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Surat Municipal Corporation may lose second property to Waqf Board in just three months because of what appears to be a case of sheer negligence to update the records. Waqf Board has got a stay on the demolition of illegal madarsa to build on Surat Municipal Corporation land because the district administration reportedly did not update records on time.

On Wednesday, February 2, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha Om Birla schooled Wayanad MP and Congress senior leader Rahul Gandhi for interfering with Parliamentary norms during the debate on the motion of thanks to the President’s speech in the Lok Sabha. It was when the senior Congress leader ‘permitted’ another MP to speak in between a segment of his speech, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla lambasted the Congress politician, saying, “You can’t give permission, that’s my right.”

Since 5th August 2019 when article 370 was abrogated and the state was converted into two separate union territories, nearly 1700 Kashmiri Pandits were appointed by the Jammu and Kashmir government in various departments. This information was provided in Rajya Sabha by Nityanand Rai, the Union Minister of States for home affairs, on Wednesday.

Externals Affair Ministry Dr. S Jaishankar on Wednesday schooled senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with history lessons after he accused the Modi government of being responsible for the closer ties between China and Pakistan.

In a recent development to the M Lavanya suicide case of Tamil Nadu, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has revealed that the premises in which the victim was made to stay are not a hostel but an orphanage named St. Michael Home for Children.

The illegal mosque inside the Krantiveera Sangoli Rayanna railway station on platform number five has been converted back to a porters’ restroom on 2nd February 2022. The action was taken after Hindu activists protested against the mosque and urged the South Western railways’ officials to take legal action against the unauthorized place of worship.

The Rajasthan Board of Muslim Waqf has been requesting financial assistance from the Rajasthan government in order to pay its workers’ salaries. This is in strange contrast to the fact that Waqf Board has more than 18000 properties listed across Rajasthan and it generates income from more than 7000 properties.

On February 1, controversial stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui uploaded a recording of a show on his YouTube channel in which he trivialized The Holocaust. In the 18-minute video, he hypothesized how things would have been if Hitler were a Gujarati. Faruqui not only mocked The Holocaust victims but also made fun of Gujaratis, Hindu holy symbol Swastika and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

A man has reportedly thrown ink at Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar at the Congress party office in Lucknow on Tuesday. The youth identified as Devansh Vajpayee was caught by NSUI activities after attempting to throw Ink at the CPI-turned-Congress leader.