Religion
- India
India’s strength is its unity, dividing people on caste, religion will weaken country: UP CM
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said India’s strength is its unity and the country will be weakened if citizens are divided on the basis of caste and religion.…
- India
Nearly 5k held for promoting religious, racial enmity in 2018-20
New Delhi: Nearly 4,800 people were arrested across the country for the offense of promoting enmity between groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth between 2018 and 2020, Lok Sabha was…
- India
Religion can’t be a tool to divide people, ignore those seeking cheap publicity: TN CM
Tiruvannamalai: Religion cannot be a tool to divide people and those who cause such a division can’t be true spiritualists, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin said on Saturday while appealing…
- India
Secularism safe in India, says Vice Prez Venkaiah Naidu
Bengaluru: Asserting that India is the most tolerant country in the world, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday said secularism is safe in this country, not because of any government or party,…
- Entertainment
Violence in name of religion is sin: Sai Pallavi clarifies ‘Kashmiri Pandit genocide’ remark
Mumbai: Actor Sai Pallavi on Saturday said her recent remarks drawing a comparison between the Kashmiri Pandits’ genocide in the 1990s and recent mob lynching incidents were taken out of context. The 30-year-old…
- Pakistan
Over 22 lakh Hindus in Pakistan, says national database report
Peshawar: Pakistan is home to 22,10,566 people from the minority Hindu community, comprising only 1.18 cent of the country’s total registered population of 18,68,90,601, according to a report by the Centre for…
- India
‘Religious intolerance only on TV’, not on ground, says Sadhguru
New Delhi: Founder of Isha Foundation Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev said that there is a “lot of heat” in television studios, which is being exaggerated to suggest that there is rising religious intolerance…
- India
BJP distances itself from Nupur Sharma’s remarks on Prophet, issues statement
New Delhi: Seeking to defuse a row over controversial comments allegedly made by its spokesperson against Prophet Mohammed, the BJP asserted on Sunday that it respects all religions and strongly denounces insult…
- India
Clash of Shariah and Common Law: Freedom of religion is not an absolute right: Faizan Mustafa
Hyderabad: The controversy over the umbrage taken by Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani, Secretary, All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), at the remarks of Faizan Mustafa, Vice Chancellor, NALSAR University, that the…
- Bangalore
PUC-II history lesson revised in Karnataka amid furore
Bengaluru: Amid the huge controversy on revision of class 1 to 10 text books, the Textbook Revision Committee headed by Rohith Chakrathirtha has completed the revision of history textbook of PUC-II in…
- India
Disappointed in Hindus, Yati Narsinghanand announces ‘retirement’
Hate spewing right-wing leader Yati Narsinghanand, in a surprising move, announced his “retirement” from the politics of religion. In a video that has surfaced on Twitter, the hardcore Hindutva leader, surrounded by…
- India
Karnataka: Hindu procession refuses to enter Dalit colony
An incident of caste discrimination took place in Tumkur district of Karnataka when a religious procession allegedly refused to enter a Dalit colony stating that their God would become “impure”. The incident…
- India
Bhagavad Gita, Mahabharat to form part of moral education in Karnataka schools
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government is all set to introduce Hindu epic stories — ‘Bhagavad Gita’ and ‘Mahabharat’ — in its school curriculum from the next academic year. Though a proposal in this…
- India
Another BJP legislator disapproves of curbs on non-Hindu traders during fairs in temples
Bengaluru: In possible signs of dissent in the ruling party, another Karnataka BJP legislator has expressed his disapproval over incidents of denial of permission to non-Hindu traders and vendors to carry on…
- India
Gita not a religious book, but one on philosophy: Acting NCM chief
New Delhi: Officiating chairperson of the National Commission for Minorities Syed Shahezadi on Friday said the Bhagavad Gita is not a religious book but one on philosophy, days after the Gujarat government…
