India

“Saudi culture treats women as just one step above pond scum; they are arrested for driving and writing blogs. The country buys sex slaves trafficked from all over the world, including the West, for the harems of millionaire petro-sheikhs. Recently a girl was sentenced t0 200 lashes and six months in jail for the ‘crime’ [...]

PI(M) in Kerala has come in for flak from some religious and cultural outfits over alleged depiction of saint-reformer Sree Narayana Guru as being crucified during a recent party-supported cultural procession in the politically sensitive Kannur district. The outfits have come out against the CPI(M), which leads the LDF opposition in the state, after pictures [...]

Thane: Protesting against the ban on meat by the Maharastra government in view of Jain community festival Paryushan, Maharshtra Navnirman Sena took to streets and roasted chicken outside a hall in Thane where Jains had assembled for an event. As per reports, a mob of around 50 people, including both men and women, greeted the [...]

Lessons from Mahabharata, Ramayana and Gita may soon be taught in schools and colleges as part of the National Democratic Alliance government’s plan to rid the country of “cultural pollution” and inculcate “values” among young minds. Ministries of Culture and Human Resource Development are working on a plan to teach students about India’s cultural values [...]

Amma will present a draft for Rs 100 crore to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at a function in Kerala at the Amritapuri Ashram on September 11. The money will be utilised for the purpose of constructing toilets in poor villages surrounding the Ganges. Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s Clean Ganga initiative has caught the attention [...]

NEW DELHI: The government is working on an ordinance to amend the Citizenship Act to grant citizenship to “persecuted” Hindu refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. While the ordinance will cover refugees from three nations, it is primarily aimed at Hindu migrants from Bangladesh who have crossed over into Assam and West Bengal in large [...]

Many Patels in Gujarat are agitating for Other Backward Caste status, in order to access the same “Reserv­ation” benefits as Scheduled Castes, Schedules Tribes and Other Backward Castes. Reservations are a quota based form of affirmative action, through which a certain percentage of government jobs and places in educational institutes are guaranteed to members of [...]

Udhampur: “Its fun doing this,” said Naved, a suspected Lashker-e-Toiba militant from Pakistan who was caught alive after the attack on a BSF convoy here on Wednesday that killed two constables. Naved, who says he hails from Faislabad in Pakistan, claimed before the media that he entered the Jammu region 12 days ago along with [...]

Brutal murder of a dedicated worker of RSS in Kannur (Kerala) by frustrated CPM goons. RSS strongly condemns this cowardly act : Dr. Manmohan Vaidya, Akhila Bharatha Prachar Pramuk.   CPM has initiated the politics of murder in Tellichery, Kannur once again. Today they attacked RSS Kannur district Shareerik shikshan pramukh Manojkumar with bombs, hacked him [...]

After several months, Uttar Pradesh had the first instance of “ghar vapsi” when saffron outfits in Gorakhpur re-converted nearly 100 Dalits from Christianity to Hinduism. Reports said members of Hindu Yuva Vahini, the outfit belonging to Gorakhpur BJP MP Mahant Adityanath, held a special ceremony at the Dalit hamlet of Mohaddipur in the town on [...]