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Union Minister for Railways, Ashwini Vaishnaw, took to Twitter on Sunday to share the first glimpses of the ‘Shri Ramayan Yatra,’ a rail circuit specifically designed to promote religious tourism in places associated with the Ramayana.

Kosher and Halal slaughter have been banned by the apex court in Greece that termed them as inhumane. Notably, the court decision comes after the Panhellenic Animal Welfare and Environmental Federation had approached it asking that a ministerial decision exempting religious slaughter from a Greek law be annulled.

Two weeks after Pakistan was retained in the FATF grey list, the Lahore High Court (LHC) has acquitted 6 terrorists in a case pertaining to terror financing. The terrorists, associated with Hafiz Saeed’s Jamatud Dawa (JuD), were earlier convicted by an anti-terrorism court.

A video has gone viral on social media where lack of onions in her plate of khasta kachori, a deep fried delicacy and popular street food, triggered this woman enough to overturn the hawker’s cart as well as physically assault him.

There’s a fairly recent trend that has emerged on social media. Over the past few years, it has extremely normal for entertainers, sportsmen and journalists to be viciously trolled and abused by Islamists for posts they do not approve. And weirdly enough, the online harassment campaign somehow fails to grab media attention and even worse, most of the times it is ignored by the victim themselves.

A lot has been written about the expulsion of Hindus from Bangladesh, from the Kashmir valley, Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan, and so forth, but very little has been written about the expulsion and killing – termed missing here – of the Hindus, and Sikhs from regions of Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

A three-member National Investigation Agency (NIA) team reached Canada on Friday, November 5. The NIA team is on a four-day visit to investigate the foreign funding links of terrorist organisations like Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) and other pro-Khalistani groups like Babbar Khalsa International, Khalistan Zindabad Force, and Khalistan Tiger Force. Sikh For Justice is Pakistan’s ISI backed pro-Khalistani organization banned by the Indian government for involving in terror-related activities.

A primary school in the United Kingdom had asked boys and girls to wear skirts to school to promote gender equality and show solidarity with a boy expelled from lessons in Spain. Consequently, teachers and pupil at Castleview Primary in Edinburgh participated in the initiative for the first time on November 4 this year, dubbed as “Wear a skirt to School Day.”

Amidst the ongoing political crisis in Punjab, following the resignation of Captain Amarinder Singh, veteran Congress leader Ambika Soni rejected the proposal to become the new Chief Minister before Charanjit Singh Channi was named as the next CM.