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Who is Shikha Dalmia, who features on the list of journalists given sponsored trips to China for writing pro-China articles

Shikha is popular among the liberal circles for her articles 'bashing' Prime Minister Modi, the BJP, and the Hindutva ideology.

Did Amit Shah order pellet firing on CJP protesters? Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha charge falls apart against police records and ongoing probe

Rahul Gandhi's claim that Amit Shah "ordered" pellet firing on students during the July 20 Parliament march is contradicted by India's policing hierarchy and the ongoing inquiry, which points to field-level operational decisions, not directions from the Union Home Minister.

Can the Centre really withdraw FIRs against hooligans who indulged in violence during CJP protest? Here is what the law says

Criminal jurisprudence treats an offence as a wrong against the entire society and not just against an individual.

Bengaluru Police arrested man for reporting Bangladeshi illegal immigrants, Karnataka HC stays probe: Details 

The Karnataka High Court also observed that the timing of the complaint filing against the petitioner indicated that the Bengaluru Police registered what seemed to be a counter-case after Dr Nagendra informed the authorities about Bangladeshi illegal immigrants. 

Why is PoK on the boil? All you need to know about the protests, Pakistan Army firing and election violence

The first phase of assembly elections in PoJK turned violent as Pakistani forces opened fire on protesters, leaving at least 19 dead. The clashes follow months of anger over reserved refugee seats, election rigging, and a government ban on local rights group JAAC.

How Newslaundry manufactured a conspiracy theory around a seized dumper truck to smear Delhi Police: Dismantling plot to blame police for stone pelting by...

Newslaundry's attempt to portray a lawfully seized accident vehicle as evidence of a Delhi Police conspiracy collapses under its own reporting, exposing a narrative built on insinuation rather than facts.

Dead body of Muslim man buried near a Hindu crematorium in Bhavnagar; Gujarat HC orders its relocation

Despite the village having a separate Muslim cemetery with sufficient space, the deceased Muslim man was buried on 27 gunthas of land adjacent to the Hindu crematorium.

Surrendering to mob violence or sensitivity towards Gen Z demands? Decoding CJP standoff  

The near-blanket withdrawal of FIRs against violent CJP protestors, and written assurances, may indicate to critics and the Opposition that the Modi government is on the backfoot. However, it is worth remembering that law and order and the burden of maintaining peace also lie on the government in office.

BJP to launch ‘Samrasta Sankalp Abhiyan’, month-long yatra from Jalandhar to Varanasi: How Ravidassia outreach factors into UP, Punjab polls

"Guru Ravidas worked for human welfare, equality and social harmony. He was against religious conversion," Arya stated.

Odisha govt to name medical college after Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati: Read how the Hindu leader working against Christian conversions in tribal areas was murdered...

Along with the renaming of the medical institution, the Chief Minister has approved a ₹13 crore grant from the Chief Minister’s Special Assistance (CMSA) fund.

The selective feminism exposed: What a woman’s sexual assault at CJP’s Jantar Mantar protest reveals about the Left’s moral contradictions

Social media user Yashaswinee Raje Singh took to X to allege that she was sexually assaulted during the CJP's Jantar Mantar protest and that volunteers dismissed her complaint instead of coming to her aid.

Anti-paper leak law: Here’s what the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill 2026 says 

The proposed legislation seeks to strengthen the provisions of the existing Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024, which was enacted to curb unfair means in public examinations and protect the integrity of recruitment and entrance tests. 

From Lala Jagat Narain to ML Manchanda: The journalists marked for death by Khalistanis

The killings crossed religious lines, as Sikh and Hindu journalists alike were targeted for opposing Khalistan, defending communal harmony or refusing to surrender editorial judgement and broadcasting language to armed terrorist organisations during the insurgency.

Anti-Paper Leak Bill: Opposition demands accountability, reforms, but paralyses Parliament 

While Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla repeatedly stressed that the government is set to introduce the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, popularly referred to as the Anti-paper leak bill, and debate is to be on in Parliament, the opposition MPs continued sloganeering, screeching and causing unwarranted disruption. 

Congress MP Vivek Tankha denies Indian Express report claiming that he mediated between Sonam Wangchuk and government, issues notice calling it blatant lie and...

Vivek Tankha said that he urged Sonam Wangchuk to end the fast due to concerns of his health, and he was not acting on behalf of the central govt, as the article implies.

How left-liberals and Islamists are using Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation as foundation to incite anarchy in India

Arfa Khanum Sherwani of the leftist propaganda website The Wire, posted a cryptic tweet on X on Saturday, July 25, writing: "Dharmendra Pradhan is just the trailer...", suggesting that the resignation was only the beginning and hinting at demands for further chaos in the country.

The fox, not the lion: What Machiavelli would notice about PM Modi

Modi’s political durability rests on calculated concessions and tactical flexibility. He absorbs protests, manages unstable allies and retreats on methods without surrendering the authority or objectives that keep him at the centre of power nationally.

How Hindus are reclaiming the Adina Temple , which was converted into a mosque by invaders

The mosque was primarily constructed using materials, pillars, and carved stones salvaged from pre-existing Hindu and Buddhist structures belonging to the Pala-Sena era (8th to 12th century).

Rs 150-crore flyover built solely for Jauhar University: OpIndia ground report reveals how Azam Khan grabbed villagers’ land for a pittance

An OpIndia ground report from Rampur exposes how Azam Khan acquired villagers' land for a pittance to build a ₹150 crore flyover serving Jauhar University.

NEET paper leaks and the coaching mafia: How admission agents, solvers and insiders compromised the examination system

Guest houses, hotels and private residences became distribution hubs. Families reportedly paid lakhs while candidates memorised solved answers or received handwritten notes before entering examination centres in different cities during the two documented NEET paper leak operations from 2024 and 2026.

Grooming jihad in Bihar: Junaid traps 16-year-old Hindu girl and takes her away, father fears forced marriage, human trafficking and rape, distressed family talks...

Junaid's family first agreed to talk to their son and return the minor but later refused to intervene in the matter.

Govt orders GitHub to remove BitChat: Read how the app allows broadcasting messages at large protest sites when mobile and internet services are blocked

The order said that the BitChat app’s design creates a substantial risk of misuse by anti-national elements, terrorist organizations, organized criminal groups, and cybercriminals.

Explained: Why Delhi High Court dismissed ANI’s plea for interim injunction against OpenAI in copyright infringement case 

The court said that the grant of an interim injunction against OpenAI in favour of ANI would inflict “irreparable injury” to OpenAI and the public at large. 

Houses of terrorists demolished, 2500 OGWs detained, Kashmir on high alert as forces launch major crackdown after murder of on-duty constable in Anantnag

The LeT front TRF has taken responsibility for the killing. Both groups were involved in the Pahalgam terror attack.

Fake news, propaganda and anti-India narratives: How Pakistani influencers weaponised the CJP protest to target the Modi govt

"7 protesters were killed, 391 injured and over 250 arrested by Delhi Police and Indian Army," a Pakistani handle claimed.

Rahul Gandhi claims Delhi Police told him “Inko Hataiye”: Here’s how his baseless remarks indicate a wider regime change operation 

By publicising statements that suggest officers oppose their leadership, political actors attempt to weaken official authority and lay the groundwork for broader systemic disruption.

From ‘politics of resistance’ to ‘democracy from streets’: Yogendra Yadav’s dangerous normalisation of mob rule

Yogendra Yadav's call for a "politics of resistance" and his assertion that democracy should run "from the streets, not Parliament" raise fundamental questions about whether permanent street mobilisation is being elevated above India's constitutional framework of representative democracy.

Badaun court sentences 62-year-old Shakir Hussain to 10 years in jail for raping a Hindu woman and forcing her to convert while holding her...

Hussain repeatedly and brutally raped the woman and threatened to kill her minor daughter if she refused him sexual favours.

From the Arab Spring to India: How Cockroach Janta Party is a part of leftist anarchy blueprint 

Although Cockroach Janta Party protestors are now issuing “Nepal bana denge” threats, indicating Bangladesh- and Nepal-like violent regime changes in the last two years, CJP’s origins go back to a meeting attended by ‘andolanjeevi’ Yogendra Yadav a decade ago. 

The Hanuman Mandir row: How Rana Ayyub and Islamo-leftists hailed a gurudwara and mosque but vilified the temple for closing gates amid stone pelting...

Social media is flooded with numerous such posts peddling a false narrative that the Prachin Hanuman Mandir shut its doors to CJP protestors while the ‘beacons of secularism and humanity’, mosque and gurudwaras opened their gates. 

What hides inside Pickaxe Mountain in Iran that Trump has vowed to bomb: Read details

Locally known as Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La, Pickaxe Mountain is said to be a highly fortified underground site.

The art of performative politics: How Rahul Gandhi sought to exploit students’ grievances by protest drama outside PM’s residence

A Congress MP revealed, "We were asked to follow Rahul Gandhi's convoy without asking questions."

Why CJP protest propaganda is flooding unrelated feeds: How Meta’s algorithms and moderation rules help the global Left control the narrative

Users say CJP reels are appearing on new and unrelated Instagram accounts. Influencer coordination indicates organised amplification across Meta’s platforms and an effort to widen the pro-protest narrative.

Major racket busted in Punjab, candidates caught cheating during Pharmacy Officer recruitment test, 35 arrested

According to Punjab Police, an employee of Sant Kabir Polytechnic College in Fazilka is the mastermind of the cheating incident.

Trump’s Saudi nuclear pact explained: Can Riyadh now enrich uranium for a bomb?

President Donald Trump has approved a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia, enabling potential domestic uranium enrichment under US supervision.

‘Peaceful movement’ or growing hostility? From Times Now to OpIndia, journalists face repeated attacks at CJP’s Jantar Mantar protests

In another incident that has gone viral online, two female journalists were groped and attacked while covering the second day of the “Sansad Chalo” protest on Tuesday, 21st July.

Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan, AAP, SP and the coaching mafia: How the Cockroach violence was politically orchestrated, not organic

For weeks, the mainstream media, the leftist propaganda factory, and the Cockroach Janta Party itself have painted the protests to seek resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over NEET UG paper leak as an organic ‘student protest’. The framing, however, was in sharp contrast to the reality of Sonam Wangchuk's weeks-long hunger strike.

When youthful delulu meets hard power

Whatever political advantage the CJP protestors and the so-called students are hoping for, it will inevitably be reaped by the Congress, AAP, Samajwadi Party, or even Chandrashekhar Ravan, to be used as capital for their next elections.

Protests demanding Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation in the UK not organic: Before you fall for The Wire’s propaganda, read how SFI is mobilising crowds

The Wire portrayed the London gathering as spontaneous despite weeks of SFI campaigning and committee-led protests across Britain. BBC and Al Jazeera joined Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch in amplifying the wider crackdown narrative.

If the Kisan Mahapanchayat was really about farmers, why protest the India-US trade deal stalled over farmer interests?

A farmer leader alleged, "You are signing this FTA in a secret way as the govt tells us nothing about it."

NTA debunks lies about ‘discrepancy’ in NEET marks, exposes 5 students who digitally altered their OMR sheets: Here is what happened

The National Testing Agency pointed out that all five cases were thoroughly verified and that the OMR sheets of all five candidates had been correctly evaluated.

The News Minute misrepresents to weave a narrative? The report on ONGC donating CSR funds to ‘RSS-linked orgs’- what it leaves out

The ₹668 crore figure The News Minute reported is accurate. But it represents a small part of a much larger CSR budget that mostly goes elsewhere, to a very different mix of recipients. It's simple math, and that's exactly why it's the strongest piece of context to start with.

How did Saurav Das fly a drone in a high-security, no-drone area? What are red zones and how CJP’s action was illegal

CJP circulated the footage to highlight the crowd. Rule 22 bars flights in red zones without authorisation. Registration, pilot certification and mandatory pre-flight checks may also apply to the person who operated the drone involved.

India gets its first dengue vaccine: How it strengthens India’s position as a global vaccine hub

"QDENGA has been approved in 43 countries, with more than 32 million doses distributed globally," a Takeda official stated.

Insult to Vande Mataram to be a criminal offence? Read what the Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill says

The Union Cabinet had earlier approved the proposal to amend the 1971 Act before it was listed for introduction in Parliament.

Remember Chandan Gupta? How the Vande Mataram Bill in Parliament is necessary because of Islamist hatred for national symbols

The Chandan Gupta murder case from 2018 shows how hostility to patriotic symbols can escalate into organised violence and murder.

Polygamy banned, equal inheritance rights ensured: All you need to know about the Madhya Pradesh Uniform Civil Code Bill

Uttarakhand, Gujarat and Assam have officially enacted the Uniform Civil Code whereas States like Maharashtra, West Bengal and Rajasthan formed expert committees to design their respective regulations.

From The Wire’s Arfa to The Hindu’s Vijaita Singh: How the near-lynching of journalists they disagree with is being cheered on

As the video of CJP protestors manhandling the ABP reporter went viral online again, the left liberal media and the extended anti-BJP cabal cheered and justified the attack.

From honey traps to CCTV espionage: How Pakistani handlers are recruiting vulnerable Hindus in India

Investigators found that Hindu identity helped recruits avoid suspicion while money, fake profiles, visas and emotional manipulation drew influencers, workers and students into Pakistan-linked surveillance and propaganda networks across several Indian states.

Who is Anish Gawande, NCP (SP) leader, whose house Abhijit Dipke was staying in?

Before joining politics, Anish Gawande was an LGBTQ+ rights activist and a writer.