ACCOUNTING FLAWS IN RAM MANDIR

NEW DELHI: In an interview with journalist Abhishek Upadhyay on June 9, 2026, for his YouTube channel, Top Secret, that a former accountant with the Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, Mahipal Singh, laid bare the flawed accounting process – with no mechanism for daily audit or accountability – at Hindutva’s marquee temple in Ayodhya. Singh […]

RAM MANDIR DONATION SCAM: SC SEEKS SIT REPORT, NOTICE TO TEMPLE TRUST

NEW DELHI: In a new turn of events regarding the management of money received by the nation’s most popular religious monument, the Supreme Court of India ordered on Monday the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Uttar Pradesh government to produce a complete status report regarding its probe into the possible embezzlement of donations made […]

HOW YOGI BROKE LIQUOR CARTEL AND BUILT UP’S FINANCES

NEW DELHI: Rakshpal Yadav, a farmer in Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur until two years ago, explored ways to increase and diversify his sources of income and came across an e-lottery application for a liquor licence. When he scanned through the details, he was surprised to know that he was eligible to apply for it. He did […]

IRAN HITS BACK AFTER US STRIKES

(Photo) Courtesy : The Guardian NEW DELHI: In response to fresh US strikes on Iran, Tehran announced it had targeted American Patriot missile systems, ammunition depots and drone infrastructure across the Gulf, marking one of its largest retaliatory offensives since the conflict erupted in February. The retaliatory attacks came hours after US forces struck Iranian […]

RAM MANDIR TO GET A CEO AND REFORMS IN ITS GOVERNANCE ON JULY 22

NEW DELHI: Ram Temple Construction Committee chairman Nripendra Mishra, a former principal secretary of Prime Minister Modi, has described the donation theft at the Ayodhya temple as a “disgraceful blot”, saying everyone connected with it felt deeply humiliated and let down. He also said the temple management system would be improved to prevent such incidents […]

SC PROTECTS 27 DECLARED FOREIGNERS IN ASSAM

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday underlined that the process of determining a person’s citizenship or declaring someone a foreigner must be fair, while granting relief to 27 individuals in Assam who had been declared foreigners by Foreigners Tribunals. A bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta said questions relating to citizenship […]

SC STAYS BLANKET BAN ON COW SLAUGHTER

(Photo) Courtesy : The Pioneer NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a Madras High Court order that had directed the Tamil Nadu government to ensure that no cow or calf is slaughtered in the state on the eve of Bakrid or on any other day. A bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice […]

MODI SIGNS STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH NEW ZEALAND

NEW DELHI: During Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s landmark visit to Auckland, India and New Zealand officially elevated their bilateral ties to a Strategic Partnership. Modi and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon signed a broad package of agreements, headlined by the historic India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to double bilateral trade to ₹35,000 crore by 2030. […]

RAM MANDIR SCAM HEARING IN SC ON MONDAY

NEW DELHI: The Ram temple donations theft case is now headed to the Supreme Court. On Monday, a bench led by CJI Surya Kant, with Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohana, will hear petitions seeking an independent probe into the alleged theft of donations at the temple, in addition to a forensic audit of the […]

ED SEARCHES IN DELHI-NCR ON HOUSING SOCIETY FRAUD

NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted searches at more than half a dozen locations in Delhi-NCR in connection with a housing society fraud involving its former president and directors, and seized damning documents and digital devices purportedly containing the money trail and evidence of fraudulent diversion of funds. The raids by ED’s Gurugram unit […]