Badrinath offerings probe widens temple scrutiny
The Badrinath-Kedarnath Temple Committee has ordered an inquiry into allegations of misappropriation of offerings at Badrinath Dham, widening public scrutiny of donation management at major Hindu shrines after a separate embezzlement case at the Ram...
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Court shields judge after lynching verdict threats
Madhya Pradesh High Court has ordered police protection for Additional District and Sessions...
in Happening Now Jul 4 ·Gujarat ATS arrests eight over JeM network
Gujarat’s Anti-Terrorist Squad has arrested eight suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed operatives from Gujarat and Madhya...
in Happening Now Jul 4 ·RSS seeks strict probe into temple funds
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has called for a full investigation into alleged pilferage...
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By K Raveendran The alleged theft of donations from the Ayodhya Ram Temple has pushed a long-simmering question into the national foreground: who should guard the wealth of religious institutions when faith, money and power converge without adequate public accountability? The issue is not confined to Ayodhya, nor to...
Sangh To Embark On Massive Campaign To Recruit Bengali Youth
By Arun Srivastava Notwithstanding its best efforts in projecting its Baudhik Pramukhs (intellectual chiefs),Vicharaks and Prajna Pravah (overarching “intellectual wing” of the RSS that acts as a think-tank for scholars, academics, and intellectuals), the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is unhappy with the number of Hindus in its formal membership umbrella....
Indians Have Been Contributing To U.S. Economy And Education Since 1965
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: In 1965, a new law scrapped America’s whites-only immigration quota system, and the trickle of Indians into the United States began the slow climb toward becoming a flood. Nobody in 1965 could have foreseen that the sons and daughters of that first wave...
China Is Hopeful Of India Pursuing Independent Position In Japan Led Security Bloc
By Satyaki Chakraborty The three day visit of the Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to India from July 1 to 3 has drawn big attention in Chinese media with experts analyzing whether India is joining Japan led move for an Indo-Pacific security bloc as a part of Japan’s anti-China...
USA At 250 On July 4 – The American Revolution That Is Yet To Be Completed
By John Wojcik NEW YORK: Two hundred and fifty years ago this July 4th, a group of colonial merchants, lawyers, and planters put their names to a piece of parchment that shook the world. They declared, in the most radical language their age could imagine, that governments derive their...
President Donald Trump Has Gone Bizarre As U.S. Celebrates 250th Birthday
By Linda Pentz Gunter NEW YORK: An inflatable frog has been pepper-sprayed, spawning (sorry) an army of affinity frogs and other creatures real and fictional, protesting at the often violent arrests of immigrants. A clarinettist in a brass band has been assaulted and arrested, abbreviations have been outlawed and...
Latest UN Report On Israel Occupied Territories Exposes The Ruthlessness Of Atrocities
By R. Suryamurthy Every war leaves behind shattered cities, broken societies and grieving families. But some wars destroy something less visible yet infinitely more consequential: faith in the institutions created to prevent humanity from repeating history’s darkest chapters. The latest report of the United Nations Independent International Commission of...
In Twelve Years Of His Rule, PM Narendra Modi Has Undertaken 102 International Trips
By T N Ashok There is a photograph that has, by now, become a genre unto itself: Narendra Modi, garlanded or embracing, disembarking from an Air India One flight onto a red carpet somewhere between Washington and Abu Dhabi, Tokyo and Rio. Multiply that image by 102 and you...
Bengal Govt’s New Act To Control Anti-Socials Has Scope For Big Misuse
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: West Bengal Public Safety and Control of Anti-Socials Bill has been passed and enacted into law It permits the state to detain individuals deemed to be a threat to public safety without trial. Under its provisions, habitual offenders can be barred from entering specific districts...
Possible Merger Of MVA Parties May Rejig Maharashtra Politics
By Rahil Nora Chopra Politics in Maharashtra is buzzing with intense speculation as the Congress and Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party are holding discussions over a possible merger. The move, if it materialises, could trigger a major political realignment in the state. Once a broad agreement is attained at...
Both The Centre And UP Govt Can’t Evade Responsibility From Ram Mandir Scam
By Krishna Jha Ram Mandir was built on the debris of Babri Mosque. When the centuries old Mosque was dismembered by karsewaks on December 6, 1992, in the clear visibility of BJP leadership, the nation was shocked. It appeared to be a major blow to India’s secularism and pluralism...
Supreme Court Suggestion To Create Fund For Assisting Young Lawyers Is Welcome
By Sampreetha Senthilkumar and Clifton D’Rozario On June 19, 2026, a Division Bench in the Supreme Court passed a significant order in Sarita Tyagi v. Union of India, where it noted as follows: “A young first-generation lawyer entering the Bar does not immediately inherit an office, a library, a...
Barkatullah University Is More Than Just A Name – It Has History And Identity
By Raju Kumar BHOPAL: The recent proposal to rename Bhopal’s Barkatullah University as Vagdevi Bhojpal University has triggered an intense debate across Madhya Pradesh. The proposal, approved by the University’s Executive Council, drew strong opposition not only in Bhopal but also in several other parts of the state. Teachers,...
China-US Tech War Reaches Its Peak As Chinese Supercomputer Gets Top Slot In 2026
By Satyaki Chakraborty The U.S.-China high tech battle for supremacy has reached a new peak after the China manufactured Supercomputer LineShine was adjudged the best among the Top 500 supercomputers made by various nations including the USA, at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany held on June 23.China...
CJI Should Give Serious Look At The Opposition Parties Joint Memorandum On SIR
By Arun Srivastava The joint memorandum to the Chief Justice of India, Justice Surya Kant, by the twenty-three opposition parties is virtually of the nature of mercy entreaty which “appeals to the conscience of the judiciary. The judiciary has to see what is happening in the country today. When...
How Donald Trump Turned The White House Into A Blockchain Goldmine
By T N Ashok American politics is full of irony. A real estate agent’s son becomes a president after wasting all the billions his father earned in New Jersey and knocks at the doors of the elite in New York for admission without an answer that angers and frustrates...
DCDG Report On Custodial Deaths In Bangladesh In Last 22 Months Is Chilling
By R. Suryamurthy The true measure of a democracy is rarely found in the grandeur of its elections or the eloquence of its constitution. It is found instead in the silence of its prison cells, the transparency of its police stations and the restraint exercised by those empowered to...
Starmer’s £300 Billion Defence Plan Poses A Challenge For Burnham
By Asad Mirza Keir Starmer announced his resignation as Labour leader on 22 June 2026 after a mutiny within his own party, but before leaving Downing Street he unveiled a near-£300 billion, drone-heavy defence plan – a move critics call his final, and most contested, act as prime minister....
