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  • The Karnataka High Court today granted six weeks time to the State Police to file its final report on the ''love jihad'' which came to light with the case of a Hindu girl's marriage to a Muslim recently.

    A Division Bench comprising Mr Justice K Sreedhara Rao and Mr Justice Ravi B Mallimath granted six weeks time to the special cell, headed by DIG Central Investigation Department (CID) Malini Krishnamurthy, constituted to probe the ''love jihad'' movement allegedly involving luring of girls from other communities by Muslim youths and converting them to Islam, and submit its report as per State Government's request.

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'We will fight for our love'

• 'We will fight for our love'

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  • Gujarati-Maharashtrian gay couple is willing to take on society, political leaders head on to get their marriage recognised
    
    Two men in Mumbai are planning to marry each other. Not quietly, but with a full-fledged Hindu ceremony -- including mehendi, haldi, et al -- the first such wedding in the city.
    
  • The fact that homosexual marriage is not legal in India does not deter Jignesh (22), a Gujarati from Mulund, who will marry Sameer (25), who lives in Bandra, next month.
  
  
  • Dilwale dulhas: Jignesh and Sameer even plan to adopt a baby

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Luxury Swiss tents lure high-end tourists to Maha Kumbh (With Images)

• Luxury Swiss tents lure high-end tourists to Maha Kumbh (With Images)

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  • By Arvind Padmanabhan
  
  • The hospitality industry in this pilgrim town is leaving no pebble unturned to lure even high-end tourists to the Maha Kumbh Mela, or the grand fair of the sacred urn, with well-appointed luxury Swiss tents and private bathing sites on the Ganges to combine spirituality with comfort.
  • According to Leisure’s Kareer, major attractions of one of their properties, called Lahore House, is its close vicinity to Har Ki Pauri, the main bathing area on the river, as also some of the main temples of Haridwar, apart from a private bathing area.

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Radio Pakistan finds it difficult to accept amity among Hindus and Sikhs in India

• Radio Pakistan finds it difficult to accept amity among Hindus and Sikhs in India

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  • Radio Pakistan in its Punjabi Durbar programme has sought to project that Hindus and Sikhs in India are not living in amity.

    The latest broadcasts have provoked the people living along the border to speak against the attempts of Radio Pakistan to provoke controversy. Dr. J P Singh Chhabra, an eminent intellectual and Mrs. Daljit Kaur, a housewife of the region, said that Radio Pakistan should stop fomenting trouble in India and focus on the various problems like terrorism and ethnic clashes back home in Pakistan itself.

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Mission Network News - A prayer group survives attack in Punjab

• Mission Network News

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  • A mob of fundamentalist Hindu women attacked 12 believers in India's Punjab State. Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Mission India says one of their church planters was leading a day of fasting and prayer in the home of a new Christian. 

    Around 20 women surrounded the group, shouted anti-christian slurs at them, and threw rocks. The meeting's host, Balaram, was hit in the head, and the female-led mob fled when he fell to the ground unconscious. He was rushed to the hospital and required 8 stitches in his head. Other believers also suffered minor injuries.

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