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Good news for passengers: Indian Railways plans to prepare train reservation chart 24 hours ahead of departure

OpIndia Staff -
Trials have commenced to assess the feasibility of implementing the new reservation chart system.
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News Reports

Valmiki scam: ED raids premises of one Congress MP and three MLAs in Karnataka in connection with multi-crore scam

OpIndia Staff -
The raids are reportedly related to the investigation of an embezzlement of funds worth crores from the Karnataka Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation Limited (KVSTDCL).
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News Reports

Violence erupts in Maheshtala in WB after Hindus prevent encroachment of temple land – Shiva Mandir vandalised, vehicles torched, several cops injured in stone...

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A Shiva Mandir and nearby shops were vandalised, police attacked by a mob in South 24 Parganas in West Bengal after Hindus objected to encroachment of temple land
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News Reports

Karnataka caste census junked: Congress fails its own social justice pitch days after Rahul Gandhi accused Centre of not getting it done properly

Aditi -
The development has come as a major embarrassment for Congress scion Rahul Gandhi, who recently caste aspersions on the BJP government at the Centre regarding the conduct of a national caste survey.
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OpIndia Explains

As netizens outrage over new AC temperature rules, understand why the rules are being introduced, their impact on Indian homes and how they compare...

Shraddha Pandey -
The Indian government mandating standardisation of AC temperatures between 20°C and 28°C is likely to significantly help the nation reduce power consumption, slashing electricity bills, and promoting energy efficiency.
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Crime

CBI files chargesheet against 8 including Local Law Officer of French Embassy in Schengen Visa fraud case, India’s first Silver Notice was issued to...

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday said that it has filed a chargesheet in French Embassy Visa fraud case against 8 accused persons.
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News Reports

Indian Army to get Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (QRSAM) system worth ₹30,000 crore: Meet country’s strongest missile system and its significance in air defence

Rukma Rathore -
Aircraft, hovering helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles and other airborne targets can all be thwarted by QRSAM systems.
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Fact-Check

Mamata Banerjee’s ‘no religion-based OBC list’ lie busted: 86% of new OBC additions are Muslims as per West Bengal govt data

Amit Kelkar -
The recent data from the West Bengal government shows that a staggering 86 per cent of new OBC additions are Muslims—a fact that not only goes against constitutional morality but also challenges concept of equality that proponents of Islam routinely invoke.
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News Reports

Population of Muslims growing the fastest in the world, while population share of Hindus declining in several countries including India: Pew Research

Aditi -
The Muslim population grew by 347 million, which is more than the combined increase in the populations of all other religions. The study shows that one-third of Muslims live in the three countries of India, Pakistan and Indonesia.
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News Reports

What is Meta Superintelligence and why is it important enough for Mark Zuckerberg to get personally involved in the hiring process

Rukma Rathore -
Leading researchers consider "superintelligence" to be a future objective of AI development.
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News Reports

Journalist Shazia Nisar tries to extort Rs 65 Crore from CEO of Bharat24 by threatening him with a false rape case, arrested along with...

OpIndia Staff -
The FIR also named Adarsh Jha along with Shazia Nisar, a journalist formerly associated with a digital news portal, as an accomplice in the blackmail.
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News Reports

Pakistani Mohd Shahzeb Khan, who was planning mass attacks on Jews in New York, extradited from Canada to US

OpIndia Staff -
Pakistani national Muhammad Shahzeb Khan residing in Canada started communicating with others on an encrypted messaging application about his support for ISIS, including by distributing ISIS propaganda videos and literature in 2023.
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Opinions

Pakistan to increase defence budget by 18% while its economic debt rises to 76,000 Billion Rupees: How Pakistan’s obsession with India has crippled the...

Shraddha Pandey -
Notably, the 2024-25 defence budget of Pakistan was Rs 2,122 billion, already up nearly 15 per cent from the previous year.
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News Reports

India on the brink of ending Naxalism forever: Massive crackdown leaves movement leaderless and scattered

OpIndia Staff -
Politburo is now composed of merely 4 members and the central committee has just 14 individuals.
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News Reports

What is ‘Brigade 313’? Inspired from ‘Battle of Badr’, Al-Qaeda’s Pakistan-based terror wing that Islamabad doesn’t want you to know

Anurag -
Beyond South Asia, according to the Combating Terrorism Centre, the CIA has documented Brigade 313’s operatives in various European cities, highlighting its transnational threat.
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News Reports

₹7000 Crore Unpaid, 2000 Families Ruined… From King of Good Times to Master of Guilt Trips: Here are 10 Lies of Vijay Mallya Busted...

अनुपम कुमार सिंह -
Vijay Mallya is busy polishing his image, but that may work for a web series, not in real life. At this point, it’s no longer just about recovery—it’s a matter of criminal conspiracy, fraud, and money laundering.
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News Reports

Honeymoon murder case: Sonam’s warning to her mother, chats with her boyfriend, last call with the in-laws and more

Rukma Rathore -
After Raja's murder, Sonam even uploaded "saat janmon ka saath hai (together for seven lives)" from his phone.
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News Reports

7 times Congress leader Pawan Khera used his X account to spread fake news and misleading claims, is this the ‘Tapasya’ he is doing...

Anurag -
Pawan Khera’s repeated use of misleading posts and fake claims reflects a disregard for facts and exposes the intellectual vacuum in Congress. In today’s fact-checked era, it is politically self-destructive.
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Opinions

Greta Thunberg’s activism is all narcissism and drama, with zero concerns for actual victims, be it the cause of environment or Gaza

Shraddha Pandey -
From climate strikes to her recent Gaza flotilla gimmick, Greta Thunberg has long been doing performative gestures devoid of any depth to bolster her image as a beacon of hope and justice while conveniently sidestepping the complexities of the very causes she claims to champion.
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News Reports

As “Operation Kagar” against Naxalism delivers major successes and with end of ‘red terror’ on the horizon, five Left parties write to PM Modi...

Rukma Rathore -
five Left parties have voiced their opposition to the encounter of Maoist leaders in the Chhattisgarh region under the operation, in a joint letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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News Reports

PM Modi urges Indians to participate in ‘Jan Man Survey’ and provide feedback to the govt, upholds true essence of democracy: Details

Dibakar Dutta -
Through the Jan Man Survey, the Modi government provided an opportunity to all Indian citizens to directly express their views about issues such as national security, governance, cultural pride and youth development.
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Opinions

From India to Europe and the US: why deporting illegal migrants is such an uphill struggle everywhere

Anurag -
Assam’s Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma recently invoked a long-forgotten 1950 law to bypass the Foreigners Tribunal and push the illegal immigrants back into Bangladesh and Myanmar, a move that is being criticised by the so-called human rights activists.
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Crime

Bihar: Fake police station kept running in a government school for 4 months, fake SHO duped 300 people of ₹50 lakh in the name...

OpIndia Staff -
The accused, named Rahul Kumar Sah, had set up a fake camp in Batauna village of Mohini Panchayat of Kasba police station area, where he used to sit wearing a police uniform and used that to deceive people.
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News Reports

Mamata’s MP Saket Gokhale, who used to mock Savarkar for ‘clemency petition’, offers grovelling apology to former diplomat Lakshmi Puri

OpIndia Staff -
The Trinamool Congress MP, who was jailed for spreading fake news, had mocked the legacy of freedom fighter Veer Savarkar repeatedly between 2019 and 2021.
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Opinions

Donald Trump claims to broker ceasefires and douse fires of conflict all over the world, meanwhile, his own nation is engulfed in violence and...

Rukma Rathore -
Donald Trump has consistently presented himself as a peacemaker with the power to bring countries to the negotiation table but has not been able to negotiate a single ceasefire.
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News Reports

Muslim women hounded for being friends with Hindus in Bareilly: What is Haidari Dal and how Islamists are enforcing Taliban-style moral policing in India

Shraddha Pandey -
Haidari Dal is an informal Islamist vigilante group comprising Muslim men, who engage in moral policing against interfaith couples involving Muslim women and non-Muslim men.
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News Reports

Leftist media, which once hailed Himanshi Narwal for her ‘secular ideals’, goes silent after Muslim men caught for circulating her fake obscene videos

OpIndia Staff -
Mohibul Haq and his son Gulam Zilani arrested for creating and circulating an AI-generated obscene video of Himanshi Narwal, widow of martyred Lieutenant Vinay Narwal, who was killed in the 22nd April Pahalgam terrorist attack.
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News Reports

“She had a good nature, don’t think she has done this”: Neighbours of Sonam Raghuvanshi, accused in Indore couple case

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 The neighbour of Sonam Raghuvanshi, an accused in the Indore couple case could not believe that she could be involved in these kinds of criminal activities.
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News Reports

From Nobel to Nightmare: How Muhammad Yunus is eyeing to scrap the constitution of Bangladesh and induct his own ‘Islamic Revolutionary Army’

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury -
Once the Constitution is scrapped, Yunus will acquire unchecked authority to dismiss President Muhammad Shahabuddin and Army Chief General Waker Uz Zaman, replacing the Bangladesh Armed Forces with his envisioned “Islamic Revolutionary Army” (IRA).
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News Reports

Another IAS officer caught red-handed in Rs 20 lakh bribery case in Odisha: India’s rotten bureaucracy exposed again

Jinit Jain -
Dhiman Chakma, a 36-year-old IAS officer, has been caught red-handed while allegedly accepting a bribe of ₹10 lakh from a businessman in Odisha’s Kalahandi district.
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News Reports

Removal of Article 370, CAA, drastic reduction in poverty and more: BJP President JP Nadda highlights the achievements of Modi Govt during the past...

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The BJP President highlighted the notable decisions taken under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi, including abrogation of Article 370, abolition of Triple Talaq, bringing of the Waqf Amendment Act and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), etc.
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Crime

Honeymoon, hitmen and murder: How authorities unravelled the plot behind the killing of Indore businessman Raja in Meghalaya and arrested mastermind Sonam

Rukma Rathore -
Raja Raghuvanshi's brother stated that the brain behind the murder, Raj Kushwaha, was Sonam's employee.
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News Reports

Gujarat: Shells, stone tools, and other evidence of human habitation: IITGN uncovers pre-Harappan human presence dating back at least 5000 years in Kachchh

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The researchers uncovered a range of stone tools including cutters, scrapers, and splitters. They also discovered cores from which these tools were made.
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World

Over 1 million Afghans forced back into Afghanistan from Pakistan amid deportation drive: UN Human Rights body

ANI -
More than 1.055 million Afghan citizens have returned from Pakistan to Afghanistan between October 2023 and May 2025, marking an unprecedented trend in recent years, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
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News Reports

FIR to be filed against ‘Blue gamchhadhari’ MP creating trouble for Switzerland-based PhD scholar of Valmiki community, victim exclusively speaks to OpIndia

अनुपम कुमार सिंह -
Dr. Rohini Ghavari informed that Chandrashekhar Azad has the support of big political parties. However, she is confident that once his real character is revealed, these political parties will be ashamed of associating themselves with him.
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News Reports

Devotees demand corridor in Banke Bihari temple then why sevayat Goswami community is opposing it: OpIndia’s ground report throws light on every aspect of...

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The local Goswami community even described the corridor as a collusion between land mafia and some officials.
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News Reports

‘Auto driver’ Imran entraps Hindu girls with fake identity, blackmails them using obscene videos, threatens to slaughter Hindus on Bakri Eid: Read FIR details

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The police have seized his mobile phone and other digital devices. Investigation is ongoing to identify all the victims and uncover the extent of his network.
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News Reports

Hashtag #ArrestAarfaKhanam continues to trend on top after Congress leader Aarfa Khanam promoted cow slaughter on Eid-Al-Adha

OpIndia Staff -
The hashtag #ArrestAarfaKhanam has been trending on top on X for over 24 hours, as netizens demand action against advocate and Congress leader Aarfa Khanam for a now-deleted Eid-Al-Adha post
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News Reports

FIR filed against HDFC Bank MD and CEO by Lilavati Hospital Trust over loan default case, bank says earlier legal actions including minority rights...

ANI -
An FIR has been filed against HDFC Bank's MD and CEO by a Mehta family of Lilavati Hospital Trust that allegedly defaulted on a bank loan provided back in 1995
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News Reports

World Malayalee Council promotes tourism in Azerbaijan, which stood with Pakistan during Operation Sindoor, after Afridi was welcomed by another Kerala group in Dubai

OpIndia Staff -
The World Malayalee Council (WMC), an organization representing the global Malayali diaspora, has sparked controversy by announcing its 2025 Global Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan
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News Reports

Israel vows to prevent Greta Thunberg’s boat from reaching Gaza, defence minister tells ‘anti-Semitic Greta and her fellow Hamas propaganda spokespeople’ to turn back

OpIndia Staff -
Among the most controversial figures on board is French MEP Rima Hassan. Notably, she has previously defended Hamas’s 7 October terror attack on Israel as “legitimate” and has been barred from entering Israel for promoting the BDS campaign and glorifying violence.
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News Reports

DRDO’s Vehicle R&D unit transfers technologies of nine defence systems to 10 industries from public and private sector

OpIndia Staff -
In a significant step towards empowering private and public sector units in defence manufactory, the DRDO is transferring technologies related to nine crucial systems to 10 industrial units.
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News Reports

Canadian investigative journalist assaulted by Khalistan supporters in Vancouver, warns of rising extremism

OpIndia Staff -
He further warned that organisations including the World Sikh Organisation (WSO) offer political cover within Canada. He said, “Their executives include current and former MPs and ministers, who have spread influence across Canadian institutions.”
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News Reports

Bangladeshi man who participated in ‘student protests’ turns out to be a voter in West Bengal, has connections with TMC, accused claims innocence

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"He (Newton Das) must be a voter in Bangladesh. He was born there. He had come to India after Covid-19 outbreak to settle some land disputes. I do not know where he lives now. I don't know how he became a voter here," the accused's brother Tapas Das told TV9 Bangla.
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Crime

Two Hindu girls, who went missing from their homes in Delhi, found at Haridwar railway station with two Muslim men

OpIndia Staff -
The girls were reportedly lured by the Muslim men who brought them from Delhi to Haridwar for sightseeing.
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News Reports

What is the Nepal-Patanjali land deal in which 93 people including ex-Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal have been booked for corruption

OpIndia Staff -
The CIAA has demanded that Madhav Nepal pay NPR 18.58 crore in damages. If convicted under the Corruption Prevention Act, 2002, he could face up to 17 years of imprisonment.
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News Reports

Goa CM Pramod Sawant assures that Medical College CMO won’t be suspended after health minister’s suspension order triggers protests and outrage: Here is what...

OpIndia Staff -
Goa CM Pramod Sawant assured on Saturday that Dr Rudresh Kurtikar, Casualty Medical Officer at Goa Medical College, will not be suspended
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News Reports

Khalistani groups in Canada plan protests against PM Modi’s G7 visit, plan to honour Indira Gandhi’s killers and suicide bombers who attacked Indian Army...

OpIndia Staff -
Khalistani groups are planning to pay tribute to the so-called "martyrs", including Beant Singh and Satwant Singh, the killers of former Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi.
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News Reports

Congress govt in Karnataka gave green signal to RCB felicitation ceremony at Vidhan Soudha, letter shows DCP had warned against it

OpIndia Staff -
"As the Royal Challengers Bangalore team has a large fan following across the country, holding the felicitation at the grand steps of Vidhana Soudha may attract lakhs of cricket fans, potentially creating security challenges due to a shortage of officers/staff in the Vidhana Soudha security wing," DCP Gowda warned.
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Delhi: 9-year-old girl raped and murdered on Bakrid, body found in a suitcase, police looking for accused Naushad

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The victim was found semi-nude, stuffed inside a suitcase kept in a locked flat.
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