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HC orders to shut down illegal religious settings

August 26, 2022August 26, 2022 EditorComment(0)

High Court orders closure of places of worship and prayer halls operating without permission. The High Court’s important ruling denied the petition from the Nurul Islamic Cultural Group of Malappuram to permit the conversion of a commercial building into a place of worship for Muslims.

When evaluating requests for new places of worship, the distance between comparable places of worship should be standardised. The state administration was also told by the High Court to issue a circular forbidding the conversion of structures into places of worship.

According to Justice PV Kunjikrishnan’s order, permission should be given in such applications only in very rare cases based on police and intelligence reports.

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President of China Xi Jinping to serve an unprecedented third term

October 23, 2022 Editor

As the country’s most important leader since founder Mao Zedong, Chinese President Xi Jinping was on track to win an unprecedented third term in office on Sunday. After decades of elite power sharing, Xi is almost expected to be re-elected as general secretary of the ruling Communist Party, emphatically returning the nation to one-man control. His inauguration will come to an end a week-long conference of party members in the Chinese capital, when senior cadres confirmed his “central position” in the leadership and authorised a significant reorganisation that saw some top officials resign. However, former leader Hu Jintao was carried out of the closing ceremony in an unexpected action that jarred the proceedings at the Great Hall of the People. The frail-looking 79-year-old who was seated next to Xi in the front row appeared reluctant to get up. Hu insisted on attending the meeting even though he wasn’t feeling well, according to state media reports from late Saturday. “His staff followed him to a room next to the conference location for a respite when he wasn’t feeling well throughout the session out of concern for his health. He is considerably better now, “stated Xinhua on Twitter. The delegates also chose a new Central Committee, made up of some 200 senior party figures, who will meet on Sunday to elect the Standing Committee, the body that will hold the most political sway in China and where Xi will be firmly seated. The Standing Committee will thereafter likely be introduced to both domestic and international media at a news conference at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People about noon (0400 GMT). Four out of the Standing Committee’s seven members will be changed, according to a list of officials in the new Central Committee, allowing Xi to further cram the top body with supporters. Whatever perspective you take, Xi has won virtually completely, according to Willy Lam, a political expert at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. With the official announcement of his third term as president of China scheduled for March’s annual parliamentary sessions, Xi will now be able to easily win the election.