Top news of the day: Varanasi court says Hindu petitioners’ plea maintainable in Gyanvapi case; Retail inflation inches up to 7% in August on rising food prices, and more

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Gyanvapi case | Varanasi court rejects Gyanvapi mosque plea against maintainability; hearing to continue

The Varanasi district court rejected the plea questioning the maintainability of a petition seeking permission for daily worship of Hindu deities whose idols are located on an outer wall of the Gyanvapi mosque. District Judge A K Vishvesh ordered that it would continue to hear the petition seeking the right to worship deities on the outer wall of the mosque complex located close to the Kashi Vishwanath temple. The court fixed September 22 as the next date of hearing in the case. Merajuddin Siddiqui, the advocate representing the Muslim side, said that they will move the Allahabad High Court against the judgement.

Retail inflation inches up to 7% in August led by food price rise

This is the eighth successive month that retail inflation has stayed above the central bank’s upper tolerance threshold of 6% inflation for the economy. Rural inflation which was at 6.8% in July, saw a sharper rise than urban inflation in August, rising to 7.15%. Urban consumers’ inflation rate moved up from 6.49% in July to 6.72% in August.

All petitions challenging CAA to be heard on October 31 by three-judge Supreme Court Bench

The Supreme Court fixed the hearing in 220 petitions challenging the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) of 2019 on October 31 and said it will refer the case to a three-judge Bench. The petitions came up before a Bench of Chief Justice of India U.U. Lalit and S. Ravindra Bhat on Monday after a hiatus of many months. The hearing of the case was interrupted by the pandemic. Chief Justice Lalit asked the parties, including the Centre, to draw a “road map” highlighting the issues involved in the case, their division into various segments and the formulation of questions of law.

Disengagement process in Gogra-Hotsprings area going as per schedule: Army chief Manoj Pande