Washington, June 15 (IANS) US president Barack Obama is slated to welcome Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday at the White House. The White House announced the meeting will take place behind closed…
Sydney, June 15 (IANS) A British Muslim cleric who believed death is a compassionate sentence for gay people, has had his Australian visa cancelled and left the country, officials said on Wednesday. Australian Immigration Minister…
New Delhi, June 15 (IANS) Trying to reach out to the religious pilgrims in Uttar Pradesh, the central government on Tuesday cleared tourism projects worth over Rs 300 crore “in-principle” in Uttar Pradesh under the…
Jammu, June 14 (IANS) Tension prevailed in a part of Jammu and Kashmir’s winter capital on Tuesday after some Hindu youth beat up two Muslim youth on allegations of vandalising a local temple and triggered…
New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) Taking cognisance of reports on alleged “migration” of Hindus from Kairana town, an issue flagged by the BJP, the Union Home Ministry on Tuesday sought a detailed report from the…
Dhaka, June 14 (IANS) Security forces in Bangladesh have arrested 11,307 people, including over 100 suspected Islamists, in a nationwide crackdown following a spate of killings of secularists and minorities. “As many as 3,115 more…
Srinagar, June 14 (IANS) About 12,000 Hindus, mostly migrant Kashmiri Pandits, on Tuesday gathered at the ‘Sangam’ (confluence) of the Jhelum river and Sindh stream in Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir to celebrate ‘Maha…
By Brij Khandelwal Agra/Mathura/Vrindavan, June 14 (IANS) When lakhs of the devout took a dip in the Yamuna at ghats in Vrindavan, Mathura and Agra on Ganga Dussehra on Tuesday, they had a “face to…
Dharamsala, June 14 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama led a silent prayer in the US for victims of the mass shooting in Orlando, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) said on Tuesday. The answer…
Pope Francis waves upon his arrival to Cathedral in Santiago, Cuba, 22 September 2015. Pope Francis’s first visit to Cuba ended with a mass in Santiago. The pope delivered the last sermon of his Cuban…
Rome, June 13 (IANS) Pope Francis on Monday criticised as a “paradox” the multiple bureaucratic, political and economic obstacles to the distribution of food aid to the hungry while weapons flow freely around the world….
Thiruvananthapuram, June 13 (IANS) In a hard-hitting message to former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, the head of his church said on Monday that he no longer felt like a “political orphan” now that the…
Srinagar, June 12 (IANS) Keeping their tryst with the Hindu deity Mata Ragnya, hundreds of Kashmiri Pandits on Sunday paid obeisance at the Tullamulla shrine in north Kashmir’s Ganderbal district. Using different modes of conveyance,…
Islamabad, June 12 (IANS) A police constable in Pakistan who tortured a Hindu man for selling edibles before Iftar, was arrested following a social media campaign calling for justice for the old man. According to…
New York, June 12 (IANS) An uncommon calm is scheduled to embrace the frenetic “Crossroads of the World”, the city’s Times Square, on June 20, this year’s Summer Solstice Day here, when thousands of people…
Pune, June 11 (IANS) Rightwing activist Virendra S. Tawde, nabbed on Friday for alleged involvement in the 2013 murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, was on Saturday sent to CBI custody till June 16. Tawde, an…
New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday appealed to pilgrims going on the annual Kailash Mansarovar Yatra not to do anything that might tarnish India’s image. This Yatra goes through…
Kottayam (Kerala), June 10 (IANS) The denial of burial to actress Priyanka Chopra’s grandmother by the Church here was against the principles of Christianity, said a bishop here on Friday. The incident occurred last week…
Beijing, June 10 (IANS) China is planning significant demolition at one of the largest Buddhist monasteries in the world, which would reduce the centre to half its size and render thousands homeless, said Human Rights…
Jerusalem, June 10 (IANS) Israeli security forces were on high alert for the first Friday prayers offered in Ramadan, two days after four Israelis were killed in a Tel Aviv shooting attack. Thousands of Israeli…