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Grandfather of new MI6 chief was a Nazi spy chief known as ‘the buther’, had boasted of killing Jews and Ukrainian resistance fighters, reveals...

OpIndia Staff -
Citing German archives, The Daily Mail reported that new MI6 chief Blaise Metreweli is the granddaughter of Constantine Dobrowolski, a notorious Nazi collaborator who spied and killed for Adolf Hitler's Germany.
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News Reports

India thrashes supplemental award by ‘illegal arbitration court’ under Indus Water Treaty on 2 hydroelectric projects in Kashmir, calls it a charade at Pakistan’s...

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Government of India on Friday dismissed a Court of Arbitration under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty as illegal, and rejected its recent rulings over Kishenganga and Ratle hydroelectric projects in Jammu and Kashmir
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News Reports

India’s current account records a surplus of $13.5 billion in January-March quarter of 2024-25, deficit for the financial year comes down to $23.3 billion

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India's current account recorded a surplus of USD 13.5 billion (or 1.3 per cent of GDP) in the January-March quarter of 2024-25 as compared with USD 4.6 billion (or 0.5 per cent of GDP) in the same quarter of 2023-24, RBI data showed Friday.
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News Reports

Temple demolition whitewashed: How Muhammad Yunus-led govt in Bangladesh brazenly defended demolition of Hindu temple in Dhaka

Jinit Jain -
A day after a Durga Temple was demolished in Bangaldesh's Dhaka, the Muhammad Yunus-led govt released a press note, brazenly defending the action and victim-blaming the Hindus.
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News Reports

British Navy finally agrees to move stranded F-35B jet to Maintenance facility of Thiruvananthapuram airport for repairs, 2 weeks after it made emergency landing

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British High Commission said that the UK has accepted an offer to move the stranded F-35B aircraft to the Maintenance Repair and Overhaul facility at the Thiruvananthapuram airport
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News Reports

OpIndia Ground Report: Taufiq murdered “rakhi sister” Neha for rejecting his wedding proposal, threw her off the 5th floor of the building to her...

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Taufiq, after making an emotional case that he doesn't have any sister, apparently treated Neha as his sister. The elder sister of Neha said that she used to tie Rakhi to him on Rakshabandhan.
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News Reports

Washington Post downplays anti-Hindu propaganda of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as ‘harsh criticism’ of PM Modi

OpIndia Staff -
It is this selective framing by media outlets like The Washington Post that contributes to a broader problem: delegitimizing Hindu concerns while sanitizing hate under the convenient banner of political dissent.
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News Reports

Allahabad High Court links live-in relationships to exploitation in “False Marriage Promise” case, says it is against middle-class norms

OpIndia Staff -
In a significant observation during a bail hearing, the Allahabad High Court commented on the concept of live-in relationships, The court stated that live-in goes against the "established laws" of middle-class society. The court also expressed concern over the rising number of cases involving the exploitation of women under the guise of false marriage promises.
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News Reports

Managing crash site to analysing blackbox data in own lab: India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau handling AI-171 crash probe entirely in the country

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The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) Lab in New Delhi, is currently working intensively to examine data retrieved from the black boxes of Air India Flight AI-171, which crashed in Ahmedabad earlier this month.
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News Reports

Prashant Kishor is misleading, Norway and Sweden are heavily industrialised nations, and Bihar needs industries too

Aditi -
The cumulative effect of the policies of the Congress and the RJD governments was that the local industries Bihar were entirely uprooted pushing the state into a dark unending period of poverty.
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News Reports

Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray reunite try to force another “language war” under false claims of “Hindi is compulsory”: Read why it is not...

Rukma Rathore -
Uddhav Thackeray has taken a leaf out of DMK's political playbook and is trying to start an anti-Hindi language war in Maharashtra
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News Reports

South Kolkata Law college rape case: What we know about the involvement of TMC leader Monojit Mishra and his connection to top netas

Dibakar Dutta -
The rape accused has been seen meeting several TMC leaders, including Abhishek Banerjee, Mamata Banerjee's sister-in-law and even Firhad Hakim.
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News Reports

Karnataka HC issues notice on ‘Cauvery Aarti’ after plea by self-styled farmer activist Sunanda Jayaram

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Sunanda Jayaram has over the years earned a reputation of being a compulsive contrarian who has made a career out of opposing even well-intentioned policies. The plea against Cauvery Aarti is no different.
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Opinions

Bangladesh says it is not trying to join an alliance with China and Pakistan to sideline India in the region, but here is how...

Balendu Singh Angad -
Bangladesh's interim government, under Muhammad Yunus, is actively deepening engagements with Pakistan and China while simultaneously denying any intent to form alliances targeting India.
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News Reports

The politics of contradiction: How LGBTQ patron Muhammad Yunus turned into ‘saviour of Muslims’ in Bangladesh

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury -
Despite Yunus’s decades-long involvement in promoting and funding LGBTQ causes globally, a growing segment of Islamic leaders in Bangladesh now view him favourably. This contradictory narrative exposes the fragile and often opportunistic dynamics of Bangladeshi politics, where ideological lines can be redrawn overnight.
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News Reports

Lucknow: A day before Muharram, 300 firearms and 50,000 cartridges seized from a house, Hakim Salahuddin arrested

OpIndia Staff -
A large cache of weapons, cartridges, and illegal weapon-making tools were seized in Lucknow, just a day before Muharram from the house of Hakim Salahuddin in Lucknow.
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News Reports

After success in Operation Sindoor, Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr raises $100 million funding: How India is becoming more Atmanirbhar in defence manufacturing

Shraddha Pandey -
Raphe mPhibr drones fired missiles at terror and military establishments in Pakistan during Operation Sindoor. The Noida-based company is increasing its domestic drone capabilities due to growing military interest and national security concerns, including an impending Army order.
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World

‘No Space For Jeff Bezos’: Read why the city of Venice is protesting against Amazon founder’s Rs 480 Crore wedding

Rukma Rathore -
Protestors are pleased that the Jeff Bezos wedding location had to be changed and are still determined to keep protesting till Bezos and his guests leave Venice.
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News Reports

The Arvind Kejriwal of NYC: How Zohran Mamdani won the Democrat nomination for the mayor post by promising freebies and Wall Street is losing...

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Wall Street and business leaders have warned that the policies of Zohran Mamdani could cripple the economy of New York City. Philippe Laffont of Coatue Management has predicted a “wealthy exodus” to low-tax States.
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News Reports

Cases of Christian conversion rise rapidly in Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh, some districts saw 41% increase in Christian population: Report

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Missionary organisations have been offering money to people and providing facilities like installing hand pumps to lure people to convert.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh issues guidelines for Kanwar Yatra: No sale of meat on the yatra route, no liquor, shopkeepers asked to display their names

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From banning liquor and meat shops to deploying drones and setting up eco-friendly facilities, the administration is gearing up for a safe Kanwar Yatra.
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News Reports

Don Bosco Hinduphobia incident: Local Congress leader, who claims to be part of school management committee, intimidates victim’s family over phone

Dibakar Dutta -
"What is the big fuss if the tilak of the kid was wiped off?" the Congress leader attempted to justify the blatant act of Hinduphobia targeting 6-year-old Hindu child.
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Political History of India

Freight Equalisation Policy: Another Nehru ‘gift’ that kept mineral-rich states like Bihar and Odisha backward while Southern states and Maharashtra prospered with industrialisation

Rukma Rathore -
Former Union Minister Hansraj Bhardwaj admitted that the FEP needed to be abolished because it had failed to meet its goals.
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News Reports

Congress demand for digital copies of electoral rolls is not legally tenable, matter already conclusively settled by Supreme Court: ECI sources

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Sources within the Election Commission of India (ECI) have clarified that the Indian National Congress' (INC) ongoing demand for machine-readable, digital copies of electoral rolls is "not legally tenable" and has already been conclusively settled by the Supreme Court.
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News Reports

SpaceX Dragon spacecraft piloted by Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla docks with International space station, Axiom Mission-4 crew members enter the ISS

OpIndia Staff -
Axiom Mission 4 successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, June 26, 2025, at approximately 4:15 IST (10:31 UTC).
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News Reports

Madras HC delivers split verdict in plea against animal sacrifice at Dargah on Thiruparankundram Hill where Hindu temples are also located, rejects renaming of the...

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The Muslims have been claiming the entire hill as the Waqf property and demanding the continuation of animal sacrifice calling it an old tradition.
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News Reports

Karnataka: Congress files FIR against BJP for equating Indira Gandhi with Hitler in AI-generated video commemorating emergency

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Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar defended the declaration of emergency by Indira Gandhi saying that after emergency, she came back to power after receiving people's mandate.
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News Reports

As hitlist of 950 leaders including judges is recovered from PFI terrorists, here is how SC gave bail to a PFI terrorist accused of...

Anurag -
Court ignored legal precedent that conspiracy need not involve direct execution. It said “only one person” was killed and granted bail, even as NIA exposed PFI’s 950-name hitlist including judges and Hindu leaders.
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News Reports

West Bengal school scraps 25-year-old practice of separate mid-day meals for Hindu and Muslim students after administration launched a probe

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For over two decades, students at a village school in West Bengal were served mid-day meals separately based on their religion—Hindus and Muslims eating in different classrooms with food cooked in separate utensils.
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Editor's picks

When will Congress stop flogging this dead horse and stop peddling conspiracy theories about Maharashtra assembly elections?

Shraddha Pandey -
After the Election Commission invited Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi for talks over his allegations regarding the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly polls, the Congress party on Thursday responded through a letter.
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News Reports

Bangladesh: Durga Mandir in Dhaka demolished by administration two days after Islamic mob issued an ultimatum to remove it, idols crushed by bulldozer

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A Durga Mandir in Bangladesh capital Dhaka was demolishedv by the administration 2 days after a large mob threatened to bring it down
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News Reports

Prime Ministers Museum and Library may file theft case against Sonia Gandhi for withholding Nehru’s papers: Read why

OpIndia Staff -
Despite repeated letters from the PMML Trust and historian Rizwan Kadri, Sonia Gandhi has not responded regarding the 51 cartons of Nehru’s papers taken in 2008. Legal options, including theft charges, are being considered.
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News Reports

Air India flight 171 crash: AAIB and NTSB start data extraction from the Black Box and CVR in Delhi laboratory

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According to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the memory module was successfully accessed and its data downloaded at the AAIB Lab. The analysis of CVR and Flight Data Recorder (FDR) data is underway
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News Reports

Kailash Mansarovar Yatra resumes after a 5-year gap as India and China move towards normalising ties: All you need to know about the spiritual...

Aditi -
The yatra is an arduous journey involving high altitudes, difficult terrain and a challenging environment requiring physical and mental strength.
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News Reports

How Arunachal Pradesh is preserving the ancient craft of Mon Shugu paper, keeping the sacred tradition alive that is integral to Monpa people’s culture

Balendu Singh Angad -
At the roof of the world, where the Himalayan air is crisp and the Monpa people roam free, lies a centuries‑old secret: Mon Shugu, a handmade paper crafted not from trees, but from the bark of the Daphne papyracea shrub.
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Taufiq tried to force ‘Rakhi-sister’ Neha into marry him, lied about not having a real sister: More details emerge after he killed her by...

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Taufiq assaulted Neha's father, who rushed to rescue his daughter upon hearing the chaos on the rooftop.
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News Reports

India banks big on nuclear power, states urged to submit proposals, as Minister proposes NPP for Bihar

Anurag -
The Centre aims to scale nuclear capacity from 8,180 MW to 22,480 MW by 2031–32, with private sector participation and plans for new reactors in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, and Madhya Pradesh.
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Assam govt intensifies crackdown on illegals in the state, 88 Rohingya and Bangladeshi infiltrators detected and deported from Cachar in a month

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Notably, a nationwide Operation Push-back is being conducted to detect, detain and deport illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya immigrants and Assam is leading the way.
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Opinions

Manorama Yadav, Neelam Yadav, Brajesh Yadav, all Kathavachaks, all with followers from every caste: Those looking at Etawah Kathavachak case with a caste angle...

श्रवण शुक्ल -
There are several angles to be considered during this entire episode from Etawah - caste sensitivity, the tendency to immediately rush to social media and give reactions without knowing facts of the case, and issues like the character of the Kathavachak.
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News Reports

Religious conversions in the name of ‘Jesus Darbar’ exposed: Over 500 Hindus converted through false promises, Pastor caught red-handed in Prayagraj

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Police detained Pastor Anil Kumar along with his associates Krishan Kumar and Sanjay on the spot. Authorities revealed that this illegal congregation had been operating in Nevada village under Bahria police station limits.
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News Reports

Trump slams Spain for refusing to increase defence spending to 5% of GDP like other NATO members, says it is terrible and threatens to...

OpIndia Staff -
NATO leaders have agreed to increase their defence spending to 5% of the GDP by 2035, as demanded by US. However, Spain refused the same, causing an angry outburst by Trump
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News Reports

Operation Sindhu: Total 3,154 people evacuated so far from Iran, operation to be gradually winded down due to ceasefire announcement

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Another special flight carrying 296 Indian nationals and four Nepalese nationals stranded in conflict-hit Iran landed safely in New Delhi on Wednesday, taking the total number of people evacuated under Operation Sindhu to 3,154
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News Reports

What are Satra lands and how the Himanta govt in Assam is taking them back from illegal encroachers

Dibakar Dutta -
Satra is a spiritual institution and has been the centre of traditional performing arts (literature, music and theatre) in the State. Typically, it consists of a large prayer hall, bathing tanks, dormitories, and guest accommodation.
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News Reports

50 years of Emergency: While most media houses bowed down to Indira Gandhi’s diktats, here is how some newspapers refused to give in to...

Chandrani Das -
In the shadow of the 1975 Emergency, when India’s democracy was stripped of its voice, the press stood as both victim and quiet rebel. Amid blank editorials, censorship orders, and mass arrests, journalists and newspapers found subtle yet powerful ways to resist.
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Opinions

Millennia-old palaeochannel traced in Rajasthan again hints at ancient Saraswati: Read how Leftists have kept denying its existence, despite cultural legacy and scientific evidence

Shraddha Pandey -
What emerged from the excavation conducted between April 2024 and May 2025 has drawn the attention of historians and archaeologists, who link the discovered paleochannel to the Saraswati River.
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News Reports

Anti Corruption Bureau probing another AAP scam: What is Delhi Hospital Scam in which AAP leaders Saurabh Bhardwaj and Satyendar Jain are facing investigation

Rukma Rathore -
The Delhi government under AAP allocated ₹5,590 crore for 24 hospital developments in the years 2018-19.
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Law

Telangana High Court cites Quran’s verses while ruling that Muslim wife has absolute right to divorce by Khula without husband’s consent

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The Telangana High Court ruled that a Muslim woman can end her marriage through khula without needing her husband's consent or a certificate from any religious authority, making it a legally valid and self-executing form of divorce.
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News Reports

Union Cabinet approves Phase 2 of Pune Metro Rail Project with a cost of ₹3,626.24 crore

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The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the Pune Metro Rail Project Phase-2
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Political History of India

50 years of Emergency: As PM Modi talks about the 42nd Amendment and Constitution being violated, read why Ambedkar was against it

Jinit Jain -
With PM Modi weighing in on the 42nd Amendment, it is significant to highlight how Dr BR Ambedkar opposed to embedding rigid ideological labels like 'socialist' and 'secular' into the Constitution.
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News Reports

Arrest of Tamil actor Srikanth for Cocaine use blows the lid off other crimes including job scams, blackmail cases, and land grabbing

OpIndia Staff -
Tamil actor Srikanth arrested after allegedly involving in a drug case. He is remanded to judicial custody until June 7.
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