| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Last year a total of 1.39 crore passports were issued and about 1.5 crore people received passport services, a volume the government says makes exhaustive citizenship verification impractical.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Even under previous governments the passport was not treated as proof of Indian citizenship, and various High Courts and the Supreme Court have ruled that no single document or identity card proves citizenship — so the current government has not changed this rule.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
On 24 June, Indian Passport Day, the Ministry of External Affairs stated that a passport is a travel document and cannot be considered proof of citizenship in any form.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
The Ram Mandir was built not with any trust's or government's money but with the money of ordinary Hindu devotees who donated voluntarily.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
The number of devotees visiting the Ram Mandir has not decreased; people are still coming but are no longer donating at the temple.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Daily offerings at the Ram Mandir have collapsed from about ₹8–12 lakh per day earlier to roughly ₹82,000–95,000 per day around June 17–19 after the theft came to light.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
All these allegations have been placed before the SIT, but the SIT itself has not yet confirmed them.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
In the Ram Mandir theft, counting staff allegedly hid bundles of notes, gold and silver coins and jewellery in their clothes, exploited un-frisked bathroom breaks to stash the loot in hiding spots in a bathroom just 50 metres from the counting room, and later retrieved it or smuggled it out through accomplices.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Kapil Sharma, secretary of the Shri Krishna Sthan Seva Sansthan, has also written to CM Yogi Adityanath calling the theft allegations baseless and questioning the complainants' motives.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
The Mathura temple receives around ₹1 crore in offerings every month and roughly ₹8 lakh every day.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
The letter alleges that jewellery, gold, silver and donations worth thousands of crores of rupees are being stolen from the Krishna Janmabhoomi treasury, and that CCTV cameras are switched off whenever donation boxes are opened.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
After the Ayodhya Ram Mandir case, theft allegations have surfaced at Mathura's Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi temple; Sant Dinesh Sharma alias Dinesh Falahari Maharaj, president of the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi Sangharsh Nyas, has written a letter in his own blood to CM Yogi Adityanath.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Blood pressure and heart medicines (telmisartan, amlodipine, ramipril), blood thinners (aspirin 75mg, clopidogrel) and the cholesterol-lowering drug rosuvastatin also failed the quality tests.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Several diabetes medicines, including metformin and glimepiride, were found substandard in the quality tests.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Stomach and acidity medicines — rabeprazole, pantoprazole, omeprazole and esomeprazole — failed the tests, with samples from various batches under question.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
The failed-drugs list includes paracetamol for fever, diclofenac pain-relief gel, dextromethorphan cough syrup, and tiotropium inhalers used for serious respiratory diseases.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Three prescription antibiotics — Augmentin 625, Mox 625 and Clavam 625, all amoxicillin-clavulanate combinations from different companies — were found by the government agency to have failed quality standards.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
In many cases the quantity of drug salts in these medicines did not conform to prescribed standards, and the salt combinations were also incorrect.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), a Government of India body, revealed in its latest report that 157 medicines failed quality tests in the month of May.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
157 branded medicines failed quality tests; beyond counterfeit drugs, genuine branded drugs are also deceiving consumers.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
The spark of the battle for supremacy over Hormuz has ignited, and it cannot be said when it will turn into a major fire (full-scale war).
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
During the US-Iran war, the Gulf countries were the worst affected by Iranian attacks, and the US was unable to protect them.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
Iran not only wants to keep control over the Strait of Hormuz but wants to end American interference in the entire Middle East.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Iraq today and went straight from the airport to the memorial of IRGC General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a US strike in 2020.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-28 |
Iraq's new Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi on Saturday ordered American forces to leave the country, setting a September deadline.
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