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TopicDasna Devi temple

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Show Aadhaar card at entry: Hate speech accused Yati at large, security firmed up at Ghaziabad temple

Police are on lookout for Yati Narsinghanand, mahant of Dasna Devi temple in Ghaziabad, whose inflammatory remarks on Prophet Muhammad have sparked protests in parts of the country.

Behind the ‘bigot’: How engineer Deependra became Dasna’s hate-spewing sadhu Yati Narsinghanand

Narsinghanand, mahant of Dasna Devi Temple, was arrested a month after his incendiary December 2021 speech in Haridwar. ThePrint traces his ascent as a powerful Hindutva ideologue.

JeM plotted to kill Dasna temple priest Narsinghanand to avenge insult of Prophet: Delhi Police

Delhi Police arrested Kashmir resident Mohammad Dar at a Delhi hotel Sunday, who revealed he had been tasked by JeM to kill controversial priest, Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati.

Delhi minorities panel sends notice to Delhi Police over Dasna priest’s comments on Prophet

Delhi Minorities Commission sent notice to Delhi Police taking suo motu cognisance of Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati's comments on Prophet Muhammad; police summons priest.

Dasna temple priest’s inflammatory comments on the Prophet go viral, Delhi police file FIR

At a press conference, Dasna temple priest Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati can be heard using insulting remarks against the Prophet and Islam.

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Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.