Top Court Starts Hearings on India’s Contentious Ayodhya Dispute
Source: Bloomberg By Archana Chaudhary and Upmanyu Trivedi India’s Supreme Court today started hearing final arguments by religious groups over ownership of land in the northern […]
Jagmeet Singh attended 2016 seminar with Sikh youth leader who advocated political violence
Source: The Globe and Mail NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh participated in a pro-sovereignty seminar in 2016 with the co-founder of the British-based National Sikh Youth Federation who endorsed the use […]
India’s Hindu right intensifies a religious battle over a demolished mosque
Source: The Washington Post By Annie Gowen AYODHYA, India — The mob of Hindu fundamentalists brought down the mosque in just a few hours, using pickaxes, rope and their bloody, bare hands. […]
A new order for the Indo-Pacific
Mar 10,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Brahma Chellaney SYDNEY — Security dynamics are changing rapidly in the Indo-Pacific. The region is home not only to the world’s fastest-growing economies, but […]
Kapoor sisters meet Hillary Clinton, discuss ups-downs of Bollywood life
Published: March 11, 2018 9SHARES PHOTO: INSTAGRAM/KARISMA KAPOOR MUMBAI: The Kapoor sisters came together for the 17th India Today Conclave 2o18. Kareena Kapoor and Karisma Kapoor spoke about almost everything, right from film to family and from nepotism to feminism. One of the most unforgettable moments of the night was when […]
India Supreme Court restores ‘love jihad’ marriage
Source: BBC News An Indian woman at the centre of an inter-religious marriage row may now live with her husband, the Supreme Court has ruled. Hadiya Jahan, who is in […]
International Women’s Day: Eight moments that make it the Year of the Woman
Source: BBC News The #MeToo movement against male harassment has empowered women in the US and elsewhere, but it is not the only women’s movement to have an impact over […]
India, with eye on China ties, bans Tibetans rally in New Delhi
Source: Reuters By Rupam Jain 4 MIN READ NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has banned Tibetans from holding a rally with the Dalai Lama in New Delhi this month to […]
Special Report: By rewriting history, Hindu nationalists aim to assert their dominance over India
Source:Reuters BY Rupam Jain, Tom Lasseter 12 MIN READ The government of Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi had quietly appointed the committee of scholars about six months earlier. Details of […]
India’s top court upholds marriage in alleged case of “Love Jihad”
Reuters International This content was published on March 8, 2018 1:52 PMMar 8, 2018 – 13:52 NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court on Thursday permitted a Hindu woman who converted to Islam to live with her Muslim husband, a man federal investigators accused of being a recruiter for […]
The Preacher’s Pulpit Needs to Be Cleansed from Profanity
The Preacher’s Pulpit Needs to Be Cleansed from Profanity منبرِ رسول دشنام طرازی سے پاک کرنا ہوگا باسل حجازی، نیوایج اسلام گزشتہ سال اکتوبر کے مہینے میں مصر کے دار الحکومت قاہرہ میں قتل کی ایک مخصوص واردات ہوئی جو نا ہی اپنی نوعیت کی پہلی واردات تھی […]
India: King Abdulla speaks at Islamic Conference
Source: New Age Islam A conference was held today (1st March 2018) at New Delhi’s Vigyan Bhawan on ‘Islamic Heritage: Promoting Understanding and Moderation’. The Prime Narendra Modi attended the […]
War on terror is all faiths’ fight against ideology of hatred – King of Jordan
Source: Jordan Times – March 2, 2018 AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Thursday underlined that the global anti-terrorism war is not a fight between different religions or peoples […]
India temple stirs controversy for ‘piercing’ children’s bodies
Source: BBC News A Hindu temple ritual in which boys aged between five and 12 years are pierced with metal hooks is stirring controversy in India after a senior police […]
Holi Festival 2018: How the thwarting of a Hindu demon king led to the colourful celebration
Source: Telegraph UK Holi, a traditional Hindu festival which celebrates the beginning of spring as well as the triumph of good over evil, begins tomorrow. It is best known around […]
27 Colorful Photos That Show The Joy Of Holi In India
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla and Chris McGonigal RUPAK DE CHOWDHURI/REUTERS A student of Rabindra Bharati University, with his face smeared in colored powder, reacts in Kolkata, India. 730 […]
Justin Trudeau rescinds India dinner invite to Sikh separatist
Source: BBC News Canada has withdrawn an invitation to an alleged Sikh extremist to attend an official dinner with its Prime Minister Justin Trudeau while he is in Delhi. Mr […]
Delhi gets first-of-its-kind 90-acre heritage park
Prakash Kumar, DH News Service, New Delhi, Feb 21 2018, Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday inaugurated Delhi’s first-of-its-kind arboretum and a city heritage park developed by the Aga Khan […]
The Peculiar Position of India’s Third Gender
Source: The New York Times Hijras occupy a special place in Hinduism. But their relationship to modern Mumbai, where transgender people are legally recognized, remains fraught. Photographs by Sara Hylton Text […]
India is paying the price for its obsession with billionaires
Barkhat Dutthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/ Indians are furious over a $1.8 billion bank fraud case involving Nirav Modi, a billionaire and the man whom Vanity Fair called (in an astonishingly poor sense of timing) “the atelier of India’s most ambitious luxury jewelry brand.” The diamond merchant, who boasts showrooms from Mumbai to Macau, and whose ornaments […]