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What is the Pacific Ring of Fire, and why the earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula triggered Tsunami alerts thousands of miles away

Rukma Rathore -
The Ring of Fire constitutes a vast tectonic zone that extends along the peripheries of the Pacific Ocean.
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News Reports

Gujarat ATS nabs “highly radicalised” woman Shama Parveen from Bengaluru for running Al-Qaeda propaganda network online, fifth arrest in the case

OpIndia Staff -
Shama Parveen, a Bengaluru resident, has been arrested by Gujarat ATS for her alleged involvement with AQIS. Officials claim she was radicalised and ran an Instagram-based terror module promoting violent jihadi content and anti-India propaganda.
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News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: Civil Judge resigns after a judicial officer she accused of harassment was elevated to the High Court

OpIndia Staff -
She expressed resentment for not being given an opportunity to be heard despite citing documented facts against Gupta.
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News Reports

UNSC report names LeT offshoot TRF for Pahalgam terrorist attack, boosting India’s push for global sanctions

OpIndia Staff -
The UNSC monitoring team has documented that TRF claimed the Pahalgam attack and later retracted. India had briefed the committee about TRF’s Lashkar links, pushing for formal UN sanctions against the group.
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News Reports

Operation Shivshakti: Two terrorists killed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch as Indian Army continues crackdown after Operation Mahadev

OpIndia Staff -
Two terrorists were killed near the LoC in Poonch in an encounter with the Indian Army. The operation comes a day after three militants were eliminated in Srinagar during Operation Mahadev.
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News Reports

West Bengal Election Commission spots fake voter entries during sample checking, orders probe

OpIndia Staff -
Two Electoral Registration Officers have admitted that they accepted a considerable number of fake voter application forms.
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News Reports

Air India under intense scrutiny after Ahmedabad crash, DGCA Audit flags 100 lapses including crew fatigue and training failures

OpIndia Staff -
India’s aviation regulator DGCA has flagged around 100 safety issues at Air India, including crew fatigue and training lapses. Of those, seven were Level-1 violations.
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News Reports

Washington Post admits to spreading misinformation about Operation Sindoor and using false claims to defame Indian media

Anurag -
The Washington Post’s updated report on Operation Sindoor reveals it relied on false sources, mistranslations, and unverifiable claims. ironically committing the same journalistic lapses it accused Indian media of during the India-Pakistan conflict.
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News Reports

New York Times finally admits their image of ‘starving child in Gaza’ was fake, in a deceptive, whitewashed post

Shraddha Pandey -
In a subsequent post, the NYT attached the article in question and said that the publication has added an editor’s note below the article headlined: “Gazans Are Dying of Starvation”.
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News Reports

‘No one stopped India, Pakistan begged for ceasefire’: 7 takeaways from PM Modi’s blistering Lok Sabha speech on Operation Sindoor

OpIndia Staff -
On Tuesday, PM Modi delivered a scathing speech that not only laid bare Pakistan’s culpability but also shredded the Congress party’s decades-long policy failures on national security.
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News Reports

New limits, autopay timings and more: All you need to know about the changes in UPI rules that will take effect from August

OpIndia Staff -
The UPI guidelines will not impact routine payments, but they will aid in decreasing delays and failed transactions.
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Opinions

Ganguly bats for India-Pakistan clash at Asia Cup: How ‘sportsmanship’ became a shield for cowardice in the game that shouldn’t be played

Pragya Bakshi Sharma -
Sourav Ganguly recently came out in support of BCCI's decision to play against Pakistan in the Asia Cup scheduled to take place in September this year.
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News Reports

‘Baghpat fight’ memories rekindled in Mathura: Kulhads fly as the lassi shop owners fight on the streets

OpIndia Staff -
"There is a Sudama chowk in Barsana. This fight took place between two lassi shops trying to draw in customers. Kulhads were used during the fight. A woman was injured, and we got her medically checked", the Police said.
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News Reports

Fake surrogacy, stolen babies, and ₹35 lakh fraud: How a fertility clinic in Hyderabad was running a baby-selling racket in the name of IVF....

Chandrani Das -
The baby boy was just two days old when he was sold to the complainant couple under the terms that they would be his biological parents
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News Reports

Why dangerous stray dogs in your city are never removed? Behind India’s stray dog menace there is a cause, and a convenient excuse: ABC...

Anurag -
The ABC Rules have created legal and administrative hurdles that prevent effective stray dog control, even in life-threatening cases, making Indian streets unsafe for children, the elderly, and disabled amid skyrocketing dog bite incidents.
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Politics

“Aap to Pakistan jaate ho,” Read why Amit Shah mocked Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi during Parliament debate on Operation Sindoor

OpIndia Staff -
Amit Shah referenced Gaurav Gogoi's ties to Pakistan, during "Operation Sindoor" discussion in the Parliament.
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Opinions

Bengali Pride vs National Identity: Will Mamata Banerjee’s regional politics withstand BJP’s nationalist surge in 2026

Dr. Prosenjit Nath -
The BJP, meanwhile, is framing the issue differently, that true Bengali pride lies in protecting the culture from demographic invasion, not in sheltering illegal immigrants.
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News Reports

Pahalgam avenged, Pakistan’s hand exposed, terror camps flattened, and Operation Sindoor revealed: Key highlights from HM Amit Shah’s fiery Lok Sabha address

Shraddha Pandey -
Before sharing details of the Operation Mahadev and Operation Sindoor, HM Shah expressed condolences for the victims of the Pakistan-sponsored Islamic terror attack in Pahalgam.
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News Reports

Assam govt’s mega eviction drive: Thousands of acres of illegally encroached reserved forest land in Uriamghat to be reclaimed from encroachers

OpIndia Staff -
Around 2,000 families illegally occupied forest land and turned it into betel nut plantations tied to the betel mafia. Assam Govt has launched this eviction drive to reclaim the land.
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News Reports

MEA rejects Grand Mufti’s claims of Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya’s death sentence being cancelled

OpIndia Staff -
The rebuttal came hours after the Grand Mufti of India, Kanthapuram A.P. Abubakar Musliyar, issued a statement suggesting that a "high-level meeting in Sanaa" had resolved to fully cancel Nimisha’s death sentence.
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OpIndia Explains

EC’s SIR exercise in Bihar reports over 60 lakh voters ‘not found’ from earlier list: Read how a research paper by IIM professor had...

Rukma Rathore -
The research paper also supported the EC's action to address the issue of fake voters in Bihar before the assembly elections.
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News Reports

Bihar: RJD MLA Bhai Virendra booked under SC/ST Act after viral audio exposes alleged casteist abuse, threats to Panchayat Secretary

OpIndia Staff -
The complaint was filed under sections of SC/ST Act by Sandeep Kumar, the panchayat secretary of Baluwa in Maner, who accused the legislator of hurling casteist slurs and issuing serious threats.
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News Reports

How Operation Mahadev unfolded: 14 days of tracking, read how Pahalgam terrorist attack mastermind Hashim Musa was killed

OpIndia Staff -
Security forces eliminated Hashim Musa and two others during a swift encounter after tracking suspicious satellite phone signals and receiving key local inputs. Forensic tests will confirm their direct role in the Pahalgam killings.
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Crime

Jharkhand: Aftab Ansari, arrested for raping a tribal woman, dies after breaking out of prison, police registers case against Hindu activists who had complained...

OpIndia Staff -
Aftab Ansari was beaten up by Hindu activists belonging to an organisation called the 'Hindu Tiger Force' and then handed over to the police for his heinous act on July 23
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News Reports

Nayara moves Delhi HC after Microsoft abruptly stops services: How US companies have been used in NATO’s war against Russia

OpIndia Staff -
Nayara Energy criticised the EU sanctions as baseless and accused Microsoft of overreach. The company warned the suspension threatens fuel supply operations in India and violates its rights as a fully licensed service user.
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News Reports

How western media outlets like NYT and BBC use such carefully curated photographs and videos to peddle pro-Hamas agenda

Shraddha Pandey -
NYT, BBC, The Guardian among others used pictures of emaciated Palestinian boy Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, cradled in his mother’s arms, passing the images off as a face of Israel-inflicted starvation in Gaza.
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News Reports

Islamic outfit from Bangladesh doing ‘Tabligh’ in Nepal: Building mosques, crowdfunding to convert Hindus and change religious demographics

Dibakar Dutta -
"One of the biggest Hindu Rashtras in the world is Nepal. It is thus extremely important to carry out Daʿwah. One of the biggest tenets of our religion is to invite people on the path of Allah, " ASH founder, Muhammed Nasir Uddin, spelt out his nefarious agenda during a conversation with local Muslims.
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Law

‘You are a comedy piece’: Madras High Court judge rebukes advocate for levelling allegations of caste bias against the judiciary

OpIndia Staff -
During a hearing by a bench comprising Justice GR Swaminathan and K Rajsekar, Justice Swaminathan said, “You are a comedy piece. I don't know who called you all revolutionary. You are all comedy pieces."
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News Reports

American national among 2 arrested in Pimpri-Chinchwad for religious conversion: FIR alleges inducements, claims of Christianity’s superiority over Hinduism

OpIndia Staff -
Investigations revealed that Jacob had been visiting India since 2016 on tourist and business visas, raising concerns about the potential misuse of visa provisions to carry out religious propagation under the guise of legitimate travel.
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Law

Supreme Court hits out at tainted ‘burnt piles of cash at home’ Judge Yashwant Varma over his petition, questions how he can challenge in-house...

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court on Monday questioned Justice Yashwant Varma’s decision to challenge an in-house inquiry report only after it went against him. The report linked unexplained cash found at his residence to him or his family.
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Culture and History

1000-years ago, present-day Myanmar was a majestic Buddhist kingdom inspired by India’s culture, language and Ramayana: Read about the Bagan Empire

Rukma Rathore -
The Bagan Kingdom flourished at the height of King Anawrahta's reign, who was originally known as Aniruddha.
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News Reports

Muslim mob vandalises 15 Hindu homes in Bangladesh, forces exodus of 50 Hindu families under the pretext of ‘blasphemy’: Here is what we...

OpIndia Staff -
A Hindu woman lamented, "How will we survive now? We have been rendered penniless. They (Muslims) have taken away everything."
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News Reports

Opposition tries to disrupt Parliament during discussion on Operation Sindoor, after spending months trying to peddle lies and misinformation about it

OpIndia Staff -
Parliament is set to debate Operation Sindoor, India’s military response to the Pahalgam terror attack. With top ministers expected to speak, the Opposition has raised questions about the operation’s effectiveness, intent, and even the religious bias behind its name.
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World

PM Narendra Modi’s UK and Maldives visit marks a new era of diplomatic breakthrough: CETA deal, strategic cooperation, and economic aid drive India’s global...

श्रवण शुक्ल -
The CETA agreement with the UK has opened new doors for trade, employment and education for India.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Monkey pulls down live wire at Awsaneshwar temple, 2 dead and 19 injured after electric shock results in stampede

OpIndia Staff -
Two people were killed and 19 injured in a stampede outside Barabanki’s Awsaneshwar Mahadev Temple after a monkey-damaged electric wire fell on a tin shed.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Fraud exposed in ‘Ladki Bahin Yojana’, more than 14000 men received money meant for poor women for 10 months, over 26 lakh ineligible...

OpIndia Staff -
Maharashtra’s Women and Child Development Minister Aditi Tatkare informed that data from the Information Technology Department showed that approximately 26.34 lakh beneficiaries who were ineligible have been receiving benefits under the Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana.
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News Reports

6-year-old girl dies of rabies after stray dog attack in Delhi, was mauled while going to relative’s house nearby

OpIndia Staff -
The child’s aunt said they had to rush between multiple hospitals before turning to a private one. A complaint has been filed at Sultanpuri police station, holding the MCD accountable for failing to control stray dogs.
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News Reports

“One mission to watch Earth”: ISRO-NASA’s joint satellite Earth observation satellite NISAR set for July 30 launch from Sriharikota

ANI -
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday stated that the upcoming launch of NISAR, the first joint Earth observation satellite by ISRO and NASA, will mark a key milestone in Earth observation technology.
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News Reports

Machete attack on Indian man in Melbourne and 5 similar recent cases reveal rising hate crimes against Indians worldwide

Shriti Sagar -
A recent machete attack on an Indian man in Melbourne is the latest in a string of violent assaults on Indians abroad. From Australia to Canada and Ireland, racial hatred and targeted violence against Indians are becoming alarmingly frequent.
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News Reports

Maulanas continue attacking Dimple Yadav for entering Delhi mosque without Burqa, Imam Association Chairman Sajid Rashidi claims she was naked because her back was...

OpIndia Staff -
Orthodox Islamic leaders, including Rashidi, were offended by the attire of Dimple Yadav, who was wearing a saree in the mosque
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News Reports

In 14 years of Mamata’s rule, over 6600 companies left West Bengal, made their bases in states like UP and Delhi: How ‘Sonar Bangla’...

अर्पित त्रिपाठी -
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has reported that 6688 companies have left West Bengal between 2011-12 and 2024-25. According to the ministry, one-third of these, i.e. more than 2200 companies, have left the state since 2019.
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News Reports

Baghpat: Relatives kill young Muslim girl in front of her parents for loving Hindu Dalit boy, family buries body saying she died of TB,...

OpIndia Staff -
In a horrific case in UP's Baghpat, a Muslim girl was brutally murdered by her own relatives because she loved a Hindu Dalit youth.
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News Reports

From mobilisation of forces to delivering equipment, seamless logistics management was a deciding factor in success of Operation Sindoor: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh

OpIndia Staff -
Defence minister Rajnath Singh has said that seamless logistics management was a deciding factor in the success of Operation Sindoor.
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News Reports

Israeli navy intercepts Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s vessel Handala before reaching Gaza, 21 people detained for breaching blockade

ANI -
Israeli naval forces intercepted the vessel Handala late Saturday night as it attempted to breach the maritime blockade on Gaza, towing it to the port of Ashdod and detaining the 21 people aboard.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Two Hindu men who filed complaint against Love Jihad stripped, thrashed and forced to drink urine by Shahabuddin, Anas and Zeeshan

OpIndia Staff -
Chandan said that the attackers are part of an Instagram group called 'Baba Guruup', whose members trap Hindu girls using fake IDs.
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News Reports

Mann Ki Baat: PM Modi hails 12 Maratha forts recognised as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, says every stone has witnessed historical event

ANI -
PM Narendra Modi hailed the UNESCO’s move to recognise 12 Maratha forts among the World Heritage Sites and highlighted that every fort was a part of a historical event.
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Mohammad Shabbir Ahmed forces Hindu man to convert to Islam, forges documents in the name of victim, Congress and Bhim Army extend...

केशव मालान -
Police are probing Shabbir Ahmed's links with Jalaluddin alias Chhangur, the mastermind of the Balrampur Islamic conversion racket.
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News Reports

Bangladesh: Unknown group takes over Awami Leage headquarters in Dhaka, starts cleaning the building abandoned for a year

ANI -
An unidentified group under the banner of the "International Institute on Fascism and Genocide" is trying to seize the headquarters of the Bangladesh Awami League located in the heart of the capital, Dhaka.
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News Reports

Extremist goes on a stabbing spree outside Walmart store in US, injures 11 people: Here is what we know so far

OpIndia Staff -
At least 11 people were injured in a stabbing spree at a Walmart store near Traverse City, Michigan. Police have arrested the suspect, and emergency services rushed to the scene. Authorities have confirmed there’s no ongoing threat at the moment.
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News Reports

Agra conversion gang lured girls through Facebook, promised better life as third or fourth wife: Dehradun’s Srishti reveals racket of Ayesha and Abdul Rehman

श्रवण शुक्ल -
Srishti’s chilling testimony exposed fake SIMs, pressure to record Islamic voice notes, and offers of marriage in exchange for help. The racket mimicked ISIS-style operations and may have links to PFI and Pakistan-based networks.
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