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Why Meghalaya says no to Uranium mining

Raju Das -
Uranium ore in Domiasiat in Meghalaya is a low-depth sandstone deposit, and mining it will require open-cast methods, which may be hazardous for the environment
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News Reports

Antique idols taken from Tamil Nadu temples to return home from Australia

Rukma Rathore -
Minister of Culture called the repatriation "a profound testament to the civilisational resonance anchoring modern diplomacy."
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu govt moves Supreme court against verdict that made reservation for new Muslim converts ‘unconstitutional’, Madras HC had earlier exposed Joseph Vijay’s appeasement...

Aditi -
The Madras High Court passed a verdict on 25th June this year, criticising the government order allowing converts to Islam to claim BC status. The court reprimanded the Tamil Nadu government for passing the order with the intention of overriding the judicial precedents and, in effect, incentivising conversion to Islam.
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Social Media Fact-Check

Instagram Influencer Mohsin Kazmi, lies against India: A propagandist and Islamist

Shraddha Pandey -
On 8th July, Mohsin Kazmi from Jharkhand’s Jamshedpur, who claims to be working at Jindal Steel in Odisha’s Sambalpur, uploaded a video on his Instagram page with more than 3 lakh followers.
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Opinions

Why Ayodhya’s ‘compensatory mosque’ is struggling for funds: The ‘Babri Zinda Hai’ mindset behind the Muslim community’s disinterest

Shraddha Pandey -
It has been reported that the alternate mosque project in Ayodhya has been drastically scaled back due to a severe funding crunch and lack of support from the Muslim community.
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News Reports

As Canada admits “no evidence” against India in the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, read how Modi govt was attacked globally on the basis...

Rukma Rathore -
India had faced continuous criticism and accusations from the Trudeau government of Canada regarding the killing of Nijjar.
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News Reports

India seals Uranium pact with Australia: How PM Modi achieved what eluded India for two decades

Jinit Jain -
After refusing to sell uranium to India for nearly two decades over its non-signatory status to the NPT, Australia has reversed course under PM Modi, signalling a new era of strategic trust and Indo-Pacific cooperation.
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News Reports

Saraswati Vandana, Gayatri Mantra in govt schools? Chhattisgarh HC says yes for now, but leaves the door open for future challenges

Shriti Sagar -
Delivering the order, Justice Amitendra Kishore Prasad observed that the circular, when read in its entirety, did not contain any compulsory or coercive direction requiring students to take part in activities that go against their faith.
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News Reports

Why the Nashik Court invoked Lord Krishna while granting bail to ‘pregnant’ Nida Khan, accused of forceful religious conversion in TCS case

Aditi -
Nida Khan filed an application for the modification of the bail order, requesting reduction in the security amount.
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Sports

‘Son of a B**ch’: Why Paraguayan Senator Celeste Amarilla is locked in a bitter feud with France star Kylian Mbappé

Jinit Jain -
A World Cup handshake dispute has descended into an ugly war of words, with Paraguayan Senator Celeste Amarilla hurling abuse at Kylian Mbappé as racism allegations and legal threats intensify.
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News Reports

From calling Ramayana ‘cartoon’, making gaumutra jibes to harassing TMC critics with FIRs: Meet Nilanjan Das, the henchman of Mamata Banerjee who was thrashed...

Shraddha Pandey -
The TMC leader has an opprobrious record of threatening FIRs against anyone who criticized his party or Mamata Banerjee. Nilanjan Das is a close aide of TMC motormouth MP Mahua Moitra.
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News Reports

Australia’s biggest retirement fund is investing in India’s infrastructure fund to seek better returns for pension savers, read details

Anurag -
Australia’s huge superannuation pool has grown faster than its domestic market. Funds are moving overseas for liquidity and diversity as India offers infrastructure, equities and private markets at scale for stronger long-term returns.
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News Reports

From public servants to political warlords: Sena corporator Ramesh Mhatre’s assault on doctors reflects the arrogance of India’s political class

Amit Kelkar -
The assault on a woman doctor in Maharashtra is more than an isolated act of violence. It lays bare a disturbing reality of Indian politics, where many elected representatives, intoxicated by power, behave less like public servants and more like feudal warlords, resorting to intimidation and violence whenever their authority or ego is challenged.
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Opinions

The mask is off: Diljit Dosanjh’s ‘Satluj’ shows what OpIndia had warned about for years

Anurag -
With Satluj, Diljit’s past controversies have returned to focus, from his farmers’ protest stand and refusal to clearly condemn Khalistan to support for Jagtar Singh Johal, named in cases involving Hindu and RSS leaders.
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Opinions

Ayodhya donation scam: It is not the missing crores, but the missing accountability that hurts

Shraddha Pandey -
The theft was petty; the negligence and, to a great extent, complicity were grand. Recommendation-based appointments, relaxing of frisking rules, little to no implementation of the pocket-less uniforms rule, and deliberate neglect of the irregularities enabled the theft for months before the lid blew off in June this year.
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Opinions

As a lifelong Cristiano Ronaldo fan, I believe Argentina beat Egypt fair and square—The bigger story is why football can never escape politics

Divyansh Tiwari -
The outrage over Argentina's victory says less about refereeing and more about how football has become a battleground for political and ideological conflicts far beyond the game itself.
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News Reports

‘No Indian govt official was involved in Nijjar killing’: US FBI, Canada launch major crackdown on Goldy Brar, Lawrence Bishnoi gangs

Aditi -
Law enforcement authorities in the United States, Canada and Europe have launched a major crackdown on organised criminal gangs operating in their respective regions.
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News Reports

Anti-Hindu Delhi Riots 2020: Delhi HC denies bail to Athar Khan, records chats that shatter Left-Islamist narrative against Kapil Mishra

Anurag -
The court relied on 17th February chats about road blockade and inciting violence. The timing destroys the narrative blaming Kapil Mishra’s 23rd February speech for the riots.
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News Reports

Viral posts of alleged Chinese incursion 60 km inside Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh debunked: Is there a pattern to such recycled claims?

Dhruv Mishra -
The latest incident follows a pattern seen repeatedly during periods of heightened public interest in India-China relations. Old military footage, unrelated videos of troop movements, satellite images or clips from other countries are often repackaged with new captions claiming a fresh Chinese incursion into Indian territory.
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News Reports

As India is set to help in restoration of ancient Prambanan temple in Indonesia, read how the Modi govt is stepping up to preserve...

Rukma Rathore -
"The Prambanan temple is a symbol of the shared cultural heritage between the two countries," PM Modi expressed.
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News Reports

What the India-Indonesia Sabang port project is and why a complementary maritime hub with Great Nicobar serves India’s interests

Anurag -
Sabang’s future lies in differentiation. It can become Indonesia’s western maritime-services hub as Great Nicobar anchors container movement, creating economic spillover across the Andaman Sea without forcing Jakarta into a security-heavy frame or rivalry narrative.
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News Reports

From BrahMos and Astra Mk1 deals to Sabang Port cooperation: How PM Modi’s Indonesia visit advances India’s strategic and defence interests

Shraddha Pandey -
Indonesia will become the first country to import India’s indigenous Astra Mk1 beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM).
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News Reports

2,000-year-old Indian gold rings found in Thailand: The Brahmi inscription, Vaishya link, and what archaeologists discovered

Divya Bharti -
Archaeologists in Thailand have discovered two 2,000-year-old gold rings at an Iron Age burial site. One ring features an ancient Indian Brahmi inscription, offering fresh, concrete evidence of early maritime trade and cultural exchange between India and Southeast Asia.
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News Reports

Bloomberg calls the Indian govt’s notice directing Meta to remove child sexual abuse content a ‘regulatory headache’: How the focus shifted from protecting children...

Shraddha Pandey -
Bloomberg has received backlash for the Indian government’s notification to Meta for the removal of child porn, a ‘regulatory headache’ for the US tech giant.
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News Reports

Babu Jagjivan Ram: The Dalit leader Congress and the Left never truly embraced because he refused to abandon Hinduism

Jinit Jain -
Babu Jagjivan Ram championed the cause of Dalits with uncompromising resolve, but unlike Ambedkar, believed Hindu society could be transformed from within rather than abandoned.
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News Reports

India reclaiming its legacy is ‘Hindu majoritarianism’, Pakistan appropriating its pre-Islamic heritage is ‘maturity’: Read how The Wire resorted to mental gymnastics to find...

Shraddha Pandey -
Pakistan’s sudden embrace of the pre-Islamic history of the Indian subcontinent is pretentious, agenda-driven, a tactic of retrofitting facts to appropriate the history of ancient India. One or two pre-partition name changes do not change the fact that Pakistan’s foundation is still rooted in the Two-Nation Theory that essentially says that Muslims cannot co-exist with Hindus.
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News Reports

UP under CM Yogi has kept electricity tariffs unchanged for the 7th year in a row: Read how that has been achieved

Dhruv Mishra -
In practice, this is the difference between the cost of supply rate and the rate a household actually pays. A rural lifeline consumer using up to 100 units a month effectively pays around ₹3.00 per unit after subsidy, even though the underlying cost of that power is much higher. The state government is absorbing the gap for now, not the consumers.
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News Reports

Thousands are being sent back since BJP won Bengal: Financial Times whines over India’s strict push-back policy for illegal immigrants now finally being enforced...

Rukma Rathore -
No rational government would or could keep its borders open for anyone to enter its country. Open borders are impractical for any nation, including India and Bangladesh. There is a reason why nations like Egypt and Jordan resolutely refuse to accept displaced Palestinians, despite their overwhelming support for them
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Opinions

Diljit’s Satluj is a half-truth, now taken down by ZEE5 due to a legal loophole, not any govt ‘ban’: Explained

Divyansh Tiwari -
ZEE5 has publicly affirmed its support for the film and stated that it is exploring all appropriate avenues to restore it, underscoring that the episode reflects the procedural complexities of digital content regulation rather than outright censorship.
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News Reports

‘Atheist’ China frees underground church leader Ezra Jin Mingri after Donald Trump’s request: Who he is and what ‘underground churches’ are

Shriti Sagar -
The Zion Church is among the largest underground or house churches in China that are unregistered with authorities.
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News Reports

Beyond the “Tap Water” narrative of Global Times: How India and Japan are reshaping Asia’s future, triggering unease in China

आशीष नौटियाल -
The relationship between India and Japan is no longer confined to diplomacy alone. It is expanding rapidly across multiple sectors, including investment, technology, clean energy, and the future economy.
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News Reports

Who is Tenzing Lamsang, anti-Modi editor of The Bhutanese who spread the false claim that Bhutan rejected India’s E20 petrol offer

Anurag -
The Petroleum Ministry said no E20 proposal existed. Yet Lamsang turned Bhutan’s request for continued conventional petrol into a rejection story. His past posts show a long record of hostile commentary on India and Modi.
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News Reports

No, Bhutan didn’t reject India’s E20 petrol offer: Read how anti-Modi editor of The Bhutanese spread fake news to give ammunition to opposition in...

Raju Das -
Bhutan requested Indian OMCS to keep supplying pure petrol as long as it remains available in India, and to give advance notice before supplying E20
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News Reports

‘Not a single Bengali Hindu is in detention camp’: As Himanta Biswa Sarma assures protection of Hindu refugees through CAA, read how he has...

Dibakar Dutta -
Himanta Biswa Sarma has been unabashed about his Hindu identity and has meticulously worked to unite the community across linguistic and ethnic lines in Assam. The historical differences between Assamese Hindus and Bengali Hindus have healed, and the State has moved in the direction of permanent reconciliation.
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News Reports

35 years after Sikh man Baljit Singh disappeared from police custody, ex-Punjab cop Kashmir Singh gets five years’ rigorous imprisonment; Read what the judgment...

Anurag -
The CBI court found Kashmir Singh was involved in Baljit’s abduction and illegal confinement, rejected his plea for probation, sentenced him to 5-year RI and imposed a Rs 10,000 fine, with all substantive prison sentences against him ordered to run concurrently.
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News Reports

Meet Shabir Ahmed, the Pakistani-origin ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang, whose early release has created a storm in the United Kingdom

विशेषता -
The early release of Rochdale grooming gang leader Shabir Ahmed has triggered widespread outrage in Britain. Despite losing his British citizenship, a loophole in the 1971 Immigration Act and diplomatic resistance from Pakistan currently prevent his immediate deportation.
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News Reports

PM Modi inaugurates India’s first Greenfield integrated refinery-cum-petrochemical complex in Rajasthan: Read how this project is a major milestone for India’s energy security 

Shriti Sagar -
He dedicated the country's first greenfield integrated refinery-cum-petrochemical complex to the nation at Pachpadra in Rajasthan's Balotra district, marking a major milestone for India's energy sector and industrial development.
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News Reports

The Guardian’s Hannah Ellis-Petersen suffers a meltdown after PM Modi receives the Seychelles highest honour: Read about the anti-India propagandist and her track record

Shriti Sagar -
Despite the vicious narrative pushed by The Guardian, the creation of the ‘Guardian of the Blue Horizon’ distinction has nothing to do with Prime Minister Modi himself but is instead rooted in the internal political restructuring of Seychelles.
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News Reports

UNESCO warns Pakistan of World Heritage Site delisting for using cement on Taxila sites: The farce of Pakistan’s ‘old civilisation’ rebranding

Shraddha Pandey -
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has formally asked Pakistan to reverse recent ‘reconstructions’ and “unnecessary interventions” at Mohra Moradu, a Buddhist monastery and stupa complex from the Kushan era, and Sirkap, the Indo-Greek city layer.
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News Reports

‘EVM hack’ conspiracy theorists use BAT-BMS E-Rickshaw hack cases to push their agenda again: Here is why they are wrong, and stupid

Dhruv Mishra -
Unlike e-rickshaws, Indian EVMs have no Bluetooth, no Infrared, no WiFi, no radio, no wired internet connection, and no wireless features of any kind.
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Opinions

Ethanol-blended Petrol is here to stay, but forcing one blend on all vehicles hurts people: Multiple choices from E10 to E100 at different prices...

Raju Das -
The Union Government has decided to waive excise duty on blended petrol, but surprisingly, it does not cover E20 petrol, which everyone is forced to buy at present
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News Reports

Donald Trump and his family earned over $1.4 billion from crypto investments, US president claims he was ‘unaware’: Read how his massive wealth is...

Rukma Rathore -
The proliferation of Trump's cryptocurrency capital has once again highlighted the murky connections as well as the unpredictability and unreliability of Pakistani relationship with the US, which is driven purely by self-interest.
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News Reports

‘Pakistan Army raises Jihadi groups but calls protesting civilians as terrorists’: JAAC declares in Rawalkot as PoK witnesses widespread protests, all you need to...

Shraddha Pandey -
AAC’s Sardar Aman Khan said, "Look, it was the Pakistan Army that put guns into the hands of Kashmiris. Kashmiris had guns because the Pakistan Army gave them those guns. The entire Pakistan Army did it. And today, they have the audacity to call us terrorists?”
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Editor's picks

117 Indians and Pakistanis seek restoration of bilateral talks and ties: Read who are the Indian signatories of the Aman ki Asha letter to the...

Shraddha Pandey -
OpIndia analysed how the letter titled “Appeal to the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan by Concerned Citizens”, amplified Pakistan’s narratives and interests
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News Reports

Was one ethanol factory really behind Byrnihat’s pollution? The timeline says no

Dhruv Mishra -
Coal-based factories, cement and steel units, heavy vehicle movement and Byrnihat’s bowl-shaped terrain offer a broader explanation for the crisis than a distillery that opened after pollution had already reached global attention and regulatory scrutiny.
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News Reports

38 parasites in the brain? How the BBC used a 19-year-old parasite case to defame India and promote negative stereotypes

Shriti Sagar -
Publishing a nearly two-decade-old case appears to reflect the anti-India BBC's intention to create the impression that such infections are uniquely associated with present-day India, even though neurocysticercosis is a recognised parasitic disease found across several developing regions in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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News Reports

‘Clandestine funding of extremism’: Karnataka HC refuses to quash UAPA case against associates of US-based Christian missionary organisation The Timothy Initiative

Anurag -
Investigators said more than 1,000 debit cards were circulated across India, with nearly Rs 100 crore withdrawn, including suspicious transactions in Naxal-affected Chhattisgarh, while TTI’s portal data was deleted through remote access after ED searches.
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Opinions

Indian Express targets BJP MP Medha Kulkarni over Vat Purnima rituals at Phule Wada: How historical legacies and manufactured caste divides are used to...

Jinit Jain -
An Indian Express opinion column invoked Mahatma Phule's legacy and Bahujan pride to question BJP MP Medha Kulkarni's visit to Mahatma Phule Wada in Pune for offering Vat Purnima rituals.
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News Reports

Pakistan pleads, 61 Indian ‘Aman ki Asha’ enthusiasts amplify: Read how they want PM Modi to revive the Musharraf-Manmohan Kashmir formula

Shraddha Pandey -
A letter, titled “Appeal to the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan by Concerned Citizens”, has been issued by the Centre for Peace and Progress on 30th June 2026. The ‘appeal’ has been signed by 117 ‘prominent citizens’, including 61 from India and 56 from Pakistan.
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News Reports

Swiss giant MSC to acquire 49% stake in Adani’s Vizhinjam Port in India’s largest ever foreign investment in port infra, Kerala govt objects: Read...

Rukma Rathore -
"Vizhinjam port has emerged as a premier trans-shipment hub and ramped up at an unprecedented pace," mentioned APSEZ CEO.
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