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The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is an important organisation in India. It is a body whose published books are studied by millions of children in India at schools and in fact, NCERT books are used in all CBSE schools of the country. So, it is safe to say that the body has an uncomfortable monopoly over the young and impressionable minds of children. Already, NCERT books’ content, particularly the history curriculum of the council, has come under intense scrutiny in recent years. Now, a shameless NCERT has decided to go fully ‘woke’ in order to mora...

On Monday (November 8), Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair tried to justify the actions of a Muslim man, spitting on food, under the pretext of fact-checking.

Actress Sonam Kapoor, daughter of Anil Kapoor, has stepped in to support the woke ‘activists’ over the NCERT training manual controversy. The training manual for teachers, published by the Department of Gender Studies at NCERT, attracted a lot of criticism after endorsing gender identity ideology and suggesting a series of bizarre ideas such as puberty blockers.

In June 2021, the Kejriwal-led Delhi Government divided Delhi into 21 excise zones under the Excise Policy 2021-22. As per the policy framework, there would be 849 outlets selling alcohol in the national capital, including five super-premium vendors.

Union Minister for Railways, Ashwini Vaishnaw, took to Twitter on Sunday to share the first glimpses of the ‘Shri Ramayan Yatra,’ a rail circuit specifically designed to promote religious tourism in places associated with the Ramayana.

Kosher and Halal slaughter have been banned by the apex court in Greece that termed them as inhumane. Notably, the court decision comes after the Panhellenic Animal Welfare and Environmental Federation had approached it asking that a ministerial decision exempting religious slaughter from a Greek law be annulled.

Two weeks after Pakistan was retained in the FATF grey list, the Lahore High Court (LHC) has acquitted 6 terrorists in a case pertaining to terror financing. The terrorists, associated with Hafiz Saeed’s Jamatud Dawa (JuD), were earlier convicted by an anti-terrorism court.

A video has gone viral on social media where lack of onions in her plate of khasta kachori, a deep fried delicacy and popular street food, triggered this woman enough to overturn the hawker’s cart as well as physically assault him.

There’s a fairly recent trend that has emerged on social media. Over the past few years, it has extremely normal for entertainers, sportsmen and journalists to be viciously trolled and abused by Islamists for posts they do not approve. And weirdly enough, the online harassment campaign somehow fails to grab media attention and even worse, most of the times it is ignored by the victim themselves.