Breaking his silence after a furore over some civic bodies in Maharashtra asking meat shops and slaughterhouses to remain shut on Independence Day, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said the order is not new and has been in place since 1988.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has alleged some BJP MPs threatened him he would “meet the same fate” as his grandmother, former prime minister Indira Gandhi, for his remarks against Vinayak Damodar Savarkar during the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in 2022.

On August 11, a bench of Justices Pardiwala and R Mahadevan took a stern view of the stray dog menace and ordered the Delhi-NCR to start removing stray dogs from all localities within eight weeks and house them in dedicated dog shelters to be set up by civic authorities.​​​