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On the 19th of January 2022, Lavanya, a 12th standard girl breathed her last after battling the consequences of her suicide attempt. Student of Sacred Heart Higher Secondary School, Lavanya had ingested pesticides after being tortured and pressurised to convert to Christianity by the school.

In recent times, the tension between Russia and Ukraine has been at its peak since the conflict caught the attention of the world in 2014. At the moment, Ukraine and world leaders have expressed their concerns over possible invasion by Russia on Ukrainian soil. Western powers have warned Russia against any aggressive move against Ukraine. US has started supplying military aid to Russia’s neighbouring nation and authorized its employees in the US embassy in Ukraine to leave the country if they wish to.

Ahead of the upcoming assembly elections, the political atmosphere in Uttar Pradesh is all charged up, especially by sharp remarks made by the chief minister Yogi Adityanath, who has launched a blistering attack against his opponents, most notably the Samajwadi Party.

On January 24, a woman named Ankita from West Bengal posted a tweet with the screenshot of a post by a Reddit group ‘I_AM_Bengaalan’ whose photograph was misused. Ankita, who is a BJP worker, said wrote, “My photo is being misused on social media. I am feeling afraid. Posting proof of which was found on Reddit. A person named Radha Sheikh edited and posted my picture with heinous comments. I am requesting NCW, Rekha Sharma, Kolkata Police, to look into this matter.”

On January 24, Monday, a woman tried self-immolation in front of the convoy of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav near the Samajwadi Party office in Lucknow, but the SP chief apparently ignored her and drove away. The incident reportedly took place when Akhilesh Yadav’s convoy left for his residence from the party office in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

On January 7, Muhammad Mansoor Mohiuddin, a Pakistan-based US doctor, earned headlines as the co-founder of the US’ Maryland Medical Center that successfully transplanted a genetically engineered heart of a pig into a terminally ill American man. While the Muslim doctor was hailed by his fraternity for the medical breakthrough, he received severe backlash from his own family members because he used an organ from an animal that is forbidden in Islam.

Elle India publisher Arif Ayyub has been going on an unhinged rant against the Saudi and UAE royal families after a Saudi-led coalition retaliated against the Islamist Houthi movement in Yemen for carrying out a deadly drone attack in United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The boundary between historical fact and fiction is more porous than students of history might think. It is not uncommon for countries to create self-serving or sanitized historical narratives. As George Orwell said, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

Hindu outfits in Karnataka have stopped namaz being performed in the premises of a government school. Parents, alumni staged a protest with the help of after the video of Muslim students performing namaz inside a classroom went viral in social media. District collector has ordered an inquiry to look into the issue.