Main Litigant in Varanasi’s Gyanvapi Mosque cases set to withdraw citing lack of Resources

Main Litigant in Varanasi's Gyanvapi Mosque cases set to withdraw citing lack of Resources

Jitendra Singh Vishen, who heads Hindu organisation Vishwa Vedic Sanatan Sangh, has announced that he and his family are withdrawing from all cases related to the Gynavapi mosque complex in Varanasi, citing “lack of resources” and alleged “harassment” from various quarters. Vishen is the “main pleader” on behalf of his niece Rakhi Singh, one of the five Hindu women plaintiffs in an August 2021 case seeking permission for daily worship of deities, including Shringar Gauri, located on the outer wall of Gyanvapi mosque complex that abuts the Kashi Vishwanath temple.…

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Kashmir Faces Alarming Drug Addiction Crisis: Battling the Menace Head-On

Kashmir Faces Alarming Drug Addiction Crisis: Battling the Menace Head-On

On a rainy morning in May, dozens of young men queued outside a drug drug rehabilitation centre in Srinagar city in Indian-administered Kashmir. Many of them were teens accompanied by their parents, waiting for their turn to receive medicines from the Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (IMHANS), the only government-run drug rehabilitation centre in Kashmir. The medicines help reduce their withdrawal symptoms and prevent the transmission of infectious diseases. “Did you take heroin again?” a doctor asks a young man after examining the size of his pupils. “Yes, I…

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Dialogue between India and Pakistan a crucial requirement to improve Kashmir Situation: Farooq Abdullah

Dialogue between India and Pakistan a crucial requirement to improve Kashmir Situation: Farooq Abdullah

National Conference (NC) president and former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah on Sunday (June 4) said that holding the G20 event in Kashmir would not benefit tourism in the Valley until India and Pakistan resolved the “future” of the Union Territory through dialogue. Speaking to the reporters in Srinagar, Abdullah also said that J&K was suffering heavy losses because of the lack of an elected government. Kashmir is now a Union Territory after the Centre abrogated Article 370 and suspended the elected government in August 2019, bringing…

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