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The manufactured outrage over Amar Sonar Bangla shows how Bengal’s cultural icons have become convenient shields for Mamata’s political insecurities

Dr. Prosenjit Nath -
The Amar Sonar Bangla controversy is not about Tagore, not about culture, not about pride; it is about a ruling party that has mastered emotional distraction
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Law

SC overturns its earlier order mandating demolition of infrastructural projects constructed without environment clearance: Read what the top court said

Aditi -
In his dissenting opinion, Justice Bhuyan criticised the majority opinion and termed the review decision as a "step in retrogression".
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News Reports

Ram Mandir-Babri dispute, bulldozer justice, Delhi riots, and more: Decoding USCIRF’s 2025 Report and its multi-year campaign against India, especially Hindus

Jinit Jain -
With the mention of Ram Mandir-Babri dispute, an issue resolved by the Supreme Court of India in 2019, USCIRF’s 2025 report reveals it is less of a human-rights assessment and more of a recycled political narrative designed to undermine India’s institutions and malign the Hindu majority.
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Opinions

Death sentence for Sheikh Hasina in 2025 Bangladesh has a disturbing echo of the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto saga from 1978 Pakistan

Shraddha Pandey -
While decades separate Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Sheikh Hasina, there are parallels in their cases. Both reached the pinnacle of power and popularity in their respective countries, and both ended up getting accused of centralising authority. Both faced allegations of electoral fraud and dictatorial conduct by the opposition. Both of them were abruptly and forcibly removed from power, and their departure plunged their countries into the jaws of Islamist fanatics and triggered chaos.
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News Reports

Muslim outfit CAIR linked to Rahul Gandhi’s 2023 Houston event designated terror group: Read about its anti-Hindu propaganda, ties to Hamas, Al Qaeda and...

Anurag -
Governor Abbott’s order details CAIR’s ties to convicted extremists, references the FBI decision to cut contact in 2008, and triggers enhanced penalties under Texas law by designating the group a foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organisation.
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Opinions

Delhi bomber glorifies suicide bombing as martyrdom: How Islamist doctrine, scriptural sanction, and intellectual gaslighting sustain Islamic terrorism

Jinit Jain -
The Delhi bomber's video glorifying suicide bombing reveals how Islamic terrorism isn’t just about bombs or drones, it is rooted in religious doctrine, sanctioned by scriptures and defended by intellectual gaslighting.
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Politics

Did Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party hurt NDA or MGB more by ‘cutting votes?’ Read what data says

Dhruv Mishra -
Jan Suraaj did not change who gets to govern Bihar, but it did change how competitive, unpredictable, and divided the race became and that influence, even without seats, is now part of the state’s electoral record.
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News Reports

Who was Madvi Hidma? India’s most-wanted Naxal commander behind 26 attacks finally killed in Andhra encounter

Anurag -
Killed just days before a planned capture deadline, Madvi Hidma had long evaded agencies with his deep forest networks, multi-layer security ring and leadership of PLGA Battalion No 1, linked to India’s deadliest Naxal attacks.
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News Reports

Kerala BLO suicide points to alleged CPM pressure: Read how Rajdeep, TNM and others used the incident to blamed the SIR process and ECI

Anurag -
National media focused solely on the SIR workload claim, but officials denied any such distress and Congress released audio alleging CPM pressure, revealing how selective reporting shaped a misleading narrative around the Kerala BLO’s suicide.
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News Reports

Mahagathbandhan’s influencer op exposed: Propagandist Zakir Ali Tyagi reveals RJD won’t pay Delhi YouTubers after hauling them to Bihar. Read details

Rukma Rathore -
Zakir disclosed that RJD officials misappropriated the funds intended for the YouTubers recruited during Bihar elections.
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News Reports

CNN takes note of rising anti-India racism in US but quotes Islamist and anti-India bigots: Here is what you need to know

Dibakar Dutta -
While it was evident that CNN published the article to berate the Republicans and champion the cause of 'anti-racism', the American news channel ironcially roped in individuals known for anti-India and anti-Hindu rhetoric.
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News Reports

As Hinduphobia peaks in the US, Christian and Islamist groups push new campaign against Hindus: How NY State Council of Churches and IAMC have...

Shraddha Pandey -
The events titled “The Weaponization of Hinduism in Northern Carolina and India and the Relationships to Global Religious Nationalisms” are being co-organised by the Islamist group IAMC. The additional sponsorship for these anti-Hindu events comes from the White Christian Nationalisms Task Force of the California-Nevada Conference of the United Methodist Church.
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News Reports

Red Fort Blast: How a white collar jihadi module is being whitewashed by twisting a routine police detention into a ‘Hindu terror’ narrative

Anurag -
Despite the probe exposing an organised Islamist network behind the Red Fort blast, online propagandists misused Dr Priyanka Sharma’s brief detention to float a fake Hindu terror angle and divert attention from the real white-collar module.
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Culture and History

Viral visuals of Himachal’s festival of fairies capture national imagination: The sacred Raulane festival of Kinnaur unveiled

Aditi -
The festival forms a bridge between the locals and the mystical fairies and marks an expression of the former's gratitude towards the latter.
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News Reports

Gujarat: Weapons recovered from Kodinar Dargah days after Red Fort blast, caretaker Aminsha Ismailsha detained. Read FIR details

ભાર્ગવ રાજ્યગુરુ -
SP Jaideepsinh Jadeja confirmed to OpIndia that the combing operation was launched after the Delhi car blast case.
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News Reports

Is the simple student demand for Senate elections at Panjab University being hijacked by political groups, unions and identity factions? – an OpIndia report

Anurag -
When OpIndia visited campus, students were calm and focused on resuming studies, but outsiders with tractors, flags and political motives dominated the space, turning a routine Senate election issue into a larger confrontation that students never sought.
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Books

‘Many Shades of Saffron’ by Chandrachur Ghose: Understanding the RSS through a century of growth in the complex socio-political landscape of India

Dr. Prosenjit Nath -
Many Shades of Saffron addresses the polarised landscape of literature surrounding the RSS. Insider accounts have often been devotional, while outsider critiques have tended to be suspicious, even hostile. Both have contributed to a climate in which the RSS is either heroised or demonised, with little space for historical nuance. Ghose consciously avoids both traps.
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News Reports

Scam loading? Congress govt’s Rs 613 crore sweeper rental proposal in Karnataka sparks outrage, opposition warns of a massive kickback racket

Rukma Rathore -
The opposition and netizens highlighted the inflated costs and accused the Congress government of perpetrating another scam.
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News Reports

Rohini-Tejashwi fight, sisters leaving house: Is this new episode in Lalu Yadav’s family drama a ploy to attract media attention and divert public focus...

Shraddha Pandey -
After Lalu Yadav’s daughter Rohini Acharya snapped ties from her family and announced departure from politics, Lalu Yadav’s other four daughters, Rajlakshmi, Ragini, Hema and Chanda have also left the family. The four of them travelled to Delhi along with their children hinting a wider rift within the family that is out in open as Bihar rejected RJD.
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News Reports

From hawala trail, purchase of explosives to recruitment of suicide bombers: Probe reveals explosive details behind the Doctors’ Terror Module at Al-Falah University

Divya Bharti -
The Red Fort blast investigation has uncovered a "doctor terror module" based at Al Falah University. Funded by ₹20 lakh in hawala money, the Jaish-linked group bought fertiliser to build bombs for a wider, coordinated attack.
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Opinions

The leftist ideology that was planted in Bihar in 2020, was uprooted by the people of Bihar in span of merely 5 years

शिव -
The NDA must also understand that it should avoid any political experiment that could re-empower leftist parties. This referendum is a vote of confidence to bury the past.
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News Reports

Stop making excuses and look within: Congress leaders demand introspection after party’s debacle in Bihar elections

सौम्या सिंह -
Congress’s poor performance in the Bihar Assembly elections, winning only six seats, has triggered frustration among senior leaders. From Shashi Tharoor to Mani Shankar Aiyar, many have criticized weak organization, wrong decisions, and leadership disconnect, demanding serious introspection and internal reforms.
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News Reports

More votes don’t always mean more seats: Read how RJD winning just 25 seats with highest vote share in Bihar is not evidence of...

Raju Das -
While RJD contested in 143 seats, BJP and JD(U) contested in 101 seats each.
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Opinions

Media hype does not translate into votes: As Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party gets a big zero, here is why ‘Kingmaker’ PR and tall...

Shriti Sagar -
Across the state, it polled roughly 3.4% of the vote share. Not a single JSP candidate won.
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News Reports

‘Mother of trees’ Saalumarada Thimmakka, passes away at 114, leaving a legacy of thousands of trees raised as her own children

Divya Bharti -
Padma Shri Saalumarada Thimmakka, adored as the “Mother of trees,” passed away at 114. She planted over 8,000 trees, including 385 banyan trees along a single stretch of road. Her dedication inspired environmental conservation across India, leaving a lasting green legacy.
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News Reports

The Modi currency is strong as ever: Why Rahul’s screeds of ‘vote chori’ failed to work in Bihar

Raju Das -
Despite Congress and Rahul Gandhi’s relentless attack on BJP and PM Modi, the Bihar’s voters have made it clear, they are fully behind NDA.
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News Reports

As BJP-JDU-led NDA makes a stunning comeback in Bihar, opposition and Left-Liberal lobby resort to blame EC and CEC Gyanesh Kumar

Rukma Rathore -
The opposition began to attack the EC, asserting that it is compromised following the NDA's spectacular victory in Bihar.
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News Reports

As Congress is decimated in Bihar with single digit seats, several party leaders question top leaders and their decisions, demand introspection and accountability

Raju Das -
In the wake of setback in Bihar polls, several senior Congress leaders have emerged, publicly questioning the party's leadership, organizational lapses, and decision-making processes
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Editor's picks

Bihar rejects Congress: Mahagathbandhan set to lose 9 out 10 seats where Rahul Gandhi held rallies, his Voter Adhikar Yatra to peddle ‘Vote Chori’...

Shraddha Pandey -
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has once again lived up to his reputation as the BJP’s undeclared ‘Star Pracharak’, as the grand alliance is set to lose most of the seats where Gandhi held poll rallies.
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Editor's picks

Watch OpIndia analyse Bihar election results LIVE: NDA races ahead for a massive win, leading in 204 seats while Mahagathbandhan leads only in 32

OpIndia Staff -
The OpIndia team is analysing the results in real time.
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News Reports

Red Fort blast: Terrorist Umar Nabi bought ammonium nitrate from Haryana’s Nuh. Read how the area has been a hotbed of crime and radicalisation...

Shraddha Pandey -
The authorities say that Jihadi Dr Umar Un Nabi and his accomplices from the Faridabad module purchased fertilisers and ammonium nitrate from here in the last few months.
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News Reports

After 13 people were torn to bits, ‘The Wire’ publishes sob story whitewashing Delhi Red Fort blast jihadis: The obsession with murderous Islamists

Rukma Rathore -
On 13th November, The Wire published an article, "We Are Doomed, What More Can Be Said: Families of Kashmiri Doctors Linked to 'Terror Module' Case" wherein it presented the Red Fort blast terrorists as victims and the State as the antagonist for taking action against them.
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News Reports

Terror accused Dr Muzammil Ahmad Ganai used to offer Namaz five times a day in the Al Falah University mosque, took the mosque’s Imam’s...

केशव मालान -
OpIndia team tried to speak to the people in Dhauj Village where Al Falah University is located about terror accused Dr Muzammil Ahmad Ganai but they were hesitant to talk.
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News Reports

30 days, 9 terror modules, 40+ Jihadis, and 2,900 kg explosives: The silent counter-terror war behind the Red Fort blast

Shraddha Pandey -
In the last 30 days alone, Indian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have dismantled 8 terror plots, arrested dozens of Islamic Jihadis and confiscated massive stockpiles of arms and explosives.
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News Reports

‘Despite knowing the animal is considered sacred to Hindus…’: What Amreli court said while sentencing Kasim, satar, Akram to life imprisonment in cow slaughter...

OpIndia Staff -
Amreli Sessions Court held that the recovered meat, forensic findings and witness statements proved intentional cow slaughter for sale, dismissing allegations of police framing and ordering all three accused to return to jail to serve life sentences.
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Editor's picks

Red Fort blast shows how incomplete vehicle transfer leads to legal risks: Read real-life ordeals, consequences and understand the vehicle transfer process

Shriti Sagar -
Police found the vehicle involved had changed hands multiple times without official paperwork, making it hard to trace its real owner.
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News Reports

Assam CM Sarma directs crackdown on terror apologists after Delhi blast: Read why it is important to take action against such elements

Rukma Rathore -
CM Sarma even listed the names of 5 accused who had been arrested for "offensive and inflammatory" posts over Delhi blast.
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News Reports

Statue of Jam Sahib, who sheltered Jewish children, unveiled in Israel: Read the history of why Poland and Israel still remember the “Good Maharaja”

મેઘલસિંહ પરમાર -
The inscription below Jamsaheb's statue reads: "During the Holocaust, he saved many Jewish children at his own expense and sheltered them in his home, caring for them and giving them love."
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News Reports

As Delhi blast brings Faridabad’s Al Falah University under scrutiny, read who is Chancellor Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui: Scant digital footprint, financial fraud and more

Anurag -
OpIndia traced Al-Falah University Chancellor Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui to past fraud cases involving Al-Falah Investments Limited. Court records and reports reveal his jail term and questionable dealings, casting serious doubt on the institution’s leadership and transparency.
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News Reports

Muslim mob including women and children pelt stones on officials during demolition of illegal dargah in Somnath, around 100 booked: Read FIR details

ભાર્ગવ રાજ્યગુરુ -
The attack injured 2 officers after which a case was filed against 100 persons, including 100 identified suspects.
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News Reports

Majority students from Kashmir, professors in Islamic attire and scared Hindu women: What OpIndia found during visit to Al Falah University

केशव मालान -
The Al Falah University is run by the Al Falah Charitable Trust. Its president is Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui. The current registrar is Professor Dr. Mohammad Parvez.
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News Reports

PM Modi inaugurates Punatsangchhu-II Hydroelectric Project: How India is supporting development projects in Bhutan. All you need to know

Shraddha Pandey -
Taking to X, PM Modi shared some pictures from the inauguration ceremony and wrote, “Fuelling development, deepening friendship and driving sustainability! Energy cooperation remains a key pillar of the India-Bhutan partnership. Today, we inaugurated the Punatsangchhu-II Hydropower Project. This is an enduring symbol of friendship between our countries.”
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World

Suicide bomb blast in Islamabad hours after Delhi terror attack: Is it Field Marshal Asim Munir’s false flag operation to avert Operation Sindoor 2.0?

Jinit Jain -
The Islamabad court blast isn’t Pakistan under attack. It’s possibly Asim Munir attacking Pakistan, a desperate false-flag ploy to dodge India’s coming retaliation under Operation Sindoor 2.0.
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News Reports

Masood Azhar’s sister, whose husband was killed in Operation Sindoor strikes, sought terrorist arrested in UP to lead JeM women’s wing in India: Delhi...

Rukma Rathore -
Sadiya Azhar instructed Shaheena Shahid to establish the presence of JeM's women wing, Jamaat ul-Mominaat, in India.
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Crime

Nithari case prime accused Surendra Koli acquitted of all charges after nearly 2 decades: Read why the cases fell apart and both Pandher and...

Shriti Sagar -
The discovery of skeletal remains of several children in a drain behind a Noida house where Koli worked as a domestic aide exposed a series of murders.
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News Reports

Faridabad’s Al-Falah University under scanner after Delhi blast and 2,900 kg explosive seizure: Read about the university and who runs it

Anurag -
Police seized 2,900 kg of explosive materials and weapons in Faridabad, prompting raids at Al-Falah University. The NIA has joined the probe as doctors linked to the institution face interrogation over alleged terror connections.
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Opinions

Credibility and consistency over confusion: PM Modi keeps up with his scheduled Bhutan visit after the Delhi blast. Here is why the trip was...

Divyansh Tiwari -
Many anticipated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would postpone or cancel his planned trip to Bhutan after learning of the blast in Delhi. However, he boarded his aircraft as scheduled early the following morning. This may have appeared disconnected to some, but it was actually a planned crisis leadership exercise that avoided what experts in international decision-making refer to as "policy paralysis by shock." 
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News Reports

Order to interrogate Kapil Mishra, investigate his ‘role’ in Delhi anti-Hindu riots set aside, petition spearheaded by ISIS poster boy Mehmood Paracha: What the...

Rukma Rathore -
The court deemed the order to probe Kapil Mishra to be illegal, improper and incorrect, in addition to pointing out its flaws.
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News Reports

Gujarat ATS busts Ricin plot in recent arrests: How ISIS has been experimenting with Ricin for years, and Jihadis across the world have been...

Shraddha Pandey -
However, the sinister biological warfare (bio war) or bioterrorism plot busted by Gujarat ATS is a concerning exposé. After IEDs, shootings, bomb blasts and Islamic radicalisation, India faces the ‘toxic threat’. The ISIS-linked jihadists arrested had prepared to use Ricin as part of their plan to cause mass casualties.
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News Reports

Islamic terror module of doctors? From GMC Anantnag to Al Falah Hospital in Faridabad, a trail of weapons, 2,900 kgs of explosives and most...

Jinit Jain -
Two doctors turned terror operatives, from healing patients in Kashmir to hoarding 2,900 kg of explosives near Delhi, all while secretly working for Jaish-e-Mohammad.
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