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Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that several members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, including founder KB Hedgewar, went to jail during the struggle for independence. However, the Congress accused Modi of making false claims and said that, on the contrary, the Hindutva organisation collaborated with the British during the Quit India movement.

At an event marking the centenary of the RSS, the prime minister said that the RSS’s 100-year journey was “an extraordinary example of sacrifice, selfless service, nation-building and discipline”.

The RSS is the parent organisation of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Critics have accused it of promoting Hindu supremacy and intolerance toward minorities.

On Wednesday too, the Congress said that the RSS “divides the country” and alleged that its hands were also “stained with the blood of Mahatma Gandhi”.

Nathuram Godse, who shot Gandhi dead in 1948, had been a member of the RSS, though the organisation claimed that he had left it long before the assassination. Read on.

The Assam Police arrested singer Zubeen Garg’s manager Siddhartha Sharma and North East India Festival organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta more than ten days after the musician drowned during a yacht trip in Singapore. Mahanta was arrested after he arrived in New Delhi from Singapore, while Sharma was arrested from an apartment in Haryana’s Gurugram.

Both of them have been remanded to 14 days’ police custody.

Garg died on September 19, a day before he was set to perform at the North East India Festival. The event had been organised by the government of India and the Indian Embassy in Singapore, with support from the Assam Association and the North East India Association in that country.

After Garg’s death, over 50 cases had been filed against Mahanta and Sharma. Read on.

The United States government has shut down the majority of its operations after the White House and the Congress failed to reach an agreement on federal funding. Over 7.5 lakh federal workers are expected to be sent on leave or potentially fired during the impasse.

The impasse began after the Senate, which is the Upper House of Congress, rejected a short-term spending measure that would have kept government services afloat through November 21.

The proposed legislation was opposed by the Democrats over the Republicans’ refusal to include an extension of health benefits for millions of Americans that were due to expire at the end of the year. This would increase the cost of insurance premiums.

Republicans have said that the matter should be addressed separately. Read on.

The Bombay High Court refused to allow writer and activist Anand Teltumbde, one of the 16 persons accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon case, to travel to Europe to deliver a series of lectures and seminars at universities. The bench took into account the National Investigation Agency’s concerns that Teltumbde might abscond.

“Either give virtual lectures or don’t go,” the court told Teltumbde’s counsel.

The case is related to the violence that broke out in Bhima Koregaon village near Pune on January 1, 2018, a day after the Elgar Parishad conclave was organised to mark the 200th anniversary of the battle of Bhima Koregaon. One person died in the violence and several others were injured.

Teltumbde, a Dalit rights activist, professor and author of nearly 30 books, was named as an accused in August 2018. He surrendered in April 2020, and was granted bail by the Bombay High Court in November 2022. Read on.

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