India

BANGALORE: One need not be a graduate nor be wealthy to find ways of helping the disadvantaged. Neither was RB Shivakumar born with a silver spoon in his mouth, nor has he completed a university course. Yet he feeds the poor. Many years ago, Shivakumar, who had failed his SSLC examinations, had started helping his [...]

Allahabad, Mar 26 (ANI): An 11-year-old boy was allegedly killed by his tutor last week after he refused to become a terrorist. The incident took place when Ravi Pal, a class third student from Kaserua Khurd village located in Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad district, was choked to death by his tuition teacher named Irfan. According to [...]

‘As a governor, I have every right to speak my mind if I feel the security of my country is at stake.’ ‘Why is it that we would have to shed tears when Muslims are killed or tortured, but have to keep mum when the Hindus receive the same treatment?’ “I am not secular, I [...]

NEW DELHI: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is on a new mission. It now wants to wean away India’s tribal people from possible influences of Naxalism and conversions by the Christian missionaries, through welfare measures. The Sangh wants the government to shift its focus to the 10-crore tribal population who still fail to enjoy the fruit [...]

New Delhi: Security agencies have killed three out of 10 suspected Pakistani terrorists who had entered India via Gujarat to carry out terror attacks during Maha Shivaratri festivities, a report said on Tuesday. Officials tracked down all the 10 suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists. While three terrorists have been neutralised, a massive search operation is on [...]

New Delhi:  World leaders today hailed Art of Living (AoL) and its founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar for holding the World Culture Festival and invited him to their countries. British Prime Minister David Cameron invited Ravi Shankar to address the House of Commons, the lower house of parliament, while Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull invited [...]

Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu has offered a strong defense of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s mega-festival that opens tomorrow in Delhi amid environmental concerns. “Anything that is Hindu, India, Bharatiya, you object,” Mr Naidu said in response to the opposition Congress which says the government has abdicated its environmental responsibility by sanctioning the banks of the [...]

Days after a group of academicians started a petition asking for the removal of historian Sheldon Pollock from the post of chief editor at the Murty Classical Library, Rohan Murty, the son of Infosys founder Narayana Murthy, has given a scathing response to silence detractors. “It is quite rich to sit in the peanut gallery, [...]

Sufi establishments across India, the All India Ulama and Mashaikh Board (AIUMB), are set to organise the first ‘World Sufi Forum’ in New Delhi. The four-day event at Vigyan Bhawan on March 17, will be attended by more than 200 international dignitaries from 20 countries. The inaugural ceremony, organisers claim, will be attended and addressed [...]

In yet another case of murder of a Hindu leader, Vishva Hindu Parishad’s (VHP) Agra city unit vice-president Arun Kumar Mahaur, a Dalit, was on Thursday shot dead in broad daylight on the way back home after performing his daily prayers at a local temple. He was accosted by five assailants in a busy marketplace [...]