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Difficult for us to go to ‘political function’ designed around PM, RSS: Rahul Gandhi on Ram Temple ceremony

Chiephobozou (Nagaland), Jan 16 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that the Ram temple consecration event in Ayodhya has been made into a “Narendra Modi and RSS-BJP function” with an “election flavour”, as he strongly defended the decision of his party’s top leaders to decline the invite to the ceremony. Gandhi, whose family and party have been accused of being anti-Hindu by the BJP, also asserted that the Hindu dharma for him is a way of life and he tries to live by its principles, adding that those who “don’t believe in it, need to wear it on

Uddhav challenges CM Shinde, Speaker to public debate on which faction is real Shiv Sena

Mumbai, Jan 16 (PTI) Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday challenged Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar to a public debate with him on which faction is the real Shiv Sena. Narwekar on January 10 held in a long-awaited ruling that the Shinde faction was the real Sena while dismissing disqualification petitions filed by both Shinde and Thackeray camps against each other’s MLAs following a split in the party in June 2022. “I am taking this battle to the people’s court,” a combative Thackeray said at a press conference here. If he was not

Disease X: The ‘fake pandemic’ stoking the fire of right-wing conspiracies

Davos, Switzerland. January 16, 2024 (Freya Graham, Metro) — Health leaders are meeting at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on Wednesday to discuss ways to prepare for ‘Disease X’ – a term coined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2018 to describe the unknown, hypothetical pathogen that could cause the next pandemic. According to some experts, Disease X could result in 20 times more fatalities than the coronavirus pandemic. It’s on the WHO’s shortlist of priority diseases, alongside viruses like SARS, Ebola and Zika. There are an estimated 1.67 million unidentified viruses worldwide – and more than

Indian pilgrims throng Nepal’s most revered Hindu temple, Pashupatinath

KATHMANDU, Nepal January 16, 2024 (AP) — Thousands of Indian pilgrims arrive at daybreak at Pashupatinath, the most revered Hindu temple in Nepal, after traveling long distances in buses. Hawkers greet them with hot tea on the cold wintry morning. Many worshippers hand the cups to their wives, mothers and children through the bus windows. The devotees then enter the temple of Lord Shiva, the powerful Hindu god of destruction, on the Bagmati riverbanks in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu. Lord Shiva is also worshipped as a protector of animals, and is depicted with a serpent around his neck. The worshippers

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