close, triggering sharp volatility, confusing traders and causing unusual divergences between the Sensex and Nifty.
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Editor's picks

Meta’s PM Modi video controversy explained: What is Safe Harbour and how Facebook, Google could lose their protection?

रुपम -
Facebook, Google’s Legal Shield Under Threat? What Is Safe Harbour And Why Is The World Debating Its Future?
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Editor's picks

Who is SDPI leader Riyaz Farangipete, sentenced to jail for the 2015 ‘PFI will slaughter cows, sell beef’ hate speech case

Shraddha Pandey -
The case against SDPI leader Mohammed Riyaz Farangipete stems from a speech he delivered on 23rd July 2015 at a PFI protest meet near the Belthangady Taluk Office.
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News Reports

Red Fort blast-linked Al-Falah case: Delhi court rejects every plea by accused Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui, refuses ‘sterling documents’, and ED records demand

शिव -
Jawad Siddiqui suffers a major setback in the ₹415 crore PMLA case as Saket Court rejects both pleas, including his demand for unrelied documents. Read what court said.
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News Reports

Meta admits to being paid to boost certain types of content: How it amounts to an admission of deliberate content manipulation and misuse of...

Jinit Jain -
Meta’s admission that it accepts payment to amplify specific content, while hiding behind 'technical glitches' to censor other posts, exposes a deliberate strategy of manipulating content and effecting social behavior.
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News Reports

How Khalistani terror pushed Punjab Police to brutal retaliation after over 1800 personnel were killed

Anurag -
Senior commanders received headlines, but constables, drivers, ASIs and Special Police Officers often survived only in FIRs and memorial pages, even as repeated assassinations, ambushes and family killings hardened the force’s response irreversibly throughout Punjab.
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News Reports

Who is Professor Annapurni Subramaniam? First Indian woman to win the prestigious COSPAR Vikram Sarabhai Medal

Jinit Jain -
Professor Annapurni Subramaniam has become the first Indian woman scientist to receive the prestigious COSPAR Vikram Sarabhai Medal for her pioneering contributions to space research.
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Editor's picks

Global shipbuilding concentrated among a few players, but India is catching up: The winds of change

Sanghamitra -
While Indian shipyards did construct some merchant tonnage under license regimes and subsidy schemes, the emphasis stayed on building capacity fot Navy and Coast Guard, not for the commercial global market. The long term result was that Indian commercial shipbuilding never developed the scale, supply-chain depth or export orientation that enabled East Asian yards to capture the world’s merchant fleet.
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Opinions

US Congressman cries ‘attack on Christians’ over FCRA Amendment Bill: How foreign entities fund conversions, anarchy, and undermine India’s growth 

Shraddha Pandey -
Riley Moore, however, has surpassed even the Indian left liberals in fear-mongering and victimhood propaganda. His claim that the FCRA Amendment Bill will empower the Indian government to arbitrarily take over churches is false. The authorities cannot take over or alter the religious character of places of worship. 
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News Reports

From ‘too sick’ to Sambhaji Nagar visit: How the Jharkhand protests exposed the hypocrisy of Abhijeet Dipke and CJP

Jinit Jain -
After days of dodging the Jharkhand protests, CJP's Abhijeet Dipke announced a visit only after accusations of selective activism and hypocrisy became impossible to ignore, raising fresh questions about whether the group's protests are driven by principle or political convenience.
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News Reports

Taslima Nasreen’s return to Kolkata: How The Indian Express found a way to sanitise Islamist violence and still cast Hindus as villains

Jinit Jain -
The Indian Express piece turns a simple act of offering refuge into an attack on Hindus, revealing how the mainstream media houses have been reframing Islamist violence as "Hindu majoritarianism" to protect its favored political narrative.
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News Reports

Former JNU Professor who once said ‘Muslim men are attractive’ now calls India ‘cursed’: Here are 5 horrible things Nivedita Menon said in her...

सौम्या सिंह -
Targeting Hindu beliefs to spread discontent against the majority population has been a core part of Nivedita strategic rhetoric.
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News Reports

Who are the Bandi Singhs, whose release from jail has become Punjab’s political Achilles’ heel

Anurag -
SGPC, SAD, AAP, BJP, Congress and Panthic groups have adopted competing positions, using remission demands, Sikh sentiment, security concerns and protest politics to strengthen their influence across Punjab’s increasingly fragmented political landscape ahead of elections.
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Editor's picks

Netizens flagged faulty ‘rumble strips’ on NH-25, NHAI denies claims, gets factchecked online

Shraddha Pandey -
In response to the social media outrage, the NHAI published an X post on 3rd August 2026 and claimed that the viral visuals of the rumble strips on NH-25 in Rajasthan do not depict the actual condition. It shared a comparison picture, captioned: “As shown on social media vs actual image of the section”.
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News Reports

From Jayalalithaa’s 1989 Assembly ordeal to the Trisha Krishnan row: How the mistreatment of women continues to haunt DMK politics in Tamil Nadu

Jinit Jain -
From Jayalalithaa's infamous 1989 Assembly humiliation to the latest Trisha Krishnan row, Tamil Nadu's political discourse has repeatedly been marred by controversies involving the treatment of women.
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News Reports

‘Kanwariyas neither beat up police nor tore uniforms’: Meerut Police debunk viral claims spread by Leftist, Extremist handles

जयन्ती मिश्रा -
Meerut Police stated that the video going viral on social media with the claim that Kanwariyas assaulted police personnel and tore their uniforms is completely false
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News Reports

Udhayanidhi Stalin’s arrest over remarks against actor Trisha is no surprise: From ‘eradication’ of Sanatana Dharma to vulgar jibes, the DMK leader has long...

Jinit Jain -
Udhayanidhi Stalin's arrest over his remarks against actor Trisha has reignited scrutiny of the DMK leader's long record of inflammatory statements, including his infamous 2023 call for the "eradication" of Sanatana Dharma.
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News Reports

Muslim consolidation in Bankipura by-election and ideological clarity: How Muslims sacrificed RJD for Prashant Kishor to defeat BJP

Divya Bharti -
The Bankipura by-election saw Muslim voters and several other communities rally behind Prashant Kishor over the RJD, signalling a major political realignment driven by the desire to defeat the BJP.
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Featured

Udhayanidhi Stalin arrested for hurling sexual innuendos at Trisha Krishnan: How his remark fits a pattern of dragging women into Tamil Nadu’s political battles

Shraddha Pandey -
DMK leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin made a double-meaning remark against actress Trisha Krishnan while criticising CM C. Joseph Vijay.
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Opinions

Shipbuilding in India: Reclaiming the legacy after a thousand years

Sanghamitra -
Shipbuilding is not a single skill or industry. It is a vast, interlocking ecosystem of technologies, industries, and human expertise that has repeatedly determined which nations rise to become global powers.
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News Reports

From alleging ‘rigged’ Bihar polls to winning Bankipur: Has Prashant Kishor finally changed his political playbook?

सौम्या सिंह -
After blaming "rigged" polls and "invisible powers" for Jan Suraaj's humiliating Assembly defeat, Prashant Kishor's Bankipur victory suggests elections are won through issues, organisation and groundwork, not post-result excuses
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OpIndia Explains

India’s private rocket sector is growing, and the government’s proactive policies are playing a crucial role

Raju Das -
Success of Skyroot in placing Vikram-1 rocket into orbit on its maiden flight shows how policy liberalisation and institutional support have transformed India’s private space ecosystem.
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Editor's picks

Meet Abhinav Pandey: The vocal ‘activist’ of Jantar Mantar protest missing in intensity over Jharkhand paper leak

Dibakar Dutta -
While Abhinav Pandey did talk about the Jharkhand student protest, there was a marked change in intensity. There were no campaigns seeking resignation or pressure on the Hemant Soren government to remove its Education Minister. The overall coverage and the 'call for accountability' was borderline non-existent.
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Opinions

Days after rushing to appropriate Hindu civilisation, Pakistan DG ISPR invokes Quran to reject Afghan Taliban’s friendship with ‘Kafir’ India

Shraddha Pandey -
In a fresh demonstration of the Hindu hatred Pakistan harbours, Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, DG ISPR, invoked a Quranic verse to delegitimise the Afghan Taliban’s Islamic credentials over the "India-Afghan shared DNA" remark by a Taliban minister, and growing friendship between ‘Kafir India’ and ‘Islamic Afghanistan’.
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News Reports

‘The situation could deteriorate’: Police had cautioned CJP organisers before the event; new video captures Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka brushing aside officials

OpIndia Staff -
The video’s release has raised tough questions: Why did CJP organizers display such negligence despite repeated warnings from law enforcement?
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News Reports

Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh acquitted: A timeline of how the wrestlers’ sexual harassment allegations unfolded and ended in acquittal

Jinit Jain -
On August 3, 2026, a Delhi court acquitted former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and ex-BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, along with former WFI assistant secretary Vinod Tomar, in the sexual harassment case filed by six women wrestlers.
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Featured

Pakistan restricts Al Jazeera over PoK protests coverage: Islamabad irked over losing narrative control?

Shraddha Pandey -
Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has reportedly restricted access to the Qatar-based news outlet Al Jazeera English nationwide over its coverage of the Muzaffarabad election boycott and state crackdown in PoK.
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News Reports

How India fared at the 2026 Commonwealth Games

Aditi -
India concluded its campaign in the Commonwealth Games 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland, with many stellar performances and an impressive tally of medals. India's performance in various games, including athletics, boxing, para sports, and judo, bore testimony to India's slow but steady growth in various sports.
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News Reports

Iranian Sikh families finally return to India after being stranded in Tehran, here’s how the government carried out the evacuation

Shriti Sagar -
RP Singh and Jaiveer Shergill raised the families’ plight in April after elderly couples were denied boarding, while the embassy maintained round-the-clock contact and helped facilitate onward travel through regional evacuation routes back to India.
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News Reports

Who was Nirmal Purja? The British-Nepali mountaineer who conquered all 14 highest peaks in record time

Jinit Jain -
From serving in Britain's elite Special Boat Service to redefining the limits of high-altitude climbing with his record-breaking "Project Possible" expedition, Nirmal 'Nimsdai' Purja became one of the most influential mountaineers of his generation before his life was cut short in a tragic Broad Peak avalanche.
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News Reports

Why SEBI barred former Zee executives Subhash Chandra and Puneet Goenka from the securities market for one year: Explained

Aditi -
The case decision relates to an unauthorised pledge of ZEEL's immovable assets located in Hyderabad to secure loans for promoter-linked entities.
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Editor's picks

How the fall of Hindu Rashtra in Nepal gave way to Muslim street veto

Shriti Sagar -
The removal of the Hindu Kingdom status stripped away a protective shield for the country's majority culture. When communist ideology dismantled thetraditional guardrail, it gave away to the Muslim street veto.
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News Reports

Farooq Abdullah asks why terror attacks happen whenever J&K statehood is discussed. But history shows terrorism flourished for decades under Article 370

Jinit Jain -
Farooq Abdullah's remarks linking terror attacks to the demand for J&K statehood overlook nearly four decades of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism that flourished under Article 370, from the ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Hindus to major attacks like Uri and Pulwama, raising questions over whether constitutional decisions should ever be influenced by violence.
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News Reports

Massive protests held in Jharkhand over paper leaks and recurring irregularities in examinations

Aditi -
The protesting students have been demanding accountability, transparent recruitment, and major education reforms.
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News Reports

French ex-Navy pilot behind Pakistan’s Rafale claims under scanner for espionage for China: How Rahul Gandhi echoed his Operation Sindoor narrative

Shriti Sagar -
According to French media reports, investigators believe Chuet made at least two undeclared trips to China in September 2018 and August 2019 while he was still serving in the French Navy.
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Opinions

Hinduphobia in Parliament premises: Pappu Yadav dresses as Hindu priest, enacts Ram Mandir donation theft; Rahul Gandhi, Awadhesh Prasad perform symbolic mob lynching  

Shraddha Pandey -
On 31st July, Independent MP Pappu Yadav cosplayed a greedy priest and staged a nukkad Natak-style skit in the Parliament complex, enacting the Ayodhya Ram Mandir donation theft. 
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News Reports

Reckless words, real consequences: The case for CJP’s contempt for the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction

Divyansh Tiwari -
Constitution insulates the Court from being leaned on by whoever holds power or public pressure at a given moment, a government, an opposition party, or a movement outside the electoral system altogether.
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News Reports

The anatomy of violence: Muslim mob attacks Kanwar Yatra in Nepal, police kills 3 Hindus

Aditi -
Nepali Prime Minister Balen Shah appealed to people to maintain unity and social harmony and show restraint.
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News Reports

As thousands of illegal immigrants swim to Spain, read how a Supreme Court order triggered the massive influx

Rukma Rathore -
"I spoke out to warn of the extreme gravity of the migration crisis we are enduring," a senior Ceuta official stated.
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Opinions

Umar Khalid’s bail applications: A timeline of every rejection and withdrawal so far, and the clause in UAPA law that keeps him in jail

Divyansh Tiwari -
The Delhi Police case, under FIR 59/2020, does not say he threw a stone and set a car on fire. It says he did something courts have repeatedly found much more serious. He helped plan the violence, as part of what police call a 'larger conspiracy,' carried out through speeches, WhatsApp groups and planned road blockades timed for maximum disruption.
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OpIndia Explains

Taslima Nasreen returns to Kolkata after 19 years: Read why she was banned from Bangladesh and exiled from West Bengal

Shraddha Pandey -
Taslima Nasreen found a home in Kolkata, only to be exiled all over again as the then ruling Left government surrendered before the street veto of Islamist mobs 
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News Reports

As SC hears petition over exclusion of CJI for appointing Chief Election Commissioner, read what the Modi govt argued to stop judicial overreach

OpIndia Staff -
"The office of the prime minister has a certain sanctity attached. If his decisions are not to be trusted and are to be seen as necessarily a bad faith exercise, then why not have a provision that even while selecting his cabinet, he must consult some other former judge or outsider," submitted solicitor-general Tushar Mehta.
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Featured

As Goa High Court reserves its order, know about the 2013 sexual assault case against Tehelka’s Tarun Tejpal, and the ‘apology email’ 

Shraddha Pandey -
Back in 2021, Tarun Tejpal was acquitted by a Goa Sessions Court in the sexual assault case. His acquittal was challenged by the Goa government before the High Court. 
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News Reports

Not for CJP protest, Aishe Ghosh was picked up in a 2021 case after repeated court no-shows: How the Left twisted the narrative

Aditi -
What Aishe Ghosh has been doing in her criminal trial is a classic leftist tactic for delaying court proceedings.
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Featured

Explained: Why RBI Governor said that Indian rupee is undervalued and what it means 

Shraddha Pandey -
“The Indian [currency] rupee is “not overvalued” and could even be considered undervalued in both nominal and real effective exchange rate terms,” the RBI Governor said.
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News Reports

The Hindu’s Vijaita Singh tried to fact-check Delhi Police, then had to fact-check herself: The ‘gunshot wound’ mystery during CJP violence

Rukma Rathore -
"The public is advised to verify information through authentic sources before sharing such claims," Delhi Police stated.
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Opinions

Why India needs a comprehensive critical infra law, ASAP

Divyansh Tiwari -
That old framework may have made sense then. But this government is now defending a 2026 India against drone incursions, coordinated sabotage, and mixed cyber-physical attacks that Parliament in 2008 could not have fully imagined.
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OpIndia Explains

Johnson & Johnson baby powder causing cancer? What is behind the $5.5 billion settlement 

Rukma Rathore -
"This resolution allows the company to put this matter behind it," Johnson & Johnson stated as it dismissed the cancer claims.
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