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Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai has announced that his government is initiating steps to free Hindu temples from government control. There has been a growing demand to free Hindu temples from government control, and this can be considered as a victory for that movement in one key state.

An incident has come to light from Kolkata where the employees of a restaurant attacked the customers with sharp knives and rods during a spat. Jenifer Kirti Desai, sister of one of the victims, posted details of the incident on her Instagram account with photos and videos of injured victims.

In 2014, when former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh left the office, he took 101 gift items given to him by various heads of the states during his foreign visits. The information came to light after a lawyer from Bareilly, Mohammad Khalid Jilani, filed an RTI with the Prime Minister’s Office and sought information about the same.

The Assam government has shut down around 700 madrassas in the past few years, which has led to a massive uproar in the secular (that is, Islamist) coterie. But the state’s Chief Minister is anything but apologetic about having closed these madrassas. While many claims that this is an attack on the country’s secular fabric, the justification for why a secular government must fund religious studies of a particular faith system remains obscure.

76 Supreme Court Lawyers have written a letter to CJI NV Ramana concerning the two separate events organized in Delhi (by the Hindu Yuva Vahini) and Haridwar (by Yati Narsinghanand) on 17th and 19th December 2021, asking him to take Suo moto cognizance of the alleged hate speech made at the two events.

“Farmers” are starting their political party. I am, of course, using the word farmers here casually because it should be obvious that not all farmers are in this group. Modi could not be PM without support from farmers who we are told make up 50-60% of our population. So a better way of saying that is some persons that claim to represent the interest of farmers are starting a political outfit.

A 19-year-old Indian origin man, Jaswant Singh Chail, who had allegedly attempted to assassinate Queen Elizabeth (95) on Christmas Day has been arrested and detained by the police under the Mental Health Act, according to reports.

While Mahatma Gandhi is known worldwide for his non-violence movement for independence of India, his simple lifestyle, and other such aspects that make him a ‘Mahatma’, there are several other aspects in his that raise curiosity in the minds of people. Apart from the extreme pacifism that Gandhi practiced which was questioned by many of his contemporaries, the one weird aspect, widely known but little discussed in public discourse, is his experiments with his celibacy.

The Uttarakhand police have taken to Twitter to refute allegations that Christmas celebrations were banned in the state. Taking to its official Twitter handle, the Uttarakhand police wrote in Hindi which roughly translated as: “Nowhere in the state was there a prohibition on the Christmas festival.