Hyderabad, March 11 (IANS) Telangana will pass two legislations during the ongoing Budget session to enhance reservation for the Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Muslims, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao said on Saturday. He told the…
Thiruvananthapuram, March 11 (IANS) Lakhs of women in Kerala on Saturday are taking part in the famed Attukal Pongala festival by cooking pongala while sitting on the roads in the capital city. Listed in the…
Milan, March 11 (IANS/AKI) Milan’s centre-left mayor Giuseppe Sala was due to attend prayers on Friday at a church in the northern Italian city for a severely disabled disc-jockey, DJ Fabo, who died in an…
Washington, March 10 (IANS) CNN television presenter Reza Aslan has caused shock and consternation across the board by eating a human brain on camera while filming with an obscure Hindu sect. Members of the religion’s…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Out of the 4,48,268 applications received for Haj 2017 by the Haj Committee of India, 1.29 lakh applications were made online, Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas…
Rome, March 10 (IANS) Pope Francis has said he is open to married men becoming priests to combat the Roman Catholic Church’s shortage of clergy. In an interview with German newspaper Die Zeit, Pope Francis…
Shimla, March 10 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Friday announced to extend the state’s food subsidy scheme to the Tibetans living in exile. In his budget speech, Singh said: “There has been…
Islamabad, March 10 (IANS) The Pakistani parliament has adopted the landmark Hindu Marriage Law to regulate the community’s marriages in the country. The Hindu Marriage Bill, unanimously passed on Thursday, will be the first personal…
Rome, March 10 (IANS) A region in the Italian Riviera is going to ban women from wearing the Islamic full-face veil or niqab in hospitals and public offices, a media report said. Officials in the…
Vatican City, March 9 (IANS/AKI) Pope Francis says he has experienced times of “emptiness” and “spiritual dark” when he prayed to God for strength. In an interview to German weekly news magazine Die Zeit published…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Dismissing China’s objections over Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama’s proposed visit to Arunachal Pradesh in April, the Indian government on Thursday said it has no say in his travel…
by Brij Khandelwal Agra March 9 (IANS) Defying age-old restraints, over a 1,000 widows living in Braj area on Thursday splashed colours and threw flower petals on one another at the Radha Gopinath temple in…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday accused the Congress of running a “shop of secularism” and asked the party to end this. Reacting to Congress leader Digvijay Singh’s comments that…
Islamabad, March 9 (IANS) A woman from the Hindu community was axed to death in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, a media report said on Thursday. According to the police, a group of people attacked Zania Kuma–ri…
Rome, March 8 (IANS/AKI) Rolling Stone’s Italian edition features Pope Francis on the cover of its March issue, which hits newsstands on Thursday. “The Pope says sensible things, such sensible things,” the magazine said in…
Gandhinagar, March 8 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday attended the 116th meeting of the Somnath Temple trust at Somnath in Gujarat, official sources said. During the meeting, the Prime Minister suggested that the…
By Mohd Asim Khan New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) — an organisation established to safeguard the constitutional and legal rights of minorities and which was once headed by Hamid…
Mumbai, March 7 (IANS) A portion of the land parcel gifted by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan to a mosque in Nashik district has been declared ‘non-Wakf’ property allegedly to benefit a Pune-based realtor, two opposition…
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) “India’s spirituality is India’s strength. But unfortunately some people link spirituality with religion,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday. “The two are very different,” he said after releasing a…
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday released a commemorative stamp on the centenary celebrations of the Yogoda Satsanga Society (YSS) of India, and appreciated Swami Paramahansa Yogananda, the founder of…