Leh, Aug 5 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who is currently on a month-long stint in Jammu and Kashmir during which he will rest and deliver lectures, on Friday visited Ngagyur Dragthok monastery…
Panaji, Aug 5 (IANS) Goa will form special squads to stop Plaster of Paris Ganesh idols from coming in from Maharashtra, cabinet minister Rajendra Arlekar said on Friday. Arlekar also told the assembly that special…
Assisi (Italy), Aug 4 (IANS/AKI) Pope Francis on Thursday urged thousands of Catholic pilgrims to always remember to pardon others in order to gain God’s forgiveness. “Never forget to pardon,” he told the pilgrims gathered…
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) Budget carrier SpiceJet on Thursday said its first Hajj flight took off from Gaya in Bihar with 135 passengers on board. Special flights for more than 8,000 pilgrims for the…
Greater Noida, Aug 4 (IANS) Lord Rama is worshipped all across the subcontinental India. But in Bisrakh village here, not the hero of the epic Ramayana but its anti-hero, Ravana, is deified. For, the demon…
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday flagged off the first batch of Hajj pilgrims from Indira Gandhi International Airport here. Extending good wishes on…
London, Aug 4 (IANS) Anti-semitic incidents rose by 11 per cent in the first six months of 2016 compared with the same period in 2015, according to figures issued on Thursday. The overall figure of…
London, Aug 4 (IANS) A British-Muslim woman was detained at a UK airport and questioned under terror laws after a cabin crew member spotted her reading a book on Syrian culture on board her honeymoon…
Paris, Aug 4 (IANS) French President Francois Hollande closed the door on Wednesday against any possibility that France would finance mosques in its territories, based on French laws separating the state from religion. In his…
Beijing, Aug 3 (IANS) Hu Shigen, leader of an underground church in China, was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison after being convicted of subverting state power on Wednesday, official said. He has also been…
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered additional compensation to the victims and families who have suffered loss of life, injuries and damage to property during the 2007-2008 anti-Christian violence in…
Vatican City, Aug 2 (IANS/AKI) Pope Francis has set up a special commission to study the role of women deacons in the Catholic Church, the Vatican announced on Tuesday in a move that could pave…
Lucknow, Aug 2 (IANS) Violence broke out in Hardoi in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday after a speeding vehicle mowed down a ‘Kanwaria’, police said. Following the death of the ‘Kanwaria’, other members of his group…
Jakarta, Aug 2 (IANS) Indonesian President Joko Widodo opened the 12th World Islamic Economic Forum here on Tuesday, urging the Muslim community to use their fundamental powers to tackle global economy. Speaking at the Jakarta…
Jammu, Aug 2 (IANS) The annual Amarnath Yatra continued as another batch of 265 pilgrims left Jammu on Monday evening for Kashmir. “Another batch of 265 Yatris left Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in Jammu on…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Terming the offer by Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel to quit as a “cosmetic change”, Communist Party of India Marxist (CPI-M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Monday said this was…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) A sum of Rs 294.50 crore was spent for modernisation of madrasas in 2015-16 under the Scheme for Providing Quality Education in Madrasas (SPQEM), but the government has no plans…
Chandigarh, Aug 1 (IANS) Almost 32 years after the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the Haryana government has sanctioned an enhanced relief of Rs 12.07 crore to claimants who suffered loss of life and property in Pataudi…
Shimla, Aug 1 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Monday stayed till August 11 the process to transfer the 17th century temple of Lord Raghunath, the chief deity of the Kullu Valley, to the…
Kolkata, Aug 1 (IANS) In a sharp attack on the Narendra Modi-led central government over the attacks on Dalits in Gujarat by cow protection vigilantes, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused it…