India: 21 out of 29 states have prison sentences for slaughtering cows
5 facts about religion in India Source: Pew Research Center By Samirah Majumdar, who is a research analyst focusing on religion at Pew Research Center. India is home to 1.4 […]
Gay in India, Where Progress Has Come Only With Risk
Source: The New York Times ByKai Schultz BILASPUR, India — If you had told Ayesha Kapur 10 years ago that she would help lead the fight against one of the world’s oldest laws criminalizing gay sex, she would never have believed you. For most of her life, Ms. Kapur […]
India’s Hindu nationalist party suffers defeat at polls
Source: Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s opposition parties inflicted a humiliating defeat on the governing Hindu nationalist party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in more than a dozen […]
India police officer abused online for saving Muslim man from mob
Source: BBC News An Indian police officer hailed as a hero for protecting a Muslim man from a mob has said he has received abusive messages on social media. Gagandeep […]
Friendship Treaty Anniversary : Switzerland needs to acknowledge colonial past to be real friends
By Rohit Jain This content was published on May 16, 2018 “There was a colonial history behind the India-Switzerland Friendship Treaty that the Swiss public is not aware […]
Indian archbishop urges Catholics to pray for democracy
Source: Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The archbishop of New Delhi has waded into Indian politics, urging Catholics to pray for democracy and marginalized people ahead of national elections […]
Ex-RAW chief wants India to invite Gen Bajwa
Source: Dawn NEW DELHI: Former spy chief A.S. Dulat asked the Indian government on Monday to invite Pakistan’s Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa to kick-start the stalled talks between the two countries. Speaking to NDTV together with former ISI chief Lt Gen Asad Durrani ahead of the release of […]
India’s Hindu nationalists defeat Congress in state election
Source: Associated Press By ASHOK SHARMA NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party ended Congress party rule in a key southern state on Thursday, but […]
India calls ceasefire in Kashmir for holy month of Ramadan
Source: Aljazeera India will suspend all military operations against rebels in Kashmir during the holy month of Ramadan for the first time in nearly two decades. The move, which comes after months of intense fighting […]
Indian women breaking down barriers to religious leadership
Source: Religion News Service By Priyadarshini Sen PUNE, India (RNS) — Wearing a single piece of unstitched cloth and a grass girdle around his waist, 8-year-old Harshal Kulkarni chants Vedic mantras. […]
India: adult couples can live together without marriage
New Delhi: An adult couple has a right to live together without marriage, the Supreme Court said, while asserting that a 20-year-old Kerala woman, whose marriage had been annulled, could choose whom she wanted to live with. The top court held that live-in relationships were now even recognised by the legislature […]
India child gang rape trial moved out of of Kashmir
Source: BBC News India’s top court has ruled that the trial of eight men accused of the rape, torture and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl must be moved out […]
How a child rape became a religious flashpoint for India
Source: BBC News India’s top court has moved the trial in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl out of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The BBC’s […]
The Privatization of Heritage: Why Corporate Funding To Restore Monuments Worries India
India’s “Adopt a Heritage” scheme raises serious questions about historical and cultural integrity. By Priyanka Borpujari May 08, 2018 Would corporate funding give impetus to […]
Pakistan and India, the failure of nation state idea
Pakistan and India are two foremost examples today of why the idea of nation state as organization of humanity has turned out to be an unmitigated disaster at least in this Century. The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 was no doubt an iconic achievement bringing to an end the wars […]
India: Nawazuddin biopic ‘Manto’ to be shown at Cannes
Dawn.com Nawazuddin Siddiqui has come a long way. In just over a decade, Siddiqui has gone from a struggling bit-part actor worried about finding food to an acclaimed international star coveted by directors for his versatility across all genres. “When your film gets selected in a good category, you feel […]
Hindus in India are converting to Buddhism to protest treatment of lower castes
Source: RNS By Jason Overdorf NEW DELHI, India (RNS) — Four survivors of a brutal 2016 beating at the hands of India’s so-called cow protectors converted to Buddhism this week in […]
Tourism push; Swiss train named after Bollywood star Ranveer Singh
This content was published on April 30, 2018 (Switzerland Tourism/Valentin Flauraud) In a bid to attract more Indian tourists to western Switzerland, a Swiss train company has temporarily named […]
A Muslim and a Hindu thought they could be a couple. Then came the ‘love jihad’ hit list.
Source: The Washington Post By Annie Gowen KOLKATA, India — The 21-year-old Hindu college student was having a quiet breakfast with her mother when her phone pinged with a terrifying message. Her […]
Indian Guru Asaram Bapu found guilty of rape
JODHPUR, India: An Indian guru with millions of followers was found guilty Wednesday of raping a teenage devotee on the pretext of ridding her of evil spirits, and sentenced to a life in prison. The judgment was pronounced by Special Judge for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe cases, Madhu Sudan […]