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Danish, Shoaib and the web of espionage woven around YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra by Pakistan’s ISI

Rukma Rathore -
Jyoti Malhotra met Danish's contact in Pakistan, Ali Hassan, who arranged her flights and accommodations,
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News Reports

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar admits that he donated ₹25 lakh to the National Herald, says it is a newspaper run by Congress...

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Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Friday admitted that he had donated Rs 25 lakh to the National Herald, which he said was a newspaper run by his party.
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OpIndia Explains

What is PAN-PAN call and how it helped save the IndiGo flight after Pakistan denied airspace entry: All you need to know

Shraddha Pandey -
The PAN PAN call, which stands for “Possible Assistance Needed”,  is a standard aviation protocol used to prioritise communication and request support, such as radar vectors.
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News Reports

Punjab Vigilance Bureau arrests AAP MLA Raman Arora in connection with a corruption case following raid at his residence

OpIndia Staff -
AAP MLA from Jalandhar Central, Raman Arora, was arrested by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau (PVB) on Friday (23rd May) in connection with a corruption case
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News Reports

Muhammad Yunus threatens to resign? How ‘chief advisor’ to Bangladesh interim govt, who came to power via regime change, is now left with no...

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His reputation of being a 'Nobel laureate' and a champion of 'microfinance' gave hopes of 'renewed democracy' to the Bangladeshis. But the facade could only last 10 months. The growing discontentment, across all sections of society, against the interim government has now left Muhammad Yunus cornered.
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News Reports

Jamnagar: AAP worker Akram raped a married woman for three years, forced her to convert to Islam and sexually exploited her minor daughter, case...

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Akram lied to her that he was not married and even promised to marry her. The victim alleged that the accused made her undergo abortion four times.
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News Reports

Donald Trump threatens Apple with 25% tariff if iPhones sold in the USA are made in India, after Foxconn announced $1.5 billion plant in...

OpIndia Staff -
US president Donald Trump has threatened to impose 25% tariff on iPhones imported from India to the USA.
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News Reports

TMC MPs, silent and indifferent during Murshidabad anti-Hindu violence, now tour Jammu and Kashmir to assess the situation after Pahalgam terror attack

Shraddha Pandey -
The TMC leaders met Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah as visited the residence of National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah. The TMC delegation met the family of retired army officer Amarjeet Singh who was killed in Pakistani shelling on 8th May.
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News Reports

Supreme Court frees man convicted of sex with 15-year-old girl saying she didn’t view it as a crime, says she suffered more from the...

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Supreme Court ruled against sentencing a man found guilty under the POCSO Act, stating that the girl did not consider the incident to be criminal in nature
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World

Left wing terrorism in America: How a socialist ‘Black Lives Matter’ supporter was so radicalised by his leftist ideology that he killed 2 Jews...

OpIndia Staff -
Elias Rodriguez was a member of the far-left, pro-Palestine group called the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) which routinely leads protests against Israel and posts hateful anti-Israel content on social media.
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News Reports

Where are the Chagos Islands, what is the deal between UK and Mauritius, and why it is a positive move for India: Explained

Rukma Rathore -
India applauded the move and stated that it has always supported "legitimate claim" of Mauritius over the Chagos Archipelago.
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Crime

Vadodara: Rickshaw puller Sohail raped a Hindu girl on the pretext of marriage, used to burn her with cigarette stubs, tried to convert her...

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In Vadodara, Gujarat, a case has been registered with the Kapurai police against a Muslim youth who raped a Hindu minor girl on the pretext of marriage and then tried to force her to convert to Islam.
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Opinions

When ideology trumps justice: The Omar Rashid case and how predators are empowered by convenient feminists fearing “fanning” Islamophobia

Jinit Jain -
Weighed down more by ideological posturing than intellectual integrity, Dr Ruchika Sharma, a self-proclaimed historian, admitted to enduring abuse in silence for the fear of “fanning” Islamophobia.
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News Reports

Communist parties, their leaders, Urban Naxals outrage after killing of terrorist Basavaraju alias Keshav Rao in encounter, portray the mastermind of multiple massacres as...

OpIndia Staff -
Ironically, the Maoist party which the supports armed revolution, accused the government of having a mindset that celebrates taking of human life
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News Reports

PM Modi inaugurates Rising North East Summit at Bharat Mandapam, says from merely a Frontier Region, now North East is emerging as the ‘Front-Runner...

OpIndia Staff -
Inaugurating the Rising North East Summit, PM Modi highlighted the transformative changes witnessed in the Northeast over the past 11 years, emphasizing that the progress is not merely reflected in statistics but is tangible on the ground.
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News Reports

Delhi-Srinagar IndiGo flight: Pakistan rejects pilot’s request to use its airspace amid deadly turbulence

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The Lahore'a Air Traffic Control denied IndiGo's Delhi-Srinagar flight to enter Pakistani airspace as it tried to avoid a deadly turbulence.
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News Reports

Rising North East Summit: Gautam Adani says a new chapter in growth story is unfolding in the region, announces ₹1 lakh crore investment in...

OpIndia Staff -
At Rising North East Summit, Gautam Adani announced that Adani Group will invest ₹50,000 crore in the northeastern region over the next 10 years, apart from ₹50,000 crore already announced in February in Assam
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News Reports

Operation ‘Push-back’: How India is getting rid of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and Rohingya infiltrators, one step at a time

Dibakar Dutta -
For decades, India has followed established protocols to deport Bangladeshi infilitrators and Rohingyas to their home country. The process has been slow (pending trial in courts), cumbersome (because Bangladesh government and BGB often refuse to acknowledge their own citizens) and has failed to attain success.
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Media

Brazil: Indigenous Amazon tribe that got painted as porn addicts after New York Times story sues the American newspaper

OpIndia Staff -
The Marubo Tribe of the Javari Valley, which is suing New York Times is a sovereign community of about 2,000 people in the Amazonian rainforest. The defamation lawsuit has been filed in a court in Los Angeles.
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News Reports

Delhi Police books syndicate facilitating illegal immigrants; 5 questioned

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In a crackdown on illegal immigration, Delhi police have registered an FIR at Narela Industrial Area Police Station against the syndicate facilitating unlawful entry into the country.
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Editor's picks

Delhi University objects to Rahul Gandhi’s unannounced visit, says NSUI members misbehaved with some students and the area was cordoned off for an hour

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi University on Thursday objected to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's unannounced visit to its North Campus, and expressed hope that this does not happen in future
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Opinions

Every province in Pakistan wants freedom from the Army’s tyranny: Why Balochistan, Sindh, and Gilgit-Baltistan may separate from the Islamic Republic in future

aditi -
The Baloch and Pashtun minorities communities in Pakistan have long been demanding freedom from Pakistan and the creation of their respective independent states.
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News Reports

India expects Turkiye to strongly urge Pakistan to end its support to cross-border terrorism and take verifiable actions against terror ecosystem: MEA

ANI -
India expects Turkiye to strongly urge Pakistan to end its support to cross-border terrorism, said Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson, Randhir Jaiswal during the weekly briefing on Thursday.
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News Reports

Kapil Sibal, Huzefa Ahmadi, Abhishek Manu Singhvi argue against Waqf Act 2025, SG Tushar Mehta defends Centre: Key highlights from hearing at Supreme Court

OpIndia Staff -
The petitioners argue that this law discriminates against the Muslim community and interferes with their religious freedom. On the contrary, the central government contends that this amendment has been brought to prevent the misuse of Waqf provisions and to end encroachment on private and government properties.
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News Reports

Supreme Court reserves order on interim stay of Waqf (Amendment) Act 2025

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The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its order on the issue of interim relief in a batch of pleas challenging the Constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025.
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News Reports

UP ATS arrests 2 persons for spying for Pakistan, Md. Haroon was working with Pakistani official declared ‘persona non grata’, Tufail in contact with...

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Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested two men allegedly involved in espionage activities for Pakistan and being involved in illegal financial transactions
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News Reports

Kerala HC directs Family Courts that Police stations can’t be involved in children’s custody arrangements

OpIndia Staff -
The court previously asserted that children engaged in custody conflicts should be called to court solely in rare situations.
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News Reports

Ansarul Ansari, Nepali cab driver in Qatar, becomes an ISI agent, starts spying on India after his training in Pakistan, arrested in a special...

OpIndia Staff -
Delhi Police and other Indian investigative agencies have carried out a major special operation and arrested two spies of Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI. One of them is Ansarul Miya Ansari of Nepali origin, who was caught from a hotel in Delhi.
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News Reports

100-year-old Shiv temple’s land illegally occupied in Sindh: Pakistan’s Hindu community appeals to govt save the religious place

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The temple in Pakistan, which has significant religious and historical significance, was renovated by the Sindh Heritage Department.
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News Reports

S Jaishankar highlights link between Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir’s poisonous rhetoric and Pahalgam terror attack, says ‘extreme religious outlook’ the common thread

OpIndia Staff -
Foreign Minister S Jaishankar also shared that India has identified the terrorists who perpetrated the Pahalgam attack.
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News Reports

‘Not blood, hot Sindoor in Modi’s veins, Pakistan will pay a heavy price for any attack against India’: PM Modi in Bikaner

ANI -
"Pakistan has forgotten one thing: that now Modi, the servant of Mother India, is standing here with his head held high. Modi's mind is cool; it stays cool, but Modi's blood is hot."
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News Reports

Supreme Court stays ED investigation against Tamil Nadu’s TASMAC, asks agency to look at individuals instead of corporation; earlier Madras HC had allowed the...

OpIndia Staff -
The Supreme Court had issued a notice to the ED after the Tamil Nadu government approached the Supreme Court challenging the Madras High Court order allowing the ED to investigation to proceed in the alleged Rs 1000 crore scam in TASMAC.
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News Reports

Media spreads fake news claiming singer Sonu Nigam asked to stop dubbing Kannada movies into Hindi, uses tweets of a different person with similar...

OpIndia Staff -
The X user's comments were quickly picked up by the media outlets, believing that it was singer Sonu Nigam calling out BJP MP Tejasvi Surya.
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News Reports

Supreme Court grants bail to leader of banned Islamist outfit PFI, Abdul Sathar, in the murder case of RSS worker Sreenivasan who was brutally...

OpIndia Staff -
Granting bail to the accused PFI Islamist Abdul Sathar, the Supreme Court bench comprising justices Abhay S. Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan said that a person cannot be put in jail for their ideology.
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News Reports

Trump raises the ‘white genocide in South Africa’ issue during his meeting with President Ramaphosa, shows video of opposition leader calling for killing of...

OpIndia Staff -
n the meeting that was supposed to improve the relations between the US and South Africa, Trump raised the issue of persecution of white minorities in the country.
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Opinions

If Jyoti Malhotra had been a Muslim, the very ecosystem that is screaming at the top of their lungs today would have been covering...

श्रवण शुक्ल -
At least 19 spies have been caught in India in the last few days following Operation Sindoor against terror camps running out of Pakistan. The most prominent name among them is of YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra.
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News Reports

Love jihad in Bhagalpur: 10th fail Muslim youth pretends to be Raj to trap minor girl, sexually exploits her and forces her to convert...

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The victim was continuously referred from one police station to another, after which SSP Hriday Kant was notified.
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News Reports

Sikh group says over 3000 Sikhs have been converted to Christianity in Pilibhit, pastors from Nepal luring poor people with fake promises

OpIndia Staff -
Multiple victims stated in affidavits that they were lured by promises of Rs 2 lakh, housing and various govt initiatives.
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News Reports

Two Israel embassy staffers killed in Washington DC, shooter raised ‘Free Palestine’ slogans before murder

OpIndia Staff -
As per the Times of Israel, the shooting incident unfolded when the American Jewish Committee was hosting an event at the Jewish Museum. Reports say that the names of the deceased victims have not been revealed, however, it is confirmed that the two were affiliated with the Israeli diplomatic mission in the United States.
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Editor's picks

TheWire’s own journalist Omar Rashid caught torturing, raping and force-feeding beef to his younger Hindu partner after years of the publication denying Love Jihad...

OpIndia Staff -
Omar reportedly never used any protective method while subjecting the woman to forceful and violent sexual intercourse, and the victim had to visit the gynaecologist multiple times to get abortions, or get treated for sexually transmitted infections because Omar was in a sexual relationship with multiple, unknown persons throughout.
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Government and Policy

Union govt tells Supreme Court that Waqf is not essential part of Islam, says it is just a charity and does not perform any...

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The central government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that Waqf is an Islamic concept, it is not an essential part of Islam and Waqf boards discharge secular functions.
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OpIndia Explains

Where is Abujhmadh, and how has this impenetrable Naxal fortress been smashed under the Modi government

Shraddha Pandey -
Despite the challenges, the security forces and the government relentlessly continued their efforts to end the Naxal menace in not only Abujhmadh but the entire Dandakaranya region.
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News Reports

Bangladesh Army Chief rejects proposal of ‘humanitarian corridor’ to Myanmar saying “no bloody corridor business”, asserts interim govt can’t handover a port to foreign...

OpIndia Staff -
Bangladesh Army chief General Waker-uz-Zaman has reiterated his opposition to the proposed ‘humanitarian corridor’ to Myanmar, saying there will be “no bloody corridor business”.
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News Reports

‘Ba***rd, sisterf**ker, dog’: Rahul Gandhi’s ally and former R&AW chief AS Dulat abuses journalist, attacks him during podcast

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Dulat opposed the revocation of Article 370 and claimed that toursim in Kashmir is problematic instead of advantageous.
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News Reports

False-flag operation in Khuzdar? Decoding the suspected suicide attack on school bus in Balochistan and Pakistan’s desperation to malign India

Jinit Jain -
In what can be best described as hasty scapegoating, Pakistan blamed India for Khuzdar attack, a false flag operation in all likelihood to manage international optics after Operation Sindoor exposed it as a terror haven.
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News Reports

Yashwant Sinha says ‘Operation Sindoor, Pulwama, Uri, everything is for elections’, goes on with Kapil Sibal to make more unhinged, bizarre claims

OpIndia Staff -
Absolving Pakistan, Sinha, an Ex-Foreign Minister, linked the timing of Pakistan-sponsored terrorists attacks in the country with elections.
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News Reports

INSV Kaundinya, the revived stitched ship, joins Indian Navy: Read how the vessel and the person it is named after, both symbolise India’s glorious...

OpIndia Staff -
INSV Kaundinya is a unique vessel crafted using age-old techniques. It is stitched with coir and planks instead of modern rivets. The vessel draws inspiration from the 5th-century murals of the Ajanta caves, blending ancient craftsmanship with modern scientific inputs to recreate a vessel from India’s maritime past.
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News Reports

Hindus migrating from Shanichari-Shukrawari of Sagar city in Madhya Pradesh: Girls trapped in love jihad by Muslim men, pieces of meat thrown outside houses

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228 individuals from 63 Hindu families have left the region in the last decade, based on the report.
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News Reports

Modi govt unveils plans to become Atmanirbhar in oil shipping: 112 made-in-India oil tankers to be purchased for $10 billion

Shraddha Pandey -
In a major boost to the 'Make in India' initiative, India is likely to invest $10 billion ($850 million) by 2040 to purchase around 112 crude oil tankers to be made in India
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News Reports

Pakistan’s old playbook finds a new corridor: Why India must recalibrate its approach to Kartarpur and thwart ISI’s nefarious agenda

Anurag -
If a political science postgraduate student could be roped into such a high-stakes espionage network, imagine how dangerous this trend can, or might have already, become. It cannot be treated as an isolated case.
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