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India’s golden economic year: Read how 2025 delivered high growth, low inflation, falling unemployment and bold reforms under PM Modi

श्रवण शुक्ल -
India's GDP has now reached US$4.18 trillion, making it the world's fourth-largest economy, surpassing Japan. 
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News Reports

The case of unaccounted 328 saroops of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji: FIR after 5 years sparks clash between SGPC and Punjab government –...

Anurag -
The controversy stems from alleged record manipulation, and missing inventory flagged in an Akal Takht-mandated inquiry, with courts denying bail and police citing custodial interrogation to trace saroops and destroyed records.
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News Reports

Do ethanol factories really cause deadly pollution? Grain-based plants are protected by ZLD technology, but regulations must be followed: Read why there’s an uproar...

श्रवण शुक्ल -
Modern grain-based (rice/maize) plants are less polluting than sugarcane-based ones. They have mandatory ZLD (Zero Liquid Discharge) technology, which ensures no wastewater discharge and 95-99% of the water is recycled. By 2024-25, more than 60% of India's ethanol will come from grain because they use less water (2570 liters/liter of ethanol) and are better for the environment.
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Opinions

2025 in internal security: When India finally crushed Naxalism and cleansed the blot of Red Corridors from the landscape

Dhruv Mishra -
This year was more than just increased encounters or routine operations. 2025 marked the decisive shift from managing Naxalism to dismantling it systematically and breaking its organisational, territorial, and ideological back. In 2025, India wiped out Naxal terror.
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News Reports

The year when India’s defence manufacturing got battle-proven: Operation Sindoor marked victory for Made In India weapon systems in 2025

Rukma Rathore -
India not only eradicated the terror infrastructure in Pakistan but also countered its offensive actions against the country.
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News Reports

Nobody killed Vishal Kumar: Read what reasons the court gave to acquit all 20 accused in ABVP activist murder case in 2012

Anurag -
The Mavelikkara court cited antitimed FIRs, unreliable eyewitness identification, absence of test identification parades, weak forensic evidence, and investigative lapses while holding that the prosecution failed to establish individual or collective liability beyond reasonable doubt.
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News Reports

Trouble in Arabia: Traditional oil kingdom allies Saudi Arabia and UAE come face to face in Mukalla port of Yemen. Read what caused this

Shraddha Pandey -
After Saudi Arabia remarked that it views the UAE’s arming of the STC as “a red line for its national security”, the UAE’s Foreign Ministry claimed that it is not a part of any regional effort to undermine Saudi Arabia.
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News Reports

Old enmity, attack on a Hindu family and stone-pelting: FIR filed against a mob including Shah Rukh — what happened in Kalana village of...

OpIndia Staff -
An old rivalry in Sanand’s Kalana village spiralled into violence after a Hindu family was attacked, leading to stone-pelting and FIRs against a mob including Shah Rukh Khan.
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Opinions

A generational reset with roots: Why the rise of Nitin Nabin marks a quiet BJP–RSS reconciliation

Dr. Prosenjit Nath -
Born in 1980, the same year the BJP itself was founded, Nitin Nabin represents a political generation that has grown alongside the party’s ideological maturation
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Opinions

The year without verdicts, Kashi, Mathura, Madurai and beyond: How courts put India’s religious disputes on pause in 2025

Dhruv Mishra -
The year saw very few definitive results despite ongoing judicial involvement. Instead, most high-profile disputes were steered into a holding pattern through interim stays, status quo orders, court-appointed committees, and procedural pauses.
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News Reports

DW News, Dhruv Rathee and KAS: Germany’s ideological battle against India through NGOs and activism. Why Rahul Gandhi went to the Hertie School

आशीष नौटियाल -
Germany’s reaction to Rahul Gandhi’s conviction exposed a broader, often overlooked pattern of soft-power intervention in India’s internal political and judicial narratives.
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World

Minnesota’s Somali-linked scams drain US taxpayers of a sum rivalling Somalia’s GDP: Read how the welfare system was gamed in a multi-billion-dollar fraud

Rukma Rathore -
A video depicted vacant daycare centers which were receiving millions in grants. It went viral on social media.
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News Reports

BL Santhosh is right: Bengal is a civilisational battle. Here’s why the land of Netaji must be saved from TMC’s appeasement, with a volatile...

Shraddha Pandey -
At the recently held ‘Sagar Manthan’ program in Goa, BJP’s organisational secretary, BL Santhosh declared that the assembly election in West Bengal is not a mere battle for power but a civilisational battle.
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News Reports

India has boarded the ‘Reform Express’, 2025 marks decisive shift towards next generation reforms and Viksit Bharat: PM Modi

Narendra Modi -
Highlighting tax relief, labour code consolidation, expanded MSME norms, trade agreements and nuclear and maritime reforms, the Prime Minister said governance has shifted towards trust, technology driven administration and sustained, inclusive growth across sectors.
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Editor's picks

Congress govt in Karnataka rushes to appease illegal squatters, compensates them with cash, govt houses after clearing encroachments

Aditi -
Siddaramaiah said that the displaced encroachers will be provided government-built houses at Baiyappanahalli at heavily subsidised prices.
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‘They sent my brother’s severed head to Akhilesh Yadav in a briefcase’: Neeraj Mishra’s brother breaks silence before OpIndia on the 2004 Kannauj horror

OpIndia Staff -
Munish received a security guard from CM Yogi because he was constantly threatened and charged in bogus cases.
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NYT writes fantasy fiction on RSS , equates the organisation with some ultra-powerful ‘secret society’ that is running India: Read how the Leftist media’s...

Anurag -
By invoking fascist-era imagery, stripping law-and-order actions of context, and framing Hindu civil society as inherently suspect, the NYT advances a fear-driven narrative that questions India’s democratic choices without directly acknowledging or contesting them.
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Entertainment

Was the ‘Dhurandhar’ qawwali ‘Na to Caravan ki talash hai’ written by a Pakistani? No, it was written by Bollywood’s Sahir Ludhianwi for film...

आशीष नौटियाल -
The history of the qawwali "Na to caravan ki talash hai, na to humsafar ki talash hai" from the Bollywood blockbuster film Dhurandhar is being debated. Its lyrics and music are similar to the qawwali featured in the 1960 Hindi film "Barsaat Ki Raat." It was sung by Manna Dey, Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle, Sudha Malhotra, and SD Batish.
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Opinions

Is it just Muslims Vs Christians in Nigeria? Beyond the rhetoric, there is a quiet resource war reshaping Africa

Divyansh Tiwari -
China was already years ahead on the ground when Western leaders started discussing mineral security in public. Western strategy has to be adjusted because of this fact rather than humanitarian concerns. 
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News Reports

Silent on Muslim perpetrators in Delhi Red Fort terror attack, ashamed over Christmas vandalism: Arfa Khanum Sherwani’s selective outrage exposed

Jinit Jain -
When Arfa Khanum Sherwani dismissed a question on jihad as “funny,” she revealed how selective morality trumps journalistic honesty.
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Murder of Tripura student Anjel Chakma in Dehradun, his brother Michael’s statement, police action and the arrest of the accused: All you need to...

Aditi -
CMs of Assam and Meghalaya, including many prominent voices from North Eastern states have condemned the incident, and sought strictest possible action against the criminals.
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The anatomy of Unnao rape case: Kuldeep Sengar’s bail, allegations, questions and contradictions in a story that began in 2017

Anurag -
SC stays Delhi HC order granting bail to Kuldeep Sengar in Unnao case. Timeline reveals legal contradictions, protests, and years of ongoing proceedings.
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OpIndia Explains

Modi govt’s mega shipbuilding push: Guidelines notified for two schemes worth Rs 44,700 crore. Here’s all you need to know

Shraddha Pandey -
The newly launched SBFAS and SbDS initiatives are the latest in a string of policy initiatives the Modi government has launched in recent years to revive and bolster domestic shipbuilding under the Make in India initiative and a vision for ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Fatehpur police arrest pastor and his son for luring poor Hindus to convert to Christianity – Read what the FIR says

Anurag -
Police say statements of women present inside the church are being recorded, while efforts continue to trace accused named in the FIR, as authorities examine whether coercion or inducement was involved in the conversion attempt.
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Kerala: 12 years on, court to finally deliver verdict in ABVP activist Vishal Kumar murder – Full case timeline

Anurag -
The case traces the killing of a 19 year old student leader outside Chengannur Christian College in July 2012, detailing how the probe shifted from local police to Crime Branch amid delays, accused absconding, and repeated High Court bail proceedings.
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The lynching of Dipu Chandra Das and how radical Islam in Bangladesh and Pakistan is posing security challenges for India

Nikhil Anand -
The time has come to not only be alert and aware of the Islamic religious fundamentalist and jihadi challenges present within India and the neighbourhood. There is a serious need to give befitting reply to the designs of anti-Hindu and anti-India forces present inside and outside the country with every possible strategy.
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Opinions

2026: When the Western-dominated world order begins to crumble under India’s leadership

अजीत झा -
The BRICS presidency is giving India not just a platform but the power to set the rules – where the dollar, Western hegemony and China's limitations will be exposed simultaneously.
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Gujarat: Saddam Khan, along with a minor, arrested for killing a pregnant cow in Valsad; also accused of attacking gau rakshaks with sword

ભાર્ગવ રાજ્યગુરુ -
Police arrested a minor and adult Saddam Shahbuddin Khan for killing a pregnant cow in Sarigam, Umargam on the night of December.
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8 Hindus murdered in the Islamic Republic of Bangladesh in less than a month: Read about the victims and why these killings are just...

Dibakar Dutta -
In December 2025 alone, at least 8 Hindus have been slaughtered in the Islamic Republic of Bangladesh. The situation has become extremely grim and vulnerable for the already persecuted minority community.
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Who is Mufti Shamail Nadwi? The latest ‘Zakir Naik on the bloc’, under the spotlight after viral God debate with Javed Akhtar and his...

Shriti Sagar -
“Gods change with time,” Akhtar said, arguing that belief systems evolve as human understanding grows.
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What is Somaliland? What does Israel’s recognition of the ‘new country’ in Africa mean? Read why it is less about ‘land’ and more about...

Sanghamitra -
Basically, Somaliland is a de facto nation with democracy, functional government and relative stability with a developing economy, which is not recognised as a 'country' by the UN yet. Somalia is none of the above, but is still a 'country' recognised by the UN.
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India set to assume the chairmanship of Kimberley Process: Read about the UN-backed initiative and its role in preventing “conflict diamonds” in the global...

Rukma Rathore -
The KPCS was created in compliance with a United Nations resolution and became operative on 1st January 2003.
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Opinions

100 years of CPI: Communists of India should introspect, what has their imported ideology given this country apart from chaos, violence and hollow grandstanding

Dhruv Mishra -
After a century of existence, Indian Communism cannot be judged by intent, theory, or rhetoric. It must be judged by record. That record shows an ideology that arrived from outside India, misunderstood Indian society, subordinated national interest to foreign centres of power, and repeatedly chose ideology over country.
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Sam Pitroda says Rahul Gandhi skipped parliament to attend Progressive Alliance meet in Germany: Read what is this global alliance that follows Soros ideology

Raju Das -
The Presidium of the Progressive Alliance consists of leaders of nine parties, and Rahul Gandhi is one of them
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Congress approved Hanumangarh plant during its rule in Rajasthan, turned against it after losing election: Read how it has been anti-industry in the state

श्रवण शुक्ल -
Ashok Gehlot's Congress government granted full approval to the Hanumangarh ethanol plant project in 2023. At the time, Congress touted it as a job-generator and symbol of development. However, after losing the election, their stance changed.
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Sam Pitroda, with links to the US Deep State, says “we don’t care” when asked about Rahul Gandhi meeting Soros-like agents abroad: Here is...

Rukma Rathore -
According to Sam Pitroda, if a member of the audience is connected to someone else, it is beyond their control and concern.
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Gujarat HC ends Danta royal family’s Ashtami Puja privilege at Ambaji Temple, upholds legality of Trust: What was the dispute and what the court...

મેઘલસિંહ પરમાર -
The present case stems from an appeal filed in the High Court by the royal family of Danta. In this petition, a 2008 judgment of the Banaskantha District Court has been challenged.
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As Congress opposes Modi govt over Aravalli Hills mining policy after advocating the same in 2002, here’s a history of the party’s flip-flops on...

Shraddha Pandey -
From UCC, Aadhaar, Triple Talaq, to VB-G RAM G and Aravalli Hills mining policy, Congress changes its stance based on political convenience. What was right when Congress was in power becomes automatically wrong when the BJP does it.
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‘I have a plan for my country’- Khaleda Zia’s son Tarique Rahman launches bid for PM post in his first speech on returning to...

OpIndia Staff -
Tarique Rahman, widely regarded as the BNP's prime ministerial candidate, delivered a powerful 17-minute speech at a rally on the 300 Feet Road in Purbachal
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Indian student rips Pakistani propaganda at the Oxford Union Debate: OpIndia speaks to law student Viraansh Bhanushali, who exposed Pakistan at the global forum

Aditi -
Bhanushali pointed out that while Pakistan has been able to make its representation at glocal forums, the Indian side has not been appropriately represented internationally.
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Exclusive: Documents show how Rajasthan Congress govt had said Aravalli mining ban would harm economy, while Ashok Gehlot now leads the protests

Shraddha Pandey -
While Ashok Gehlot accuses the BJP-led governments in the Centre and Rajasthan of conspiring to hand over the Aravalli Hills to mining mafias, citing the Centre’s ‘0.019% mining area’ argument, in 2002, the Gehlot government itself wanted to open the Aravallis for mining.
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From festive cheer to ecological cost: How Christmas consumption drives deforestation, waste, and climate damage

Dhruv Mishra -
Studies reveal that festive shopping, gifting norms, and short lived decorations strain forests, landfill capacity, and waste systems annually, demonstrating that the environmental impact of Christmas stems from modern consumer behaviour rather than religious tradition.
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Fact-Check

Pakistan and Bangladesh handles spread fake video of CM Yogi Adityanath after he speaks up for Hindus being massacred by Jihadis under Yunus regime

Anurag -
The manipulated video emerged after CM Yogi Adityanath raised the killing of Dalit Hindu Dipu Das in Bangladesh, with coordinated social media posts misrepresenting his speech to divert attention from attacks on Hindus and silence criticism of the Yunus administration.
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Uttar Pradesh: Married Dr Rameezuddin sexually exploits a Hindu colleague, harasses and forces her to convert, case filed after victim tries to commit suicide-...

Rukma Rathore -
Rameezuddin Naik had entered into matrimony on two occasions, one of which was with a Hindu woman following her conversion.
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‘If I find three people like Deendayal, I will change politics’ – Read how Dr Mukherjee found Atal and the story of three beacons...

रोहित पांडेय -
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee used to say that if he could find three people like Deendayal Upadhyaya, he could change the face of the country's politics.
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Haryana govt amends Private Universities Act after Al Falah University link surfaced in Delhi Red Fort terror attack: All you need to know

Shraddha Pandey -
The passed bill does not explicitly mention Al Falah University. However, its timing and changes made in the existing law make it apparent that the state government is not only enhancing regulatory oversight over private universities but also tightening the noose around Al Falah University.
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Opinions

Pentagon’s report on China’s military developments: What it means for India’s LAC stand, Pakistan front and the future of warfare. Read details

Divyansh Tiwari -
The immediate conclusion for India is not that Taiwan equals a distant problem. It is that even though the centre of gravity is still in the East, the same set of capabilities, ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance), precision strike, integrated air defence, long range fires, cyber, space support, and logistics can be used in a variety of theatres, including the Indian Ocean and the Himalayas.
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Uttar Pradesh: Is Shahjahanpur becoming a conversion hub? How Tamil Nadu-linked Christian organisations funnelled Rs 4 crore to convert Hindus – Multiple FIRs, Foreign...

Anurag -
Court records, bail orders, and bank statements accessed by OpIndia reveal daily foreign inflows, prayer meetings disguised as social gatherings, and a multi-state network operating across police station limits for years before arrests were made.
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Sheikh Hasina attack accused, money laundering convict, and known for Hinduphobia: Meet Tarique Rahman, Khaleda Zia’s son set to stir Bangladesh’s political cauldron

Rukma Rathore -
Tarique Rahman claimed that Hindu scriptures do not provide any moral guidance and are akin to pornographic scripts.
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Editor's picks

Google launches Android’s Emergency Location Services in Uttar Pradesh by integrating with the state’s 112 service: Read how it will improve access to emergency...

Aditi -
The technology was developed by Google in collaboration with Uttar Pradesh Police and Pert Telecom Solutions (PertSol).
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