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Two thousand Jain manuscripts, collected by British entrepreneur Sir Henry Wellcome and held by the Wellcome Collection in London, are being returned to the Jain community. These 15th to 19th-century texts, believed to be the largest collection outside South Asia, will be transferred to the University of Birmingham.

Throwing Non-Vegetarian Food Waste Into Ganga May Hurt Hindus’ Sentiments’

The chemistry teacher in Latur is the latest to be arrested for the leak of questions from the national entrance examination

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Fourteen Muslim youths have been sent to jail for 14 days in Varanasi for allegedly holding an iftar party on a boat and throwing waste, including biryani and bones, into the Ganga. The accused were booked under various sections of the BNS and the Water Act following a complaint alleging they disturbed religious harmony.

Fourteen Muslim youths were arrested in Varanasi for allegedly defiling the Ganga river and hurting religious sentiments. A viral video showed them holding an iftar party on a boat and disposing of chicken biryani waste into the river. The arrests followed a complaint by a BJP Yuva Morcha leader.

Ponda police on Saturday arrested one person in connection with the attempted theft at Mahadev temple at Bhoma during the wee hours on Thursday.

The Ratneshwar Mahadev Temple in Varanasi is notable for its significant northwest lean and submerged sanctum sanctorum. Standing at 12 meters tall, the temple's tilt has various legends explaining its cause. Interestingly, it leans more than Italy's Leaning Tower of Pisa but remains relatively unknown within India.

The CB CID sleuths arrested a government official for his involvement in grabbing properties worth Rs 12.5 crore of a temple in Puducherry. The arrested was identified as director (agriculture) D Balaji, 44. He was produced before a local court which remanded him in judicial custody.

HYDERABAD: As temples are increasingly becoming prey to commercialisation, the government has initiated various reform measures.

In his petition, Bhattar said he had been rendering his services and was receiving the temple honours for several years.

The Madras High Court has ordered two BJP MLAs from Puducherry to return illegally transferred lands belonging to Sri Kamatchi Amman Devasthanam. The court has also directed a probe by the CB-CID and the invocation of the Prevention of Corruption Act against the public servants involved in the scam. The MLAs have denied any involvement in the illegal transfer and have expressed their willingness to return the property to the temple administration. The court has given the Puducherry government four weeks to take possession of the property and hand it over to the temple administration.