Daily Archives: September 16, 2022

SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION

Ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)Summit to be held in September 2022, Varanasi has been selected as the SCO region’s first “Tourism and Cultural Capital for 2022-23. The SCO summit will be held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan where Iran and Belarus are likely to be the two newest additions to the SCO. Earlier, …

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HIJAB ISSUE

The issue throws up legal questions on reading the freedom of religion and whether the right to wear a hijab is constitutionally protected. Article 25(1) of the Constitution guarantees the “freedom of conscience and the right freely to profess, practise and propagate religion”. It is a right that guarantees a negative liberty — which means that the …

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THE PLACES OF WORSHIP ACT

The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the order of a civil court in Varanasi directing a videographic survey of the MaaShringar Gauri Sthal in the Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi mosque complex. The principal contention is that the order of the Varanasi court which was upheld by Allahabad High Court …

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INDIA TO HOST G20 SUMMIT IN 2023

Recently, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced that India is hosting the G-20 (Group of 20) leaders’ summit in New Delhi next year 2023. The 17th G20 Heads of State and Government Summit will happen in November 2022 in Indonesia, after which India will assume the presidency of G20 from December 2022. India …

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UKRAINE’S COUNTER-OFFENSIVE

Recently, Ukraine has launched a lightning counter-offensive in the country’s northeast that saw surprising territorial gains. Its forces have pushed back Russian soldiers from most of Kharkiv Oblast, retaking thousands of square kilometres of territory. This is the first time that Ukrainian troops have pushed back the Russians through combat since the Russia Ukraine conflict began. After capturing Lysychansk in …

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