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NEW DELHI: When night falls in this gritty capital, gangs troll the darkened streets looking for easy prey among a portion of the city’s vast homeless population; thousands have been rounded up and carried off in trucks in recent years. The police say they have increased patrols and set up roadblocks in an effort to [...]

India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests has decided to forbid the keeping of captive dolphins for public entertainment anywhere in the country.In a policy statement released Friday, the ministry advised state governments to reject any proposal to establish a dolphinarium “by any person / persons, organizations, government agencies, private or public enterprises that involves import, [...]

An institute in Udupi trains purohits and is affiliated to Sanskrit university.This temple town, which has been acknowledged globally as the seat of dvaita philosophy (duality) has begun spreading tenets of Hindu rituals and its performance to the developed world. What was known till recently as ‘old-world knowledge’, has now started being a source of [...]

A Buddhist monk set himself on fire in Sri Lanka to protest the slaughter of cattle for their meat, authorities said Friday. It was the first attempt at self-immolation by a monk in that country. “Policemen near the temple doused the flames and rushed the monk to hospital,” a police spokesman said, according to AFP. [...]

 Sindh: Two policemen along with two other men allegedly gang raped a married woman after subjecting her to torture, Geo News reported Monday.A 20-year old Hindu woman, resident of Aadhi village in Tharparkar, alleged that two policemen posted at a local check-post barged into her house and gang-raped her along with two other men after [...]

An explosion ripped through a temple inside the premises of the 26th battalion Assam Rifles in Aizawl early on Thursday morning. The explosion shattered 26 window panes and some window frames, the police said. Police suspected that the explosive used was gelatin and the bundle of gelatin sticks must have been thrown from the main [...]

NEW DELHI: The latest match-fixing scandal is another chapter in the sorry saga of corruption which has embroiled India. In an attempt to bring back core values to society, management schools are now using ancient texts to bring about a slow change in society. And they are reaching out where it matters first and most [...]

CM Narender Modi  maybe the most vilified Hindu leader by the Indian secular establishment but for the common Indian he is becoming their only hope to take India Forward. [...]

Controversy over Mizoram chief minister Lal Thanhawla’s lighting a candle in front of a Durga idol in 2011 has resurfaced again with the opposition Mizo National Front (MNF) announcing a protest rally on May 23. The MNF has announced that the party would organize a rally called ‘Milem Biak Duhlohna Kawngzawh’ or anti-idol worshiping rally [...]

Almost two months have passed since the largest human gathering, the Maha Kumbh Mela, concluded here, registering a mammoth 100 million devotees over 55 days. Huge banners and hoardings welcomed visitors to an eco-friendly, ‘Green Kumbh,’ spread this time over an extensive 4,000 acres. While the Uttar Pradesh government receives accolades for its management of [...]