In the late 19th century, the French historian, Joseph Ernest Renan, came up with a new concept of the nation. At the time, the European understanding of the nation was anchored in racial and linguist...

The Supreme Court on Friday transferred the Gyanvapi dispute to the Varanasi district judge from the civil judge and tasked the more senior judicial officer with first looking into the maintainability...

A lawsuit demanding the removal of a mosque in Mathura said to be built on the “Krishna Janmabhoomi” or the birthplace of Lord Krishna has been allowed by a court in Uttar Pradesh, reports...

Authorities have deployed additional security at Mughal emperor Aurangzeb's tomb in Aurangabad after an MNS leader questioned the need for the monument's existence here in Maharashtra and said...

In his address from the Red Fort on the 400th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Teg Bahadur, the ninth Sikh guru, Prime Minister Narendra Modi invoked Aurangzeb as he appeared to try to find comm...

India has never posed a threat to any country or society and it thinks for the welfare of the entire world even today amid global conflicts, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, asserting th...

On December 13, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Kashi Vishwanath corridor that created an uncluttered path from the 241-year-old temple at the heart of Varanasi to the river Ganga. It was...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday suggested “tyrants” like Aurangzeb had tried to destroy Indian civilisation but were consigned to history’s “black pages”, making w...

Name game The Aam Aadmi Party member of the legislative assembly, Atishi, who dropped her surname, Marlena, before the previous Lok Sabha polls, has, once again, drawn flak for trying to appeal to&nb...

The custodial death of Father Stan Swamy, a physically frail octogenarian social worker, left me thinking, as a citizen, about its larger significance. It is obviously something to be deeply ashamed a...