| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
Only three countries in the world — the United States, New Zealand and Australia — treat the passport as equivalent to a citizenship card.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
India ranks 80th on the Henley Passport Index with visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to only 56 countries, down six places from its rank of 74 before the Modi government.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
As of 2023 only 9.26 crore Indians — about 6.5% of the population — held passports, and only 35% of passport holders have actually used them for foreign travel.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
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 the rule.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
On June 24, Indian Passport Day, the Ministry of External Affairs stated that a passport is a travel document and cannot be treated as proof of citizenship in any form.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
Per the Haryana Institute of Public Administration, 60% of Delhi-NCR buildings cannot withstand an earthquake as powerful as Venezuela's, and Delhi's municipal corporation told the High Court that 80% of the city's buildings would be unsafe in a quake.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
India recorded 125 earthquakes last month — about four per day — with the most (25) in Assam, 19 in Maharashtra, 17 in Arunachal Pradesh and 11 in Manipur, and 59% of India's landmass is considered highly earthquake-prone.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
Venezuela's economic crisis after 2015 halted construction of bridges, schools and hospitals, and these weakened structures made the earthquake far more destructive.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
International agencies are estimating 10,000 deaths and 100 billion dollars in damage from the earthquake in Venezuela.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
The Ujjain blast display is not merely a law-and-order matter but a larger social question about the mindset of those involved.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
The Ujjain incident came to light through videos uploaded from an Instagram account, and police have registered a case against a youth named Shoaib and against Gopal, the owner of the crane used to suspend the car.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
During a Muharram procession in Ujjain, multiple blasts were set off, including a car suspended in the air by a crane that was exploded after 'Le phir aa gaya' ('Look, it has come again') was written on it.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
In a 2021 case the temple trust was accused of buying, for more than ₹18 crore, land that had just been purchased by others for a few crore; these allegations remain unconfirmed and the trust denies them.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
Legally the temple trust can refuse to provide financial details, but the issue here is one of morality and of the people's trust.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
When the Ayodhya ADM wrote to trust general secretary Champat Rai, he refused to share the financial details with the local administration for the PMO, saying the matter is already under SIT investigation.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
The matter began with letters BJP leader Dr. Rajneesh Singh wrote to the Prime Minister demanding an impartial probe, by an agency like the CBI, into allegations about the Ram Mandir's donations and land purchases.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
The Prime Minister's Office asked the Ram Mandir trust, via the district administration, to provide complete financial details, and the trust refused to share them.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
The FIR was registered on the basis of a complaint filed by the very Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust that is itself under question.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
The FIR was registered three days after the SIT's preliminary report, amid persistent questions about why an investigation was proceeding without an FIR.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
The case has been registered under BNS sections including 306, 316, 317 and 61; Section 306 covers theft by a clerk or servant of property in the owner's possession and carries up to 7 years imprisonment and a fine.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
No senior office-bearer of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust has been named in the FIR.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
Accused Lavkush Mishra is the man from whose house police initially recovered ₹1 lakh in cash, and his job was recommended by trust employee Anukalp Mishra himself.
Ram Mandir donation theft
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
The first FIR has been registered in the Ram Mandir donation theft case, naming eight accused.
Ram Mandir donation theft
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
It is questionable whether India has become self-reliant (aatmanirbhar) in the food that comes to our plate (implying it has not).
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-25 |
India is today talking about (making) a lot of progress in defence.
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