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Ruling JMM convenes meeting of MLAs ahead of Jharkhand CM’s questioning by ED

Ranchi, Jan 20 (PTI) The ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) on Saturday convened a meeting of all its legislators at Chief Minister’s House here ahead of Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren’s questioning by the Enforcement Directorate here in a money laundering case linked to an alleged land scam. The ED officials are scheduled to visit the CM House around noon for questioning in connection with the case. Soren, 48, who is also the executive president of JMM, had skipped seven earlier summonses by the ED and finally gave his consent to attend the questioning after the probe agency summoned him for

New mosque construction in India’s Ayodhya to begin in May, Muslim group says

NEW DELHI, Jan 20 (Reuters) – As Hindu devotees prepare to inaugurate a grand temple to one of their holiest deities, India’s minority Muslims plan to begin building a new mosque in the same city later this year, hoping to make a fresh start after a bloody, decades-long dispute. Haji Arfat Shaikh, the head of the development committee of the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF) that is overseeing the mosque project, said this week that construction would begin in May, after the holy month of Ramadan, and the mosque would take three to four years to build. Hindu zealots razed a

A decades long Hindu nationalist dream is about to be achieved. What does this mean?

Ornate gifts have started arriving in the Indian city of Ayodhya as the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares to inaugurate a vast Hindu temple that he hopes will firm his chances for a rare third election win in just a few months’ time. Though still not complete, the sprawling Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir fulfils a long-standing promise by Modi to build a Hindu temple on the site of a 16th century mosque that was destroyed by Hindu mobs more than 30 years ago. That attack transformed India and turbo-charged the country’s Hindu nationalist movement. For that reason, Monday’s ceremony is

Trump mocks Nikki Haley’s first name. It’s his latest example of attacking rivals based on race

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he campaigns at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. August 12, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Atlanta (AP): Donald Trump used his social media platform Friday to mock Nikki Haley ‘s birth name, the latest example of the former president keying on race and ethnicity to attack people of color, especially his political rivals. In a post on his Truth Social account, Trump repeatedly referred to Haley, the daughter of immigrants from India, as “Nimbra.” Haley, the former South Carolina governor, was born in Bamberg, South Carolina, as Nimarata Nikki Randhawa. She has always gone by her middle name, “Nikki.” She took the surname “Haley” upon her marriage in 1996. Trump, himself the son, grandson and

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