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In a recent interview with former Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, the so-called “independent journalist” Sreenivasan Jain repeated old criticisms about the Supreme Court’s Ayodhya Ram Mandir verdict.

When Ladakh was elevated to Union Territory status in August 2019, Sonam Wangchuk folded his hands in gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Photos and videos showing a masked man involved in the Leh violence on Wednesday, 24 September, spread widely across social media. Many reports and BJP-linked sources claimed that this masked person was Congress councillor Phuntsog Stanzin Tsepag.

Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Sameer Wankhede has once again found himself in the thick of a storm, but this time he is not the investigator — he is the petitioner. Wankhede has filed a defamation suit in the Delhi High Court against Aryan Khan’s directorial debut on Netflix, the provocatively titled “The Ba*ds of Bollywood.”**

Normalisation of Hinduphobia in the US is moving ahead in full swing. From politicians and anti-Hindu lobbyists to parts of the media and academia, anti-Hindu actors from many walks of American life are instilling, promoting, and perpetuating Hindu-hate. Audrey Truschke, a notorious anti-Hindu “historian” known for whitewashing heinous crimes by Mughal tyrants against Indians, has written a propaganda piece that fuels hatred against Hindus by lying about the roots of violence in the West.

Ladakh’s Lieutenant Governor, Kavinder Gupta, has stirred controversy by suggesting that the recent violent protests in the region were no spontaneous outburst — but rather the result of a planned conspiracy. He claimed, in an interview with NDTV’s Aditya Raj Kaul, that many injured participants hailed from Nepal and Doda — an assertion that lends fuel to suspicions that outside actors tried to inflame tensions in the Union Territory.

On 24th September, Leh, Union Territory of Ladakh, witnessed a sudden and violent turn in its ongoing agitation. The call for a shutdown by the youth wing of the Leh Apex Body spiralled into street clashes, arson, and chaos. Protesters, who have been demanding statehood for Ladakh and its inclusion under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution, resorted to aggressive action that shocked the region. The local BJP office was set on fire, a police van was torched, and demonstrators clashed with security forces right in the centre of the city.

On 24th September, the Delhi High Court refused a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that asked for the graves of Kashmiri terrorists Mohammad Afzal Guru and Mohammad Maqbool Bhat to be removed from the Central Jail in Tihar.

Despite repeated outbursts from U.S. President Donald Trump demanding Apple stop producing in India, the company has gone full steam ahead. Apple is not only increasing iPhone assembly lines in India but also boosting the local manufacturing of the highly specialised machines that make those iPhones possible. In short, while Trump shouts, Apple builds.