India Archive

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has shut down as many as 37 shops selling alcohol and cannabis in areas surrounding Sri Krishna Janmasthan Mandir in Mathura.

In his first remark on the ongoing disputed Gyanvapi mosque row, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Thursday, June 2, that the disputed structure of the Gyanvapi mosque has a history that cannot be disputed.

On Thursday (June 2), two non-local workers were shot at by Islamic terrorists in Magraypora, in the Chadoora area in Budgam district of central Kashmir. One of them succumbed to the injuries while the other remained in a critical state.

On Wednesday, massive protests broke out in the city of Chittorgarh in Rajasthan after a youth named Ratan Soni was brutally attacked and murdered by some miscreants on Tuesday night.

In Tamil Nadu, a YouTuber has been arrested for collecting funds to restore murtis vandalized in an HRCE-controlled temple. TN HRCE official has filed a complaint against him for not getting permission from the department to collect money.

On Sunday (May 29), the English daily ‘The Times of India (TOI)’ provided a platform to the Indian-origin British journalist Hasan Suroor to give sermons on secularism. Hasan Suroor was arrested for the sexual grooming of a minor in 2015 but was later acquitted by a UK court.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases. In Gandhi’s case, the questions one feels inclined to ask are: to what extent was Gandhi moved by vanity — by the consciousness of himself as a humble, naked old man, sitting on a praying-mat and shaking empires by sheer spiritual power — and to what extent did he compromise his own principles by entering politics, which of their nature are inseparable from coercion and fraud?

Despite the existence of stringent laws, grooming jihad cases continue to emerge from various parts of the country. In one such recent case, a Hindu woman from Delhi was abused, physically assaulted, and forced to convert to Islam after refusing to marry the accused, Saif Ansari.

On May 28, a First Investigation Report (FIR) was registered against bus driver Ahmed Shah for negligent driving in connection to the case where seven Indian Army soldiers lost their lives, and 19 soldiers were injured after the bus carrying them fell in the Shyok river in the Turtuk sector of Ladakh.

History has it that any type of depiction of the Prophet Muhammad has always drawn fierce pushback from Islamists around the world.