According to partial data compiled by the South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP), at least 257 Naxalites have been killed across the country in the current year thus far (data till June 22, 2025). During the corresponding period of 2024, 156 Naxalites had been killed across the country. Through 2024, a total of 296 Naxalites were killed across the coun

On September 7, 1974, the Parliament of Pakistan declared Ahmadis ‘non-Muslims’. Then, on April 26, 1984, President Zia ul-Haq issued Ordinance XX which amended the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) to criminalise the Ahmadi’s claim to be Muslims and their practice of Islam. Ordinance XX inserted sections 298-B and 298-C in the PPC, which bar any Ahm

The Temple of Solomon is one of the most often reimagined ancient buildings, even more so than the Tower of Babel. A detailed description in 1 Kings 7 provided the raw material for these imaginings, and from the early 19th century, ideas about Solomon’s Temple increasingly reflected the European fascination with Egyptian architecture. After the e

and the New Testament figure of the “Whore of Babylon” in the Book of Revelation, where Babylon was a stand-in for the Roman Empire. In the late 19th century, it was low-rise London that was most often designated “Modern Babylon” after an 1885 series of articles published in the Pall Mall Gazette by its editor W. T. Stead exposed sexual tra

century suggested this was the case. But increasing numbers of builders worried that the adulation of the past produced dead, stagnant structures that were irrelevant to the modern world. Wherever they came down on this matter (and there was a wide middle ground), numerous commentators with different aesthetic preferences could agree on damning ran