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What is LORA and why is India interested in it despite already having BrahMos?

Shriti Sagar -
The Indian Air Force is considering acquiring Israel’s air-launched LORA missile, known for its 430-km range and radar-evading high-trajectory attacks. The move aims to complement BrahMos and strengthen India’s airstrike capabilities while boosting domestic defence production under 'Make in India'.
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News Reports

Brazil President Lula rejects Trump’s demand to stop court trial of ex-president Bolsonaro despite 50% tariff threat, asks not to interfere in their internal...

OpIndia Staff -
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defiantly rejected Donald Trump’s demands to terminate the criminal trial of former president Jair Bolsonaro, condemning Trump’s accompanying threat of 50% tariffs on Brazilian imports as an assault on national sovereignty.
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News Reports

Rabies in India: A preventable virus with 100% fatal disease after symptoms, still spreading through stray dog bites, poor awareness, and blocked action

Anurag -
Rabies remains a deadly threat in India, with children and the poor most affected. Despite available vaccines, gaps in public health, misused laws and growing dog populations make the disease a national emergency.
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News Reports

Who will amend the voter list if not us: Election Commission asks in Supreme Court during hearing on Bihar electoral roll revision

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court on Friday questioned the timing of the Election Commission's special revision of the Bihar voter list ahead of elections. It asked why the process wasn’t done earlier and whether voter ID and Aadhaar are being wrongly rejected.
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News Reports

Odisha: Islamist mob attacks ambulance during Muharram procession after it disrupts their “maatam” with its siren, the ambulance was carrying critically ill children

OpIndia Staff -
The mob started pelting the ambulance with stones and striking it with sticks, questioning the use of the siren during the Muharram procession
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News Reports

Rana Ayyub transferred COVID-19 funds to accounts of her family members, made a personal fixed deposit of ₹50 lakhs, tribunal directs her to pay...

Dibakar Dutta -
Rana Ayyub collected funds meant for COVID-19 relief work in the bank accounts of her father, Mohammed Ayyub Shaikh and sister Iffat Shaikh to the tune of ₹1.60 crores and ₹37.15 lakhs.
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News Reports

4 Chinese nationals caught spying on Rafale fighter jet in Greece: How China’s global intelligence operations threaten India and its allies

Balendu Singh Angad -
Four Chinese nationals were arrested in Greece for spying on Rafale fighter jets, highlighting China’s expanding global espionage network. This incident underscores Beijing’s willingness to target even India-friendly nations for strategic intelligence.
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News Reports

Hisar: School Principal stabbed to death by two minor students for asking them to cut hair

ANI -
Peeved at being pulled up for not cutting their hair and maintaining discipline, two minors in a village in Haryana's Hisar allegedly stabbed to death their school principal
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Politics

Swami Vamdev, handwritten notes, and the 1986 Kumbh: The forgotten pilgrimage behind Amit Shah’s talk of retirement

अनुपम कुमार सिंह -
Every morning, Swami Vamdev would hand his disciple a handwritten note. Amit Shah had to take that note to a different saint each day. It served as a recommendation for him. In this way, Shah spent time daily with a new saint — sharing meals at community feasts (Bhandara) and collecting offerings (Dakshina).
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News Reports

Exposed on live TV: What Hina Rabbani Khar’s evasion on terrorist Hafiz Abdur Rauf reveals about Pakistan’s political complicity in terror whitewashing

Aditi -
Entirely overlooking the facts presented by Jain, Khar kept repeating her lies and claimed that the man in the image is not the same as the terrorist.
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News Reports

Schoolgirls scolded, insulted and made to remove clothes for ‘periods examination’ in Thane: Principal and staff booked under POCSO

OpIndia Staff -
A school in Thane allegedly stripped nearly 10 girls to check if they were menstruating after blood stains were found in the toilet. The incident triggered protests from parents, leading to arrests and bookings under the POCSO Act.
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Opinions

If Jeffrey Epstein had no clients, then who was he trafficking kids to – Trump Administration’s U-turn on the biggest child exploitation scandal leaves...

Balendu Singh Angad -
Trump Justice Department has declared that Jeffrey Epstein maintained no "client list" even though Attorney General Pam Bondi once said the list is sitting on her desk.
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News Reports

Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya’s lawyer urges Indian govt to negotiate ‘blood money’ under Sharia to prevent her execution in Yemen: All you need to...

Shraddha Pandey -
The matter was brought before a partial working days bench of Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Joymalya Bagchi. The petitioners mentioned that as per Sharia law, a person if the relatives of the victims agree to accept "blood money" or "Diyya", adding that negotiations can be held to explore that option.
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News Reports

Kishanganj used to get 25 thousand applications in 1 month, now 1.27 lakh came in just a week: Is RJD-Congress opposing the voter list...

अर्पित त्रिपाठी -
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary has said that on average, 26 thousand to 28 thousand applications were coming to Kishanganj for a residence certificate every month from January to May in 2025. He said that as soon as the process of the Election Commission started, this number increased rapidly.
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News Reports

UP horror: Shahzad Ansari sexually assaults a Dalit minor in Sonbhadra after holding her captive, hurls casteist slurs and deaths threats when confronted by...

OpIndia Staff -
A 15-year-old Hindu Dalit girl was allegedly lured by a Muslim man on the false promise of marriage, brutally raped, and then held captive in his home for days.
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News Reports

Assam: Shahabuddin Ali arrested for vandalising 5 idols of Hindu deities in Durga temple complex in Goalpara

OpIndia Staff -
Reports say that along with vandalising the idols of Hindu deities installed inside the temple, the Muslim culprits also damaged the temple's donation box.
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News Reports

We only need 5 minutes, not 15: Owaisi’s genocidal “15 minutes” speech threatening Hindus repeated during Muharram procession in Gorakhpur, 3 arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Angry members of the Hindu community demonstrated at the police station, insisting on action against the accused.
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News Reports

Saharanpur: Muslim mob attacks Dalits during wedding procession, injures several over DJ music dispute near mosque

OpIndia Staff -
Violence broke out during a Dalit wedding procession in Saharanpur’s Amarpur Garhi village after a group from the Muslim community allegedly attacked baratis for playing DJ music near a mosque. Several were injured, and five accused have been arrested.
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News Reports

Chipmaker Nvidia becomes the first $4 Trillion publicly traded company powered by its booming AI business

OpIndia Staff -
Nvidia Corporation made history today, becoming the first publicly traded company to surpass a $4 trillion market capitalization
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News Reports

The heartbeat of Panna Tiger Reserve falls silent: Vatsala, Asia’s oldest elephant, aged over 100, dies

OpIndia Staff -
She spent her last years at the Hinauta elephant camp. She was not only admired but deeply loved. To those who cared for her, she was family
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News Reports

Supreme Court accepts fresh petitions against Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar

ANI -
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear two more pleas challenging the Election Commission of India's move to conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.
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News Reports

Pappu Yadav and Kanhaiya Kumar humiliated at opposition rally in Bihar, not allowed on protest vehicle with Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav, pushed back

OpIndia Staff -
Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar and independent MP Pappu Yadav were prevented from sharing stage with Rahul Gandhi, Tejashwi Yadav and other opposition politicians in BIhar, leading to a major embarrassment
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News Reports

Indian Railways to launch 1,000 new trains in five years, bullet train by 2027, 30000 wagons and 1500 locomotives being made in India every...

OpIndia Staff -
The Indian Railways will introduce 1,000 new trains in five years and aims to launch the bullet train by 2027. With massive investments, improved safety, and a push for exports, the Railways is undergoing a major transformation, says Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.
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News Reports

Bihar Bandh over voter list update is Rahul Gandhi’s plan to disrupt Monsoon Session of Parliament: Opposition has been doing it for years, and...

Shraddha Pandey -
Notably, the last comprehensive SIR in Bihar was conducted in 2003. Contrary to the ‘votebandi’ assertions by the opposition, the SIR is being carried out to address issues like rapid urbanisation, unreported deaths, new voters, the potential inclusion of ineligible foreign nationals, particularly, Rohingya and Bangladeshi infiltrators.
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Government and Policy

The Print spreads fake news claiming Centre is conducting study to assess sudden deaths of young Indians after COVID-19, gets fact-checked by PIB

OpIndia Staff -
The Print falsely claimed that the study will examine the rise in deaths among people under 45 years of age and its connection with COVID-19 vaccine.
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News Reports

ECI shreds Tejashwi Yadav’s voter fraud claims, reminds him 47,000 RJD agents are part of the SIR process

OpIndia Staff -
The ECI has dismissed RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav's allegations of irregularities in Bihar's voter list revision as baseless.
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News Reports

US: Woman handcuffed 6-year-old son and let a Pit Bull tear apart his throat for refusing to clean up the dog’s faeces with bare...

OpIndia Staff -
The boy's hands and ankles were in handcuffs during the assault as Williams believed that she was disciplining him.
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News Reports

Odisha Police rounds up over 400 suspected Bangladeshis and Rohingyas in Jharsuguda, TMC’s Mahua Moitra claims they are all workers from West Bengal

OpIndia Staff -
The identity verification of the detainees is being done in compliance with the guidelines of the Union Home Ministry and the Odisha government.
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News Reports

Kerala High Court judge says parents should raise children without any religion or caste, claims it is the only hope for the future

OpIndia Staff -
Justice Arun’s comments underline the significance of promoting secular values from an early age
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News Reports

Cops stabbed, Hindus lynched, houses and shops torched: Over 25 ghastly instances of Muharram violence reported in the past decade across India

Rukma Rathore -
The violence of the Muslim mobs during Muharram has spared no one, affecting Hindus, their families and even policemen.
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News Reports

Supreme Court refuses to stay the release of ‘Udaipur Files’ based on Kanhaiya Lal murder, lawyer of accused Mohammad Javed claims movie is not...

OpIndia Staff -
Notably, the killers of Kanhaiya Lal brutally beheaded him on camera. After killing him, they recorded a video remorselessly boasting about killing Kanhaiya Lal and threatening PM Modi.
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News Reports

Bihar Bandh cripples ECI operations: How the opposition is undermining a legal electoral exercise to stoke unrest

Chandrani Das -
Opposition arguing it could result in the exclusion of genuine voters through potential misuse of state machinery
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News Reports

‘Convert to Islam if you want to keep your job’: Lucknow’s Lulu Mall supervisor Faraz arrested for drugging, raping Hindu woman and blackmailing her...

OpIndia Staff -
The victim was thrashed and burnt with cigarettes as well as received death threats when she attempted to object.
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News Reports

FATF raises alarm on terrorists using e-commerce sites and online payment facilities, cites procurement of explosive material for Pulwama attack from Amazon

OpIndia Staff -
FATF has warned that terrorists are misusing online platforms like Amazon and PayPal for funding attacks. In a new report, it cited India’s Pulwama attack and the Gorakhnath Temple incident as examples of how digital tools are being exploited globally.
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News Reports

How a 30-kg, AI-powered, X-Guard system fooled Pakistani army into thinking they were hitting a Rafale

OpIndia Staff -
It's also possible that the X-Guard tricked Pakistan's J-10C fighters' KLJ-7A AESA radar into believing they had locked onto and struck Rafale jets.
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News Reports

IIT Kharagpur starts ‘Campus Mothers’ program to ‘provide emotional support’ to students: Read what it is and who will be the ‘Campus Mother’

OpIndia Staff -
The Campus Mothers will engage in informal conversations with distressed students. They can have tea, coffee or dinner with the students to listen to their concerns.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Sagar Islam sexually and physically assaults Hindu minor girl in school, complaint filed

OpIndia Staff -
The victim’s father filed a complaint alleging attempted murder and expressed fear for her safety. Despite the viral video and serious allegations, police have reportedly not filed an FIR or taken action so far.
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News Reports

Mohammed Zubair’s deliberate omission: How the Alt News co-founder hid Lord Shiva slur to peddle a false narrative over MP HC’s denial of bail...

Jinit Jain -
Mohammed Zubair selectively omitted the Lord Shiva slur in the MP cartoonist case to fuel a false narrative of political persecution.
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News Reports

‘Eunuchs joined the Sangh’: Congress MLA Sahab Singh Gurjar’s transphobic remarks sparks a row

OpIndia Staff -
Congress MLA Sahab Singh Gurjar did not take any BJRSS leader's name and took an indirect jibe, as he said, "Jo mard they wo jang mein gaye, jo hijde they wo sangh mein gaye [Those who were men went to the battlefield, those who were ‘Hijra’ (eunuchs) joined the Sangh. You understood, right? Just a hint is enough].”
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Crime

Love Jihad kingpin busted: Chhangur Baba’s Rs 100 cr Islamic conversion racket exposed in UP, CM Yogi assures strict action

OpIndia Staff -
The money for Chhangur Baba's Islamic conversion racket was flowing in from the Gulf countries to implement what looks like a long-term Islamisation project.
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Opinions

Why is Oslo interested in Bihar: Norway Ambassador’s meeting with Prashant Kishor raises more than a few questions

Balendu Singh Angad -
Norway's involvement in the region is not merely theoretical. Norwegian diplomats have previously attempted to mediate in Kashmir, presenting themselves as "neutral" facilitators.
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News Reports

If Mexico, Thailand and other countries can eliminate dog-mediated rabies, why can’t India?

Anurag -
Countries like Mexico and Sri Lanka curbed rabies with mass vaccination, regulation and public discipline. India, despite official programmes, still struggles due to legal hurdles, weak enforcement and lack of political will to act decisively.
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News Reports

From importer to self-sufficient powerhouse: How Assam transformed its Fisheries sector into a model for India

Chandrani Das -
Assam become the fourth-ranked inland state nationally producing 4.99 lakh MT of fish in 2023-24
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Opinions

Ichhadhari protestor Yogendra Yadav claims ECI’s voter list revision drive in Bihar should not happen because he does not like it: Here is how...

Shraddha Pandey -
Yogendra Yadav claimed that while ECI argues that an SIR in Bihar will help weed out illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya infiltrators from the voter list, it will also remove over 2.5 crore Indian citizens from the electoral roll.
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Opinions

UK’s King Charles, Bishop, PM Starmer and others go overboard to whitewash Islamic terrorist attack of 7/7, use ‘lives were lost’, as if victims...

Balendu Singh Angad -
Twenty years to the day after Islamic terrorists devastated London, killing 52 innocent people and injuring over 700, the British ruling class has orchestrated a shameful spectacle.
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News Reports

Soros-backed NGO amplifies Rahul Gandhi’s disinformation on Bihar voter rolls: Inside ADR’s web of foreign links, Rafale lies, and EC disruption

Amit Kelkar -
As Bihar elections approach, the familiar nexus of ADR, Soros-linked networks, activist-lawyers, and the Mahagathbandhan are busy orchestrating a manufactured crisis and weaponising disinformation to delegitimise India’s electoral institutions.
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Law

Madras High Court pulls up former DMK Minister K Ponmudy for his derogatory remarks against Hinduism, says CBI probe will be ordered if Tamil...

OpIndia Staff -
The Madras High Court has delivered a blistering rebuke to Tamil Nadu police for their "distressing and unfortunate" failure to act against former DMK Minister K. Ponmudy over derogatory remarks targeting Hindu religious sects and women, warning it would order a CBI probe if authorities fail to take immediate action.
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News Reports

Cloudbursts, landslides, and rising death toll: Himachal Pradesh faces nature’s fury as the state battles massive floods caused by the monsoon

OpIndia Staff -
The death toll has risen to 78, with 50 people dying due to rain-related incidents and 28 losing their lives in road accidents. In addition to that, 37 people have been reported missing and 115 have been injured.
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Opinions

Pakistan’s Intersys Limited sues OpIndia for defamation in Karachi Court over fentanyl exposé, ignoring jurisdiction rules while sitting on allegations of drug and visa...

Anurag -
A Pakistani firm linked to digital scams, opioids, and visa fraud filed a defamation suit against OpIndia in Karachi, displaying shocking legal ignorance and misusing local courts to cover up its alleged global criminal operations.
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World

US President Donald Trump imposes a 35% tariff on Muhammad Yunus’s Bangladesh, keeps the option of “No Tariff” if the country decides to set...

OpIndia Staff -
In a decisive move aimed at recalibrating its global trade balance and sending a strong signal to unfriendly regimes, the United States has announced a 35% tariff on all Bangladeshi imports, citing long-standing trade imbalances and non-cooperative economic policies.
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