Court also issued directions to Archaeological Survey of India to file report on protected monument’s deficiencies and steps initiated to maintain it. Next hearing on 9 July.
ASI used the Act to claim there’s no right to worship at Qutub Minar. Hindu Sena used it to counter Places of Worship Act. ThePrint explains how the law has featured in the two cases.
Archaeological Survey of India was responding to a plea challenging a 2021 order that rejected a civil suit seeking right to worship within the Qutub Minar complex.
Culture minister Prahlad Patel said that the monuments and sites will now come under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958.
Manoj Kumar let me interview him four years ago even though he wasn't well enough to meet people. At the time, his 'so-called buddies' in the film industry had stopped visiting him.
The jitters in Indian markets are likely ‘short-term’. Experts say this could serve as a key growth opportunity & that India must accelerate FTA talks with major countries, including US.
Sardar Swaran Singh stitched uniforms for Army chiefs, supplied to UN missions, and catered to Shah Rukh Khan during Fauji. He has been stitching uniforms since he was 15.
This isn’t an obituary of Manoj Kumar. It's about the influence he had in defining patriotism for two generations of Indians across our most perilous decade, say from 1962 until the run-up to the Emergency.
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