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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicReligious places

Topic: religious places

Yogi govt plans new law to regulate temples, mosques, churches, will keep tab on donations

UP govt looking to bring in the law, which will likely set rules for registration & operational practices among others, 'without much noise' to avoid controversies.

No prasad, no holy water, no flowers — Religious places reopen in Maharashtra with Covid SOPs

Places of worship reopened in Maharashtra Monday after being shut for eight months. But strict Covid-19 norms such as sanitisers, temperature checks and face masks are in place.

Sanitation tunnels, thermal screening, thin crowd — new normal at Delhi’s religious places

Prominent temples, gurdwaras and mosques in the national capital opened Monday, but churches are yet to welcome visitors.

UP to AP, what’s stopping India’s temples and mosques from closing down due to COVID-19

Ignoring the advice of Ayodhya chief medical officer, the UP govt has given VHP the go ahead to place lord Ram’s idols or photos in 2.75 lakh villages.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.