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Inside Xi Jinping’s latest purge: Why China just expelled its No. 2 general and eight top commanders before a crucial Communist Party session

Divya Bharti -
China's government has fired nine top generals, including military second-in-command He Weidong, for corruption.
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Opinions

Bihar Elections: Mahagathbandhan turns into maha-mess, no candidate list, no seat sharing agreement, candidate clashes on multiple seats on the last day of nomination

Aditi -
The reason behind this perpetual lack of consensus and unity is that the alliance is a blend of political parties with different and sometimes opposing ideologies, which came together to put up a fight to throw the NDA out of power.
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News Reports

No misleading products, only WHO-approved ORS: Read the meaning behind FSSAI’s new rulling and how harmful sugary drinks were sold with the misleading label

Rukma Rathore -
The description that the drink was not prepared using the WHO-approved formula permitted the use of the label in the past.
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News Reports

‘I Love Muhammad’ protests: Propagandist media outlet Al Jazeera hides Islamic violence, peddles Islamophobia narrative to malign India

शिव -
Organizations like Al-Jazeera try to portray India's internal events as 'Muslim versus the State' narrative. They try to present India as a Hindu-majority and anti-Muslim country.
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News Reports

TMC MP Yusuf Pathan shares pictures of disputed Adina Mosque, gets fact checked on social media how it was the Mandir of Adinath

Shraddha Pandey -
Hailing Adina Mosque as architectural marvel, the cricketer-turned-politician wrote, “The Adina Mosque in Malda, West Bengal, is a historic mosque built in the 14th century by Sultan Sikandar Shah, the second ruler of the Ilyas Shahi dynasty. Constructed in 1373-1375 CE, it was the largest mosque in the Indian subcontinent during its time, showcasing the region's architectural grandeur.”
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News Reports

Supreme Court denies bail to PFI extremist Wasid Khan, who wanted to establish ‘Mughal order’ in India: Read how the banned outfit was arming...

Aditi -
In July 2022, the Bihar police seized an 8-page document during a crackdown on a secret PFI operation in the state, in which it planned to launch an attack on PM Modi during his visit to Patna. The document titled “India 2047: Towards Rule of Islam in India” contained a detailed plan for the Islamisation of India in the coming years.
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News Reports

Supporters of RJD candidate Osama, son of Shahabuddin, say they are hunting for the person who removed the ‘I Love Muhammad’ poster: OpIndia Ground...

Anurag Mishra -
OpIndia arrived in Siwan to cover the Bihar elections. The RJD has given the assembly election ticket to Osama Shahab, son of strongman Shahabuddin, from the Raghunathpur constituency in this district. During the coverage, we met a supporter of Osama Shahab.
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News Reports

Siddaramaiah boasts of ‘London Book of World Records’ certificates, but are they real? Company shut down, dubious antecedents and more: What OpIndia found out

Shraddha Pandey -
Taking to X, Chief Minister Siddaramiah wrote, “Karnataka enters the global stage with two historic world records - certified by the London Book of World Records. Shakti Scheme: Largest number of free bus rides availed by women - 564.10 crore journeys, empowering everyday mobility.”
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News Reports

Is Rahul Gandhi trying to manufacture Gen Z anger with paid rappers? OpIndia talks to one such agent who admits to recruiting for Congress....

पूजा राणा -
In fact, for the past three months, Congress has been hiring for vacancies such as rap songwriters, influencers, and food bloggers. OpIndia found three vacancy posts posted from the account of a person named Tekendra Sharma. These posts clearly stated that these hirings were for Congress.
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News Reports

India wins 2030 Commonwealth Games bid: A look back at the 2010 corruption scandal under UPA govt that shook the nation

Anurag -
India’s successful bid for the 2030 Commonwealth Games marks a comeback after the 2010 corruption scandal. With tighter monitoring and improved systems, the government promises a clean, well-managed event that restores national pride and international trust.
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News Reports

Commonwealth Games 2030 to be held in Ahmedabad: Here is how will this event will strengthen India’s bid for the 2036 Olympics

મેઘલસિંહ પરમાર -
The discussion around the possibility of Ahmedabad being recommended for hosting the upcoming Commonwealth Games has going on for quite some time. Keeping this in mind, the central and state governments have been working together for many years to make Ahmedabad a hub of sports infrastructure.
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News Reports

BCom graduate to attacks on security forces: Who is Mallojula Venugopal Rao and how he climbed the ranks within the Maoist hierarchy before his eventual...

Rukma Rathore -
Mallojula Venugopal Rao is the younger brother of another infamous Maoist leader, Kishenji, who was killed in 2011.
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Opinions

Kerala hijab row: Edu Minister’s diktat to allow hijab shows how CPM govt has turned institutional autonomy into a theatre of Muslim appeasement

Jinit Jain -
The St. Rita Public School hijab row has laid bare the CPM government’s brand of “secularism” in Kerala, one that bends for Muslims, bargains with Christians, and bullies Hindus.
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News Reports

India Air Force successfully tests indigenously developed Military Combat Parachute System: Read its main features and how it will enhance India’s defence capabilities

Aditi -
The MCPS has specifically been designed for difficult, high-altitude airborne operations to allow paratroopers to descend by evading enemy radars and air defence systems and cover large distances.
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News Reports

As Taliban humiliates Pakistan months after India’s Operation Sindoor, Pakistani Defence Minister claims Afghanistan is fighting India’s ‘proxy war’

OpIndia Staff -
While the Afghan Foreign Minister's first visit to India was intended as a step toward strengthening trade and bilateral relations, Khwaja Asif alleged that it had ulterior motives.
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News Reports

Haryana police suicide cases: All you need to know about IPS Y Puran Kumar’s death, ASI Sandeep’s final note and allegations, the SIT probe...

Anurag -
The twin deaths of IPS Y Puran Kumar and ASI Sandeep Kumar have shaken Haryana Police. Allegations range from caste bias to corruption, prompting a high-level SIT probe and raising serious questions about internal accountability.
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Opinions

Was Ashley Tellis the missing link between Soros-funded Carnegie think tank, China’s espionage, and the anti-India lobby?

Jinit Jain -
Ashley Tellis’s arrest for allegedly spying for China exposes a troubling nexus where Soros-funded think tanks, Chinese propaganda outlets, and anti-India media networks appear to converge toward a single goal — undermining India’s rise and promoting Beijing’s narrative.
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News Reports

Russia and China sign Northern Sea Route deal: Millions of tons of Chinese cargo to be carried across the Arctic Ocean with nuclear ice-breakers....

Rukma Rathore -
Russia also seeks a greater geopolitical presence from India in the Northern Sea Route and the plan is in motion.
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OpIndia Explains

Who is Ashley Tellis, US State Department adviser accused of removing classified US govt documents and meeting with Chinese officials. Read the charges against...

Shraddha Pandey -
On 14th October, the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia informed that Ashley Tellis has been arrested on charge of “unlawfully retaining classified national defence information”. Tellis was arrested on 11th October after the US authorities searched his residence in Vienna, Virginia.
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Opinions

Why Trump’s advertised visuals with Shehbaz Sharif should be taken with a pinch of salt: India has come too far ahead to be defined...

Anurag -
Trump’s photo-op diplomacy with Pakistan’s leaders may dominate headlines, but America’s real engagement lies with India. Google’s record $15 billion AI data centre investment shows global confidence in India’s growth, governance, and technological capability.
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News Reports

Pakistan names Baloch rebel groups and TTP as ‘Indian proxies’ to shift blame and fool its citizens, after decades of funding anti-India terror groups...

Rukma Rathore -
After nurturing terror outfits in the name of Islam, Pakistan is blaming India for the consequences of its actions.
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News Reports

Madras HC puts a lid on Thiruparankundram hill row: Upholds Murugan temple’s ownership, bans animal sacrifice, rejects Islamization claims

Shriti Sagar -
It allowed Muslims to offer prayers only in the 33-cent area at Nellithoppu and that too only during Ramzan and Bakrid.
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Opinions

Islamists attack AltNews after founder Pratik Sinha criticises a regressive post over Taliban and ‘Tehzeeb’, again proving that they only want total, unquestioned surrender

Shraddha Pandey -
In a latest episode of ‘Liberals are no different from Sanghis’, Islamists on social media are calling for defunding leftist propaganda and ‘factchecking’ portal Alt News after its founder Pratik Sinha dared to criticise Indian Islamists for “embracing” Taliban and upholding the Afghanistan-based Islamist outfit’s version of Islam.
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News Reports

Aligarh horror: Asad slits Karan’s throat, stabs him 15 times over, old temple built by Hindu family and a Facebook post suspected motives behind...

केशव मालान -
After a dispute, Karan was taken to a nearby abandoned house where he was brutally attacked by the asad and his friends.
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News Reports

Trump turns Gaza peace summit at Sharm el-Sheikh into a personal glorification spectacle, treating world leaders like stage extras

Anurag -
The Sharm el-Sheikh peace summit, meant to mark Gaza’s truce, became Trump’s personal stage. With leaders reduced to silent spectators, his speech turned from diplomacy to performance, complete with flattery, showmanship, and a Nobel Peace Prize mention.
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News Reports

While CM Mamata Banerjee downplays crimes against women as ‘minor’ issue, NCRB report exposes grim reality: Over a decade of betrayal for Bengal’s women

Shraddha Pandey -
In 2023, India recorded 207 cases of acid attacks with West Bengal alone accounting for 57 acid attack cases under Section 326A of IPC. The NCRB data showed that in 57 cases of acid attacks, there were 60 victims/survivors in West Bengal while in 207 cases nationwide, there were 220 victims.
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Opinions

Regimes are temporary, geography is permanent: Why India needs to play the Great Game, and engage with Taliban, or whoever holds power in Afghanistan

Sanghamitra -
By maintaining a pragmatic relationship with Kabul, India preserves a foothold in a region whose geography, not its government, will determine its long-term strategic value. In essence, India’s Afghanistan policy must be rooted not in who sits in the offices of Kabul today, but in the immutable fact of where that land sits on the map of the world.
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News Reports

As Punjab police lodge case against journalist Anjana Om Kashyap over comments on Maharishi Valmiki, read what scriptures reveal about the past of the...

OpIndia Staff -
The question of Maharishi Valmiki’s early life, whether or not he was a bandit, has invited both belief and scepticism.
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News Reports

Rajdeep Sardesai issues another apology for 2011 fake news against ex-BJP Councillor Ajit Tokas: A long history of lies, propaganda, and suppressed truths

Jinit Jain -
Rajdeep Sardesai’s latest apology over a false 2011 sting adds to his long trail of politically skewed misreports and ritualistic retractions.
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News Reports

Kerala’s drug crisis: ‘God’s Own Country to ‘Ganja’s Own Hub’. Coastal trafficking, rapid spread and rising NDPS cases, explained

Anurag -
Once celebrated for progress and education, Kerala now tops India in NDPS cases. From dark web peddlers to hydroponic cannabis seizures, the state faces a growing drug emergency that threatens its youth and communities.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Chitrakoot Police bust Christian conversion racket; Bajrang Dal says 40% of poor Hindus converted to Christianity

Anurag -
Following a tip-off from Bajrang Dal and VHP, Chitrakoot Police uncovered a forced conversion racket in Ghunuwa village, detaining two accused and seizing Christian religious literature while investigating claims of mass conversions among poor Hindus.
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Economy and Finance

Trade agreement between India and European Free Trade Association becomes effective, to generate $100 billion in investments and 1 million direct jobs in India...

OpIndia Staff -
The Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA) between India and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) has officially taken effect as of October 1, 2025,
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News Reports

What is the Taliban’s connection with Darul Uloom Deoband in UP’s Saharanpur? Taliban means ‘students’ and Deoband is their ‘school’

Sanghamitra -
The Darul Uloom Haqqania in Pakistan is often called the ‘University of Jihad’. This madrasa was founded by Maulana Abdul Haq, a pre-partition alumnus and teacher at Darul Uloom Deoband, and led by his son, Sami-ul-Haq, a key Taliban supporter who mobilised students for the Afghan ‘jihad’ in the coming years.
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Opinions

Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra outrage over no women journalists in Taliban presser: Centre clarifies it had no role to play, the Vienna Convention,...

Jinit Jain -
The Congress and the Gandhis’ outrage over the exclusion of women journalists from the Taliban presser appears both dishonest and uninformed, given their own track record with Indian journalists and the clear provisions of the Vienna Convention.
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News Reports

‘Declaring Munambam land as a Waqf property was a land-grabbing tactic of the Waqf Board’, says Kerala HC. Read how the Waqf Board tried...

Aditi -
The Division Bench observed that the orders of the Waqf Board were issued with unreasonable delay, and were unenforceable because they violated the law.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Tauqeer Raza, infamous for inflammatory speeches and terrorising Hindus in Bareilly, finally faces the heat of law after 43 years

Rukma Rathore -
Tauqeer Raza is going to be subjected to the National Security Act by the Uttar Pradesh government.
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News Reports

Semiconductors Vs rare earths: China retaliates against US sanctions, imposes strict export control for elements it has 90% global monopoly in. Read what it...

Shraddha Pandey -
The Chinese MOFCOM’s announcement number 61 goes beyond REE export restrictions and says, “Overseas organizations and individuals (hereinafter referred to as "overseas designated export operators") must obtain a dual-use item export license issued by the Ministry of Commerce of China before exporting the following (listed) items to countries and regions outside of China.”
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News Reports

Mamata Banerjee’s outrageous ‘Mir Jafar’ attack on Amit Shah and outburst over voter list purification drive reveals TMC’s fear of losing illegitimate voters

Rukma Rathore -
Mamata Banerjee claimed that BJP has manipulated the EC into conducting the SIR drive in West Bengal.
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News Reports

Game of power: Why Donald Trump wants to take over Bagram air base in Afghanistan despite Taliban’s refusal and opposition from regional powers including...

Rukma Rathore -
Bargam air base will aid the United States in monitoring Beijing's nuclear activities and infrastructure.
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News Reports

Who is Bipin Joshi, the Nepali Hindu student who was abducted from Israel by Hamas and taken hostage in Gaza

Shriti Sagar -
Bipin’s family has refused to give up hope. His parents and sister, who live in Nepal, are currently staying with relatives in North Carolina, United States. They have been travelling between Washington, DC, and New York, meeting diplomats and officials to raise international awareness about their son’s situation.
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News Reports

Gujarat HC refuses to quash FIR in Bharuch religious conversion case, rejects argument that converted Muslims can’t be accused of forcing others to convert:...

Aditi -
The High Court refused to treat the accused as 'victims; of religious conversion, noting that they lured others to convert to Islam after converting themselves.
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News Reports

‘I Love Muhammad’ row, youth attacked over Lord Shiva post, and stone-pelting at Garba: Gujarat govt cracks down against rioters, demolishes 186 shanties

Divya Bharti -
The clash rapidly spread into adjacent areas, where vandalism and destruction of vehicles were reported.
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World

From calling Hindus ‘H@r*mi’ to temple run: As Zohran Mamdani visits temples in New York ahead of mayoral elections, read about his Hinduphobic activities

Shraddha Pandey -
On 5th October 2025, Mamdani visited two of the oldest Hindu temples in New York’s Flushing, the Sri Maha Vallabha Ganapathy Temple and the Hindu Temple Society of North America. Visuals of him receiving a warm welcome at the temple wearing garland and scarf surfaced online. The people around him were seen holding placards reading “Hindus for Zohran for New York City”.
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Opinions

From oral observations used for anti-Hindu propaganda to screeds about need for judges to be mindful: How liberals changed tunes in the face of...

Anurag -
The digital age has transformed oral judicial remarks into viral controversies. Judges’ comments, once private exchanges, now trigger nationwide debates, exposing ideological hypocrisy and challenging the long-held liberal monopoly over courtroom narratives.
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News Reports

Dollar dethroned? India’s use of Chinese yuan for Russian oil redraws the global financial map

Divyansh Tiwari -
As India continues to purchase Russian crude oil despite Donald Trump’s additional 25% tariff, Indian refiners now have started making payments to Russia in China currency Yuan.
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News Reports

Claims of miraculous healing, propaganda against idol worship, and more: The sinister agenda of Steven McEwan, the prime accused in the Nadiad conversion racket,...

મેઘલસિંહ પરમાર -
Steven McWan, accused of running a foreign-funded conversion racket in Nadiad, used fake miracle healings and anti-idolatry propaganda to lure vulnerable Hindus into Christianity.
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News Reports

Allahabad HC frames contempt charges against man over WhatsApp message accusing a judge of corruption: Court to decide how much criticism of judiciary is...

Shraddha Pandey -
A Division Bench comprising Justice J.J. Munir and Justice Pramod Kumar Srivastava stated that a prima facie case was made out against the contemnor for acts that ‘scandalise’ and lower the authority of the court.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Pastor and son booked for converting villagers under guise of faith healing; read how he faces court proceedings for insulting Hindu religion and...

Anurag -
Police in Rajasthan’s Sriganganagar registered a case against pastor Baggu Singh and his son for forced conversions through alleged miracle cures. Villagers protested outside the police station, demanding the pastor’s arrest within 48 hours.
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News Reports

Did you know? Murshidabad and large parts of Nadia, 24-Parganas, Malda, in Bengal had become ‘East Pakistan’ for a few days after partition. Read how...

Rukma Rathore -
Some regions of Bengal were part of "East Pakistan" from14th to 16th August, until the decison was rectified on 17th August.
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News Reports

“I’m a Dalit myself”: Advocate Rakesh Kishore, who hurled shoe at CJI Gavai, rubbishes ‘casteist attack’ trope in conversation with OpIndia

केशव मालान -
Speaking about CJI Gavai outrageous comment on Lord Vishnu, Kishore said, “The feelings in his heart came out. The anger and resentment he felt for Hindus and Sanatan Dharma came out spontaneously."
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