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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.

In the latest episode of Mazhya Navryachi Bayko, Shanaya is seen talking to one of her friends on call. Her friend disconnects the call midway and Shanaya’s servant says since she is not rich anymore, her friends are ignoring her.

More than 150 membes of a mob were charged with rioting, attempt to murder, and obstructing police officials in a Saturday night clash that had broken out over a complaint of sexual harssment at a Gugga Marhi fair in Babyal village of Ambala Cantonment.Seven villagers and a cop were injured.

Police in Puri registered a case against an unidentified servitor of the Jagannath Temple for his alleged misconduct during a recent visit by two judges of the Punjab and Haryana and Chhattisgarh high courts to the 12th century shrine.

Yogi Adityanath became a monk due to the Ram temple movement. BJP is not taking credit for the consecration ceremony, considering themselves servants of Lord Ram. Other parties were invited and the construction of the temple was not possible without the Modi government.

The Tamil Nadu government’s notoriety for not filing its responses for cases pending courts took a rap, yet again, when Madras high court said even law secretary was of no use, and directed the chief secretary to ‘personally look into the matter.

BANGALORE: Within 50 hours of the recovery of 9-year-old Hemavathi's body, the police have apprehended her killer.

National Commission for Scheduled Caste (NCSC) chairman and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Etawah Ram Shankar Katheria was booked, along with two MLAs, 37 supporters and 200 unidentified persons for allegedly assaulting a sub-inspector on duty after he objected to their public meeting inside a temple in Patharra village in UP's Etawah district.

Even before the station was shifted, muzrai minister V S Acharya had written to then police commissioner Shankar M Bidari: "The temple has historical significance.

Thieves struck at Daralamma temple in Darakonda area in GK Veedhi mandal of Alluri Seetharama Raju district in the wee hours of Thursday. They took away 19 grams of gold and 470 grams of silver ornaments of goddess Daralamma.

Budhwa Mangal was observed in a festive atmosphere on Tuesday.Devotees thronged various Hanuman temples to seek blessings.