Over 100 retired senior civil servants and diplomats urged the Hindu nationalist leader of Uttar Pradesh state to repeal a new law criminalising forced religious conversion of brides, warning in an open letter that it risked fuelling communal tensions.
Dorothy Bonarjee was Indian by birth, English by upbringing, French by marriage - and Welsh at heart.
A local official from India's ruling Hindu nationalist party on Sunday registered a police complaint against an Amazon Prime web series alleging it insults Hindu gods and goddesses, and threatened to launch a protest at the company's office in Mumbai.
A local official from India's ruling Hindu nationalist party on Sunday registered a police complaint against an Amazon Prime web series alleging it insults Hindu gods and goddesses, and threatened to launch a protest at the company's office in Mumbai.
Photos show thousands of people descending upon the northern Indian city of Haridwar to bath in the sacred river.
The U.S. religious watchdog appealed Friday for the rights of a Pakistani woman from the country’s minority Ahmadis who has been jailed on blasphemy charges,...
People in the hometown of Ms Harris’s maternal grandfather want her to ascend to the presidency in 2024
People flocked to Thulasendrapuram in southern India, where Harris has ancestral roots, to watch her take her oath of office in Washington.
Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening 14 points lower at 6,557 on Tuesday, according to financial bookmakers. * ASTRAZENECA: Mexico's health regulator Cofepris has approved Oxford University and AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebra…
Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening 14 points lower at 6,557 on Tuesday, according to financial bookmakers. * ASTRAZENECA: Mexico's health regulator Cofepris has approved Oxford University and AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebra…
A memorial to Tamils killed in Sri Lanka's civil war is to be rebuilt after protests at its demolition.
When Mehak's parents found out she was having a relationship with a Muslim man, they locked her in her bedroom, seized her phone and bank cards and installed security cameras at their home in northern India.
Motivated by right wing's 'love jihad' campaign, Madhya Pradesh approves bill to stop 'forceful' religious conversions.
After four police complaints, India’s Information and Broadcasting Ministry has pulled up the streaming giant.
Repressive measures by India’s government are sparking a backlash in the nation’s scientific community -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Political parties urged not to use idol desecrations as a tool to garner votes
The law was among 12 ordinances, one of them on religious freedom, which were approved by the Cabinet.
In a standoff between farmers from India's northern breadbasket and the government that has convulsed the country, the farmers have a 21st-century ally: a handful of supporters scattered around the world running a Twitter handle.
In a standoff between farmers from India's northern breadbasket and the government that has convulsed the country, the farmers have a 21st-century ally: a handful of supporters scattered around the world running a Twitter handle.
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