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Baghpat: People from Jain community save hundreds of goats ahead of Bakrid by purchasing them at higher prices

OpIndia Staff -
During Bakrid, last year, people from the Jain community, saved more than 100 goats by purchasing them and keeping them in a temple premises, Chandni Chowk.
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News Reports

An Indian in space after 41 yrs: Shubhanshu Shukla set to pilot Axiom-4 mission to ISS to become 2nd Indian in space, read all...

Anurag -
India will make history as Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla will pilot the Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Shukla’s journey to space will put an Indian astronaut in space four decades after Rakesh Sharma’s historic 1984 voyage.
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi peddles lies and conspiracy theories about the 2024 Maharashtra election yet again: Read a point-by-point rebuttal of his outrageous claims

Dibakar Dutta -
Instead of self-introspection and course correction, Rahul Gandhi is back at his usual blame game tactics, conspiracy theories, and outlandish claims of institutional corruption (wherever Congress fails to win elections).
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News Reports

Arizona teen dies while performing the ‘dusting challenge’, read all about this dangerous new social media trend that is putting teens’ lives in danger

OpIndia Staff -
In this Dusting Challenge, the participants are required to record themselves sniffing keyboard cleaning spray to get high and gain views on their profiles and posts.
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News Reports

Bangladesh elections to be held in first half of April 2026, announces Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus

OpIndia Staff -
Muhammad Yunus, Chief Advisor of the interim govt of Bangladesh, on Friday announced that the much-awaited elections will take place in first half of April in 2026
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Media

As PM Modi confirms he will attend G7 summit on Canadian PM’s invitation, here is how media claimed he has not been invited and...

OpIndia Staff -
After media reports claimed that India is not invited to G7 summit in Canada, PM Modi said that Canadian PM called him to invite for the summit, and added that he is attending
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News Reports

Symbolic disrespect or scripted contempt? Rahul Gandhi looks away while garlanding Mountain man Dashrath Manjhi’s statue—when optics replaced homage

श्रवण शुक्ल -
If Congress truly cared for Dalits, why was Dashrath Manjhi ignored for 22 years as he carved a mountain alone—and forgotten even decades after his death?
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News Reports

Pakistan government distances itself from its Defence Minister’s comments, says Simla Agreement not dead

OpIndia Staff -
The defense minister had asserted that the Simla Agreement was no longer relevant due to India's unilateral activities.
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News Reports

Delhi High Court orders status quo on demolition of Batla House property, lists the matter on July 10

ANI -
The Delhi High Court has granted an interim order of status quo on a property in Batla House, Okhla, that was facing demolition. The property belongs to Ishrat Jahan, a widow who has lived in the area for over 25 years.
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News Reports

Delhi Airport’s runway 10/28 to be closed for 3 months for ILS upgradation, over 100 flights to be impacted with 57 cancelations

ANI -
Delhi International Airport will temporarily shut Runway 10/28 for a three-month period to carry out critical upgrades aimed at improving fog-time operations
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Crime

Islamists in India launch ‘boycott Tata’ campaign to ‘support’ Palestinians: Read why Tata Group has rubbed Hamas supporters the wrong way

Aditi -
The nationwide campaign launched by these Islamist organisations against Tata Group and other brands is inspired by the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a global anti-Semitic campaign launched by the Islamic forces against Israel.
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News Reports

Supreme Court denies urgent hearing on plea challenging Bombay HC order allowing animal slaughter inside Vishalgadh Fort on Bakrid

OpIndia Staff -
Justice Karol added that just like last year, permission was granted for animal sacrifice on Bakrid in Dargah premises inside Vishalgadh Fort, it will be the same this time as well.
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News Reports

IPL victory stampede: Karnataka HC orders no precipitative action against Karnataka State Cricket Association till next hearing, denies relief to arrested RCB official

OpIndia Staff -
The Karnataka High Court on Friday ordered that no precipitative action will be taken against officials of Karnataka State Cricket Association over the RCB’s IPL victory celebration stampede in Bengaluru.
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News Reports

Kerala: Poster of ‘Bharat Mata’ in Raj Bhavan infuriates Left govt’s ministers, boycott event after governor refuses to remove it

OpIndia Staff -
A picture of 'Bharat Mata' caused great pain to the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government during an official event held at Raj Bhavan on the occasion of World Environment Day in Kerala.
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World

Newsnight or gaslight? How BBC used cooked stats to whitewash Pakistani grooming gangs and shift the blame onto whites

Jinit Jain -
This week, BBC’s Newsnight plumbed new depths—airing a grotesque display of institutional gaslighting that downplayed Pakistani grooming gangs and pinned the blame for rampant sexual abuse on White Britons instead.
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News Reports

How dependent is NASA on Elon Musk’s SpaceX? Trump-Musk break up, decommissioning the Dragon and more: Explained here

Rukma Rathore -
SpaceX's Dragon is the only NASA option for delivering crew to and from the International Space Station (ISS).
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News Reports

Explained: United Nations is encouraging the Islamist regime of Muhammad Yunus, turning Bangladesh into a battleground for the US deep State

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury -
During a meeting with Yunus on 3rd June this year, United Nations Resident Coordinator Gwyn Lewis expressed her organization’s “unwavering solidarity with Bangladesh’s reform and transition process”, emphasizing the UN’s commitment to “supporting the nation's path towards sustainable development and prosperity”.
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News Reports

Credit appraisal not needed for small ticket loans up to ₹2.5 lakh with gold given as collateral: RBI governor Sanjay Malhotra

ANI -
The credit appraisal for small ticket loans up to 2.5 lakh Rupees where gold is given as collateral will not be needed, said Sanjay Malhotra, Governor of the Reserve bank of India (RBI).
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News Reports

Madras HC slams Stalin govt for opening more liquor shops in the state instead of striving to enforce prohibition, orders closure of a TASMAC...

OpIndia Staff -
The court said that a welfare state should strive to prohibit alcohol in a gradual, phased manner to reduce harm to public health.
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News Reports

Supreme Court allows NBE to reschedule NEET-PG exam on 3 August after number of centres doubled due to the court’s order to conduct it...

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences to reschedule the NEET-PG exam to August 3, 2025.
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News Reports

RCB’s parade of death: Karnataka govt knew, cops warned, but political clout crushed public safety—How police plea was ignored and lives lost

Shraddha Pandey -
As reported earlier, the Bengaluru Police have filed a case against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), Karnataka State Cricket Association, and DNA Entertainment over the stampede on Wednesday, June 4, that killed 11 and left 56 injured.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: POCSO Court denies bail to Bijainagar Ex-councilor Hakim Qureshi in the case of mass rape, blackmail and forced conversion of minor Hindu girls

OpIndia Staff -
Qureshi is accused of leading an Islamist gang involved in sexual exploitation and forced conversion of minor Hindu girls in Bijainagar. The court denied bail to Qureshi citing the serious nature of charges against him.
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News Reports

Declaring the Jain community a minority was a conspiracy to create factions within Sanatan Dharma: Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain

OpIndia Staff -
Jain said that the rights of minority in the country have become synonymous with Muslim rights in the country, adding that the rights of other minority communities are neglected.
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News Reports

What is happening in US politics: The controversy over ‘Big Beautiful Act’ and timeline of the public feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk

Dibakar Dutta -
On Wednesday (4th June), Elon Musk fired off a tweet labelling Trump's ambitious Big Beautiful Act as 'outrageous, pork filled Congressional spending bill.'
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News Reports

36+ attacks in 34 years, Amarnath Yatra targeted again and again by terrorists: For how long will Hindus be victims of Islamic terror in...

विवेकानंद मिश्र -
The attacks on Amarnath Yatra have been happening for years make it clear that Islamic terrorists not only have a problem with Hindu religious places and pilgrimages, but they have a problem with Hindus in general.
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News Reports

IPL victory stampede: Bengaluru police commissioner and other top officers suspended, FIR filed against RCB, KCSA, DNA Entertainment and their officials to be arrested

OpIndia Staff -
A day after 11 people lost their lives in stampede at celebrations of IPL victory by RCB in Bengaluru, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah announced that several top officials including Bengaluru Commissioner of Police has been suspended
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News Reports

Ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, cattle smuggled from India largely missing in Bangladesh markets this year due to enhanced border vigilance: Reports

OpIndia Staff -
As a side-effect of heightened vigilance on India-Bangladesh border, smuggling of cattle from India to Bangladesh has also come down significantly, which increases during Eid-ul-Azha
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News Reports

Who is Madam N, the Pakistani woman who lured Jyoti Malhotra and other Indian influencers into spying for ISI: Here’s how she was working...

OpIndia Staff -
Codenamed as ‘Madam N’, Noshaba Shehzad runs a Lahore-based company 'Jaiyana Travel and Tourism’. Her name emerged in during interrogation of arrested Indian influencers who were operating as Pakistani spies. This Madam N was working to set up a massive sleeper cell network of at least 500 spies who can hide in plain sight across India and transfer sensitive information to ISI.
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News Reports

140 new OBC groups, 97 Muslim communities, 17% reservation: Mamata govt set to introduce new bill after Calcutta HC cancelled 12 lakh OBC certificates

OpIndia Staff -
The legal impasse regarding OBC commenced when the Calcutta HC annulled 1.2 million OBC certificates in May 2024.
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News Reports

CM Yogi Adityanath leads Ram Darbar Pran Pratishtha ceremony at the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir in Ayodhya: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
The idols installed in the Ram Darbar have been sculpted from white marble procured from Jaipur in Rajasthan.
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OpIndia Explains

13000+ properties worth ₹1 lakh crore: Know what is enemy property, about Waqf Board’s attempts to usurp them, and how Modi Govt ensured such...

श्रवण शुक्ल -
Enemy properties are those properties which belonged to those people who left India during the India-Pakistan partition of 1947 or after 1962 (war with China), 1965 and 1971 (wars with Pakistan) and took citizenship of Pakistan or China.
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News Reports

How Indian students are sanitising their social media timeline before applying for the US visa

OpIndia Staff -
Fearing that their social media posts might lead to visa rejections, students are not just sanitising their social media accounts but in some cases even deleting them.
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News Reports

Anubrata Mondal viral audio: WB Police seize phones of the cop, who was threatened and abused, saying call recording was illegal, TMC leader not...

OpIndia Staff -
Days after an audio clip of TMC leader Anubrata Mondal abusing a police officer appeared on social media, West Bengal Police has termed the recording of the phone call illegal, and seized the victim cop’s phone
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News Reports

Who is Inspector Nargis Khan who has amassed properties worth over ₹10 Crore across UP and Uttarakhand, read about her 14-year saga of corruption

OpIndia Staff -
The investigation by the Anti-Corruption Department revealed that Nargis Khan has acquired property many times more than her income as her total legal income was Rs 5.36 crore, while she bought property worth Rs 10.59 crore in 14 years.
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News Reports

Dassault Aviation partners with Tata Advanced Systems to make Rafale fighter jet’s fuselage in India, cutting-edge facility to be set up in Hyderabad

OpIndia Staff -
Dassault Aviation and Tata Advanced Systems Limited have signed four Production Transfer Agreements to manufacture the Rafale fighter aircraft fuselage in India, marking a significant step forward in strengthening the country’s aerospace manufacturing capabilities and supporting global supply chains.
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News Reports

Bengaluru stampede: How a toxic cocktail of government apathy, mismanagement and chaos claimed 11 lives

Shraddha Pandey -
Despite knowing the popularity of RCB in Bengaluru and the significance of the franchise’s first IPL title, the state government grossly underestimated the turnout or perhaps they were not much concerned about the possibility of a stampede-like situation as they were engrossed in encashing the triumphant moment.
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News Reports

Exploited the underprivileged, gave jobs to illiterates: CBI shares details of ‘Land for Jobs Scam’ in Railways during Lalu Prasad Yadav’s tenure as minister

OpIndia Staff -
CBI further said that no public notice or advertisement was issued by Railways before making these appointments.
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News Reports

With Vande Bharat, Kashmir valley ‘connected’ to India: Read about the engineering marvels on USBRL, over ₹43,000 crores and Modi govt’s Railways push to...

Rukma Rathore -
The Vande Bharat can endure the harsh Himalayan winters and is built to resist the region's rugged terrain.
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OpIndia Explains

What are rare earth magnets, and how China’s export regulations are expected to hit India EV manufacturing, read here

Aditi -
China dominates this sector because of having mastered the difficult process of extracting rare earth elements.
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News Reports

World Environment Day: PM Modi plants ‘Sindoor’ sapling presented by women who had rebuilt Bhuj airstrip in 72 hours during 1971 war

ANI -
On World Environment Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi planted a Sindoor sapling at his 7 Lok Kalyan Marg residence
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News Reports

Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif now wants Trump to facilitate dialogue with India

ANI -
Faced with growing global isolation on the issue of terrorism, Pakistan is making an all-out effort to seek the help of US President Donald Trump to try and achieve peace with India.
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Crime

Punjab Police busts weapons smuggling module from Pakistan, 2 persons arrested in Tarn Taran

ANI -
An FIR under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and the Arms Act has been registered at PS ANTF, SAS Nagar.
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News Reports

Ashoka University’s woke circus exposed: Co-founder calls it a “headache”, says he and other founders contemplating walking away amid Mahmudabad controversy

Rukma Rathore -
The email was in response to an alumnus who had questioned the university’s silence on Professor Mahmudabad’s arrest.
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Opinions

RCB victory parade turns tragic: Stampede in Bengaluru exposes Congress govt’s catastrophic failure in crowd management, Mumbai’s success offers a sharp contrast

Jinit Jain -
A moment of glory turned into a scene of horror—RCB’s first IPL title in 18 years was overshadowed by a deadly stampede during the victory parade, exposing the Congress government’s catastrophic failure in crowd management.
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News Reports

Arrested ISI spy Shakur Khan visited Pakistan after informing former Rajasthan Congress minister Mohammad Saleh, brought ‘gifts’ for him

OpIndia Staff -
During interrogation, Shakur Khan told the police that Congress leader and former cabinet minister Saleh Mohammad always knew about his visit to Pakistan.
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News Reports

Population census including caste enumeration to begin on 1st May 2027, to be conducted in two phases

Raju Das -
The Central government on Wednesday announced that the Population Census-2027 will be conducted in two phases, and will also include enumeration of castes.
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News Reports

Canada: York Regional Police gets trolled for dancing to Punjabi song, netizens ask “is there any respectable profession left in Canada”

OpIndia Staff -
Sharing an undated video of York Regional Police officials dancing to a Punjabi song at a public event, an X user wrote, “York Region saw a 92% rise in shootings and 106% increase in carjackings. Meanwhile York Regional Police: [video attached].”
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News Reports

Supreme Court dismisses Waqf Board’s claim over Gurdwara in Delhi, asks to voluntarily renounce claim as a religious structure is already functioning

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (4th June) dismissed an appeal filed by Delhi Waqf Board claiming possession of a Gurudwara
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News Reports

Karnataka: Baba Jaan rapes and murders an 80-year old woman, robs victim’s money and jewellery, arrested

OpIndia Staff -
Baba Jaan confessed that he committed the crime to rob the victim's money and jewellery.
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News Reports

Flood rescue operations across Northeast: Indian Army, Air Force and NDRF lead ‘Operation Jal Rahat-II’ in Manipur, Assam, Sikkim and Arunachal

OpIndia Staff -
The Indian Air Force has been air-dropping emergency supplies to inaccessible areas. Special attention is being paid to children, the elderly, and chronically ill patients across all states.
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