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Iran’s Diego Garcia gambit: The missile strike that failed, but still shook America’s illusion of distance

Jinit Jain -
Iran didn’t need to hit Diego Garcia, it only needed to prove it could try, and in doing so, it shattered the illusion of distance as sanctuary for the United States.
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News Reports

As NIA arrests foreign nationals who came to train Myanmar militants in drone warfare, read how India’s Kuki insurgents used weaponised drones to bomb...

Aditi -
The central agency submitted to the court that foreign nationals had plotted to train the ethnic armed groups in Myanmar in drone warfare, operations, assembly, jamming technology, and more.
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News Reports

Assam Elections 2026: The arithmetic of power and the psychology of victory as BJP-led NDA appears set for a comfortable hat-trick

Dr. Prosenjit Nath -
When Assam’s voters deliver their verdict on May 4, it is likely to reaffirm not just a government but a political order, one defined by the BJP’s ability to combine structural advantage with strategic execution.
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News Reports

Congress attacks Modi govt after X crackdown on trolls sponsored by opposition parties: Read how anti-India propaganda was being spread

Rukma Rathore -
"This is not merely about shaping narratives; it is an encroachment on the very spirit of free expression," Supriya Shrinate stated.
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Opinions

Jihadistan 2026: Pakistan wins top spot in the Global Terrorism Index, worse than Burkina Faso

Divyansh Tiwari -
Last year, there was a decrease in terrorism worldwide. But there are still unresolved issues in the story of South Asia. The numbers don't lie. The real question is whether Islamabad will finally listen?
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Editor's picks

Fact Check: No, Bill Gates is not creating rainfall in North India using experimental technology, read how viral claims are misleading people

Dhruv Mishra -
Over the last 2 days, North India has witnessed sudden rainfall, thunderstorms and even hailstorms, after which social media users are claiming that it is caused by Bill Gates
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Opinions

Amidst outrage over Muslims doing Iftar and throwing bones in Ganga, TheWire attempts to secularise the sacred river for the old objective of shielding...

Shraddha Pandey -
In an opinion piece titled, "Who Owns the Ganga? A River of Many Faiths, Not One", a Delhi-based writer, translator and researcher, Rakhshanda Jalil, offers family memories, Urdu poetry, and a dash of melodrama to establish a narrative that Ganga is a ‘secular’ river not owned only by Hindus.
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News Reports

From killings of Hindus and rapes of minors to wars and riots: 50+ incidents show how peaceful Ramadan 2026 was, fundamentalists did not even...

सौम्या सिंह -
Pakistan and Afghanistan are Islamic countries, yet, they have been indulging in violence and attacks during Ramadan. In 2026, not only Islamic fundamentalists but even Islamic countries disregarded this month. In just 30 days, countless incidents of murder, looting, assault, violence, and rape occurred.
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Opinions

No atta, No electricity, and yet Pakistan ranks higher than India in the 2026 World Happiness Report: Read how such international indexes are a...

Rukma Rathore -
"In most countries, approximately 1,000 people are contacted by telephone or face-to-face each year," WHR's website read.
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Opinions

The Wire and Delhi Riot conspirator Apoorvanand push ‘Muslim Victimhood’ spin on Uttam Nagar lynching: Read how the Left reframes crimes against Hindus to...

Shraddha Pandey -
The op-ed titled, “In Delhi's Uttam Nagar, Hate is Free, But Muslim Safety Isn't,” 2020 Delhi Riots accused professor Apoorvanand peddled the Muslim victimhood bogey, even as it is a Hindu family that has lost its son to a Muslim mob instigated by a Muslim woman who could not tolerate Holi colours splashed over her mistakenly.
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News Reports

2025 Nagpur violence: The Indian Express does what it does best, finds fault with Maharashtra govt for not acting against Hindu victims and prosecuting...

Rukma Rathore -
Similar to other mainstream media that acts as a spokesperson for jihadis to whitewash their atrocious conduct, The Indian Express also shifted the blame for the unrest onto Hindus rather than those who truly unleashed terror on the streets.
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News Reports

Matthew VanDyke, arrested by NIA for training and arming terrorists against India, fought wars that ‘Bellingcat’ sold: Read how the mercenary worked closely with...

Divyansh Tiwari -
Opindia uncovers a historical cover-up by following the thread of VanDyke's recent arrest in India, revealing Bellingcat as a sophisticated front for the CIA and MI6, as the evidence clearly indicates.
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Opinions

Crying ‘hate speech’ ahead of Eid after Islamists lynched a Hindu man on Holi: How Harsh Mander-linked APCR’s PIL seeks to shift focus from...

Jinit Jain -
After Tarun Kumar’s brutal killing in Uttam Nagar, APCR’s petition seeks to shift the spotlight from the mob violence to a narrative centred on alleged “hate speech” and minority victimhood.
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News Reports

Remember the 2016 Una flogging case? Judgement reveals how ‘victims’ of ‘flogging’ by gaurakshaks didn’t even have broken bones, their lies resulted in death...

મેઘલસિંહ પરમાર -
Gir Somnath court convicted five in the Una case, acquitted 35 citing lack of evidence, and ruled key charges like attempt to murder were not proven.
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News Reports

Libya, Ukraine, Myanmar and more: The work-life of arrested American mercenary Matthew VanDyke aligns precisely with US military and strategic ‘interest areas’ on the...

Shraddha Pandey -
The likes of ideologically driven Matthew VanDyke operate as private citizens and NGO founders with combat training, funding and media reach in major strategic hotspots, providing their government with power without accountability.
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News Reports

“Only bones were thrown into the Ganga, Hindus immerse ashes”: How the left-liberal ecosystem is defending the actions of Muslim youths, with Congress calling...

पूजा राणा -
The Iftar controversy underscores a deeper clash between religious reverence for the Ganga and what many see as a deliberate disregard for those sentiments under the guise of individual freedom.
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Opinions

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry tries to shield arrested suspects and castigate NIA: Read how they have been undiplomatic and habitually arrogant for years

Rukma Rathore -
Ukraine has a tradition of challenging India for its decision to remain neutral in the war against Russia. On several occasions, the statements of their Foreign Ministry have been downright rude and arrogant toward India.
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News Reports

Pakistan’s attack on drug rehab centre in Kabul draws global condemnation, but WHO and Norway avoid naming Pakistan in their ‘call for peace’

Shraddha Pandey -
While the world leaders have mostly been indifferent to Pakistan’s offensives against Afghanistan, its strike on the drugs rehab centre has invited rare global pushback.
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Opinions

Carving a Christian nation in South Asia? As Ukrainians and an American get arrested for arming and training terrorists, read how NE India-Myanmar border...

Shraddha Pandey -
The recent arrest of six Ukrainian and an American citizen by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for providing arms and training to Chin National Army-linked militants in Myanmar indicates that there are many dots that, if connected, may lead to the heart of the subversive activities of the US in the India-Myanmar-Bangladesh border region.
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News Reports

When the Portuguese held the Strait of Hormuz: A century of rule, controlling trade routes from Arabia to India, until British and Persia joined...

Rukma Rathore -
The Portuguese managed to conquer the island of Hormuz two times and erected a fortress there to solidify their control.
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Opinions

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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