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...

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