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The Congress party has “respectfully declined” the invitation extended to its three leaders by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust to attend the consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22, saying that it was “clearly an RSS-BJP event” and the inauguration was that of an “incomplete temple”.
When it comes to the Ramjanmabhoomi dispute, the Congress is weighed down by its history. National Political Bureau chief Manoj C G decodes why the party declined the invitation.
The BJP, meanwhile, has called the Congress’s move yet another “evidence” of the party being allegedly “anti-Hindu”.
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In a setback to the Shiv Sena faction led by Uddhav Thackeray, more than one-and-a-half years after the party split into two, Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar has declared that the opposing faction led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde was “the real political party”. While Sena (UBT) escaped disqualification, the verdict has raised question marks about Thackeray’s leadership.
As legal proceedings against Nikhul Gupta, accused by the US authorities of plotting to kill Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, continue, a New York Court has ordered the US government to respond to a motion filed by Gupta’s lawyers, seeking material relating to the charges against him.
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In view of “pressure” on students during placement season, the Indian Institutes of Technology are considering not disclosing the highest annual packages in their placement reports, focussing on mean and median salary figures instead, The Indian Express has learnt. We take a look at what led to the decision and how faculty members feel about it.
Maldives has been in the news for all the wrong reasons for the past some time now. First, the new government led by President Mohamed Muizzu asked India to withdraw military personnel and now, the latest trigger has been undiplomatic words used by ministers in Muizzu’s cabinet against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in particular and Indians in general. Amid the row, our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Shubhajit Roy answers three key questions on India-Maldives relations.
Writing on the India-Maldives tension, Arun Prakash, in today’s Opinion section, states: “Prime Minister Narendra Modi had, in 2015, coined the slogan, “security and growth for all in the region,” whose acronym SAGAR has become a foreign-policy catchphrase, representing broad regional maritime cooperation. Perhaps, it is time to flesh out SAGAR as a new and comprehensive maritime doctrine that will lend direction and purpose to regional diplomacy — both maritime and conventional.”
⏳And Finally
Virat Kohli is to miss the first T2OI against Afghanistan due to personal reasons. Yashasvi Jaiswal will be opening with Rohit Sharma. And, coach Rahul Dravid says that there is no time to prepare for this year’s T20 World Cup. We delve into how India’s roadmap to the T20I World Cup is filled with more confusion and very few solutions.
Delhi Confidential: After much delay, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has finally received the invitation for the January 22 Ram temple consecration ceremony in Ayodhya. VHP working president Alok Kumar, who handed him the invite, stated that Bhagwat said the Ram Temple was a symbol of national self-respect and he felt fortunate to have been invited.
In today’s edition of the ‘3 Things’ podcast, we take a break from our regular programming to present a special feature story about a woman who might just have the most unique job in the world — Melody G Fanai, who through her voice, mends relationships and brings people together.
Until tomorrow,
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