Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust accepted the resignation of its general secretary, Champat Rai, amid the row about alleged embezzlement of donations made to the Ram temple in Ayodhya. Trustee Anil Mishra’s resignation has also been accepted, said the trust’s treasurer.

On June 26, Rai and Mishra resigned from their posts on “moral grounds”. This came after a first information report was registered against eight persons in the case on June 25 on a complaint by the trust.

Opposition leaders and a whistleblower have claimed that cash and jewellery offerings made by devotees had been embezzled by temple staffers under the trust’s watch. Read on.

The RSS man at the centre of Ram temple trust’s controversial run in Ayodhya, reports Ayush Tiwari

Thirteen persons have been killed in rain-related incidents in Mumbai and its surrounding areas in the past three to four days, said the Maharashtra government. The India Meteorological Department has issued a red alert warning of heavy rainfall in the region in the next two days.

On Sunday, six persons were killed after a residential building collapsed in the city’s Mankhurd area. Two other men were killed in separate incidents earlier in the day.

Separately, traffic was stopped on the Mumbai-Pune expressway after a landslide blocked the route. The traffic on the old Mumbai-Pune highway was also halted because of a landslide and heavy rainfall in the Karjat-Lonavala Bhor Ghat section. Read on.

The Delhi High Court has sought the Union government’s response on two petitions challenging orders directing the Delhi Gymkhana Club to vacate its 27.3-acre premises. The matter has been posted for further hearing on July 28.

The Delhi Gymkhana Club is one of the national capital’s oldest and most exclusive social and sporting clubs. It is located near the prime minister’s official residence and other high-security installations.

In May, the Land and Development Office directed the club to vacate and hand over its premises to the Union government, saying that it was required for “strengthening and securing of defence infrastructure”, governance facilities and other “vital public security purposes”. Read on.

Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed has been named in a fresh chargesheet in connection with the April 2025 terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam district. Saeed has been accused of “waging war against India and hatching a conspiracy from across the border”.

In its main chargesheet, the NIA had named seven persons, including Pakistani handler Sajid Jatt of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and its affiliate The Resistance Front. The terror attack at Baisaran on April 22 left 26 persons dead and 17 injured. Read on.

Political leaders have condemned the removal of the film Satluj from the Zee5 streaming platform, criticising the move to censor one of Punjab’s “darkest chapters”. The film depicts extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances by the Punjab police in the 1990s.

Shiromani Akali Dal leader Sukhbir Singh Badal said that the “powerful film that courageously unveils Punjab’s painful history…cannot be silenced this way”.

The film by Honey Trehan was previously titled Punjab ‘95 and was released on Friday evening but was removed by Sunday evening. Zee5 posted on social media that “in light of the current developments, Satluj will be unavailable in India until further notice”. It did not elaborate on the nature of these developments. Read on.

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