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The year’s 10 most-read articles connection a wide snapshot of what readers were drawn to implicit the past 12 months. Together, they bespeak the stories and themes that resonated astir strongly, revealing what audiences actively sought retired and engaged with crossed the year.
From the Ahmedabad Air India clang and the Pahalgam onslaught followed by Operation Sindoor to Narayana Murthy’s refusal to instrumentality portion successful the Karnataka caste survey, present are the apical 10 astir visited stories from The Hindu in 2025.
10. Hours aft Operation Sindoor, Saudi Arabia’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Al-Jubeir arrives successful Delhi and meets Jaishankar
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar shakes hands with Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia Adel al-Jubeir during a meeting, successful New Delhi. Photo: X/@DrSJaishankar via PTI
In a motion of quick-footed diplomacy, Saudi Arabia’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Al-Jubeir arrived successful New Delhi precocious connected May 7, 2025. His accomplishment coincided with the accomplishment of the Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi who is successful New Delhi for a day-long sojourn successful the backdrop of India hitting panic targets wrong Pakistan on May 7. The Hindu reported that Mr. Al-Jubeir’s sojourn was unannounced and took spot specifically successful the discourse of the spike successful hostility betwixt India and Pakistan.
9. High Court rejects mosque’s plea to usage loudspeaker, says nary religion mandates prayers with dependable amplifiers
The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court refused to assistance alleviation to a mosque seeking support to usage loudspeakers. | Photo Credit: The Hindu
The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court refused to assistance alleviation to a mosque seeking support to usage loudspeakers, noting it was not entitled to usage the instrumentality to practise religion arsenic a substance of right. The court, portion relying connected Supreme Court judgments, said that nary religion mandates prayers to beryllium offered done dependable amplifiers oregon beating drums.
8. Delhi Red Fort blast leaves 14 dead, respective injured
Security unit support vigil successful beforehand of the Red Fort adjacent the spot wherever determination was a high-intensity explosion. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma
The Hindu’s unrecorded updates astir the Red Fort blast was 1 of the apical work articles of the year. A high-intensity detonation successful a slow-moving car extracurricular the Red Fort successful cardinal Delhi left astatine slightest 14 radical dormant and respective injured connected November 10, 2025, sparking a nationwide alert and a probe involving aggregate agencies.
7. Supreme Court upholds dismissal of Christian Army serviceman who refused to participate interior portion of regimental temple for pooja
The Supreme Court connected November 25, 2025 upheld the dismissal of a Christian Army officer who refused to participate the sanctum sanctorum of his regiment’s temple. | Photo Credit: PTI
The Supreme Court connected November 25, 2025 upheld the dismissal of a Christian Army officer who refused to participate the sanctum sanctorum of his regiment’s temple to execute pooja, saying that helium had utilized his “personal understanding” of what his religion permits to interruption subject subject and, successful the process, insulted his troops. Chief Justice of India Surya Kant described the refusal of Samuel Kamalesan, the petitioner, to enactment successful the regimental spiritual enactment arsenic the “grossest benignant of indiscipline”.
6. Saif Ali Khan weapon attack: Actor ‘out of danger’ aft surgery; constabulary place 1 accused
Bollywood histrion Saif Ali Khan astatine his residence aft helium was discharged from Lilavati Hospital, successful Mumbai. | Photo Credit: PTI
The Hindu’s unrecorded sum aft the weapon onslaught connected Bollywood histrion Saif Ali Khan successful the aboriginal hours January 16, 2025, garnered attraction and involvement from readers. He received aggregate injuries after an intruder attacked him with a knife during an alleged burglary effort astatine his residence successful Mumbai. Mr. Khan was admitted to the hospital and discharged 5 days later.
5. ‘Not from backward community’: Infosys founders Narayana Murthy, Sudha Murty diminution to instrumentality portion successful Karnataka caste survey
Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy and his woman Sudha Murthy. | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar
Infosys laminitis Narayana Murthy and his woman Sudha Murthy declined to instrumentality portion successful the ongoing Social and Educational Survey successful Karnataka, saying they bash not beryllium to immoderate backward caste, sources successful the BBMP said connected October 16, 2025. When enumerators came for the survey a fewer days ago, Sudha Murty and Narayana Murthy reportedly told them, “We don’t privation the survey conducted astatine our home.”
4. ‘Within seconds, 5 of them stopped breathing’: oculus witnesser recounts midnight calamity successful Ramanthapur
An relation inspecting the tangled cables successful Ramanthapur, Uppal, Hyderabad, pursuing an electrocution which killed 5 men and injured four, during the Janmastami procession. | Photo Credit: G. Ramakrishna
A Krishna Janmashtami procession successful Ramanthapur turned tragic connected August 17, 2025, erstwhile a 10-foot chariot being carried by devotees came into interaction with a unrecorded overhead electrical wire, starring to the decease of 5 men and injuries to 4 others. For galore successful the colony, the calamity was each the much shocking due to the fact that this was the archetypal clip a Shobha Yatra for Krishna Janmashtami had been organised. In the past, residents explained, the celebrations were constricted to Utti oregon Utsalovam, wherever clay pots filled with food oregon sweets are suspended and breached by climbing quality pyramids.
3. Delhi predetermination results 2025: BJP to signifier govt successful Delhi aft implicit 26 years, wins 48 seats; AAP 22
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva are greeted by supporters. | Photo Credit: ANI
The unrecorded blog for Delhi predetermination results 2025 is the 3rd astir work quality of the year. The BJP staged a thumping comeback successful Delhi aft much than 26 years arsenic it won 48 of the 70 seats successful the Assembly polls on February 8, 2025. The Aam Aadmi Party won 22 and the Congress drew a blank for a 3rd consecutive time.
2. Terror onslaught successful Pahalgam leaves 26 tourists dead
Security unit astatine the tract wherever terrorists opened fired connected tourists successful Pahalgam. | Photo Credit: AP
The Hindu’s unrecorded sum aft the Pahalgam onslaught that happened connected April 22, 2025 was the 2nd astir work quality nonfiction of the year. That, combined with lives for Operation Sindoor’s motorboat and panic onslaught updates drew immense attraction from a ample conception of The Hindu’s readers. At slightest 26 people, including 2 overseas tourists, were killed by a radical of terrorists in one of the astir deadly attacks connected civilians in the Baisaran meadows successful the precocious reaches of Pahalgam successful Jammu and Kashmir connected April 22, 2025 afternoon.
1. Air India formation with 242 connected committee crashes successful Ahmedabad
Wreckage of Air India's Boeing 787-8 aircraft, which was operating formation AI 171 from Ahmedabad to London, placed nether choky security, aft the tragedy, successful Ahmedabad. | Photo Credit: PTI
The unrecorded sum The Hindu did for Air India aerial clang connected June 13, 2025, was the astir work nonfiction of the year. The unrecorded updates for the crash, combined with updates regarding instauration of precocious level committee was the apical work nonfiction of the year. The clang claimed the lives of 242 radical including erstwhile Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. One idiosyncratic survived. The Boeing 787-8 craft took disconnected astatine 1:38 p.m. and minutes later, plummeted into the B.J. Medical College hostel messiness 5km from the airport.
