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Re:Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011) by webmobdev on Saturday October 10, 2020 @06:48AM (#24738046)
It's not a recently enacted law - propagating it as scientific was set in force in 2001 by the then BJP HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi, who asked the UGC (by then filled with RSS religious fundamentalists) to fund BSc and MSc courses in Astrology. It was challenged legally but the courts refused to overturn the decision of the UGC. It was challenged again in courts in 2011, but it did not succeed.

- https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2001/08/astr-a16.html - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Astrology-is-a-sci...

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Re:Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011) by connectsnk on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @11:34PM (#24784647)
There is a huge difference between saying a guy from BJP asked some committee to fund Astrology courses and saying that in India Astrology is now being treated as a Science.

I am sure you wont get it as it seems from your posting history that you are extremely biased or worse you are a blogger from a hired private blog network

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Re:Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011) by webmobdev on Thursday October 15, 2020 @11:43AM (#24789787)
> BJP asked some committee to fund Astrology courses

Yes, fund Astrology courses and offer it as SCIENCE degrees - that's BSc and MSc degrees on something that is not even a psedu science but total bullshit. What an incredible waste of money and resources! Anf why - because these religious fundamentalists think of it as a "Science" and want to give it some legitimacy.

> I am sure you wont get it as it seems from your posting history that you are extremely biased

Oh yes. I openly admit that I am no admirer of the religious fundamentalists currently in power and ruling my country. Their retrograde ideology is not spreading discontent and polarising communities, they are also slowly destroying India's economy.

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