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Guinness World Record: Japanese man dribbling football for 2,000 km from Kolkata to Delhi reaches Varanasi

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Japanese national Nozomu Hagihara has arrived in Varanasi as part of his 2,000-kilometre journey dribbling a football across India.
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News Reports

Murshidabad violence: Calcutta HC extends CAPF stay, says no provocative speeches allowed, Suvendu Adhikari demands NIA inquiry

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On 17th April, the Calcutta High Court issued a directive for central forces to remain present in the Murshidabad district of West Bengal
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News Reports

AJL open and shut case against Sonia and Rahul, rampant corruption and money laundering: Union Minister Hardeep Puri

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Addressing a press conference on Thursday, Puri said, "I want to share with you my understanding of the National Herald case...This is an open and shut case of fraud, corruption and money laundering... Congress party has used their lawyers to somehow delay and derail the case..."
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Law

Supreme Court acting as unelected ‘super Parliament’, Article 142 has become nuclear missile: VP Jagdeep Dhankhar questions judicial overreach and attempts to control the...

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VP Dhankhar questioned the Supreme Court for issuing a direction to the President of India. He reminded the Supreme Court that its power is limited to interpreting the Constitution.
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News Reports

UP government to develop Naimisharanya in Sitapur like Ayodhya

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Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had met saints in Naimisharanya in 2023, a day before Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary, and assured that there would be no shortage of funds for its development.
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News Reports

Ramblings of a defeated mind: Pakistan army chief Asim Munir says Hindus and Muslims are totally different as he desperately tries to justify Pakistan’s...

Rukma Rathore -
Asim Munir stated that Kalima is the foundation of Pakistan and Hindus and Muslims are two entirely different communities emphasizing the two-nation theory that resulted in Partition in 1947.
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News Reports

From 167th position in 2014, smartphones become India’s top exported product, value of exports reach ₹2 lakh crore

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Smartphone exports reached $18.31, surpassing automotive diesel fuel exports, which stood at $16.04 billion.
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Opinions

Urdu is acceptable but not Hindi: My Lords of the Supreme Court, what is the problem in accepting the languages ​​of India

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Describing Urdu as the best example of Ganga-Jamuni or Hindustani Tehzeeb, the Supreme Court said that language is part of the culture and it should not become a reason to divide people.
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World

UK Supreme Court upholds scientific fact over woke ideology, declares that only biological females are women, author JK Rowling celebrates

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The UK Supreme Court held that the word 'woman' means persons born as females and does not include transwomen.
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News Reports

India designated as host for International Big Cat Alliance Headquarters and Secretariat, agreement signed

OpIndia Staff -
India formally signed the Headquarters Agreement with the International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA), solidifying its role as the host nation for the alliance's permanent base
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News Reports

Fatwa issued against actor-politician Joseph Vijay for ‘inviting drunkards and gamblers’ to iftar party, Maulana Razvi says his movies portray Muslims as terrorists

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Shahabuddin Razvi claimed that Joseph Vijay invited alcoholics and gamblers to Iftar, which he deemed illicit and sinful from an Islamic perspective. The Sunni cleric went on to to advise Tamil Nadu Muslims against trusting Vijay as he said that the latter is using Muslims for climbing the political ladder while in his movies he presents Muslims as terrorists.
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News Reports

Thousands of Indian students face uncertainty as Trump administration revokes visas, cancel scholarship funding to US universties

OpIndia Staff -
Many students find themselves stuck abroad, without definite information regarding the restoration of their funding.
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News Reports

How Indian courts invent new ways to sympathise with rapists and blame victims of sexual assault, even put their lives in danger with careless...

Shraddha Pandey -
This problematic mindset entrenched in judiciary perpetuates a culture of impunity for sexual violence in India where rape cases have only increased, with over 30,000 cases reported in 2023 alone.
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News Reports

Assam: Three Rohingyas from Cox Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh arrested by railway police at Bhanga station

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They reportedly paid 4000 Taka each to the human traffickers for the journey.
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Opinions

Kautilya in the classroom: Integrating ancient jurisprudential heritage from Vedas, Mahabharata, and Ramayana into modern legal education

Aayush Pandey -
Justice Pankaj Mithal recently proposed introducing courses on "Dharma and Indian Legal Thought" in Indian law schools, urging a deeper exploration of India's legal heritage, which is largely overshadowed by Euro-American jurisprudence.
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News Reports

Nashik: Muslim mob goes on a rampage as trustees of Satpeer Dargah gather to demolish it after Bombay HC deems it illegal, 21 policemen...

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Three cars were vandalized and at least 21 police officers were hurt in the assault. 21 persons have been arrested by police.
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News Reports

What is ‘Waqf by user’ that SC raised concerns about, Singhvi admits 4 out of 8 lakh properties are under this category: Waqf Amendment...

OpIndia Staff -
Supreme Court hears petitions challenging the Waqf Amendment Act, 2025, focusing on “waqf by user”, board composition, and constitutional validity.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: 8 lakh Ladki Bahins to get ₹500 instead of ₹1500 under the Mukhya Mantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana, here is why

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The Mahayuti's flagship Ladki Bahin scheme in Maharashtra is aimed at providing the maximum monthly financial assistance of ₹1500 to all eligible women.
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News Reports

ATM On Wheels: In a first in India, Indian Railways installs ATM onboard a train on trial basis

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In a first, Indian Railways has installed an ATM on a trial basis -- on the Manmad-CSMT Panchvati Express in Maharashtra
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News Reports

Assam: Seven people arrested for trying to instigate violence during protest rally against Waqf Act in Cachar

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Assam Police arrested seven people in connection with an incident during the protest rally against the Waqf (Amendment) Act in Cachar district
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News Reports

Communal carnage in Murshidabad: Victim-blaming reaches new heights as incumbent TMC, leftist Indian media blame Hindus and shield Islamists

Rukma Rathore -
The leftist media downplayed the communal violence in Murshidabad as a minor incident unrelated to the express targeting of Hindus.
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News Reports

Bangladesh suspends import of Indian yarn: Trade relations take another hit

OpIndia Staff -
The interim government's decision, which is likely to increase the import time, did not sit right with Bangladeshi garment and knitwear exporters.
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News Reports

Supreme Court to hear multiple petitions challenging the Waqf Act today, Hindu groups file intervention plea supporting the amendment

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The Supreme Court's Chief Justice's bench will hear multiple petitions challenging the Waqf (Amendment) Act 2025 legislation at 2 p.m. on Wednesday.
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News Reports

Andhra Pradesh: Muslim family allegedly kills daughter for marrying Dalit man

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On 9th February, Yasmin and Sai got married in Nellore and approached the police seeking protection from threats. Authorities confirmed that the marriage was consensual and provided initial counselling to both families.
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News Reports

Bihar: Ashraf pretended to be Sumit and sexually exploited a Hindu woman, forced her to eat beef, read namaz and convert to Islam to...

OpIndia Staff -
The woman alleged that Ashraf sexually exploited her for 13 years and forced her to convert to Islam in order to get married.
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News Reports

Over 40 Christians shot dead by Islamic Fulani terrorists in Nigeria on Palm Sunday, hundreds of houses destroyed

OpIndia Staff -
"I have instructed security agencies to thoroughly investigate this crisis and identify those responsible for orchestrating these violent acts," Tinubu said.
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Editor's picks

‘Danda (stick) is the only treatment for rioters’: Yogi Adityanath hits out at Mamata govt over Murshidabad violence, praises Waqf Amendment Act

OpIndia Staff -
Yogi Adityanath stated that "Bengal is burning" and accused Mamata Banerjee of calling rioters "messengers of peace."
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News Reports

Bulldozer razes 50-year-old illegal mosque in Faridabad over forest land encroachment, says civic body

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Corporation's legal advisor said, “The structure was an encroachment on government land. This is a reserved forest area under the Punjab Land Preservation Act (PLPA). As per Supreme Court orders, no encroachment is allowed on such land. This was an illegal structure, and we have removed it accordingly.”
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News Reports

Islamist violence in Murshidabad: BJP leaders like Suvendu Adhikari and Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury step up to help Hindu victims while TMC indulges in blame...

Rukma Rathore -
BJP came to help the victims when the administration failed to do so in the face of Islamist violence. Led by leaders like Suvendu Adhikari and Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury, the party has helped Hindus at every level.
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh: 150 Hindu students forced to offer namaz at NSS camp, students point to broader efforts to influence their beliefs

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A complaint has been filed after 150 Hindu students at Bilaspur’s Guru Ghasidas Central University accused NSS camp organizers of coercing them into offering namaz.
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News Reports

Samajwadi Party MP Ramji Lal Suman, who called Rana Sanga a ‘traitor’, now questions Rajput DNA and warns Karni Sena that ‘Akhilesh Yadav is...

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Ramji Lal Suman went on to issue threats of violence against Karni Sena, saying that Akhilesh Yadav is coming to Agra on 19th April, and then there will be a fight.
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News Reports

Stalin’s ‘autonomy’ gamble: Taking Tamil Nadu down a Kashmir-like road is dangerous for Indian democracy

Anurag -
Afte a long drawn struggle spanning decades, PM Modi-led govt freed Kashmir from the stranglehold of Article 370. Stalin is trying to the 'autonomy' gamble down in Tamil Nadu now.
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News Reports

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat to launch ‘The Hindu Manifesto’ by Swami Vigyananand on April 26

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Amidst a changing global landscape, the new book, The Hindu Manifesto, offers a timely, bold vision—one that blends economic growth with the spirit of civilisational continuity.
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News Reports

‘She invited trouble’: Supreme Court questions Allahabad High Court’s remark in Noida rape case

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The victim is a student at a popular university in Noida. The incident occurred in September 2024 where the victim had gone with her friends to a bar. At around 3 am, the victim was in an intoxicated state and upon insistence by the accused, she had agreed to go with him to his flat to rest.
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News Reports

Husband ‘complains’ to mosque, wife ‘summoned’ and beaten up by mob: How India’s mosques are routinely dispensing Taliban-style ‘justice’

Shraddha Pandey -
A video of a Muslim woman being beaten up after her husband complained about her at a mosque has gone viral on social media.
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News Reports

How The Economist misrepresented India’s Waqf Act reform as anti-Muslim propaganda

Anurag -
The Economist painted the reform as an anti-Muslim act of state aggression. The article claimed that the Bill “could destroy properties” and allow Hindu nationalists to reclaim land. It framed the amendment as part of a larger RSS-BJP plot to dismantle Muslim identity.
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News Reports

Deflect, deny, and victim-blaming: TMC leaders downplay Islamist violence and plead with rioters as Murshidabad burns over the Waqf Act

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Some TMC leaders blamed the BJP and Hindus for the Murshidabad violence whereas others dismissed its severity.
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News Reports

At a time when Muslims are on a rampage against Parliament passed Waqf (Amendment) Act, Hindus’ Hanuman Jayanti processions faced attacks from India to...

Shraddha Pandey -
Be it Hanuman Jayanti, Ram Navami, Maha Shivratri, any other festival or the ongoing protests by Islamists against the Waqf Amendment Act, somehow, Islamists find an excuse for attacking Hindus.
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News Reports

‘Let 8–10 die in every town’ – Congress leader Kabir Khan arrested for inciting arson and chaos over Waqf Act

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kabir Khan insisted that in each locality, 8–10 individuals must be ready to lay down their lives and that fifty to a hundred cases should be filed. According to him, only such measures will bring about change.
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News Reports

Al Jazeera, AFP downplay atrocities committed on Hindus by Muslim mobs in Murshidabad, contextualise violence as protests against Waqf law

Dibakar Dutta -
Al Jazeera, through its Goebbels-like propaganda, attempted to blame Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the carnage in Murshidabad instead of the rioting Muslim mobs that set Hindu homes on fire, destroyed livelihoods, issued death and rape threats and poisoned water tanks.
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News Reports

West Bengal BJP’s X post showing violence by Islamists withheld for ‘legal demand’ after Police ‘fact-checks’ it

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The West Bengal Police did an elaborate 'fact check' on the post. Taking each individual image from the collage, reverse searching the image and highlighting how they were from different festivals, some unrelated to Bengal and some images from other states during either Hindu festivals or from 2019 when Islamists had run rampage all over India, including Bengal's Murshidabad, and organised an anti-Hindu riot in Delhi.
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News Reports

“Historic day”: Haryana CM Nayab Saini lauds launch of direct flight service between Hisar and Ayodhya

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Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Monday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the Hisar "historic" as PM Modi flagged off a direct commercial flight from Maharaja Agrasen International Airport to Ayodhya's Maharishi Valmiki Airport in Uttar Pradesh.
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News Reports

“Shariah comes before Constitution”: Jharkhand minister Hafizul Hasan’s statement on Ambedkar Jayanti

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In an attempt to do damage control, Hafizul Hasan claimed while speaking to media, “Both the Constitution and Shariah are equally important. I said Shariah is in my heart, and the Constitution of Babasaheb Ambedkar is in our hands. Both hold equal significance.”
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News Reports

West Bengal: Muslims attack two Sadhus with sharp weapons, victims were performing rituals for Charak Puja

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On being asked whether he was attacked for performing Charak Puja rituals, the victim said, "It is quite possible."
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Opinions

As minor Muslims attack Hindus in Murshidabad in the name of anti-Waqf Act protests, read how minors have been regularly used as a tool...

Rukma Rathore -
Muslim minors have been involved in several violent incidents across the nation, especially over the last few months.
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News Reports

The Mehul Choksi scam: A billion-dollar fraud Congress didn’t stop, RBI didn’t see

Anurag -
Then-Finance Minister P Chidambaram had signed off the termination of the whistleblower. This raised the possibility that efforts to suppress internal warnings about the fraud were not only bureaucratic, but also sanctioned at the political level.
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News Reports

As Islamists unleash violence against Hindus in Murshidabad, here’s how even after 14 months, women in Sandeshkhali continue to live in Sheikh Shahjahan’s terror

Shraddha Pandey -
The incident sparked a nationwide outrage, especially after West Bengal’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee,  a woman herself, downplayed Sandeshkhali rape cases passing them off as ‘minor incident’.
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News Reports

Telangana becomes the first state to roll out SC categorisation: Breaking down the move

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The announcement was symbolic, coinciding with the birth anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, widely hailed by some sections as the architect of the Indian Constitution.
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Crime

Beawar mass rape case: Muslim boys wanted to convert victims, were offered prize money in lakhs, it was organised crime – Lawyer helping the...

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Lawyer Gopal Gopal Narayan Sharma stated that the Beawar rape case should be given to the CBI and the outfit working behind the Muslim boys should be exposed.
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News Reports

As Trump wages trade war against China, the Chinese weaponise TikTok users, tell Americans the truth about luxury brands they use

Anurag -
A “first copy” is a term widely used to describe replicas made using the same material, and often in the same factory, as the original product. Sometimes, they even pass as indistinguishable.
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