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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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News Reports

US–Iran war timeline: Khamenei killed, Iran attacks US bases, oil crisis fears grow, Iranian ship sinks in Indian Ocean and more

Aditi -
There is no sign of the conflict coming to an end anytime soon as US President Trump and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu resolved to carry on the offensive against Iran.
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News Reports

Modi govt planning to introduce different levels of restrictions on social media use by minors: Read how research highlights risks for children and why...

Shriti Sagar -
Some of the measures that the government may adopt include restricting children’s access to social media during specific hours of the day or limiting the period that children can stay on social media.
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News Reports

OpIndia Exclusive: Network facilitating marriages between Muslim men and Hindu women exposed at Ahmedabad court? Registrar Syed faces serious allegations

લિંકન સોખડિયા -
Registrar MM Syed facilitated entry for the couple disguised as lawyers and permitted proceedings inside the office. Records reviewed by OpIndia indicated several similar marriages registered there, including cases involving Muslim men from other states.
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News Reports

India provides safe harbour to Iranian Navy ship Lavan in Kochi, while IRIS Dena was made to wait for 11 hours after requesting to...

Shriti Sagar -
India allowed IRIS Lavan to berth at Kochi on March 1, following which the ship finally docked at Kochi on March 4, as per reports.
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Opinions

US boasts about un-sanctioning its own sanction on Russian oil, admits that India buying Russian crude will keep global oil prices stabilised

Sanghamitra -
The only thing more glaring here than the obvious lie that the US controls India’s oil purchases is the sheer hypocrisy of the US government to insinuate that their sanctions are a blessing for the world, and when they pretend to un-sanction their own sanctions, it is again for the benefit of the world.
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News Reports

Do Islamists wait for Hindu festivals? From India to the UK, Hindus attacked during Holi: Read 8 cases

सौम्या सिंह -
Similarly, an attempt was made to disrupt the atmosphere during Holi in 2025.
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Opinions

Regardless of what the US claims, India has continued purchasing Russian oil: Read how ‘wherever we find it cheap’ has been India’s consistent policy

Rukma Rathore -
A sovereign nation’s policy works on sovereign interests. Sanctions or tariffs are just geopolitical hiccups that need occasional recalibration and working through. Be it crude oil, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), rare earths or any other commodity, the current global order is an intricate mesh of supply chains and logistical mechanics.
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Opinions

Indian Express column by Samajwadi Party spokesperson goes on a speculation overdrive on Iran-US war, predicts doom and destruction in India, so BJP loses...

Shraddha Pandey -
“From the lens of Indian politics, the dangerous, pre-planned and illegitimate attack of the US and Israel on Iran, leading to the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, could prove to be such a Black Swan event for the BJP,” Ghanshyam Tiwari wrote in the article titled, “West Asia crisis may just be the Black Swan Event hurts the BJP in India”.
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News Reports

As Muslim mob attacks Hindus in London, here’s how the plight of Hindus has not changed in the UK since the 2022 Leicester riots

Shraddha Pandey -
The Muslim mob attack on Hindus in Harrow has reopened the wounds of the 2022 anti-Hindu Leicester violence. In recent years, Hindus have constantly been targeted and villainised by the Islamo-leftist cabal.
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News Reports

US sinks Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean: How Congress and the Islamo-left ecosystem are exploiting the incident to target PM Modi and drag...

Rukma Rathore -
Congress and the Islamo-leftist ecosystem are attacking India, even though the ship was targeted in international waters.
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Opinions

BJP slams Congress for pushing India to support Iran, says foreign policy must remain balanced: Read why India can’t blindly side with Iran

Shriti Sagar -
Even China, which is Iran’s strongest economic ally in the world, is taking a distant and cautious stand in the current crisis.
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News Reports

Nepal holds elections months after regime change ‘Gen-Z protests’ with the same parties: The uprising, the chaos, and the meaninglessness of the agitation

Shraddha Pandey -
Even before the election results are officially declared, it appears that the Gen Z revolution’s demands for accountability and generational change in Nepal will not translate into a new political order but only a repackaged reversion to the status quo.
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News Reports

Air India refutes claims that its aircraft flew over Iran: Read why flight tracking websites may show wrong and erratic flight paths over the...

Raju Das -
An Air India flight was seen to be flying over Iran on Flightradar24 because of GPS spoofing used in the war, it didn't actually fly on that route.
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News Reports

Punjab: Anti-Ambedkarite Hindu Valmiki activist alleges assault by fundamentalist group during Holi in Mohali’s Matour village; Here is what we know so far

Anurag -
Speaking to OpIndia, Rajesh Valmiki Chouhan said the incident occurred around noon near a mosque in Matour village market. He alleged the attackers used sticks and rods, while police said CCTV exists and complaints are acted upon.
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News Reports

As the war in Middle East disrupts energy supply, focus shifts to Strategic Petroleum Reserves: Read what they are and how India prepares for...

Rukma Rathore -
An insider mentioned, "India has crude oil in reserve for 25 days, alongside petrol, diesel and LPG for 25 days as well."
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News Reports

US-Iran war: X’s crackdown on AI-generated war videos, product head Nikita Beir introduces 90-day monetisation ban; Learn how disinformation spreads and gets monetised

Anurag -
A viral AI video claiming Iranian rockets struck Tel Aviv drew scrutiny after Community Notes flagged inconsistencies and X’s Nikita Bier questioned a self described Gaza journalist sharing it, highlighting how synthetic war visuals can mislead audiences.
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Opinions

Yogendra Yadav brings irrelevant US analogies to criticise Assam delimitation exercise: Read how his op-ed totally ignores the State’s demographic realities and history

Dr. Prosenjit Nath -
Assam’s story cannot be understood through borrowed metaphors or distant ideological templates. It demands engagement with its history, its agreements, and its anxieties. Only then can the debate over delimitation move from rhetorical labeling to meaningful democratic dialogue.
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News Reports

From secret allies to arch enemies: The forgotten history of Israel–Iran cooperation against Saddam’s Iraq

Shriti Sagar -
However, if we go back a few decades, it will be easy to recall that both Israel and Iran were working together as secret allies, targeting a common enemy, Iraq.
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News Reports

Does India also have military bases abroad? Here’s where they are and how many exist

Rukma Rathore -
The significance of India's military bases in foreign countries is amplified in light of China's expansionist policies.
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News Reports

IIM Udaipur introduces flexible BBA programme with bilingual learning support and multiple exit pathways for certificate, diploma, degree, and honours

OpIndia Staff -
IIM Udaipur has launched a flexible, digital-first BBA programme with bilingual learning support and multiple exit options, allowing students to earn credentials at different stages of study.
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News Reports

From Libya to Lutyens’ Delhi: Sonia Gandhi’s moral sermon on Iran collapses under the UPA’s own foreign policy record

Anurag -
Sonia Gandhi’s charge of moral abdication over Iran faces scrutiny as the Congress party’s own record shows similar diplomatic restraint during the Gaddafi killing and the 2012 Israeli diplomat car blast crisis.
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News Reports

Nepal elections: Read about the voting process, who the main candidates are, and why Gen Z may play the deciding role on March 5

Divya Bharti -
Following the historic 2025 "Gen Z" protests that ousted the previous government, Nepal heads to the polls on March 5.
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News Reports

Explained: How Iran’s Strait of Hormuz blockade and Qatar’s LNG halt could trigger an unprecedented global energy shock

Shraddha Pandey -
The decision came after Iranian drone strikes targeted an energy facility of Qatar’s state-owned energy giant, QatarEnergy, in the massive Ras Laffan Industrial City and a water tank at a power plant in Mesaieed Industrial City.
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Opinions

‘Buy a MacBook for the victim’, says Bombay HC in a POCSO case after minor agrees to ‘settle’, withdraw charges against uncle: Read when...

Divyansh Tiwari -
Courts are guided by a four-step test from Mahesh Damu Khare v. State of Maharashtra (2024): Determine if the allegations, on their face, constitute a crime, assess the legitimacy of the settlement, take into account the impact on society, and make sure there is no abuse of process.
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News Reports

Pahalgam attack: NIA investigation turns to China over GoPro used in recce. Read what the Letter Rogatory is

Anurag -
GoPro BV informed investigators it lacks downstream transaction details, prompting NIA to seek judicial assistance from China through diplomatic channels to establish chain of custody and evidentiary linkage of the seized device.
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News Reports

Leftist-secular group stages demonstration in Ahmedabad on Gujarat riots anniversary: When will they start talking about the 59 Hindus who died in Godhra?

મેઘલસિંહ પરમાર -
These pretentious secular democrats mention the 'Godhra massacre' in their social media posts, but they hold these demonstrations on the 28th.
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News Reports

The idea of ‘unbreakable friendship’ between India and Iran is more myth than reality: Read how geopolitical reality marks the relationship between the two...

Divyansh Tiwari -
The story of India and Iran is not one of unshakable friendship but rather one of strategic interaction. Historical links serve as a basis, but geopolitical realities such as nuclear aspirations, positions on Kashmir, and outside influences cause enduring divisions.
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World

When Communists in Iran were jailed and executed by the Islamic regime, as soon as Ruhollah Khomeini came to power after the 1979 revolution

Jinit Jain -
In one of history’s cruelest political ironies, the Leftists and Communists who helped Ayatollah Khomeini overthrow the Shah were among the first to be imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the very Islamic regime they helped bring to power.
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News Reports

With Jagmeet out of the coalition, Canadian govt goes into buttering up India mode: Read how Carney is trying to salvage a ruined bilateral...

Shraddha Pandey -
When asked if ‘middle powers’ like India and Canada are resetting ties, PM Carney said that while he is content with Canada being called a middle power, India cannot be called that. Earlier, PM Carney had hailed India as a “natural partner”.
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News Reports

Iran may not need to physically stop every ship through St of Hormuz, insurance companies are doing it: Read how war risk premium has...

Anurag -
Around one fifth of global crude flows through the strait, where insurance costs once stood at 0.25 per cent of vessel value but are now rising sharply, threatening overall voyage economics and wider energy markets.
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