India

New Delhi: At least 660 rape crisis centres will be established across the country and named as Nirbhaya centres, as a tribute to the victim of December 16, 2012 Delhi gang-rape case.  The centres will be set up in all the 640 districts and 20 additional locations in the country and the project will cost [...]

The politically aligned Dwarka Sankaracharya’s tirade against Shirdi Sai Baba comes at a time when the ruling Congress-NCP is desperate to retain Maharashtra in the upcoming Assembly election The spectre of a looming Congress-NCP defeat in the Maharashtra Assembly election, due later this year, most likely provoked the Dwarka Sankaracharya’s vituperative attack on the Sai [...]

After 23 years, a group of Kashmiri Pandits prayed at Nandkishor Asthpan temple at Seer Jagir area of the volatile Sopore police district, considered a hotbed of Kashmir militancy, hinting at their return and rehabilitation in the Valley soon. The Kashmiri Pandits prayed at the temple on Saturday and then were guests of their Muslims [...]

Tapan Ghosh is the founder and head of Hindu Samhati, West Bengal. He has been a tireless activist fighting for Hindus and Hindu causes in the state at immense personal risk. How did the idea of founding an organization like Hindu Samhati strike you? Well, it was the farthest thing from my future plan, when [...]

India is like Europe. The European Union has 24 official languages. All 24 are used for outbound communication. All laws are released in 24 languages. Each state has engineering, medicine, business in their own language. India’s languages serve a larger number of people than many European states. There is no reason why we cannot adopt [...]

Chandras Devadiga (58), who used to operate a hotel from Padavinangady in the city, and who was widely known and reverred for providing homely meals for a paltry sum of ten rupees, breathed his last at his residence at Bolpugudde in Padavinangady on Thursday June 19 due to cardiac arrest. He has left behind wife, [...]

India Friday rejected an Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) resolution on Jammu and Kashmir, saying the organization has “no locus standi on matters concerning the internal affairs of India”. In a statement, the external affairs ministry spokesperson said that the resolutions adopted during the 41st session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the OIC [...]

Mhow (MP), 20 June: Tension gripped Pithampur industrial area near Indore after the alleged murder of a RSS worker, following a dispute between children over playing cricket, police said today. The RSS worker, identified as Mr Prashant Sharma, had gone to the cricket ground in Vishwas Nagar area last evening to pacify a group of children who had a fight over some issue [...]

CHENNAI: The BJP on Thursday condemned the murder of a Hindu Munnani activist at Ambattur on Wednesday night. Hindu Munnani’s Tiruvallur district president Suresh Kumar died after he was attacked by a gang near the Ambattur bus stand on Wednesday night. In a statement, BJP state president Pon Radhakrishnan said Suresh had been involved in [...]

Far from the material pulls and pressures of the world, they danced away their worries. A bonfire ensured warmth as some stripped to almost nothing, entranced by the hypnotic music and the beauty of a full moon night in the hills. And copious amounts of hallucinogens. With its snow-capped mountains, lush greenery and peaceful environs, [...]