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New Delhi:The Supreme Court has asked the management of Jagannath Temple at Puri to provide details whether it can allow entry of non-Hindus, subject them to sticking to a dress code or undertaking to abide by its traditions.

“We also had an interaction on the issue whether the Temple Management can consider, subject to such regulatory measures with regard to dress code, furnishing of a declaration or such other requirements as considered necessary permitting every visitor irrespective of his faith to offer respects and make offerings to the Deity”, a bench of Justices A K Goel and S Abdul Nazeer said in an order while hearing a petition regarding affairs of the temple.

New Delhi:To check the growing menace of drug abuse, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has ordered mandatory drug tests for all government employees, including police personnel, through every stage of their service.

The chief minister has directed the Chief Secretary to work out the modalities and have the necessary notification issued.According to an official spokesperson, the Chief Minister has ordered mandatory drug screening in all cases of recruitment and promotions, as well as in the annual medical examination required for certain employees.

New Delhi: With the fourth list of Delhi University admission out, only about 20 per cent undergraduate seats are left for admissions at Delhi University colleges but some popular courses such as Economics (Hons) and English (Hons) are still open at a few colleges.The drop in cut-offs for many courses ranged from 0.25 to 0.50 percentage points and for many others it remained same as the third list.

Out of the 56,000 total seats available in DU colleges, as many as 44,700 seats were filled by the end of admissions under the third cut-off list, a university official said.Admission to Economics (Hons), BCom (Hons) and English (Hons) were open at Hans Raj College where the cut-off was 96.75% for the first two courses and 95.75% for the last.

New Delhi:Congress president Rahul Gandhi told party workers here as he accused the Hindutvaorganisation of trying to distort history.RashtriyaSwayamsevakSangh leaders talk about Mahatma Gandhi but they follow NathuramGodse.

"The RSS had no contribution in the freedom struggle but they distort history. On the other hand Congress leaders have contributed for the country in every way including in the freedom movement," a Congress leader quoted Rahul Gandhi as saying at a meeting here with the party's cyber workers.

The Congress president alleged that RSS leaders talk about Mahatma Gandhi but consider Godse as their idol. Rahul Gandhi said the Congress' social media team would be expanded and party-men would be trained so as to give a befitting reply to RSS propaganda.