A government contractor demolished a part of the wall that separates the Gyanvapi Mosque from the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi on Thursday night, fuelling allegations of an official ploy to fac...

An attempt by some members of a premier body of Hindu scholars to confer sainthood on Prime Minister Narendra Modi has run into trouble, with other members calling the effort illegitimate and politica...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his parliamentary constituency and offered prayers at the Kashi Vishwanath temple on Monday, four days after he steered the BJP to power in New Delhi with a resoun...

Thirunelli, 50km from Kalpetta, the district headquarters of Wayanad in Kerala, is home to the ancient Vishnu Temple, revered by the local people as Dakshina Kashi. It is at this temple that Congress ...

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday accused “some parties” of offering biryani to terrorists while the Narendra Modi government fed them bullets, and termed a Congress candidate...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday sought to confirm his bhakts’ fond belief that he is God’s chosen one but added a detail the Opposition might not want to contest.He described an imaginary e...

Have you heard of Jhulelal, the preferred god of the Sindhis? He’s almost exclusively worshipped by the community that hails from around the Indus river but little is known about him by most others....

An Ahmedabad-based firm that has designed the Sabarmati riverfront and the area around the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency, has been chosen by the Ce...

The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to enforce a dress code for devotees of Kashi Vishwanath if they want to touch the shivalinga during prayer. The men have to be in dhoti-kurta and the women mu...

Shiva devotees in Varanasi have been pushed three feet away from their god.From Sunday, the famed Kashi Vishwanath Temple has banned the common man from its sanctum sanctorum.Devotees were earlier abl...