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Sangh will not participate in any temple movements, be it of Mathura or Kashi, said Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday (August 28, 2025). He also clarified that the organisation will not stop swayamsewaks (RSS volunteers), if they want to join the ‘temple cause’.
The Assam Cabinet on Wednesday (August 27, 2025) approved streamlining of the process to grant permission for land transfers between people belonging to different religions. The approval is aimed at ensuring more efficient processing and expeditious disposal of such proposals, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told the media after the Cabinet meeting.
The government has set up three high-level committees to mark the 150th birth anniversaries of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and tribal icon Birsa Munda, as well as the birth centenary of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair all three committees.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah has warned that demographic shifts in India’s border areas are not occurring randomly, but are part of a “calculated scheme” that endangers national security. He called on district magistrates, chief secretaries of border states, and paramilitary forces to take decisive measures against illegal encroachments, particularly within a 30-kilometre area of the nation’s borders.
