Private school in Bengaluru asks alumnus to change Gyanvapi Mosque to "Temple" on Google Maps
The school had donated to Ram Mandir, made staff mandatorily attend screening of The Kashmir Files
Bengaluru: A popular private school in Bengaluru has reportedly sent an email to its alumni with an attachment urging them to change the name of Gyanvapi mosque to “Gyanvapi Temple” on Google maps.
The letter written to the alumni on the school’s letterhead further requested its alumni to ask “Hindu brothers and sisters” to go through a similar process till Google updates the changes.
The New Horizon Public School (NHPS) had sent this mass email to its alumni on 20 May, Friday evening, a report published in The Quint stated adding that they accessed the copy of the mail.
The mail, titled ‘Gyanvapi temple instead of gyanvapi mosque’, also has a list of directions the alumni have been asked to follow in order to change the name of the Gyanvapi mosque. The mail comes at a time when there is a heated controversy and an ongoing court case surrounding the Gyanvapi mosque in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi.
The New Horizon educational group had earlier donated to the Ram Mandir Trust, held a Bhoomi poojan ceremony in the school on the occasion of the Ram Mandir groundbreaking, and also made its staff mandatorily attend a screening of The Kashmir Files, The Quint’s report added.
After the school received backlash from some alums over the Gyanvapi email, the NHPS subsequently put out a statement on its Instagram page addressing the issue. The statement said: "We wish to clarify that the email was sent without proper screening procedures that is required for all our email communications."
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US VP JD Vance says Lebanon not part of ceasefire, calls it ‘misunderstanding’
Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.
Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”
He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.
His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.
Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.
He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.
“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.
