The reactions from a number of Islamic countries to insulting remarks about the Holy Prophet have raised larger issues about India’s place in the Islamic world. In downtown Srinagar, on a recent...

It was my younger grandson’s  annaprasan  the other day. We adults celebrated it while he, poor babe, had no comprehension of what was happening in his name. It’s the same with a...

Curfew was imposed and the Army called in to conduct a flag march in Bhaderwah of Doda district in Jammu and Kashmir as tension spread in the area Thursday evening after alleged inflammatory speeches ...

The endurance of great literature can be attributed to the lessons it holds for future generations. It is not known whether the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party are familiar with Mary Shelley&rsq...

Pious politics and piety in religious beliefs are far from contradictory. Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, demonstrated that in a recent speech. Finding a shivalinga in eve...

The head priest of the Kashi Vishwanath temple who has in the past campaigned for Narendra Modi has announced a boat procession on the Ganga to press for Hindu’s rights to worship a purported Sh...

The Delhi High Court Monday declined to grant an urgent listing to a plea by the managing committee of the Delhi Waqf Board against the stopping of offering namaz by devotees at the Mughal Mosque in S...

The Supreme Court’s decision to allow the cordoning off of a part of the Gyanvapi mosque ordered by a lower court in Varanasi illustrates the way in which the judicial process sometimes creates ...

A sadhu from Gujarat who is visiting Varanasi began an indefinite fast on Saturday morning after police prevented him from going to the Gyanvapi mosque and carrying out his declared objective of worsh...

Amid heightened security arrangements, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) activists staged a demonstration in Srirangapatna town of the district here, demanding the Jamia mosque be returned to Hindus claimin...