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The women participating in the online campaign, #ReadyToWait, argue that each temple has a unique custom, and that cannot be standardised just because the so called liberals who proclaim to be atheists don’t understand it. In the backdrop of the celebrations that has accompanied the Bombay High Court’s verdict allowing women to enter the Haji [...]

CPIM thugs attacking sreekrishna jayanthi procession in kerala. [...]

And other converted brides with new names. Madhuparna Das travels to 4 Bengal districts and finds out how Hindu groups sheltered and ‘purified’ these Muslim women before marriage to Hindus Sister married a muslim, brother ‘paid them back’ Ummekulchum Khatun, 22, now Antara Bachar Ummekulchum married Rajshekhar Bachar, an RSS worker from Sundarban village in [...]

Gopi reveals that he himself practised yoga especially the Suryanamaskars during his playing days and it did help him a lot, more so after the career-threatening knee injury. Former All England champion and now India’s chief national badminton coach, Pullela Gopi Chand, says that lot of aspects of stretching and physical conditioning in a sportsperson’s [...]

Adopting a strident stand towards Supreme Court’s curbs on Dahi Handi in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena on Saturday said people will foil such attempts to hinder celebration of Hindu festivals. “Ganeshotsav, Dahi Handi and Navratra festival are all parts of our beliefs. Courts which are now governing us should not cross the Lakshman Rekha at [...]

For more than a decade, Ajmal Singh has been trying to get Indian citizenship. He fled Pakistan 14 years ago and continues to live in a refugee camp, with ten children, on the outskirts of Jodhpur. He worked as a driver before crossing over but doesn’t know farming or mining, the only two jobs readily [...]

NEW DELHI: In what could turn out to be the rekindling of half-century-old embers, a Delhi-based cow protection group is planning a massive memorial day for those killed in police firing in a 1966 agitation in Delhi. On November 7, 1966, thousands of people led by naked Naga sadhus and other Hindu religious leaders had [...]

Nitish Bhardwaj, the actor who immortalized Lord Krishna for Indian audience through B.R. Chopra’s Mahabharat makes a comeback to Hindi cinema with Ashutosh Gowariker’s Mohenjodaro. In an exclusive conversation with Indian Express.com, the former Parliamentarian spoke at length about the movie, his character and why, in his opinion, India is an intolerant nation. How did [...]

Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh High Court has issued orders calling on the Central government to ban cow slaughter in the country within six months. Further, in the order passed on Friday, the High Court directed that prohibitions be imposed on import and export of the cow/calf and sale of beef and beef products be banned [...]

Police have arrested one Sadik for allegedly damaging the idols and lodged an FIR against some unidentified men. Officers claimed Sadik appeared to be mentally-challenged. TENSION PREVAILED in Deoband area of Saharanpur district after idols of Hindu lords in a temple were found vandalised on Wednesday morning. While the suspect, belonging to the Muslim community, [...]