The Karnataka Government has assured legislators from the Brahmin community that the Government would soon start issuing caste and income certificates to Brahmins though they are in a minority, accounting for a mere 3% of the southern State’s seven crore population.
Hardening its stand against United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), the Government has justified denying visas to members of the bipartisan US body to visit India last year and questioned its locus standi to comment on Indian citizens’ fundamental right to religion.
‘Various Bollywood celebrities and self-proclaimed intellectuals are seen carrying placards or candles over various issues to garner international publicity’, noted actress Kangana Ranaut in a video message slamming the selective secularism and agenda of Bollywood celebrities while she condemned the killing of J&K Sarpanch Ajay Pandita.
Rahul Gandhi’s questions on Chinese aggression in Ladakh, in tweets directed at Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, have drawn a response from the ruling BJP’s MP in Ladakh, Jamyang Tsering Namgyal.
In a recent interview to a media house, the founder of Patanjali, Baba Ramdev claims that he has the treatment for the novel coronavirus. He even said that his medicine is 100% effective.
Chattisgarh Police officer Anand Javat and constable Subhash Singh were arrested for selling cartridges to Naxal. Manoj Sharma and Harishankar who had come to buy cartridges from these Policemen were also arrested along with them.
Terrorists killed a 40-year-old Sarpanch Ajay Pandita, on 8th June, at the Larkipora village of Anantnag District in Jammu and Kashmir. Actor Anupam Kher released a video expressing anguish and sorrow over the murder of Ajay Pandita.
The U.P Government approved a draft ordinance making a provision for the maximum imprisonment term to ten years from the existing seven years and maximum penalty to 5 lakhs from three lakhs. The Uttar Pradesh Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act, 1955 was implemented in the State on January 6, 1956.
An Amazon user ‘Anji’ has alleged that a seller-Vishv Books, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, has been fuelling anti-Hindu sentiments by sending a copy of a book denigrating the ordered Shrimad Bhagwat Mahapuran as a “special gift” along with the Holy Scripture.
An eight-year-old girl was gang-raped. Her mother is mentally unstable and father is unemployed.